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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I know a bit about the earliest stuff, and have just started on Priest's run. Didn't he also develop Shuri, or did she come later?
Apparently, in one of the later runs he takes over for Daredevil for a while. Which seems... unusual.
edited 27th Jul '16 10:29:17 AM by hollygoolightly
Shuri didn't come until later. She was a case of Remember the New Guy? and didn't exist in Priest's run.
The Daredevil idea was weird but it's actually very well written.
edited 27th Jul '16 10:46:53 AM by comicwriter
A collision of two different storylines. Black Panther got severely injured by Doctor Doom and so his sister Shuri had to become the new Black Panther while he recovered. But because of the way the Panther mantle works, it meant T'Challa lost all his powers. This was compounded by a storyline that destroyed all Wakanda's vibranium (It got better later), meaning all of his gadgets and weapons were now useless.
Then in an unrelated story, Daredevil turned evil and tried to conquer New York. It turned out he was possessed by a Japanese demon, but he was so shaken by what he'd done that he had to go on a trip to take some time off and find himself.
So Hell's Kitchen had no protector and T'Challa wasn't the Black Panther anymore and was trying to prove he could still be a hero without his powers or gadgets. Since Matt and T'Challa are close friends, they decided to have the latter protect Hell's Kitchen until the former got back.
edited 27th Jul '16 1:29:02 PM by comicwriter
You think that's weird? Let me tell you about Arm-Fall-Off-Boy...
You cannot conceive the might of weirdness in comics until you know the glory of Armless Tiger Man
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You think you've shown the weirdest comic book characters ever? Oh, you sweet, innocent children, let me direct to the tale of Combo Man
.
You're welcome.
Dogwelder is a member of Section Eight, a team of the most bizarre superheroes, including Sixpack (who is perpetually drunk), Bueno Excellente (who has the "power of perversion"), and the Defenestrator (who doesn't throw people out of windows, but rather carries windows around which he throws over people).
Dogwelder was also the superhero Garth Ennis came up with when trying to think of the worst superhero ever.
I love them. I want them to have their own big-budget trilogy. And give Combo Man at least one Darker and Edgier movie to his name.
This conversation makes me hope that Marvel does eventually get Damage Control or some sort of comedy MCU TV series off the ground. That would be the perfect place to include characters with powersets that are too bizarre to be taken seriously and too impractical to be effective against even a regular SHIELD field agent.
Combo Man will appear in the MCU with a major case of Adaptational Villainy... as the main villain of a Phase Four Avengers movie.
I'd love a New Warriors faux-reality series, but on the other hand Civil War already happened.
edited 28th Jul '16 7:12:47 PM by KnownUnknown
Thank you for explaining the whole "T'Challa takes over for Daredevil" storyline, because I got the first issue for Free Comic Book Day awhile back and was completely confused. This is why I rarely read mainstream comics, despite how good that particular story was I really don't have the patience most of the time.
For more beautiful nonsense like Arm Fall Off Boy definitely read The League of Regrettable Superheroes
, I got it from my younger siblings (who will have hour long arguments about "who the worst superhero really is") last year, and it's great.

The highest profile character they've gotten their hands on is Ghost Rider, and that's only because Feige said there was very little chance of Marvel ever giving him a movie.
edited 27th Jul '16 10:23:53 AM by comicwriter