It was kind of inevitable that we fill in that narrative gap but it didn’t necessarily have to be in Avengers. Jocasta wasn’t able to locate them due to Ultron’s jamming and they never came back to the mansion after Wonder Man got fired from his shitty TV job. So Wonder Man and Beast were absent last issue, probably to better sync up the paperback novel and the comic adaptation. Keep reading Avengers Korvac Saga What If? Korvac Essential Avengers Essential marvel liveblogging the Watcher there are a lot of people involved here damnit korvac the cast swells in relation to you finally the exorcism is completeĪnd I’m not just talking about Wonder Man and Beast tussling with Puanepsion from Biscuit Hammer. If I have need of allies, I shall create them.” But you must join your comrades in oblivion. Among the Avengers, I alone have peered into your mind, and seen the harmony of your vision of universal order. Moondragon: “Korvac – I am Moondragon, a telepath. With the power of burying your feelings to make someone else feel better, Korvac got a second wind like a hurricane and murdered the remaining Avengers and Starhawk. On Earth-82432, instead of being i am unsure dog, Carina put aside her own misgivings when she sensed Korvac’s desperation. Which absolutely sounds like a toxic relationship. “Without her absolute love, the universe itself held no meaning for Korvac…” In ‘our’ universe’s Avengers comic, Korvac looked to Carina for strength and she was like i dunno bro. I’ve exhaustively covered it before but the Watcher is a giant bald man in a cape so he probably did it better. And who monitors the monitors?Īnyway, since the Korvac Saga was four years ago and maybe not all readers of What If read Avengers, the Watcher begins by recapping Korvac’s entire deal. I wonder if while the Watcher-616 is watching Earth-82432 the Watcher-82432 is watching the Watcher and wondering what he’s looking at. What If tales often had everything be worse forever, Marvel’s very own take at Optimism, I guess, because it made the bad things in the 616 universe less bad because damn could they be worse?Īnyway, What If… the Avengers had become pawns of Korvac? Playing live in universe 82432. The Watcher, apparently not having enough to watch on Earth, would sometimes peek into alternate universes and watch what was going on there. But you really only need to know the context of issue #177 for this What If.īefore we begin, is everyone familiar with Marvel’s What Ifs? It was Marvel’s own take on DC’s dreams, hoaxes, and imaginary tales. If you want to reacquaint yourself with the events of the Korvac Saga, here are all nine posts in order. Its based on a storyline from the Avengers and has the Avengers in it but it is first and foremost a story about Korvac. The Korvac Saga left so many questions that even an alternate universe hypothetical is welcome. Not entirely sure why but perhaps after 31 issues, you’ve already done all the good What Ifs like “What if the radioactive spider has bitten someone else?” and “What if Jane Foster had found the hammer of Thor?” (wait that one sounds familiar).īut I’m grateful for the content. Mark Gruenwald decided to follow up on the Korvac Saga four years after the fact.
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