Official Handbook Updates

[rplass]

Actually, I am more interested in whether ANY of the Nemesis's (Nemeses? Nemeseses?)are considered to be in the land of the living...

The correct plural is actually Nemeses, not Nemesii (total pluralization fail on my part). I also like Nemeseses, by the way.

[Flightpath07]

We'll have to add that to the Official Alpha Flight Plurality Pronounciation Encyclopedia, eh?

[Phil]

Yes, we got confirmation from Scott Lobdell that Amelia Weatherly was not the same Nemesis we'd seen before, and that Nemesis is a role that passes from one host to the next - so there's three we know of, the one who fought Deadly Ernest and the two who joined Alpha Flight at different points in the group's history. The main entry, though largely reprinting the HC entry, has a few tweaks to reflect that correction.

So a complete contradiction to the profile in the Women of Marvel Handbook?

[Ahab]

So a complete contradiction to the profile in the Women of Marvel Handbook?

What does that Handbook say?

[-K-M-]

Basically said it was the same Nemesis that appeared in Vol.1 and Vol.3

I prefer the three different hosts idea, rather then just one Nemesis.

[DelBubs]

Marvel really should have a continuity editor who slaps writers down when they get silly. The original Nemesis concept worked, because it ran alongside the Deadly Ernest concept. Nemesis 2 was lazy writing and as for Nemesis 3. To my mind she doesn't exist and was the product of a deranged mind. I'm looking at you Mr Lobdell

[Flightpath07]

I'm looking at you Mr Lobdell

So, he's in London, then?

Do you have him tied up in your flat somewhere?

[Le Messor]

So, he's in London, then?
Do you have him tied up in your flat somewhere?

That will help with the 'slap him down' idea... do they have to be silly writers for that?

Del - I agree, the idea that these were each the same woman never worked for me. 1 and 2 I could buy at a stretch, but 3 was so completely different, no. Just no.

- Le Messor
"If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?"

[Loki]

So a complete contradiction to the profile in the Women of Marvel Handbook?

Yes. That was a reprint of the entry in the HC series, and at the time of publication we were still under the impression it was a single individual. When we get to her entry in the softcover reprint/updates the entry will be amended.

[Phil]

That's cool.
I agree it makes more sense that way.
I just can't afford the HC's so rely on picking up the single issues when AF related characters appear in them.

[DelBubs]

So, he's in London, then?

Do you have him tied up in your flat somewhere?

I cannot comment on the accommodation arrangement Mr Lobdell and I may have (if we have one at all), but I can divulge that Alpha Flight shall stay in safe hands for the forseeable (sp) future.

[Flightpath07]

I cannot comment on the accommodation arrangement Mr Lobdell and I may have (if we have one at all),

but I can divulge that Alpha Flight shall stay in safe hands for the forseeable (sp) future.

[Mokole]

3 people who were Nemesis makes the most sense, maybe the next incarnation will be longer lasting and someone we already know.

[Flightpath07]

3 people who were Nemesis makes the most sense, maybe the next incarnation will be longer lasting and someone we already know.

I vote for Lou Sadler Jr.

No, seriously.

[cmdrkoenig67]

Puck II has my vote.

Dana