#supreme intelligence

[daydreamerdrew]

Captain Marvel (1968) #16

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Silver Surfer #8

[thebibliomancer]

Universe X #6

Feat. I’m sorry but the worst Moon Knight look. Also, Sasquatch and the head and crotch of Guardian.

That’s why Moon Knight is firmly looking the other way.

To quickly recap the insanity so far: Mar-Vell is leading a revolution in the afterlife. To help this goal, his living child self is gathering powerful items on Earth. Captain America was traveling with him as his bodyguard but Cap super died. So now a bunch of other heroes like force femmed Thor, gorilla Hulk, child Banner, Spider-Man’s daughter Venom, and Mr Summers and his circus X-Men.

If any of those descriptors are confusing, I’m sorry, Earth/Universe X be like that.

Immortus is Pope now and he wants the terrigen mutated population of Earth to spread out and colonize the hell out of space. But first, he’d like Reed Richards to stop trying to cure everyone with his Human Torch towers.

A secret society called the Tong of Creel is gathering the pieces of Absorbing Man to resurrect him. They’ve been really successful at stealing several pieces underneath the noses of the superheroes.

Meanwhile, up on the Moon, Aaron Stack, Machine Man, is the new Watcher. He spends his time wondering why the multiverse and talking to Uatu, who constantly hurls abuse.

Also, Earth is tilted on its axis because Galactus slurped a baby Celestial out of the planet so everyone is going to freeze. You’d think this would be a bigger deal but nobody seems very concerned.

Universe X!

Today’s first Mar-Vell scavenger hunt stop is to Egypt, to retrieve the Resurrection Stone.

The Resurrection Stone is a fairly obscure item in the 616 with only a handful of appearances. So I don’t know if it’s meant to be the same one they’re talking about here. Because the one Mar-Vell is after is the statue of Khonshu.

Time for another weird Earth X Arc Welding!

Moon Knight and therefore Khonshu are relevant to today’s issue. So how does Khonshu work in the Earth X setting? Is he like the Asgardians? Sufficiently advanced aliens that have been gaslit into thinking they’re gods?

No, even weirder.

Khonshu is the Resurrection Stone. Which happens to have been carved from a meteor that hit Egypt. A meteor like the one that hit Wakanda and Antarctica. Khonshu is Egyptian Vibranium. And instead of melting metal or absorbing vibrations, Egyptian vibranium prevents you from dying and makes you hallucinate god.

… Sure, why not! Might as well be this!

When Lil Mar-Vell and co arrive in Egypt, Moon Knight is locked in eternal and pointless combat with a bunch of ancient Egyptian priests and temple guards, also immortal thanks to the stone.

Marv’s group throws their weight on Moon Knight’s side and fight so Mar-Vell can get to the temple and cloakaport the stone away.

Allowing Marc to finally die.

In one sense, putting him out of his misery. But since death is just being thrown back into eternal battle, I wonder if it’s much of a relief?

It at least puts him out of my misery, sartorially speaking, because when he shows up in the Realm of Death, it’s in a color-inverted version of his more classic outfit.

Looks pretty spiffy.

Mar-Vell and the gang return to Japan and Lord Sonfire gives them the Mandarin’s rings on the Mandarin’s chopped off hands.

I love how grossed out Mar-Vell looks. But he’s too chosen child of destiny to verbalize it. So, thanks, Venom. For saying what everyone was thinking.

Meanwhile, everything else is bad.

Nighthawk reveals he knows Gargoyle has betrayed him, leaking his prophecies to Mr Church in Immortus’ camp.

Gargoyle doesn’t see the problem with what he did but Nighthawk says that information is not only going to help Immortus’ mobs but also how the Tong of Creel knew when to attack and where to find the pieces of Absorbing Man. It’s been hinted a while that they had inside information and it turns out they’ve been reading the running narration.

In fact, the Canadian Human Torch has fallen, leaving Sasquatch and Guardian’s head the only survivors of Alpha Flight.

And while fleeing the slaughter, the two run into a feral tribe of Wolverines???? Universe X, what the hell?

But the Latverian Human Torch is also under siege. Thanks to Gargoyle’s information, Immortus’ mob knew when defenses would be thin with Thing off elsewhere. The mobs are breaking down the door to kill Richards and co. The Tong stole the head of Creel. And Mr Church sneaks past the Doombots to steal Doom’s time platform.

Mr Church. What an odd ominous one. Aaron’s end of issue appendix has him muse that there’s no information in the Watcher’s systems for the guy before he showed up to join Immortus.

He’s probably definitely Mephisto.

When Immortus starts losing it because he’s locked out of Limbo and mutating, he turns leadership of the mobs over to Mr Church.

Also, the Micronauts are spying on Immortus for some reason?

Meanwhile, on the Moon, Aaron drags the Kree Supreme Intelligence to the Watcher’s house.

Aaron wants the Intelligence to explain the multiverse to him but the Intelligence says Mar-Vell is on his way to kill him and Aaron will need to stop that or else bad things might happen to the multiverse.

I don’t know about kill but Dead Mar-Vell has lately been preoccupied that there are no Kree in the Realm of Death and decided his living self will need to talk to the Supreme Intelligence about it.

So if the Supreme Intelligence thinks Mar-Vell is going to kill him about it, I think maybe he knows Marv won’t like the answers.

So a lot going on. A lot and a lot of it weird.

I didn’t even mention the demon man in the colorful shorts.

Because I don’t know what it means yet.

Next time, the next issue.

[chronivore]

Groo the Wander and The Supreme Intelligence

[nickfuryagentofsword]

Avengers: The Kree/Skrull War (1971-1972) by Neal Adams

[doyouknowmarvelcomiccharacter]

[yoshimickster]

I'm sorry but, Dar Benn should've either been a female Genis Vell, some sort of adaptation of Laurie'Ell, OR-just the god damn Supreme Intelligence.

SERIOUSLY-why would you show Carol killing off the Supreme Intelligence in a Flashback, IF NOT for the reveal that the Supreme Intelligence is still alive?

You could've easily made it still work with Dar Benn too as she called herself the Supremor, have it so that she had the Supreme Intelligence in her brain or something!

UGH-the Marvels was so easily fixable it HURTS.

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

Art Edit Credit to Roberto Coltro

[extraordinary-heroes]

All-New Invaders Vol 1 #3 (Cover art by Mukes Singh)

[tobiasdrake]

Confrontation with the Supreme Intelligence. Hooray for more gaslighting. Carol rejects the SI's lies that the Kree gave her these powers, and she switches laterally to, "Yeah but you aren't strong enough to control them yourself." Which. Like. Sure is a thing to say to someone you put an inhibitor chip on to block her powers.

Doesn't miss a beat. Her bluff is called and she transitions straight into a new bluff. Concedes no ground and remains on the attack even when she's caught in the lie. It's the language of the manipulator.

"Without us, you're weak." That's the trick. Everything else is window dressing; that is the lie. It's the lie that abusers all across the world use to control their victims. It's the lie that women have been told time and time and time again, often instilled by so many people from such an early age that it feels more real than anything else. I'm what makes you great. I'm what gives your life meaning. Who would you be without me?

This kind of control isn't about persuading the victim to surrender their freedom. It's about persuading the victim that there is no alternative. That there is no life outside of the abuser. They can't exist beyond the borders of this relationship.

We saw shades of this dynamic with Peter Quill and Ego. "If you kill me, you'll be just like everyone else." "What's so wrong with that?" But here it's put on full display. The centerpiece that this entire film has been leading to, with Carol finally recognizing and breaking the chains of abuse and control.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

and then the twist... all of this, the whole war, the great weapon and all of the deaths, were the machinations of the Supreme Intelligence. The Kree, unlike humans, had hit an evolutionary standstill, and so to try to get them to be more than that, the SI had 98% of them killed so that the ones strong enough to survive would lead to a more powerful version of the Kree.

[daydreamerdrew]

Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) #12

Captain Marvel (1968) #16

[omniversecomicsguide]

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[thebibliomancer]

Universe X #5

We’ve got some Micronauts. I’m still surprised and alarmed that they’re part of Universe X’s big picture.

Although, here they are called the Ant Men.

Huh. Weren’t Scott Lang and his daughter stowed away in Tony’s refurbished Red Ronin armor? I guess they died when he tried to fight the Celestials. That’s depressing.

So red guy is Ant Man, son of Marionette and Arcturus Rann. I guess he named the team after himself.

Bug is the green one. Fun fact: the 616 version was in the Guardians of the Galaxy. Marionette is glowy, golden light woman. Neutron is the one who has the tall, conical head. Proton is the egg shaped one. Spartak is orange and has the crested helmet. And Spidra is upside down woman with all the hair.

Did you need to know their names? No and neither did I.

You’re welcome.

We’re following up from the Cap Special here so we start with Captain America’s funeral, held in the ruins of Washington DC and the grave of American democracy.

Wyatt Wingfoot, Cap’s former partner Redwing, gives the eulogy, calling Steve an unknown soldier, not really understood by the people he spent his life protecting.

So things are grim.

Not helped by funeral drama.

Redwing blows up at Lil Mar-Vell when various heroes offer to take up Cap’s role in guarding him on his quest. As far as Wyatt is concerned, Mar-Vell caused Cap’s death. By dragging him around on some weird quest and not being able to save him despite saying he has cosmic consciousness.

Also, Unpersoned Loki tries to start off on a new page with Thor but of all approaches chooses a flirty one.

I kind of want to roll up a newspaper and give Loki a smack.

The Tong of Creel attacks Windsor Castle to claim another piece of Absorbing Man.

King Captain Britain has impressive forces to throw at the problem. Himself, riding a Dragon Man. The Union Jacks. The Iron Avengers. Medusa. The new Black Widow, on loan from Russia. The new Black Knight/Prince of the Inhumans.

King Britain is more than equipped to kick the Tong of Creel’s ass in a straightforward fight. But while he’s doing one of those, someone sneaks behind the lines and just swipes the chest of Absorbing Man.

Dammit but that’s embarrassing. You know these guys are after the pieces. You know that they tend to swipe them in the chaos of battle. You should have prepared a better place for it than a glass display case! Throw it into the Sun!

Meanwhile, Mar-Vell and new protectors Venom, Thor, the circus X-Men, gorilla Hulk and child Bruce, and half-on-fire Namor go to HELL.

The Human Engineering Life Laboratory.

Acronyms are fun.

Home to the Prometheus Pit, once the entrance to the Microverse or Subatomica.

Mar-Vell needed to come here to get Psycho-Man’s Emotio-Caster. And he finds that the Prometheus Pit is clogged with some weird, organic matter.

The Ant Men are finally relevant to the story because they pop up to exposit everything. Well, Nighthawk got the opening exposition dump about Microverse stuff, too.

In the far off future, Prince Wayfinder finds a sentient sword embedded in a star that leads him to Earth of the distant past and created the subatomic world for him and his people to live on. The sword also imbued him with the Enigma Force, making him the first Captain Universe.

When Wayfinder died, the Enigma Force passed down to his descendant Arcturus Rann. But when Psycho-Man got tired of the Fantastic Four kicking his ass, he conquered his own home the Microverse, using his Emotio-Caster to fill people with fear, doubt, and hate. He even influenced Marionette to kill her own husband Rann.

The Enigma Force that was in him passed into the Realm of Death instead of choosing a new, living host and chose Dead Mar-Vell.

That’s the big inciting event for Mar-Vell’s side of the plot. That’s why he’s suddenly making moves despite having been dead for a long while.

When all hope was lost to save the Microverse from Psycho-Man, Ant Man and his Ant Men chose scorched earth. They evacuated through the Prometheus Pit and then had Man-Thing clog it up so nobody else could escape. Literally scorched. All who know fear burn at the Man-Thing’s touch.

The Microverse was on borrowed time. It was created and sustained by the Enigma Force. When that Force died with Rann, the world it created began falling apart.

The last of the Enigma Force that had been in the Microverse then went back in time and empowered the last survivor of the previous universe.

Yes, that’s right. In Universe X, Galactus and the Microverse share the same origin.

It gets betterworse, depending on your tolerance for this arc welding. Aaron Stack, the new Watcher, speculates that it wasn’t the sword that gave Wayfinder power and created a world for him, it was the star the sword was stuck into. And Galactus’ ultimate fate was to be turned into a star. Therefore, we have a bootstrap paradox time loopy.

The Enigma Force creates Galactus who gets turned into a star which creates the Enigma Force and the Microverse, which eventually collapses and sends its last energy back in time to create Galactus.

I don’t have to like it but I do have to respect Earth X and its sequels conspiracy board with yarn between various things “it’s all connected!” approach.

Neutron yanks the Emotio-Caster out of the mess for Mar-Vell, which finally collapses whatever remained of Subatomica and Man-Thing.

Venom asks what Mar-Vell needs the emotion controlling device for and he says he wants to make people happy.

Nobody seems to find this alarming or ominous!

Maybe because he bolded happy. I feel that given the device in question the emphasis should have been on “make people happy.”

So much of this quest is Mar-Vell gathering up dangerous items and going “just trust me, bro” and people do!

Also, Mr S (Cyclops) realizes that he can communicate with Phoenix in the Realm of the Dead through their psychic rapport.

In perhaps the only significant characterization that the new X-Men have gotten so far, Charmer is upset about that because she has a crush on Scott.

And while pondering the Galactus-Enigma Force ouroboros, Aaron Stack goes and digs up the Supreme Intelligence from beneath the surface of the Moon, like he’s been talking about doing for a while, and sits on him.

Five issues, an issue 0, and three specials in. And still not a really concrete idea of where we’re going with this.

Aaron at least decides to go talk to Nighthawk soon. I’m glad for him. Going out and talking to new people instead of pondering the multiverse and letting Uatu yell at him.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE IS NO MORE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on the spilt green muck and morass that used to be Supremor, a.k.a., the Supreme Intelligence, eliminated from the cosmic stage by Mar-Vell, from the pages of "Universe X" Vol. 1 #9. April, 2001. Marvel Comics.

MAR-VELL: "You're sick! Goodbye, Supremor!"

SUPREMOR: "You will not kill me. The moment you do, every member of your race will die...including Una."

Needless to say, a highly distraught Mar-Vell smashed Supremor's containment unit to pieces, killing him in the process.

Story/script by Jim Krueger & Alex Ross

Pencils by Doug Braithwaite

Inks by Bill Reinhold

Colors by Laura Depuy

Source: www.pinterest.es/pin/317011261267867456.

[tgirldarkholme]

Avengers #134 by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema

You are literally called "the Supreme Intelligence"