Firestar's unusual introduction to the Marvel Universe and the structure of her debut miniseries has left some fans confused for decades. I look back at the story this week at CBR.
Firestar's unusual introduction to the Marvel Universe and the structure of her debut miniseries has left some fans confused for decades. I look back at the story this week at CBR.
So here's a bonkers theory.
ReplyDeleteThe Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends universe is something of an unstable one. It's a "sequel" to the 81 Spider-Man solo cartoon until it's not. As I understand it, Morlun crashed and killed the Spider-Friends, until he didn't. For the most part, it was attuned to the status quo of the Marvel Universe circa 1981 (as opposed to later cartoons which were more blatantly their own thing), but this was around the time Marvel really started to switch things up; Smart Hulk, James Rhodes as Iron Man etc. And then you have Firestar, a contemporary of Spidey and the original X-Men who's counterpart is still a 13 year old girl (Inserted retroactively). So you have some kind of low key Incursion going on, where the two Angelicas sort of "sync up". (And then she gets put on ice for five years real time so the universe will overlook this strange turn of events.) One odd side effect of this John Proudstar, a younger brother of John with identical powers, appears in the same X-Men issue as Firestar. Thunderbird appeared on the Spider-Man cartoon even though the character had long been dead.