Blue Marvel - Adam Brashear Appreciation 2021

[Carbon jiren]

Happy New Year everyone!! I didn't see a Blue Marvel Thread for 2021 yet so here you go.
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[CliffHanger2]

Al Ewing did such a good job writing him years back. Hopefully a solo in 2021 at least a mini-series.

[Psycwave]

I’d love for Marvel to snatch John Ridley up and have him do a Blue Marvel mini or maxi series. I think back to that Mighty Avengers issue that pegged him as the “Explorer of the Impossible” and that’s such a fun hook. Having him going around dealing with cosmic multiversal threats or just exploring the Neutral Zone. Next in line would be Dan Abnett as he’s proven he can do big concepts and sci-fi pretty well.

Here’s hoping 2021 brings some good things for Adam!

[Common Writer]

I still say draft him on Squadron Supreme.

[JudicatorPrime]

A 6 - 8 issue limited series would be nice. We've gone through all of 2020 without seeing Adam and Monica on panel together as far as I know, so it's probably time for a status update on that front.

I think it's time for Adam to be taken in a new direction, but they definitely need to establish his role/niche in the Marvel pantheon. Initially Cantwell was on the right track by bringing in Adam to help solve the unsolvable, but the execution was a big let down and with the series wrapping up abruptly, the wheels came off completely towards the end. I'd like to see a better outcome, should Adam get a new finite series. He doesn't have to singlehandedly solve global warming, but a big win would be nice.

[Carbon jiren]

A 6 - 8 issue limited series would be nice. We've gone through all of 2020 without seeing Adam and Monica on panel together as far as I know, so it's probably time for a status update on that front.

I think it's time for Adam to be taken in a new direction, but they definitely need to establish his role/niche in the Marvel pantheon. Initially Cantwell was on the right track by bringing in Adam to help solve the unsolvable, but the execution was a big let down and with the series wrapping up abruptly, the wheels came off completely towards the end. I'd like to see a better outcome, should Adam get a new finite series. He doesn't have to singlehandedly solve global warming, but a big win would be nice.

Agreed. Actually, I wouldn't mind if had an alternate universe Blue Marvel where he didn't capitulate to Kennedy. Of course it wouldn't end all the racism of that era but at least we know he didn't give up.

Also, slightly unrelated thought, is Adam like Jor el if Jor el had escaped kyprton with Kal and Lara to earth, becoming a super powered human with a genius intellect?

[JudicatorPrime]

Hmmmmmmmmm...thinking...

I'm not the biggest fan of the military industrial complex, but I will confess that from a public relations and marketing standpoint the armed services hits a grand slam whenever they drive home the talking point that Americans enjoy their freedoms in large part due to the invisible blanket of protection provided by our global defense. I'd like to steal that nugget -- "the invisible blanket of protection" -- and apply it thematically to a superhero team headed up by Adam Brashear.

In another thread I stated that I'd like to see Marvel revive the 1940s crimefighting team called the Mystery Men. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea that the Mystery Men never ceased their activities. In fact, they've remained engaged from the '40s to the present day. It's just that their missions and team roster have deliberately been kept off-book, because secrecy is the only safeguard. I mean we've already seen how unhinged the general populace becomes when people discovered that a Black man was the most powerful being on the planet during the 1960s. They can't handle the truth. Best to let the Mystery Men operate discreetly.

Adam seems like a natural fit for the Mystery Men with its classic Justice Society of America-type Golden Age feel. Despite Kennedy's executive order still being enforced, founding members of the original Mystery Men team reach out to Adam, winning him over when they assure him that their powers and technology ensure absolute secrecy. Adam takes a chance and joins the cabal of champions. From 1962 to the present no one outside of the group ever finds out that Adam was a member of the Mystery Men.

"Can you keep a secret?" A simple interrogatory, but a clarion call for recruitment to the Mystery Men. Who do you invite to the team? (Or for that matter, who do you think could have been secret members all along?) I have a few ideas, but I mainly want a team made up of characters who spend far too much time wasting away in publishing limbo:

1. The Revenant (the soul of Ezekial Wright resurrected in a powerful new form and charged by Master Order with the task of bringing balance to this most important sector of the multiverse)
2. The Blue Marvel
3. Tamara Devoux (formerly Captain Universe; single mom; terminally ill; indomitable spirit)
4. Miracleman (it's time Marvel used him for something)
5. Puma
6. The Surgeon (can never go wrong with a disfigured genius...especially one crazy enough to inject himself with experimental compounds that somehow miraculously prolong his life)
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[Ezyo1000]

Hmmmmmmmmm...thinking...

I'm not the biggest fan of the military industrial complex, but I will confess that from a public relations and marketing standpoint the armed services hits a grand slam whenever they drive home the talking point that Americans enjoy their freedoms in large part due to the invisible blanket of protection provided by our global defense. I'd like to steal that nugget -- "the invisible blanket of protection" -- and apply it thematically to a superhero team headed up by Adam Brashear.

In another thread I stated that I'd like to see Marvel revive the 1940s crimefighting team called the Mystery Men. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea that the Mystery Men never ceased their activities. In fact, they've remained engaged from the '40s to the present day. It's just that their missions and team roster have deliberately been kept off-book, because secrecy is the only safeguard. I mean we've already seen how unhinged the general populace becomes when people discovered that a Black man was the most powerful being on the planet during the 1960s. They can't handle the truth. Best to let the Mystery Men operate discreetly.

Adam seems like a natural fit for the Mystery Men with its classic Justice Society of America-type Golden Age feel. Despite Kennedy's executive order still being enforced, founding members of the original Mystery Men team reach out to Adam, winning him over when they assure him that their powers and technology ensure absolute secrecy. Adam takes a chance and joins the cabal of champions. From 1962 to the present no one outside of the group ever finds out that Adam was a member of the Mystery Men.

"Can you keep a secret?" A simple interrogatory, but a clarion call for recruitment to the Mystery Men. Who do you invite to the team? (Or for that matter, who do you think could have been secret members all along?) I have a few ideas, but I mainly want a team made up of characters who spend far too much time wasting away in publishing limbo:

1. The Revenant (the soul of Ezekial Wright resurrected in a powerful new form and charged by Master Order with the task of bringing balance to this most important sector of the multiverse)
2. The Blue Marvel
3. Tamara Devoux (formerly Captain Universe; single mom; terminally ill; indomitable spirit)
4. Miracleman (it's time Marvel used him for something)
5. Puma
6. The Surgeon (can never go wrong with a disfigured genius...especially one crazy enough to inject himself with experimental compounds that somehow miraculously prolong his life)
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This os a cool idea. Not sure who would be on the team but I like this idea and the name. Maybe a solid 7-8 man Team with 3 rotational spots?

I personally (just given the dynamic) would throw BM as the lead and have T'Challa be a occasional rotational member as I feel that these are two very powerful Black men who have the potential for a world's finest Batman/Superman dynamic that was never explored with the opportunity presented itself (Ewings ultimates) that I think could be very fun.

Again I would make T'Challa rotational as you said this team is supposed to be primarily limbo characters but I think he fits alot of teams and secrecy is one of his strong points so they wouldn't worry about their name getting out