I’m just looking at how many characters I have to draw in my next drawing and cringing due to Ultimate Power. At least the X-Men’s relatively minor role in Ultimate Power is bolstered here, I guess. That is one kuh-razy skinny arm on Spider-Man. Well, we rejoined our heroes as Magneto tells Ms. Allen, whose name he knows, that it’s time she discovered who she is an where she came from.
Liz trying to grapple with all this super-business is pretty fun. “Does that dude know him?” It’s a fun perspective.
Magneto handily incapacitates Spider-Man and Iceman, and Liz asks if Magneto is her father.
We’re a long way from the original Liz, eh? Also from the original Magneto costume. Objectively, the classic Magneto suit is a little silly looking. But it’s classic for a reason, and every attempt to modernize or replace it produces something inferior. Ultimate Magneto has never looked cool. What are those pants? Is he a pirate?
Good bit at the bottom there. We follow a panicking Liz, whose external monologue is whole lot like when Peter is internally panicking, as she shakily flies to her house. She lands in the yard and yells to her mom, who comes out obviously very distraught to find her daughter nude on the lawn, but Liz tells her to stay back so she doesn’t get burned. She tells her mom she’s a mutant, and demands to know who her dad is.
Uncle Frank. Liz’s dad… Is the Blob. Why did I not remember any of this?
Lookin’ tuff. Where’s Rogue and Angel? The various parties have a verbal tug-of-war over Liz as she takes all this in. She asks if her father has ever killed anyone. Weirdly, The X-Men say “yes,” when I’m not sure how they would know who her dad is. Magneto says yes, too. After one more accusatory outburst at her mom, Liz makes the pretty reasonable choice to tell all the superpeople on her lawn to go to Hell and flies away. So, after saying she’ll come to him eventually, Magneto leaves, too. The good guys are less willing to just leave it there, and Iceman asks Spider-Man where she would go. He thinks about it.
Did Liz join the X-Men? I wasn’t reading it, I don’t know. She did. In fact, the internet says I’ve read several more comics with her in them as Ultimate Firestar. But I don’t remember this at all. How wild. Well, anyway, some of those will be on the blog… someday… but for now, we close on a 2-page sequence set years ago, before the events of any of the Ultimate books…
A surprisingly sweet reaction from Blob down there. Well, bye, Liz! Hope you have fun being an X-Man, but that seems pretty unlikely.