Aww… lol. My story senses are tingling. Zodon’s informing Alt-Zondon of this and Alt-Zodon’s positive reaction will probably become critical plot points soon.
Also, something I didn’t notice when I first read this comic, way back in 2009: I’m pretty sure that the “probe” is the same one used on “Stargate: SG-1”. 😀
Not surprising he’s so appreciative, especially after hearing that his biological parents decided to raid his accounts for enough money to live comfortably elsewhere and abandoned him and it’s his counterpart’s parents that have been showing him all that real parental love his actual parents apparently never had.
The backstory on Zodon and finally clearing up what happened with his parents is also quite nice, particularly the idea that much of his behavior is just that of a bored child that’s not getting the mental challenge he needs. Just made worse than a normal child’s acting out since he’s got super-intelligence making it far more troublesome. Puts him quite a few steps up over Von Fogg who’s been brought up to be an active problem by his parents who’re also active problems.
I wouldn’t say the main Zodon had bad parents at all, it’s hardly bad for them to wonder if it might have been better if Zodon hadn’t been born a super-genius, and definitely nothing wrong in deciding to send him to a special school that might be able to give him the guidance he needed to grow up into a good person.
Which is why things are shown going so well for normal Zodon, he got the good parents who actually worried about their child and tried doing the right thing rather than still having the two shallow parents who only cared about money and felt that stealing some of his cash and running would let them live happy lives without him.
Alt-Zodon is still a genius, he just turned it to making money on the Internet instead of building gadgets. I still wonder why main Zodon is apparently crippled – he looks infantile, has a deformed head, and needs his floating chair to get around and the clumsy-looking mechanical hands to manipulate anything.
Unless they’ve retconned him again, that isn’t actually the reason Xavier’s crippled. He was an active adventurer until a supervillain named Belasco dropped a mountain on his spine…
(That said, yes, when he was hit with a depowering field in the Savage Land, he did get his legs back. He doesn’t know why that worked, either.)
That was his story for a while. I think currently his paralysis is a result of multiple diseases his evil twin sister infected him with. I kind of stopped paying attention a few years ago.
Xavier’s backstory is that he originally was crippled fighting an alien named Lucifer. Later on, after his body was infected by the Brood Queen, Xavier was cloned a new body by the Shi’ar, and he transferred his consciousness to that new body; after going through physical therapy to relearn to walk, he was up and adventuring with the X-Men (he even got a silly jump suit and was snatched up by The Beyonder to fight in Secret Wars). Later on his body was injured in a battle with his son, David Haller, aka Legion, who was possessed by the mutant telepath, The Shadow King. Throughout the ’90’s Xavier was in a high-tech wheelchair, until the early aughts, then when Grant Morrison took over All-New X-Men, Cassandra Nova, Xavier’s sorta twin, crippled him again. He regained the ability to walk during “House of M”, lost it again, regained it and lost it, before finally regaining it in time to be killed by a Phoenix possessed Cyclops, and his brain stolen by The Red Skull. Any questions?
Aww… lol. My story senses are tingling. Zodon’s informing Alt-Zondon of this and Alt-Zodon’s positive reaction will probably become critical plot points soon.
Heart = melt
So did the probe, apparently.
That hairdo on the woman scientist… looks a lot like Alt-Zodon’s. Could it be she’s his biological mother?
She’s somewhere in the Pacific, probably at the bottom. No.
haircuts are GENETIC!!!!
Yay! Hugging!
Also, something I didn’t notice when I first read this comic, way back in 2009: I’m pretty sure that the “probe” is the same one used on “Stargate: SG-1”. 😀
Longtime reader, rare commenter.
That seen warmed my feels. When you think about it, Zodon gave his Alt the best gift ever.
Not surprising he’s so appreciative, especially after hearing that his biological parents decided to raid his accounts for enough money to live comfortably elsewhere and abandoned him and it’s his counterpart’s parents that have been showing him all that real parental love his actual parents apparently never had.
The backstory on Zodon and finally clearing up what happened with his parents is also quite nice, particularly the idea that much of his behavior is just that of a bored child that’s not getting the mental challenge he needs. Just made worse than a normal child’s acting out since he’s got super-intelligence making it far more troublesome. Puts him quite a few steps up over Von Fogg who’s been brought up to be an active problem by his parents who’re also active problems.
Zodon:
he has more power, so more options.
more options, more decisions.
more decisions, more mistakes from bad decisions.
Folks with more power make more mistakes, its simple.
Both Zodons got bad parents for their worlds, but A!Zodon made out better. It’s too bad that left Zodon without any.
I wouldn’t say the main Zodon had bad parents at all, it’s hardly bad for them to wonder if it might have been better if Zodon hadn’t been born a super-genius, and definitely nothing wrong in deciding to send him to a special school that might be able to give him the guidance he needed to grow up into a good person.
Which is why things are shown going so well for normal Zodon, he got the good parents who actually worried about their child and tried doing the right thing rather than still having the two shallow parents who only cared about money and felt that stealing some of his cash and running would let them live happy lives without him.
Alt-Zodon is still a genius, he just turned it to making money on the Internet instead of building gadgets. I still wonder why main Zodon is apparently crippled – he looks infantile, has a deformed head, and needs his floating chair to get around and the clumsy-looking mechanical hands to manipulate anything.
Probably the same thing as with Xavier–his brain’s overdevelopment is starving the rest of the body.
Unless they’ve retconned him again, that isn’t actually the reason Xavier’s crippled. He was an active adventurer until a supervillain named Belasco dropped a mountain on his spine…
(That said, yes, when he was hit with a depowering field in the Savage Land, he did get his legs back. He doesn’t know why that worked, either.)
That was his story for a while. I think currently his paralysis is a result of multiple diseases his evil twin sister infected him with. I kind of stopped paying attention a few years ago.
Xavier’s backstory is that he originally was crippled fighting an alien named Lucifer. Later on, after his body was infected by the Brood Queen, Xavier was cloned a new body by the Shi’ar, and he transferred his consciousness to that new body; after going through physical therapy to relearn to walk, he was up and adventuring with the X-Men (he even got a silly jump suit and was snatched up by The Beyonder to fight in Secret Wars). Later on his body was injured in a battle with his son, David Haller, aka Legion, who was possessed by the mutant telepath, The Shadow King. Throughout the ’90’s Xavier was in a high-tech wheelchair, until the early aughts, then when Grant Morrison took over All-New X-Men, Cassandra Nova, Xavier’s sorta twin, crippled him again. He regained the ability to walk during “House of M”, lost it again, regained it and lost it, before finally regaining it in time to be killed by a Phoenix possessed Cyclops, and his brain stolen by The Red Skull. Any questions?