{"id":4510,"date":"2010-11-12T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T10:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2010-11-06T01:06:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T05:06:25","slug":"malibu-ultraverse-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/12\/malibu-ultraverse-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Malibu Ultraverse Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I wrote earlier this week, <a title=\"I miss the Ultraverse\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2010\/11\/08\/i-miss-the-ultraverse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malibu&#8217;s <em>Ultraverse<\/em> was full of creativity and energy<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve come across an issue entitled <em>Ultraverse Origins<\/em> that was published eight months after the <em>Ultraverse <\/em>line launched.\u00a0 This book contains some good, succinct origin tales for many of the characters.\u00a0 Today I&#8217;m presenting just a handful of these origin stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Below is the origin of <em>Prototype <\/em>written by Tom Mason &amp; Len Strazewski, drawn by Dan Jurgens and Terry Austin.\u00a0 Click the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ultra-origin_prototype.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Prototype origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ultra-origin_prototype.jpg\" alt=\"Prototype origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Below you&#8217;ll find the two page origin of <em>Freex <\/em>written by Gerard Jones and drawn by Walt Simonson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Freex origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ultra-origin-freex1.jpg\" alt=\"Freex origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" width=\"600\" height=\"916\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Freex origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ultra-origin-freex2.jpg\" alt=\"Freex origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" width=\"600\" height=\"930\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Below you&#8217;ll find the two page origin of <em>The Night Man<\/em> written by Steve Englehart and drawn by Kevin Maguire.\u00a0 Long time <em>Ultraverse <\/em>fans will recognize the cable car and the connection with the <em>Strangers <\/em>origin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The Night Man origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ultra-origin_nightman1.jpg\" alt=\"The Night Man origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" width=\"600\" height=\"916\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The Night Man origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ultra-origin_nightman2.jpg\" alt=\"The Night Man origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" width=\"600\" height=\"920\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Below you&#8217;ll find the two page origin of <em>Firearm <\/em>written by James Robinson and drawn by Howard Chaykin.\u00a0 This series was really Robinson&#8217;s practice run for <em>Starman<\/em>.\u00a0 A good example is the way the lead character, Alec Swan, carries on about Santa Monica.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very similar to the way Jack Knight thought of Opal City.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m not knocking <em>Firearm<\/em>, I&#8217;m just saying you can see some similarities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Firearm origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ultra-origin_firearm1.jpg\" alt=\"Firearm origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" width=\"600\" height=\"917\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Firearm origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ultra-origin_firearm2.jpg\" alt=\"Firearm origin from the Malibu Ultraverse\" width=\"600\" height=\"918\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So have I convinced you to seek out some <em>Ultraverse <\/em>comics yet?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-4510\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button 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