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| This character has made me think how a loser guy can turn into a full-blown badass!! Frontline scribe Paul Jenkins has made this character so amazing that Frontline #10 made me feel like Speedball really had died... If any Civil War tie-in was worth 3 bucks; it was this one-- no doubt. I reccomend reading Civil War: Frontline to everyone. And if you have been reading: it true or not true; has Robbie really evolved? Penance... (I love saying that word...) |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:29 am Post subject: |
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Am I the only one who feels this way?  |
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No, You are not! I have all 10 issues of Frontline, and I love the new Penace! It's a great series! Wednesday the last issue comes out and they reveal the traitor! And the REAL reason Stark fought this Civil War! Should be a doozy!
Also Kevin and anyone else, I highly recommend, Thunderbolts #110 and 111!!!!! GREAT STUFF! Warren Ellis is amazing on this book, and I'm digging the art! I have never read a single T-Bolts issue in my life before #110, but after I finished reading it, I called my local comic shop and asked them to reserve my copy every month! It's great, and now I'm a regular T-Bolts reader! I especially enjoyed the last issue! You should have seen The T-bolts take out Jack Flagg! Poor guy!
That's my 2 cents!
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Is he speedball?
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Yeah!! I've read Thunderbolts ever since #103!! But so far Penance has said: "Yeah."..... and that's it!! I can't wait for the interview with Osborn though...
And yeah CowBoy! Speedball is Penance! |
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What does pennece or how ever you spell it look like?
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Penance looks like...
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Please instead of posting pics on this board, post links to them so we keep it clean. Thanks.
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Ok Kevin just explain to me what has happened to him scince he got blown away.
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I think it's okay to post pictures. No one's posting porn or anything, and it's a lot less annoying to be able to see the picture instead of having to follow a link, especially if your computer is slow. We don't want to turn into the marvel boards.
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Yeah. My computer takes forever to go to something it dosent reconginse.
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Uh... so do I post pics or links?
Oh and CowBoy, you know about Speedball's powers right? Basicly he has a forcefield that protects him. Here's what Wikipedia has for the "Birth of Penance" and I can safely say that this is accurate.
Speedball is revealed to be alive after Nitro's explosion in Stamford, his kinetic powers having knocked him 500 miles away. He is promptly arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D., and is powerless as a result of the strain.
Speedball, still in government custody, is offered the opportunity to register as a costumed vigilante and join S.H.I.E.L.D. When he refuses to admit guilt or wrongdoing, Speedball is beaten and transferred to a maximum security prison without being allowed contact with family or a lawyer (as an "unregistered combatant" he has no rights). Powerless and surrounded by career criminals, Speedball is assaulted by an inmate named "Toomey" and informed his own name from this point on is "Dirt." She-Hulk is attempting to help Speedball by giving him another offer from the government, trying to get him out of the prison where he's being held. Speedball steadfastly believes that while he was part of it, he didn't do anything wrong, Nitro did, and that he couldn't change the past. She-Hulk tells him to change the present.
When guided back to his cell, Toomey, another inmate, is heckling him. Robert then finally snaps and shouts back saying he'll need no powers to beat him up, and challenges him to a fight next gym session. Toomey agrees. Robert talks to his cellmate, Hickey, who says nothing in return, and appears quite catatonic. Tired, he tries to sleep.
Jennifer Walters comes back once more, and gives him a last offer, telling him to sign for three years of community service for S.H.I.E.L.D. Robbie says if he signs he'll have admitted it was his fault, and claims he'll never sign.
In the prison gym, Robbie Baldwin is in a fight with Toomey. All the prisoners think Toomey will win, except Hickey. Toomey thinks he can win easily, but Baldwin defends himself handily. However, another inmate pulls out a knife and cuts Robbie's hamstring when he beats Toomey, at which point Baldwin's power spontaneously restarts and blows up the gym.
Later, Baldwin receives a visitor: his mother, who begs him to accept responsibility for his part in the deaths of the Stamford victims. Baldwin counters by refusing to accept all the blame for the Stamford Incident. His mother agrees to respect his wishes, but then says she will not visit him again in prison.
Speedball is finally being transferred. She-hulk is riding with him in an army bus during the transfer. She-hulk doesn't like the transfer (she thinks it’s strange that so many big people are a part of it) and Speedball hears the angry crowds who hate him. This is a shock to Speedball, who can't believe all their anger is solely on him. They arrive at their destination, a gateway to the Negative Zone. Speedball and all the other captured heroes are sent to the Negative Zone where a prison was made for unregistered heroes. "Negative Zone Prison Alpha," Typeface tells Speedball, "Alphabetically it is accurate... for it is the first and only of its kind. The inmates have a better name for it. They call it Fantasy Island." A pan-out shows that they are not the only ones being sent to Fantasy Island.
In prison, Robbie Baldwin is thinking of the letter he will write to his mother. He is visited by Mr. Fantastic, who offers him the chance to explain his actions before Congress the next day. Robbie agrees. However, his lawyer is anxious: he is wearing his superhero costume in the mistaken belief that "public floggings mean more run-time, and more people listening to what I have to say". Baldwin is led through the crowd, against all proper convict handling procedure, as he begins to shout answers to questions the press are asking him. Suddenly, a man in the crowd shoots him.
In Robbie Baldwin's ambulance, Robbie composes another letter to his mother. In it, he expresses sorrow at the foolishness of his youth. He realizes that all of his attention-seeking - as a solo hero, in the New Warriors, and in their reality TV show - were due to his parents not paying attention to him. He acknowledges his complicity in the Stamford Incident, and says, "I couldn't admit that it happened, Mom. Because then I would have to admit that my friends were dead. Because of me. Everyone died... because of me." Around him, as he goes into shock, his powers spontaneously manifest again, blowing the ambulance's engine and forcing it to crash.
S.H.I.E.L.D. director Hill is holding She-Hulk in prison, believing she tried to free Robbie Baldwin in the ambulance. Two people died because of Robbie's power surge in the ambulance. The man who shot Robbie, James Stricker, is being tried for first degree murder. His daughter died at Stamford. Robbie's old cellmate Hickey broke out of prison and is disguised as a janitor in the same building Robbie and She Hulk are being held at. The bullet that hit Robbie shattered and is in pieces in his spine and can't be removed. Despite his protests, Commander Hill orders Reed Richards to give Robbie morphine and wake him up so he can be sent back to prison.
The newly released Speedball pays a prison visit to the man who shot him. He tells the man that's he's also negotiated for his release. The man is still upset. Speedball has an exchange with Reed as he leaves prison. He then burns his Speedball costume and meets with a costume maker who has his new costume. The costume maker says he can see it used for no means less than torture. Robbie (Speedball) reveals it is for himself and assumes his new identity as Penance.
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Poor guy. Two questions though
1) What powerws does He have now?
2) Why did his old powers keep surging and why didnt that bullet kill him and why is he bald?
Ok there is a couple quesions in that one.
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He can make things explode.
His powers activate when he's in horrible pain.
I don't really know that one...
He exploded after Stamford.
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Oh. Wasnet the cover him laying in a ditch smokeinf and like two cops looking down at him?
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