{"id":27837,"date":"2019-07-13T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=27837"},"modified":"2019-07-11T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T22:17:13","slug":"the-complex-history-of-mantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-complex-history-of-mantis\/","title":{"rendered":"The complex history of Mantis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today's Mantis<\/a> review hinted at how different her comics counterpart is.<\/p>\n

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Note that we said her \"comics\" counterpart, not her \"Marvel Comics\" counterpart. Because she's not just from<\/b> Marvel comics.<\/p>\n

Mantis was created at Marvel by Steve Englehart, where she was a minorly psychic martial artist and also the \"celestial Madonna.\" In 1974, she married her alien boyfriend, and went off to live with him.<\/p>\n

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Then, when Englehart went to work for DC, he introduced a \"new\" character in 1977 who had come from a place she couldn't talk about, and was pregnant by her alien boyfriend.<\/p>\n

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Englehart planned to use \"Willow\" as a guest star in a later miniseries, but the series got cancelled. So he changed the names, took it to a third<\/b> company, and published it there in 1983. So now Mantis\/Willow was Lorelai, and she gave birth to her son over there.<\/p>\n

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By 1988, Englehart was writing for Marvel again. So of course he wrote new stories about Mantis - and her young son.<\/p>\n

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That's even the same kitchen they're sitting in.<\/p>\n

You've got to give Steve Englehart credit: he had a whole long story he wanted to tell, and he wasn't going to let anything stop him from telling it.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>