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“If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.”
― Federico Chini, The Sea Of Forgotten Memories
“I wish I could describe the feeling of being at sea, the anguish, frustration, and fear, the beauty that accompanies threatening spectacles, the spiritual communion with creatures in whose domain I sail. There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se. My own cosmology is convoluted and not in line with any particular church or philosphy. But for me, to go to sea is to glimpse the face of God. At sea i am reminded of my insignificance-- of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.”
― Steve Callahan
“Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.”
― Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Happy Weekend, All!
I love the two women in the background. They wanted me to take their picture and not the fellow in the foreground. Afterwards I did take their pictures and sat and "talked" with them for about an hour. All the while the woman on the left held my hand while the woman on the right would explain my gestures. I'm not sure how much translated, but we all enjoyed the experience.
The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment. ~ Peter Bondra
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 11: Jose-Filipe Lima of Portugal reacts to his putt on the fifth hole during the first round of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Golf Course on August 11, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Stan Badz/PGA TOUR/IGF)
EDITED ON FEBRUARY 6, 2021
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(Geonosis, a few minutes after Black Moon Squad enters the tower)
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"Commander, the droids have us outnumbered! We're running low on ammunition and cover! What are your orders?!"
"Keep fighting, Flash! We just got to hold out 'til Kydan and his men get here!"
"Copy that, ma'am!"
'If he gets here in time, that is...', the blonde haired Jedi Knight woman though to herself, before deflecting an energy blast back with her green bladed lightsaber.
Down below the sixth floor within the research tower, Rilicia and her squad, White Claw, had breached the large room of what little cargo there was left, having defeated some B1 Battle Droids and B2 Super Battle Droids in the vicinity. They had all just begun to head towards the next set of stairs to the seventh floor before being entrapped within the cargo bay, the door before them sealed off. To make matters worth, the reinforcements that were suppose to aid the other droid forces earlier had finally caught up to them; containing B1 Battle Droids, B2 Super Battle Droids, a few, but deadly, Droidekas and one single DSD1 Dwarf Spider Droid, all charging up to them all, pinning them back to take cover.
Rilicia thought that it was a nightmare. "Boomer, we need that Spider Droid gone!"
"Working on it, commander!" Boomer cried out, rushing to reload his rocket launcher in hand. After a few seconds, he lifts the launcher in the air and aims it right at the droid, using the automatic targeting computer for better success.
"Suck on this, you clanker!"
Pulling the trigger, the missile launches out from the rocket launcher, flying right towards the Spider Droid at high speed. With little time to react, the missile makes a clean hit, creating a massive explosion that engulfed almost the entire droid itself, destroying both the Spider Droid, one Super Battle Droid and a couple Battle Droids that had been around it.
Boomer places the rocket launcher down before cheering out loud. "Ha ha! Take that, you junkies!"
"Good work Boomer, that takes ca-," Rilicia paused for a brief moment before looking at her other clone soldier, Wilow, who had just taken down a simple battle droid. When she saw the Super Battle droid aim its wrist blaster at him, she cried out, "Wilow, get down!"
"Wha-!" Before Wilow could even finish whatever he was going to say, he felt the sudden, burning stings in his chest plate, multiple shots piercing right through him. "GAH!"
Rilicia winced and mourned the death of her fellow trooper, who had dropped to the ground. But even though she had lost her fellow trooper, that wasn't gonna stop her from defeating the droid forces. She and her squad had come too far to surrender and lay down their lives now. They had to hold this position!
She looked behind her to one of her other troopers, who was currently slicing his way through the control panel next to the sealed door. "Hacker! How's it coming with that door?!"
"Its taking a little longer than I would have hoped ma'am," he replied, just pulling two small blue and black wires out as it caused it to spark. "I don't know how much longer it'll take to get her open!"
Rilicia sighed silently in annoyance. She wasn't mad with Hacker, but more with their current situation before them all. "Then work as fast as you can! Otherwise, those droids will call for reinforcements! And frankly, we don't have enough ammunition or men for that!"
"Copy that, Commander! I'm on it!"
"Hang on boys! Droidekas incoming!"
As soon as she turned her attention back to the droids, two large, brown metallic machines, known as Droidekas, rolled into the fray of the battle, deploying themselves right beside the remaining Super Battle Droids as they began to blast away at the remaining clones and Jedi commander. If that wasn't enough; one of the remaining Super Battle Droids was able to hit one of the soldiers, named Kuros, gunning the clone right down to the ground just as the last droid had done to Willow earlier. They were all beginning that this was the final line of defense; either kill or be killed.
Dodging the incoming gunfire from the opposite side, Flash ducks beside next to Boomer and behind his commander. "I don't think we can hold out much longer commander! We're down to three men!"
Although she hated to admit it, Lieutenant Flash was right. Their entire squad was now slimmed down to three men. It was now up to Flash, Boomer, Hacker, and herself to survive and hold the line. Even though the odds were against them, they had no other choice. This was their final stand alright, and they all knew it.
"...Then we'll go down by taking them with us, Lieutenant." She looks to the rest of her remaining soldiers around her, who were all looking at her awaiting her final order as their leader. "White Claw Squadron, take out as many as you can! No mercy!"
"Sir, yes ma'am!" They all shouted as Flash, Boomer, and even Hacker all picked themselves out from their cover and began to open fire at the droid forces, hoping to take down whatever they can with them. Rilicia jumped out of her own cover, igniting her green saber and started to deflect the incoming fire from the Super Battle Droids and droidekas.
As the entire squadron made their final attempts against the droids, from behind the droid enemy, a few unknown blue energy shots are heard and seen from behind, taking out two of the five Super Battle Droids. Then, out of one of the droidekas that was continuing to barrage the clones and Jedi with its ray shield on surrounding it, slowly begins to float in midair as the shield itself deactivates and all shots from it was ceased to a halt.
None of them knew what was happening, but the clones stopped firing at the droids, taking cover once again and only poking their helmets out to look beyond the battlefield. Even Rilicia was totally confused to what was happening, as well.
She looked at the droids dumbfounded. "What the blazes...?"
Taking a moment to see what was causing the droids to act weird and stop firing at them, Flash looked behind the enemy to see if the source of their actions was the case. When he did, he realized what was happening. "Ma'am, look!"
In an instant, the droideka was flung right towards the right, smashing into the metal wall as it somewhat exploded and sparked simultaneously, falling back onto the steel floor with a thud. From behind the droids was but Kydan and Black Moon Squad, rushing towards them as they began to focus all their efforts on the remaining droids before them all.
Kydan activates his purple blade, pointing the saber directly at the droids. "Alright boys, take them out!"
As the last of his words escaped his lips. each one chose to target the last droideka as they caught it off guard, creating enough it could make a full turn around. With just the right amount of attacks, the droideka was too vulnerable and utterly was shredded away from the gunfire shots.
Meanwhile, Kydan chose to pursue one of the last Super Battle Droids while Rilicia took the chance to attack the other from behind, both of them slicing each droid's arms off and cutting them in half at the exact same time.
As the two collapsed tot he ground in pieces, White Claw made a cheer of victory as they knew the battle was finally over. Rilicia, sighing in relief, turns her gaze towards Kydan with a bright smile. She was so glad that they came in the nick of time, but was also worried about them when they attacked the tower outside earlier. Though, she was overjoyed that he was okay.
"Kydan!" She rushed up to him before coming to a halt in front of him, forcefully restraining herself to not hug him. "Thank the Force your alright! We thought your team was wiped out."
"We thought the same about you guys when we couldn't make any contact with you," Kydan admitted, a small smile forming on his lips. "But, thanks to Scanner, he was able to locate where you and your squad were. If he hadn't, we would have never got here in time. I'm just glad your safe, Rilicia."
Rilicia was slightly caught off from his last comment, a small blush appearing on her cheek bones. Hoping to avoid the embarrassment, she smiled and replied back, "Well, I'm glad your safe too Kydan. Thanks for saving me and my team."
Kydan blushed back, rubbing the back of his neck in his own embarrassment with a small chuckle. "O-Oh, j-just doing my job as a Jedi."
Not fully understanding what was going on between their two commanders, Flash and R.S. approached them both, their helmets being held between their arms. Flash spoke up first, "Commanders, Hacker just finished hacking through the main door. Area is secured and are ready to proceed to the labs on your orders."
"Excellent. What is our loses Leuitenant?" Rilicia questioned them.
"We lost Wilow and Curos in the battle. We're down to three men in the squad ma'am. Our squad is down to a task force, and we don't have enough numbers to overrun the tower. Any ideas, ma'am?"
It was true, their numbers have dwindled to only a small task force all because of her actions. She should be feeling guilt for the whole outcome, but knew that it wouldn't help her if she started to blame herself. She then murmurs to herself, not satisfied with it all. "This might be harder than I expected..."
Kydan understood what she meant. Being under the command of many lives was very challenging, and it's difficult to figure out if you will carry out the right or wrong orders during the battles before and after. It wasn't very pleasant.
With a broad grin, Kydan spoke up. "Well, I guess it's a good thing you have us then, huh Rilicia?"
"Still, who knows how much tougher it's gonna be when we reach the labs. If Eclipse is still there, he'll definitely be ready for us."
Kydan's grin grows even more, "Then we'll use that to our advantage. Flash, you and your men have any thermal detonators left?"
When Kydan looked to the rest of White Claw Squadron, he saw the three clones searching through their plastic white pouches and backpacks for any detonators they had left. Fortunately for them, each one of them was carrying one each.
Flash and his men showed the commander their last grenades. "Uh, yes sir. Each of us have at least one. But if you don't mind me asking; why?"
"Cause, Lieutenant, we're gonna need to be blowing ourselves a new 'entrance'?"
"Uh...'new entrance', sir?"
He chuckles at the soldier. "You'll understand once we get in there."
Rilicia just giggles from Kydan's comment, while Flash just tilted his head in an utterly confused state. With a simple smirk, Kydan turns his attention to Rilos, Scanner and Hopper who were just approaching them all.
"Rilos? I need you and the rest of the team to secure and hold this position until we get back. There's no telling what or when the droids will be coming back."
"Understood sir," Rilos replied, both he and his men cocking their weapons. "We'll contact you if we see any droids in the vicinity."
"Good man," the young Jedi nodded with a smile. He turns to Rilicia and her men, his smile not faltering in the slightest. "Alright, lets get in there and capture that Mandalorian."
"Lets just hope we're not too late," Rilicia hoped as she, Kydan and the team rushed out of the room and through the corridors of the tower, leaving the rest to protect the area for escape.
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(Ten minutes after losing contact with droid forces...)
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Inside the laboratory, droid unit K-17, ex-assistant droid of Alurak, scrambles across the entire lab in preparations for the enemies' arrival. With one last objective left to accomplish, K17 quickly contacts its master, revealing a small blue silhouette appears before it.
"My lord, our reinforcements have all been eliminated below the lab," K-17 addresses, "We no longer have reinforcements available."
'It is of little concern,' the mysterious man replies to the droid, unfazed by the news. 'We have accomplished what we needed here. Do what you can to keep the Jedi and Republic away from our mission. We do not need any interference.'
"Understood, sir," K-17 said, nodding its head. "We'll hold them here."
As the hologram projecting the silhouette disappears in front of K-17, the two battle droids that are guarding the doorway to the lab start to hear a small knocking noise from the other side of the room. The one on the left notices the noise as it looks, first, to the door and then back at it's counterpart.
"Did you hear that?" It asked the other droid.
"I didn't hear anything," the other replied, slightly shaking it's thin stick-like head. "You must be hearing things again."
The droid looks to the door. "I could have sworn I heard something. It sounded like a knock."
"Your sensors must be malfunctioning again," the other said to it. "You should head down to repairs later, get yourself a che-"
Before the droid could finish it's sentence, they both suddenly start hearing a small, quiet beeping noise from the other side. This time, both of them looked to the door, utterly confused as to what the sound is.
"What is that sound?"
"Sounds like some sort of 'beeping' noise."
"Wait a minute...isn't that what they call a-"
"Get back!" a man's voice shouted from the other side of the metal doorway.
Immediately, the two droids looked at one another with concerned voices, "Uh-oh..." With that, the doorway in front of them shattered into multiple pieces, blasting off across the laboratory, striking at few of the droids that were protecting the room as they broke into piles of scrap metal.
K-17 picked itself up from hiding underneath the panel, slightly shaken from the surprise attack, before seeing a handful of clones rushing into the room, followed by none other but Kydan and Rilicia who both had their swords ignited into pure energy blades.
The droid assistant coward backwards slowly as it started shouting commands to the remaining three battle droids and the single super battle droid in the room. "Don't just stand there! Blast them already!"
But before the droids could even retaliate against their foes, Flash and his clone brothers were far too quick on the draw as they all gunned down the four security droid guards in the room, leaving only K-17 alone without any droid support or reinforcements to depend on. The clones and the two young Jedi all had their blades and blasters directed at the droid assistant, who was now terrified as it could be.
Not knowing what to do, the droid raised it's thin metal arms in the air slowly as he spoke, "Uh...I...surrender myself?" But as it's words left its voice box, Boomer had taken the shot first, piercing a clean energy blast right between the droid's memory band and eyes. With that, the droid assistant collapsed onto the ground, shutting itself down permanently.
Flash shook his head slightly at Boomer, "Couldn't resist, could ya' brother?"
"What? Like that droid was gonna talk," Boomer shrugged innocently and truthfully, causing half of the team to slightly chuckle.
"So much for meeting with the assassin himself," Rilicia said in disappointment. "He must have escape the tower the moment we all breached inside."
"Well if anything, we can see if he left anything valuable for us to take back for Republic Intelligence," Kydan replied in a hopeful matter, strolling up to one of the computer panels in the center. "So let's get to work, and fast."
"Right. Flash, have the others guard the door while we hack into the computer main frames. We don't want to have anymore surprises left in this place."
"Copy that, ma'am."
As Flash, Boomer, R.S. and Hopper stayed near the exploded doorway watching for any droid reinforcements to start marching to them, Kydan, Rilicia and Hacker got to work on trying to slice through the mainframes of what was Alurak's personal files.
Fifteen minutes passes as Kydan, Rilicia and Hacker continue to slice through the mainframes for any information about Alurak or any other important documents on what the Separatist were doing here. So far, however, none of them were making much progress.
"Anything yet Rilicia?" Kydan sighed as he looked over his shoulder for a brief moment before turning his attention back to the mainframe.
"I got...nothing. How about you Hacker?"
Hacker shook his head in a 'no' fashion. "Nothing. Its looks like he wiped out everything inside the computers before he left the tower. He knew that we would come."
"Which was why that droid assistant stayed behind, so he could have insurance of wiping out the data..." Kydan's frustration was building up slowly, but just made it worse when he smashed his fisted hands on the computer in front of him. "Karabast!"
Noticing and sensing his frustration, Rilicia approaches him and places a delicate hand on his shoulder to try to calm him down, as well as comfort him at the same time. "Relax Kydan. No need to get all worked up about it. Besides, there's always a next time. When we meet him again, we'll be more than ready."
Reluctantly, Kydan knew that she was right. She was always right, as a matter of fact. True, it wasn't a complete lost just yet. They still have a mission to finish, and that's what he was going to do. Complete the mission and go home, simple as that.
Exhaling some air as he collected himself calmly, he smiles to her. "You're right, Rilicia. I shouldn't let my anger get the better of me. That's not what a Jedi would let happen, and I shouldn't give into it so easy. I appreciate it a lot. Thank you."
A small pink blush appears on her cheeks as she gives him a gentle and sincere smile. But then she lets a frown to form on her lips as she lets go of his shoulder, obviously causing some confusion to her young Jedi friend. Friend, that was what they were right now. But somewhere, deep down in her heart, she wanted something...more. Of course she knew that it was forbidden in the Jedi Order, in fact, it was severe punishment for having such an attachment like that! But she knew that she had to tell him, and right now was the time. The more she keeps hold onto the feeling, the more it will eat at her. And the more she waits will be the day when it will be too late.
Taking a large, deep breath to try and calm herself, she looks to Kydan in the eyes as her own eyes shine in the bright light that was directly above her. That same small blush she had now turning to a lingering shaded red. "Kydan? There's...there's something I need to tell you."
Kydan cocked his head a bit, still unsure of what was going on with her. "Sure, what is it?"
Taking a moment adjust herself, she takes another deep breath before choosing her words correctly. "Kydan, we've been through so much all these years. We've known each other since we were just younglings, and on the day we met at the funeral in the Jedi Temple. And, throughout all that time, I can always remember the best times we had going on missions together. And I remember all the amazing things we've done together as we grown up, and none of that has left me to this day. In fact...I don't want those times to end anytime soon..."
Still not understanding what she was trying to say, he urges her to continue. "What are you trying to say, Rilicia?"
"W-What I'm trying to say is...um, well...what I'm trying to say exactly is...is that...I..."
"Go on..."
"I...Kydan, I lo-"
Just before she could finally complete her sentence to him, Flash approaches them from the doorway. His body language was giving them both an obvious worry and concern. "Commanders, we've been trying to contact Rilos and the rest of his squad, but there hasn't been any response."
Kydan's eyes widen as his concern peaked. It wasn't normal for a clone to not respond back when being contacted. He has a strong feeling that something is definitely wrong. "Something must have happened to them. We need to get back down to the cargo area and check on them. There's nothing left for us to do here, anyhow."
"Yes sir! Let's move White Claw Squad!"
The clones of White Claw all not in compliance to their sergeant's orders, all of them moving into the hallway. Kydan was close behind them, just making his way out before he looked over his shoulder to see Rilicia had not moved an inch from her spot. He could see disappointment and, what appeared to be, sadness written across her entire face. Her eyes looked more glassy than before, much more than from before.
Concern washed over him quickly, not really knowing what to say to her. "Rilicia, is everything alright?"
Snapping out of her own sadness, she looks to Kydan who was staring at her with his concerned expression. She didn't want him to see her sadness, let alone her disappointment. She was a Jedi Knight, and a Jedi does not look weak to anyone, especially their closest friends. Doing he best to hide her expression, she immediately changes her mood rubbing her glassy eyes with her sleeve. "Y-Yeah, I'm good. Let's get moving!"
Brushing past him as fast as her legs could bare, her last expression of sadness returns as she tries her best to hide her face from Kydan and the clones before her. Kydan looked to Rilicia for a moment when the clones looked to him in question. He shrugs at them in response, not really knowing what was going on with her. With that, he and the others follow behind the young Jedi Knight as they make haste back to the cargo bay.
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I hope all of you enjoyed the third part of the "Star Wars The Jedi Mercenary" series so far. And like I have said last time, these next chapters were taken back years ago so we are very sorry that they aren't perfect. But I still hope you have enjoyed them nonetheless.
But, putting all that aside, I hope you can all give us your thoughts and feedback about hope the series is so far by giving this and the other chapters either a comment and/or fave. if we're asking too much, then just reading them for yourself is good too. Anyways, Thank you all for the countless support, and as always, have a fan-building-tastic day/night ! See ya' in the next one!
- Director K.W.
The performance group ReAct! in action during the Tulip festival at poseidon's Square in Eanden today. Never seen a performance that included wheelbarrows filled with tulips before.
I will never get bored of seeing people react when learning for the first time that our closest galactic neighbour – the Andromeda Galaxy has an angular diameter in our skies of approximately 3 degrees. The Full Moon is about 0.5 degrees across , so Andromeda is about six times bigger which is amazing thing to consider given that it is 2.5 million light years away so even at that incredible distance it takes up a noticeable amount of real estate in our skies.
This image (which is far, far from perfect) is comprised of the first photons captured in my new telescope from my back garden in North West UK. With a focal length of 1000mm and a crop sensor camera, the Andromeda Galaxy is much too large to fit into a single frame. A full moon at this magnification would take up just over half of this field of view.
Equipment:
-Skywatcher EQ6-R pro
-Skywatcher Quattro 10s (254/1000 - f3.9)
-Skywatcher Aplanatic Coma corrector
-ZWO ASI 294MC-pro (imaging camera)
-Optolong L-pro
-Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED
-ZWO ASI 120-MM mini (guide camera)
Acquisition:
-Lights: 58 x 120s, gain 125, offset 30
-Darks: 30
I didn’t even think as I reacted. I shot my arrow into another building and swung over to it, feeding rope so I descended quickly. I hit the ground and sprinted into the square, loading my bow. Bruce’s voice filled my head over the comlinks.
“Connor, what are you doing?”
“Plan B,” I told him, “We’ve got to take him down while we have him.” I fired at Onomatopoeia, catching his attention.
“Connor, Deadshot is still around.”
“You saw the flash. Go after him. I’ll take Onomatopoeia and get Roy out of here. I won’t let him take someone else.”
I leaped onto a bench and fired two arrows at Onomatopoeia. He swerved out of the way and produced two handguns, and began firing rapidly at me.
“Bang bang bang.”
I dove behind a fountain for cover as the bullets ripped into the statue. I spotted Roy over a ways, laying down, groaning. At least he wasn’t dead. I put three arrows in my bow and shot blindly. The firing stopped. Had I killed him? I peered above the ledge of the fountain for a clearer view. Nothing. I stepped over and was greeted with more gunfire as Onomatopoeia stood up.
I clambered through the water, trying not to be slowed down out in the open. The bright lights of the billboards flashed around me, and I felt truly exposed. I ran in between two buildings and ducked down behind a dumpster.
I was now further away from Roy than I was when I started.
“Bruce!” I screamed into the comlink. “Bruce, I need help down here!” Silence from the other end.
“Bruce!” I didn’t care that I was using his real name. Terror and anxiousness pumped itself through my veins. I couldn’t do this alone.
“Bruce! Bruce, help!”
“Just wait, I’m coming!” He yelled back. I looked up and saw him leap from a building spreading his cape out like wings. He rode the air, swiftly descending. Onomatopoeia looked up at him, and I took the chance to book it to Roy. Immediately Onomatopoeia snapped back and started shooting at me again. I hit the ground and heard Bruce’s foot connect with some part of Onomatopoeia. I stood up, panting, green paint dripping off with the sweat. Bruce was exchanging blows with Onomatopoeia. I grabbed Roy’s arms and started dragging him off into an alley. After he was safe, I sprinted back over to the center, where Bruce was flipping around, avoiding gunfire. I ran onto a bench and leaped off, firing arrows at Onomatopoeia. He tried to lunge out of the way, but Bruce kicked him into the way of the arrows I fired and one plunged into his shoulder. He went down with another kick to the face by Bruce.
I towered above him, arrow pointed right at his head. I felt excited and anxious and my knees were weak. I was breathing heavily; we had him. After all this time, we had him.
“SCPD is on their way,” Bruce told me. I ignored him.
“Onomatopoeia, you have terrorized this city long enough. You’ve killed both my mother and numerous citizens. Your reign ends now.” I was about to let go of the arrow. This was it. I’d finally kill him.
But… what? Something didn’t feel right. I looked at Bruce. I knew he wasn’t going to stop me; not physically anyways. He just stared down at Onomatopoeia.
“Connor,” he began slowly, “I’m going to ask you the same thing I asked you at the funeral; is this what she’d want?” I quickly cast a look over at him then fixed my gaze on the target on Onomatopoeia’s face.
“I have to do it,” I said, more to myself. Then I remembered John.
“Where is Joh–Spartan?” I questioned. Onomatopoeia started laughing.
“WHERE IS HE?!” I demanded. Onomatopoeia started laughing again.
“You’ll find him soon enough,” he cackled, “but, if you kill me, you’ll never find out.”
I glanced at Bruce to see what he was thinking. Then I knocked Onomatopoeia out.
2 more issues! (Sorry, I know I said that last time, but I was mistaken. There were 3). Feedback is always appreciated, and be sure to check out the rest of the series. Sorry to Chris and Heromotion67 for not tagging me, Flickr won't let me.
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - APRIL 22: Koji "Laz" Ushida of ZETA DIVISION reacts at the VALORANT Masters Semifinals on April 22, 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri, popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan, is a Malayalam author and a screenplay writer. A prolific and versatile actor, a Sanskrit scholar, a teacher of repute, priesthood in a famous temple, National awards for the best screenplay in 2000 for the film " Karunam' and the Ashdod International Film Award for Best Screenplay for the film Parinamam (The Change) in 2003-- his life has been extremely colorful and eventful. He lives in the Kiralur village in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, 77 years young.
Tweaked levels and colour balance - but only a little....almost SOOC!
Quite bizarre the way the light is reacting.
My mother always said. ”Give Anders a finger and he will take the whole hand.”
That is not entirely true, I am quite modest when eating out, I never take seconds unless offered, even if it taste temptingly good. But when it comes to love, sex and freedom, I am afraid it is quite true. So, now that I yesterday exercised my constitutional right to depict myself publicly as a most conservative office woman, one must restore balance in the feminin sphere of cosmos by going to the ”other side”, supporting the more chaotic spirits in the nature of women. Hence the retro girl, who suddenly jumped out a ”pin up” girl, only to reveal her true identity, gracefully descending from her wilderness throne, the African ”Queen” (or even a Jamaican pincess some say).
I passed a second hand shop the other day and a sign caught my eyes. Take 3 things for 10 dollar. I took this red silky top as one of them. I can STRONGLY RECOMEND second hand shops, I have found the BEST of things there. HIGH quality, LOW cost!
Walking home from the park I pass people out walking the dog, going to work, delivering goods to stores and so on. They look at me from afar and I wonder what they think? Not that I care, I just wonder? My goal has NEVER been to be ”passable” I even HATE the expression. I just want to be lovely and attractable in my OWN eyes and way. Yet sometimes I wonder what other people see, especially when they don´t seem to react with any surprised or astonishment as they pass me. This time I had brought my big tripod to the park, in order to take some ”real” pictures. I think the ones who saw me ”shooting” thought I was a girl out taking pictures of herself, or walking to and throw the park, perhaps they think they saw, a pretty photographer going to work? They reacted so.. just looked with slightly raised interest and moved on.
I laugh up the stairs to my home, feeling like I have cheated the world and tricked society out of a treat. Looking at the pictures I learn that it is in fact JUST what society is berobbed, a treat ;o) - Well it's loss, my gain ;o)
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A young woman reacts after seeing President Barack Obama, during his visit to Prairie Lights, an independent bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa, March 25, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Circa 1972. Two fellow classmates in my Chemistry class appear to be reacting to one another. However, that might not be so. These two images simply happen to be on adjacent frames on the same strip of film but could be unrelated.
I seem to recall that the young man lived in Parkewood, the part of Los Alamitos in the extreme southeast limits of the city, located across Lampson Avenue from College Park East.
Taken with my Mom's Olympus Pen-D 35mm film half-frame camera.
Look who just came!!!!!!!!! lol when i opened the box she was in this pose, i did not know how to react :DD
Character Creation
The Human Torch (Jonathan Lowell "Johnny" Storm) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is a founding member of the Fantastic Four.
He is writer Stan Lee's and artist Jack Kirby's reinvention of a similar, previous character, the android Human Torch of the same name and powers who was created in 1939 by writer-artist Carl Burgos for Marvel Comics' predecessor company, Timely Comics.
Like the rest of the Fantastic Four, Johnny gained his powers on a spacecraft bombarded by cosmic rays. He can engulf his entire body in flames, fly, absorb fire harmlessly into his own body, and control any nearby fire by sheer force of will. "Flame on!", which the Torch customarily shouts when activating his full-body flame effect, has become his catchphrase.
The youngest of the group, he is brash and impetuous in comparison to his reticent, overprotective and compassionate older sister, Susan Storm, his sensible brother-in-law, Reed Richards, and the grumbling Ben Grimm. In the early 1960s, he starred in a series of solo adventures, published in Strange Tales. The Human Torch is also a friend and frequent ally of the superhero Spider-Man, who is approximately the same age.
In film, the Human Torch has been portrayed by Jay Underwood in the unreleased 1994 film The Fantastic Four; Chris Evans in the 2005 film Fantastic Four, its 2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024); Michael B. Jordan in the 2015 film Fantastic Four; and Joseph Quinn in the MCU films The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), Avengers: Doomsday (2026), and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027).
Publication history
Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, Johnny Storm is a renovation of Carl Burgos's original character, the android Human Torch, created for Timely Comics in 1939. Storm first appeared in The Fantastic Four #1 (cover-dated Nov. 1961), establishing him as a member of the titular superhero team.
In his plot summary for this first issue, Lee passed on to Kirby that the recently formed Comics Code Authority had told him that the Human Torch was only permitted to burn objects, never people.
Over the course of the series, Johnny being the little brother of teammate Susan Storm a.k.a. the Invisible Girl was one of several sources of tension within the group.
Additionally, he starred in a solo feature in Strange Tales #101-134 (Oct. 1962 – July 1965). An eight-issue series, The Human Torch (Sept. 1974 – Nov. 1975), reprinted stories from that solo feature, along with stories featuring the original android Human Torch.
Later years also saw a 12-issue series, Human Torch (June 2003 - June 2004) by writer Karl Kesel and penciler Skottie Young, and the five-issue team-up miniseries Spider-Man / Human Torch (March–July 2005) by writer Dan Slott and penciler Ty Templeton.
The Human Torch was the permanent co-star of Marvel Team-Up, but was dropped after three issues because the creators found this format too restrictive.
He co-starred in two one-shot comics, Spider-Man & the Human Torch in... Bahia De Los Muertos! #1 (May 2009), by writer Tom Beland and artist Juan Doe, and Incredible Hulk & the Human Torch: From the Marvel Vault #1, a previously unpublished story from 1984, intended for Marvel Team-Up by plotter Jack C. Harris, scriptwriter and artist Kesel, and breakdown artist Steve Ditko.
Character Evolution
Although he was in the Fantastic Four, Johnny still had time to have his own adventures, fighting villains such as the Wizard and Paste-Pot Pete, who would later go on to have grudges against both Johnny and the Fantastic Four. (These adventures were chronicled in Strange Tales). The Human Torch also started dating a fellow student named Dorrie Evans. During the time that the Torch was dating Dorrie, Peter Parker ironically met her one night, and impressed her with his quiet, studying manner as opposed to Johnny's hotheadedness and eagerness.
Deciding that it would be funny to see how she reacted around Spider-Man, Peter changed to Spider-Man, only to end up fighting the Beetle, another of the Human Torch's foes, who was planning to capture Dorrie for revenge on the Torch. Eventually the Torch arrived, and together he and Spider-Man defeated the Beetle and saved Dorrie, one of their earliest team-ups.
After an adventure with the Mole Man, the Sue Storm found a newspaper article which had a small section about her and Johnny's father. The two went to visit him in prison, but unknown to them, the Super-Skrull had kidnapped Franklin Storm and shape shifted to replace him. The Super-Skrull then went on a rampage as the Invincible Man, correctly guessing that the Torch and Invisible Woman wouldn't attack someone who they thought was their father, until Mr. Fantastic discovered the deception.
The Super-Skrull agreed to return Johnny and Sue's father, but moments after they saw him, he yelled at them to escape, before a bomb which had been implanted in him exploded. Thankfully, no one was hurt except for Franklin, but he was gone from Johnny and Sue's life once more.
Major Story Arcs
The Frightful Four
By now, Reed and Sue had agreed to marry, but shortly before they could, the Fantastic Four's counterpart, the Frightful Four (consisting mostly of old enemies of the Human Torch) attacked the group. One of Johnny Storm's best moments was during the first battle with the Frightful Four, FF #36. The evil FF had captured the Invisible Girl, the Thing, Mr. Fantastic and Alicia Masters while Torch was absent from the Baxter Building. Wizard brilliantly attached anti-gravity discs to all four and sent them up into the atmosphere to meet certain death. However, Alicia Masters was able to signal Torch with the FF flare signal before being captured. Hence, Johnny was able to come and capture the Wizard and force him to fly a plane and rescue the missing three FF members and Alicia.
If not for the Human Torch saving the day, his three partners and Alicia Masters most certainly would have suffocated high in the atmosphere! The next battle with the evil FF came in issue #38, "Defeated by the Frightful Four". As part of the Frightful Four's plans, they managed to trap the Fantastic Four on a deserted island with an atomic bomb. This took place following Medusa's capture of the Invisible Girl. Although Sue was able to protect the group with a force field, the radiation still somehow affected them and took away the Fantastic Four's powers.
The team was then attacked by Doctor Doom, who wanted revenge for having been tricked into thinking that he had defeated the team the last time they clashed. The team managed to regain their powers with a special gun of Reed's, but the Thing left the quartet after being forced to have his powers back. Following him the Thing, both he and the Human Torch were brainwashed by the Frightful Four into joining the group. After a lengthy fight between the Frightful Four and Fantastic Four, Johnny and the Thing were cured, but a member of the Frightful Four, Medusa, managed to escape.
Inhumans
Johnny would encounter Medusa shortly after Reed and Sue's wedding, when she was being chased by a mysterious man named Gorgon. Medusa revealed to the Torch that she and Gorgon were both from a mysterious race, who had superpowers. Before she could reveal any more, Gorgon managed to capture her. Johnny shortly ran into another member of the race, (which Reed dubbed the Inhumans), Crystal, whom he fell in love with at first sight. Johnny managed to convince Crystal and the rest of the Inhumans that humans were not their enemies, but shortly afterwards, Black Bolt (the King of the Inhumans) brother Maximus trapped all of the Inhumans inside a "negative energy" dome, which the Fantastic Four only just managed to escape.
Following this, the Fantastic Four had their first encounter with Galactus and the Silver Surfer. (It should be noted before moving on to Galactus that some FF fans were disappointed that Stan Lee did not allow Johnny Storm and Crystal to marry and to bring Crystal on to the FF team as a permanent member. Crystal did go on to do a superb job as a temporary replacement for Sue during Sue's maternity leave.
Unfortunately, due to health reasons, Crystal was forced to leave Johnny and go back to live with the Inhumans. She and Johnny never did get back together and she ended up marrying Quicksilver. It would seem likely that the reason that Stan Lee did not make Crystal a permanent member of the team is because he did not wish to change the name of the group from Fantastic Four to Fantastic Five.)
To battle Galactus, Johnny was selected specifically by the Watcher to retrieve a great weapon he had in a safe place. Johnny was able to retrieve the weapon, known as the Ultimate Nullifier, and they threatened Galactus with it, who left the planet alone.
Galactus
While in a in a singles bar Johnny met Frankie Ray and later met up to go on a date. On their first date, Frankie learned that Johnny was the Human Torch when he had to save a man's life. Frankie was repressed of her memory about the accident that gave her super-powers, until one day it came to light. Reed helped her learn the truth of her past. Frankie and Johnny soon became a couple and Frankie even became a member in-training.
When Galactus needed to consume the Earth to survive, Frankie volunteered to become his next herald to explore space and have adventures as long as he spared the Earth. Galactus accepted, endowing Frankie with the Power Cosmic and called herself Nova. Johnny lost his second love that day.
Secret Wars
During the Secret Wars, when the Beyonder transported a group of heroes and villains to Battleworld, the Thing decided to leave the Fantastic Four and live among monsters at Monster Island. Johnny and Alicia Masters would soon start a relationship during the Thing’s absence.
Johnny Storm and Alicia Masters are about to get married, but the Mad Thinker and Wizard plan to take advantage of the event. The Thing and the Puppet Master have different plans and manage to stop the two evil geniuses. Reed and Sue decide to take some time away from the Fantastic Four and leave the Thing in charge. And his first duty is to find replacements for the two. Thing finds Crystal and Ms. Marvel as the replacements. Johnny is torn between his first love Crystal and his now wife Alicia.
Skrull Homeworld
Just when Reed and Sue return to the team, it is revealed that Alicia is really a Skrull named Lyja. The Fantastic Four take off to the Skrull Homeworld to save the real Alicia Masters from their clutches. Upon finding this out Johnny would have nothing to do with Lyja, despite the fact that she was branded traitor for helping the Fantastic Four save the real Alicia. Lyja then disappears.
Lyja eventually returns and teams-up with Devos, the Devastator, and Paibok, the Power Skrull and are out for Johnny’s blood. During the battle Johnny accidentally goes Super-Nova and starts the Empire University on fire.
Johnny then becomes a wanted man by people who he once called friends and ally. After being hunted by Silver Sable’s Wild Pack, Daredevil, Spider-Man, and the Secret Defenders. Johnny eventually has his day in court, but the Huntara, Paibok, Klaw and Devos chose this opportunity to strike. Unfortunately Johnny has some super-powered allies to lend a hand. Lyja returns, but now both Johnny and his Ben are fighting for her affections. Not wanting to cause problems between the two she again disappears.
Infinity War
Johnny's double of himself and some of Earth’s other heroes at the beginning of the Infinity War attacked Johnny, creating mixed emotions from having to battle his friends. Creating doppelgangers of Earth’s heroes, the evil Magus planned to remake the universe in his image. Johnny joined all of Earth’s heroes in battle with their evil counterparts before the final defeat of the Magus.
Infinity Crusade
The Magus’ opposite, the Goddess, started the next major event that would be known as the Infinity Crusade. Preying on the religious beliefs of others to manipulate them into joining her cause, Sue was coerced into allying with the Goddess. This cause Johnny to question his faith since he believed he and his sister were equally strong in their beliefs.
Onslaught
The next major threat was a being known as Onslaught, a psionic creature created out of the minds of Professor X and Magneto. It took all of Earth’s heroes to combat this threat. In the end the all non-mutant heroes sacrificed themselves to defeat him and it seemed that the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and many other heroes were gone forever.
Counter Earth
Franklin used his abilities to create a pocket universe for all the heroes to remain living on. On this Counter Earth, Johnny and the other Four lived out their lives anew, not knowing the events of the past. With the help of Roma, this Earth was brought back to Johnny’s original dimension and all the heroes returned to life, although confused over the previous events.
After the death of Galactus, the evil embodiment of destruction known as Abraxas was unleashed on the universe. Abraxas planned to destroy all life in the multiverse. A plan was developed to find the Ultimate Nullifier since Johnny was the only one aware of it’s location, although subconsciously. The other members of the team traveled to other universes to gain pieces of the Nullifiers location from alternate Johnny’s. In the meantime, Johnny and an alternate reality Frankie Raye began the search for it. Once they found the Nullifier, Nova revealed she was really the Herald of Abraxas and took the Nullifier to give to her master. Franklin and Valeria were able to revive Galactus, who was able to easily defeat Abraxas.
Civil War
During the Superhuman Civil War, Johnny is severely beaten in a night club by people outraged by the events in Stamford and super heroes in general. When he awoke, the team had split in many separate ways. Johnny joined Sue on Captain America’s anti-registration Secret Avengers team. At the end of the war, the team reunited. Reed and Sue took a short leave for a honeymoon to rekindle, leaving the Black Panther and Storm in their place.
Team Turmoil
Over time, the stability of the Fantastic Four began to diminish. Johnny began to start searching for a career as an actor. Johnny actually won a major role in a summer blockbuster but soon realized he wasn’t up to the task. Johnny began working in television instead before finally becoming a New York City firefighter. He returned to be the Chief Financial Officer of the Fantastic Four and even averted disaster with his leadership abilities.
After another battle with the teams greatest foe Doctor Doom, Reed attempted to take over Latveria. This caused a major misunderstanding, turning the United States government and the team against him. With the resulting death of the Thing, the team split up once again. Johnny took to his old love, automobile repair. He was plagued by hallucinations that Ben was not dead, which in fact he was not and was returned to his normal state.
The team next had to deal with an alien scientist named Zius. He had developed a cloak to hide planets from the world devourer Galactus, but the Invisible Woman’s powers threatened his plans. He demanded she sacrifice herself to save billions of lives. To protect Sue, Reed used a specially designed machine to switch her powers with Johnny. This fooled Zius and he left the planet. This did not fool Galactus who destroyed Zius and claimed Johnny (with Sue’s invisibility powers) as his new herald. Galactus bestowed a portion of his Power Cosmic to Johnny and forced him to see through the cloaks and find him planets to feed on. Johnny was not mentally altered by Galactus and hid many planets from him for as long as he could. As Galactus’ patience dwindled the remainder of the team and Quasar came and rescued him.
Death
A second Annihilation Wave under the command of Annihilus' Anti-Priest, the head of the Cult of Annihilus, fought The Universal Inhumans and later, under "Kid Annihilus'" personal command, they initially breached The Negative Zone portal in The Baxter Building in an attempt to ignite the Second Great Annihilation War. The Human Torch managed to hold them off until the gateway could be completely sealed and was cut down shortly afterward by the vast wave of Arthrian cultists and their child lord, much to the dismay and horror of a powerless Ben Grimm and his godchildren, Franklin and Valeria Richards. It is noteworthy that two different polls of fans could be found across the internet prior to the "death issue". The polls for who fans wanted to die consistently showed Mr. Fantastic to be #1 by a wide margin. However, comic fans got it right regarding who they predicted would be killed. The Human Torch won those polls by a significant margin.
Return
During an attempt by Annihilus to open the portal in the Baxter Building, Johnny manages to escape from his prison cell in the Negative Zone. With help from new friends, the Light Brigade, he defeats Annihilus, taking the Cosmic Rod and control of the Annihilation Wave with it. As the portal opens, Johnny is reunited with Spider-Man, who was attempting to stop the Anti-Priest from opening the portal on the Earth side.
Johnny flies into the sky, creating a flaming number four and unites the other members of the FF atop the remains of the Baxter Building. With the Kree attempting to destroy New York, Johnny immediately joins the fight by unleashing his Annihilation Wave through the portal. Leading from the flagship, Pestilence, Johnny takes the wave into space to battle the Kree armada. Galactus suddenly appears between the two fleets and Johnny mobilizes the wave to attack, however is quickly stood down by Reed who tells the team that he summoned the World Eater.
The Kree retreat and the Mad Celestials appear, combining there bodies to attack Galactus and send him hurtling toward Earth. Johnny and the Future Foundation head back to the surface in an attempt to activate a machine the Council of Reed's built to take down the Celestials. The machine doesn't fully work however, only separating the Celestials. Johnny takes flight and attempts to attack one of them, using his Nova ability, but the Celestial regenerates and knocks Johnny back to the ground.
As Johnny looks on with his family, a future version of his niece and nephew appear and future-Franklin destroys the Celestials, saving Reed from their judgement.
Team Player
With Reed, Sue and their kids thought dead after the events of Secret Wars, and Ben off in space with the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four disbands, and the Baxter Building is sold to Parker Industries. Wanting to the honor tJohnny becomes a member of the Avengers Unity Squad, and dons a new uniform to signify this. Around this same time, he also enters into a romantic relationship with Medusa, Crystal's older sister. When Crystal finds out about this, things become strained between the three, and the relationship eventually ends.
Johnny eventually discovers that as Sue's sole living heir, he is entitled to the profits gained from Reed's patents, which turns out to be well over five billion dollars. With his newfound wealth, he purchases Avengers Mansion for the team. During the contest between the Grandmaster and the Challenger, the Avengers seek to protect the planet from these two destructive forces. Learning that both sides are after several small pyramids of incredible power, Johnny manages to grab one of the artifacts, but seemingly perishes in the process. However, he is later revealed to be alive, but held in stasis.
Johnny later discovers that he is beginning to lose his powers, with his flames gradually becoming weaker. This, coupled with the loss of his family, puts him into a depressive state. However, his spirits are raised when Ben returns and tells him that the others may still be alive, and the two set off to locate them. The two later learn that they are both losing their powers due to being cut off from Reed and Sue, as their abilities all share a common source. Although, they never find their family, their family finds their own way home and moves in with Ben and Alicia, now engaged.
Soul-Mate
Reed was obsessed with trying to accomplish the journey that the Fantastic Four were originally meant to take when they got their powers. They packed up the family spaceship and finally successfully made it to Spyre. With the same cosmic storm energy that mutated the F4, the Spyricans used it on volunteers so that they would have the Unparalleled, a superhero team to defend them.
They also had a tradition of “soul-mates.” Similar to marriage, couples are outfitted with special arm bands that connect them. Reed and Sue got their own, having shown up to the planet as a dedicated couple, but Johnny got linked to Unparalleled member, Sky. Eventually, the diplomacy between the F4 and the Unparalleled broke down and the F4 were allowed to leave peacefully. A reluctant Sky, who had faith in the soul-mate tradition, stood by Johnny and returned with them to Earth.
Johnny underestimated how much the arm bands connected Sky to him. For instance, during Knull's invasion, when Johnny was bonded to a symbiote, the symbiote was able to reach through the arm band and bond with Sky as well.
Too Hot
After Johnny’s one night stand with Victorious, he hid under the bed while she took a video call from Dr. Doom. He proposed a marriage of political convenience that she accepted. With few friends, Doom requested Reed be his best man, earning the entire team an invitation to the wedding. During the proceedings, Victorious felt compelled to share that she had been intimate with Johnny, publicly embarrassing Doom, who lashed out at Johnny.
After calling in multiple drones to fight the F4, Doom bombarded Johnny with cosmic rays. This caused his powers to turn extreme, leaving him unable to turn off his fiery form. He was too hot for his family to even get close to him. Reed referred to him more as a Human Star than a Human Torch, powered completely by cosmic rays and no longer required oxygen to create flames. He was forced to move into the deep sub basement of the Baxter Building. He even burns too hot for Reed’s best containment suit, limiting his time outside of the basement.
Thanks to his arm band, Sky also had her animal powers enhanced, turning her feral. She lashed out at Johnny until finally giving up on her people’s soul-mate tradition. Johnny removed the band from her arm, and Sky used Reed’s Forever Gate to return to her home planet.
Reckoning War
The Fantastic Four jump into action when the Badoon destroy The Moon and invade Earth with brand new weaponry. The weaponry reminds Reed of Watcher tech, so he leads his team to find Uatu for answers. They find Nick Fury instead, who had been investigating for the Watcher a group calling themselves The Reckoning. They were supplying upgraded tech to war-like alien races. Uatu knew about them and downloaded his knowledge to a data sphere before the Moon was destroyed. Reed helped himself to the sphere, downloading all The Watcher knowledge to his vulnerable human mind. He saw that The Reckoning was the first race The Watcher’s tried to help, which went so bad they took a vow only to watch from then on. Now, The Reckoning were back.
Reed used his new hyper intelligence to orchestrate a new battle plan. He determines that they are most needed in Shi’ar space defending the M’kraan crystal, but Johnny, angry Reed refused to cure him with his new intelligence, flew off into space to assemble his own army to take on The Reckoning. His recruits included The Starjammers, The Guardians of the Galaxy, The new Kree/Skrull Alliance, and The Unparalleled.
He leads his new cavalry to the home planet of the Watchers. He instructs his team to take on the body of Galactus that had been transformed into an Asgardian Destroyer by Galactus' former heralds to buy his family time to defeat Wrath of the Reckoning without killing anyone. Johnny proves to be almost hot enough to defeat him, but Reed still prepares to use the Ultimate Nullifier, which would also kill him.
Thankfully, Reed was not killed by the Ultimate Nullifier, as it was designed to be used by a Watcher, which he had been turning into. Instead, it burned out the Watcher transformation. Uatu, who had absorbed all of the Watcher knowledge and power for himself, used the power to set everything right. He restored Galactus but with a hunger for knowledge, pulled the barrier down on the edge of space, increasing the universe by 90%, and returned the heroes to their homes.
Johnny was briefly upset that Reed had forgotten how to fix his mutation without the Watcher knowledge. Instead of returning to Earth, he accepted an invitation to Spyre, where The Overseer combined his research with Reed's and found a cure to cosmic mutations. Johnny was happy to be the first test subject, making sure it was safe for the rest of the Monster Mob.
Powers & Abilities
The cosmic radiation that changed Johnny into the Human Torch gave him a vast array of fire and plasma based powers. Members of the Fantastic Four's bodies are constantly absorbing Cosmic Radiation from the atmosphere, growing stronger.
Pyrogenesis: The Human Torch possessed the mental ability to control ambient heat energy and the physical ability to transform his entire body, or portions of his body into a fiery, plasma-like state of will.
Heat Absorption: Johnny’s body is covered by flaming plasma that protects him from flames and heat. He can easily absorb fire and explosions.
Heat Detection: Johnny can detect heat and energy out of living being and machines. Also scale his perceptions up to the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Energy Output: The plasma field around Johnny’s body produces intense flame which can be raised and lowered in temperature. The heat can easily dissipate most projectiles.
Blast Power: The Human Torch can create streams or balls of flame and use them as projectiles. Special attacks include the Nova Flame, a multi-directional attack capable of over 1,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit and the Nova Heat, an offensive beam of heat rivaling the heat of a normal star. Even without using his Nova Blast, Human Torch has been able to reach temperatures hot enough to hurt the likes of Hulk, Namor, the Thing and Silver Surfer, among others.
Fire Control: With his flames, Johnny can create shapes and objects out of flame. He can also control any fire within his range of vision no matter how it formed. Johnny can also control which parts of his body he has in flame in order to touch someone or something that he doesn’t want to burn.
Wind Manipulation: Can alter air currents by changing temperatures.
Flight: As the density of his body changes, Johnny’s body becomes lighter than air, giving him the capabilities of flight. He is also extremely maneuverable. The faster he goes, the shorter his limit becomes. At normal speed (about fifty air miles per hour) he should be able to fly for a half-hour, a distance of twenty-five miles.
Super Speed: The Human Torch can easily break the sound barrier while in flight.
Durability: The Human Torch is surprisingly, and extremely durable. He was able to shake off punches from Gladiator, Namor, and Annihilus.
Immunity to Fire & Heat: The Human Torch is unaffected by heat and flames, including his own, even when part of him is aflame and the rest of him is not. His flesh cannot be scalded or burned by any heat source whose level is below that of his maximum output.
Cold Resistance: Human Torch have a degree of resistance to cold temperatures.
Weaknesses
The Human Torch requires oxygen to use his flame powers. Without it, he would not be able to flame on or would be soon extinguished.
The Human Torch burns through energy rather quickly depending on his energy expenditure. Special attacks such as the Nova Flame could easily deplete his energy reserves.
It takes incredible focus to control his heat powers and must be a constant thought. Johnny has learned well over the years to control this power.
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Secret Identity: Johnny Storm
Publisher: Marvel
First Appearance: The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961)
Created by: Stan Lee (writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
The Human Torch has been seen:
Chowing down with the FF at the Greasy Freeze in BP 2020 Day 216!
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Fighting Doctor Doom in BP 2021 Day 46!
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The rest of the Fantastic Four can be seen here:
Mr. Fantastic, BP 2022 Day 280!
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Invisible Woman, BP 2022 Day 287!
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The Thing, BP 2022 Day 308!