User blog:Nausiated/Project 11/61 - About Time

My next bunch of updates have just finished and what a huge undertaking it was. The *entire* history of Nathaniel Richards in all his incarnations. This includes Iron Lad, Kid Immortus, Rama-Tut, the Scarlet Centurion, Kang the Conqueror, and lastly Immortus.

Here are some notes:


 * The profiles for Rama-Tut, Scarlet Centurion, Kang, and Immortus were an utter mess. Basically, back in the day they used to be all together in one profile, then it was decided to break everything up into each previous incarnation. When that happened they just copied and pasted most of the same information. It was a hack job and nobody seemed to have the time to devote to working on these pages. So when I undertook it I realized that even though these are the same characters each different identity did their own thing, and Marvel frequently goes back and forth revisiting these other incarnations. If you take a look at the profiles as they exist now you'll notice that they only cover things that were done while in that identity with some brief touches at their past identifies in the "Origins" section. In addition at any point where they switched identities I put a link to that next incarnation right at the end of that section of the summary so you can read it all flawlessly and in the order in which the character appeared and reappeared.


 * You'll also notice that when I wrote portions of the characters when different incarnations interacted with one another write these sections from the perspective of that character only. This is most common when you go through the the profiles for Rama-Tut, Kang and Immortus. Between the two of them there are three recountings of the Celestial Madonna event and two of the Destiny War. Each from the perspective of the version of the character that is there.


 * Extensive citations: There is a lot of backstory involved with these characters are somewhat involved in, particularly Immortus with all his behind the scenes manipulations. You'll note that the citations also have a wealth of information. If the information was relevant in a general scope but would have bogged down the narrative of the summaries I put them in the citations. To understand how much work that was just take a look at the citations for Immortus.


 * Created an entirely new profile for Kid Immortus who is a relatively new incarnation of Richards that appeared in FF Vol 2. Whoever did the summaries for those comics was either lazy or didn't bother reading the comics or did any research and tagged those appearances as Immortus.

Next up: Molecule Man.