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BloodstoneFreak
08-30-2006, 09:55 PM
I'm just wondering if there are any fans of this obscure Marvel hero out there? He's made some small scale appearances in recent years (even though he is deceased) and his daughter, Elsa Bloodstone, is currently appearing in Nextwave. I would love to see more stories involving the both of them. Who's with me?!

Here's his bio: http://www.marvel.com/universe/Bloodstone%2C_Ulysses
Cthulhudrew
08-31-2006, 02:34 AM
I would definitely like to see stories about ol' Ulysses. I think a title showing his adventures across the history of the Marvel Universe would be awesome. You could have all sorts of cameos, and really flesh out the backstory of the Marvel Earth a lot more than has been done previously. 'COurse, I love historic fiction, so there you go.
Young Avenger
08-31-2006, 03:14 AM
According to Elsa's profile at Marvel.com, Ulysses is dead. I wonder when that happened.
mattbib
08-31-2006, 07:23 AM
I'd love to see more Monster Hunter stories. They were fun.
Will.S
08-31-2006, 07:39 AM
Ulysses seems like MU's Van Helsing but in a more broad monster concept mixed with mystical so I'd definitely love to see more flashback stories between Elsa and him. I'm also hoping Warren Ellis explores that part of Elsa's past in Nexwave.
BloodstoneFreak
08-31-2006, 08:18 AM
According to Elsa's profile at Marvel.com, Ulysses is dead. I wonder when that happened.

Rampaging Hulk #8 (April 1978 - Black and White Magazine)

If you want to know anything else, let me know...I own every issue he has ever appeared in (that I know of)...why else would I call myself BloodstoneFreak!
Sandy Hausler
08-31-2006, 09:49 AM
I'm just wondering if there are any fans of this obscure Marvel hero out there? He's made some small scale appearances in recent years (even though he is deceased) and his daughter, Elsa Bloodstone, is currently appearing in Nextwave. I would love to see more stories involving the both of them. Who's with me?!

Here's his bio: http://www.marvel.com/universe/Bloodstone%2C_Ulysses

Well, I enjoyed the Elsa Bloodstone limited series, but I did not like Nestwave. If Marvel could separate her from that team, I'd buy her book. Sort of a Buffy clone, but enjoyable. As for Ulyses, he's dead and should stay that way, but there's no reason there couldn't be untold tales of Bloodstone. After all, he was around for quite a while.

Sandy Hausler
TheDrizzt
08-31-2006, 09:50 AM
There was a 90s-ish Captain America story where they went after the skeleton of Ulysses, wasn't there? Whatever happened to the Bloodstone there?
Shellhead
08-31-2006, 10:29 AM
Ulysses Bloodstone was great. He had that whole immortal warrior thing going, years before Highlander. He fought huge monsters with weird high-tech weapons and some odd psychic abilities. He had a hidden fortress on his own personal island. And he had massive regeneration abilities. Unfortunately, most of his appearances were in the black and white format of the early Rampaging Hulk magazine issues.

If they were to do some stories set back when Ulysses Bloodstone was still alive, that would be cool. Looking at the Dracula vs Apocalypse mini, either one of those would be great opponents for Ulysses. He could have also battled a time traveller like Kang, fought in WWII, either with or against the Invaders. Maybe he was even active way back in old Hyperborea.
OdinSon1
08-31-2006, 11:28 AM
According to Elsa's profile at Marvel.com, Ulysses is dead. I wonder when that happened.

Bloodstone was brought before the Conspiracy, where one of its members, Dr. Juden Bardham, a cardiologist, cut the Bloodgem from his chest. The Conspiracy left Bloodstone for dead, traveling to the cavern in which Bloodstone had gained his power millennia before, and prepared to perform the ceremony to gain its power.
However, the Exo-Mind instead absorbed the Conspiracy members and used their energies to coalesce the Bloodgem fragments into a single, monstrous crystalline creature. Reborn in the Bloodgem creature, the Exo-Mind traveled to and rampaged through New York. However, residual Bloodgem energy in Bloodstone's corpse reanimated him, and he made his way from the Conspiracy's underground citadel to confront the Bloodgem creature.
Now absolutely focuses on a sole purpose, Bloodstone used his third eye to access the astral plane on which the Exo-Mind existed. His chronic exposure to the Bloodgem's energies enabled him to survive the Exo-Mind's assaults and penetrate the outer mind/form, and to confront the very Hellfire Helix itself.
Disrupting the Hellfire Helix, Bloodstone severed the Exo-Mind's connection to the Bloodgem. The Bloodgem creature shattered into countless fragments, while Bloodstone's body decayed into a lifeless skeleton
Shellhead
08-31-2006, 11:52 AM
Now absolutely focuses on a sole purpose, Bloodstone used his third eye to access the astral plane on which the Exo-Mind existed. His chronic exposure to the Bloodgem's energies enabled him to survive the Exo-Mind's assaults and penetrate the outer mind/form, and to confront the very Hellfire Helix itself.
Disrupting the Hellfire Helix, Bloodstone severed the Exo-Mind's connection to the Bloodgem. The Bloodgem creature shattered into countless fragments, while Bloodstone's body decayed into a lifeless skeleton

Could Ulysses still exist on the astral plane? Maybe Professor X or Dr. Strange will encounter him there someday. There have been comparable cases in Marvel comics where a character returned. Wasn't there an X-Man villain who fought Professor X on the astral plane and later returned to life controlling someone else's body? And the Black Knight got turned to stone by Enchanteress, but he somehow obtained a new body in a previous century.
The Scribe
08-31-2006, 08:14 PM
I bought the Marvel Milestones book, and would like to see him return. ;)

http://www.hillcity-comics.com/comics/01_11_06_08.jpg
FanboyStranger
08-31-2006, 08:34 PM
Y'know, since Howard Chaykin is working for Marvel now, it's only a matter of time before he's going to want to do a book set in the '30s. Here's the perfect character for him. It could be an excellent series, particularly if it were a MAX book.
BloodstoneFreak
09-01-2006, 08:39 PM
Personally, I'm not looking for him to be brought back *Edit* from the dead *Edit* (although it would be cool), I just want his past to be filled in. There is so much we don't know about him and what he has done over the years. Hell, he was alive for over 10,000 years, he had to do some other cool things than what we already know (...and love).
The Scribe
09-01-2006, 09:49 PM
Personally, I'm not looking for him to be brought back (although it would be cool), I just want his past to be filled in. There is so much we don't know about him and what he has done over the years. Hell, he was alive for over 10,000 years, he had to do some other cool things than what we already know (...and love).

You're not looking for Marvel to bring him back?

You're signature says: "Marvel Comics: Bring back Ulysses Bloodstone...PLEASE!!!!!"

:confused:
BloodstoneFreak
09-01-2006, 09:55 PM
You're not looking for Marvel to bring him back?

You're signature says: "Marvel Comics: Bring back Ulysses Bloodstone...PLEASE!!!!!"

:confused:

In comic form, my friend...not necessarily back from the dead. But, like I said, if they would bring him back it would be cool. There would be no complaints here!

I edited my previous post to be more clear. Sorry. :p
The Scribe
09-01-2006, 10:39 PM
In comic form, my friend...not necessarily back from the dead. But, like I said, if they would bring him back it would be cool. There would be no complaints here!

I edited my previous post to be more clear. Sorry. :p

That's OK.

I'd like to see him resurrected.

Bloodstone on the Avengers. :D