#gabriel lan

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Thor #305 (March, 1981) Art by Keith Pollard

[lazymonth]

A bunch of heralds I designed for my universe at school. These heralds are so cool, I need to put them all in my universe, I love them all.

Air-walker and Firelord full body (?). They’re having a lot of Nova cops elements bc of lore reasons, but I think it’s making them look pretty sick too!

[wanderingmind867]

I saw this pointed out on a Marvel wiki (and it apparently cites back to an early 80s or late 70s fantastic four story), but Galactus and his first four heralds (or the four we meet first in the comics) are all based on the four elements. Silver Surfer, Air Walker, Firelord and Terrax. Water, Air, Fire and Earth. All blessed by the power cosmic, each of them is a different sort of elemental.

I think that's actually a really neat detail, and I think that Galactus as a whole is an interesting character. His punishment of the silver surfer was harsh, but I think those two still probably had some sort of camaraderie. If Galactus is a godlike being, that still means he's capable of emotion and feeling. I doubt he personally enjoys killing, but he's numb to it after years and years and years of being forced to in order to sustain himself.

Honestly, The Silver Surfer may still be the best of all of Galactus's heralds. Terrax is unambiguously evil, and Air Walker and Firelord seem complicated. I don't know enough about them to say too much, but Firelord certainly seems gullible (if his apperance in Chris Claremont's X-Men is anything to go by).

[paste-pot-petey]

Firelord: sells his soul to Galactus just to know what happened to Gabriel

Firelord: drops everything when he sees Thor and Gabriel fighting, and proceeds to attack Thor without mercy even though they were friends

Firelord: refers to Gabriel as "the one i valued above all others"

Historians: and they were good friends

[rael-rider]

So I read read Uncanny Origins #4 which has Firelord’s/Pyreus Kril’s origin and it touches on his relationship with another Xandarian named Gabriel Lan.

But I also liked how it touches on Xandarian society. Pyreus mentions Xandar having a caste system and  that he was an orphan who worked himself up from the lower caste to reach Space Academy, how he lived in a shelter surrounded by “scum” and that he came home from work with bloodied fists.

Then we have Gabriel mentioning how he fought for the “colonial forces” and that Xandar was founded on “so much blood and pain” basically more than confirming that the Xandarians, at least in this story, were colonizers.

This is something that’s only been in this one issue and has never been touched on anymore but this isn’t the first time Xandar has been shown as been a flawed society. Even after Nicieza made the Nova corps into GL corps copies, Skolnick’s showed in New Warrior how Space police wasn’t that great of an idea when he had them act similarly to a police state with them even having cameras to spy on other civilizations. Rich even points out how uncomfortable he is with all of this.

[bp-in45]

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[bp-in45]

Espio the chameleon / Sonic the hedgehog

The Twins and Triplets / Superjail!

Albert heinrich, Cyborg 004 / Cyborg 009

Pickles the drummer and Nathan explosion / Metalocalypse

Gabriel Lan, The Air-walker / Marvel Comic(Heralds of Galactus)

Charon / Fallout 3

[random-movie-ideas]

Nova Legends: Air-Walker

We've covered Gabriel Lan before, as a former Nova Corps member recruited to be a new herald of Galactus, who quickly became the closest friend to Galactus himself, to the point that, when he died, Galactus did his best to recreate him as an android with a copy of his brainwave patterns uploaded to it.

In an adaptation, I would like to feature most of the heralds of Galactus within the Silver Surfer series. They don't get nearly enough attention, most of them. All casting as previously mentioned.