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Just read in the Comic Shop News that on November first the long-running daytime soap opera Guiding Light will introduce a new Marvel super-hero as an ongoing character.
Likewise, Marvel Comics will do a comic in which various Marvel characters meet the Guiding Light characters.
This is like internet fusion fandom gone real!
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To be fair, the classic Marvel Super-Hero paradigm shares a -lot- in common with daytime soap operas. The glory days of Stan Lee's Spider-Man run, or Claremont's first X-Men run are good examples.
Still, this is bizarre. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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Oh, man. I just recently weaned my mother from watching that after her having followed it since before I was born. And now this. I might have to start watching again. Posts: 2454 | Registered: Jan 2003
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You know, there was once a clone on Guiding Light. You can never hate it when there was once a clone on it. I remember that.
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I know they've done heart transplants. Twice, the first one right after the first one in real life. And there was a period of time when they did fantasy sequences on a regular basis...there was a character married to (I think) an archaeologist, and she was quite fantasy prone.
But I really don't remember the clone, I don't think. Can you elaborate, Fyfe?
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So did the residents of GL's Springfield just go on with their affairs (pun intended) during the numerous alien invasions and other world-shaking events that occurred over the years in the Marvel Universe? You'd assume somebody would mention an invasion by symbiotes or giant robots hunting down mutants all over the nation.
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Oh, yes. Reva Shayne Lewis was in a plane crash and reports came back that she had died, and Josh (her husband) just couldn't take the grief, so after a while (while Kim Zimmer had a nice vacation), his doctor friend had a clone made of Reva, and they had this potion they would give her that made her age really quickly so she could grow up into normal-age Reva and love on Josh all the time.
BUT. In fact Reva had not really died, but survived! and she was on a desert island with this other guy (don't remember him very well)! and finally she made her way back to Springfield to her beloved husband!
BUT. The clone got to her first. And imprisoned her in some secret room or something, and kept her captive there, because Clone Reva wanted Josh all to herself. It was very exciting, and then one day, one day, Josh discovered Reva in the secret room, wasting away and pining for him, and oh, she was not dead after all, and here was his real live Reva restored to him!
And eventually the clone nobly drank all of the remaining age potion in order to kill herself so that real Reva and Josh could be together.
It wasn't a very popular plotline. My mum and I were addicted to it, but the world of soap opera viewers apparently did not like it much. It would have been around 1998, I think.
pH--who is your high school lab partner? Perhaps it is my favorite character!
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Ah. Thanks, Fyfe. I remember the desert island part, vaguely, but the clone part completely escaped me. That was while I was in school and only heard bits and pieces of the plot from my mother. Figures it would have involved Reva. Posts: 2454 | Registered: Jan 2003
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