Marvel комикстерінің "Жалғыздық" мини-сериясы

Mini series of comic books

Loners (originally named Excelsior) are a superhero team appearing in American comic books published Marvel Comics. They first appeared in the pages of Runaways. The group consists of a Los Angeles–based support group for former teenage superheroes from New York, founded by Turbo of the New Warriors, and Phil Urich, the heroic former Green Goblin. even if that means abandoning helpless victims of crime to their fate. Although all the characters were created by different authors and artists, the team itself was created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, with other characters (Spider Woman, Hollow, and Red Ronin) added to the cast during the events of the 2007 miniseries. The group had originally appeared in the Runaways story arc "True Believers". At the end of the story arc, it was revealed that the group had secretly been sponsored by Rick Jones, on behalf of Captain America, who hoped to ensure the Runaways do not get into trouble. Following their battle with Ultron, Rick Jones offered to sponsor the team full time.

Originally debuting in the book Runaways under the name "Excelsior", the team later received their own limited series with an option to continue as an ongoing should sales be high enough, though this was not the case. The title of the series and the team was changed from Excelsior to Loners, due to trademark issues as Stan Lee holds a trademark on the term "Excelsior! ", though the team did appear in an issue of the third volume of Marvel Team Up under the name Excelsior before Loners was published. The title premiered on April 11, 2007 and ran for six issues. In a stylistic departure from their debut appearance in Runaways as comic relief, Loners is not a comedy, though the covers of the individual issues still suggest a lighthearted tone by being direct homages to the iconic imagery of the teen comedy feature films of John Hughes, and the exaggerated personalities from their Runaways debut are also retained entirely for the cast, though this does create some continuity discrepancies, particularly Darkhawk's infrequent lapses into potentially murderous violence and sudden reversion to switching bodies in a manner that ignores later events from the Darkhawk series (this continuity gaffe even being referenced in Marvel Team Up vol. 3 #15), and Julie Power no longer having the ability to teleport, her powers now including the ability to hover in the air without being in motion, and her character purporting to be from New York instead of the family home of Bainbridge Island, Washington. In a further departure from both their debut appearance and their appearances elsewhere in Marvel titles as a fully functioning superhero group who gather in costume, this was revised in Loners to being that he used superheroics for thrill seeking and to meet women, then revised a third time to being a response to his friend being killed during a superhero battle—did not actually occur until after Johnny first appeared as a member of the Los Angeles–based Excelsior group, though he is portrayed during Loners in flashbacks as still living in New York at the time, working as a superhero alongside the friend in question: Eddie McDonough, who is also portrayed as being back in the Hornet armor he lost, somehow cured of the cerebral palsy which afflicted him). Julie's low intelligence displayed in the Runaways 'True Believers' story arc and the first three issues of Loners is also revealed as an affectation she adopts to fit in with the natives of Los Angeles and her fellow teammates, though she retains this personality for the rest of the series regardless of her revelation. Julie's age is also revised by several years, from the indeterminate "ex teenage" of Runaways or the ability to create shields. Three new team members were also introduced in the series: Penance (known as Hollow), Spider Woman and Namie (the second version of the Red Ronin). After the miniseries, The Loners appear in a special ten page Christmas story within the 2007 Marvel Holiday Special. After Mattie was killed and Darkhawk was severely injured (in "Grim Hunt" and The Thanos Imperative respectively), the remaining members of the team were inducted into the Avengers Academy by Hawkeye.

Rick Jones, on behalf of Captain America.

Darkhawk (Chris Powell). He decided to give up his powers after his nightmares became too intense for him to handle. Chris is short tempered and prone to violence, especially in his Darkhawk form, attacking not only his targets, but his own teammates. He later joins the New Avengers. Green Goblin (Phil Urich), the fourth, heroic, incarnation of the Green Goblin. After losing his costume and equipment during a battle, he finished college, earned a degree in journalism, and helped start Excelsior. Lightspeed (Julie Power), formerly of Power Pack. Convinced that the superhero lifestyle robbed her of her childhood innocence, she left her family at 15 years old and moved to California, hoping to become an actress. Currently attending the Avengers Academy as a teacher's assistant. Geoffrey Wilder, a time displaced member of Runaways enemy The Pride, disguised as Jonothan "Jono" Starsmore, better known as Chamber, a former member of Generation X and the X Men. Geoffrey only used the group as an opportunity to gain intelligence on the Runaways and never returned to them after the end of the "True Believers" arc. His false identity was hinted at by Molly Hayes when she asked who he thought he was fooling with his "fakey accent".

Hollow, formerly known as Penance of Generation X. It is unknown who is now residing in this hollow body. Namie, a mystery female character that is not one of the previously introduced teen female characters. and was later killed by Sasha Kraven. Within War of Kings: Darkhawk #1 are three former heroes that are seen among the Loners' support group, although they have not been identified.

The covers for each issue of the series are based on posters from 1980s teen films directed or written by John Hughes.

Issue One: The Breakfast Club and after waiting for Julie to arrive, decide to begin without her. Mattie Franklin is asked to speak first, recalling her experiences as Spider Woman. Julie finally arrives at the tail end of a cell phone conversation apparently with her brother Alex. She apologizes to the group for both her tardiness and her recent relapse. Chris Powell insults Julie, who suggests that she has the hardest struggle of them all because she has had her powers the longest (seven years). Mattie, however, points out that although she has not been in the hero business as long as the rest of the group members, concealing her psionic spider legs subjects her to constant physical pressure. After dramatically revealing her appendages, she storms out of the meeting. Outside the church, Mattie explains to Chris that she has some unfinished business with MGH dealers, who exploited her in the past; she has tracked them to Los Angeles. She asks that he assist her as Darkhawk for just one mission. Darkhawk and Spider Woman storm the MGH dealers' hideout and defeat the dealers easily, but they are attacked by the person "supplying the materials" for MGH, Nekra. Luckily, support group member Johnny Gallo (Ricochet) has followed Darkhawk and Spider Woman to the dealers' base of operations and aids them in escaping Nekra's clutches. After defeating her, the trio discovers a list containing the names of supervillains being supplied MGH by the dealers and decides to investigate further, while agreeing not to tell the rest of the group.

Issue Three: Weird Science) Suddenly remembering that he left Penance and several defenseless women back in the warehouse, Johnny runs out of the ER attempting to return to the scene, but he is stopped by accusations from the group about his behaviour. Penance appears before the group having somehow tracked Johnny, and invisible gun toting soldiers suddenly attack, having somehow tracked Penance. There follows a brief battle which ends when Mickey appeals to the head of the opposing group as a fellow Japanese national and they negotiate a settlement in their "own language", the mysterious terms of which remain unknown to the group. The various members go their separate ways for the evening, and Penance returns home with Phil to sleep on his floor. Julie flies from the hospital before her parents can be contacted about her condition, and it becomes apparent Phil is somehow hallucinating that he sees the Green Goblin when he looks in the mirror.

Issue Four: Pretty in Pink Chris apologizes to Mickey. She admits that she dislikes having "other girls in the group". Chris asks why Mickey does not view Julie as a girl, and Mickey begins to respond that Julie "isn't ", but catches herself, mentioning that Julie is focused on her acting career and not "into the dating scene". Julie, dressed as the Black Cat and Johnny, dressed as Iron Fist, perform stunts. The director expresses his satisfaction. His compliments lead Julie to fly off the set; Johnny contacts Mattie and tells her that they will have to reschedule their meeting. Julie apparently phones her sister Katie with her news. Back at Julie's dressing room, the director barges in and acts in an inappropriate manner, eventually physically accosting Julie. He threatens to report her unauthorized use of her powers when she throws him from the trailer. Julie counters that there are laws to protect minors against sexual predators. The director is shocked; he was unaware that Julie is only seventeen. Julie leaves the film set. At the meeting, Julie speaks first. As Johnny did previously, though it is not explained how he can utilise the armor without a whole amulet, as it has been previously established that without such an artifact, the Darkhawk armor remains inert. While the two battle, the other Loners, including an armored Mickey, arrive. Phil is defeated and Chris takes back the amulet. Phil then leaves the Loners, but not before revealing that Namie is a cyborg (the new Red Ronin), that Mickey made a secret bargain with Fuyumi Fujikawa, and that Julie is hiding a terrible secret from the group. Penance picks up Phil and they fly away unhindered, though the means of levitation and propulsion by which this is achieved are never explained. Disgusted, Mattie berates the group about their past decisions about not using their powers, as well as her choice of sleeping with Johnny, and leaves. A week later, the Loners are back together minus Hollow, Phil, and Mattie. None of the subplots from the series bar the identity of Namie have been resolved, and the issue ends with no one willing to talk about their problems or what has so far happened. After the series has ended, the group are next seen in the apartment of Mickey Musashi celebrating Christmas and attempting to solve some of their personal issues with each other through Secret Santa.

At the 2008 Wizard World: Philadelphia a question about a possible new Loners series was raised. C. B. Cebulski said there are plans for some of the characters in "different places" (see "War of Kings" note below), suggesting that it was "a tough market for a book like Loners", though Marvel's overall sales figures were actually increasing at the time of Loners' publication, with even the company's traditionally low selling (via the direct market) 'All Ages' range slowly making gains at the same time Loners dropped several thousand readers. Author Cebulski had Loners planned for 18 issues but did not know if he would be allowed to go onto ongoing. He hoped to continue Loners and waits for Marvel's permission. With a follow up series unlikely, Cebulski posted an apology to readers on Newsarama forums that he did not "meet and match all your expectations for the characters", and that he would clarify continuity errors and unexplained events in a series post mortem on that very site. Though he declined to answer questions that would have been answered in future issues of the book had they ever been commissioned or published. Darkhawk later appeared in the pages of Nova as the head of security for Project Pegasus. He revealed that he had registered with the Initiative and that Justice had recommended him for the position. Darkhawk is also a cast member within the War of Kings event, with his own two issue miniseries in February and March 2009 tidying up continuity problems created by the unlikelihood of a sequel to Loners and freeing the character for use as the lead in Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's four part miniseries, War of Kings: Ascension. Though no longer associated with the Loners, Darkhawk's former teammates appear within both issues of his miniseries (though it remains unexplained how they and the church in which they held their meetings relocated from Los Angeles to New York), and it becomes apparent that Darkhawk left the team because he could no longer turn his back on his responsibilities as a superhero and wished to "focus (his) anger into something productive", creating friction with some members of the Loners. Though the group is hostile towards him, he makes amends with his former girlfriend Mickey Musashi/Turbo. During the events of War of Kings: Ascension, it is claimed that Darkhawk is now 'the most wanted man in the galaxy' and will play a role in future issues of Nova; it seems unlikely he will rejoin the Loners in comic book limbo for the foreseeable future. The remaining Loners (without Namie/Red Ronin, but with Penance/Hollow) are seen within the Avengers Academy series among the other various superpowered youths and young adults being offered additional training as part time students, with Julie attending there as a full time student and teacher's assistant.

In the alternate reality of the "Days of Future Now" storyline, the Excelsior team consists of Cecilia Reyes, Diamond Lil, Random, and Ricochet.