original Marvel hero. What did we know about Ravage that was so wrong?

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Marvel launched a line of comics taking place in the year 2099, filled with future versions of their characters, in a society ruled by corporations, where littering is a capital offense, pollution turns men into mutroids, everyone wears business overalls, and pogs are still hip. Stan Lee and Paul Ryan (not that one, the other one) produced the only series not based around a pre-existing character. Paul-Phillip Ravage, a top executive at Eco, an environmental agency/police force, is betrayed by top brass and set up to die. He quickly turns badass, starts talkin’ like Ben Grimm, outfits himself with weapons and armor at a junkyard, and starts fightin’The Man. Later, radiation from Hellrock, an island of Mutroids ruled by– wait for it– Dethstryk, gives him the ability to shoot energy from his hands.

The opening issues progressed almost improvisationally, with tweaks and retooling coming with each passing issue. Ravage initially digs his gear out a junkyard, then he gets a laser-proof coat lining (really), then he shoots giant energy beams from his hands, then he gets a high-tech eyepatch-monocle. This progression of change and revamping reminds one of the various kicks in the pants that Hank Pym and the Hulk underwent in the ’60s to become more sellable, or the slow early evolution of the Fantastic Four concept. Seven and a half issues later (Lee “plotted” #8), however, Stan and Paul were gone, replaced by Mills,