Juston Seyfert, a bullied teenager living in rural Wisconsin, foud a destroyed Sentinel in his family's junkyard. Helping it rebuild itself he decided to use it to fake an attack on his school that he could then stop, becoming a hero. But the guilt of his lie weighed on him and he nearly broke under the pressure of trying to be a hero for real in attempting to rescue survivors of a plane crash. His actions brought attention from some government agents, one of whom turned out to be a mutant. The Sentinel and agent destroyed one another but Juston once more helped rebuild it and using its DNA tracking capabilities took off in the middle of the night hoping to find his long lost mother.
>you fully expect the aunt's story about why his mom left to just be bullshit spewed by a bitter woman >the mom actually was just a selfish, self-centered bich who abandoned her children because she didn't feel like being tied down Brutal
That finishes off Sentinel. Juston won't show up again, either IRL or in this storytime, until the later parts of Avengers Academy so it'll be a long time before we see him again. And outside of a few small appearances by his dad in Academy and Arena this is the last time you'll see Jessie or Ashleigh or any of these characters.
Next time we start a different series with Runaways vol. 1 #1-5.
>>154087909 He did come back last year but he's now basically a bio-Sentinel and the Sentinel itself is gone for good. I give Paknadel some props for undoing the death but there was no real putting him back to A Boy and His Bot status and I doubt we're going to get any kind of follow up where he ever sees his friends and family again.
There was part of me that wondered if I should do Avengers Arena since that's basically the board wiping for all of this generation of charactes but I'd also have to do Avengers Undercover since that really closes off that whole story and really why would I want to subject people to that much Dennis Hopeless? Better to end it on the more positive not of Academy.
>>154087998 Man it's insane how much damage the 2010's did to Marvel. Like everything just took a massive nose dive that decade and I don't think they'll ever recover
>>154087998 >He did come back last year but he's now basically a bio-Sentinel and the Sentinel itself is gone for good. I give Paknadel some props for undoing the death but there was no real putting him back to A Boy and His Bot status and I doubt we're going to get any kind of follow up where he ever sees his friends and family again. That sucks, but at least he's alive again. Good to know that both him and Mettle eventually came back from that disaster.
>>154088276 At least Hank Pym (and by extension Christos Gage who wrote Avengers Academy and pic related) also got a chance at revenge. Seriously if you like Hank Pym go read Battleworld 2025, it's a love letter to Pym and one of the first books in a long time to show the character love
>>154084392 Idk why but this makes me wish for a Nimrod going to join an X-Men related team and everyone going "Why is he an X-Man?" And he just explains that, in a way, "I'm a mutant, Hombre." I really liked him in the 80s cuz he told Master Mold to kill itself
>>154088427 See this is the thing about Arcade these idiot writers don't get. He enjoys being punished by those who outsmart him because those are the rules of the game. He's fucking crazy that way. His idea of a birthday present was having his 2nd in command try to kill him EVERY YEAR. There's a solid argument to be made he's so bored with life he's become suicidal but he's going to have fun in the process.
>>154088427 It was written by Gage so no shit he wrote a great Pym. And I imagine he wouldn't be too happy about Arena even if he had to be a good little soldier and hype it up at the time.
>>154088427 oh I've read it and it was a good Pym representation, but I couldn't help but feel like the book was too rushed due to being a mini with only 5 issues so a lot of shit happened too rapidly
>>154088845 Nah, he just enjoys he challenge of the game. The real problem is that he's not a real character he's just a plot device to do elaborate locations that might not otherwise fit into a book via "Arcade kidnapped them and now they're in a Murderworld that looks like Ancient Rome but everyone has lasers".
>>154087909 Knowing that Tom Batiuk intended to get Sean McKeever to ghost-co-write with him for the next gen characters on Funky Winkerbean makes me want to see that world, just to see if McKeever would've taken the opportunity to take a jab at Marvel over what they did with Justin
>>154092006 >he's not a real character he's just a plot device Claremont even told me as much to my face once, but still, trying to turn Arcade into this crying bitch upset at how the other C-lister villains see him growing out emo hair didn't do it for me
>>154087998 I honestly wonder what the point of doing that is. It’s not really getting closure on Justin’s character. If anything, it’s feels more like digging up his corpse and spitting in it.
Either way, thanks for the storytime OP. I admit I have a soft spot for Juston and his Sentinel friend.
>>154085241 That's a pretty cool Sentinel design. Shame it appears to only show up here. You'd think Stealth Sentinels would be an easy thing to keep around.