Mandarin Longshot

Did Mandarin ever get his rings back? IIRC, he lost his hands fighting Fin Fang Foom or something and the rings were still on them. Did anybody recover them or is that just a bad storyline waiting to happen?

Where is Longshot? With all these X-books, you'd think they could fit him into one of them.

Please no. The worst thing that ever happened to the character was that he became affiliated with the X-bookx.

-Ralf Haring 'The mind must be the harder, the heart the keener, the spirit the greater, as our strength grows less.' -Byrhtwold, The Battle of Maldon

He was in Exiles recently, where we discovered that in all the Multiverse, there's only on Mojo and one Longshot. Not his finest hour by any means, it was basically a rather pointless effort to poke some rather sneering fun of the character and a lot of bad hair comments.

I'd rather not.

To the best of my knowledge, yes, he did recover his rings, and wore then on new, dragon-like hands he grew for himself. He tried to cleanse the world of technology, but was infected with a techno organic virus, then transformed by the Heart of Darkness (the thingy he'd been using to perpetrate his plan) into a lowly janitor, while everyone believed he was dead.

He resurfaced near the beginning of Vol 3 of the title, with his newest creation, the Dragon of Heaven, a massive dragon-shaped warcraft. He did not have his original rings now - instead he had control rings which he used to work the Dragon. Blah blah blah, Iron Man wins fight, Dragon is destroyed, Mandarin apparently dies when it goes down in flames.

Just recently, it was revealed that the Mandarin left behind a son, who's a crimelord of some kind or another somewhere (sorry, but I just honestly did care enough about the story to remember stuff about it... / - who is presented with his father's hands, complete with rings, which are stated to have been found in the wreckage of the Dragon of Heaven. The rings are later shown to have powers like the Mandarin's original rings. So... yeah, I dunno. Make of it what you will.

As I recall, the letters page of that issue said that the story wasn't to be considered 'real' anyway.

Negate what? The Unlimited story was just a piss-take.