I wish Superherostuff.com would say who the artist is, as I don’t recognize it.
I’m not sure what “Proud 30” means. She turned 35 in 2014.
I like that Lockheed is present for this.
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Writer Ray Fawkes
Art Juan Cabal
Colorist Antonio Fabela
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
The Gulf of Mexico. Arcadia. Mystique isn’t thrilled that she cannot community with anybody. Just then, three Sinister cronies appear and start attacking her.
Inside Sinister’s Lab. Neuro is acting pretty smug while the Wolverines make short work of the cronies. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of them, so the fight keeps coming, even though it isn’t a challenge.
The Wolverines rather be fighting Sinister, but he never gets his own hands dirty, unless Cyclops’ seed is involved.
Poor Junk, strangely, he is torn from fighting his former friends, even though two of them are just standing about while Neuro takes great pleasure in the bloodshed. Shogun wants everybody to fight with all of their might.
Skel wants Neuro to end teh fight with the control words but Neuro is all about making Sinister happy, and he is quite happy.
On Board the Changeling. The cronies know they are dealing with a shapeshifter but she still tricks them by shifting into one of them.
Meanwhile. Sabretooth is dead killing nameless crones and jumps towards Sinister. Sinister just electrocutes Creed back to the ground.
Skel really wants the fighting to stop, as it is needless. Sinister could stop it with the control words, at anytime. Sinister finally gets tired of all of the whiny and insults the treasonous and failures to entertain him. Neuro is really offended by this.
Sinister starts teh Oblation Protocol, so the cronies burn up, separating the Wolverines from each other and surrounding them by circles of fire.
Changeling. Mystique has taken a second crony down and starts teasing the third one. Instead of playing along, it blows up and the ship starts crashing towards the lab. Mystique tries to save Portal and Siphon but she has to make sure she stays alive too.
Junk reveals he has electric eel powers, knocking a few more foes but also knocking Daken out. He shocks Daken awake and I finally noticed that Daken doesn’t have his shoulder or chest tattoo. When did he lose that?
Shogun kicks Neuro to the face! Skel and Endo start punching Shogun.
Sinister starts walking away but X23 shkts Sinister’s left foot, through the floor. He takes this as a grave insult and says all of the command words at the same time. Daken, Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike appear to be stun. The issue ends, with the very next page, with the Changeling crashing through the ceiling of the lab. The three villains no longer look like they are stun, so that didn’t last long.
I’m pretty excited about the final three issues and how they are leading to something.
Thanks to YouTuber Ewaldo Neto for hosting the video! I was hoping to get one where someone was using Kitty Pryde and Magik on the same team but I couldn’t find one.
So there was a while when I was addicted to this game.
By the time I started playing it, Kitty Pryde was already an available character AND had two costumes to choose from. As soon as I could recruit her, I made sure she was my first one of my own choosing to do so.
Somehow I was able to do it before recruiting Hawkeye, as he is most people’s third hero. I must have spent the in-game gold to get the necessary CP (Command Points) to get her.
I say Facebook game, but you could also play on Playdom’s own website too but you can’t transfer accounts.
Two events lead to my stop playing the game –
1) My home computer died
2) I couldn’t recruit Elektra, who was a Lockbox hero
I knew that the Lockboxes were going to be the end of my tenure with the game. Juggernaut was the first PVP (Player vs Player) Lockbox character and I was barely able to get him. Elektra was the next one, and I always said that once I couldn’t get the Exclusive Character, that I was done.
My wife hated that I played this game as much as I did. The clicking of the mouse drove her crazy.
I downloaded the Dolphin App for my Kindle Fire, so that I could use Flash and the game was practically impossible to play on the darn thing. It was a fun couple months.
To tie in with AvX, Playdom released Magik and that was an awesome! They did a really great job of tying in with the comic book storylines. They did their own version of the storyline (sort of like how the movies do) but had the same characters, for the most part. It was fun seeing their own continuity take place.
I tried recently to play the game again, as I heard they increased the max level cap from 12 to 14 but the Dolphin app was still impossible to use. There are very specific spots you are suppose to click and I cannot either increase the size of the screen or have the patience to locate all the spots. It just wasn’t fun anymore.
But if you had a proper computer and like Facebook games, I would recommend it though I imagine new players would be put off with how far behind they are and how all the Lockbox heroes are impossible to get unless you want to spend real money on them.
Here are the heroes I recruited, in order :
Iron Man, Black Widow, Kitty Pryde Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Iron Fist, Cyclops, Ms. Marvel, Invisible Woman, Luke Cage, Black Panther, Magik, Hulk, Daredevil, Quicksilver, Ghost Rider, Beast, Storm, Wolverine, Valkyrie, Emma Frost, Nightcrawler, Jean Grey, Deadpool, Tigra, Havok, Magneto, Mockingbird, Hank Pym, Black Knight, Psylocke, Captain Britain, Human Torch, Omega Sentinel, Vision, Punisher, War Machine, Union Jack, Rescue, Black Cat, X23, Thundra, Juggernaut, Wonder Man, Constrictor, Scarlet Witch, Fantomex, Angel, Damion Hellstrom, Satana, Gambit, Rogue, Spider-Woman, Doctor Strange, Shatterstar, Hercules and Cable.
Wonder Man was the hero you recruited when you finished the Special Operation, a bonus level that they released particular once every two months or so.
I had vowed to never recruit Colossus and I would just pay the 25 gold to skip the final task of any Special Operation to not do the Epic Boss that required certain characters to complete the final task.
If you know who the Special Operations characters are, which you can learn more from the Wikipedia page –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel:_Avengers_Alliance
You can tell exactly who were the required heroes to unlock the epic boss and get the character as that was the order I recruited heroes in. I saved and saved my CP until I got at least 325 points (enough to get three expensive characters) and from there, maybe I would be tempted to use any extra CP to unlock costumes (which I rarely did, except for Kitty and the rumored Magik one that has yet to happen) or other characters.
I was crazy involved on the Playdom boards and thanks to the boards, was able to anticipate which heroes were going to be needed for the next SO and trying my best to save enough CP to get them all.
Such a nice community, while I was there.
Mockingbird and Emma, I had to buy after they were rereleased as I missed out on their Special Operations. Actually, I got there just as Emma’s was starting but I had no idea what I was doing and I didn’t want to unlock Colossus so I just let it passed. Once she was gone, she was gone for good (or so I thought).
It was a fun ride, it occupied a bunch of time in my head and in RL and I have no idea would I would manage to keep up with my life now that we have Walker Dennis.
I can barely keep up with Criminal Case – the only Facebook game I still play now. And that’s mostly due to my wife playing it and so I can play it guilt free as we can play together. I tried Juice Cubes and Candy Crush Saga but they got to levels that just were no fun anymore to keep trying.
Facebook games as made me realize that these games are free and why I would ever pay $60 for a game and $600 for a game system? I barely have twenty minutes to play a free game so spending $700 for a system that I probably won’t even watch BluRays on, is maddening. Not sure how other parents do it. Or they wait until their children are older and can keep themselves occupied.
I wish I could do another screen shot of the heroes I recruited as I did enjoy looking at it, all that time and energy into recruiting all of them.
Okay, I was able to quickly get these screen caps of my roster –
I was trying to sneak and do this and I had to click so many buttons to skip all of the news items. Special Operation for Rocket Raccoon was happening and a new PvP tournament.
Getting those images, sort of makes me want to sneak and play the game on a good computer but I can’t risk that. If only the Kindle Fire would have Flash properly on their platform, I bet I could get back in there. Would be annoying for all of the exclusive characters I missed out on but these things happen.
57 characters I was able to recruit, that is pretty impressive!
Last I left, it was the Special Operation that Damion Hellstrom and Satana were available for. Also, Season Two had just been released and that’s why I started getting all of those additional characters as I was changing my game philosphy as I wanted to just stay current on who the game wanted me to have. I had plenty of gold so I could have an easily time with the Special Operations.
Another thing that killed my buzz for the game was that they redid PvP and made it so that you can have two teams – Defending Team and Attacking Team. So everyone, of course, made their defending team a high defense team and that’s who you had to beat. Playdom only required five wins a day but those five wins, for me, probably took ten to fifteen fights and I just couldn’t commit to that as it takes five minutes each (if you are lucky). That’s what the video above is all about, its a PvP match up.
Just to end on a higher note, here are two videos to show off Kitty and Magik!
Thanks to YouTuber mmagamers for hosting this video.
Thanks to YouTuber o PRIM0 o for hosting for this video!
Looking at so many of these videos, also makes me want to play the game. Also, to figure out how people even made those videos as I wouldn’t mind just making my own video with Kitty Pryde and Magik.
I do love so much how Kitty got a move that uses Lockheed AND that from time to time, Lockheed will just help out as well. Such a fun gimmick. They did the same with Magik, having Limbo demons make surprise attacks as well.
Since I’m trying to make this my Everything Avengers Alliance, I will share this as well :
My wife also thought the game just looked dumb as well. The heroes don’t have any special graphics. The images above would just move from their slot to the other side and then a graphic comes down. I thought it was good enough but she just hated how addicted I was (and I can’t blame her now that I’m months passed it now – almost a year passed it now that I think of it) but that it was such a simple looking game, she couldn’t see what I saw in it.
I mean, it is a free Marvel game with as many characters as you would initially want. What is there to not enjoy?
Emma / Spec Op 2 was during July / August 2012 and Season Two came out August 2013, which was when Elektra became available to start unlocking in PVP which was shorlty after Spec Op 11 ended.
So I played for close to a year and now a year as come and gone. I’ve kept the app on my Facebook profile so I see the logo from time to time but it sure left its hold on me.
I also liked how they gave Kitty, for her second costume, her blue Excalibur look.
The art used for profiles and dialogue was always nice too.
There, I’m pretty sure that’s all my thoughts on the game.
So I wrote the bulk of above, on August 18, 2014 – a long time ago. I then got sucked back into the game but after Special Operations 23, with Spitfire, I had to call it quits again – as it was sucking up too much of my time!
I did have a great time in playing again but I was so far behind that I spent $40 on Gold to get CP and Lockboxes and had plans to buy more but enough was enough (again).
Here are the heroes I recuited, after Cable and coming back for a second time –
Thing, Colossus (I know!), Thor, Hyperion, Wasp, Elektra, Fandral, Silk, Blizzard, Kang, Ares, Hogun, Silk, Angela, Domino, Agent Venom and finally, Spitfire.
I’m sure it was making this post, in the first place, that made me want to keep going back to the game but it was fun. I was mostly seeking characters that I needed to unlock the epic bosses.
I do feel bad, as I got four new allies but I will remain on their ally list, and at level 300, will be a pretty good ally for deploys and another ally to recruit daily items from my map.
Edit 12-6-15 – I think I’m going to try to keep playing when a new Special Operation is going on, as those characters cost 200 CP, later on. Which is pretty hard to save up on, after the fact.
I will play on Sundays too, as the Daily Mission offers CP, even though I have never won CP on Sundays. I’m trying to get 200CP now for Falcon, and I’m at 62 – so it is taking time.
I now have recruited Brother VooDoo and Jessica Jones.
Writers Andy Lanning & Andy Schmidt
Artist Gustavo Duarte
Colorist Marcelo Maiolo
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Cover Artists Humberto Ramos & Edgar Delgado
The cover is the only place that Lockheed can be found!
The Pet Avengers are – Lockjaw, Zabu, Furball, Ms. Lion, Redwing and Throg! No mention of Lockheed, which is unbelievable! Now I have joked in the past about being one of those X-Men conspiracy theorists but now that Lockheed isn’t considered a member of the team, I think there is something going on with the X-Office!
The Pet Avengers don’t have the Mind Gem, any longer, so they don’t sync up their minds with Rocket or Cosmo, so we don’t hear anything from the non-English speaking members, so we don’t get any reference to them, not talking about Lockheed.
This is a real shame that Lockheed has been kicked off the team. All due to editorial.
Issue opens with Rocket and Cosmo, on monitor duty. Cosmo, to pass the time, starts talking about other animal heroes. Twooatu, the Cosmic Owl. Graavalian Wormatoid.
Starting the running subplot of the issue, Rocket just wants to drink his very illegal beer. Cosmo keeps it away from him. Rocket gives chase and sees that Cosmo teleported off the spaceship so Rocket does the same. I guess at some point, Cosmo joined the Guardians of the Galaxy, or at least, stays with them on their ship.
Cosmo speaks with this interesting accent but it is hard to read sometimes – essentially, anything that ends with -ing ends with -ink. Listenink / shiftink / snoozink – maybe not hard to read but it makes me notice the spelling, thus takes me out of the story.
Somewhere on Earth . . . Rocket catches Cosmo playing poker with the Pet Avengers! Lockjaw / Zabu / Ms. Lion / Throg / Redwing / Hairball. Rocket is mostly upset that Cosmo never told him that the dog knew how to play poker. They could have been playing poker this entire time!
All of a sudden, the wall busts down. We get the Vulture Von Doom and the Pets of Evil Masters! I imagine the name is a take off of the first two minis being titled “Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers” which I always thought was a silly title, just call it “Pet Avengers.”
Good thing we are given who their masters are, as I don’t recognize any of them.
- Vulture Von Doom – Doctor Doom
- Thori – Loki’s hellhound
- Falconia – Lady Falcona’s Familiar (who?)
- Mikhol – One of the Red Ghost’s Super Apes – who I totally called as being a member of the team
- Tiger Wild – Doctor Doom’s Attack Tiger
- Cuddles – Princess Python’s Killer Snake – of Circus of Crime fame – I haven’t heard anything with them in a while
- Bitey McSpidey-Bite – Mutant Radioactive Spider – the same spider that bit Peter Parker and Silk – who I also thought was dead.
The Pets of Evil Masters take out the Pet Avengers, rather easily and take off with Lockjaw. Rocket now has to go save them, begrudgingly.
Cosmo can read minds, including animal minds, so that explains how he can play poker with the Pet Avengers. I’m not sure why Cosmo doesn’t link all of their minds.
Latveria. Castle Doom. Vulture Von Doom is evil-monologueingm. eviloguing? He is a vulture who has been hiding in the shadows of the castle. So he isn’t like a secret pet that Doom has been keeping, this entire time.
Editor, Xander the Xandarian Historian, informs us that Vulture Von Doom’s plan references the original Pet Avengers miniseries. He is planning on absorbing the cosmic energy that the Pet Avengers were exposed to, when they had the Infinity Gems as he is planning to create his own cosmic cube.
Rocket and the Pet Avengers get to the castle, rather easily. Rocket still only wants his beer back. The beer has been shaken so Rocket just shoots it and the cans explode. Everything is covered in sticky beer. With this sequence of events, the Pet Avengers take out the Masters of Evil Pets, quickly. It was the element of surprised that was their undoing last time.
Rocket gives the Pet Avengers a back handed compliment. He takes off Vulture Von Doom’s helmet and he freaks out as he believes he is hideous. Rocket informs him that all vultures look that way.
You decide –
or 
I still say turkeys are the more unattractive bird!
Some off model Doombots – actually, Servo Guards – arrive to clean up and take the vulture away. Doom is aware of the vulture and apparently, he gets up to these silly schemes in the past.
Sector QXM78-67EMX. Pleiades Quadrant. Planet Klaatu. Grott, the Man-Slayer has come back to this universe, from somewhere where he didn’t have a body. He will have his revenge. Unfortunately, for him, Rocket, Cosmo and the Pet Avengers are ready for him.
I can only imagine these two pages were added so that Lanning & Schmidt could work in a “I am Grott” gag and Rocket says he already knows a guy with that shtick. I imagine “Grott” and “Groot” sound alike, right? It isn’t just the spelling of their names.
Issue ends with Lockjaw teleporting and giving Rocket a fresh case of his beer. So the Pet Avengers are not that bad, now.
Not a bad story, I just wish Lockheed was involved or at least, mentioned.
http://www.newsarama.com/26638-buffy-alum-cast-as-cameron-chase-for-cbs-s-supergirl.html
Cameron Chase, my all time favorite DC Character – I’m that guy – is coming to CBS’ Supergirl. I’m hoping for a mutli-episode role. Couldn’t be happier that Emma Caulfield is going to portray her. Though I haven’t seen Caulfied in anything, since Buffy, but that’s more on me than anything else.
Chase was an awesome seven issue issue, plus a millionth issue, over at DC and it was awesome. Dan Johnson and JH WIlliams III slayed that title. She first appeared in Batman 550, which was also pretty great. The character has appeared in Manhunter, Pre52 and in Batwoman, Post52. Titles that I still need to seek out but from what I’ve read, she’s still pretty great.
We still haven’t watched Supergirl, being two episodes behind but I’m hoping we can marathon it soon.
In response to Who is DC’s Jessica Jones, Chris Sims had this to state –
http://comicsalliance.com/ask-chris-278-jessica-jones-dc-cameron-chase/
I’ll say Cameron Chase is a pretty good answer.
http://comicsalliance.com/chase-comic-jh-williams/
Back in 2011, Chris also had a series retrospective, which is quite good.
I really should hunt down those Manhunter and Nu52 Batwoman trades.
Since, initially, typing this post, we have watched the first three episodes of Supergirl – pretty good so far. I’ve read that CBS has given it a full series order, so that’s even better news!
Writer Charles Soule
Enhanced Pencils Ario Anindito
Enhanced Colors Sonia Oback
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
The road to the finale begins here!
The Changeling. Six Miles Above the Atlantic Ocean. Two Hundred Miles West of the Azores. Issue opens with Shogun spitting blood into a sink.
Shogun is spitting blood, as the Paradise folks’ expiration date is coming upon them. Junk reveals that he is a little further along the path, as he now has tar like veins on his arms, and they are spreading. Neither Junk or Shogun are thrilled that their time seems to be shorter than they had expected.
Junk is now learning more about his powers, he just learn he has chameleon abilities. Junk really was hoping to join the side of the heroes and maybe one day, being an Avenger. Shogun calling Junk, brother, seems odd to me. Maybe the real Sharp is coming out now that Ogun may be completely out of his system. Shogun is curious about Mystique’s plan but they can’t wait for her time table.
Junk can’t believe how far off course the Paradise team has come. They keep getting distracted by the Wolverines nonsense. Though he makes a point of liking Fang’s adventures, which I can only imagine is a meta message, as fans have to be like me, right? In that Fang was the detour from the book proper?
Junk calls the Wolverines, all of them, monsters, as X23 walks into the room. Which is bad timing as she is the best one there.
Rome, Italy. The Arcadians, the ones the Paradise folks were being experimented on for so that the Arcadians can get the good material. They are attacking Endo (who is not dead, apparently), Skel and Neuro – which a handy editorial note that we first met this group in Weapon X Project 5. Neuro and his crew seem to be beating back the Arcadians, rather easily. Some more Arcadians show up and Neuro surrenders.
Epsilon, the field leader, goes on television and announces who The Arcadians are. On the Changeling, they are watching the news coverage. Junk really doesn’t want to leave his former allies behind in the hands of the clear enemies.
The Changeling Deck E — Detention. Mystique is checking in on Portal, who looks a tad by Wolverine – out of costume. Portal and Mystique don’t have any history together. She doesn’t want him as an enemy but she wants to save a friend, which I’m sure we haven’t had Destiny hinted or mention since issue two or three. Siphon is sleeping in the next cell.
Junk wants to go save his friends. Shogun has to explain who the Arcadians are, to Sabretooth, even though Sabretooth was in the room when the news was being aired. Daken brings up the good point that Neuro wouldn’t go save Junk and Shogun, so maybe they shouldn’t go after them. Shogun has to agree with Daken but Junk doesn’t care – Neuro may be horrible but he liked Endo and Skel.
X23 offers to help Junk save Endo and Skel, as they did seem like nice people. With X23 on board, Shogun is happy to go through with the mission. Which makes sense, he doesn’t want to be the sole fighter so that he has to do all of the fighting and still watch out for Junk.
Mystique comes in and does the one thing one shouldn’t do with this group. Mystique tells Junk and Shogun that they can go, but she still needs X23 for her primary mission. So X23 is definitely going now and Sabretooth and Daken are now a go for the mission to, as screw Mystique! Which I really like that turn of events.
Daken is definitely growing his hair out, so he is now going to look like a tall (Dark) Wolverine with a missing arm and eye.
The Gulf of Mexico. Arcadia. Later. Lady Deathstrike has also joined the team, Shogun tries to talk to Lady Deathstrike but she has no interest in him now that Ogun is no longer around. The team makes very short work of the Arcadians. It helps that the Arcadians are fake, as they are weak shells of people, filled with foam (or something).
The team opens the door and sees the real Arcadians but they are all dead. Mystique warns them to get out of there but they continue on. That Mystique, she doesn’t take any hints.
Neuro shows up and reveals that Mister Sinister is behind all of this. He wanted to get the team out into the open. Some light blue bald Mister Sinsiter cronies show up and pop two claws each, per hand – so Sinister really used Daken’s arm to beneficial results. The issue ends with Sinister on deck.
http://www.uncannyxcast.com/main/2015/11/26/episode-172-its-just-a-smoke-bomb.html
The Uncanny X-Cast aired my eighth voicemail. Mine airs between 9:53 – 10:30, I sound like I have low energy but I was mostly trying to be quiet – while at work. Brian sounded like he was going to add something but Rob cut him off. I am pretty glad that my expensive hobby is taking a bit of a price cut. Brian said that the next Marvel space opera has already been confirmed, but I haven’t heard of that but I knew it was coming.
Writer Kieron Gillen
Penciler Terry Dodson
Inker Rachel Dodson
Colorist Justin Ponsor
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna
Cover Dated June 2011
Breaking Point, Part Two of Four
This is the final back issue I was able to buy from Kelly’s Komix in Great Falls, Montana, I had a twenty dollar budget, as I couldn’t tell if my wife was going to give me more of budget. Our son, Walker Dennis, was pretty much running around the store, he was only sixteen months at the time and always looking for a chance to run about any location. So I had a pretty tight timeframe of searching for comics. With this issue, I now own all four chapters of this storyline.
That’s a pretty great cast of characters above – plus there are only seven so that rule of thumb is still respected. Kitty Pryde, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Namor, Magneto and even, Colossus. That’s pretty A-List there.
This is only part two, so the previous issue mainly dealt with setting up the overall plot. There was a warship from Breakworld, coming to Earth – Agent Brand of SWORD (whatever happened to her, she was all over the place, for quite some time) called the X-Men to intercept the ship. That issue ended with Kruun, the former warlord of Breakword – and who Colossus in an awesome scene, ripped off his arm, has come to Earth, asking for Asylum for the rest of the refugees of the planet.
There is an ad for Thor, coming to theaters on June 6, 2011. Can’t believe it has been four years since that film came out.
I want to say that this was an odd time for me, like I barely remember reading the issues and I was in a weird headspace, like I was reading but not super enjoying it and the issues were not leaving much of an impression on me.
Decomissioned Breakword Flagship Resplendent Celestial Slaughter. Docked. The Peak. Orbital Headquarters of SWORD. Peak Meeting Room XIV. Topic : Breakworld Refugees. In the meeting room is – Agent Brand / Sydren / Cyclops / Emma Frost / Kruun / Haleena. Kruun doesn’t know how to go about being a diplomat. It is a new language to them. They came in a warship, as they don’t have anything else, and they didn’t signal their arrival, as they didn’t know that was necessary. Haleena isn’t any more skilled. Kruun suspects that Brand wants them to beg, but he refuses.
Haleena had a vision that Earth would take them in, and apparently, she and Kruun are a couple. Cyclops asks the question, what happened to Breakworld. Kruun explains that there is constant fighting and the planet is no longer what it use to be. Brand makes some flippant comments and Kruun doesn’t care for her tone, he wants, no – he demands – refuge.
Cyclops asks the other important question, why is he there? The United Nations are still divided on if Utopia is a proper nation, or not, which is silly. Brand has some leeway, so if Cyclops wants the refugees, he can have them. If the Breakworlders revolt, she will just wipe the entire island out. There is a great moment when Emma mocks Sydren, which is great. That poor guy can’t catch a break. In one panel, Cyclops decides to test out the peace idea.
Utopia. Island Home of the X-Men. Emma mocks Scott, she wonders if he fed the stray cats of Anchorage, Alaska. Magneto, also isn’t thrilled, Utopia is for mutants, by mutants.
There is an house ad for Fear Itself, Book Two – Blitzkrieg USA, it came out in May 2011. All I really remember of the main event, is that Winter Soldier was killed in one of the first issues and then, was back alive by the end of it.
Scott feels responsible, as they are refugees because of the X-Men. Well, like Emma states, they did fire a moon-sized bullet at Earth. Good thing Shadowcat was there to save all of us! Not only that, but they brought the X-Men to them. Scott isn’t sure what they even eat. Probably rocks, as they are hardcore!
Kitty isn’t thrilled to have this many Breakworlders around her. Kitty decides the best way to start building a community, is to be interested and listening. Oh, Shadowcat, you truly are the heir to Xavier’s dream!
They listen to several stories.
The last one calls Colossus, Powerlord. The person is willing to rip off his own arm, if that is what the Russian wants.
Kruun shows up, he calls Kitty “Colossus’ mate” which is going too far! Kruun suspects the true power couple have plans to parade his people around the island and laughing at them. Kitty has no plans to laugh at anyone, she only wants to help. Kruun tells her that helping is the same as laughing.
Haleena reveals the rest of her vision, that they were taken in but they have no future on the planet. Which is, essentially, true – as I don’t believe they have been seen since.
Kitty tries to explain how there is always hope. Colossus is fine with the refugees being on Utopia, he hates Kruun, and how he benefited from all of the death and breaking of wills.
Kruun explains how they brought Colossus back from the dead. Which is a story that Whedon didn’t even really hint at. Kruun keeps making a point that “they didn’t have hospitals” which seems to be the line from the Whedon run, that really stuck with Gillen.
See that only left panel on the image above? Try reading that again? Is it me, or is that some not great explaining of a concept? To bring back Colossus, five slaves had to give their lives. Or rather, their life energy, so you could survive the process but these five didn’t, as they didn’t want to live with the shame. Being part of the process, at all, is to be one of the lowest of the low.
A would be hero decides to do a sneak attack – assassin style – but Kruun prevents the attack.
There is an ad for four collectible Slurpee cups featuring Thor characters. Two are decent – Thor & Loki – and I imagine those who got the Destroyer & Lorelei cups. Did Natalie Portman decline on the invitation? These were only available at a 7 Eleven, which I don’t believe I’ve ever lived in a city that had one of those. Sort of like how Circle K isn’t in Montana, at all.
Kruun is mostly upset with the younger guy, because of the sneak attack from behind. Heleena, and apparently this is her first appearance – which is pretty cool – is proud of Kruun for saying “I’m sorry” to Colossus for the attempted assassination.
Kitty and Colossus walk away, as they can only listen to so much nonsense.
Kruun does recognize that Colossus was the death nail in Breakworld but it was his own actions that brought them to Earth.
There is a house ad for X-Men Legacy 250 – featuring the cast of Magneto, Rogue, Gambit, Frenzy, Xavier and David Haller.
Heleena, and those like her, are called – Augurs. Heleena and Kruun would never have met before, as he would never have looked at a lowly augur before.
Magneto approaches the couple, he wants to know how the metal of Breakworld works. Afterall, it was Magneto who brought Kitty back to Earth, and he has been (apparently) trying to figure out the metal.
The X-Labs, Utopia. Madison Jeffries hints that Doctor Nemesis wouldn’t like a stranger being in his lab. He calls Magneto “Mags” which Magneto doesn’t miss a second to inform him that Magneto is not amused with that nickname.
Magneto asks if technology or magic is the trick to working with the metal. Kruun reveals that “magic” isn’t a word they know – which is odd as I thought they had placed magical protection against the bullet, so they must know about it. Instead, they just call working with the metal as “weapons” such as, making weapons, I imagine.
There is a house ad for Uncanny X-Force 11, the team going up against Age of Apocalypse characters! They keep referecing “MMXI” the year of the X-Men – which I feel like it really wasn’t.
With the little amount of the metal, Kruun makes a weapon that hones reflexes – mostly, used by children. With more metal, he could make more impressive items. Magneto states that there is so much debris all over the state, he just needs thirty minutes. Since he open the bullet on Utopia, wouldn’t most of the metal be on the island? Or just he just fling the bullet away once Kitty was out?
Magneto leaves and Kruun quickly takes out Madison Jeffries, from behind! Kruun throws up a bag and inside are five vials. Magneto came back in twenty eight minutes. While fighting Magneto, we learn that the vials have the mutant cure in them.
On Breakworld, they have an expression “revenge is a dish best served, swift” as he ties Magneto up, next to Madison Jeffries. The issue ends with Kruun brandishing a decent sized dagger.
Pretty good issue!
Writer Brian Michael Bendis
Artist David Lafuente
Colorist Justin Ponsor
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Cover Dated March 2010
New World According to Peter Parker, Part Six of Six
According to the recap page for issue five, the only thing of note that happened was that Iceman got kicked out of his parents’ home and went to Kitty Pryde for him. She introduced him to Aunt May and now he lives there, as well.
That is one crowded table! Good thing Kitty is only visiting! Now the cast of the title is complete! !
Gwen, always never awkward, stands up and announces that she is Peter’s girlfriend. Gwen doesn’t want the two new boys to be chasing her, where she sleeps.
Aunt May restates the no hanky panky rule, she emphases it to Johnny. She kept up with the gossip websites, which surprises Peter. It makes sense, in this more grounded world, that the news would cover Johnny Storm like he was a regular celebrity.
Peter wonders how the boys are going to go undetected, Aunt May has a scheme.
There is an ad for the Honda Civic.
First up, Johnny dyes his hair black – the ladies help him. In the shower, Peter is assisting Bobby with shaving his head.
The big plan is to have Johnny and Bobby pose as Peter’s cousins. Over at Midtown High, the principal isn’t buying it. He suspects Peter is Spider-Man, so he can sort of guess who these other two are. Good thing Aunt May has a slight history of taking in nephews. The Principal, now that we are Post Ultimatum, is a huge fan of Spider-Man. He still rather the school wasn’t targeted to just get to Spider-Man.
Captain America : Reborn 6 is coming out, so this will bring Steve Rogers back to the land of the living – in the present day.
Midtown High School. Next Morning. Mary Jane can’t believe that the Parkers are even going to attempt to pass Johnny off as a high school student. He is age appropriate but he clearly looks like the Human Torch.
Peter’s spider sense starts to go off. I like Bobby having to learn about Peter and his abilities, I can see him not really paying attention when Kitty was going on about dating Spider-Man.
Peter eyes a female student going through a set of double doors, next, a giant explosion occurs. Then the three eye robot from the cover arrives on the scene.
Peter tells everybody to get out. Johnny really wants to help but Peter tells him not too. Which is smart, one can’t simply have Spider-Man, the X-Men’s Iceman and the Fantastic Four’s Human Torch, all suit up all at once.
There is an house ad for X-Necrosha that is starting soon.
Peter suits up.
See Jessica Jones in that second panel on the top row? That’s what got me to review this issue for this event month.
Spider-Man starts fighting the robot and saves the principal.
The Shroud shows up on the scene. Spider-Man now knows that the Shroud is not the principal, which is a clear joke.
While he was joking, the Shroud disabled the robot – proving who is the better hero. Human Torch, the idiot, arrives and burns the robot. Which, with the time difference, people are probably going to assume it took him a while to get there – so he doesn’t go to the school. Plus, the Shroud being there, they will probably imagine that this is a new team of young heroes.
Human Torch has to be told that he just ruined any evidence, thus any leads. So now he knows he is a rookie and needs to be schooled.
Spider-Man and the Human Torch leave the scene. We see the Shroud is also getting away but taking off their hood.
There is an ad for Fantastic Four 575, by Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham.
The Shroud is really . . . Kitty Pryde! So issue four is the very first issue that Kitty ever has had in her Ultimate career.
The issue ends with Mysterio being all proud of himself. He notices the police are getting close and blows up his headquarters.
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With this, we conclude Jessica Jones Month! I really need to work on ending these in a better fashion.
Writer Reginald Hudlin
Pencils Scot Eaton and Kaare Andrews, for pages 21 – 24
Inks Klaus Janson
Colors Dean White
Letters VC’s Randy Gentile
Cover Frank Cho
Cover Dated September 2006
From BET, Toure and Ananda are the wedding commentators. Black Panther and Storm are the ultimate power couple, and for good reason. Toure comments on how the Superhuman Registration Act is being hotly debated, back in America. By hotly debated, I mean that costumed folks are punching and kicking other costumed folks.
Luke Cage is surprised that Spider-Man is on Iron Man’s side so much. This is after issue two of Civil War. Spider-Man is in his Iron-Spider costume.
Susan is still standing with her husband, Reed. Thing is already showing signs of wanting to be neutral.
Kitty and Lockheed seem super excited, to the point where Emma feels the need to calm her down. Eaton draws one awesome Lockheed!
Cyclops wonders what the X-Men will be like without Storm, they will be okay and her absence will only really be noticeable by her hardcore fans. For the Maid of Honor, Kitty seems to be pretty relaxed.
Meanwhile, the psychic parasite known as the Cannibal prepares his trap. Cannibal is who I didn’t know from the previous two issues, who I referred to has Not-Malice. How many villains fall under this body-less category?
Cannibal wants to take advantage of the situation and take any number of heroes but keeps his non-eyes on his prize, Black Panther.
Black Goliath (a horrible name) is impress when he sees Falcon wheel Isaiah Bradley. Triathlon (who I know from Buisek’s legendary Avengers run) and Captain Marvel (Monica) come over to greet Isaiah. We get an editor note to check out – Truth : Red, White & Black, for the full story. Hudlin must have really liked that series, as he didn’t write it, Robert Morales did.
Elsewhere in the Place. T’Challa and Ororo are talking. He tells her that the Panther God will judge Ororo to see if she is worthy of marrying him. Ororo isn’t thrilled with this and wonders what happens if she isn’t worthy of the test. I would imagine that, this portion of the ceremony, probably should have done prior to the wedding invites. T’Challa would give up his kingdom to stay married to Ororo, so the wedding will continue, no matter what.
Daily Bugle (what they used to call, Bullpen Bulletin – I like the in-comic universe name change). I like them promoting New Adventures and New Number Ones. New Number Ones – Annihilation / Heroes for Hire / Agents of Atlas / Claws. New Adventures – Sensational Spider-Man 29 / Runaways 19 / X-Factor 10, a team member betrays the team. I own issues nine and eleven, so that’s funny (and issue 23) / Black Panther 19, attacked by DOOM!
Xavier shows up as he will be walking her down the aisle. This comes as a surprised to her, also a surprise to her, is that he is able to walk. I like that he waves this off, like this happens from time to time – as it does.
Elsewhere in the Palace. Black Panther stages a meeting between Captain America and Iron Man, neither of whom, are impressed with each other. They both leave the wedding, both of them making sure that Black Panther apologizes for each of them, to Storm.
Meanwhile. Doctor Strange, Brother Voodoo and Blade stop their conversation to take note that Uatu, the Watcher has arrived. I like that a guidebook has been handed out. Would it have been more awesome, if it was called – a handbook? Perhaps
Back to the party guests. President Bush 43 arrives, along with Fidel Castro and the late Nelson Mandela. A huge wave of applause erupts as Oprah arrives. Ororo’s grandparents arrive, the idiot that is her grandfather, tries to start saying that Bush doesn’t care about black people, which is still a ridiculous statement. Luckily, his wife stops him before he can say those words.
Her grandparents get to sit with Ororo’s mother’s family.
Meanwhile. Kitty really wants to see Storm’s dress, which wasn’t she there when Storm bought it? I guess we didn’t see her buy it. Lockheed is flying about.
The whole “Storm loved Black Panther for years” doesn’t quite worked for me, as we had decades of those two not having any panel time together but I get that he was her first crush (and her, his – maybe?) back in her African days, but that seems like an odd thing a carry well into someone’s thirties. Am I still crushing on Katie O’Connor and Jennifer Fuller? No, as when I think about to them, my mind stops at them being first and second graders, respectfully, so I don’t romanticism them, at all. Though I do wonder if they are on Facebook but I don’t believe they are. To be fair, if they grew up to be female versions of a handsome, rich and heroic King, I guess they would still be on the top of my mind.
Kitty finally gets to see the dress and instantly wants to wear it. I wish we got to see Kitty visit Storm, even just once, while she was a Queen.
See that second to last panel, on the bottom? Lockheed wants to eat those birds! Nice touch, Eaton!
Black Panther, now in costume, wonders why Uatu is present. He’s not going to be interfering, I know that much. His uncle is excited about the children that will come from this union.
Black Panther gets to the alter, wondering where his wife-to-be is. If he is anything like me, and we do have so much in common, he is going to have to wait for an intense fifteen minutes.
Storm arrives in the dress, that gets its own back up feature. The credits page thanks the following folks for the design of the dress – Procter & Gamble, CBS Daytime (the two parent companies of), Guiding Light, Alan Locher, Ellen Wheeler, Maria Aguero, Alyson Hui and Shawn Dudley.
Poor Kitty, doesn’t do anything for the ceremony.
Once the ceremony begins, the Karee Andrews pages kick in. They both are in the spirit world, they first see the Ape God. They run from that one, right into the Panther God. Panther God and Ororo have a stare off. The Panther God roars and Ororo is deemed worthy.
They bounce back and Eaton takes over. That must have been very exciting to those in attendance. Did the invitations state to not be surprised when the bride and groom just stood around, starring into nothing. Oh, it only lasted five seconds, so it wasn’t as awkward as I thought. Reading is important.
The two are officially married!
Later, a huge party is had by all. Prince is proving the music! Cannibal’s essence is spotted by Doctor Strange, so the host body sneaks closer to Storm. Doctor Strange and Brother Voodoo catch up to the host, who is laying on the floor. Cannibal could be in anybody.
Cage asks Jessica if she would want to stay in Wakanda, T’Challa gave them an open invitation. He goes on to say that Falcon and Photon (Monica’s codename – poor gal, that’s why you never want to be a legacy character!). Jessica laughs at him, as he has been wanting to create a Black Avengers team, for years.
Spider-Man is enjoying a drink and introduces himself to, Man-Ape. Man-Ape came to ruin the wedding but it turns out, he was on the invite list, so he is happy. So issue 16’s cliffhanger, was for not. Man-Ape has been drinking Scotch, as he should! Spider-Man tries to be helpful, about how he can get more respect if he didn’t dress so silly. Of course, this offends Man-Ape, as that is his royal garb. Spider-Man keeps burying himself, as he named himself after an unpopular creature – people do seem to hate spiders – for some reason. Man-Ape attacks Spider-Man, who wishes these gatherings didn’t always involve a fight of some sort.
A Few Hours Later. We see some gifts that the newlyweds were given. Kitty gave Storm a holographic representation of the X-Men, which would be cool and I want one.
Ororo hands T’Challa a package with the Latveria seal on it. T’Challa opens it, revealing a visual message from Doctor Doom. Doom was not invited to the wedding, which does not seem right, from a political viewpoint. Doom chalks it up to Black Panther believing that Doom was still in Hell. Doom provides a warning, regarding Civil War, his friends may not be who he use to think of them as. So Doom offers that Black Panther’s enemies, may also need to be reconsider. He would like to have a conversation, once the newlyweds are settled.
Issue ends with some kissing!
Mail to the King! Letters from – Tony K of Sydney, Australia / Paco Taylor / Regis Zoula and Christopher Smitho f Jacksonville, Florida.
Next issue, DOOM!
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With this, we end our celebration of my wife and my seventh anniversary of our wedding! Time sure does fly!
