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I got my sixth voicemail played on the Uncanny X-Cast! From 49:15 – 50:32, I really need to work on my delivery.
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Of the twelve issues of this series, I own five of them – 1, 5, 7, 9 and 12
All of them written by Chris Claremont with Todd Nauck handling the main art duties. Assisting him is Colorist Rachelle Rosenberg and Letterer VC’s Cory Petit (issues 1, 2, 3 & 7).
Issues 4, 5 & 6 were lettered by VC’s Joe Sabino
Claremont had a script assist from Marguerite Bennett for issue 7, the very excellent, Death of Wolverine, tie-in issue.
Issue 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 were lettered by VC’s Travis Lanham
Pretty great that this title was able to go twelve issues while maintaining the mean creative team. Rosenberg really made all the issues pop with her coloring choices.
Who won HoH? Steve! Who does he nominated? Let’s find out!
Final Six!
So it is John – Vanessa – Steve v Austin – Liz – Julia
HoH Comp is Baseball theme. The goal is to see all of the former houseguests, as baseball cards, and they have to figure out who is missing. Last one to ring in, loses.
Inning One (Jason) – Steve – Julia – John – Austin. Vanessa is out, as she didn’t use three pieces, what a moron
Inning Two (Da’Vonne) – John – Julia – Steve. Austin is out, he was too slow
Inning Three (Jeff) – Steve – John. Julia is out, she was too slow
Inning Four (Jace) – Steve wins! John stopped before the final piece.
Austin makes a deal to keep Steve safe, next week, if Steve doesn’t nominate him.
Julia is clearly the funner twin.
Steve got a picture of his nephew, Harrison, who looks like a new born!
That reminds me, in Retro Big Brother, we finally got to the Neil Patrick Harris episode!
John is making fun of the twins, as they are clearly flirting with Steve in his HoH room.
Twins ask if Steve has ever been in love, he hasn’t told the gal. Julia is getting Sigmund Freud and the tiger trainers in Vegas confused, Siegfried & Roy. Austin’s eyes kept popping out of his head. Luckily, John came into the room and cleared it up.
In the hammock, Liz tells Julia that Austin’s tongue skills are pretty lacking.
If I was Steve, I would nominate Liz and Austin, get rid of the couple and then the wins.
Steve really wants to talk to Austin but he and Liz are napping. He keeps checking on them, after 20 minutes, Austin wakes up. Steve wants to tell Austin that he is going up, so he is going back on their deal.
Steve nominates . . . Austin and Liz! Everyone looked like they recognized which twin it was. Liz walked away crying! Another first for Big Brother!
Post 800!
There are times when I go on a real kick and watch a slew of SNL music videos, from originals to clever usages of proper songs. I’m a real sucker for people singing.
Here are a few of my favorites –
Ooh Child
Thanks to WonderlandAlison for hosting this video!
So funny that Lena Dunham can’t sing along. I had to go with a bootleg version, as the music rights were not cleared for infinity.
Paul Rudd’s Divorce Skit
Thanks to Monica Alimonti for hosting this video. I do wish there was a higher quality, as I have to turn the volume way up, just to hear it. The song is –
Fleetwood Mac’s I Don’t Want to Know
Thanks to mander pie for hosting a video with the lyrics!
The last of the Proper Songs is –
Josh Hutcherson’s 80s Skit, using The Outfield’s Your Love (with Jessie’s Girl at the end, by Rick Springfield)
Thanks to Toye Mason for hosting this video. This one also has an audio problem.
Here is the song proper –
Thanks to TheOutfieldVEVO for hosting their own song.
Now for the Original Songs, all songs hosted by NBC or SNL –
The Two Back Home Ballers songs –
(Do It On) My Twin Bed
NBC
Back Home Ballers
Saturday Night Live
Keeping with the ladies, here is
Dongs All Over The World
Saturday Night Live
Now for the guys –
Boy Dance Party, the one that usually starts the marathon –
NBC
Wishing Boot is so great, with the twist at the end –
Saturday Night Live
I looked for two more songs that I hadn’t featured before but I couldn’t find two to round the list out. Enjoy the bonus two videos!
Who goes home, Meg or Julia? Who goes home second, as this is Double Eviction night!
In Retro Big Brother, we are on Season Seven, Episode 18. Getting closer to where I began! We just got our HBO Go account figured out so I doubt we are going to rewatch BB8 like we thought. I have a year’s worth of Last Week with John Oliver to catch up on!
This is Episode 32.
Julie Chen is making a big point of things being back – John from Jury, James from the block and Double Eviction.
I already know that Julia didn’t go home, proving this house is pretty dumb.
Veto Ceremony was Day 75! AusTwins is a weird word to have people keep saying.
At least people were talking about getting Julia out, I guess that’s something.
I do like how Vanessa knows how to talk to Steve. I also like how John’s go to topic to have fake conversations, with Steve, is dinosaurs.
I like how Chenbot reveals the news of the double eviction, but the houseguests just accept it. The days of shock and awe are seasons ago.
Speeches were only okay, mostly shout outs. I do like Julia mentioning Zingbot.
The Votes –
Liz – Meg
James – Julia
Steve – Meg (so that’s who is going home, shoot!)
John – Meg
It is official, Meg is gone
Austin – Meg
Meg takes it pretty well. Julie and Meg’s interview was pretty decent.
HoH Comp. A Quiz, wha!?! True or False questions. Production is trying to keep the first six alive in our memories, which is decent as I can’t remember them, at all. Question One – False, they all got it right. Question Two – False, Steve and James are out. Idiots.
Question Three – True, Austin and John are out. Twins fucking deserve to win this game, the rest of the house are idiots. Going to be disappointing couple of weeks.
Question Four – False, both got it right though Julia changed her mind at the last moment. Question Five – False – both got it right. Question Six – False, both got it right. Question Seven – here we go, True – Liz is HoH! Goodbye James.
Liz nominates . . . James and John, shocker!
Live Veto Comp. Only Vanessa isn’t playing. Each gets two rolls, around a giant boomerang. Steve is first, first ball off the track and the second one, goes the same. Oh Steve. John – first goes off the track, as does the second. Austin – gets a 6 & 9 – 15, is the one to beat. Vanessa has to clear the balls, for some reason. Liz – first is 15 and the second goes off the track. Julia, first is 13 & 4 – 17, she is the new front runner. James, come on! First goes off the track as does the second one. Idiots.
Julia doesn’t use the Veto. James’ speech is pretty much his good bye speech, which does seem to be silly, to force them to make two speeches. John wants her to use the Veto on him.
Speeches. James wants to keep playing, for his daughter. John would also like to stay.
The Votes –
Austin – James
Julia – James
Vanessa – James
It is official, James is out
Steve – James
See, Austin’s Angels are all the votes, with Steve, so the Scamper Squad. John doesn’t stand a chance, sadly. Unless Steve can play it smart. He’s the current HoH, from what I’ve been told.
Julie Chen and James have a decent interview, as well.
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These were the last pictures I were able to find, before I had to stop posting them. I figured that Meg wasn’t going to make it to the end.
Meg really does have a nice body.
Writer Chris Claremont
Artist Todd Nauck
Color Artist Rachelle Rosenberg
Letterer VC’s Travis Lanham
Apparently, since issue nine, Nightcrawler has been fighting the Warwolves, with his allies – Bess, Rico and Ziggy.
Nightcrawler recalls how the Warwolves were one of the constant threats Excalibur dealt with. One of the memories is from the instance where they tried to take over Kitty’s body. The Warwolves main attack is that they kill a human and then they, somehow, put on that person’s skin.
The Warwolves are working for Tullamore Voge, who has captured like a hundred children.
Kurt is fighting with all of his might, this is the final issue of his second ongoing (he has had two miniseries as well) and the stakes are pretty high. Kurt is also movitated as he is tired of losing his friends, as he has lost – Amanda Sefton, Wolverine and Jean Grey. For some odd reason, he is still missing Jean.
Bess tells Rico and Ziggy to run and hide. Rico realizes that they can hide but all of these other children, don’t have that option and they decide to go after Tullamore Voge, as Kurt and Bess can’t do that, as they are busy fighting the Warwolves.
Bess tells Kurt about Rico’s plan. Kurt wishes they could help with that plan but they are barely surviving the fight with the Warwolves.
Kurt tries to get the Warwolves to fight each other, while two of them are slowly draining Bess’ life.
Over with Tullamore Voge, he sends out a goon to fight Rico but he is so mad that he makes short work of the goon. The Bamfs teleport Tullamore Voge into a cell that is in the Blackbird.
Poor Kurt, is out numbered and he knows Bess is losing her fight with the other Warwolves.
We get a flashback to Excalibur Volume Two Issue 2, where Kitty’s powers make it hard for the Warwolves to drain her life and wear her skin like a puppet. Which is such a great scene to have replayed!
This gives the Warwolves pause, and Kurt starts to chain them together. After this, Kurt rushes over to Bess’ limp body and begs for her to come back to him. She comes around and makes out with him.
Kurt and the gang have returned the children, that they could, back to their families. Tullamore Voge and his goons, killed some of the childrens’ family so those orphans are going to live with the X-Men.
I really like the scene with Kurt, Betsy and Rachel, as he catches them up on what has been happening. During the panels, Bess and Kurt had a romantic getaway. She is left him, to pursue finding her former teammates, the Crimson Pirates.
The Issue ends with Kurt, Rico, Ziggy and Rachel are one team and the Bamfs are another team, and all of them enjoy playing a game of baseball. Oh Claremont, I do adore you.
This has been a very fun twelve issues.
Who plays in the Veto? Will the winner use the Veto? If so, who goes up?
In Retro Big Brother, we are on Season 7 Episode 17 – still no Neil Patrick Harris.
If CBS Access is right, this is the 575th episode of Big Brother! I doubt they will do anything on the show to reflect that. Season 18 will get Episode 600, pretty early in their season.
I’m not sure who I will be more upset with leaving, James or Meg. Narrator called them, FriendMance, poor James.
Liz holding Austin’s hand, under the table, is so gross!
Day 72, the Nominations.
Vanessa talking to James, is it how fast she tries to talk, that I find so exhausting?
Meg keeps crying in the Have Not room.
Players for Veto –
Vanessa – Julia
James – Liz
Meg – Austin
Of course, they choose the other side of the house. Of course
Vanessa keeps crying about how successful she has been, with getting people out of the house. If it was me, I would be using that to be making my final speech. The person sitting next to her, is going to have to say that they made lesser moves.
I thought James was doing a Batman impression (I was distracted looking up how many more seasons of Big Brother there will be, one more – guaranteed, in 2016 – Big Brother 18). But my wife told me he was pretending to be Audrey.
I can’t believe this is Episode 31.
Poor James’ daughter, Bailey, gets her drunken origins told on national television. Brianna is the baby mama. She is pretty cute.
John is the Veto Host. Veto is an old school game show. Steve is co-host!
The comp, they have to hide Veto cards and the others will look for them. It doesn’t sound great.
They each then get two minutes to look for the others’ cards. Meg doesn’t find one. Austin doesn’t find one, but wrecks the house, unnecessarily. James doesn’t find one, but also wrecks the house. Who is cleaning this up? For the past few years, Production has done this, where the house gets wrecked. Julia doesn’t find anything. Liz also doesn’t find anything. Vanessa finds the first Veto card!
Round 2. Austin doesn’t find one. Did Meg not go? Liz didn’t find one. James is just messing up the house. Julia finds a Veto card!
Round 3. Liz doesn’t like the house being such a mess, she has OCD. She doesn’t find a card. Meg finds a Veto card! I honestly can’t remember who is finding which cards.
Round 4. Vanessa doesn’t find a second one. Austin doesn’t find one. James tries to cover his card, so his isn’t found. Austin’s isn’t either. James does find another one.
Round 5. Julia doesn’t find one. Austin doesn’t find one. James doesn’t either. Vanessa is close to finding James, in the living room. She did it! So Austin wins Veto.
Vanessa – Eliminates Liz
Julia – Eliminates Vanessa
Meg – Eliminates Julia
James – Eliminates Meg
Vanessa – Eliminates Austin
John hosts while Steve does the physical work
Due to the edit, it looked like she found James’ Veto Card. Will James used the Veto to take off Meg?
Vanessa has to figure out who she can sit next to Meg, as anyone is a bigger threat.
James is gearing up to talk to Vanessa.
Vanessa wants to put up Julia, but AusTwins want John put up.
James tries to talk to Vanessa, but she gets super offended, so quickly. oooof
Veto Meeting. James uses Veto on himself. Vanessa nominates . . . Julia, this could get interesting! The house needs to get Julia out of there! That’s the smartest move there is!
Brian Cronin is doing another fun poll, this time – figuring out who are the Top Ten Characters of 2015, at both Marvel and DC.
Voting stops on September 30th and results starting sometime after NYCC, October 9th or so.
Here are my picks –
Marvel, my favorite
1. Kitty Pryde
2. Lockheed
3. Illyana Rasputin, Magik
4. Nightcrawler
5. Rachel Summers
6. Doug Ramsey, Cypher
7. Ben Reilly, Scarlet Spider
8. Arcade
9. Cyclops
10. Doctor Doom
DC, the other one
1. Chase Cameron
2. Wally West, Flash
3. Kyle Rayner, Green Lantern
4. Batman
5. Zantanna
6. Dinah Lance, Black Canary
7. Oliver Queen, Green Arrow
8. Barbara Gordon
9. Martian Manhunter
10. Lex Luthor
I’m more invested in the Marvel side of the list.
Writer Duane Swierczynski
Penciler Barry Kitson
Inkers Stefano Gaudiano with Barry Kitson
Color Art Brian Reber
Letters Rob Steen
Cover Dated June 2013
Cover Artists Kalman Andrasofszky, Patrick Zircher and Matthew Waite
To start, I don’t have much experience, that I know of, with Valiant. I enjoyed that first trade of Sonar, the Solar Man. So I don’t now Bloodshot and there is a Harbinger Wars banner on the cover but I can’t tell if anything in this issue builds towards that or is dealing with it. Also, and I sort of like this policy, there are no ads in this issue, besides house ads. Apparently, the summer of Valiant is back, so there are a few first issues coming out.
Luckily there is a recap that might cover the previous eleven issues, from the three paragraphs. I’ll try to summarize with what takes place in the issue itself. Project Rising Spirit (PRS) Frankenstein monster-ed Bloodshot into existence, so he can be the perfect weapon. He has a healing factor, due to these nanites, that also give him – strength, speed and control over computers. He has no memory – which is when I start getting the Wolverine vibe, Bloodshot even has artificial memories! His main purpose is to collect psiots – super powered children.
HIs former handler, Kuretich, freed Bloodshot of his programming. The nanites go by the name, Goldie Boy, and Bloodshot made a friend of EMT Kara Murphy. Together, they attacked the facility that created him, and escaped with a group of psiots. They all have been on the run ever since. The Harbinger Foundation founder, Toyo Harada, who is also a telekinetic and telepath – of course – comes after the group. Bloodshot fought Harada (this paragraph is a tad confusing, I imagine it is explaining the past four or five issues), and was badly hurt and his healing factor was maxed out. Luckily, he had a protocol that created a pulse that knocked Harada out and Bloodshot, Murphy and the psiots got away, which is where this issue picks up from.
But first, we have a flashback. Project Rising Spirit Facility. Nevada Desert. Years Ago. Kuretich is saying farewell to Bloodshot, before his programming goes live.
Now. Kuretich is trying to kill Bloodshot, as he wants to use the psiots (a word I seem to not be able to memorize) for his own means. Bloodshot’s limbs have been cut (he is currently missing his left arm and right leg) and his already taxed healing factor is barely functional.
Three Hours Earlier (Revenge style!). Bloodshot wants his revenge! Murphy wants him to abandon that goal and take the psiots to Las Vegas, where they will be safe. The kids are getting hungry.
Quantum and Wood’s first issue is coming out, I heard the series was very funny.
Murphy asks Bloodshot to locate the nearest place for food and he directs them to Gangemi Meat Solutions, which does not thrill the children, at all. Of course, this is all a set up as PRS has caught up to the group.
X-O Manowar issue 15 is coming out. I played a very difficult video game of him and Iron Man together – which I wonder how the copyright on that worked. It just wasn’t any fun.
Bloodshot is inside the meat processing plant and the military is gassing those inside the car, so that they fall asleep. Bloodshot is doing against the military guys but they start cutting deeply into his limbs.
Inside Bloodshot’s Mental Space. Since Goldie Boy is gone, Bloodshot has to manually force the nanonites to perform their tasks.
Bloodshot issue zero is coming out. He also has a Bloodshot and H.A.R.D.Corps issue 14 coming out. He must be a big deal in the Valiant Universe.
Bloodshot gets his nanonites to shut down the power in the center, so the kids are able to break out of the vehicle.
Bloodshot finally regains his senses and kills the soldiers and Kuretich. I like one of the cows going, moo?
Bloodshot kills the militiary guards on the outside and the issue ends with him deciding that the children are more important and will take them to Las Vegas. He also gives them steaks to eat.
Eternal Warrior 1 is coming out, issue 13 of Bloodshot states to bet on Bloodshot.
Letters from Keith Etheridge / Comic Creator Robert Venditti and Andrew from Texas.
Back cover adveritses – Harbinger Wars 4 / Harbinger 14 / Bloodshot 13 / Archer & Armstrong 11 / X-O Manowar 15 and Shadowman 8.
Who officially wins HoH? Vanessa! Which Juror returns? John! Does this Endurance challenge make Big Brother history? Yes! In a good way? No!
In Retro Big Brother, we are on Season Seven, Episode Eight.
I haven’t really missed any of these Jurors.
Julia is out first.
Steve is second
Meg is third, so fast!
James is fourth out
Liz is out fifth, after getting the disc she was standing on, goes up her butt.
The only ones left are Vanessa and the four Jurors.
Did Becky not get a DR session?
Jackie is first Juror out and sixth, over all
Becky is out seventh, she does get a moment in the DR
Shelly is out, eighth and John is officially back!
Who drops next, John or Vanessa?
I forgot that Super Mario Make came out, it is a proper Mario game, but with a gimmick, right? We love Mario games, over here. Well, the proper ones. Parties and Sports, not as much. Oh, well, we do enjoy the Kart games.
Vanessa yells at John, that he is safe but he tries to hold on. Vanessa wants to hear from her girlfriend, Mel. He drops. Vanessa is HoH, they are not telling us the time frame but it was barely ten minutes. We are 14 minutes into the episode, so we essentially saw the whole competition.
I’m so glad that John is back.
John and Steve really are back on good terms. John is also going to start working Vanessa. Vanessa has to get AusTwins out of the house! One of those three are definitely going to win this season.
Before Eviction, Steve and Vanessa made up. Steve says they are the Detonators of the season, which means they are going to implode, soon.
Meg, who is 25, gets to address the Grand Ma nickname. She gets hurt, a lot, in the house.
Vanessa wants to go after Meg and James. She convinces AusTwins that it is okay to not to go for John and Steve, this week.
Austin makes his and Liz’s relationship official. He would like to date her, outside of the house. This won’t last. So now he isn’t dating the other girl anymore. Which is still pretty shitty. Liztin, is their couple name. The worst
To get back as James, Julia is going to prank Austin – as he is an easier target. Now that she has earned experience, she is ready for the Final Boss – James.
Vanessa confronts Meg and James. James volunteers to be a pawn for Meg, which makes her cry. James recalls that he made a deal with Vanessa (prior to Final Seven), but doesn’t go to remind her.
Nominations – Meg and James! So James should have reminded her.
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Big Brother 17 ends on September 23rd, so for my comic reading visitors, the Big Brother posts shall end soon. For my pure Big Brother visitors, I hope you’ve been enjoying the comic reviews and keep coming around.
Thanks to everyone for coming when you do, I really appreciate it!
