This song was what inspired my wanting to put the songs I want to hear on this blog.
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I can’t say that I’m the biggest fan of Neon Trees but Sleeping with a Friend made me start realizing how much the other songs on the radio were lacking. Once this came off of the radio, I really missed it.
Sometimes I still hear it and it brings it all back for me.
I’m a larger fan of the songs when they filmed their music videos while Tyler Green has his blonde (bleach or platinum) hair.
This is from the “Songs I Liked But Can Never Remember the Title” Department –
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I always think of it as that upbeat summer song that has “New Kids on the Block” mentioned in it, which doesn’t narrow it down when you do a search for it.
I keep having this thought about Lost. One of the greatest shows of all time.
It starts with a pretty crazy premise so hang in there.
Let’s say you are teleported into the jungle of Hawaii, which of course, you recognize super easily and instantaneously.
Once you start walking through the trees, you come out onto a beach.
Then you see who you believe is Matthew Fox, and you say “Hey Matthew Fox!”
To your right, Naveen Andrews is charging at you, and you only have a moment before you realize that he is midair about to kick yo face!
So by now, your brain should at least be telling you that you are fighting Sayid and not Naveen.
Somehow you are able to fight him off and knock him out.
Before you get shot by Sawyer, you start regaining your footing and say something like, “Dr. Jack Sheppard, call off your men!”
Which should shock everyone to stillness.
Now, pending on which episode you have stepped into, this could be a lot of fun.
When I think about it, it is usually around the time of season one when Ben Linus has first been “captured” and he is going by Henry Gale.
Okay, the premise is this, what do you do once you are able to communicate with the characters.
Knowing that you have stepped into the show itself. Which means, that everything has happened already up to that point.
Even though you are standing within Season Two, Episode 14, One of Them, Ben’s first episode, for the characters, all of their flashbacks have happen to them, the crazy things that happen in the 1970s has happened. Everything that the creators of Lost has told and shown you that took place prior to the Pilot, has occurred.
Plus, you are a superfan, meaning that you devoured every piece of information Lostpedia has to offer.
Okay, the premise takes a lot of set up and if I were talking to you, it would take like one minute to say all of that above.
What do you do?
First, you have Jack take you to “Henry” and you straight up tell Ben that you know he is Ben and you know all about Hydra Island. You know about the lovely Juliet.
My goal would be to pretend to be Jacob. That’s the buzz word I would use to get Ben to instantly trust me.
Also, I would steer clear of Richard and he has met Jacob and that will ruin everything.
The entire time, I will be working under the impression that I will eventually be teleported back off the island so I just have to survive up to that point.
I will be taking people to the Lighthouse, and other various locations, like the Foot Statue, just having a good ol’ time.
I will probably be better friends to Locke than Jack as Jack wouldn’t care about the Island at all but just wanting to get home.
Which I will tell them about the submarine and give my blessing that everyone may leave if they want to.
I will tell Ben, if he doesn’t believe that I am Jacob, about how he gassed the Dharma Initiative, sparing his father.
I will tell Jack and Claire how they are related.
I will tell Sawyer about how Locke’s father killed his parents.
My goal is that I have to proof that I am who I say I am with all of the information I have at my disposal. So once Ben tells the gang who Jacob is, then the rest falls into place.
You run the risk of everyone punching you in the face though but how could you not be tempted to want to tell people about their connections.
Hopefully I have that awesome “Unanswered Questions” video within a short period before this little adventure began, as I am sure they will ask me questions that I have no idea the answer too.
Thanks to YouTuber Irvin Bursiaga and College Humor for making it.
I suppose I have to stay clear of the Smoke Monster too, as he won’t be happy to know I am impersonating his brother.
Also, I have no idea how to stop the Smoke Monster, hiding in trees doesn’t work every time.
Of course, your presence on the Island, changes the everything about the show but once I am on the Island, I will want to get home and kiss my wife, as she is my Constant, and I am under the impression that is how you get back to where you need to be.
It will be 2004 by then, or 2005, so it is a matter of just knowing where she was during that time, and luckily, that is the year I met her (2004) so I know exactly where she is. Of course, I will be almost 10 years older and be that funny guy she sees at work, so it will take some convincing to get her to kiss me.
That’s a whole another problem, if I even get back to the states!
Luckily Lost has been airing for a little bit, but without Desmond and Penny and the actual “Constant” episode airing, it will be tough to explain the rules of course-correcting via kissing. But ever since that episode has aired, I like to think that is how you get back home, no matter what era you are in. As long as you are in the era where your spouse is currently alive, you can get back home. The problem, of course, is that there will be times where she will be eight and you will be in your 40s and there is no country that will buy the Constant excuse, especially if it doesn’t work and you are the pervert on the playground. That’s why I will only travel through time where my wife is of age. Or have a more reliable mode of transportation to travel through time in, like a TRADIS.
I guess this whole premise is based on the idea, like Quantum Leap, where you are just in a spot for a temporary moment and it is up to you to get yourself out of it.
Boy, Lost is an amazing show! I am a huge fan of the Desmond / Penny relationship and whenever Elizabeth Mitchell is on screen, is a good time.
OH! Will have to definitely enjoy telling Ben about Charles Whitmore and all the information I know about the two of them.
Maybe instead of pretending to be Jacob, I could pretend to be an associate of Whitmore’s, and have decided to strike out on my own. That way, I am not expected to know all the answers, and the Lost crew can trust me as Ben will not trust me at first, thus they probably will. Enemies of enemies, and all that.
Least favorite character? Sun, for sure.
Also, how disappointing was Jacob? That one episode where you see his eye through the cabin key hole? That was legit spooky. Then they went and had Jacob leaving the Island and being witness to the crew’s worst moments, that was a bit too much.
Also, season six, ooof, I wish that was way better. Maybe too much Smoke Monster, Jacob and Richard origins, I feel like that could have been one or two episodes. I liked the sideways timeline. Daniel really came off well. I became a huge fan of James Ford with season five. I swear, you pair Juliet with a male, and that guy becomes instantly likeable and watchable. Then Kate shows up and tries to ruin everything, like Kate does, but luckily, James knew when to quit spending time with that crazy gal! Also, why Jack couldn’t stick with her either for the long haul, why would you care to?
I actually thought production would have made a slew of books on the series and I am surprised they still haven’t. Maybe they are waiting for the tenth anniversary next year or something like that. Or they know that Lostpedia is already the best source and all they can do is print all the pages the website has and make it into a book. Which I have been tempted to do that in the past.
Watching Once Upon a Time in Wonderland has reminded me how much I love Sayid. If only we could get Sayid v. Jack Bauer.
If this was the 80s, there would have been an entire movie based around Naveen Andrews fighting Keither Sutherland.
It would have been done like a classic WWE match where one week, one of them wins and the next week, the other wins, but both times, they were technical wins leading up to the big PPV match.
I didn’t realize he had so many videos until writing this post!
I first saw his Evolution of Disney video and really enjoyed it –
Then YouTube offered that I may enjoy his 90s Disney video
Which I enjoy more and it features Shoshana Bean, who I really enjoy in this video.
After watching the Evolution of Disney, I always feel like relistening to “I’ll Make A Man Out of You” from Mulan –
Thanks to YouTuber XFliiy for hosting the video and todrickhall for hosting his own videos.
Whenever I see Yao, I always think of him as Disney’s Wolverine – but then I can’t think of other Disney characters to match the rest of the X-Men but I would always start with that match. Am I the only one who has that thought? They are both short and hairy, with an attitude, I guess is what cements it for me.
This comic is based on the very excellent show, NTSF : SD : SUV :: which aired on Adult Swim.
Here is the first and last episodes :
First Episode Preview : One Cabeza, Two Cabeza, Three Cabeza . . . Dead!
Final Episode : Wreck the Malls
Thanks to YouTuber AdultSwimEps for hosting these videos. Because of its content, you have to sign in, which I hate, as I can never remember my Google password.
This and Childrens Hospital made for an incredible thirty minute block of entertainment.
If you want more information, here is the Wikipedia page :
Martin Starr AND Karen Gillan, sign me up! And they did! Plus, Kate Mulgrew!
I wasn’t much of a Paul Scheer fan prior to this show, that he created but I have since become a fan.
Onto the issue :
Ten Miles off the Coast of San Diego and 500 Feet below the Surface. The Greek god, Poseidon is woken up when the President of the Navy, steals his pitchfork – he has a pitchfork collection.
I like how they recreate the show’s title sequence in eight panels, that’s pretty cool.
Meanwhile, at NTSF : SD : SUF ::… Someone wonders how the Greek gods could be in San Diego. Kove explains that the Greek gods were the first terrorists. 3,000 years ago, NTSF : Athens :: Chariot :: defeated the gods and buried them in the San Diego ocean as statues as they are not really from Greece, it was a cover up. Kove commands the team gets together and meet her at the NTSF Heli-SUV.
Deep in the Alaskan Wilderness. Alphonse is recreating the scene from Edward Norton’s Incredible Hulk, citing that it has been 65 days since he has had an accident, of his spirit animal coming out.
The Louvre – Paris – Night. Piper is fighting to prevent a guy called, Skull, from – once again – re-animating Hitler and starting World War III.
Burj Khalifa – Dubai – The World’s Tallest Building. Trent, the leader and played by creator Paul Scheer – is retired (yet again) and is now a simple window washer.
Five minutes later. The team is assembled. The five attacking Greek gods are certain locations – Medusa (Wonder World), Prometheus (San Diego Stadium), Cyclops (Gaslamp District), Athena (La Jolla), Hades (San Diego Trolley) and Poseidon (off the coast of San Diego). The team wants to prevent San Diego from becoming a second rate Los Angeles. Each team member is going to a specific location, via the tele-transportationing room. The blonde (I’m not sure who this is suppose to be) wonders why they all of a sudden have all of these fancy pieces of equipment. Almost as if they have an unlimited budget, the benefits of a comic book over a 15 minute show on Adult Swim.
Wonder World. The blonde is wearing glasses that will reverse Medusa’s stone-turning abilities. Instead, she is so unattractive that Medusa willingly turns herself into stone. Looking at the Wikipedia page, is this character is probably the one Rebecca Romijn played?
The Underworld. Hades has took the San Diego Trolley and forcing the last top to be Hell. Alphonse is taking him on, and lets out his spirit animal – The Vole. He is able to throw Cerebrus and Hades into a giant lake of fire.
The Bitley’s. Sam is about to take on Cyclops and he wins by throwing darts into his sole eye.
Scripp’s Park, La Jolla. Athena is confronted by Piper, she tries to come up with a snappy one-liner but instead, just opens fire and takes out Athena.
San Diego Stadium. Trent and Prometheus go at it, he throws a baseball bomb and blows up the fire stealer.
Somewhere near the San Diego Convention Center. This location made me think that this was a San Diego Comic Con exclusive but I’m not sure if it is. The Heli-SUV dumps oil into the ocean and that makes Poseidon turn away. Issue ends with him opening up a portal in the sky and aliens come out – so this is clearly after the Avengers film was released.
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This is another song that I crank up the volume up, whenever it comes on the radio.
Then I wish they would play R Kelly’s Gotham City
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As much as I adore this song, there is just something about it I really like – I have absolutely no clue what city he is referring to. I mean, really, has this song ever align with any version of Gotham City, from comics or film? I guess maybe the 66 show? Or the Brave and the Bold cartoon?
Referring to, as such –
How great is the Mayhem of the Music Meister (episode 1 x 25) of Brave and the Bold? (not sure how long the video will stay up for)
Thanks to YouTuber Batman Full for being brave enough to host it
Here is the Batman 66 theme song, with Batgirl!
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As I’m always looking for ways, and failing, to sneak my love for Jewel onto S&FwM –
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Her “Foolish Games” was featured on the Batman & Robin soundtrack, along with R Kelly’s Gotham City song.
Flaming Lips’ Bad Days is featured when we see the Riddler in Batman Forever –
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Here is the scene where I instantly enjoyed the song –
Thanks to YouTuber Z1DO4U for hosting this clip from the film.
Batman, of course, is involved int eh Ultimate Showdown –
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I know I’ve included this song before but since I want to make this all inclusive –
Batman, Maybe
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This originally aired as part of the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. As much as I love Andy Samberg and Will Ferrel, it is the surprise appearance of JJ Abrams on the keyboard (and getting his own solo) that really captured my imagination.
I really enjoy seeing the comic book films intermixed with the other action films.
Gone in 60 Seconds
Desperado
The Conctractor
Hell Ride
The Rundown
Lucky Number Slevin
Iron Man
From Dusk till Dawn
No Country for Old Men
Man on Fire
Hancock
Shooter
Syriana
RoboCop
The Dark Knight
Con Air
Wolverine Origins
Still no explanation to JJ Abrams being there.
Here are four other Lonely Island Songs that I’ve been having a hard time getting out of my head lately –
I Just Had Sex (featuring Akon)
The “not-having-sex-ways of the past” really does it for me.
I like Jessica Alba and Blake Lively being game for the video too.
Threw It On The Ground
Whenever I accidentally drop something, I try to recoup by claiming I threw it there
Like A Boss, featuring Seth Rogen
Just the way the story just escalates and continues to do so! So much fun!
YOLO (featuring Adam Levine AND Kendrick Lamar)
That sound advice from Kendrick Lamar, makes this my favorite song of his – and I doubt any proper song of his will ever change my opinion of that. It all makes sense too.
I’m not sure about you but there are certain songs that I hear and then I instantly want to hear another song right after words. Back when we use to record music off of the radio or made mix tapes off of CDs, I started many of them with these two songs.
Tia Carrere’s I Never Even Told You from the Batman : Mask of the Phantasm soundtrack.
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Ronan Keating’s If I Don’t Tell You Now from the Boys and Girls Soundtrack.
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The songs share a theme and not just the song titles and that they are both from soundtracks. I am a bit of a Freddie Prinze Jr. fan (in that I’m a huge Freddie Prinze Jr. fan). It is a real shame that he doesn’t act more.
A third song that I would put with these two would be
J.C. Loader‘s The Jealous One from the Thomas Jane Punisher soundtrack. I was really into soundtracks at one point, and this one is from the score soundtrack. I own this score and the score of the first X-Men film.
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Do three songs make it no longer a combo? Or do I have to call it a three song combo? I’m not sure what the rule is with that.
I was looking for a version of the Keating song that had the Soundtrack picture but I couldn’t find one.
Hopefully this set of songs, set may be the word I was looking for, doesn’t reveal too much about me circa 2000.
. . .
I was hoping starting this post that the other combo songs I use to love would come to me but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. It will come to me eventually. Hopefully
I want to say it was a song by Aqua but I can’t think of any of their songs that lends itself to another song being linked with as I’m a huge fan of Aqua as well. And yes, Barbie Girl, is a cross that I have to bear as it has to be their worst song.
The Punisher soundtrack does remind me of that awesome moment in the film, when we get to see Mark Collie’s In Time –
Thanks to warszawioch for hosting the clip from the film.
The final image of this post shows the details better but I noticed this on one of my rereads of the issue. There are two fun costume decisions that were made for this issue. I’m not sure if Baldeon gets the credit or if it was already determined when he got there.
The first one is something that hopefully got attention at the time. Rogue’s shirt can be zipped all the way up to their throat. That’s pretty impressive as that isn’t how most of her shirts fit her.
The second is that she has the same style of boots as Magik does. There must have been a sale or something!
As much as I like Rogue’s look at this time, that does seem to be a lot of Xs. Is it a good idea to have an X right on your chest? It seems too much like a perfect bullseye. At the time, Rogue only had her absorption power, and whichever power she obtained at the time. So she isn’t nigh-invulnerable like she spent most of her superhero career. Then she has Xs on her shoulder pads and on her belt. I also like her scarf.
Inside front cover is for that Amazing Spider-Man game that I still want to play.
Onto the issue itself :
China. This is during the time when Magik has one fifth of the Phoenix Force. Which was such an awesome moment! She is looking over Iceman and Rogue’s progress. I like the attention to detail to the Phoenix Five’s global plan. One can’t just quickly change the agriculture as it will just collapse under itself. So using Iceman’s ice powers, the ice will gradually melt and not be a shock to the landscape’s system. A very clever plan.
I really do like Baldeon’s art here and Reber’s coloring makes the comic soar as well.
Rogue is happy that the X-Men, together, are making these world changes.
I really like Magik in this issue. Sure the Phoenix brought out some of her inner demons and dark side but she is amazingly blunt and honest. She was confident before but now she has a cosmic fire bird on her side. Her comment about how the X-Men could accomplish more once they are no longer being hunted is spot on.
I like Magik making sure Rogue is doing okay. Thanks to her powers, they can essentially have the same X-Man in two places but Magik worries that it may be taxing Rogue. Rogue can handle it.
You Can tell that those are the same boots there, with that extra flap material at the top.
Iceman calling Magik, boss, makes me smile. She makes a big point about how she isn’t his boss but they are all united and equal. Though, if she was being brutally honest, she is his superior in almost every way. But she does make the point that she has had to tell him a hundred times to stop calling her, boss. So I imagine it does get old after a while. But that’s Iceman for you.
Rogue is on her way to New Orleans and borrows some of Iceman’s powers. He’s far too happy to help as Mardis Gras saved him during his students days, when he was hoping to be an accountant when he grew older.
Then there are a bunch of pages until Magik shows up again.
I like that Rogue is greeted kindly by soldiers. She just froze the large lake that was causing the issue. One of them recognizes a Mississippi accent and she tells him she is from Caldecott County. The solider likes having a local hero helping out even more. So much so, in fact, that he offers her the rest of his catfish lunch. Which is pretty awesome of him to offer and for her to accept.
I adore the page of her just eating the catfish. She really likes it, plus, it must be nice to just relax for once. It doesn’t last long as that same solider, now that he has done something nice for her, informs her that there is a distress call.
Rogue agrees to investigate and creates an ice slide and gets out of there. Turns out it is a flatscan dirty trick and Carol Danvers, as Ms. Marvel, is there to talk to Rogue. Of course, if you once stole a person’s memories and powers, you don’t really anticipate that person just showing up to talk and Rogue punches her in the mouth. To the mouth? I’m not sure.
What follows is a pretty awesome sequence of the two women, with so much baggage, just talking. Sure, they are fighting as well but that’s just because Rogue didn’t listen to Carol at first. Rogue realizes that she is no match against Carol as Iceman’s powers are not so good – or at least, she isn’t experience with them. She gets the idea, as horrible as it is, to just take Carol’s powers – which is pretty mess up. Carol loses her mind for a moment, and starts shouting, how could you do that to me? Which she is completely in the right about. Rogue ruin both of their lives with that and that must have brought so many memories (or lack of memories) to poor Carol. Now that she is Captain Marvel, but not at this point in publication, I feel weird typing Ms. Marvel. I prefer Warbird but she, herself, has distance herself from that codename.
It isn’t until Carol starts using her energy blasts from her hands that I have the thought of why didn’t Rogue get that power? Did Carol only get that power once she was made into Binary by the Brood? My only real experience with her is with her time in Busiek’s awesome Avengers run and then reading the back issue appearances of her time with the X-Men – which was also spectacular. That must be the reason. I just so associate Carol with hand blasting that I never thought about why Rogue didn’t get that power. That must be the reason though, its post-Binary. Ooof, Carol has had a few codenames over the years. People don’t seem to make fun of her for it like they do Kitty Pryde.
There is this great exchange when Rogue mentions that the X-Men have done more for the world’s actual good than the Avengers have ever even tried. Carol rebuts this with how the changes are too fast and too sudden, they have not been earned. Reminds me of Captain America and Superman’s exchanges in JLAvengers – where Cap thought Superman and his universe, did too much for humanity, whereas Captain America thought that the heroes place was just protecting it from harm.
Carol makes a reference to the incredible, It’s a Good Life, episode of Twilight Zone. Which has a decent sequel in “It’s Still a Good Life” when they brought the Twilight Zone back in 2003.
Rogue states that if the Phoenix Five go bad, the X-Men will stop them, which is exactly what they try to do in AvX 11.
The fight ends when Rogue throws Carol into a body of water and keeps freezing it as Carol tries to break free of it. Once she does, she’s exhausted. Then they get a visitor.
Magik has arrived to take Carol as their newest prisoner. Carol comments on how Magik had a dark soul prior to becoming all powerful. As if flattery would get her far.
Carol states that Illyana is her choice for going crazy first (she isn’t). With this, Illyana slaps tape over Carol’s mouth to silence her.
Rogue starts asking if it is a good idea to put all of the Avengers into one prison. The X-Brig won’t be able to house too many Avengers.
Magik tells her that she has made a prison that will hold anyone. Rogue starts to question how she could build a prison when Magik cuts her off. Illyana moved a piece of Limbo into this realm and that is what they are using as a prison. Limbo on Earth sounds scary.
Illyana makes a chilling reference to how Limbo isn’t easy to escape, which is such a sad reminder of Magik’s origins.
Verkhoyansk Mountains, Russia. I adore Magik’s line, of her trying to assure Rogue that she shouldn’t look so worried, the prison is quite secured. It took me until my second read through to realize that Rogue’s worried expression comes from having a piece of Limbo in the Russian Mountain side. Like, this is how far the Phoenix Five are willing to go to not be stopped. If only that was as far as they were willing to go as Namor will later prove, they are willing to go much farther.
See from that angle how much Rogue and Magik’s boots are the same?
Look how frightening Carol’s new prison cell is! No wonder Rogue will spend the next issue or so trying to bust Carol out of there. We’ll get to those eventually.
This is the only issue of the storyline I own, so any questions we have or what happens next, is beyond me.
The X-Men are – Storm, Psylocke, Pixie, Colossus and Domino
So this is the series where Colossus and Domino first meet. There is no sexual tension that I can see. That must come later in Cable and X-Force.
Previously, the team has been chasing monsters across the globe. Once they confront one of the monsters, they die. Colossus punched one in the head and Domino shot another one. Storm hasn’t been informing Cyclops about anything that is going on with the team. This has been annoying Colossus. Storm is concern with what Cyclops will do with the information. Storm got a human researcher involved. The monsters are really proto-mutants. In Quebec City, a giant proto-mutant has been located. With each step, he grows!
Onto the issue :
Quebec City, Canada. Storm has created a giant thunderstorm so people stay in their homes. The news reports that it is an isolated storm. Which is odd, as by now, with how long Storm has been around – wouldn’t people just assume Storm is the reason for any odd or freak weather conditions? Is that racist?
We get two pages of how Storm is maintaining no one being outside. Then Psylocke sees the giant man. Turn the page, the man is human sized and wearing an X-Men shirt (do they just keep a hundred on board the X-Jet?) and surrounded by the rest of the X-Men. That is resolving the problem post haste!
Which, and I’ve notice this about myself with television shows and movies, I don’t really need to see or hear certain conversations or see a big fight scene. If the next scene is a quick recap of what happened, I’m okay with getting to the events that matter.
Psylocke is on Storm’s side that they should know all of the information before involving Cyclops.
X-Jet, over the mid-Atlantic. Colossus admits that he isn’t very good at medical duties, he only has field training. Which harkens me back to the good ol’ days when Nightcrawler was the resident healer. Maybe Colossus picked up a thing or two from Kurt.
The X-Jet is pretty large as they have a room for the proto-mutant and an office for Storm to sit. She tells Pixie to speak and keep the stranger calm. Colossus and Storm go to her office.
Now this scene, would probably benefits the longer readers but I get the jist of it. Colossus really wants to inform Cyclops with what is happening. Storm doesn’t and she is being super vague about her reasons. Which doesn’t really help the tension between the two. What really doesn’t help? That Storm threatens to have Pixie teleport Colossus over 500 feet above Utopia. Which seems highly unnecessary.
I really like the visual of the massive Colossus standing tall and with his arms crossed and Storm sitting in her chair, he’s trying to physically intimidate her but she’s Storm and isn’t even bothered by him as he’s Colossus – the worst X-Man.
Before Colossus can respond to that horrible threat (did Storm really just say that?) that research student, Ms. Hunter, is called via Storm’s computer. Hunter reveals that their camp site was ruined and their hard drives were stolen.
Storm asks where Hunter is and she tells her she is in an Internet cafe. This sends Colossus into a rage and he can’t believe she is calling them from an unsecured site. As if the X-Men couldn’t defend themselves. But I guess it is nice that Colossus knows enough about the modern world, to be worried about someone tracing them. Though they are in a plane, so I imagine that tracking them wouldn’t be that easy.
Once that call is over, Colossus tells Storm that if she threatens him again, that he will be a bigger problem to Storm than whatever she thinks Cyclops will do. Why does Storm want to keep Colossus on the team? To smash stuff? Psylocke can do that and Pixie can teleport them beyond any walls. He really isn’t necessary at all, except that he is the sole male on the team, thus, he is holding the team back. Domino can destroy walls as well. Maybe Cyclops made Storm keep Colossus on the team and she was able to choose anyone else?
Pixie enters the room, informs the two of them that the proto-mutant only speaks Russian. I guess Xavier quit inserting languages into students’ heads prior to her joining the school. Probably something to do about students at a school and learning, or some silly thing like that.
Colossus is thrilled to hear the guy speaks Russian but wants his sister to be brought to the plane. The man speaks an old fashion dialect of Russian, it is very rural. For some reason, Illyana should be able to decipher it? Maybe because she spent more time in Russia than he did? He’s been too Americanized? Or he wasn’t very smart at learning? There are many reasons. I wonder, once Magik gets there, if Storm wondered if she could swap the Rasputin siblings. Though then she wouldn’t need Pixie around as much. Except to teleport at greater distances.
Pixie still isn’t comfortable around Magik, as she hesitates before retrieving her. Magik took a piece of her soul (hence why she can do magic now) but did give it back. But it was a pretty traumatic experience.
Later.
Magik has been able to speak to the proto-mutant, whose name is Ister. He is roughly 665 years old. He is most likely 666 years old but doesn’t want to be viewed as relating to the devil.
His story reminds me of One Tin Soldier song by
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Such a great song! It is one of the songs my wife knows every word of so she sings it a bit around the house.
Pixie wonders how Ister has all of these memories. Colossus is somehow the brains of the team, and he explains that it must be Ister’s power.
These poor proto-mutants are victims of genocide.
In a nice artist choice, Psylocke is present via her telepathic powers.
Thanks to my pal from over at the X-Books forum, MarvelMaster616, and his great blog – for having the Magik pages! That was pretty handy!
I like how quickly Magik comes to the instant conclusion that they have to call Cyclops and figure out how to save the proto-mutants. Storm doesn’t want to do that, just yet.
In an odd choice, Magik has the idea that she should go back in time and save them. Storm doesn’t want that as it could change the present too much. It is odd because why Magik doesn’t always have this plan. Especially now that she has a better grasp of her powers.
Also, nice to see Magik in her New Mutants uniform. Makes me appreciate her current uniform more. She wore that uniform far too long. Just like her dear friend, Kitty.
Colossus told his sister earlier about the conflict between Storm and Cyclops.
In the cockpit, Psylocke and Storm talk. Psylocke is concern about the tension of the team. Storm relieves Psylocke so she can get some rest.
Storm wonders about where Ister came from. Just then, she gets a vision of the mad scientist who is experimenting on the proto-mutants. Of course, he is harassing Ister’s sister. He tells her that he is about to kill her brother.
Storm wakes from the horrible vision.
There is an ad for New Mutants Volume Three issues 47 and 48, the covers combine to make a larger image. I own issue 47.
Colossus tells Storm that Pixie has returned Magik to Utopia. Magik isn’t afraid of Storm, why would she be?, so she will probably tell Cyclops what is up.
Psylocke also had a vision.
Pixie has Cyclops on the phone, Storm tells her to take a message.
Ister’s head starts losing blood from every orifice. He is dying.
Storm tells Psylocke to download his memories, something I’m surprised doesn’t happen more often.
Ister sadly dies but Psylocke was successful. She also knows the scientist’s name and location. David Michael Gray is his name.
As I have never heard of him nor the proto-mutants, I imagine they all die and the X-Men fail but learn an important lession. Or Gray dies and the proto-mutants find a small piece of land to claim as their own, that isn’t on Utopia.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 