Some new and surprising footage is put in this final trailer.
Always nice to see the Graymalkin Lane sign, it feels like a Singer film.
Xavier having a school and students, he’s coming along nicely.
That desert island local looks pretty nice. Magneto’s new costume isn’t too bad either.
Xavier really thought he was going to have a fist fight with Apocalypse? That must be on the astral plane, right?
I like the hints of a school uniform, with the black suits and white collars. I would like more color but that’s not going to happen.
Mutant Arena, there’s a fun way to sneak a bunch of mutants into a scene. Angel v Nightcrawler, reminds me of Ultimate X-Man, still the only place those two characters worked together for a long time.
Quicksilver knows that Magneto is his father, something that was strongly hinted at in Days of Future Past, but I like the confirmation. Mystique is caught by surprise.
Angel gets metal wings!
Beast v Psylocke, has to be a fast fight. Was that a purple telekentic flare up on her sword? So terrific!
Jubilee! She’s suppose to have a few scenes in this, but that’s the first time I really saw her in one of these.
At the two minute mark, it looks like they are trying to give Blue Mystique a white dress type outfit, I like that direction. See it again at the 2:10 mark.
Looks like we get a full blue body glimpse of Mystique, not sure why that is necessary.
2:27 mark, that answers that main question I’ve been having! We got to get a little Wolverine and Cyclops fun in there.
I read that the ideal sequel will deal with the Dark Phoenix Saga, which if they can work Lockheed and Kitty back into this, that would be awesome but I imagine they want to do a 90s film next. Plus, anything that keeps correcting the mistake of X3 (besides the excellent casting of Ellen Page) I’m all for it.
Now, this is the only other issue of Age of Apocalypse, besides the final issue – Omega. This issue was pretty confusing but maybe I’ll be able to follow this one better.
The issue opens with the Madri torturing Bishop, as he may ruin all of Apocalypse’s schemes. Shadow King was able to see Bishop’s memories of the proper timeline. Bishop has been tortured for two days now. Does Bishop ever comment on his memories of this timeline? I imagine he could work it into many conversations. But he also doesn’t talk about his childhood of the future either.
Storm drops from the sky, here to save Bishop. With a gust wind, the Madri are thrown back. This gives Storm the time she needs to use her lockpicks to unlock Bishop. Bishop is surprised to see them and Storm asks if his Storm doesn’t have these skills and works in how she was an orphan in this timeline.
Storm hints that her fellow X-Men, Quicksilver and Banshee are outside. They are trying to find the source of the Madri’s power. Banshee lets out a hypersonic signal that knocks out the first guard. Banshee states that all the cats and dogs in the ten mile area are losing their minds. With the opening of a door, they see that the Madri really are . . . .Jamie Madrox! Who is a bit insane, at first, I thought he was Jamie Braddock. Their mission is to kill him but he looks insane, due to spreading himself so thin.
The Remains of the Xavier Estate. We find the Astonishing X-Men (so I’m not sure besides the above three, who makes up the Amazing roster). The Astonishing X-Men are Sabretooth, Blink and Morph (both of whom I know from Exiles), Wild Child and Rogue.
Iceman told them, so I guess he’s part of Amazing?, that Bishop and Magneto were captured. Rogue is worried that both her husband and son are in danger. Apocalypse had personally been there to oversee the mission.
Sabretooth sniffs all three Rasputins. Sabretooth just says, a child, so Rogue thinks it may be her son – Charles. Colossus pipes up that the child is his sister. They were successful with their mission. Colossus hints at the horrible price as Shadowcat stands at a distance, not pleased.
Rogue is sad to hear about the deaths of Generation Next. No hint that Colossus allowed them to all to die, so that his sister may live. Blink is shock, as she should have been on that team. Which is the opposite of what happened to her in the Proper Marvel Universe, where the Pre-Generation X team (with Jubilee) was on a fateful first mission and Blink had died during.
Rogue goes to comfort Shadowcat , who I do like how she goes by Kate in this timeline. She didn’t have the proper childhood that allowed a silly pet name, like Kitty. Kate tells Rogue that she has no tears left to cry. Kate also says that the estate was empty when they arrived. Exodus and Dazzler (possible other Amazing cast members?) are in the tunnels looking for Charles.
Kate further tells the team that Quicksilver went to Quebec. Rogue tells Sabretooth that he is with her.
Rogue, Sabretooth and Wild Child are now in the Tunnels, I can only imagine these are the Morlock Tunnels. They come across Dazzler and Exodus. With them are Gambit and Jubilee, I believe. Gambit knows where Charles is.
Rogue is punching Gambit (which is a fun sight) as he had to let Charles go.
Quebec. Storm and Bishop are quickly losing ground, they need support.
Elsewhere. Quicksilver and Banshee don’t know what to do; meanwhile, Madrox is begging them to kill him. Once he is dead, the Madri will fade away. Quicksilver is conflicted but Banshee is all for killing him, as it is war time. Before they can make a decision, Abyss arrives to taunt them. Quicksilver has defeated Abyss before. Abyss doesn’t allow that to phase him, as he jokes that Bishop and the woman that Quicksilver loves (Storm) are in dire straits. I guess it is a secret that he has feelings for her as Quicksilver is surprised Abyss knows that.
Abyss calls Banshee a coward and this unleashes Banshee, I really dig his costume redesign, he should wear that outfit again. Banshee tells Quicksilver to grab Madrox and save Bishop & Storm. Banshee is willing to die, if he takes Abyss with him. Banshee enters Abyss’ body and causes him to explode from within. This reminds me of how you defeat Abyss in X-Men Legends II.
Thanks to YouTuber ShadowMokujin for hosting this video.
Quicksilver makes it out, but he is sad as a man he thought of as a brother, has just died like the hero that he is. Madrox still wants to be killed. If Madrox dies, Storm & Bishop will no longer be in danger. Storm is loved and Bishop is needed so Madrox allows himself to die – though I’m not sure how.
Minutes Later. Storm cries over the deaths, more sacrifices being made to stop Apocalypse. Quicksilver hugs and comforts her.
Xavier Estate. Gambit has confessed that Strong Man took Charles. Guido took him, as he was the best chance of Charles escaping peacefully. So “took” isn’t the right word. From Rogue’s reaction, I take it he isn’t an ally so it must still be a bad decision.
I like how this issue is the pay off of both Generation Next and X-Calibre, as we learn that Generation Next was successful in their mission of saving Illyana and we learn that X-Calibre (Kurt’s team) was successful in saving Destiny. I doubt Gambit’s series (X-Ternals) was about saving Charles but maybe it was but it doesn’t feel like a conclusion.
A ship lands and Quicksilver, Storm and Bishop come out. I like seeing Rogue and Quicksilver having a moment.
Sabretooth states that Gambit was the only one who failed their mission.
Issue ends with Quicksilver stating what they have to do. Get the piece of the M’Kraan Crystal (that Gambit failed to do) and save his father and brother (took me a second to realize he’s talking about Charles).
This will all conclude in X-Men Omega, that we will get to but we have one more stop to make.
Thanks to YouTube Kids’ WB for hosting this video.
Also thanks to commenter, Daniel Gonçalves de Amorim, for the suggestion!
The episode that introduces Dani Moonstar and has her become friends with Kitty!
I sold my collection of X-Men Evolution to Hastings, as it was getting cluttered on our bookcase. I’m hoping one day they will put out a Complete Series and I’ll snatch that up. Though, the only time I think they could swing it, is when X-Men Apocalypse comes out, as season four was the only season to not be released and Apocalypse is all over that season.
Episode opens with Wolverine on a motorcycle. Sam and Logan partner up. Other students are there too. They are all trying to enjoy the desert, before it sinks into the reservoir.
I don’t quite remember this episode, maybe I only saw the fourth season once.
Kitty and Rogue are a pair, and Kitty goes off a beating path. Way off, as she falls off a cliff, along with her kart. I did like the friendship Rogue and Kitty had, on this show. The show really did do a good job of putting pairs together, we knew how all the students got along with each other.
The kart crashes and Kitty saves herself, she can do a pullup.
Wolverine knows someone had an accident. Kitty is all by herself, until Dani Moonstar saves her. My favorite X-Man with my third favorite New Mutant! Dani is cool with Kitty being a mutant, as she is a mutant. Dani believes Kitty has a better power than her own. Wolverine and Rogue arrive. Wolverine isn’t happy that Rogue left her partner behind.
Xavier is meeting with Dani. Rogue apologizes to Kitty, they get over it, as they are friends.
I like the new outfits the students got. Xavier introduces Danielle as a new student, Kitty is excited and shows her Kitty’s room. Xavier and Wolverine talk about Dani, she has a form of telepathic powers but she is a troubled young lady.
In a Danger Room session, Jean tells the students the goal. Iceman, Sunspot and Sam are on squad. Dani is with them. Kurt is part of the ‘surprises’ that the younger students have to work against. Dani loses her focus and starts forcing people to see their nightmares.
Jean floats away, Kurt is in hell and Kitty keeps phasing through the ground.
Dani is freaked out, along with everyone else but they are cool. Well, the faculty have a chat with her and Kitty takes Dani’s side.
Is Dani being angry and distrusting racist? Dani has a nightmare so she forces others to suffer their own nightmares. Wolverine is tied up again, Storm has her room crashing on top of her. Xavier wakes up to the Sentinels coming for his kids.
Xavier wakes up Kitty, and has a chat with her along with Storm and Wolverine. Like a good friend, Kitty defends Dani. When Kitty wakes up, Dani is gone. Not only gone but completely moved out.
So weird that they keep calling her, Danielle. Kitty confronts Xavier, and no one has heard of this Danielle before. The world believes she never existed. Xavier tells Kitty that she’s been sleeping since her accident.
In Kitty’s dream, Dani reaches out to her. There is water everywhere. Kitty gets a phone call from Dani, it is dark (and most likely, wet) where she is. Kitty gets Kurt to help her. It doesn’t take Kitty long to suspect that Xavier mindwiped everyone.
Wolverine and Sam get time to do another race, they want to see who the winner is. The students are creating obstacles. Sunspot throws some boulders. Magma creates a lava pit.
Kurt and Kitty get to Dark Hollow, and they find a deserted town, which Dani hinted that everyone left her, in the past. Kitty answers a phone call from Dani, Kurt freaks out as there was no ringing phone.
In a phone book, they find the Moonstar’s address on Maggie Blue Road – who is the excellent voice actress for Kitty! That’s pretty fun! I didn’t even need to look that up, for this post, I only had to look up which episode number this was. It is also the 50th episode of the series.
Dani’s grandfather tells Kurt and Kitty that everyone left, two years ago.
Cannonball loses the race.
Kitty and Kurt go back to where Kitty first fell and Kitty knows that Dani must be nearby. Kurt teleports to tell reinforcements.
Kitty phases through the ground until she finds a cavern. Poor Dani has been down there for two years! That’s a very long time! Too long! Danielle is close to death! How she isn’t dead, is beyond me. They should have just said she was down there for two months or something. Two yaers is so many days!
Kurt can’t teleport to where he hasn’t seen before. Iceman freezes the reservoir. What has Dani been eating for two years? Magma burns a path, as the water keeps rising. Kurt teleports down and saves the ladies.
Kitty got to wear four outfits this episode! That has to be a record.
Xavier explains to Kurt and Wolverine that Dani put herself into a sort of hibernation. So that explains that, but not really. Her powers made it possible for her to reach out to Kitty.
A neat little episode, this twenty minutes went by way fast!
The next two episodes are Ascension, Parts One and Two, also the final two episodes. I hadn’t realized that the fourth season was only eight episodes. Which would have been only two DVDs, I wonder why they didn’t just release it?
I really like Sabino’s commitment to making their speech balloons are upside down, along with them. AoA Shadowcat and Peter Quill are blaming each other, for their present situation.
Gambit corrects them, they are both to blame. Gambit, correctly, assumes that Quill is Pryde’s sidekick. He denies, this, though he is willing to be Thor’s sidekick.
Gambit likes to remind Pryde of their time together in Higher Avalon. I like how he wants to put a Spider-Man mask, on her. They make references to the other domains, as they are in the know.
There is a huge KLANG and Gambit goes to investigate.
Shadowcat explains why she is powerless against Widget. When God Doom created Battleworld, he knew he would be having duplicated heroes. I guess he also figured they would eventfully meet and wanted to make sure that any fights, will have to be bad arse.
Look at those various Shadowcats! A teenage one, maybe from House of M. Ultimate Shadowcat. Black Queen, from Mutant X – so great! AoA Shadowcat, in the center, as she is the star of this series. Widget, from the Proper Marvel Universe or that one from the Uncanny X-Force storyline when they went to the Captain Britain Corps (Otherworld). issues 20 – 23. Proper Kitty Pryde, from the costume and the awesome Lockheed! Finally, there is a Tigra Shadowcat, which is pretty fun.
Quill gets a plan, since Widget is a Kitty Pryde, it should be attracted to him – so he starts a flirtmance.
He sings, as he always does, Once Upon A Dream – from Cinderella.
Thanks to YouTuber DisneyMusicVEVO for hosting the video.
It totally works and Widget and Quill kiss!
Gambit comes back, he couldn’t find anything except for a tacky white jacket.
Since it worked, Widget has let StarKat go. Shadowcat tries to stab Gambit, we are told more about the actual mission in Avalon. Gambit stole the Sword of the Knight Crawler (get it?) so that must be how he screwed her over. The knife she tried to use, was one of the Longshot knives so it bounces off of Gambit. It bounces from Gambit, off of Shadowcat, off the head of a statue of God Doom, nearly misses Widget and it slices Quill’s right arm.
What a fun and soft homage to Uncanny X-Men 141. At first, I didn’t think it was suppose to be that, but the posters of God Doom and Shadowcat’s outstretch arm, seals the deal.
God Doom appears and scares Gambit. I keep typing it “Gabmit” does anyone else do that?
With a nasty upper cut, Gambit is taken out. Shadowcat starts trying to explain the situation. I take it, that she deals more with Valeria, his daughter.
God Doom was really Fun Loving Drax, which I’m sure must be super illegal!
Later. Quill and Drax want to know what has been in the briefcase, this entire time. She reveals what it is . . . A tail! Quill instantly recognizes that it is his old pal, Rocket’s tail! Apparently, there is a rumor that Rocket’s tail is fake, if that makes any sense.
Twenty minutes later, Quill is still hugging the tail. Drax reveals that he left Gambit in front of a defaced God Doom poster, Doom Sux. The Thors arrive, the penalty for defiling the image of God Doom, with a typo, is . . . DEATH! I sort of love the concept of that rule book, with that cause in it.
Shadowcat wants the tail back. Quill, in a very touching moment, doesn’t want to depart with it. It is the only piece of home he has, plus of his friend, that he has seen in forever. Shadowcat can relate, as she isn’t home either. Quill tries to hand it over, but she lets him keep it.
Look how happy he is! This comic (and series) has been so great. Quill proceeds to try to ruin the moment.
Pryde can’t resist anymore, all of that disgust has turn around to attraction. He guesses at what it was, that turn her.
It was his puppy dog eyes. She does love that song, good thing Disney films are everywhere. Pryde leaves, stating that she hopes he doesn’t get himself killed.
Drax hears Quill’s real name, as he was using “Steve Rogers” as an alias. Drax knew he wasn’t a variant of Captain America, as Rogers has never had a singing voice.
Issue ends with the two guys joking, Quill wants an army of Rockets.
This has been one of the best series to come out of Secret Wars 2015. From the writing, to the art, to the coloring, the atmosphere has just been pure fun.
art by jhirarcfuker
(maybe? He’s hosting the image on Rebloggy and I like to credit original art when I can)
So this scenario came to me the other day.
So let’s say there is a enemy who is taking hostages and Cyclops is the only guy around. He starts optic blasting foes and takes care of business – as Scott Summers do.
Then afterwards – when he is walking back to the Blackbird – he starts walking pass the civilians he just saved. Someone gets bold enough to shout at him, good job with the heat vision!
This, of course, makes Cyclops sad as his powers are not heat generated. It is more of a force. Also, it will remind him of Uncanny X-Men 391 – the awesome issue where Corsair and Scott go camping and poor Christopher Summers makes the huge mistake of asking his adult son, to start the camp fire with his eyes. Scott had to explain to his father, how his powers works. It is a great issue and that is essentially my review of it as it doesn’t have Kitty, Lockheed nor Illyana so this is the only time I can do the review.
I couldn’t find a perfect screencap of it but this website has it in a funny way :
I will always remember the issue number as it is the very next issue after Uncanny X-Men 390, the issue Colossus died in. So two great issues, back to back. Scott Lobdell was on all cylinders!
So, Cyclops is still walking away from that guy, maybe he is making a sad face or a grimace – or even a brave face. He will get through this.
Next – some other guy recognizes him as Cyclops of the X-Men and shouts at him – Hey! Do you know Wolverine, that guy is cool! Then adds insult to injury by doing the claws stabbing the air thing that I’ve seen so many people do. Trying to imitate Wolverine.
Cyclops doesn’t respond to this jerk either, but by now, he must be having Joe Harnell’s Lonely Man theme from the Incredible Hulk television series, playing in his mind.
Thanks to YouTuber Gustavo for hosting the video.
Such an amazing song! I will often think about hitch hiking, also, when I think of this song.
So Cyclops is just putting on a brave face, hoping to stop hearing about heat visions and Wolverine being cool, having sad songs playing in his head.
Instead of all that, he should be having :
Cyclops, Just Blast a Dude from Uncanny X-Cast 50, playing in his head. Sung / rap by Brian Perillo. Based off of Young MC’s Bust a Move.
A song that I wake up to every morning. Rob Briscoe’s Muties, We were Born to Run
is another favorite. Of course, taken from Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run.
I just checked this post in preview and it looked like those two links didn’t work so here is the Uncanny X-Cast dropbox link.
Now that I think of it, I guess this scenario only works in a universe where a guy with heat vision is super popular to create the assumption. Do many people have heat vision in the Marvel Universe? I suppose Vision does. Gladiator does too but I can’t imagine many on Marvel Earth know who that is – even though he is the King of the Shi’ar. Hyperion would to, but again, not many would know about the Squadron Squadron. I can’t think of a fourth person and Gladiator and Hyperion are just Superman versions in the Marvel Universe – I’m sure there has been various other carbon copies floating about.
Marvel Knights Spider-Man Volume One 13 through 18, the Wild Blue Yonder, had Spider-Man meeting a new superhero who turn out to be a Skrull, that guy had heat vision if I remember correctly. Virtue, was the character name.
Thanks to 20th Century Fox for hosting this video.
After the Super Bowl ad, we got an official two and a half minute trailer.
I really like Magneto and Xavier repeating the conversation their future selves will have in X2, about people coming for Xavier’s students.
Is it me or is Apocalypse a darker shade of blue? Now he looks less like the Power Rangers’ Ivan Ooze – which is a step in the right direction.
I like when they are talking about the Four Horsemen, they show Angel with Psylocke clearly in the background, then cut to her in the foreground. Maybe unnecessary but I’m cool with more Olivia Munn footage.
No wonder people hate and fear mutants, this looks like destruction on a global level.
Quicksilver playing Ms. Pac-Man is awesome, as I love Ms. Pac-Man.
I’m fine with Jennifer Lawrence not being blue for the majority of the time. Maybe it is because I totally get it from a production side, if you still have Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence contracted for your film, you put her in the film as much as possible, looking like her recognizable self. Plus, we still get the blue skin with red hair look from time to time. Plus, I also understand that she doesn’t want to be in that makeup all of the time. If they just went with the classic comic book look, it would have just been a red hair dye and blue face and hands makeup job which would have been faster and easier to do.
I also like how much the students are involved in this film, I want a whole lot of Scott and Jean, or at least, Scott in this film.
Psylocke v Beast, looks decent.
I do, still, wish that Iceman could be in this, just for the sake of having all five original X-Men in a film again.
Cyclops v Storm, should also be pretty great!
I’m pretty jazzed for this film! If we could get a babysitter and can afford the movie tickets, I would love to see this in the theater.
So I got tired of how much Walker Dennis was watching BabyTV’s Songs and Rhymes on HuluPlus. I appreciate that there are nine episodes and it was good background music for maybe 45 minutes but I couldn’t do those songs anymore.
Thanks to YouTuber Hankshostak for hosting the video.
So this past Easter, I was looking for Easter songs. I was mostly wondering if there were even such a thing. What I found has captured my imagination.
Not only does Bounce Patrol have one Easter song, they have three!
Thanks to Bounce Patrol Kids for hosting their own videos.
So that is 27 minutes of pretty great songs.
Here is a video, containing 35 minutes of songs. We usually play these back to back. This one has some fun Halloween songs, one of them containing a Magneto costume!
So I wanted to make sure that Bounce Patrol was a good nature group and not up to anything sinister. That lead me to finding almost no information about them.
They are a very nice Australian group. My favorites are Jacinta and Alyssa, who is a Canadian. Will and Jackson are pretty fun too. You would see a tall man in some videos, who I am not sure who that is. He is never name checked and Rachel, who joined the crew in 2014, replaces him – as I’ve never seen them together. Whatever happened to that guy?
Then I found this video –
Kids Life, Better than a Playground – which breaks from the norm of all of their future videos as it is outside, away from their green screens. I couldn’t find the release date of it but they all look noticeably younger here. It was released three years ago.
The only other video that I know that has such synchronize dancing is –
Halloween Rules
Just to include it, here is the “Everybody Loves Halloween” that features Jackson in an awesome Magneto costume
Anyone know who this fourth lady is?
Maybe she is a producer?
I do like how they have taken the steps to get some Playlists together.
In the Alphabet Songs, they have gotten up to M, and that was only a few months ago. I like this as I’m really hoping that Walker Dennis will eventually pick up on all of the sounds and start talking.
Here is the big announcement that Rachel is joining the crew. They hint that Alyssa is going away for a tiny bit. I’m not sure which videos seem to be effected by this, as they seem to make a point of leaving one person out of each of their videos. Sometimes they have all five but those seem to be special occasions. How does a Canadian get hooked up with an Australian children musical troupe? How does anyone join a children musical troupe? I’m pretty fascinated with that concept. Good for them, doing a job that I can only imagine is super rewarding and a real treat.
The production aspect to, Colors, really fascinates me as well. They must be wearing green screen styled shirts too, right? I do like how they made the point of doing Yellow and Blue makes Green, then they go with Yellow and Red making Orange. But nothing rhymes with Orange! They should have just gone Blue and Yellow making Purple and not have been so awkward but they sure are having fun with the whole thing.
Does anyone know anything about Bounce Patrol? No one seems to be discussing them online, that I can see. I see from their YouTube page that they do have fans, as they have uploaded some videos.
I’m pretty sure they don’t have sinister intentions and Walker Dennis loves the songs, so I’m committed to them for the time being.
One last video –
“To the Music” makes no sense. It is catchy as all heck but the things that they can do ‘to the music’ why would anyone? I will freely admit that I’ve given them way too much thinking time, to the point where I had to make this post, so that I could get the thoughts out of my head.
Thanks for indulging me!
Honestly, who is this man in the red shirt? What is his name? Why did he leave the show?
My current theory is that Will didn’t like being regulated to the role of the cat in Kids Life. Or that Will didn’t like being known as the third dude and convinced production that two dudes and three ladies is a winning solution.
Take for instance, Old MacDonald Had a Farm –
Will is regulated to the farmer role, giving no lines and not great costuming. Those gray eyebrows throw me off.
I do like how they gave the song a preface, that is pretty nice. Is that an Australian thing or a Bounce Patrol thing?
Update, so my investigation revealed this interesting Facebook post –
So that guy’s name is Sam and he had another job that made him not able to commit to the show, at that time. I can only imagine that that job has since become a full time commitment.
So I suppose that Will is off the hook, but I still suspect him of some involvement in it.
On May 15th, the day before Walker Dennis turned seventeen months old, they released another compilation video!
So in addition to the 35 minute video and the 27 minute video, they now have a 33 minute video.
At first, I figured this video was going to be a collection of songs, minus the holiday ones, as they should have one of those that doesn’t include Halloween or Easter songs, like a timeless collection. It isn’t like they are also including their Christmas songs in any of these.
A pretty good mixture of all of their songs across their different eras.
In our continued quest to learn more about our favorite YouTube Childrens Sensation, I found this video –
I wish it was up on YouTube, as it would be nicer to have in this post. A great video about who the members of Bounce Patrol are. I’m glad that they are becoming a recognizable force and that they are beloved around the world and not just in our living room here in Helena, Montana.
I was really hoping that the Action Figure variant was going to be this Kitty Pryde but it makes sense that Quill gets the first action figure variant. I’m hoping she gets the next one. This comic isn’t quite the ride I thought it was going to be.
As of Secret Wars 2015 4, Quill is still with the Proper Marvel Universe Characters – Spider-Man, Black Panther, Reed Richards, Captain Marvel and Thor. So I’m not sure how Quill separates from the main group, to make this issue possible. Maybe issue five explains that.
Issue opens in a nightclub. The bartender wears a shirt that resembles Black Bolt’s symbol. Quill is a lounge singer. In this region, no one knows Disney songs, so he comes off like a genius. Quill recounts the end of the universe, he doesn’t quite understand how all of this happen. We are suppose to ask Reed, if we want answers. He says that “in the chaos, he got separated” so that might be all the explanation that we get. Not sure how Secret Wars 2015 4 delayed this title, so much, as it seems like this one page doesn’t spoil nor tie in, to the series, at all.
Quill is in Manhattan, so it must be on that region of Battleworld. A lady offers to buy him a martini, but he turns it down.
Outside, a Drax with a hair style that will put Conan O’Brien’s hair to shame, it is so high! Drax calls Quill “Steve Rogers” as it was the first name Quill could come up with. Doom’s goons are looking for him, so he has to go by a different name. Drax knew a Steve Rogers, from a few domains over. Which is an odd comment, as I thought no one was suppose to know about the other domains. This Drax likes to tell jokes like how the proper one likes to fight.
We get to the co-star of the title! Look at that dress, it is clearly inspired by the Proper Kitty Pryde’s cosmic upgrade. There have been interviews stating that this is suppose to be the Age of Apocalypse Shadowcat, but I’m not sure if that is obvious, with this issue.
Kitty Pryde is here to meet with someone. That person is . . . Gambit, the Collector!! Gambit has ordered a St. Croix. Which Google only tells me there is a bottled water but maybe I’m not doing a search right. Kitty wants to keep this, strictly business. Gambit states that she is an agent of Valeria Von Doom’s Foundation, so that makes sense, as AoA Shadowcat was leading Generation Next. This does make me want to track Runaways better, but she wasn’t mentioned or seen, in the first issue of that series.
Shadowcat is after an anomaly, and Gambit wants his reward. He hands her a lock of hair, the origin of the hair is unknown. She also calls this “Doomforsaken Manhattan.” Since the Foundation doesn’t know the origins, it proves that the Gospel of Doom may not be completely true. The students of the Runaways title, come from various regions – so they know what is up. Plus, Valeria lives with God Doom, so she sees him – all the time.
Gambit’s reward? Longshot empowered blades, made from his very own bones! That’s pretty intense! Gambit takes back the lock of hair, apparently.
Quill is about to start his next set, we see that Strong Guy is part of her band. Not sure who the wolf guy is and maybe that is Polaris, with the green hair?
Quill starts to sing, Once Upon A Dream, from Sleeping Beauty. Which is the song he sung, before proposing to the Proper Kitty Pryde.
Thanks to YouTuber LordDaine, for hosting this video!
Which is something that you get, when you have the same writer write the Secret Wars Tie In series, that wrote Quill’s last series. Good for you, Humphries!
Quill then sees Kitty Pryde!
I love reading Quill’s mental commentary. Kitty is the best lady in the galaxy.
Firmansyah does a good job of recreating many of Paco Medina’s moments. I’m surprised her wearing the banana costume didn’t make it.
Quill leaves the stage, so fast!
Gambit tries to make a move on Kitty but she pops some metal claws – so that should be enough to prove she is AoA Shadowcat. How she isn’t dead, is beyond me but I’m also cool with it.
Gambit and Kitty did hook up, once in New Avalon but Kitty is quick to tell him – that was a mistake.
Quill tells Gambit to back off. Gambit isn’t happy that Kitty brought someone.
Kitty doesn’t recognize this blonde fellow. I really do wish that we saw Gambit take back the lock of hair, I feel like this is an important story beat, but wasn’t shown.
Gambit charges the champagne bottle and throws it at the non-couple. Drax, is the club owner. Gambit quickly throws the Longshot blades, so he didn’t get to keep them long.
Strong Guy is the drummer of the band. Storm is at the club, she was enjoying a drink.
Kitty wants Gambit to be stopped, but he is too quick. Kitty is worried about the backlash of Valeria, who for all purposes, is the daughter of God Doom. So I would be afraid of her wrath, as well. The hair is gone as are the blades. Quill doesn’t pick up on the importance of what is happening.
Quill, gets caught up in the moment, and kisses Kitty.
She does not like that! His face gets punched, so hard! His blood falls on the machine, that detects origins.
Issue ends with Kitty learning that Quill is a living anomaly. She handcuffs him to her and starts running towards Doomgard. The last place Quill wants to be!
Shadow and Flame with Magik 