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Superboy Volume Four Issue 27

Posted by John Klein III on April 21, 2017
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Superboy V4 27

Writers Karl Kesel & Steve Mattsson

Penciler Chris Gardner

Inker Phyliss Novin

Colorist Tom McCraw

Lettering Richard Starkings and ComiCraft

Cover Dated May 1996

Cover by Tom Grummett and Karl Kesel

Losin’ It! Part Three of Six

I only own this for the Uncanny X-Men 141 Homage Cover but this should be a fun look back.

The Team of Marvel Database, has a counterpart in the DC Database –

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superboy_Vol_4_27

Who I am counting on, for having the right volume number.

I wasn’t following Superboy, at this point, I think I followed the first 12 issues or maybe just six, after Superman came back from the dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superboy_(Kon-El)

The cover art team, are the creators of Superboy, that’s pretty awesome.  The only thing I really know about this Superboy, is that he was merged with Ben Reilly’s Spider-Man, to make Amalgam’s Spider-Boy.  Which was awesome.

Inside front cover ad is for The Power of Shazam! who is on a cereal

Superboy has made Hawaii his base.  I imagine he still doesn’t like being called, Superboy – but he may be over that silly characterization.

The Hawaii Police are trying to arrest Knockout, Superboy is with her, so they will have to deal with him, too.  Knockout has apparently killed a fellow police officer.

Superboy, who has a giant sole earring on his left ear.  Oh 90s.  He knocks on the door and Knockout tells him to come inside.  Which he does and sees her, from behind, and she seems to be only wearing a pair of green panties.

There is an ad for Batman Forever, the year’s biggest hit, and now – on Pay Per View!

Knockout puts on her costume, they are partners and shouldn’t have secrets.  She keeps calling him, pup.

There is a knock at the door and Superboy answers it, along with Krypto.  Krypto seems to be a puppy, himself.  The police are at the door, which surprises Superboy.  Snare, one of the female officers – one of the better ones, takes pleasure in trying out her skills against Superboy.  With all of the commotion, Knockout tries to leave out the backdoor.

There is a house ad for Sergio Aragones Destroys DC, which I imagine is a reaction to Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe, which I also imagine is way better.

Superboy uses one of his more unique abilities, tactile telekinesis, to thwart Snare’s attempts.  Knockout circles back and starts fighting the officers.  Superboy’s jacket is ruined, in the fight and this annoys him.  One of the officers drops a twist-cannon, which bullets go around Superboy and strikes Knockout, wounding her.l  Now Superboy is full of teenage rage!

Snare throws an anti-gravity bomb at Knockout and this takes her to the ground.  Superboy wasn’t exactly thrilled with how rough Knockout was being with the police – who I imagine are like Marvel’s Code Blue, police force.

Roxy, a friend of SB (as she calls him) tackles Snare, who seems to really want to take down Superboy, for her father.  Maybe.  Snare punches Roxy out, and the lead detective makes Snare sit the fight out, as Roxy is on their side.

Superboy gets the anti-gravity bomb off of Knockout.  Superboy flies Knockout to safety.  This officially makes Superboy wanted by the police.

Later.  Rex Leech, who I believe is actually Superboy’s Public Relations Agent, or something like that.  He’s horrible.

Superboy visits his ex-girlfriend, who is also a reporter – Tana Moon.  Tana tells him about Knockout being wanted for murder.  He suspects this is an elaborate trick.  Tana keeps calling him, kid, and this annoys him.  He tells her that she is jealous of Knockout and flies off in a huff.

Issue ends with Tana reporting the news that Superboy is a fugitive.  Knockout is suspected of killing, Officer Wesley Smithson.  Next up on the news, Hawaiian Chain’s newest island- Loihi, has risen ten thousand years sooner than expected.  That can’t tie in to the main plot, right?

Letters Page – Kid Stuff – has letters from – Neil Ahlquist of Minneapolis, MN / Bob Kowalski of Detroit, MI / Nick Robichaud of Bedord , MA and Rick Fimple of Vaancouver, WA.

Next issue caption box states that Supergirl will be showing up.

Inside back cover ad is for Batman Black and White, an awesome anthology series!

Not a horrible issue, I expected to be confused as this was the middle chapter of a storyline but it was written very new reader friendly.

Uncanny X-Men Volume Three Issue 23 Minimates Variant

Posted by John Klein III on March 14, 2017
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Minimates 141

Cover by Barry Bradfield

I got this variant for two reasons.  I am a sucker for all Uncanny X-Men 141 variants and a variant featuring Kitty Pryde on it.

This cover reminds me that I still want to buy this Minimates Days of Future Past set.

Minimates DoFP

My review for the issue proper, can be located here :

https://shadowandflamewithmagik.com/2014/09/28/uncanny-x-men-volume-three-issue-23/

Covers : Uncanny X-Men 141

Posted by John Klein III on January 17, 2017
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The Best Cover To Homaged Alpha Flight V3 9

Marvel Zombies Army of Darkness 1 Excalibur 94

Wolverine and the X-Men 42 Battle of the Atom 141 Homage

Uncanny Avengers 4 Homage 141 Nightwing Volume Two Issue 21

NTSF SD SUV The Comic Book Minimates 141

Amazing X-Men 13 Groot Rocket 141 Variant Bloodshot 12

Superboy V4 27 Secret Wars Journal 4 Uncanny X-Men 141 Homage Page

Years of Future Past 5 Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3 Possible Uncanny X-Men 141 Homage

Uncanny X-Men 141 – John Byrne

Alpha Flight V3 9 – Clayton Henry

Marvel Zombies Army of Darkness 1 – Arthur Suydam

Excalibur 94 – Casey Jones

Wolverine and the X-Men 42 – Nick Bradshaw

X-Men Battle of the Atom 1 Variant – ???

Uncanny Avengers 4 (Interior Art) – John Cassaday

Nightwing V2 21 – Brett Booth

NTSF : SD : SUV :: The Comic Book – Tom Derenick and Blond

Uncanny X-Men Volume Three Issue 23 Minimates Variant – Barry Bradfield

Amazing X-Men 13 Groot & Rocket Variant – Sara Pichelli

Bloodshot 12 – Kalman Andrasofszky, Patrick Zircher and Matthew Waite

Superboy V4 27 – Tom Grummett & Karl Kesel

Secret Wars Journal 5 (Interior Art) – Ken Lashley

Years of Future Past 5 – Art Adams and Peter Steigerwald

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde (Interior Art) – Alti Firmansyah

NTSF : SD : SUV :: The Comic Book

Posted by John Klein III on January 16, 2017
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NTSF SD SUV The Comic Book

Written by Paul Scheer, Jon Stern & Curtis Gwinn

Art by Tom Derenick

Colors by Blond

Letters by Ed Dukeshire

Cover by Tom Derenick and Blond

Cover Dated July 2012

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 :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSF:SD:SUV::

"NTSF: SD: SUV" "Unit Photography" CN Ph: Darren Michaels

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.

Pretty fun issue

Years of Future Past 5

Posted by John Klein III on April 26, 2016
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Years of Future Past 5

Writer Marguerite Bennett

Artist Mike Norton

Colorist Fco Plascencia

Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna

Cover Art Adams and Peter Steigerwald

One of the better Secret Wars 2015 series, comes to an end.

The Ruins of New York City.  The issue opens, very intensely, Cameron looms over his sister, Christina.  These two will be at each other’s throats, for the issue.  Cameron wants to kill President Kelly, so that mutants will be even more persecuted and ideally, wiped off the planet.  Christina, being a Pryde, doesn’t want that – at all.

Cameron retells the story, of the tigers and how they outnumbered the humans.  Once they got out of the zoos, they started breeding like cats!  Giant orange cats.  Cameron also reminds us of his kill list – Magneto, Blob and Pyro.  Which is impressive for any one person.

Cameron and Christina have a quick sparing match and he takes off to meet up (and ideally) kill President Kelly.

The Skies Above the National Plaza.  Storm is guiding in Air Force One.  On the ground, is Angel, Colossus, Rachel and Wolverine.  Colossus is completely confused by the misinformation that Rachel is feeding him.  While Angel is checking in on Kelley’s PR goons, Cameron shows up.  Colossus tries to talk to him but Cameron doesn’t respect the guy he was spawn from.

Years of Future Past 5 Lockheed 0

Cameron takes President Kelly out of his plane.  Before he can make any moves, he hears his sister’s voice.

Years of Future Past 5 Lockheed 1

Christina has brought reinforcements – Kate Pryde and mother loving Lockheed!  He lives and I am so thrilled!  Glad he didn’t die, in issue three.

Pull out ad has – All New Wolverine and All New X-Men, both I’m sort of interested in.  Next, we have the Guardians of the Galaxy umbrella of titles – Drax, Venom Spaceknights and Star Lord.  I’m tracking Drax and Venom, as I still suspect there will be another space crossover.  Star Lord, is a retelling of Quill’s origins – so I’m skipping that one, until it catches up to the present.  It has to, right?  Then there are some odd titles – Black Knight, Hercules and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.  Finally, there is The Ultimates – which is mainly just Mighty Avengers, retitled.  I still think it is an odd use of the Ultimates name.  Agents of SHIELD, using comic art, but promoting the television series.  Remember how great that episode, 4,722 Episode, was?  So good!

Years of Future Past 5 Lockheed 2

Kate Pryde straight punches Rachel, to her traitorous dumb face.  Rachel tries to explain, just like how Magneto tried, that Christina needs to die, for the cause.  That dumb sentence, gets her a second punch to her silly hound face.

Years of Future Past 5 Lockheed 3

Christina, not missing an opportunity, introduces herself to President Kelly.  Lockheed allows the president to climb on top of them and the two escape.  See how Lockheed is making Christina’s metal arms, red hot?  That is going to make sense, in just one page turn.  But how did he know to do that?  They didn’t exchange a look, or anything.

Years of Future Past 5 Lockheed 4

Cameron is not happy that the president is escaping.  He turns his attention to his sister and she burns his legs.  Now he won’t be able to phase.  I do like how these two power sets are the opposite gender parent’s powers.  So Kitty’s phasing powers went to her son, Cameron.  Colossus’ metal powers, went to his daughter, Christina.  I also like how the children got a tad power upgrade.

I like how cynical Christina already is.  She’s heard about the legendary battles of Xavier and Magneto.  She already knows that Cameron is too small time, for that.

Cameron will never stop trying to eliminate the mutant race.  Poor Christina has to make a decision, and since she knows nothing but losing, she straight up SHKs her brother, killing him.

Years of Future Past 5 Kate Pryde 1

I do feel bad, that Kate has to witness the murder of her son, at the pointing arm of her daughter.  I do wish we got to see more of the combine family unit but I believe that is the point.  Cameron was never a Pride.

I also feel horrible for Christina, there are only a few hundred mutants and she just put one down, permanently.  Before him, three other mutant deaths had occurred.

Colossus pulls his wife away, so she never gets to give her murderous son, one last embrace.  Wolverine pulls Christina.

Two soldiers want to snipe the fleeing X-Men but President Kelly gives the order, to stand down.

Years of Future Past 5 Kate Pryde 2

Colossus is doing a poor job of consoling his grieving wife.  Everyone is headed to Kurt’s church.  Rachel keeps trying to apologize.  I guess if Rachel had her way, Kate would be grieving her other child instead.

Years of Future Past 5 Kate Pryde 3

Poor Kurt, instantly recognizing that Cameron is not around.  He only knew the child for a few brief hours.  Christina is still trying to justify her actions.

Wolverine, like a dick, tries to say that he lost a son today as well.  Even though we were shown that he barely paid Cameron, any mind.  Remember when Cameron kept saying “father” until he finally said “Wolverine” and got Logan to turn his head?  Imagine 18 years of that.

Years of Future Past 5 Kate Pryde 4

The X-Men hear helicopters and assume that the government is coming to finish the job of wiping an entire race off the map.  Which, as we all know, is always a great sign of a successful country.

The mutants from the nearby concentration camp, have join the X-Men, willing to fight due to Christina’s heroic freeing of them.

Kate wants to have a moment.  Which I can only imagine, they get outside and some government official, is there to bring the X-Men out of the shadows and into their rightful place, being one with the rest of society.

Years of Future Past 5 Kate Pryde 5

A tad weird to have Kate be the one to run into a tiger, as it was Christina who was told the tale from Cameron.

Pretty flipping fantastic series!  Also, grim as heck!

Comic Collector Live – Uncanny X-Men 141 Link

Posted by John Klein III on April 25, 2016
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So this website is doing a great job of keeping track of Homage Covers for Uncanny X-Men 141!

http://www.comiccollectorlive.com/LiveData/StoryArc.aspx?id=7baffffd-18cc-437f-a742-a7bf1dee3f6e

But I hate having to Google for the website, so this may just be for me.

Typically, it is on page two but that is unacceptable!

Secret Wars Journal 4

Posted by John Klein III on April 24, 2016
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Secret Wars Journal 4

Another Last Stand

Writer Sina Grace

Artist Ken Lashley

Color Artist Rachelle Rosenberg

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Secret Wars Journal 4 Uncanny X-Men 141 Homage Page

The Sentinel Territories.  I’m a big fan of Tolstoy, bigger fan of Anna Karenina than War and Peace.  I wish I had the chance to take a Russian Literature class, senior year of high school.  Instead, we had English Literature, which felt like Sophomore year, part deux.

I like the quote, attributed to Tolstoy – the two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Great homage to Uncanny X-Men 141.  That would have been enough for me to buy this issue, but there are more reasons (two more!) but that’s a decent start.

Since this issue takes place in The Sentinel Territories, so this takes place within the same realm of the series, Years of Future Past.

Secret Wars Journal 4 Kate Pryde Mention

Kyle Jinadu, husband to Northstar, has found Psylocke – who is living a lie.  She is blonde and living in the suburbs.  Once he mentions, Kitty Pryde, he ruins Psylocke’s day.

Kyle wants to save Northstar, who is stuck in a concentration camp.  She tells Kyle that she won’t help.  Later that night, she erases her husband’s memories and takes off.  She has made a decision.

Psylocke has joined Kyle’s quest.  The two make short work of the soldiers, in the camp.  Psylocke has really missed, cutting loose.

We get a very touching panel, of the two husbands hugging.

Secret Wars Journal 4 Kate Pryde mention 2

A dumb Sentinel tries to ruin the moment, but Psylocke destroys it.

Kyle really does owe Kitty a giant gift basket!  It is the least they could do.

Eight more Sentinels are coming, and a dozen more guards.  Psylocke tells Northstar to fly him and Kyle out of their,  The poor guy only has enough strength to carry the two of them, and only a very short distance.

Issue ends with Psylocke fighting on, even though she (and we) know she doesn’t really stand a chance.  Since she doesn’t appear in Years of Future Past, I suspect she doesn’t survive.  Though, neither does Kyle and Northstar.

Not a bad ten pages.

There is another story, Primary Function, that stars Punisher and Iron Fist, it is the lead story.

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3

Posted by John Klein III on April 22, 2016
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Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3

Writer Sam Humphries

Artist Alti Firmansyah

Colorist Jessica Kholinne

Letters VC’s Joe Sabino

Cover Yasmine Putri

I had to add Kris Anka’s variant to my Wishlist.

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3 Shadowcat 1

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.

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3 Shadowcat 2

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.

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3 Shadowcat 3

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.

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3 Lockheed

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.

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3 Possible Uncanny X-Men 141 Homage

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.

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God Doom appears and scares Gambit.  I keep typing it “Gabmit” does anyone else do that?

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3 Shadowcat 5

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.

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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.

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Look how happy he is!  This comic (and series) has been so great.  Quill proceeds to try to ruin the moment.

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Pryde can’t resist anymore, all of that disgust has turn around to attraction.  He guesses at what it was, that turn her.

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 3 Shadowcat 9

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.

Wishlist : Minimates Days of Future Past Boxset

Posted by John Klein III on December 10, 2015
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I just found out that at San Diego Comic Con 2014, that this box set is being offered!  Hopefully I can get one of these through a proper purchase down the road as it will be super expensive to buy a con exclusive.

Minimates DoFP

SDCC 2014: Diamond Select Toys Announces Days of Future Past Marvel Minimates Exclusives and More

Minimates 141

I really like that cover homage too!

Marvel Zombies : Dead Days

Posted by John Klein III on October 31, 2015
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Marvel Zombies Dead Days

Writer Robert Kirkman

Artist Sean Phillips

Color Art June Chung

Lettering VC’s Rus Wooton

Zombie Food John Barber

Cover Dated July 2007

Cover (after Jim Lee) by Arthur Suydam, homaging X-MEN Volume One Issue 1

This awesome website has the entire comic, if you want to follow along

http://www.idoc.co/read/2208/marvel-zombies-dead-days/1

This issue works as an origin story to the Marvel Zombies universe.

Inside cover ad are for The New Fantastic Four (not the good one but Storm, Black Panther, Human Torch and Thing) going to the Marvel Zombie-verse in Black Panther 29.

Issue opens with Spider-Man web-slinging his way home.  He enters his apartment and tells Aunt May and Mary Jane that Colonel America bit him.  The news is stating that the Avengers are attacking and worst, eating people.  That should stop supervillains from attacking.

Spider-Man starts drooling through his mask.  He rips the mouth part off and yep, eats Mary Jane.  That isn’t what husbands should do!  Know what nephews shouldn’t do?  Eat their aunts!  Spider-Man doesn’t care, what we think!

High in Earth’s Orbit.  Asteroid M.  Magneto is ashamed of what he did.  Fabian Cortez, his chief Acolyte, is telling him that he did what he had to do.  I guess he was the one that sent the Sentry, who was affected by the Zombie virus, to Earth.  The virus affects both flatscans and mutant.  Magneto sets off to save as many as he can.

New York City.  Nova is rocketing around.  On this Earth, he knows Spider-Man’s secret identity.  Which costs him to fight for his life.  Daredevil tries to save Nova.

Elsewhere.  Colonel America tells the Avengers to stop.  They have been eating and eating.  He notices that the hunger has been slated.  He wants to look for a cure.

There is an ad for the 2007 Jeep Patriot.

Westchester, New York.  The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.  Alpha Flight are Zombies!  They ate Professor Xavier!  Cyclops is trying to keep the X-Men motivated to save themselves.

Marvel Zombies Dead Days Shadowcat 1

Magneto arrives and kills Alpha Flight, so they are dead dead.

Poor Shadowcat, thought it was an isolated incident.  Wolverine wants to kill all of the Zombies.

New York City.  Giant Man and the Black Panther are on the run.  Black Panther wishes he was with his people in Wakanda.  Giant Man can’t get over seeing Colonel America eat a woman.  Black Panther notices that Pym was bit.  Pym was hoping he could have gotten the African King to his lab, before he noticed, so that he could have a meal.  He knocks out Black Panther and continues on his way.  He suspects that all of the ‘food supply’ will run out in a matter of days.

There is an ad for X-MEN 200.

Nova is still flying around.  We see that Spider-Man turned Daredevil.  Now there is a blind lawyer zombie out there in the world.  Sean McKeever’s Gravity is also a zombie!  Nice inclusion, Kirkman!  Or does Phillips comes up with the side characters?

Over in the Baxter Building.  In what could be the saddest sight of the comic, poor poor Reed is holding his dead children in his arms.  He thought they were safe.  That stupid horrible horrible being, She-Hulk ate Franklin and Valeria!  I like She-Hulk, but that is pretty messed up!  Susan is holding Valeria and Reed is holding Franklin.  I feel like crying right now.

Susan, and good for her, creates a force field inside of Jennifer’s head and explodes it, outward.  Johnny is crying, as he should!

Thor kills Zombie Atlas.  Songbird and Meteorite are zombies too, so there goes the Thunderbolts!  Thor kills Meteorite.  Nova is trying to help Thor.  He is almost bit when Human Torch shows up.  The Fantastic Four show up in the Fantasti-Car.  They take the three heroes to a SHIELD Hellicarrier, the last safe place in New York City.  probably

Marvel Zombies Dead Days Shadowcat 2a Marvel Zombies Dead Days Shadowcat 2b

That is a great assortment of heroes.  Not only is Shadowcat among the non-flesh easters, so is the Scarlet Spider!  I love that costume so much!

Nick Fury calls what is happening a plague.  The entire globe is being affected by it.  Fury wants the brains – Reed Richards, Stark and Bruce Banner, to create a cure before their brains are eaten.

Nova loses his mind, a little.  If you are a New York based hero and not on the Hellicarrier, then that person is most likely a zombie or dead, or deader.  He just thinks that it is too late for counter-measures.

There is an ad for Spider-Man 3.

Avengers Mansion.  Manhattan.  Pym shows up, looking for Jarvis but he has served his last task, he’s lunch for the Avengers.  Pym wonders if they should work on a cure.  Hawkeye has eaten 12 people, so he feels like he can’t be redeemed.

Spider-Man eats J. Jonah Jameson.

Fury goes to Doom, he believes Latveria is safe.

Back aboard the SHIELD Hellicarrier.  Reed’s Lab.  The three brains are working separately, so that they could get a solution faster.  Susan is upset, naturally, that Reed is becoming fascinated by the zombies.

There is an ad for X-Men : Endangered Species.  Which we own a few issues of, so I’ll review them eventually.  Comicbookdb.com counts anything under the banner, so I’ve already started reviewing the Quest for Magik from New X-Men and X-Factor 23, also the Blinded by the Light arc of X-MEN.

Elsewhere on the Helicarrier.  Tony’s Lab.  Fury gets an update from Stark.  Stark wants to find an alternate universe and take the survivors there.

On the ground, there is a giant battle.  Nova gets bit by Carol Danvers.  Wolverine is bit by Hawkeye and Captain America.  Magneto is able to fight some as many as he can.

Back on the Hellicarrier.  Reed’s Lab.  Reed tells the Fantastic Four his plans to become Zombies, they are disgusted.  He informs them that, as soon as they came into the lab, that they were infected by the plague.  They are infected and he wants to experience the sensation of becoming a zombie.  They indulge him.

Stark is telling Fury about how they need to move fast.  The Zombie Four comes in and bite Stark.  Fury gets away and hides with an elevator of heroes.  The Four break in and kill Fury but turn the other heroes.

Minutes Later.  Reed wants to take the dimension portal to the Baxter Building so that he can prefect it.  Which leads to the Ultimate Universe and where this franchise officially starts.

Inside back cover ads are for Mystic Arcana, which I own two issues of – one being a Magik proper tie-in which is pretty awesome.  The other is for Ultimate Fantastic Four Volume 3 hardcover, which has the Zombies’ first appearance.

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For Walker Dennis’ second Halloween costume, he is going to be –

Walker Dennis 2nd Halloween Costume 2015 Scarecrow

an adoreable Scarecrow!  We looked around for all types of costumes but there were not that many great ones but he looks pretty cute in it.  If he would just wear the hat / cowl thing.