Besides my wife, on this July 1st, I want to give a shout out to the greatest teacher of all time.
Born July 1, 1899, Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr., a professor of Archaeology. If he was still alive, he would be 115 years old today.
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Today is my wife’s birthday, so happy birthday Kristie!
Her request to either not do a post at all or at least a simple sentence of ‘out with wife’ but I couldn’t find a graphic like those ‘gone fishing’ signs.
Another request was to write an article about how alternate universes are dumb. Which she doesn’t like on principle. She thinks comics should just have their own universe and not have splintered ones as those just exist to grab more money. I haven’t told her about how DC’s whole deal is alternate Earths but I’m not a DC guy so there is no reason to really bring it up.
My Kitty Pryde, Lockheed and Magik collection has just recently broke the 1900 mark.
My collection would be shorter if it wasn’t for these alternate universes by :
Age of Apocalypse 3 issues
Age of Apocalypse The Chosen 1 issue
Age of Ultron 1 issue
All New Ultimates 1 issue
Amazing X-Men 1 issue
Askani’son 1 issue
Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes 1 issue
Blink 2 issues
Cataclysm Ultimates Last Stand 4 issues
Cataclysm Ultimate X-Men 1 issue
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe 1 issue
Earth X 1 issue
Exiles Volume One 36 issues
Exiles Volume Two 1 issue
Exiles Volume Three 1 issue
Galactic Guardians 1 issue
Generation Next 4 issues
GeNext 2 issues
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man 1 issue
Marvel Age Spider-Man Team-Up 1 issue
Marvel Apes 2 issues
Marvel Riot 1 issue
Marvel Super Hero Squad 1 issue
Marvel Zombies 5 1 issue
Marvel Zombies Return 1 issue
Marvel Zombies Dead Days 1 issue
Marvel Zombies : Book of Angels, Demons and Various Monstrosities 1 issue
Marvel Zombies / Army of Darkness 1 issue
Mutant X 10 issues
New Exiles 21 issues
New Mutants Forever 6 issues
Paradise X 1 issue
Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham 2 issues
Ruins 3 issues
Survive! 1 issue
Thor and the Warriors Four 2 issues
Ultimate Comics Wolverine 1 issue
Ultimate Comics X-Men 31 issues
Ultimate Enemy 1 issue
Ultimate Fallout 3 issues
Ultimate Fantastic Four 2 issues
Ultimate Fantastic Four / Ultimate X-Men Annual 1 issue
Ultimate Fantastic Four / X-Men 1 issue
Ultimate Hawkeye 1 issue
Ultimate Marvel Sampler 1 issue
Ultimate Origins 1 issue
Ultimate Power 6 issues
Ultimate Secrets 1 issue
Ultimate Spider-Man Volume One 43 issues
Ultimate Spider-Man Volume Two 9 issues
Ultimate War 3 issues
Ultimate X 1 issue
Ultimate X-Men 33 issues
Ultimate X-Men / Fantastic Four 1 issue
Ultimate X-Men / Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual 1 issue
Ultimates 2 2 issues
Ultimatum 3 issues
Ultimatum X-Men Requiem 1 issue
Universe X 2 issues
Universe X Beasts 1 issue
Weapon X Days of Future Past 3 issues
What if Magneto Had Formed the X-Men with Professor X 1 issue
What If Fantastic Four 1 issue
What if Volume One 1 issue
What If Volume Two 15 issues
What If Astonishing X-Men 1 issue
What If House of M 1 issue
What If Wolverine Enemy of the State 1 issue
What If X-Men Deadly Genesis 1 issue
What The 2 issues
Wolverine Days of Future Past 1 issue
X-Babies 4 issues
X-Babies Reborn 1 issue
X-Babies Murderama 1 issue
X-Factor Forever 1 issue
X-Man 5 issues
X-Men Chronicles 2 issues
X-Men Forever (mini) 2 issues
X-Men Forever 24 issues
X-Men Forever 2 15 issues
X-Men Forever Giant Size 1 issue
X-Men Noir : Mark of Cain 1 issue
X-Men Omega 1 issue
X-Men Age of Apocalypse 2 issues
X-Men Age of Apocalypse One Shot 1 issue
X-Men Millennial Visions 2 issues
X-Men Misfits 1 issue
X-Men Ronin 3 issues
X-Men The End 16 issues (4 / 6 / 6)
Which is a total of 381 comics which at 3 dollars a piece is $1,143 which is a very rough estimate of how much all of those comics cost to a varyingly difference.
381 comics are also two and a half short comic book boxes so there is that too.
Grant it, the Age of Apocalypse version of Kitty is worthy of following and I would say the same of Ultimate Kitty as well as the X-Men Forever version. The Magik that was in Exiles was fun to follow while she was alive. I simply adore Mutant X, the only time I’ve ever really followed Havok.
It is hard to narrow down what is a imaginary story and what is an alternate universe or alternate timeline story. Plus I like the idea of seeing the base personality of Kitty’s and how that corresponds with the world she happens to be in.
Also, at this point, I’m a little pot committed. Would it have just been easier to be a fan of Uncanny X-Men and only buying that one title, maybe it would be. That would make crossovers difficult or super fun of an experience – pending on how it was structured.
But whenever I’m at home, I have to make sure that I never talk about the Ultimate universe as she knows for sure that is an alternate universe.
Now, should Marvel just be only creating comics within their proper universe, that could be an argument worthy of being made. A little late now for that though but even the Ultimate Universe has created alternate timelines like the Marvel Zombie timeline and the Supreme Power timeline.
The list above also just represents the titles and not individual comics that take place in the proper timeline that also cross overed to other titles. I’m thinking mostly of titles like X-Men Die by the Sword which was a crossover between New Excalibur and New Exiles.
Also, not included is my Wishlist – which would also be decreased without the alternate timelines or futures
311 total on my Wishlist (counting variants)
All New Ultimates 1 issue
Bullet Points 1 issue
Cataclysm Ultimates Last Stand 1 issue
Daredevil End of Days 1 issue
Deadpool Kills Deadpool 1 issue
Marvel Universe vs the Avengers 1 issue
Marvel Universe vs Wolverine 1 issue
Marvel Zombies Halloween 1 issue
Marvel Zombies Return 1 issue
Marvel Now What 1 issue
Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe 1 issue
Shame Itself 1 issue
Spider-Men 1 issue
Survive! 1 issue
Ultimate Comics X-Men 5 issues
Ultimate Fallout 1 issue
Ultimate Mystery 1 issue
Ultimate Spider-Man Volume One 2 issues
Ultimate X-Men 17 issues
Universe X 1 issue
What If Volume One 1 issue
What If Age of Ultron 1 issue
What If AvX 2 issues
Wolverine and Power Pack 1 issue
X-Babies 1 issue
X-Factor Forever 1 issue
X-Men Forever 2 issues
X-Men Forever 2 1 issue
X-Men Alpha 1 issue
X-Men Phoenix Legacy of Fire 1 issue
X-Treme X-Men Volume Two 1 issue
That’s 54 issues right there! Some of those are variants as well but still.
Life would be easier but not as much fun without alternate universes. Luckily, they don’t invade us nearly as much as we invade them.
These are the Days of Future Past
These are the Days of Future Past
We have to go back
To save our future
Our only hope
Is Kate Pryde!
She has to change the past
By switching with her own
1980
2013
Dates are irrelevant
The Past
The Present
The Future
Nothing is Safe
These are the Days of Future Past
These are the Days of Future Past
The X-Men have to save Senator Kelly
Kelly is a hater
The Brotherhood know what is up
Destiny predicts the future
Kelly has to go
Mutants will be hunted
Sentinels are killing machines
Robots are evil
These are the Days of Future Past
There are the Days of Future Past
Kate stops Destiny
Time is changed
Kitty wakes
Doesn’t know what is happening
Shadow and Flame with Magik
These are the Days of Future Past
These are the Days of Future Past
Boom
. . .
I know this is so dumb but I kept having the opening lines stuck in my head and had to write them down. I figure it is dumb but I have to post something.
The film’s twitter account finally released Kitty’s character sheet!
I still wonder how her ability to phase objects through space means she can phase people through time. She is like a human TARDIS.
Ellen Page, so brave to be photographed with that hair!
Been waiting a while for her’s to be released. They were definitely saving the best for last.
http://collider.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-opening-scene-explained/
Well, that opening scene is introducing, really, this sort of refugee group of mutants that Kitty’s the leader of in the future. And so, in the movie, it’s before we even meet our X-Men, it’s before we meet Patrick, Ian, Hugh, and Halle. We sort of cold open in many ways on Kitty, Warpath, Blink, Colossus, Sunspot, Bishop, and we sort of wanted to show what a pack of these refugees living day to day knowing the Sentinels are out there, what their life would be like, and what an attack would look like, and also setting up Kitty’s power, of being able to send consciousness back in time to warn people so that they can move away before the attack comes. That’s the sort of critical engine of the movie, her sending a consciousness back to 1973 to warn that something bad is gonna happen that they’ve got to stop from happening.
I love that of the mutants in that opening segment, that Kitty is the leader of that band of mutants. Kitty, Warpath, Blink, Colossus, Sunspot, Bishop and Iceman, that could make a decent team. It never has happened in the comics, not even in Exiles.
they don’t list Iceman, so I wonder if he has his own group or something like that.
Simon Kinberg is one of the writer / producers of the film.
I read that Ellen Page spent the most time on set, out of the original cast and second to Hugh Jackman (naturally) so I’ve been wondering what else she could have been doing there besides touching the sides of Wolverine’s head.
So she can send people’s consciousness back in time, just like Rachel’s powers in the comics. I imagine it will be something like she can only send their thoughts back maybe twenty minutes or something so when she tries sending Wolverine back to the 70s, it is a huge deal. Though, I wonder how she gets their consciousness back?
“Well, that opening scene is introducing, really, this sort of refugee group of mutants that Kitty’s the leader of in the future. And so, in the movie, it’s before we even meet our X-Men, it’s before we meet Patrick, Ian, Hugh, and Halle. We sort of cold open in many ways on Kitty, Warpath, Blink, Colossus, Sunspot, Bishop, and we sort of wanted to show what a pack of these refugees living day to day knowing the Sentinels are out there, what their life would be like, and what an attack would look like, and also setting up Kitty’s power, of being able to send consciousness back in time to warn people so that they can move away before the attack comes. That’s the sort of critical engine of the movie, her sending a consciousness back to 1973 to warn that something bad is gonna happen that they’ve got to stop from happening.”
Read more at http://collider.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-opening-scene-explained/#0As9w2QKB1jlQI6B.99
Read more at http://collider.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-opening-scene-explained/#0As9w2QKB1jlQI6B.99
“Well, that opening scene is introducing, really, this sort of refugee group of mutants that Kitty’s the leader of in the future. And so, in the movie, it’s before we even meet our X-Men, it’s before we meet Patrick, Ian, Hugh, and Halle. We sort of cold open in many ways on Kitty, Warpath, Blink, Colossus, Sunspot, Bishop, and we sort of wanted to show what a pack of these refugees living day to day knowing the Sentinels are out there, what their life would be like, and what an attack would look like, and also setting up Kitty’s power, of being able to send consciousness back in time to warn people so that they can move away before the attack comes. That’s the sort of critical engine of the movie, her sending a consciousness back to 1973 to warn that something bad is gonna happen that they’ve got to stop from happening.”
Read more at http://collider.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-opening-scene-explained/#0As9w2QKB1jlQI6B.99
Read more at http://collider.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-opening-scene-explained/#0As9w2QKB1jlQI6B.99
“Well, that opening scene is introducing, really, this sort of refugee group of mutants that Kitty’s the leader of in the future. And so, in the movie, it’s before we even meet our X-Men, it’s before we meet Patrick, Ian, Hugh, and Halle. We sort of cold open in many ways on Kitty, Warpath, Blink, Colossus, Sunspot, Bishop, and we sort of wanted to show what a pack of these refugees living day to day knowing the Sentinels are out there, what their life would be like, and what an attack would look like, and also setting up Kitty’s power, of being able to send consciousness back in time to warn people so that they can move away before the attack comes. That’s the sort of critical engine of the movie, her sending a consciousness back to 1973 to warn that something bad is gonna happen that they’ve got to stop from happening.”
Read more at http://collider.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-opening-scene-explained/#0As9w2QKB1jlQI6B.99
What would it take to be known as the Most Dangerous Kitty Pryde fan?
I would like to start being known as this, as it is one bad arse way to introduce yourself. I just don’t want to have to defend the title. If I don’t go around saying “Undisputed Most Dangerous” or “Current Most Dangerous” could I get away with it, without having to defend the title?
Also, who is the current Most Dangerous Kitty Pryde fan? As I’m claiming it right now!
I don’t want to get kicked to the face, that’s my main concern.
I’m already prepared for :
Who are you?
I’m the Most Dangerous Kitty Pryde fan you will ever meet!
Who?
Then I will be the one kicking them in the head. I’m practicing my kicks right now. If the other person is willing to stand there, and let me get some practice kicking in, I could maybe kick up to the person’s stomach. Maybe.
This is my dangerous face! Beware!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godsend_%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_%28U.S._TV_series%29
I keep seeing these commercials for Resurrection and keep thinking about Godsend.
Godsend is written by Mark Bomback and directed by Nick Hamm. The film stars Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn as the parents and Robert De Niro as the scientist. The film came out on April 30, 2004. I have no idea why I watched this in the theater, but I did. The story follows the parents as they lost their son when he was eight. De Niro’s character offers to clone their son. When he does, he also mixes in the DNA of his own dead son.
The ABC series is based on a novel by Jason Mott titled The Returned. This series has the dead coming back from decades of being dead.
Writing the above, I guess the two are not that similar but because of Godsend, I have no interest in Resurrection. Resurrection though, does confuse me as why would someone wait 22 years to clone someone? If the parents were 20, now they are 42, and have made peace with the fact that their son is dead. I guess that’s the point of the show but ooof, I can’t sit through that.
Sort of like NBC’s the Blacklist and how they promoted this secret that we all knew wouldn’t be answered by the first episode’s end. Which really kills my buzz for these season long storyarcs. I do like how CBS’s Intelligence hinted at a season long arc, and it must not have tested well as they nipped that in the bud after three episodes.
I do like how Resurrection has Kurtwood Smith in it, that guy deserves to escape That 70s Show. I know he was on 24 but he didn’t work again for a while after that.
Anyways, the Resurrection was picked up for a season but if the ratings are not there, then who knows how many episodes we’ll get.
Here is my current Pull List :
Definite :
All New X-Men
All New Ultimates
Marvel Knights X-Men (mini)
Uncanny X-Men
Maybes :
Uncanny Avengers (practically getting every or every other issue as of late)
Short Term :
Guardians of the Galaxy (four part crossover with All New)
Deadpool 27, the Wedding Issue
I like to keep track of the countries that only had one delegate at the Olympics, this year, we have 18 countries! Though it may not seem impressive when you see some of the rankings, just know this, that all of these incredible athletes can beat me any time they wanted to challenge me. I would ask, though, that they let me at least train for a year so that it isn’t as embarrassing for me. It would still be a huge waste of their time but at least I could say that I was at my best. These athletes are a credit to their countries and they did incredible!
People seem to only interested in the top three athletes and so these heroes, who should be known as their entire country is counting on them to compete and compete well, go unacknowledged. I do wonder how their country’s footage of the games are covered. Is it nonstop coverage of only them up to their competition and then you see the entire show and then the next two days is following them still? I would like to know. I can only imagine they have a permanent newsteam that follows them about from opening to closing ceremonies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Winter_Olympics
Bermuda
Tucker Murphy, for the second games in a row. Men’s 15 km classical, came in 84th out of 87.
British Virgin Islands
Peter Crook, the only second person to compete at the Winter Olympics for the country. Men’s halfpipe, came in 27th of 28.
Cayman Islands
Dow Travers, for the second games in a row. Both men’s giant slalom, Did not Finished and suffered a mild concussion (hope he’s feeling better!) and Men’s slalom, which he also Did not Finish.
Hong Kong
Pan-To Barton Lui, the first male to represent Hong Kong in the Winter Olympics. Men’s 1500 m, came in 5th! Pretty impressive!
Kyrgyzstan
Evgeniy Timofeev, replacing Dmitry Treleveski. Men’s giant slalom coming in at 61 out of 72, and Men’s Slalom, 41 out of 43.
Luxembourg
Kari Peters, the first ever athlete to qualify for cross-country skiing for his country. Men’s sprint, came in 79 of 85.
Malta
Elise Pellegrin, this is Malta’s first time ever at a Winter Olympics. Women’s slalom, 52nd out of 60, and Women’s giant slalom 65th out of 67.
Mexico
Hubertus von Hohenlohe, will be the second oldest Winter Olympian ever (55 years old) and also break the longest span of competing at the Winter Olympics with 30 years. Men’s slalom, did not finish due to crashing. Hope he’s doing okay too!
Nepal
Dachhiri Sherpa, presenting for the third games in a row. Men’s 15 km classical, came in 86 of 87
Pakistan
Muhammad Karim, only the second athlete to represent the country and Pakistan’s second appearance in the games, they were there last time in 2010 Vancouver. Men’s giant slalom, coming in at 71 out of 72.
Paraguay
Julia Marino, presenting Paraguay in its first appearance at the Winter Olympics. Women’s slopestyle, came in 17th place out of 22.
Philippines
Michael Christian Martinez, the first athlete in 22 years to present the country and only the fourth athlete to do so. Figure Skating – Men’s singles, came in 19th out of 24.
Tajikistan
Alisher Kudratov, only the second athlete to represent the country. Men’s slalom, did not finish.
Timor-Leste
Yohan Goutt Goncalves, Timor-Leste’s first time ever at the Winter Olympics. Men’s slalom, 43rd out of 43, not bad considering 23 were DSQ.
Tonga
Bruno Banani, Men’s Singles, coming in at 32 in the Luge out of 39.
Venezuela
Antonio Pardo, the fifth ever to present the country at the Winter Olympics, and the first ever in a snow sport. Venezuela had missed out on the 2010 games. Men’s giant slalom, did not finish – which is unfortunate, he had a problem with his ski falling off at the beginning of the race.
Virgin Islands
Jasmine Campbell, representing Virgin Islands after the country has missed out on the last two games. Women’s giant slalom, 56 out of 67 and Women’s slalom, 43 out of 60.
Zimbabwe
Luke Steyn, Men’s giant slalom, 57th out of 72, and Men’s slalom, did not finish.
http://www.empireonline.com/xmen/
I wish the Kitty cover was better. I wish she had a more distinguish look. Instead it looks like something Ellen Page was already wearing and production didn’t want to bother with a new outfit.
Jennifer Lawrence looks great as Mystique.
I really like Fassbender in the proper Magneto uniform.
How amazing do the Sentinels look?
Poor Anna Paquin, she is in the same pose so many bad cheesecake comic artists place comic book ladies in. Not flattering in either medium.
I also feel bad about Paquin being cut out of the movie, yet is part of the marketing materials. Hopefully, Singer puts her back into the film.
My wife pointed out that the cover logos are either in blue and purple. Took me a few seconds to figure out the significance but blue is the past and purple is the future / present. Nice touch.
. . .
Update May 4, 2014 :
Empire posted 25 ‘new’ posters on their website, but really, they are the same but with a different background and no logos.
So, it is cool but not worthy of a new post.
