The issues covered are – Uncanny X-Men 272, New Mutants 97 and X-Factor 62.
The Retro Reviews are from – 1:30:00 – 1:55:35
So now you know what I know about the original crossover. Oh, and that final storyline of X-Men Forever 2 with Ro and Ultimate Storm that dealt with Storm’s portion of the crossover.
So let’s enjoy this for what it is.
So this is another one of those “years later” miniseries, along with Inferno. The Legacy Virus is just now effecting Genosha.
Genosha, then. Cyclops and Havok are knocking Cameron Hodge out of action. Wolfsbane tears off his head, finishing the threat. The various X-Teams leave the island but Havok and Wolfsbane (and a few others) stay behind as those two want to make sure what happened in Genosha, never happens again.
Genosha, Now. Havok and Wolfsbane have a team. Those two and Chief Magistrate Anderson. They are on day three of trying to break up a food riot. Helping them are – Simon Locke “Bulletproof” power is being bulletproof. Julio Esteban Richtor “Rector.” Xi’an Coy Manh “Karma.” And possible new mutant, Wicked, Ghost Summoner – who is freaking people out with ghosts of their past.
Xavier arrives and everyone is still in awe of him. The riot disperses and there is a calm. Xavier is really, Mystique, of course – as Xavier is dead. Dr. Alous Kluge is still the Genegineer. Wolfsbane wants to go to God Doom and get his permission to fix the Legacy Virus.
Doomstadt. Doom turns down the offer of aid. Strange casts the, Winds of Watoomb, and forces Wolfsbane back. Doom tells Strange that mutants are the blight upon the world. Which is odd that he even put them on Battleworld.
Wolfsbane is not happen and asks Rachel Grey for help as she is the Baron of this region of the planet. Wolfsbane wants Triage and Rogue to be sent to Genosha. With Rogue’s power, they can heal twice as many people. Rachel doesn’t want to infect any more mutants, than necessary. Which seems overly harsh but it falls under the whole, let a thousand die to let millions live.
X-Topia Province. X-City, Home of the X-Men. Beast is convincing Rachel that the number game is the correct way to view this. They walk by the graveyard that reminds me of the graveyard from Days of Future Past.
I don’t get how all of these X-Men died. Like, how does Spider-Crawler work? Was it more than three to five years? I don’t see how Nightcrawler and Spider-Man both had kids and then they had a kid.
Genosha. Havok and Wolfsbane are clearing having sex, so that’s a plus for Wolfsbane. They come up with a plan that they are going to go grab Triage and Rogue. Cyclops, who is dead, appears before Havok, as Wicked doesn’t quite have her power under control. Ghost Cyclops asks Havok to not to abduct X-Men, as that didn’t work out so well in the original crossover. Havok doesn’t listen and goes on with the mission, but with some regrets.
On the way there, we get a light scene with Havok checking in on Rictor (who isn’t gay yet) as there is a chance he can run into Boom Boom.
X-City. X-Pickup Baseball, Game No. 1,065. We get to the page that got me to buy this issue. Rogue is trying to strike out Kitty, who Wolverine claims is an easy out. Lockheed is floating behind Kitty, and that is awesome!
So the Genoshians show up and ruin the game. Big fights break out.
Rockslide points out how silly this is, as five against a hundred mutants, are not great odds for the invaders. The big fight is merely a distraction.
Anderson calls the Genegineer. who is a little preoccupied as he is trying to bring Cameron Hodge back to life.
I’m not sure if I’m getting the next issue but the first issue was pretty interesting.
Is that 13 Hours film just now coming out? The way Hastings has been promoting it, since October, I thought the film was already coming out on DVD.
Hastings has also been advertising the 5th Wave film as well, which looks decent.
Eric Bana will be in The Finest Hours, always nice to see him acting.
Kung Fu Panda is only on its third film, I would have thought they were at four or five, by now.
February
The Choice has both Tom Welling and Alexandra Daddario – so that’s pretty awesome.
The Coen Brothers are back with – Hail, Caesar! It has a slew of A-Listers – George Clooney, Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Jonah Hill, Dolph Lundgren and Clancy Brown. Of course, Frances McDormand is in it.
Price and Prejudice and Zombies is coming out – the trailer does look fun.
Deadpool, out on the 12th! Which we will be celebrating here on S&FwM!
How to be Single – features Dakota Johnson (nice that a studio is giving a chance to be in another film) and Alison Brie (all it takes to get me to watch a film is to put her in it – I’ll eventually get around to it).
Zoolander 2 looks to be pretty fun. I didn’t know Olivia Munn was suppose to be in it. I imagine, like the first one, it will be cameo heavy. I would like to see Billy Zane come back.
Triple 9, has Kate Winslet, Woody Harrleson, Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman – good to see her getting work already!) and Anthony Mackie.
March
Fun House is a bio-flick that has Tiny Fey and Alfred Molina.
London Has Fallen, an action movie, with Gerald Butler, Aaron Eckhart (who I haven’t seen in a while), Morgan Freeman and Jackie Earle Harley (nice that he’s coming back, again).
Me Before You, has Jenna Coleman, who really should be in more things.
Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale and Natalie Portman – is finally coming out!
In time for Easter, is Ann Rice’s Christ the Lord, starring Sean Bean.
The final (maybe?) Divergent film – Allegiant – is coming out. I can finally buy my wife that box set. Except, it is Part One of Two, good grief Hollywood!
Midnight Special, a science fiction film – has Michael Shannon and Kirsten Dunst in it.
Batman v Superman comes out on the 25! I got some plans for posts to celebrate that film.
They are making a film based off of the life of Hank Williams, starring Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is getting a sequel.
April
Keeping Up with the Joneses, a title I thought wouldn’t get reused after the Demi Moore film – which wasn’t too bad. Gal Gadot is going to have quite the year! Isla Fisher is in it, which is nice as I haven’t seen her in a while, as well. Jon Hamm and Zach Galifianakis, means this is going to be pretty funny.
Green Room, a crime thriller, has both Patrick Stewart and Alia Shawkat – here’s hoping they have some scenes together!
Another Barbershop film? Good for that franchise, I wanted to watch Beauty Shop, as it has Kevin Bacon in it – but I haven’t yet.
Best Man Holiday is getting a sequel, Wedding. Taye Diggs and Morris Chestnut, pretty much everyone is back for the film.
Criminal, an action thriller has an amazing cast! Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Alice Eve, Gal Gadot (!) and Ryan Reynolds. Gadot’s role in Batman v Superman must not be that big, as she had a bunch of time to film these other roles.
Someone is trying to revive the Amityville franchise.
The (unneeded) live action version of the Jungle Book is coming. It has to be better than Alice in Wonderland, right? When will it be Dumbo or Little Mermaid’s turn?
The Huntsman sequel is coming, as well – hopefully Cedric Nicolas-Troyan didn’t ruin his marriage for this one.
Eddie the Eagle, based off of the life of the first man to compete at the Olympics in skiing for England. Hugh Jackman and Christopher Walken are in it, but neither of them are Eddie.
In the rein of New Year’s Day and Valentine’s Day – we are finally getting . . . Mother’s Day! A slew of people are in this! Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Hilary Duff and Sarah Chalke (not sure why she doesn’t act more).
Nine Lives has Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner and the comeback kid – Christopher Walken.
Ratchet & Clank are getting a movie!?! That isn’t like ten years too late.
May
Captain America : Civil War out on the 6th! I have a plan to celebrate this film.
Going in Style, reunites Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine.
Someone is making a Snowden biopic with a side of thriller. Oliver Stone is directing, so one is probably better off just Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be portraying Snowden, not sure if he will have the mole or not. Shailene Woodley will be in it, as well, as his girlfriend, I think I recognize the name from. Melissa Leo an Timothy Olyphant are in this, both have other films coming out so 2015 was a busy year for them to get work. Zachary Quinto is in this as is Nicholas Cage and Tom Wilkerson.
They really are going forward with the Angry Birds Movie, also a few years late. The trailer wasn’t that good, or at least, not in the direction I thought they were going to go in.
Neighbors 2, I should watch the first one as I do like Rose Byrne but I rarely see her films.
Shane Black as a new film, Nice Guys, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe.
Alice Through the Looking Glass, it must have made enough money for a sequel – Tim Burton is not directing but Johnny Depp will be in it.
X-Men Apocalypse on the 27th! I got big plans for this film!
June
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel is out on the 3rd, I should come up with some sort of post for that day. I don’t think I used all of my ideas for when the first film came out.
Referring to sequels – Conjuring 2 comes out (I have no interest in it) but Now You See Me 2 finally comes after being teased. Looks like everyone is back for it and they included Daniel Radcliffe, in a fun casting choice.
Warcraft, based on the game, finally arrives too. Also, years too late.
After years of Ellen DeGeneres wanting it to happen, Finding Dory arrives.
Independence Day’s sequel also comes. I wonder why it didn’t get the July 4th slot? That seems like a missed opportunity. I bet Will Smith regrets not doing it now.
July
Steven Spielberg brings Roald Dahl’s classic (that I didn’t read) BFG to life.
Purge 3 also comes out, maybe we will get more answers to how that whole thing came together as that’s all I’m mostly curious about.
I didn’t even know Disney was making a life action Tarzan film! In an inspired piece of casting, Alexander Skarsgard (who I also don’t know why he isn’t cast in and for everything) is Tarzan, but this isn’t an origin story (praise for that!) but Tarzan has to come back to the Congo to broker a deal. Which seems odd but I like the idea of Tarzan, after living in London for years, getting to go back home.
Ghostbusters comes out, and I should try to do something for that.
A new musical, La La Land, is coming and it reunites Emma Stone with Ryan Gosling (the Gos!) also JK Simmons is in it so I’m already sold!
Ice Age, a franchise I have yet to watch a full movie of, is back.
A new King Arthur movie is coming, with Charlie Hunnam in the lead – so he gets to rock his own accent. Eric Bana is in this too!
Stark Trek Beyond appears to keep being pushed back, a week at a time. I have a couple ideas to tie-in with this film’s release.
Another Bourne film is also coming, still not titled. Matt Damon is back and co-writing it as well.
August
Suicide Squad is out on the 5th but I don’t have any plans for it.
They are finally remaking Ben-Hur, a film I never had any interest in. Morgan Freeman is in a slew of films, this year.
Pete’s Dragon is being remade, which is a shame as the original is a classic. My wife loves that first one.
Sausage Party is Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s return to form. Not excited about Kristen Wiig being in it but I bet the film is still good.
Todd Phillips has a new film, Arms and the Dudes – starring Jonah Hill (who is also in Sausage Party).
September
We’re getting a new Bridget Jones movie! This time, Renee Zellweger has a baby with Colin Firth (I imagine). Does anyone know if she put on any of that sweet healthy weight? Last time I saw her, she was as thin as a door – which didn’t look attractive, at all.
Apparently there is a Popeye movie coming, but there isn’t even an active link.
A remake of Magnificent Seven is coming, which makes sense. That’s one of those movies, I’m surprised isn’t remade every ten years – with that year’s most popular actors. The names I recognize are – Denzel Washington (where has he been, since Flight?), Chris Pratt (of course), Ethan Hawke (a surprise) and Vincent D’Onofrio – who should get more work just from his turn as Kingpin!
October
The Accountant, an action thriller – has a great cast. Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick (so I’m already sold), Jeffrey Tambor, JK Simmons and John Lithgow.
Gambit is out on the 7th and I’ll be making October, Gambit Month here at S&FwM!
Ron Howard and Tom Hanks reunite for Inferno, making this a Dan Brown trilogy now. Felicity Jones – who I still only really know from Amazing Spider-Man 2 but she has rocketed to success after that film – and I can only imagine, not due to her work in that film as she was barely in it.
Ouija must have made money as it has a sequel.
Kate Beckinsale is back for another Underworld film. She must need a new car.
Tom Cruise is back as Jack Reacher, this time bringing Cobie Smulders, so now I’m interested.
November
Doctor Strange is out on the 4th and I’m going to be having Doctor Strange Month here at S&FwM!
The last relic of the 80s is finally getting a film – Trolls! Anna Kendrick is lending her voice to this animated film.
Harry Potter’s spin off – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – comes out, this time JK Rowling is co-writing the film. I haven’t heard much about the book, but a few peeps have asked about both the film and the book, at Hastings.
Michael Keaton will be portraying Ray Kroc (of McDonald’s fame) in The Founder, though I’m not sure why they are not going with a more McDonalds theme name. I get why they are not calling it “Kroc” but it seems odd. Nick Offerman and Patrick Wilson are also in this, as is Laura Dern.
December
The first Star Wars spin off film – Rogue One, comes out.
Assassin’s Creed, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, arrives. I’m all excited about the film, though I only played the first two games but they are pretty fun.
Jennifer Lawrence’s second film of the year comes out, Passengers – a science fiction drama piece that also has Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen and Laurence Fishburne in it.
Jumanji is getting a remake, so in one year, two Robin Williams’ films are being remade. Ideally, no one remakes Patch Adams – unless it is a truer adaption – which wouldn’t take much.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is going to be a Christmas movie – Hastings has been showing a trailer for it, for the longest time now. It strikes me as the X-Men but from the Ruins timeline – so I’m like two people who have had that thought, I bet. The trailer is so annoying, as the grandfather character is about to pick up the story when the grandson wants it told from the beginning. At the end, he wants to know when he can hear the rest – like, bitch, you were about to get more story before your dumb request! You bitch! Maybe I shouldn’t be so angry but Hastings airs it as much as they air Adele’s Hello video – which is a lot.
Thanks to Quirk Books for hosting the trailer.
It is for the book, as it was uploaded May 31, 2011 so the boy and grandfather shouldn’t be in the film – but it would be nice if they were – as I’m familiar with them now.
But I’m not wrong, am I? The boy wants more, he’s going to get more but then asks for a recap. Which I get, it is for our benefit but you watch this, once every twenty minutes, for four hours – over the course of two days – it wears on you.
I don’t have much experience with Shang-Chi. I’ve read the few appearances he had when he was on the Marvel Knights team and I’ve read the various team-ups he has had with Spider-Man over the years. And now, this series.
Issue opens with some world building, to explain how we got here. Which is nice that Doctor Doom saw fit to include thousands of years of back story, for this region of Battleworld called – K’un Lun. All of the Great Masters went to war. Every school was represented – Red Hand, Panther Clan, House of the Jade Tiger, and the poor bastard from the Spider Cult, is it worth being included if it is only to be insulted? I imagine some Spider-Fan would have been offended if the Spider Cult was left out.
The battle boiled down to Ten Rings (which makes me think of the Mandarin) and the Iron Fist – who we should mostly associate K’un Lun with. The two Masters practically destroy the region. They decided to make a truce. They created a tournament called, Thirteen Chambers, the winner will rule K’un Lun. Shang-Chi’s father – Zheng Zu – has been the ruler for a hundred years. The next tournament of Thirteen Chambers is about to begin.
We start the present day story with a very drunk, Shang-Chi, in the park with his dog. This Shang-Chi is a very funny drunk.
Three goons from the Ten Rings arrive to escort Shang-Chi out of the park. Shang-Chi jokes that they are trying to get rid of the dog. They threaten to burn the pet and Shang-Chi jokes that he is the pet to the dog. A bald young lady witnesses the commotion. As she watches, Shang-Chi starts taking out the goons so easily. Even drunk, he makes short work of them.
The lady runs off to tell Callisto what she was watching. Callisto calls the young lady, Kitten, so we know this is the Shadowcat – which makes sense as we’ve seen from the promo piece –
Kitten tells Callisto that someone is finally fighting back.
The goons finally recognize him as Shang-Chi. The audience can’t believe he has return! We see a very pale fellow, who is Caliban. Caliban reveals all of Shang-Chi’s nicknames or titles – The Rising Spirit / Son of Emperor Zheng Zu / Seven-Time Winner of the Dragon Cup. He is cut off after saying, “Nine-Time Winner of” so we don’t learn that one. He does finish with the reason why no one has seen Shang-Chi for a while. He is wanted for the murder of Lord Tuan, Great Master of the Iron Fist.
Shangi-Chi knocks down the goons.
The goons start getting up, and Shang-Chi asks them to stay down. He tells them that he is no longer a killing man, so now he has a weakness and they press him on it. Just then, this region’s X-Men (I’m not sure what they are going to be called here) show up to even the score. Lockheed is the dragon in green! I rather he was purple but I guess green is a more traditional color for dragons.
This page, we get Callisto calling him by his name in this region, Lock. Which is all the confirmation I need. You can add this character to your favorite list over at comicbookdb!
Lock surrounds the goons with high flames as the heroes make their escape. Callisto tells Shang-Chi that they are outcasts, which works for who the X-Men are. Outcasts and rejects, which also works for the Morlocks. They all go inside a statue to their secret hideaway.
The goons try to catch up and once they realize that they lost Shang-Chi, they know they will have to beg for sweet mercy.
Temple of the Ten Rings. Great Master Zheng Zu recruits a Laughing Skull.
The Halls of the Red Hand. Red Sai is also recruited.
The Citadel of Emperor Zheng Zu. The Emperor is not happy that his son has returned to K’un Lun. Iron Fist is okay if Laughing Skull and Red Sai kill Shang-Chi’s accomplices but he wants the honor of killing Shang-Chi, as he killed Iron Fist’s Master.
Hopefully we keep getting lots more of Kitten and Lock throughout this series.
I really adore the Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon that went from 1983 – 1990. I was surprised to see a lack of “Best Of” websites for the show.
I keep thinking about how great it would have been, if the creators – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr, his son (Jr) and Junior’s wife, Janice Karman (who created the Chipettes!) had paired up the Chipmunks and the Chipettes, not by archtypes but with different pairings.
For anyone who doesn’t know, the proper pairings are –
Alvin – Brittany
Simon – Jeanette
Theodore – Eleanor
Imagine, instead, if we had
Theodore – Brittany
Alvin – Jeanette
Simon – Eleanor
Simon and Eleanor may be the boring or normal pair there but I like the idea of Theodore and Brittany together, as I imagine that they will bring out different aspects of each other. Instead, as of now, the traditional pairings are just putting up a mirror to each other and that is working.
Simon – Brittany
Theodore – Jeanette
Alvin – Eleanor
Isn’t a bad pairing, except now, Theodore & Jeanette are the normal pair. I guess I’m all about the energetic and the lovable members being paired and the smart characters are throwing me off. Though Jeanette and Alvin together, could be fun.
I’m a much bigger fan of the later episodes, with the change of the art direction, than the earlier ones. Also, making this list, I realize that I (apparently) am a big fan of when they parodied other shows.
What brought on all of these Chipmunk related thoughts? I keep trying to put Walker Dennis in front of music that I think he would like and that I haven’t listen to a thousand times. Then I remembered my love for the Chipmunks and threw up the best song from the film, The Chipmunk Adventure –
The Girls / Boys of Rock n Roll song!
Thanks to YouTuber Loren Sylvester for hosting this video!
Also great? That YouTuber hipped me to this –
Thanks to YouTuber Stuart Danaher for hosting this video!
It is crazy faithful to the original, seen above. It also looks like a lot of fun!
Here is my list of my favorite episodes of Alvin and the Chipmunks, in no real particular order, so I went with production order, according to this website –
Here are my Top 25 Episodes! I had a hard time hitting 25, 17 was easy but I figured a round number would be great and then I thought about going for 25 – but that would fill the list with just also rans and such.
YouTube doesn’t have all of these so I’m only able to provide the ones that I could find. When I couldn’t find the episode, I provided the handy link from the excellent Munkapedia website.
I had more videos but each time they go up, they are forced back down.
I’ve always liked this episode for how it shows that Alvin really does like Brittany and it isn’t just that they are both chipmunks and are the leaders of their own bands, is the reason why he likes her. Him having to woo her is terrific.
Homage to Miami Vice, though I didn’t know that at the time. I liked how rugged Alvin is in this episode. The cast really get into their side roles too.
This one took a while to figure out which episode it was. One of my favorite Dave centric episodes, as I sort of like learning about the man who discovered the Chipmunks. I couldn’t remember how they went back in time, who would have thought it was with the aid of a merry-go-round?
A homage to the Breakfast Club but I never really view it as such. It is a far better mystery Roshomon concept, so to dismiss it as a simple homage, I feel is a disservice. Probably my favorite episode of the series.
This is one of those that I remember fondly as Simon tries to get Theodore to remember history, through the use of food. I want to say this helped me remember key dates and such but really, the stuff Theodore is trying to remember, is pretty simple facts.
Great use of continuity and clips from previous episodes. The whole “We’re bigger than Mickey Mouse” line is pretty awesome, homaging John Lennon’s belief that the Beatles have surpassed Jesus Christ’s fame.
A homage to Charlie’s Angels, which I would have known at the time but I never watched that show. I saw the two films but they are only okay. Another great use of the characters in other roles, and the Chipettes really come off well, as they are the focus of the episode. Eleanor’s fear of high heels has stuck with me to this day.
One of those that I added to the list to get to 25. I mostly remember the episode fondly and how the stakes were pretty high. Is it just me, or does the in-universe reality of the Chipmunks not make any sense. They are suppose to be mega-successful rock group. I can see their high school, just being cool with it but then we get episodes where they worry about money and such. Like, couldn’t Dave just bail them out of the problem with a little cash? I get that their earnings may be placed in a trust account, which probably explains Alvin’s get-rich schemes, so that he can get more money now – but couldn’t they access that money for emergencies?
I like this episode, as it shows that Dave may not want to go down in history as a producer or a stage dad, he wants to see if he can make the cut on his own.
I always think of these as one episode but for the sake of the list, I made it two (so that I could get to 25 episodes). The Chipmunks finally meet their mother! I love the emotional balance beam the special walks. Poor Dave is afraid of losing his boys. Poor Vinny, can’t keep her boys as they are city chipmunks and are use to a certain way of life. Poor Chipmunks, having to realize that they can’t live in the woods with their mother. The sequel, essentially, just proves why she can’t live with them in the city.
This is probably the episode I reference to, the most. So that probably makes it my second favorite episode. The Chipmunks to Berlin, and it is eleven months before it will come down – which I can only imagine that they wrote and created the episode probably a year and a half before Germany becomes one country again. This episode gets pretty real. Shame that it ends with the adventure being an imaginary tale.
Chipmunks Go to the Movies
Every episode of this season is a homage to a known film property.
I don’t really recall this, I must have stopped watching at some point, but I love the idea of how much this is like a comic book plot. The Chipmunks of the 90s meet their original counterparts from the 1950s.
That’s my list, the Top 25 episodes of the series!
Just due to me wanting to add this somewhere in the blog –
Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue
Thanks to YouTuber Ryan Willey for hosting the video!
Today, Star Wars Episode VII comes out! Something I’ve wanted ever since, as a child, that George Lucas was waiting until the cast was old enough and follow up their adventures. I didn’t think it would take this long but still, I’m pretty excited. Who knows when I will be able to watch the film.
Like the Transformers cover, for the Marvel 25th Anniversary theme, I wasn’t that familiar with who the cover character was.
That would be Wicket Wystri Warrick, from Star Wars Episode VI, Return of the Jedi. Who looked like this –
If he looked like this, I would have noticed him.
For more information on Wicket, here is his official Wookieepedia page :
This is a Star Comic, so I knew it was geared towards children but I hadn’t known it was based off of the Ewoks animated series, that I didn’t know existed.
This is a two part story, the first part appearing in Droids 4. In that issue, C-3PO and R2-D2 have gone through a Time Warp Portal, along with a King’s son, and they need to find the son and get him back. I imagine other nonsense happen, but that’s all that they let on at the offset of the issue.
Wicket and Princess Kneesaa are about to be crushed under a boulder, along with C-3PO and R2-D2. I like how 3-CPO calls him, Artoo, I guess I’ve always heard it as R2 but it makes sense to spell it out. Does C-3PO have a nice short hand?
Artoo lifts his arms and the boulder bounces off his feet. Once that threat has passed, Kneesaa (which when I first read it, I thought it was just a word of excitement that Wicket shouted) calls the Droads, demons. The Ewoks are under the impression that the boulder and the ‘demons’ are part of a Dulok trap. Duloks being the sworn enemies of the Ewoks.
Threepio (which I don’t believe is shorter but it saves one pinky extension) speaks the Ewoks’ language. He calls it an obscure dialect of the inner Zuma region. Artoo speaks in sound effects, which couldn’t have been fun to type.
The Droids are looking for Prince Plooz, if the prince doesn’t get back, two worlds will go to war. Kneesaa believes that Plooz is the Star Child. The Ewoks thought he was a good omen, for the upcoming peace talks. The two Ewoks and the Droids head to the Ewok village, to warn them.
And at the Ewoks Tree Top Village. The choosen village elders are on their way to the treaty site. They lost the star child, as he is eating honey, straight from a giant barrel. Chief Chirpa instructs them to give the prince, a bath. Plooz doesn’t care for it. Plooz doesn’t speak their language, so the poor child is just having these events happen to him.
Shortly. Wicket and Kneesaa and the Droids get to the village but no one is around. They look for Logray’s Hut, who is their medicine man. I guess he isn’t that important to bring to a peace talk – which makes sense. Logray strikes the Droids, as he also believes they are demons.
Logray shares the prophecy, that a blinding flash of light will bring good fortune to the Ewoks this day.
At the Peace Treaty Meeting Place. The Duloks see the elder Ewoks about to cross the bridge and prepare to undo the bridge. We can see that the sun is shining bright (that will be useful in a bit).
Before they can destroy the bridge, Chief Chirpa announces that a star child has come to Endor. The Duloks snatch the star child (who looks very panicked) and declare that they now own the child. Gorneesh threatens to throw the child off of a cliff unless the Ewoks leave, which they do. As they go over the bridge, Gorneesh’s second in command starts cutting the bridge.
Nearby. The Droids and the two younger Ewoks witness what is happening. Threepio comes running and the sun light bounces off of him and he appears to be glowing. This scares away the Duloks, so Threepio was the actual omen of Logray’s prophecy.
The prince wants to join his droid amigos but the bridge is unsafe. Luckily, handy Artoo is near and has rope, so the bridge gets fixed. The prince starts bouncing across and almost falls but Wicket makes a hero dive and saves Prince Plooz.
Threepio tells the Ewoks the story of Plooz’s father and the pending war.
A Race in Time!
Part Two of the Demons of Endor
The Ewoks wave goodbye and the trio fly off. They reenter the time void. King Gokus (Plooz’s father) threatens to end King Zornog, as he hasn’t return Plooz yet. General Sludd (who is betraying Gokus) is pleased with himself. He hopes the two kings kill each other and their respected empires are each to conquer after that.
Threepio states that only minutes have passed, so that’s a relief. The droids pilot the ship directly for the royal city, as Sludd’s ship gives chase. They land in front of the palace. Gokus comes running out, Plooz exits the ship, super excited to see his father – with the biggest grin ever that makes me smile.
Sludd tries to claim that the droids kidnapped the prince but the prince doesn’t let that stand. Good thing Artoo is around as he has Sludd’s original threatening message about his traitorous intentions.
The ends with C-3PO holding a sleeping, and happy, Plooz.
A pretty cute comic.
I’m not sure when I will be able to watch Star Wars Episode 7 : The Force Awakens but it looks amazing!
Spartax. The issue opens with Quill shouting that the delegates need to get to safety. Rocket can’t believe that crazy has followed Quill to his home planet.
Gamora recognizes the planet that now orbits Spartax, is it Kindun. Which I don’t recognize as something. Gamora states that the person who controls Kindun, hates her adopted father – Thanos, and is here to attack her.
Kitty (and me) needs someone to do a quick recap on Kindun.
Okay, this concept has only been around since Guardians Team-Up 2, and five came out recently (when I typed this originally). Kindun is the name of the guy who hates Thanos, and he also named the planet after himself.
Kindun has enlisted the Chitauri, who I only know from the Avengers film. I thought they were just the Ultimate version of the Skrulls, making the word – Skrull – a dirty slang word but that must no longer be the case. Or maybe it is, but in the Ultimate Universe and in the Proper Marvel Universe, they are their own race.
Gamora flies off to confront Kindun. Drax is fighting along side the Royal Spartax Guard.
Quill starts making a plan and Agent Venom arrives and joins the fight. Drax and Venom will stay on Spartax proper and Quill, Pryde and Rocket will follow Gamora’s lead.
Kindun, the Living Planet. Probably no relation to Ego. Gamora is ripping through fools. Kindun is connected to the planet, so he feels the damage Gamora is doing.
Spartax Royal Guardens. Groot is fighting off the aliens. We see Cosmic Kitty has a new form. I’m still pretty sure she isn’t the mysterious lady that will be featured in A-Force – which is a real shame. Pryde is getting used to Groot’s language.
I guess the away team didn’t leave as Quill had to tell Groot the plan. Venom is really letting Quill know that the surface fight is nothing more than a distraction.
Pryde makes sure Quill has a real plan and he says he does. I do like them calling each other “dear” and “honey.” Pryde’s cosmic form, looks like how it did at the beginning of Black Vortex, when we were given everyone’s enhanced form.
Kindun, the Living Planet. Gamora appears beaten so Kindun, the dude, tells everyone to stop the beating. She bounces back to her feet, she makes a big speech about how he needs to release his anger towards her. She will kill him, if he doesn’t leave her alone. He sends his forces at her and she just starts slaying them. She will kill Kindun and then her father but she rather just kill her father.
The away team gets closer to Kindun, except that it seems to be getting farther away from them as they approach.
The Chitauri are fleeing, which isn’t like them.
Gamora tells them that the fight is over. Rocket wants to kill some fools but Pryde tells him to calm down. Gamora has defended an entire planet and defeated an entire planet, this has been some day!
Gamora tells them that she has to leave.
Gamora being with the Guardians, has brought more fights than it has brought success. Gamora wants to take the fight to Thanos, as she can’t do that with all of these distractions. She loves the team and can’t bear to repeat that she is leaving to Groot, so she wants them to do it.
The Planet Spartax. The delegates are so thankful as Quill has saved the planet, and it is only his first day as acting President.
Quill wants a moment alone away from the delegates.
I really adore this last page and we learn that this is the last issue of Bendis’ Guardians of the Galaxy.
Prydc asks Quill want he wants to do. He only really wants to go to a beach and look at Pryde, which is awesome. She’s okay with whatever he decides to do, as long as it is the best decision he can make. She is on board with him staying as the President, she’s okay with him being a space pirate, she is all in.
I imagine we will get his decision in Star Lord and AoA Kitty Pryde, which I’m way excited about!
(So I typed this on May 26, 2015 – so I’m seven months behind on my reviews – I have lots of comics! I didn’t realize I had that many but I really don’t want to just do reviews every single day but I recognize that the event is nearly over and I’m just now reviewing the issues.)
I went with this variant, as I’m sure that is Kitty Pryde playfully punching Peter Quill’s arm. I posed the question to the Uncanny X-Cast Facebook group and I’m being told there that those two are Clint Barton and Kate Bishop, the Hawkeyes, which would explain the target on his shirt. Still, I had to buy this issue for one character in specific, so I took a shot with this variant.
Issue opens with Doctor Doom, Doctor Strange and Molecule Man are trying to plead with the Beyonders but Doom has a plan. This is the only pages, I feel, that one needed to read the entire Hickman Avengers opus to fully grasp. Instead, to me, it just reads like Doom is speaking to a mysterious force, which sort of still works.
The Multiverse is dying. Only two universes remain. Today, Earths collide.
Manhattan. Earth-1610. Incursion Event Imminent. Just for anyone who doesn’t know and may be reading this, for the first time – 1610 is the Ultimate Universe and 616 is the Proper Marvel Universe.
The Triskelion. Headquarters of this Earth’s SHIELD. Ultimate Fury wants Reed to explain how much time is left.
The City. Home of the Cabal and the Children of Tomorrow. Currently residing in Manhattan. Ultimate Reed has a weird helmet on his head. Reed gives Fury some hope, there is still time to fight this out. Once Reed ends the call, we see that Reed has been working with the Proper Marvel’s Cabal (the villain version of the Illuminati) – Thanos, Black Swan and Terrax. Reed reveals that the two Earths should have no hope, he lied to Fury so that Fury could feel decent about his last hours.
Once I saw that Ultimate Shadowcat was actually in this title, I knew I was in a for a good time. As I suspect that I will be jumping in and out of this series.
Another crossover and looking over the list, I feel pretty good for knowing all but a few characters.
I still don’t know who the Avengers Manifold & Pod are. I’m not sure about the X-Men’s Nation X Sentinels, I know Hickman’s Avengers 38 dealt with Cyclops and Nation X but that didn’t have Kitty at all. So I didn’t read that issue.
I’m disappointed that proper Kitty isn’t counted amongst the Guardians of the Galaxy.
I’m not sure who Inferno is of the Inhumans, but I’m sure he’s just a new Inhuman that won’t be around in a year.
Ultimate Universe, I just assume that The City and Children of Tomorrow are both related to Reed, I know that is true of the City but it sounds right with the Children of Tomorrow, as well.
The only members of the Cabal, that I don’t know are Proxima Midnight & Corvus Glaive. This is a more cosmic Cabal than Norman Osborn’s Cabal. I do like the note that they are on the Ultimate Earth but they are from the Proper Marvel Universe.
Manhattan. Earth-616. The Incursion Point between both Worlds.Though the narrative, we are informed that the this world’s populace knows that their end is soon. Unless the heroes can help.
Baxter Building. Near it, an explosion occurs. We see that the Fantastic Four have been making a Life Raft, with a bunch of brains being invited. I like Reed growing a beard. Black Panther is also on board. We get the first check in with Black Widow and Spider-Woman, who are bringing in the majority of the scientists. A few didn’t want to come, opting to spend their last hours with their families. That is an impossible choice but I can only imagine I choose to stay on Earth. Unless I can pull an Elijah Wood in Deep Impact and marry Leelee Sobieski and bring her along with me.
Manifold is trying to save the day, by following Black Panther’s instructions but it really isn’t explained how he is going to do it or what his powerset is. He isn’t successful, like, not even a tad.
Ultimate Iron Man is leading the Ultimate army (of SHIELD soldiers) against a main heroes listed on the character list, so the Ultimate side of things have no chance.
Spider-Man is about, saving civilians as is Iron Fist and Luke Cage. Representing the Guardians of the Galaxy are – Star Lord, Drax and Rocket. No mention of where the other members are. Not sure why they didn’t bring their cosmically enhanced members such as Gamora and Shadowcat. Thor (who is really Jane Foster) is fighting along with Storm.
FalCap and Iceman witness Sentinels coming to assist as Cyclops is leading them, as he is a leader of Nation X. Captain Marvel is directly fighting Ultimate Iron Man. Groot is on the scene, as well. Ultimate Iron Man inappropriately hits on Captain Marvel.
She-Hulk fights a weak spot in the Ultimate Hellicarrier and Colossus fastball specials Doc Green, in that direction. The Ultimate Universe is not putting up a decent fight, at all. Ultimate Hawkeye is on board, aiding Ultimate Nick Fury, they know they are not putting up a fight. Fury tells Reed to begin to use his doomsday worldkiller weapon.
Giant explosions star occurring. We get a panel with Ultimate Jean, Wolverine, Cloak & Dagger and Shadowcat! Hence, why I own this issue. I’m hoping, since they are included here, that they are crucial (or at least, involved) in Ultimate End. Which I can only imagine takes place right before this issue. So the final issue has to recreate some of this.
There are these, practically, city wide domes on Earth now. They slowly open, revealing a slew of smaller ships. Seems like Ultimate City is just the Proper version of The World, of the Weapon X facility.
Ultimate Spider-Man was standing on one of the globes. Now the Ultimate Universe has brought its big guns.
Kingpin sent a massive e-mail to his fellow villains. I like their e-mails
I wish they were more imaginative e-mail handles, Fisk’s is pretty great. Punisher arrives at the party, he can’t bring his bullets to the afterlife, and so he kills all that are present. I imagine, the villains, didn’t put up much of a fight.
Natasha calls Susan, they are not going to make it to the Baxter Building. Black Widow is the first hero (and Spider-Woman) that we see die, on panel.
Oh, Manifold’s ability is to get the second life raft (you know, the one that contains named characters), and they take off. So we have Reed, Black Panther and Susan that are safe and the other Fantastic Four family members and fellow Foundation students.
Black Panther puts out the call to get the survivors that they need.
Cyclops grabs his Phoenix Egg, which I’m still not sure about.
Apparently, it just contains the Phoenix Force. Cyclops gets the Phoenix Force aura around him but not the red thong.
We get Drax, Groot and Rocket’s deaths – and Rocket did not want to be on Earth. We see Drax and an uncosmically enhanced Gamora, so that is odd. I imagine that Hickman was told everything before he wrote this issue, so he should have been told about the end of a very well promoted crossover, Black Vortex.
Star Lord disappears, as does Thor, Captain Marvel and Spider-Man. Manifold decides not to take off in the life raft, he wants to stay and keep gathering the needed heroes. The life raft launches from the Baxter Building. Phoenix Force empowered Cyclops is also on the life raft. Instead of a black mask with red cross, Cyclops’ mask is now yellow.
Reed if flying the life raft into the heart of the Incursion, as that is their best chance at survival. A lightning blast strikes the side of their round life raft. The carrier section breaks away, Black Panther tells Reed (and us) that Susan and their children are located there. Which is odd, as two pages earlier – Susan, Franklin and Val, are strapping in right behind Reed. What happened in the ensuing page (which was the full page of the lightning blast)?
Susan places a force field around the carrier section. Reed tells T’Challa to drop the shields, he is going to reach out and grab them. T’Challa tells him he only has seconds to make the attempt. Reed has five seconds and they go by so quickly and . . . this is so heartbreaking, fails. We see the carrier burn up – so Susan, Franklin, Val and Thing are all dead.
On Reed’s section – for sure – are, Star Lord, Thor, Captain Marvel and Black Panther.
How great is that narration? I full agree with it. You find your life partner, and you can’t believe you can love anyone as much and then you go ahead and have a child. You still love your life partner, but – somehow – you love this child more than you love anything you ever loved before. Reed has lost his family and, with that middle panel, has lost an entire planet and worst, a universe. Such a devastating page!
We end the issue with Doom, who use to believe in tomorrow but now he believes in nothing. Issue two will be defining Doom’s role and the new (temporary) Marvel Earth – Battleworld.
Such a great way to end the issue with the tombstone of the two great Marvel lines. The proper one, 1961 – 2015 and the Ultimate one, 2000 – 2015. I can’t believe the Ultimate Universe was 15 years old. Marvel was a very young, 54 year old.
Other famous 53 year olds? Michael J. Fox, Melissa Etheridge, Ralph Macchio, Eddie Murphy, Boy George, Richard Hatch, Scott Baio, KD Lang, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Leeves, Meg Ryan, Thomas Hayden Church, Enya, George Clooney and the Great One, Wayne Gretzky. All born in 1961 – how crazy how much they al accomplished for being born the same year and how different each of their careers are, no two have the same path. All with various levels of success.
While working at Hastings, I was trying to sell slash hype this issue and this one guy started flipping through the pages. I asked him to slow down as with each quick page turn, he was quickly killing the Marvel Universe. We had a good laugh after that.
Sadly, this fantastic issue is ruined with a six page preview of Uncanny Inhumans. Which is unwanted and unnecessary.
This handy website has a more detailed commentary of the issue :
Which is a pretty interesting read, as I read none of Hickman’s Avengers and two issues of his Fantastic Four run.
YouTuber ComicsIsland had this pretty awesome hour long episode –
Which is pretty great as I rather just watched this than buy the eventful Hickman Avengers Omnibus. There were parts that almost lost my interest but then the reveal with Doom and how everything starts paying off, sounds pretty great.
ComicsIsland has plenty of similar theme episodes, which is pretty great as well as review episodes and fun top ten lists and such.
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Since I bought the variant cover at Hastings, I was awarded with a giant poster of the Battleworld Map!
I do enjoy being able to hold the entire map and seeing everything larger than I can on a computer screen.
I’ve tried my hand at scanning the one I have :
That isn’t any better but maybe someone with sweet skills can make that work.
I’m trying to find an image with all of the covers revealed, as at this point, only three portions of the map are still CLASSIFIED and no further information is available on those.
Apparently, Marvel released a trailer for this event and had started connecting with portions are which titles.
Thanks to Marvel Entertainment for hosting their own video, also this next video!
This was the first video of The Watcher’s that I have seen. I’ve seen previous videos of Lorraine Cink’s advertised before but I may have to check more of them out.
I was surprised that Wikipedia had the full list and the corresponding titles, that is pretty handy!
Battleworld map
Following numerous incursions across the multiverse, the remains of various realities have been fused together to create a new Battleworld. All of these realities are known as domains and have the ability to interact with each other, except for three (consisting of the Deadlands, Perfection and New Xandar) which are separated from the rest by the Wall for the simple fact that these domains contains threats that if set loose, would destroy all the others.
The following is a list of the domains and the Marvel Comics event titles that are their basis or reimagining as revealed on Marvel Comics’ Interactive Battleworld map. Secret Wars #2 will publish a complete guide to each domain:
43. Timely (may or may not be one of the classified domains) – The town of Timely where all the Marvel characters exist in an 1872 Wild West setting.
44. Genosha (may or may not be one of the classified domains) – The island that became the Mutant homeland and where the E is For Extinction mini-series will be set.
45. Holy Wood and Forest Hills (may or may not be one of the classified domains) – Though mentioned in the solicitation for the Korvac Saga, they are not shown on the Battleworld map.
Special thanks and shoutout to whomever typed all of that up and figuring it out!
I was looking for this Marvel Interaction Secret Wars 2015 Battlemap page but unfortunately it is only a hotlink on their main page for the event, so I’m not sure if it will still be an active website but it should work for a while, I imagine.
A nice brief summary of what each portion of Battleworld and which comic series that it correspondences with.
The titles and sections of the map that I’m mostly interested in, and at the very least, tracking are –
Number – Region Title – Comic Title
3 – Domain of Apocalypse – Age of Apocalypse
Which is above Limbo (which I’m also tracking) to the left of both Egyptia and Technopolis (which I’m not tracking). To the left of it is – Mutopia to the top left, Westchester (the FOX X-Men Animated series by Chris Sims) shares a small border and The Wastelands makes up the bulk of it.
11 – K’un-Lun – Master of Kung Fu
Which is to the right of Regency (the world if Peter never made a deal with THE DEVIL to undo his marriage to Mary Jane, so that his elderly aunt can live a few more years) / below King James’ England (the 1602 world) / to the right of Utopolis and above Weirdworld
17 – Marville – Giant Size Little Marvel
Which is surrounded by Utopolis above it, Arachnia to the right and New Quack City – where Howard the Duck is from, below it.
20 – Manhattan – a) Attilan (Inhumans) b) Proper Marvel New York City c) Ultimate Marvel New York City d ) Monster Metropolis
Don’t care about the Inhumans, but I’m sure b & c are going to crucial to the main series and whichever titles are not associated with a certain portion (such as Star Lord and Age of Apocalypse Kitty Pryde) and Ultimate should be where Ultimate End takes place in. Monster Metropolis is where Shiklah‘s kingdom is.
They are surrounded by several locations too! High Avalon to the left / CLASSIFIED above / CLASSIFIED to the left / The City (but not the City from The Tick, unfortunately) below. I imagine those CLASSIFIED locations are important only because of how close they are to the most important locations.
29 – Monarchy of M – House of M
I highly doubt SHIELD agent Illyana Rasputin or school teacher, Kitty Pryde, are going to be in this at all. Killville (where MODOK is important) to the top right and 2099 to the bottom right. 2099 is suppose to be a title that survives this event, somehow.
30 – Sentinel Territories – Years of Future Past
Killville to the left / 2099 to the bottom left / The Wastelands (Old Man Logan) to the bottom right / Mutopia (Morrison’s E is for Extinction) to the right
37 – Limbo – Inferno
Limbo, being so vast, covers quite some ground on Battleworld. Well, until I realize it was suppose to be a globe, so now I want a gif of the map spinning so I can get a better grasp on it. To the top of it is Domains of Apocalypse, along with 36 and 31 and below it (but separated by the SHIELD) is both The Deadlands (Marvel Zombies) & Perfection (Age of Ultron). Which makes sense as there is a comic, Age of Ultron v Marvel Zombies, which seems highly missable to me now. New Xandar (where Thanos is kept) is also separated by THE SHIELD. The SHIELD is there to prevent the horrors from escaping into the rest of Battleworld.
So this is all pretty exciting!
I was looking at the map, to make this post an my wife had a few things to add. First, that the Battleworld doesn’t look like Earth. Which brought her to ask if America was even represented. Which sort of blew my mind, as Battleworld is now like 90 percent American. There is an England, Egypt, Howard the Duck world, and maybe Mars? but the other 30 sections are American. New Xandar is Xandrian. Limbo is a different dimension. K’un -Lun is also another dimension.
Thanks to YouTuber Ewaldo Neto for hosting the video! I was hoping to get one where someone was using Kitty Pryde and Magik on the same team but I couldn’t find one.
So there was a while when I was addicted to this game.
By the time I started playing it, Kitty Pryde was already an available character AND had two costumes to choose from. As soon as I could recruit her, I made sure she was my first one of my own choosing to do so.
Somehow I was able to do it before recruiting Hawkeye, as he is most people’s third hero. I must have spent the in-game gold to get the necessary CP (Command Points) to get her.
I say Facebook game, but you could also play on Playdom’s own website too but you can’t transfer accounts.
Two events lead to my stop playing the game –
1) My home computer died
2) I couldn’t recruit Elektra, who was a Lockbox hero
I knew that the Lockboxes were going to be the end of my tenure with the game. Juggernaut was the first PVP (Player vs Player) Lockbox character and I was barely able to get him. Elektra was the next one, and I always said that once I couldn’t get the Exclusive Character, that I was done.
My wife hated that I played this game as much as I did. The clicking of the mouse drove her crazy.
I downloaded the Dolphin App for my Kindle Fire, so that I could use Flash and the game was practically impossible to play on the darn thing. It was a fun couple months.
To tie in with AvX, Playdom released Magik and that was an awesome! They did a really great job of tying in with the comic book storylines. They did their own version of the storyline (sort of like how the movies do) but had the same characters, for the most part. It was fun seeing their own continuity take place.
I tried recently to play the game again, as I heard they increased the max level cap from 12 to 14 but the Dolphin app was still impossible to use. There are very specific spots you are suppose to click and I cannot either increase the size of the screen or have the patience to locate all the spots. It just wasn’t fun anymore.
But if you had a proper computer and like Facebook games, I would recommend it though I imagine new players would be put off with how far behind they are and how all the Lockbox heroes are impossible to get unless you want to spend real money on them.
Here are the heroes I recruited, in order :
Iron Man, Black Widow, Kitty Pryde Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Iron Fist, Cyclops, Ms. Marvel, Invisible Woman, Luke Cage, Black Panther, Magik, Hulk, Daredevil, Quicksilver, Ghost Rider, Beast, Storm, Wolverine, Valkyrie, Emma Frost, Nightcrawler, Jean Grey, Deadpool, Tigra, Havok, Magneto, Mockingbird, Hank Pym, Black Knight, Psylocke, Captain Britain, Human Torch, Omega Sentinel, Vision, Punisher, War Machine, Union Jack, Rescue, Black Cat, X23, Thundra, Juggernaut, Wonder Man, Constrictor, Scarlet Witch, Fantomex, Angel, Damion Hellstrom, Satana, Gambit, Rogue, Spider-Woman, Doctor Strange, Shatterstar, Hercules and Cable.
Wonder Man was the hero you recruited when you finished the Special Operation, a bonus level that they released particular once every two months or so.
I had vowed to never recruit Colossus and I would just pay the 25 gold to skip the final task of any Special Operation to not do the Epic Boss that required certain characters to complete the final task.
If you know who the Special Operations characters are, which you can learn more from the Wikipedia page –
You can tell exactly who were the required heroes to unlock the epic boss and get the character as that was the order I recruited heroes in. I saved and saved my CP until I got at least 325 points (enough to get three expensive characters) and from there, maybe I would be tempted to use any extra CP to unlock costumes (which I rarely did, except for Kitty and the rumored Magik one that has yet to happen) or other characters.
I was crazy involved on the Playdom boards and thanks to the boards, was able to anticipate which heroes were going to be needed for the next SO and trying my best to save enough CP to get them all.
Mockingbird and Emma, I had to buy after they were rereleased as I missed out on their Special Operations. Actually, I got there just as Emma’s was starting but I had no idea what I was doing and I didn’t want to unlock Colossus so I just let it passed. Once she was gone, she was gone for good (or so I thought).
It was a fun ride, it occupied a bunch of time in my head and in RL and I have no idea would I would manage to keep up with my life now that we have Walker Dennis.
I can barely keep up with Criminal Case – the only Facebook game I still play now. And that’s mostly due to my wife playing it and so I can play it guilt free as we can play together. I tried Juice Cubes and Candy Crush Saga but they got to levels that just were no fun anymore to keep trying.
Facebook games as made me realize that these games are free and why I would ever pay $60 for a game and $600 for a game system? I barely have twenty minutes to play a free game so spending $700 for a system that I probably won’t even watch BluRays on, is maddening. Not sure how other parents do it. Or they wait until their children are older and can keep themselves occupied.
I wish I could do another screen shot of the heroes I recruited as I did enjoy looking at it, all that time and energy into recruiting all of them.
Okay, I was able to quickly get these screen caps of my roster –
I was trying to sneak and do this and I had to click so many buttons to skip all of the news items. Special Operation for Rocket Raccoon was happening and a new PvP tournament.
Getting those images, sort of makes me want to sneak and play the game on a good computer but I can’t risk that. If only the Kindle Fire would have Flash properly on their platform, I bet I could get back in there. Would be annoying for all of the exclusive characters I missed out on but these things happen.
57 characters I was able to recruit, that is pretty impressive!
Last I left, it was the Special Operation that Damion Hellstrom and Satana were available for. Also, Season Two had just been released and that’s why I started getting all of those additional characters as I was changing my game philosphy as I wanted to just stay current on who the game wanted me to have. I had plenty of gold so I could have an easily time with the Special Operations.
Another thing that killed my buzz for the game was that they redid PvP and made it so that you can have two teams – Defending Team and Attacking Team. So everyone, of course, made their defending team a high defense team and that’s who you had to beat. Playdom only required five wins a day but those five wins, for me, probably took ten to fifteen fights and I just couldn’t commit to that as it takes five minutes each (if you are lucky). That’s what the video above is all about, its a PvP match up.
Just to end on a higher note, here are two videos to show off Kitty and Magik!
Thanks to YouTuber mmagamers for hosting this video.
Thanks to YouTuber o PRIM0 o for hosting for this video!
Looking at so many of these videos, also makes me want to play the game. Also, to figure out how people even made those videos as I wouldn’t mind just making my own video with Kitty Pryde and Magik.
I do love so much how Kitty got a move that uses Lockheed AND that from time to time, Lockheed will just help out as well. Such a fun gimmick. They did the same with Magik, having Limbo demons make surprise attacks as well.
Since I’m trying to make this my Everything Avengers Alliance, I will share this as well :
My wife also thought the game just looked dumb as well. The heroes don’t have any special graphics. The images above would just move from their slot to the other side and then a graphic comes down. I thought it was good enough but she just hated how addicted I was (and I can’t blame her now that I’m months passed it now – almost a year passed it now that I think of it) but that it was such a simple looking game, she couldn’t see what I saw in it.
I mean, it is a free Marvel game with as many characters as you would initially want. What is there to not enjoy?
Emma / Spec Op 2 was during July / August 2012 and Season Two came out August 2013, which was when Elektra became available to start unlocking in PVP which was shorlty after Spec Op 11 ended.
So I played for close to a year and now a year as come and gone. I’ve kept the app on my Facebook profile so I see the logo from time to time but it sure left its hold on me.
I also liked how they gave Kitty, for her second costume, her blue Excalibur look.
The art used for profiles and dialogue was always nice too.
There, I’m pretty sure that’s all my thoughts on the game.
So I wrote the bulk of above, on August 18, 2014 – a long time ago. I then got sucked back into the game but after Special Operations 23, with Spitfire, I had to call it quits again – as it was sucking up too much of my time!
I did have a great time in playing again but I was so far behind that I spent $40 on Gold to get CP and Lockboxes and had plans to buy more but enough was enough (again).
Here are the heroes I recuited, after Cable and coming back for a second time –
I’m sure it was making this post, in the first place, that made me want to keep going back to the game but it was fun. I was mostly seeking characters that I needed to unlock the epic bosses.
I do feel bad, as I got four new allies but I will remain on their ally list, and at level 300, will be a pretty good ally for deploys and another ally to recruit daily items from my map.
Edit 12-6-15 – I think I’m going to try to keep playing when a new Special Operation is going on, as those characters cost 200 CP, later on. Which is pretty hard to save up on, after the fact.
I will play on Sundays too, as the Daily Mission offers CP, even though I have never won CP on Sundays. I’m trying to get 200CP now for Falcon, and I’m at 62 – so it is taking time.
I now have recruited Brother VooDoo and Jessica Jones.
Cameron Chase, my all time favorite DC Character – I’m that guy – is coming to CBS’ Supergirl. I’m hoping for a mutli-episode role. Couldn’t be happier that Emma Caulfield is going to portray her. Though I haven’t seen Caulfied in anything, since Buffy, but that’s more on me than anything else.
Chase was an awesome seven issue issue, plus a millionth issue, over at DC and it was awesome. Dan Johnson and JH WIlliams III slayed that title. She first appeared in Batman 550, which was also pretty great. The character has appeared in Manhunter, Pre52 and in Batwoman, Post52. Titles that I still need to seek out but from what I’ve read, she’s still pretty great.
We still haven’t watched Supergirl, being two episodes behind but I’m hoping we can marathon it soon.
In response to Who is DC’s Jessica Jones, Chris Sims had this to state –
Back in 2011, Chris also had a series retrospective, which is quite good.
I really should hunt down those Manhunter and Nu52 Batwoman trades.
Since, initially, typing this post, we have watched the first three episodes of Supergirl – pretty good so far. I’ve read that CBS has given it a full series order, so that’s even better news!
Inked by Danny Miki with Allen Martinez & Walden Wong
Colored by Brian Reber
Lettered by VC’s Cory Petit
Cover by Adi Granov
Special Thanks to Russell Jackson
Cover Dated February 2010
Earth Give Up Your Dead, Part One of Three
I own this issue and the next issue but not the third part. As I like to do, whenever I first dip into an older crossover, is to give a quick overview of the issues involved and how involved I was with the crossover. With this one, I feel like I was pretty involved with it, with how Cypher came back in the pages of new Mutants but let’s see if my memory matches the event itself.
While looking for a website that lists the reading order, I came across this website, that has a pretty decent overview of the event.
One of the nice things, in this modern age of comics, is that there was a handy checklist in the back of the title, of the issues and when they came out.
So the issues I own, in order are – Necrosha One-Shot / New Mutants 6 / New Mutants 7 / New Mutants 8 / X-Men Legacy 231 (naturally) / X-Men Legacy 232 /
I skipped Chapter Two (X-Force 21), The Gathering (which is mostly an issue to remind people of the characters), X-Force 22, Chapter Four (X-Force 23), Chapter Five (X-Force 24) and the Finale (X-Force 25).
So 13 issues, and I own six so just under half of the crossover. Once I was looking over the issues involved, I figured I didn’t actually own the main issues involved, which is typical me. Essentially, my need to collect all of Magik’s appearances, made me take an interest in this crossover.
Onto the issue itself. The issue is printed around the midway point. At this point, Selene’s army of undead characters, have invaded Utopia.
Four miles off the US Coast. The Dead Rise. Utopia Burns. Cyclops, Colossus and Psylocke are finding off the undead as the Cuckoos provide mental assistance. One of the undead, is Maggot – Cyclops makes short work of him. Blindfold shows up, and Cyclops is not that pleased or impress. Blindfold wants a private moment with Cyclops, which he has this great reaction of – we’re in the middle of a war, there are no timeouts. The Cuckoos get Cyclops inside Blindfold’s mindscape – I really like the choice of making the room light blue with the objects in the room, only white outlines. Blindfold has been blind, since she was a baby, so everything looks only like how it felt to her. Cyclops does a decent job of keeping his cool as Blindfold relates a story of what Destiny told her in a previous issue.
There is an ad for the Honda Civic, so go out and buy one of those!
Destiny told Blindfold about how Selene is on Genosha (now called, Necrosha) but there are serious threats on Muir Island.
Necrosha. The Palace of Selene. And its Dungeons. Destiny is in a cell, as Stonewall guards her. She offers to tell him his fortune, if he releases her.
The North Atlantic. International Airspace. Three Hours Later. Cyclops has picked his away team, lead by Nightcrawler, Colossus, Magneto, Psylocke, Blindfold, Rogue, Trance and Husk. Pretty random sort of characters, because it is Legacy, we knew Rogue would be on the team. I like her and Nightcrawler on the same team, Magneto makes sense, as the next page will show. Carey will use Trance later.
Trance implies that Blindfold is rarely correct, also I like how Trance doesn’t like Blindfold, or at the very least – they don’t get along. I imagine Blindfold is the freak amongst the freaks.
Magneto takes the opportunity, that he is sitting next to Rogue, to talk to her. They have a very rocky relationship. Rogue likes that Magneto is back on the side of heroes, he likes that he is being reminded of their intimate time in the Savage Land. Rogue reminds him that she lost interest again, when he started killing flatscans again.
Actually, he killed Zaladane – I guess that explains why we are not constantly getting stories about Polaris trying to prove if they were sisters or not.
Magneto tries to counter that they did share another kiss, in the middle of Uncanny X-Men 304 – Illyana Rasputin’s funeral after she died in 303. Which, really, is all that it takes for me to buy a comic.
Rogue reveals that she only kissed him so that she can weaken him.
The team lands on Muir Island and Kurt asks Trance to check the island for any threats. I like Magneto trying to offer advice and Kurt shooting it down as it is the obvious choice.
There is an house ad for Siege, an event seven years in the making. I read it, just the main event, and possibly one tie-in, the New Mutants issue. I like that tag line, as I feel like most events during this era could have just swapped the number of how many years.
Colossus decides to make some time with Psylocke but chooses to insult her, as he regrets that she only has her telepathy powers instead of her telekinesis. If she had the lather, she would be a heavy hitter, in response to this silly insult, she knocks him down on his back and stands on top of him. What a moron.
Rogue wants Blindfold to repeat everything Destiny told her. Blindfold reveals that Destiny was hoping to have spoken to Rogue instead of her would-be granddaughter.
Mortis, Dagger’s half-sister, is informing Selene that Stonewall has let Destiny escape. An unconscious Warpath is dragged into the room, with an editorial note stating to read X-Force 22, to learn more.
The X-Men have a clear path to Moira’s lab. They get inside the lab and don’t see any signs of anything. There have been two notable deaths on Muir Island – one, was Destiny at the hands of David Haller and the other, was killed by Colossus – Proteus!
Blindfold runs into Destiny and touches her hands, this is all Proteus needed to transfer bodies, from one undead to one very alive body. Rogue shows up, doesn’t notice that Blindfold isn’t speaking in that broken English way of talking, Protifold takes down Rogue, as the issue ends.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 