One of my favorite aspects of Comics Should Be Good is that someone is doing a 365 Days of … list.
Greg Burgas has been doing Day of the Artist and during the week of June 9, 2014 – it was Paul Smith’s run.
For the Uncanny X-Men spotlight, Mr. Burgas went with Uncanny X-Men 173 and did an excellent write up and posted some amazing scans!
Here is the link to his amazing archive that he has amassed already! :
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/01/01/year-of-the-artist-archive/
Writer Charles Soule
Penciler Peter Nguyen
Inker Derek Fridolfs
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Colorist John Kalisz
Jotuunheim. Domain of the Frost Giants. Fang has chosen Daken to be the first person to have an adventure with him. Daken does not want to fight Frost Giants, as he is missing an arm, an eye and his healing factor. Fang expresses how much Wolverine appreciated guys like – Beast, Iron Fist and Daredevil – as they were regular dudes, with high athletic abilities but no healing factor. Daken points out that they all had at least two arms.
Fang tells a Frost Giant, Bunduk, that Daken is his long lost father, who abandoned Bunduk’s mother, years ago. Bunduk starts trying to kill Daken, and Daken keeps trying to get away him. I’m not sure why Dunduk suspects a tiny fella is his father, but that is the joke of the issue. Dunduk’s mother had to work in the mines, under the volcano, and risked melting – every single day.
The Changeling. Shogun and Lady Deathstrike have had sex and Shogun’s mind has been blown. Ogun has been on this ride before but he also had a good time. Shogun is impressed that Lady Deathstrike’s fingers didn’t get in the way, everything worked as it should. I thought she could retract her claws but chooses not to.
Lady Deathstrike recognizes some of Shogun’s sweet moves, as a former lover. He wears the mask of Ogun, so she is probably just trying to get an official answer. Though, one would think she would ask prior to the sweet love making. I didn’t even know that Lady Deathstrike and Ogun had a history together, it was vaguely hinted at during Death of Wolverine.
Shogun calls her, Lady Deathstrike, and would like to know her real name, as now that they are intimates. I wouldn’t even have been able to guess that her name is, Yuriko Oyama. That does remind me of the confusing names of Yuriko and Yukio, Wolverine’s friend from Japan, who is also Storm’s 80s inspiration.
I like how smitten Shogun (should I be calling him Sharp, while also discussing Ogun?) is with Yuriko. Shogun explains how Ogun is in his head, ever since Death of Wolverine 4.
In the middle panel, is that the first we’ve officially seen Sharp’s face? At the end of Weapon X Program 1, it was implied he looked like a blonde Wolverine.
Prior to Ogun, Sharp was good at firearms but all of his hand-to-hand has been Ogun influenced.
Jotunheim. Fang is still trying to encourage Bunduk to kill Daken. If he had a father in his life, he may have been able to continue relationships with lady frost giants, Frost Giantesses.
Fang refers to Wolverine as “your dad” to Daken, and he pops his claws in rage. He starts attacking poor Bunduk.
Madripoor. Fantomelle and her fox, Culpepper, are trying to steal one of Patch’s . . . patches. Fantomelle tries to perfect her flirting skills, but she’s only been alive for three weeks, so she needs a lot more practice. Culpepper steals the patch and they take off, being chased by nearly everybody.
Meanwhile. Daken is close to killing Bunduk, Fang puts a stop to the fight. Fang offers to go have a beer with Daken. Poor Daken, he can’t open a can of beer with only the one hand. Somehow, Fang is able to give him his left arm and eye back but they are made of flame or something like that.
For anyone who is buying all of Kitty’s appearances, including mentions, this is the issue you should have bought!
Fang calls him, your dad, one too many times and Daken feels the need to explain that Logan was never ‘his dad.’
Fang mentions how much Logan liked to mentor the young ladies – Kitty Pryde, Jubilee and Armor. Daken understands why he didn’t have that relationship, he was born in 1946, so he wasn’t a boy when he finally met Logan.
Fang comes out and says that Logan always felt that Daken was, a monster. An ugly thing. Logan felt relief when he drowned Daken, back in Uncanny X-Force 34. Which I won’t review as my Uncanny X-Force run stops at 31.
Fang takes back Daken’s temporary arm and eye. Fang continues putting dirt on an open wound and tells Daken that Logan hates all of the Paradise folks, except for X23. Fang wants to make all of the villains’ lives miserable.
South Africa. The Tautona Gold Mine. Two Miles Deep. Mystique has hidden the ship, to try to get away from Fang’s plan. Fang teleports right in, so that was silly. X23 wants Fan to leave Daken alone. Fang wants to take Sabretooth next, on an adventure.
Issue ends with Shogun and Yuriko chatting. She likes the idea of reuniting with Ogun. Shogun tries to explain that Ogun is only a voice in his head, it isn’t like he and Ogun are a team, making this relationship a complicated threesome. I suppose someone had to fully state it, good job, Soule.
Shogun goes to sleep and once he does, Ogun is able to speak for himself – which is a pretty cool twist. I imagine he has an accent when Ogun speaks, and Lady Deathstrike is all for killing Sharp.
April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013
It has been two years since Tom Clancy passed away.
Back then, I was hesitant to do a post about it, wanting to be strictly a comic review blog with some other postings but wasn’t sure about it. Now, as we all know, I have gotten to the point where I feel like I can post any subject.
Of his novels, I only read Debt of Honor and Executive Decision, two Jack Ryan novels. Which I really liked. I should read The Bear and the Dragon, as that also deals with Jack Ryan as the President.
I haven’t seen any of the films based on his work or played any of the video games either.
Probably be decades before someone would will make a movie based on Debt of Honor and Executive Orders, which is how I found out about the books in the first place was an article about how similar the 9-11 attacks were to the book, Debt of Honor (they really weren’t that similar).
. . .
Post 825!
Writer Sam Humphries
Pencils Paco Medina
Inks Juan Vlasco
Colorist David Curiel (credited twice! – he is that good!)
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna
Black Vortex, Chapter 9
Now that the last piece that J-Son has been waiting for, Thane becoming all powerful, is in place – he is ready to strike. J-Son wants Thane to place Spartax under the Living Death. So Thane starts doing his jerb.
Kitty tells everyone to head inside, as if that would make things better. I suppose it at least gives them something to do.
J-Son is super excited that his former planet is encased in amber – just like the dinosaur DNA in Jurassic Park. Which I’ve been having a thought about the Jurassic Park. What was, in their honest opinion, was the worst case scenario? Even the Brontosaurus, if they escape their cube, outsize humans by like thousands, so the idea of bringing dinosaurs back into existence, was not a very good idea. Is it awesome? Oh yes but it wasn’t very smart, not even at the onset.
We learn that J-Son’s deal with the Brood is to deliver to them, planets.
Quill, Jean, Storm, Drax and Carol have made it to Spartax, and Quill loses his mind seeing all of the folks covered in amber.
Jean senses the planet’s anguish, they are all in agony. Quill puts his eyes on Pryde and comes running at her.
Quill starts telling Kitty all the things he has been thinking. She was right, something she loves to hear and he will be saying more often. That he should have listen to her.
The stakes are at an all time high, Black Vortex (the crossover) has already cost the galaxy, two planets.
I like Quill telling Pyrde that she is the best person in the whole galaxy. Truer words were never written.
I imagine Pryde was able to finally focus on something besides her current predicament. She is able to phase herself out of her amber state.
How great is that page above? Medina and Vlasco and Curiel are amazing talents!
Quill and Pryde exchange, I love yous, and it is super sweet!
Humphries is quickly growing to become one of my favorite Shadowcat writers. Lines like calling Quill, a dumbass. That she will berate him later. She just wants her dumb space boy to kiss her. Shame we don’t get to see that kiss though.
Drax tries to punch the amber off of folks but it doesn’t work. Kitty gets hugs from both Storm and Jean, which I like. Kitty is sure she can’t phase anyone else out. I wish we can at least she her attempt to get Lockheed out. Agent Venom is encased in amber, so I’m sure the known heroes will eventually make it out of this.
I really dig Nova taking full responsibility of this planet wide terror. Storm forgives him, as he was outnumbered.
It only took two chapters and we got the team back together, which I like! Magik has brought back with Rocket – Warren, Beast and Gamora.
Quill starts yelling at Beast but Magik puts the hammer down on that. The Enlighten Ones have return and that is all that matters.
What is with Kitty’s shirt in that last panel?
A Brood ship enters Spartax space.
In Orbit Around Spartax. J-Son officially gives Spartax to the Brood Queen. J-Son explains to Thane, for every ten planets he gives to the Brood, they give him one. Before too long, he should have an empire. Which seems odd to me, as it took him until now to get the one planet. But if he only points Thane into the direction of lesser known planets, that would really work. As there are only five chapters left, I doubt they will get another one.
Tiny new breed of Brood babies are flying to the surface. Quill grabs one and no one recognizes the new breed.
Storm announces that there are millions of the insects. The babies are feeding off of the amber.
Beast quickly dissects one of the babies and discovers the Broods goals. These Infestoid Brood are going to burrow through the Spartax folks’ brains and impact their eggs. He does some quick math and before the sun comes up, there will be seventy two billion new Broods in the universe.
The heroes know what to do, they have to kill the little critters. Before they can do that though, the Slaughter Lords shows up.
Chapter Ten continues in Cyclops! Which I don’t own yet so there will be a delay between chapters now. With Cyclops 12, though, we enter the final four chapters.
I’ve been wanting to keep track of the conspiracy news about Marvel maybe doing away with the X-Men due to the FOX Movie Rights issue. I’ve been looking for a website that had all of these in one spot but I didn’t see any, so once again – I have to make the Internet have what I’m looking for.
ComicBook.com – Licensing
http://comicbook.com/2015/06/05/marvel-comics-is-not-marvel-licensing-the-x-men-and-fantastic-fo/
Bleeding Cool – who will be dominating this post – No X-Men in Marvel Mighty Heroes
Bleeding Cool – Marvel 2015 doesn’t include any X-Men nor Fantastic Four (FOX has their movie rights too)
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/31/marvel-2015-line-up-poster-loses-x-men-and-fantastic-four/
Forbes – Breaking that XM Studios Premium Collectables can no longer make X-Men nor Fantastic Four statues
Bleeding Cool – X-Men and Fantastic Four no longer part of Secret Wars, according to t-shirts
Which does link to the CompleX thread over at Comic Book Resources’ forum, which actually keeps track of all of this. With a slew of posts in-between the evidence so I guess I’m attempting to have a cleaner version.
http://community.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?12517-The-Complex
With a slew of posts in-between the evidence so I guess I’m attempting to have a cleaner version.
Bleeding Cool News – Second Marvel Secret Wars Shirt to remove X-Men and Fantastic Four
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/19/a-second-marvel-secret-wars-t-shirt-drops-ff-and-x-men/
Beezzi, a poster of Comic Book Resources, has this awesome document that has essentially what I was attempting to do
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qiQAw0-bPz1nPH-xsuEf5G24_-wa8Yeb7C5-iu6fdYY/edit
But now I’m compiled my own list so I guess I will keep track of what I come across. Beezzi’s document takes the pressure off.
Even once I post this, I will keep track of stories that are released. I’m not sure where it ends, as even if the X-Men get 20 titles Post-Secret Wars 2015, people will still not be convinced. I guess it will end once FOX loses the movie rights but I doubt that will ever happen. Why would it?
Though why Marvel doesn’t just release merchandise with the comic book versions of the characters – as that is what I want to throw money down for – is beyond me. I just want to decorate Walker Dennis’ room with X-Men items but Disney / Marvel doesn’t want me to do that.
Writer Gerry Duggan
Artist David Baldeon
Inker Terry Pallot
Colorist David Curiel
Letterer Comicraft’s Albert Deschesne
Black Vortex, Chapter 8
Deep Space, One Week Ago. Gara senses that the Black Vortex is back in play and seeks to destroy the item.
Elsewhere in Deep Space. Today. Nova is flying home. He is remembering when he held the Ultimate Nullifier and actually fired it. That caused a black hole that destroyed a Chitauri fleet. I wish there was an editor note that stated which issue that happened in.
http://marvel.wikia.com/Ultimate_Nullifier_%28Weapon%29
According to that website, it was either issue four or five – though it doesn’t state that he fired it.
Nova looks into the Black Vortex and sees a more confident and bigger version of himself, rich with power.
I really like this issue and it reminds me of how much I enjoyed issue 18 of this series, from the Original Sin crossover. I wanted to try another issue of this series and I’m glad it became part of this crossover.
Nova asks why he should submit to the mirror and is shown – he can save his father, defeat Thanos and be as legendary as Richard Rider
Meanwhile on Mister Knife’s Flying Fortress. Somehow J-Son is able to convince Thane that the heroes slaughtered his flock. Even though J-Son, literally, has a crew named, The Slaughter Lords. Piece it together, man!
Carefree, Arizona, at the apartment of Eva Alexander and her two children. Which is apparently three hours and eleven minutes outside of Yuma, Arizona – according to Google, but I’ve never heard of it. It is north of Phoenix, so that would explain that.
Sam throws a blanket over the Black Vortex, which is on Earth now. He calls the Avengers on his Avengers ID card. He is an honorary member (I imagine from Infinity) but he will be an Avenger in the Post-Secret Wars 2015 All-New All-Different Avengers.
The Free Comic Book Day issue is actually titled that, but who knows if that will be the official name of the title. Could that be the new brand name for the Post-Secret Wars 2015 titles? Instead of “All New” the titles are labeled with the even longer, All New All Different, title? At least, alphabetically, they would follow the previous series -so there is that. I’m scheduled to get the above issue through DCBS, but that lineup is sort of okay. FalCap, Lady Thor, an Iron Man, Vision 3.0 (I believe is the number we are on), Ms. Marvel and I’m excited about Miles Morales joining the Avengers. People are pretty sure that the only thing different with the Marvel Universe after Secret Wars 2015, is that Miles is a Spider-Man webslinging around New York City. Which seems to be a lot of work, to make something that seemed pretty easy to do in both Spider-Men and Cataclysm.
Jarvis answers the call, confirms that the Avengers ID has no cash capabilities (which seems lame of Tony Stark) and tells Sam that Vision is not available. Also, not to refer to Vision as a Droid.
Sam’s mother calls him for dinner. I like how his mother and sister both know that he is Nova, it never made any sense to me for teenagers to constantly lie to their guardians about being superheroes. To try to protect her daughter, she spells out o-u-t-e-r s-p-a-c-e, which, if anyone starts spelling aloud around him, my brain does this thing that it registers every letter and I have the hardest time figuring out the word that is being spelled. Like my brain overly concentrates on the spelling. Even if it is a three letter word like d-o-g.
Someone rings their doorbell. It is the Collector and his associate, Legron, who wants exclusive negotiation rights to the mirror. Meanwhile, his sister is almost accidentally submits to the Black Vortex. Nova grabs it and flies back into space, and the Collector and Legron, give chase.
Spartax. Gara senses the Black Vortex is near and takes off. Look, Kitty and Lockheed made it to this issue, too! So far, we haven’t had to miss an issue due to lack of Kitty or Magik. Kitty still wants to have the mirror destroyed.
In Orbit Above Spartax. Nova runs straight into the Flying Fortress, which isn’t Quill’s ship but his father’s. So that was a huge mistake. Thane punches Nova to his foolish face. It takes very little convincing to get Thane to submit to the Black Vortex.
Thane now looks pretty royal, which is pretty good.
Issue continues in Legendary Star Lord 10 for Part Nine. .
Written by David Benioff, it was published in 2001.
I got it for page 39
and page 40
The book has a Prologue and 24 Chapters
I’m still waiting for someone to put up the scene from the movie of Marty / Edward Norton saying the line about the X-Man who phases through walls. Who, of course, is Kitty Pryde, Shadowcat of the X-Men! My favorite character of all time!
Each chapter isn’t an hour of Marty’s life, which is what I first thought when I saw the final chapter number. Does anyone else do that? I usually look at how many pages a book has, I read the last paragraph and then I check to see what the last chapter number is. I’ve never determined buying a book, based off of this information but I do it every time and I’ve done it for years now.
One benefit of having David Benioff writing the screenplay of Spike Lee’s adaption of the novel, is that it feels like an aspect of every page is represented in the film. Small details, parts of dialogue, thoughts given form, there is some detail from every page, that is in the film. Which is an amazing accomplishment, or at the very least, it feels like that. I’ve made a point of not rewatching the film until I’ve finished reading the novel but that is what I remembered from the film.
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/hitchhiking-robot-lasts-just-two-weeks-in-us-because-hu-1721544551
So Canada tried to make a peaceful hitch hiking robot and Philadelphia let them know how they felt about that!
Apparently the robot had no problems in Canada and Germany, so America is taking some bad press for being the unsafe country. But like I always say, a destroyed robot is a good start.
Plus, hitchhiking, don’t do it! As a father, I can’t risk being killed and as a husband, I also can’t risk losing my van to a hitchhiker.
Another thing that bugs the heck out of me, is when hitchhikers plant their feet and just put out their thumbs. Like, I would be far more willing to pick them up, if they were also continuing to head in the direction they want to go in.
One time, I had to pick up some food (or something) and in that 30 minutes, the guy didn’t move, at all, from the corner. There was also a time, when a couple had parked themselves at another street corner, for three days or so – and just kept wanting rides, money or supplies. I imagine, come day two, no one helped them, as that’s pretty lazy.
This is it, my last Big Brother post – for the year – unless something crazy happens.
It is Thursday night, at 8:30pm, Walker Dennis is sleeping and I’m about to watch Episode 40. Now that our Fall shows are back, our Retro Big Brother Days have come to an end. Watching The Voice and Dancing with the Stars, cuts a lot of time in our nights, as they are an hour and a half long.
Twitter and Tumblr haven’t spoiled this for me, nor has my wife. She isn’t thrilled by the Final Three, so I couldn’t tell by her disappointment, exactly who won. She got spoiled this morning, when she went on Facebook, which I guess Facebook didn’t spoil this for me either.
Let’s learn who the winner of Big Brother 17 is!
fuck~ My wife didn’t watch the show through the cfedits and so I just saw Steve crying and hugging his mother, that’s who I would want to win. Dang it! I know better than to not make sure that I have “Watch from beginning” selected on CBS All Access. Well, let’s see if that is how the episode unfolds.
98 Days, they were in the house.
Julie Chen doesn’t look bad. She really does like wearing the color, black.
Liz gets the first spotlight, which segues into Vanessa. Now we see Steve’s season. The Twin, The Poker Player and the Trombonist.
So many tears, this season.
HoHPart1. First place winner (of the game) gets $500,000 and second place gets $50,000. Production and the cast, are making a big deal of how third place, gets nothing. 41 minutes, Everyone is still on. 1 Hour 57 Minutes, who is doing the voice? Mark Hamill? Probably not. They went from sitting on the disc to the apple bag, itself. 3 Hours, 15 minutes. Powder Sugar was the white substance that I saw, get shot on them. Steve drops! NOOOO!
Part two is always mental, except for Season Eight’s. Vanessa starts with her mind games. Steve is grabbing some popcorn as Liz makes a deal with Vanessa. Liz drops and Vanessa wins! So lame. Steve does end up with some popcorn.
Dr. Will Kirby is back for the Jury House discussion. I believe this is his second or third time, doing that. He’s a good sport. Vanessa’s girlfriend, Mel, is sitting on the other side of Dr. Will.
HoHPart 2. Poor Steve, almost trips! There is a giant crossword puzzle! Liz doesn’t stand a chance. Production loves making the second HoH into something that the houseguests have to climb up on. I imagine that Liz is more fit than Steve, so she may have the speed. Steve finished in, 28:27, seems decent. Liz finished in – 31:11, not too bad. Steve wins! They both got stuck on “Double Eviction.”
Part Three, Steve v Vanessa!
The most pointless part of the finale, Jury House Debate. Austin got shoes. John makes some jokes. Who cares how the individual jurors think the others should vote, as it is up to the individual. Will makes sure that they all know that Vanessa got them all in the jury. Seems like Shelly and James are already voting for Vanessa, which is good, Vanessa has played the hardest. She should win the game, but she wasn’t great about it. It has been very hard to watch. Whoa, John! He doesn’t like Steve, how he was shielded the entire time, whereas Vanessa was on front street. Liz, is an afterthought. Liz played Vanessa’s game. Meg wants a nice person to win, so that would be Liz. Dr. Will brings up the fact if whoever wins Round Three, if they bring Vanessa, that person is chose to not win the game.
They brought back the giant scales, which serves no purpose! Well, it makes me worried that the houseguests are going to fall off of it. Just let them sit in comfy chairs.
Jeff and Jordan! are sitting next to Steve’s parents.
FinalHoH. Scales of Just Us. Liz looks pretty nice,, in her blue dress.
Question One, Shelly’s favorite moment was (B) winning HoH, duh! Steve gets it right, I got it wrong.
Question Two, Jackie’s most annoying thing about the house was (B) the constant paranoia. I got it right, but not those two. There is a super long and weird pause between the jurors.
Question Three, Becky, biggest lie was everything out of Audrey’s mouth.
Question Four. who needs a reality check? Clay or Austin? Meg’s question – Clay!
Question Five, James said (A) was himself was the strongest competitor. He said B, Johnny Mac, all three of us got it wrong.
Question Six, Julia respects Shelly’s game, the most. I have no idea what the score is. Austin, I got it wrong but Vanessa and Steve got it wrong.
Question Seven, Austin said (A) Zingbot mentioning his girlfriend. (B) Zingbot mentioning that Austin stinks. They are tied!
Question Eight. John’s favorite thing about the house, was getting ripped. Vanessa . . . Steve got it right! John didn’t want to drill people’s nasty teeth! Which isn’t great, as that is his job. I hope that doesn’t hurt his job!
Steve has said that taking Vanessa would be a mistake! Oh man, he has to take Liz and win! Vanessa will be brought back, at some point – I’m sure.
Steve has to decide if he wants to win this game or not. Steve wants a moment but Julia says that they are live tv. Steve’s speech to her, is so intense! Is he going to murder her? He evicts Vanessa, but says that she is the strongest female player in the history of the show. Liz didn’t see that coming! Steve just won the game.
Vanessa tells Julie that she saw this coming. She isn’t crying, amazingly enough.
Apparently Bradley Cooper is recurring on that Limitless show, I would thought they would promote that fact. I didn’t see the film nor read the book so I’m not sure how possible that is. CBS Access hasn’t shown Bradley Cooper being in the ads, but my wife said that she saw one.
Madame Secretary got renewed for a second season!?! I thought it got cancelled. I do like Tea Leoni. I saw Morgan Freeman was a Supreme Court Justice, I imagine he only appears in the one episode.
Julie brings out the jury. People do not like Austin. Julia doesn’t want to guess. Austin guesses correctly. Austin is so happy. James got a haircut. Vanessa looks like she is going to cry after Austin’s response. John is happy to see his best friend again.
These three questions are usually so dumb. Johnny Mac, first question. Steve looks so nervous and awkward.
Q1. Steve, I was a good friend to you in this game, why am I wrong in that you didn’t use him and Vanessa. John has such a confident answer, but Julia Chen keeps stopping him. The live audience can’t hear him but we can. So awkward and stupid. “Scramper Squad” is such a dumb name, to say aloud.
Q2. Becky. What moves were Liz and not Austin? So dumb, as Liz won more competitions than him and
Q3. James. Steve is sitting next to a strong competitor. What did he do that wasn’t being a floater? He explains it, pretty well.
Q4. Julia. What is Liz’s strongest game move? Working with her sister and her showmance.
Q5. Jackie. Steve didn’t talk to many people, about game, and those he did work with, said that he didn’t really game with them. Steve used his alliances. I do like how some of his game matches Julia’s, so that was smart to bring her along.
Q6. Austin. He says she looks beautiful and the audience turns on him.
Vanessa didn’t get a prompt to question. These questions are always so easy to imagine an answer.
I just saw the Bradley Cooper commercial of Limitless and now I’m having to hear about it again.
Final Speeches. Julia mentions how much Steve is a Super Fan. Liz loves Julia but doesn’t mention a second person. Her speech seems unrehearsed. Steve seems like his speech is very planned. Steve won 4 HoHs and Liz only has two. Steve mentions how Julia was in a hotel room for the first five weeks. Steve got Vanessa out of the game, Steve just won the game with that speech! Liz just has to smile, through that.
The Votes –
Shelly. Julia loves Liz and Steve’s mom loves him. Shelly is voting with her heart
Jackie. She is proud of both of them. Her vote is for the person who has dreamed of this, “their” entire life.
Becky, looking great. She is extremely glad for who she is voting for.
Meg. Loves them.
James. mentions his own haircut. James is letting Jesus take the wheel, like Carrie Underwood. Instead of just turning into the skid.
Julia. Her vote is obvious, which goes against what Chen said to do!
Austin. He loves Liz and is proud of Steve. Judas has left the building, which gets some boos. He quotes Selene Gomez, the heart wants what it wants.
John. He has to choose between the worst alliance member or . . . he couldn’t come up with an insult for Liz.
Vanessa. No hard feelings against Steve. She votes for who best presents the season.
The six houseguests who didn’t make it to jury, are up next. This segment is always a waste.
Audrey left her crazy pants at home. Shelly is all smiles. They made the jury and these fools switch sides. Davonne thought the most surprising was Austin talking about how Judas was going to own the season and didn’t. He has no decent response. He liked the house too much. So long of a response.
Vanessa has a secret! 90% was the truth. She has four and a half million dollars, and is a professional poker player. So she will be okay.
Jason, he is impressed with Vanessa’s game. She Doctor Will it, Dan it and Derrick it. He mentions what I’ve been saying, she cried as she made big moves. She never owned it.
Julie Chen let Audrey talk and she instantly starts to cry. oh my. She keeps it together.
The winner is next.
I’m sort of excited to see Supergirl.
The Votes –
Shelly – Steve, Julie shows it at the end.
Jackie – Steve (he knew he was going to win!) such a great moment!
Becky – Steve
Meg – Steve
James – Steve
Julia – Liz
Austin – Liz
John – Steve
Vanessa – Liz
Julie went backwards, as she really wanted to know who Vanessa voted for. Which is a nice real moment.
Steve earned that shit!
Life in Pieces, does look good. Glad Person of Interest got a fifth season. CBS All Access refuses to air episodes three through 20, so we can’t get caught up.
Steve should be made mayor of that town of his.
America’s Favorite Houseguest is . . . James! wha!?! Must have been the live feeders.
Top Three are – Johnny Mac, James and Jason.
Steve has no big plans for the money, just be smart with it.
Jace didn’t get to say anything, neither did Jeff, that’s for the better.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis
Artist Valerio Schiti
Colorist Jason Keith
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Black Vortex, Chapter Seven
Cover is a tad disappointing as Gamora and Warren should be cosmicly enhanced. I know that they couldn’t have revealed that three months ago, when the covers are first shown but they could have changed that by the time the issue came out. Instead of the Jean Grey Cosmic Variant, they should have just redone this cover – but with the new versions of Gamora and Warren. That would have been both cool and appropriate.
Issue opens with Gamora checking on Beast, who is crying as he has finally realized that he is the worst. He broke space and time, and there is no fixing it.
We are treated to another Beast diagram, this time with Excalibur making a reference (on the left side).
Hala, Homeworld of the Kree, The Crown Jewel of the Kree Empire. Carol is speaking to the Supreme Intelligence. She references how she is part-Kree but she was forced to be part-Kree (that is what the Brood did to her, right, when they accidentally turned her into Binary – or am I remembering that wrong?)
Supreme Intelligence still doesn’t want to do anything with the Black Vortex, it was missing for thousands of years, and he rather it stayed that way. Supreme Intelligence goes further to threaten that since Earthlings attacked the Kree throneworld, there will be repercussions for Earth.
Drax provides the information that I needed last time and should have remembered. The Enhanced heroes were deciding their next move when the Kree showed up, and snatched the Black Vortex. Which caused the trio to go to Hala and attack the city. That’s all I needed and now that I typed all of that, I bet it was on the recap page of Guardians Team-Up 3.
Supreme Intelligence wants to rehide the Black Vortex. Jean establishes a mind-link with Carol, Quill, Storm and Drax. Quill starts getting loud with the floating head and Storm gives the command. Nova swipes the Black Vortex and rockets out of there. I like how young Jean and Nova are, as she says “go go go” and he responds with a “I’m go go going!” Which is a simple (and enjoyable) way to show their youthfulness.
Captain Marvel punches Supreme Intelligence to his dumb face. Nova gets outside and sees that the Kree Armada is still outside and now he is on the run again. On the fly again?
Back inside, Supreme Intelligence tells the Kree to stop fighting the heroes, and to go after the child Nova. I like Quill commenting on the fact that they don’t really have an exit strategy. Add ‘strategy’ to words that I can’t spell, this is getting bad ya’ll.
Jean reshows that she still has that super move, of collecting psychic energy and an harnessing that into her purple form. It helps that Supreme Intelligence is practically all psychic energy (as he has thousands of years of knowledge in his head). From the coloring, it doesn’t appear as if she turns purple – but it has been quite some time since she has shown this trick. Was it the last crossover, the Trial of Jean Grey, it may have been.
The Flying Fortress of Mister Knife. J-Son and his ship are right above Nova. J-Son gives the order and the ship starts raining down missiles to the planet. Supreme Intelligence shouts that everyone needs to leave. Quill gets everyone off planet, as well.
Hala is destroyed. J-Son has reached Phoenix level of evil! Jean can’t believe she finally gets to see a planet die. The heroes are not sure if Nova is dead or if the Black Vortex was destroyed in the explosion.
J-Son is advised to leave the scene of the crime but he wants to watch the continued destruction. I suppose I would too, as how often does one get to break a planet in half? But one has to watch from a safe distance. One has to wonder what stops J-Son from doing the same to Earth. Besides all of Earth’s heroes putting a stop to it.
J-Son wants Misa to hand over the cosmic mirror but he doesn’t have it. We see that Nova is unconscious and the mirror is floating next to him.
Cut to Magik and Rocket (I would like to see what these two have been talking about for the previous pages). Rocket is having a bad reaction to all of Magik’s teleporting.
Gamora is happy to see her friend, which worries Rocket, as she is never happy. I do like Gamora referring to her as, Lady Magik. Magik tells her that they need the trio’s help.
Beast is still having his “Beast is horrible” revelation and Rocket just responds with “sucks to be you then.” And it really does!
Magik offers that she can help the trio deal with the burden of the cosmos that are enhancing them, as she has been dealing with her own dark force inside of her and she’s been doing that since she has been seven! That Bendis, he really does have a good grasp on Illyana.
Beast senses something and tells everyone to get down.
Everyone is blasted backwards. Beast informs them that Hala is gone. Magik is concern for her friends, possible, only really concern about Quill – as his death would upset Kitty. At least a little bit, I give her less than six months to get over him and probably forget all about him until the next Peter comes around.
With this new development, Gamora promises the trio’s aid to the regular heroes.
Inside the Flying Fortress. Scott, Bobby and Groot are held captive, so we are not waiting months before checking on them – and I’m glad for that. Groot’s inability to say more than three words (and those same words in the exact order, every time) is starting to rattle Bobby. J-Son comes to check on his captives.
J-Son is keeping them alive as he wants to trade their lives for the Black Vortex, and he knows that Nova still has it.
Issue ends with Nova floating in space, which naturally leads us to his own title and Part Eight! We are still moving at a pretty decent clip!
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Shadow and Flame with Magik 