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Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe : Teams 2005

Posted by John Klein III on November 7, 2014
Posted in: Review. Tagged: Byrd, Christiansen, Davis, Flamini, Green - Richard, Handbook, Hoskin, Lentz, McQuaid, Moreels, O'English, Pacheco, Power Pack, Reese, Sjoerdsma, Vandal, Vazquez - Gus. Leave a comment

Handbook Teams

Head Writer / Coordinator Jeff Christiansen

Writers Stuart Vandal, Al Sjoerdsma, Barry Reese, Bill Lentz, Eric Moreels, Mark O’English, Michael Hoskin, Richard Green, Ronald Byrd, Sean McQuaid & Anthony Flamini

Cover Artists Tom Grummett & Morry Hollowell

Cover Dated 2005

On the cover, three teams are represented – Power Pack, New Thunderbolts and Defenders.

There are some profiles worthy of purchasing :

Big Hero 6

Big Hero 6, just because this is Big Hero 6 Month.  Art by Gus Vazquez.  Three years later, this extact profile, word for word, in the Marvel Your Universe Saga.  The team did not last at all.

 ExcaliburPoster3a

Excalibur, it doesn’t list Lockheed as a member – which is foolish.  Art by Alan Davis.

Exiles, lists Magik as a former member.

New Mutants lists Magik as a former member.  Picture shown is the squad.

Power Pack has Magik mentioned a couple of times in the profile.

X-Men Carlos Pachero

X-Men, of course has Kitty as a member.  Art by Carlos Pacheco.

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With this, Big Hero 6 Month comes to an end.  Pretty sure we won’t be watching this in the theater.  We will buy it once it comes out on BluRay.  Here is hoping it is good and profitable, so that we get more Disney / Marvel animated films.  Even if they are direct to DVD, as long as they are adaptations or good – I will be happy, either way.

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All New Doop 5

Posted by John Klein III on November 6, 2014
Posted in: Review. Tagged: 2014, All New Doop, Allred, BotA, Lafuente, Milligan, Santagati. Leave a comment

All New Doop 5

Writer Peter Milligan

Artists Federico Santagati and David Lafuente

Color Artist Laura Allred

Letterer VC’s Clayton Cowles

Cover Art Michael and Laura Allred

Was Santagati rushed this issue, or does he just like thicker finishes?

The funnest miniseries of the year finally comes to a close.  I’m really going to miss this adventure.

The non-Kitty parts didn’t hold my attention, it just felt off to me.  I really think it was the inks, it reminded me too much of Bill Sienkiewicz’s inks over Sal Buscema’s pencils during their time together on Spectacular Spider-Man.  Which I do hate to keep harping on that as I love Sienkiewicz has an artist but as solely an Inker, I would prefer anyone else.  It was probably just a style they were going for but it has ruined me for thick inks.  If it was a black and white comic, I would be cool with it but it just looks off.  That’s the best I can describe it.

Issue opens at Karolinska Hospital.  Sweden.  Wolverine is fighting Mama Doop, trying to get some answers.

In Doopspace.  Poor Doop is having to escape from a hundred versions of himself.

Jean Grey School.  The Brotherhood of Evil X-Men and the Present Day Regular X-Men are also having to fight off dozens of Doops.  Raze starts losing his cool, if he ever had it.  Bling! confronts him and Xavier Junior shuts her down.  Rachel and Xavier Junior are talking.  Xavier Junior is whining as done of this happened originally.

Wolverine and Anarchist are in Dooospace.  Wolverine finds Doop and reveals the secret, but not to us.

Back in the Real World.  Bling! is not thrilled by Xavier Junior.  Rachel wonders how Kitty is holding up.

In the Jean Grey School’s Lab.  Kitty wants to get back to Doop, he’s in trouble.  She starts phasing into Doopspace.

All New Doop 5 Kitty Hot Tub

Doopspace.  U-Go Girl, which this is the first time I have really noticed her hero name.  Pretty clever.  She’s in a hot tub with Anarchist.  Apparently, there is a Hot Tub Rule to not place one’s foot between another’s legs.  Makes sense.  Turns out, it was Kitty doing the touching.

Doop and Wolverine are talking.  Doop is worried that he upset Kitty.  Wolverine tells him that Kitty is pretty tough.  Doop returns Wolverine back to school.  Doop puts a piece of him into Wolverine’s ear, causing him to forget all of the Doop business.

Everyone at the school starts forgetting.  Wolverine walks into the room.  Kate Pryde stabs Wolverine, turning into Raze.  So this happened twice.

Doop finds Kitty out of the hot tub.  They leave so they can talk.  Doop admits he had a bad meltdown.  As oppose to all of those good ones, you hear so much about.

Doop reveals to Kitty, and us, his big secret.  His Mama and Papa are one and the same.

Thanks to my pal, SlickNickShady for the second two images :

All New Doop 5 Pre Kiss

Kitty explains – Doop is asexually reproduced hermaphrodites.  Our Doop is the same.  Doop withdraws his marriage proposal.  Kitty is not super relieved, Doop had started growing on her.

Doop has said some nice things to Kitty.

All New Doop 5 Kitty Doop Kiss

So they kiss!  Kitty even gives Doop a little tongue.  Doop is the fifth person Kitty has ever kissed!  Now we can create a Top Five!  Actually, her and Star Lord have not kissed yet.  It is just a matter of time though.

Kitty doesn’t want to go to school.  She wants to stay in Doopspace.  She is happy there.  Doop realizes that she is just avoiding making a tough decision.

All New Doop 5 Kitty reaction

I’m so happy that Lafuente got to draw these Kitty pages.

Kitty is offended that she can’t like weird things.  Also, Doop tastes like spicy peanut butter, so now we can never unlearned that.

Doop gets Kitty to admit that she is ready to leave the school and join Cyclops’ side.  Doop also reveals this entire adventure was to show Kitty that she can do anything.  The ring and proposal were only props.

If Doop and Kitty were a couple, then he wouldn’t be part of the margins – he would be part of the main story.  Dman right!

Sometime Later.  Kitty announces she is leaving the Jean Grey School.

Thus the best miniseries of the year comes to an end.  I want a sequel already!  More Kitty and Doop, please!

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Marvel Your Universe Saga

Posted by John Klein III on November 5, 2014
Posted in: Review. Tagged: Flamini, Hanna - Scott, Marvel Your Universe Saga, Raney, Rauch, Vazquez - Gus. Leave a comment

Marvel Your Universe Saga

Cover Artists Tom Raney, Scott Hanna & John Rauch

Cover Dated 2008

I saw this as a shirt at Hot Topic and still regret not buying it then.  If you see it available anywhere, please hip me to it!

This issue also has a handbook profile of Big Hero 6 wriiten by Anthony Flamini and using Guz Vazquez’s art.

Big Hero 6

Just minus the logos and such.

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Also, today is Guy Fawkes Day, so try to watch V for Vendetta today, if you are so inclined.

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Legendary Star Lord 3

Posted by John Klein III on November 4, 2014
Posted in: Review. Tagged: Caramagna - Joe, Humphries - Sam, Legendary Star Lord, Medina - Paco, StarKat. Leave a comment

Legendary Star Lord 3

Writer Sam Humphries

Penciler Paco Medina

Inker Juan Vlasco

Colorist David Curiel

Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna

I’m glad that they had time to change Kitty’s hair from red to brunette.

Star Lord 3 Kitty with red hair

Issue opens with Quill in yet another prison cell.  He is in the cell with a fellow Spartaxian and a green young male alien.

Quill looks for some inspiration, and looks at his wrist.  WWRRD, What Would Rocket Raccoon Do.  Rocket would fake it til you make it.  He calls Quill, Baby Boo.

Quill gets an idea.  The Spartaxian is part of the Secret Service.  He needs help from a special someone.

Thanks to Tumblr poster 5ummit for this first set of images!

Legendary Star Lord 3 Kitty 1

Legendary Star Lord 3 Kitty 2

Legendary Star Lord 3 Kitty 3

I like that he calls it, the Kitty Phone.  She’s surprised that he’s calling her from yet another jail.

He wants her to create a distraction.   Kitty offers a crackling Jazz / Tap routine.  That, I would like to see.

Quill was hoping for something with lingerie.  Oh, he doesn’t know Kitty at all.

As per scary, her last year’s Halloween costume might work.

The escape plan begins.

Legendary Star Lord 3 Kitty 4

Legendary Star Lord 3 Kitty 5

This was a fun turn of the page reveal.

I read, ooga chaka, and I think of that song from Alley McBeal with the dancing baby – Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede and sung on the show by Vonda Shepard.

I would like to see Kitty’s last year Halloween night.  Her wearing a giant banana, is just fun.

The distraction works perfectly.

Quill and the green dude esape together, and find a red racecar of a space ship / jet, the ship is called the Bad Boy.

The ship has a young lady hologram interface system.  She seems cool and hip.

Quill names his buddy, Tiberius.  He drops him off at the orphanage from the first issue.  Quill starts flirting with the lady who runs the orphanage, Donna.  He is about to go inside with her when he sees Tiberius eating a banana.

Legendary Star Lord 3 Kitty Final 1

I like that he isn’t going to sleep around any more.  His days of womanizing are over.  Or at least, he’s going to hesitate.

I really do enjoy seeing the two of them enjoying each other’s company.

Quill thanks her, as he should.  Kitty promises to keep bailing him out of trouble.  They are about to kiss.  How does that work?  I can’t imagine that they use hard light projections.

Legendary Star Lord 3 Kitty Final 2

The voice of the ship interrupts them.  The ship reveals Quill is coming to Earth.  Kitty perks up at this news.

Kitty thinks he is coming to visit her, she lives on Earth.  What a statement.  Me too!

He tells her that this isn’t a vacation trip he’s taking.  We see on the final page, he’s coming to Earth to confront . . . Thanos!

He should totally bring Kitty along.  If Squirrel Girl can defeat Thanos, single handedly, Kitty should be able to, with a little help.

Hopefully she shows up, if she does, I will buy that issue.  I know she will be in issue six and on the cover to issue seven.  I saw on Twitter, that Humphries has announced that Kitty should be in every issue – to some extent – starting soon.  I can’t wait!

This is from Humphries’ official twitter feed

Sam Humphries Kitty Plans

So I’m of course following him now!

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Marvel Atlas 1

Posted by John Klein III on November 3, 2014
Posted in: Review. Tagged: Flamini, Handbook, Hoskin, Johnson - Staz, Marvel Atlas, Moreels, Ogun, Sotomayor, Vandal. Leave a comment

Marvel Atlas 1

Head Writer Michael Hoskin

Writers Anthony Flamini, Stuart Vandal & Eric J. Moreels

Cover Art Staz Johnson & Chris Sotomayor

Cover Dated 2007

A pretty fun handbook that spotlights the countries that exist in the Marvel Universe (both real and unique to Marvel) first and foremost.

Each country’s profile includes – Official Name / Population / Capital City / Places of Interest / Government / Major Languages / Monetary Unit / Major Resources / National Defense / International Relations / Extraterrestrial Relations / Nonhuman Population / Domestic Superhumans / Prominent Citizens / Superman Residents / Domestic Crime / International Crime / History and First Appearance if it is a unique country.

Country profiles to buy the comic over –

The United Kindom – has Kitty Pryde and Excalibur as Superhuman Residents

Japan – Big Hero 6 (hence the inclusion here!) in the Domestic Superhumans and Ogun is mentioned as well in the Superhuman Residents

Russia – Illyana Rasputin is listed in Domestic Superhumans

 

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Death of Wolverine 2

Posted by John Klein III on November 2, 2014
Posted in: Review. Tagged: 2014, Death of Wolverine, Eliopoulos, McNiven, Ogun, Ponsor, Soule - Charles. Leave a comment

Death of Wolverine 2

Writer Charles Soule

Penciler Steve McNiven

Inker Jay Leisten

Colorist Justin Ponsor

Letterer Chris Eliopoulos

Part Two of Four

I only got this for the final page and the Ogun mention but before that, this stuff happened :

Madripoor. Lowtown.  A runner shows up and retrieves Wolverine, who is in a nice suit and rocking a beard.

I noticed that silly Harley Davidson Wrecking Crew is no longer the back cover ad but a regular ad within the comic.  Did Harley Davidson not pay up for the continued placement?  This comic isn’t a fair one, as the cover, both front and back, are glossy.  So, maybe they decided to let this week go.  If they can’t have all the back covers, then don’t get any of them.

Wolverine is trying to get a meeting with the boss.  He brought a working Iron Man helmet as the cost of the meeting.

Hightown.  Turns out Viper is the new ruler of Madripoor.  With Mystique in hiding from both the X-Men and SHIELD, as she was impersonating Dazzler, that left a power vacuum.  The other go-to ruler is Tiger Tyger, but it must have been Viper’s turn.

I like the references to Viper and Wolverine being exes.  I really liked that storyline.  I believe I’m set to review it next year for my wife and I’s seven year anniversary.

Koro, who set up this meeting, didn’t know it was Wolverine.  Viper isn’t pleased with this.

Viper sends some goons after him, he makes short work of them.

Viper foolishly asks how Wolverine got the helmet.  Like really?  He’s an Avenger with Iron Man.  He probably just asked Tony for it.  I’m sure Tony made the helmet so that it will depower, or something, within a time period.

Viper hints that a contract is out on Wolverine.  It isn’t her’s, she’s just sub-contracting it.  Which seems pretty insulting.  Before she will reveal the buyer, she wants Wolverine to get into one more fight.

There is an ad for Marvel Chess.  Which I really want, but not piecemeal like their website sort of implies.  Its a nice mix of heroes and villains.  I’m going to hold out until the second set, and hope Kitty Pryde shows up in that set.

Sabretooth is on a chain.  He is Viper’s dog now.  She tells Wolverine that she got him out of prison.  When we last saw Sabretooth, only two months ago, he was being locked into a SHIELD prison.  I can’t imagine SHIELD has a price tag for prisoner releases.  This happened in Paul Cornell’s second twelfth issue.  I guess SHIELD rather be paid off for Sabretooth, instead of losing agents in the eventful escape.

There is an odd two page dream sequence, which gives NcNiven a chance to draw a costumed Wolverine.  It seems like a waste as it took me out of the comic.  Like maybe I had a few pages stuck together or something.

Sabretooth slashes Wolverine’s left eye, which should mean he now has two scars over each eye but I don’t see the scar that Silver Samurai Jr. gave him during Cornell’s first volume, towards the end.  Maybe it is the same eye and now, the one scar is hidden under the giant scar he will now have.

We see a, snikt.

Lady Deathstrike, that looks like her old look and not her latest look from the recent Wood / Dodsons X-Men run.  She starts slashing into Sabretooth’sback.

Wolverine tells her to stop.  Sabretooth flees.

Lady Deathstrike’s name is on the list that Wolverine’s name is on.  She was hoping to work with Wolverine but now that she knows he doesn’t have his healing factor, she is done with him.

She reveals that Ogun told her about the contract.  Which is impressive, as the last time we saw him, he was in Hell during Jason Aaron’s Hellverine storyline.  I thought when Simon Spurrier revealed he had two children at the start of his X-Men Legacy run, that was going to lead to Ogun’s return.

Not that it matters, as Lady Deathstrike is about to kill Wolverine.

Death of Wolverine 2 Kitty Final Page

Luckily, Kitty shows up!  I knew she was in the third issue and guessed that she may appear on the final page of issue two.  I’m glad she did, this series just got a lot better.

In the commentary section in the back, McNiven comments that he enjoyed drawing this page.  Soule was also excited for the pairing.

I’m definitely getting issue three.  Not sure about the fourth and final issue.  Most likely

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Alpha Flight Volume Three Issue 9

Posted by John Klein III on November 1, 2014
Posted in: Homage, Review. Tagged: 141, Alpha Flight, Days of Future Present Past Participle, Henry - Clayton, Lobdell. Leave a comment

Alpha Flight V3 9

Irving Forbush Presents :

Story by Scotty Lobdell

Penciled by Clayton Henry

Inked by Mark Morales

Colored by Digital Rainbow

Lettered by Rich & Jimmy @ Comicraft

Editorial Assists by Sean Ryan & Stephanie Moore

Edited by Mike Marts

Chiefed by Joe Quesada

Publishing by Dan Buckley

Cover Dated January 2005

Days of Future Present, Past Participle! Part One of Four

I only own this issue for the Uncanny X-Men 141 Homage cover.

We kick off Big Hero 6 Month with this very issue!

The Alpha Flight are – Sasquatch / Yukon Jack / Centennial / Nemesis / Puck / Major Mapleleaf

Big Hero 6 are – Hiro / Go Go Tamato / Sunpyre / Honey Lemon / Baymax / The Ebon Samurai

I really liked this volume of Alpha Flight, it was very fun and light comic book fare.  I also liked the second volume as well with their espionage story elements.  I only own two issues of the first volume (33 and 40) and only this issue of this volume.

Issue opens with the two teams fighting each other, like any good meeting of two superhero teams.

There is an ad for Spider-Man on DVD, go buy it!  Actually, just get the 2.5 edition.

Even though there is a bunch of fighting right at the top, there are a lot of jokes being flung around with the punches.

There is an ad for Smackdown v Raw, which I played on the PS2.  Amazing how far the graphics have come in just nine years – which isn’t that amazing now I think of how much time and how many systems have come and gone (two!).

Smallville Season Three was coming to DVD!  Also the horrible X-Men / Fantastic Four miniseries is coming out, where four X-Men get exposed to cosmic energy.  The four X-Men that are exposed are – Emma, Gambit, Wolverine and Nightcrawler.

The two teams get together to try to help former Alpha Flight member, Flashback.  He wants to enlist present day Alpha Flight to save his future self so that he doesn’t die at that moment.

Big Hero 6 leaves right when Flashback shows up.  Baymax, the team’s robot, was being mind controlled and once they figure that out, the fight stops and Big Hero 6 leaves to investigate what that was all about.  Which I’m sure this first half of the comic was suppose to work like a back door pilot for their eventful miniseries.  There must have been some cross appeal with international comic book teams.  I suppose that does make sense.

This is the only comic appearance I own with Big Hero 6, the rest are handbook style books.

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Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness 1

Posted by John Klein III on October 31, 2014
Posted in: Homage, Review. Tagged: 141, Army of Darkness, Halloween, Kirkman, Layman - John, Marvel Zombies, Neves - Fabiano, Suydam - Arthur. Leave a comment

Marvel Zombies Army of Darkness 1

Writer John Layman

Artist Fabiano Neves

Colorist June Chung

Letterer VC’s Randy Gentile

Consultant Robert Kirkman

Cover Dated May 2007

Cover by Arthur Suydam

Happy Halloween, everybody!  I really should have done this last year, still can’t believe I didn’t think of Marvel Zombies has being the comic series that I can spotlight on Halloween.  So this is what we’re doing going forward as I have a few of these issues.

I only own this issue due to the cover, which is an homage to Uncanny X-Men 141.

There is an ad for Spider-Man 3 on the inside front cover.

Ashley J. Williams from Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, played by Bruce Campbell in the films – is teleported to the Marvel Zombie Universe.

What I really like about this comic is that it does directly tie in to the origins of the Marvel Zombies.

Ash sees a fight between Thunderball and Daredevil.  He then goes to the Avengers and they don’t care for his wise cracking ways.

There is a two page Honda car ad, what a waste that must have been!  Element SC, if you are curious.

Sentry comes crashing into the planet.  He has already been infected with the Zombie virus.  I’m not sure which Marvel Zombies miniseries later reveals it is Sentry, but I like how that universe’s origin is in a constant loop.  Sentry is being constantly thrown back in time and they are just reliving these moments in a time loop.

Sentry inflects Warbird, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Luke Cage.

There is a Playstation and Game Boy Advance Ghost Rider game, I wonder how that is?

Ash tells Spider-Man that the virus that is inflecting his hero friends may be the same type of virus that he has to deal with all of the time.

Captain America, who is Colonel America here – bites Spider-Man.

Issue ends with Ash being dropped to the ground (Spider-Man was carrying him) and is all webbed up at the moment.  Ash lands and looks up to see Zombie Hawkeye, Luke Cage and Warbird.

I don’t own any issues but I can only imagine Ash makes it out of this okay.  I know Zombies Colonel American and Spider-Man make it out as they are actively involved in future Marvel Zombie miniseries.

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For anyone who is interested, Walker Dennis will be a Sock Monkey for his first Halloween.

Sock Monkey Costume 2014

Be safe out there!

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All New X-Men 31

Posted by John Klein III on October 30, 2014
Posted in: Review. Tagged: 2014, All New, Asrar, Bendis, Miles Morales, Petit - Cory, Ultimate. Leave a comment

All New X-Men 31

Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Artist Mahmud Asrar

Colorists Marte Gracia and Jason Keith

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

The All New X-Men go to the Ultimate Universe!

Issue opens in the Ultimate Universe.  Tony Stark is talking to Doctor Cho.  They are looking over the portal that links the Ultimate Universe with the Proper Marvel Universe.  Tony wants to buy the portal now that SHIELD doesn’t exist and it is up for grabs.  Just then, the portal collapses and all of their records are erased.

Over the Canadian Wilderness.  Angel is flying X23 back to the New Xavier School.  Laura asks Warren to be a gentleman and not go around bragging about having sex with her.

New Xavier School.

So this is what the students are up to as the the grown ups go and have Xavier’s Last Will and Testament be read to them.  So I only own this page for the quick appearance Kitty and Illyana make.

All New X-Men 31 Kitty Magik

Which I find disappointing as I really want Kitty to meet her Ultimate counterpart but I’m sure Bendis will do it.  Or at the very least, have the Original Five meet Ultimate Shadowcat.

I keep calling them, the Original Five but really, Cyclops isn’t there so I should just keep referring to them as the All New team or Kitty’s students.  I’ll work on that.

I really do like the use of repeating dialogue so that we know where this all takes place during.  As soon as Angel and X23 land, Bobby wants to know what they have been up to.

Warren gets a quick update and Hank can’t help but comment on how they just accepted and moved on that they were told Xavier was murdered and now they just deal with their day to day routine.

The students don’t know what to do now that the adults are away.  Hank offers that they all go train and study, no one likes that idea.

Jean tries to force Laura into some girl talk.  Laura quickly shuts that down.  The idea of the female clone of Wolverine and a young Jean Grey being friends is a little fun.

Hank is messing around with the new Cerebro system.  Warren wonders if that is a wise idea.  I like how Bendis hasn’t forgotten that he originally wrote that Warren didn’t want to stay in the present.  Now that he has a gal in his life, he’s come around on the idea.

All New X-Men 31 Kitty mentioned

Beast sees one of the lights on Cerebro grow to an attention getting size.  A mutant is in need.  Jean wants to go and investigate.

Kitty is mentioned by Angel.  I wonder if it is telling that he doesn’t call her, Professor Pryde.

The All New team takes off in the X-Jet that the adults didn’t need as Magik teleported them away.

In what is my favorite page of the book, Benjamin / Goldballs / Celeste all witness the X-Jet fly off.  Goldball confesses to wanting to marry Jean Grey.  (Which I don’t get what the attraction is!) Celeste is quick to say that Goldballs has a better chance with Nate Grey.  There is a silent panel which is followed up with Celeste being disappointed that neither of the boys knows who she just referenced but that it is an awesome reference.  And it really is!

All New X-Men 31 Celeste awesome joke

At some school with odd uniforms, we see a graduating class.  A gal in the middle starts having a glowing S appear on her chest.  I wonder if this gal’s hero name will be Slider or something like that.  The S shows her various alternate universes.  We see the House of M timeline, right in the middle of the big fight on Genosha.  So it shows alternate universes as well as various points in history of that alternate universe.

The portals close, right as the All New team shows up.  Jean is the defacto leader, which makes sense.  The gal’s name is Carmen.  Carmen doesn’t believe she is a mutant.  She also doesn’t believe these are the X-Men, as they are kids.

Bobby tries to tell Carmen that she is a mutant, he uses humor to put her at ease but it doesn’t work.

Carmen makes a great observation to how, when a psychic uses their power to calm the person, that’s a form of mind control – which isn’t cool.

Hank has a theory about new mutants and asks Carmen if she is on her period.  X23, Jean and Carmen are all disgusted with Hank.

The police start showing up and Carmen freaks out.  The S energy signature appears again.  Bobby is now surrounded by the Mole Man and the Morloids.

Jean on the other hand, is in the Ultimate Universe, and flies (levitates?) to a rooftop and the issue ends with her meeting the Miles Morales Spider-Man.  He recognizes her as a Jean Grey as he met his universe’s version briefly during Cataclysm.

I sort of like the idea of the team being separated in various alternate universes.  I wish Bobby was in a recognizable one, as just being surrounded by the Mole Man and his peeps, tells us nothing.

I’m hoping they can settle Bobby and go get Jean as a team.  Also, that we get Ultimate Shadowcat meeting this team.  That’s all I really want out of this storyline.  Ultimate Shadowcat being told about her Proper Universe version.  If the two could meet, that would be even better!

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Captain Marvel film is coming!

Posted by John Klein III on October 29, 2014
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http://www.newsarama.com/22573-marvel-announces-black-panther-captain-marvel-inhumans-avengers-infinity-war-films-cap-thor-3-subtitles.html

We are getting a Carol Danvers staring film!  I’m so excited about her getting the ‘Captain Marvel’ title for the film too!

Here is an entire list of the upcoming superhero films for both Marvel and DC

FILMS

2015:
May 1: Avengers: Age of Ultron
July 17: Ant-Man
August 7: Fantastic Four (Fox)

2016:

February 12: Deadpool (Fox)
March 25: Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice
May 6: Captain America 3 : Civil War
May 27: X-Men: Apocalypse (Fox)
July 8: Untitled Marvel film
August 5: Suicide Squad
November 4 : Doctor Strange
November 11: Sinister Six (Sony)

2017:
March 3: Untitled Wolverine sequel (Fox)
May 5: Guardians of the Galaxy 2
June 23: Wonder Woman
July 14: Fantastic Four 2 (Fox)
July 28: Thor 3 : Ragnarok
November 3: Black Panther
November 17:
Justice League, Part 1
(unspecified date): Untitled Sony female Spider-Man spin-off
(unspecified tentative date): Sony Venom: Carnage Spider-Man spin-off  (rumored to be dead)

2018:
March 23: The Flash
May 4: Avengers : Infinity War Part 1
July 6: Captain Marvel (Carol)
July 13: Untitled Fox Mystery Marvel film
July 27: Aquaman
November 2: Inhumans
(unspecified date): Amazing Spider-Man 3

2019:
April 5: Shazam
May 3: Avengers : Infinity War Part Two
June 14: Justice League, Part 2 

2020:

April 3: Cyborg
June 19: Green Lantern

Marvel Phase Three is going to be amazing!

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