I bought:
Ultimate Comics X-Men 29
Wolverine and the X-Men 33
Uncanny Avengers 4 (back issue)
At this point, I’m not sure what I would do without comicbookdb.com in my life. I love how fast I can verify if I own or need an issue.
Here is my collection:
http://www.comicbookdb.com/collection.php?ID=9634
Here is my wishlist:
http://www.comicbookdb.com/wishlist.php?ID=9634
When I get bored or don’t want to stop being online, I will browse through either one’s Cover Gallery, as I like seeing all the different art styles and eras over the years.
In addition to my quest to own every appearance or reference of Shadowcat, Lockheed, Magik and Uncanny X-Men 141 homage cover, I am also collecting every appearance of Ogun and Dr. Maureen LyszinskI.
Ogun who was introduced as a Wolverine villain, is essentially Kitty’s archnemesis.
Dr. Maureen Lyszinski was the psychologist Kitty was court ordered to see while she was in college.
Looking over my collection, I am also collecting every reference to the classic Excalibur lineup.
Hopefully those links work and you forgive my humble self bragging, now that I have reread it. It was suppose to come off more of like how much of a superfan I am.
Written by Dennis Hopeless
Art by Salvador Larroca
Colored by Frank D’ Armata
I bought this issue just for the two pages Kitty shows up for.
She brings Colossus some art supplies and a letter while he is in prison. It is done very well, Hopeless captures her character nicely, Larroca draws her nicely and D’ Armata’s coloring gives the entire book a nice realistic feel.
Other things happen in this issue like it starts with Wolverine escorting Colossus to prison. Colossus is there for what X-Force did in previous issues, but he really is there due to him wanting to repent for what he did during AvX.
Because of losing the Phoenix force, his powers are broken. I really like how the art team displays how his powers are in flux. Not sure if it is all D’ Armata, like I had first thought, but it could be a combination of him and Larroca as I’m not sure who draws the metal stripes that make up the actual power aspect of Colossus. The flux power, from panel to panel, really gives these sections a nice kinetic feel. I really get the impression that his armor form is appearing and disappearing on its own. It is very interesting how it is done.
There is also a whole section of the comic wherein Meltdown is running around in what can only be described as barely a bikini. Which I feel bad as I don’t view Larroca as one of those cheesecake artists. I’m sure he will have no problem selling those pages in the Original Art sector.
It makes story sense, in that, she is trying to trick young dumb soldiers to let her into the prison, but I just don’t read comics for T&A. It is one of those times, when I’m rereading the issue for this post, that I was hoping my wife wasn’t going to walk in on me reading those pages.
Meltdown is breaking into the same prison that Colossus is it. She and Domino are trying to break out an alien under Cable’s orders as he got a new vision.
Issue ends with Cyclops wanting to speak to Cable, which sounds like a cool cliffhanger.
I did not buy the next issue, mostly just been skimming the issues to see toif Kitty or Magik appear or are mentioned.
Thanks to NeeNaBeeNa for creating this video of Weezer’s In the Garage.
I actually own that Kitty Pryde statue that you see at the 21 second mark.
Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Penciled by Stuart Immonen
Inked by Wade Von Grawbadger
Colored by Marte Gracia
This issue has everything! Fights, jokes, kissing (fake), illusion, Avengers
A great deal of sight gags and some actual funny dialogue.
Love how quick Wolverine was to cut Jean as she was projecting the Phoenix. Good thing Scott was there to stop him.
Really dug the fight matchups. Beast v Sabretooth. Jean v Mystique. Lady Mastermind and Jean one upping each other.
Really liked Mystique and Wolverine’s back and forth, and how Logan did know what was happening.
Scott switching opponents with Beast was a good idea. I could had used more Beast and Sabretooth.
Jean making both Mystique and Sabretooth fall asleep, never been done before in a fight.
I like how Jean keeps apologizing for the Phoenix vision.
Kitty gets to show off smart, sass and fighting abilities with Lady Mastermind. Love the correction of “Professor Kitty Pryde.”
With Kitty’s left hook, Immonen steals the show for the rest of the issue.
From Bobby’s fear of the Uncanny Avengers to his throwing a snowball at Thor, such great moments. Also in the panel with Bobby being scared, Wolverine head goes down in shame. Immonen is quite talented.
The Havok / Scott exhange and high five stole my heart. I like how Alex is trying to have this relationship with Scott, that neither one of them has had before.
That last page with Jean and the Phoenix is odd, wish I had the last issue to see what that was about.
Next issue teases Jean and young Hank might be kissing. It was super weird over in Claremont’s X-Men Forever, but who knows how it will play out here.
Also, this cover is musleading as well.
This is my 25th post!!!
I bought All New X-Men 14.
Still no word if Hastings will get those two week’s worth of comics that didn’t come in. I read some great buzz about issue 13, Kitty apparently gave a speech that put Havok’s speech from Uncanny Avengers to shame.
I also wanted to say thanks to the five followers that this blog has at this moment. Thank you so much! It really means a lot.
http://www.newsarama.com/18450-sdcc-13-marvel-x-men-panel-live.html
A little disappointed with the X-Men Sunday panel. The Con is becoming less and less about comic announcements as people are reporting more and more about movie news.
Marvel is pretty good about making the upcoming other conventions have nice announcements.
I guess I was just hoping to get to see some new comic art.
Really glad that Wolverine’s lack of a healing factor will be address in all of his appearances, unlike Iceman’s recent evil turn. Which will only ever be addressed in the future, when some character is listing off sone of Bobby’s lesser moments or when someone else gets their personality changed for the worst.
Glad Peter David is recovering well.
Love the Dodsons, so could not be happier to have them join the X-Men title.
Glad Nightcrawler is returning! I just wished I liked that cast of characters slated to appear in Amazing X-Men. Seems like the Astonishing cast, but with Beast but not really. I would have liked Kitty and Kurt to be on the same team. Wolverine, Storm, Iceman, Northstar, and Firestar, decent lineup. Firestar has not been with the mutants since her origin days back in the 80s. Be curious why she would join now. Has no real connection to Kurt, and only really with Iceman from the Amazing Friends cartoon.
http://www.newsarama.com/18460-dodson-joins-wood-for-x-men-s-battle-with-the-sisterhood.html
Actually, Newsarama has two follow up interviews from Sunday’s panels.
The Wood/Dodson one is cool. I like how there is going to be a new Sisterhood of Mutants to fight this team of X-Men. I guess some people might say its pretty obvious a villain group for them to fight but screw those people. This is going to be awesome!
They are debuting a new Lady Deathstrike, which I don’t follow Wolverine closely so I’m not sure what happened to the old one or why the old one would want to revamp her image so completely with the skull face. Apparently Wood reveals that her current state is a non-physical one.
http://www.newsarama.com/18459-the-amazing-x-men-search-for-nightcrawler-in-new-series.html
Can’t believe its only been three years since Kurt’s death in Second Coming. A lot has happened in those amount of time.
So Amazing is going to be more of the Field team to Wolverine & the X-Men’s School Administrator Team. That must be nice for Jason Aaron’s mind space, to be able to now separate the adventures in his mind.
Aaron gives some love to the original Excalibur comic, as he should.
Looks like Aaron wanted to include Firestar just because she is a mutant and has never been part of an X-Team before, only Avengers and New Warriors.
I keep wanting to add that after issue five of Amazing X-Men, will not have to distinguish between Volume One and Volume Two as the Age of Apocalypse title only lasted the four issues that all of those titles got.
http://www.newsarama.com/18438-sdcc-13-20th-century-fox-x-men-movies-and-more-live.html
So happy with the FOX movie panel, I bet that must have been a blast to be in attendance!
So it is up to Future Xavier to send Wolverine into the past, not Kitty. I can live with that.
I guess it also makes sense to do it this way as it isn’t like the future is 2044 and the present is today. Movie Kitty could not have been alive during the 70s, and Comic Kitty would have been just a baby, as she was only 13 and a half in 1980.
Sounds like the cast gets along well.
I would love to see a Broadway show with both Magnetos. I know Stewart and McKellen did a play together years ago that must have been amazing.
Ellen Page seemed to be having fun with the actor who plays Bishop in this movie.
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In other movie news, so glad the Avengers are not going into space in their sequel. Was not looking forward to that!
I know Bendis had plans for Age of Ultron for a while, as he gave Hitch like a year to get his four issues completed.
I know the movie will have absolutely nothing in common with the comic, as that seems to be a lot to put in a movie. Plus, they are not going to do alternate timelines AND time travel in a two hour movie. Wish they grabbed Ultron Unleashed as the title and movie plot, as that would work so well with the movie cast and it is a quasi-simple straight forward concept. Killer robot picks a small nation, completely destroys it on live television, and the Avengers have to set right what once went wrong.
So excited about the next couple years for comic movies!
http://www.newsarama.com/18414-bendis-bagley-reunite-for-galactus-driven-ultimate-cataclysm.html
Only X-Men news from the Ultimate Universe. Bendis confirms that the Ultimate X-Men will appear in Cataclysm, which is when our Galactus shows up on on the Ultimate Earth. Bendis revealed that the Hunger mini deals with Galactus in the Ultimate Universe, so I can skip on that mini, though the final pages of the final issue might be worth picking up. Not sure how Ultimate Spider-Man can play a major role in this, but if he can, so can Ultimate Kitty Pryde, I say! I remember, and should try to figure out who said it, an interview a while back where they said that the Big Three in the Ultimate Universe is: Spider-Man, Kitty Pryde, and Captain America. As oppose to our Big Three of: Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor.
Marvel’s Arune Singh said that. He was the Director of Communications then.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39756
He still holds that title, if it was up to me, I would promote him to Super Director or something like that.
Sentinels:
http://www.newsarama.com/18405-sdcc-1st-look-x-men-days-of-future-past-sentinels.html
Future Cast:
http://www.newsarama.com/18411-new-x-men-days-of-future-past-amazing-spider-man-2-images.html
I haven’t been to a San Diego Comic Con since 2004 when Spider-Man 2 came out and we got to see the first scene of Doctor Octopus waking up with the arms in the hospital room.
These images of the Sentinels and the cast of characters in the future, look awesome!
Let’s hope the Sentinels are skyscraper size robots, or a mixture of giant ones and man sized ones.
Bishop looks dead on from his 90s counterpart. Loving the way they got Wolverine looking for the future. Something about how war tired Xavier and Magneto look, makes me excited about X-Men Days of Future Past.
Now there a slew of rumors out there that might kill your buzz from the movie, but let’s hold out hope that those rumors are not true. Like how I was worried Jennifer Lawrence was going to steal the Kitty Pryde role seems to be not happening, Hugh Jackman is going to do that. And apparently Kitty Pryde is going to have “time phasing” powers now, which is so weird but if that’s what they got to do, then I guess that’s what they got to do. Just irrupting as there are a sub group of people, that once they see something in the movie, they think it is part of the comic lore. Comics doesn’t do any favors by then making it part of the comic lore to try to cash in on this new audience, that I don’t believe actually sticks around pass the first two months.
But like I said, those are rumors and let’s try to not jump at any conclusions just yet.
Right now, the images are awesome, wish we got Ellen Page instead of the dude playing Colossus but time will tell and there has already been a photo shown of Ellen Page on set, so we should be happy with that.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 