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Uncanny X-Men Volume Three Issue 7

Posted by John Klein III on August 18, 2020
Posted in: Review. Tagged: Bendis, Caramagna - Joe, Irving, Magik, Uncanny. Leave a comment

Uncanny X-Men Volume Three Issue 7

Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Artist Frazer Irving

Lettering & Production VC’s Joe Caramagna

Cover Dated August 2013

I finally own this issue!  It was one of five issues that Hastings never received, in a three week period.

Uncanny X-Men Volume Three Issue 7 Recap

Cyclops, Emma and Magneto’s powers are broken.  Magik’s are broken, but not in the same way.  She has grown stronger.  Doctor Strange’s long time foe, Dormammu, has attempted to take over Limbo.  Magik has recently transformed into Darkchild.

Uncanny X-Men Volume Three Issue 7 Magik 1

Issue opens with Illyana, speaking to a second party.  The other person recognizes the name, Rasputin.  The voice does not recognize Illyana.  The voice is . . . Doctor Strange!  So she must have gone back to way before she ever joined the team, so prior to the original New Mutants run.  Strange is willing to listen to her.  I love, so much, that Bendis has paired these two characters.

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Illyana narrates the issue.  She spends most of the story, as her Darkchild persona.  Except, Irving draws her with a giant dose of Dormammu.  At least, that’s how I see it.

Dormammu’s resident realm is, the Dark Dimension.  Illyana’s big thing with Limbo, is that she takes it for granted.  Even after all the times that S’ym has attempted to take it, she is under the impression that all she would have to do, is appear and shut down any rebellion.

I like the idea of Illyana referencing her parents, have we ever dealt with her lost of her parents?  I know she was a seven year old (the second time), so the emotions were not the same.  Plus, she, herself, died soon after that.  She doesn’t have much experience with her oldest brother, Mikhail.  I know he was in New Mutants : Truth or Dare, and is responsible for her getting the Legacy Virus, in the first place, but that hasn’t been retreaded either.

Dormammu does have Darkchild, held as a captive.

The Cuckoos had manipulated the other young students, to be brave and courageous.

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Dormammu taunts Darkchild.  Goldballs, tries his best to defend the realm, unfortunately, Limbo is falling apart, all around them.  Darkchild realizes that Limbo isn’t much more than empty space.

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This train of thought, leads Darkchild to a plan and she starts to realize it.  Her power comes from Limbo, and that was destroying the realm.

That Limbo starts to crumble, gives Scott courage to order the team to press the attack.

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Such a fun sight gag there, by Irving, that Phoebe asks Benjamin, if all he does is vaguely resemble the person next to him.  As he tries to defend himself, a giant rock falls on his head.

Oh, this is when the Cuckoos were all blondes, so glad we have passed this phase.

Goldballs starts to lose it and starts POINK!ing all over the place.

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Darkchild starts to overload, Scott can tell that it isn’t an ideal situation.

There is an house ad for Guardians of the Galaxy 5, by Bendis, Neil Gaiman (mostly in spirit) and Sarah Pichelli.  This is after Age of Ultorn, as Angela has left the Spawn portion of the Image Universe, and joined the Marvel Universe.

Magik straight up, absorbed Limbo!  That is intense!  Which is why it annoyed me so much, that I couldn’t buy this issue.  It was a defining moment and I had to read about it, online and in the comics.

Magik teleports the team back home, and they all fall into the snow.  Bendis really likes the idea of, at least one person, falling face first into the snow.  That would be Goldballs, in this issue.  He will have Cyclops and Magneto do it, in two different upcoming faces.

Benjamin isn’t getting up and one of the Cuckoos asks for help.  Triage has to head over, even though he doesn’t think he can do it.

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In what is left of Limbo (which is massive!) is empty space.  Magik is back to her regular self.  She thinks about Belasco, and her own origins in Limbo.  She must be looking fierce, as Dormammu looks scared.  He is on his kneeds and it looks like he is begging for his life.  It is nice to see that Magik is on the same level as these other lords of their realms.  That is how it should have always been, she is the Queen of Limbo, she should be sitting at those tables.  Instead, writers would like to have her combat her Limbo duties, but there is a wealth of story potential there.

Emma walks Triage to heal Benjamin.  Tempus says “crikey” which I like to pepper my own speech with.  Scott isn’t happy that the students had to go to one of the worst places the X-Men have ever been too.  They’ve never really had a good time, in Limbo.  Scott wants everyone to start training, again.  Faculty and students, alike.  I do like Angel and Scott having a conversation.  Those two have never really been close.

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Goldballs really wants to go home, which he will do, in the next issue.  Well, attempt to do.

Magik has come to Strange, to become stronger and to control her powers.  Magik has gotten this far, with only the seven years of training that she received from both Belasco and (Limbo) Storm.  Which is a long time, but it isn’t like she is studying spells.  It has been like, she knows six spells, and has been using them regularly.  Those days are over, she is going to become a true magician.

Strange is impress, that Magik has the entirety of Limbo, within her.  Anyone else, would have exploded.

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Strange quickly pieces it together – well, maybe not too quickly, he was listening to a very interesting story.  There is an unspoken question, of why not ask his current self for help.  Illyana couldn’t go to the Avengers, which Strange figures out that he is now an Avenger – and he can’t fathom the sequence of events that would make that a reality.  Probably because it is still 20 years (our time) into the future.

I do like how Illyana doesn’t want to burden Strange, as she repeats it.  It isn’t a burden, this is what he does.  He rarely gets a proper student, though we have seen him with a few, over the years.

There is a house ad for World War X, by Brian Wood and Alvaro Martinez, starting in Ultimate Comics X-Men 29.  Pretty great storyline, there!

Other titles on sale in June –

A+X 9 – Captain America + Wolverine!  Doctor Strange + Gambit!
All New X-Men 12 & 13 – The Uncanny Avengers come to investigate the trouble Mystique caused in the X-Men’s name!
Astonishing X-Men 63 – Iceman takes a frightening turn as global winter settles in
Cable & X-Force 9 & 10 – A showdown between X-Force and the Uncanny Avengers, with Hope caught in the middle
Deadpool 11 & 12 – Deadpool finishes up his soul hunting gig, and has to deal with teh powerful demon at the other end
Gambit 14 – Gambit brings his thieving ways to the land of fairies!  Guest starring Pete Wisdom!
Savage Wolverine 6 – Spidey and Elektra and Ninjas, oh my!
Uncanny X-Force 6 & 7 – As old demons return to haunt X-Force, the Fantomex-Psylocke love rhombus explodes!
Uncanny X-Men 7 – X-Men vs Dormammu for the fate of Limbo!
Wolverine 4 & 5 – Hunting season draws to a close, but Logan is still drowning in trouble
Wolverine and the X-Men 31 & 32 – The Hellfire Saga begins as the Hellfire Academy steals students from the Jean Grey School
X-Factor 257 & 258 – The end of X-Factor begins here!
X-Men 2 – The Jean Grey School is on lockdown as Areka attacks!
x-Men Legacy 12 – Legion is determined to take the Red Skull’s mutant cure – but at what cost!

I own the All New X-Men issues, Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny (naturally), the Wolverine and the X-men issues and X-Men 2.

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Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Volume Three

Posted by John Klein III on August 13, 2020
Posted in: Paul Smith, Websites. Tagged: Opena, PMS, Uncanny, Wishlist. Leave a comment

https://www.amazon.com/Uncanny-X-Men-Omnibus-Vol/dp/1302927027/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EWFQBCFBFCX9&dchild=1&keywords=uncanny+x-men+omnibus+3&qid=1597333945&sprefix=uncanny+x-%2Caps%2C197&sr=8-1

You want to know what would make for a great late Christmas present for me?  The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Volume 3!

I have no idea why this doesn’t come out the week before Christmas, that seems like a scheduling mistake.

I found out about this collection by making a ripe fool of myself on twitter.  The Mutant Menace (a great Twitter account to follow!), posted their desire for a particular trade, and like a real jerk, I offered up how I’ve been waiting for a trade of mine own, and turns out the trade I want is actually happening!

Marvel is set to release the first Fantastic Four by Slott OHC and even a bloody EMPYRE omnibus of all things… but still no word on any Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer OHCs? pic.twitter.com/o1ytRlUpnD

— The Mutant Menace! BLM ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 (@TheMutantMenace) August 10, 2020

Like the Uncanny Omnibus volume 3?

— The Mutant Menace! BLM ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 (@TheMutantMenace) August 10, 2020

And from there, I had to look it up!

Seriously, I have been wanting this collection to be a thing for years now!  Just the entire Paul Smith run, in a beautiful hardcover.  Now it being $175, is a bit much, and I am sure if I hunted around, I could find a store selling it for 50% off or it will eventually drop in price.  Even $88 seems a tad much for my budget, but I also have a hard time treating myself to things that I really want.

But for $175, we are getting treated to what I will always consider THE run of Uncanny X-Men!   All comics besides one are written by the greatest X-Men writer of all time, Chris Clarmeont!

COLLECTING: UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) 154-175, X-MEN ANNUAL (1971) 6-7, MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL (1982) 5, WOLVERINE (1982) 1-4, SPECIAL EDITION X-MEN (1983) 1, MAGIK (1983) 1-4

154 through 157 is the Starjammers adventure.

158 is Rogue vs. Ms. Marvel 2 and aftermath of the Starjammers adventure.

159’s Bill Sienkiewicz’s Dracula issue.

160’s Brent Anderson’s Limbo issue.

So we are getting the entirety of The Brood Saga, which includes handing the torch from the legendary Dave Cockrum, to the living legend, Paul Smith with 165.

166’s, the first appearance of Lockheed!

168’s Kitty’s “Professor X is a Jerk!” issue.

The Morlock Saga!

171’s Walt Simonson Rogue joining the team.

The Japan Adventure!

Ending with 175’s passing of the torch from Smith to John Romita Jr!

Such an amazing run and lord knows I haven’t read 154 through 161 in quite some time.

Plus, that’s just the main title.

We get Annual 6’s Dracula sequel to 159 also by Sienkiewicz.

We get the very fun Scavenger Hunt in Annual 7 by Michael Golden and Bret Blevins, with an army of inkers.

We get X-Men God Loves, Man Kills by Brent Anderson.

Wolverine 1 – 4 by Frank Miller, the very first Wolverine mini series.

Special Edition X-Men, which reprints Giant Size X-Men.  This will be the only comic in the collection not written by Chris Claremont as Len Wein had the pleasure of co-creating the second generation of X-Men.  The Special does have A Day Like Any Other, by Claremont and Cockrum, wherein Kitty turns 14!

Magik the limited series, which 160 introduces and the limited series provides the full story.  Drawn by John Buscema and Ron Frenz for issue three, and Sal Buscema (my favorite of the Buscemas), for the fourth issue.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Uncanny_X-Men_Vol_1_154

Special thank you for Marvel Fandom for reminding me of how great these issues really are!  They don’t have a handy link to the Omnibus so I had to search all around for the issues.  Such a great website and these comics define the X-Men to me.

So this collection is going to look great, flip to any page, and a time tested and well received issue.  Such a legendary run, and I really really want this!

If you know who the cover artist for the collection is, please let me know and I can update it as I’m searching around and I see people crediting the interior pencilers (which they should), but I cannot find the cover artist.  It is a great cover and I’m happy Lockheed made it to the cover.

Also, apparently this came out in 2016, so I apparently could have had it four years ago.  Oops!

.  .  .

https://x-men.fandom.com/wiki/Uncanny_X-Men_Omnibus_Vol._3_(Hardcover)

Jerome Opeña and Paul Smith are credited to the cover.

I have been just staring at it and marveling at how the cover just does its job so uncannily.

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Uncanny X-Men 472

Posted by John Klein III on August 10, 2020
Posted in: Review, Websites. Tagged: Bachalo, Bedard, Caramagna - Joe, Claremont, comicbookdb, Dr Maureen Lyszinski, Fabela - Antonio, First Forsaken, Irwin, Townsend, Uncanny. Leave a comment

Uncanny X-Men 472

By Chris Claremont & Chris Bachalo

Dialogue Tony Bedard

Inks Bachalo, Holdredge, Irwin, Mendoza, Orlazaba, Parsons, Townsend & Vey

Colors Studio F’s Antonio Fabela

Lettering VC’s Joe Caramagna

Cover Dated June 2006

The First Forsaken, Part One of Three

I own issues 470, 471 and now this issue, because Kitty Pryde’s therapist from University of Chicago – Dr. Maureen Lynsinski, appears in this issue.  I now own all ten of her appearances –

http://comicbookdb.com/character_chron.php?ID=38858

She is in all six issues of Mekanix, X-Treme X-Men 25 and those three Uncanny X-Men Issues.  I will review these, someday but right now, we have issue 472.  My next issue of Uncanny is issue 496, so who knows what happens in the next twenty issues.

Uncanny X-Men 472 Recap Page

Previously, Psylocke is back from the dead.  Her insane older brother, Jamie, may have something to do with her resurrection.  In Africa, Storm is doing some soul searching.  This is after M-Day, and there are some killers that are going around, killing depowered mutants, in Africa.

Rift Valley Province, Northwest Kenya.  A goon is about to kill a man, the goon wants the man’s children to join their army of children soldiers.  Storm arrives and knocks some sense into the goon.  She is running around with a tiger, which is pretty cool.  Storm tells the tribe, that she defended, that it may be time to take the fight to the source, but they are worried that would mean war.  Storm tells them that they are already at war.

The Xavier Institute, NY.  Office of National Emergency, Mobile Operations Command Center.  Since this is Post-M-Day, the government (in their brillance) want Sentinels to protect the remaining mutants of the world.  These Sentinels, will never actually protect the mutants.  The school will be constantly attack and the Sentinels are dealt with, so easily – every single time.

I do like that Valerie Cooper is running the show, she’s always been a great mutant government liaison.  Colonel Reyes, the brother of X-Man, Cecilia – is the military representative.

Uncanny X-Men 472 Dr Maureen Lynsinski

They go around, checking in on the X-Men.

Rachel is in a mental therapy session with Kitty Pryde’s therapist, Dr. Maureen Lysinski.  In the previous storyline, the Shi’ar straight killed all of the remaining Greys.  It was rather intense!  I’m surprised that doesn’t come up, every single time.

Bishop is visiting a wounded, Detective Charlotte Jones – I’m not sure who that is, I imagine someone from his District X days.  Reyes hints that Cooper and Bishop have had a relationship – I must have missed that, too.

Cannonball and Husk are aiding the mutant refugees, as the school is housing every mutant that wanted to be safe.

Psylocke and Nightcrawler are in the Danger Room.  The power shuts down, which isn’t suppose to happen.  On the scene, is Jamie Braddock, who – instead of wearing tighty whities – he has graduated to boxers with gold hearts on them.  Jamie takes care of the Sentinels.

Kurt and Rachel, who have plenty of experience against Jamie, are the first wave of attackers.

There is an ad for Marvel Legends, the Build a Figure is for Mojo.  Shame the idea for the X-Babies didn’t go through.  The action figures are – Baron Zemo (the father, and he has a maskless variant), Longshot (which makes sense), Falcon (with a modern variant), Original Iron Man (with gold variant), Psylocke and original Luke Cage action figure.

Psylocke and Cannonball join the fight but are taken care of.  Bishop puts a gun to Jamie’s head, he laughs at the attempt.  Bishop was merely the distraction, as Psylocke has used her focused totality of her telepathic powers, to put a psychic sword through Jamie’s head.  I miss that she doesn’t talk like that, anymore.

Jamie convinces his sister to put her sword away.  There is a bigger threat, that is coming.  Uatu, the Watcher, arrives, as this could go horribly wrong.

Jamie explains how he brought Betsy back.  Now she is no longer acceptable to being manipulated by beings likes Proteus and Shadow King – which I don’t think writers remember this being the case.

Once Jamie is done speaking, a hand brings him into a portal and Betsy knows that a being that is stronger than her brother – is a serious threat.

I can only imagine that everyone survives and the threat is dealt with.

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SDCC : New Mutants @ Home

Posted by John Klein III on August 6, 2020
Posted in: Film, Fun With YouTube. Tagged: Magik, New Mutants, SDCC, YouTube. 2 Comments

Thanks to Comic-Con International for hosting their own video!

I love seeing the cast together and having a great time!  They filmed this so long ago.

I liked how they had fun with all of the delays, but ideally, we will see this moving on August 28, 2020.  I am not sure why they are still holding out for theaters, I guess to be eligible for Oscars?

Towards the end, they reveal the opening scene, which looks super dark to me.

I strained my ears for any hints of Lockheed, and then I strained my eyes during any shown footage, and I could not see the little guy anywhere.  I sincerely hope he makes the cut.  Just see me an official Lockheed plushie, please!

It really is incredible how this cast just gets more and more famous, and yet, this film cannot just come out.

Anya Taylor-Joy has won me over as Magik already!

They made a Twitter emoji for Magik, #NewMutantsMagik is how you get it to show up.

I tried #NewMutantsLockheed, but it did not work, which would have been a fun treat.

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Playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered and Fall Guys : Ultimate Destruction

Posted by John Klein III on August 5, 2020
Posted in: Games. Tagged: Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout, Lego Dimensions, The Council. Leave a comment

I gave both games we received for August through the PS+ program.  I played both for a night each.

I did not get that far in Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered.  I did play it on Normal difficulty, and I got the point in the fifth mission where I am by myself.  Which I really like playing Call of Duty games with the squad.  Once I am by myself, my lack of skill is very well obvious.  I choose to skip the Russian level, the game provides plenty of warnings about skipping it, and from what I looked up online, it does seem like something I rather not experience myself.

Fall Guys, though, was super fun.  I played during the very first night of release.  I only had two matches where I was disconnected from the server.  I stayed up like 30 more minutes than I should have, but I really wanted to reach level 6.  The game is super fun and the individual games are easy to learn.  I do prefer the ones where I am playing solo, and not as part of the team.  The team challenges, I just feel like I am being carried by the team, or I am barely contributing to the team.

I resisted buying the DLC with the costumes and some game credits, it was $10, but I like the idea of just wearing what I earn myself from the game.

Once they add split screen playability, I will probably go back, or if I read they have turtle costumes, I’ll dedicate some time to playing it, but I definitely enjoyed myself and who knows, I might go back.  I have been making a new cycle of games to play, and my list is pretty deep.

.  .  .

I finally reached player level 20!

It would have been so much nicer on the eyes, if I had earned it with my 3333rd trophy, but that’s okay.

.  .  .

I also earned my 32nd Platinum trophy with The Council!

I really enjoyed the game.  The game does take an odd left turn toward the end of Episode 4.  Then it seemed to get back into its great historical fiction in Episode 5, but then it recommitted to the twist.

Not to spoil anything, but I made the poor decision to not to listen to my mother, and regret the ending I earned.  Playing Episode 1 again, the game really does a great job of making a point to listening to Louis’ mother.  So it really is on me that I chose to quit listening to her late into the game.

I really was loving the game, but some of the shine came off with the twist.  It really reminded me of how much I was enjoying Dean Knootz’s Sole Survivor.  I was really enjoying the mystery of it all, and then it took this science fiction twist that I was not expecting.  Except, apparently, that is Knootz’s style, it that again was on me for not doing my research on the author.  So only I would have found that to be a twist.  But at the time, it just felt like a cheat.

I don’t feel cheated with The Council, but I was so enjoying the fictional history element of the story and it was a shame to see it go away.

I really liked the story base game with RPG elements, and I hope other company’s borrow the idea for their own games.

.  .  .

My next game I am hoping to focus on is Uncharted 4.  That was my plan until Lego The Hobbit went on sale for six dollars, so I bought that along with the four DLC (two dollars each), for a total of $14.  So I will attempt to play that first level tonight, and then I will complete Chapter 9 of Uncharted 4.

Typing about Lego games, Walker Dennis earned his second platinum!  He stuck with it and earned the platinum for Lego Dimensions.  We did not have to grind the puzzles like I was worried we were.  His last trophy for the searching for a relic puzzle, but earned it during the final mission.  I thought we were going to have to grind the Portal level of the main story, but we did not have to do that.

Though we are going to have to grind the game, as Walker really wants to have the dance party mode unlocked, and we need 480 gold bricks and we barely have 215 right now.  I really thought we were going to earned it by beating the game, but it was not that easy.  So we will keep playing and figure it out.

My plan for us is to play the 80s Ghostbusters level, Mission Impossible Level, and the Goonies Level, that way, he will have all of the trophies for the game that I have, and then we will tackle Fantastic Beasts’ six levels, and that should give us a slew of gold bricks.  From there, who knows how we will tackle it.  I am tempted to replay all of the story missions to gather up minikits, but mostly to rescue people, as those would be easy to earn gold bricks, and we will get closer to earning all minikits in the game.  But we will have to play the game loads more, so that should be a fun time together.

Each hub world has around 28 gold bricks, so really, we just have to play five of those to earn 20 gold bricks each, and that will give us 100 gold bricks, so it is really only a matter of focusing and committing to the game.

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Uncanny X-Men 452

Posted by John Klein III on August 3, 2020
Posted in: Paul Smith, Review. Tagged: Chasing Hellfire, Claremont, Eliopoulos, Park - Andy, PMS, Ponsor, Uncanny. Leave a comment

Uncanny X-Men 452

By Chris Claremont & Andy Park

Inker Jon Sibal

Colors Justin Ponsor

Letters VC’s Chris Eliopoulos

Cover by Paul Smith

Cover Dated January 2005

Chasing Hellfire, Part One of Three

I own issue 449 and my next issue is 455, so the is the only chapter I own of this storyline.

Uncanny X-Men 452 Recap Page

I’m a fan of whenever a recap page spotlights 129, they do it here – as it is Emma’s first appearance.  Of course, to me, it will always be Kitty Pryde’s first appearance but Emma is in this issue as a co-star, so it makes sense.  Kitty shows up as an illusion, so that’s why I own this issue.  More on that, below.

Issue 451, apparently X23 is suppose to be 15 years old, she sure doesn’t get drawn like a 15 year old!  Plus, that makes me even sadder that she was a fourteen or fifteen year old prostitute.

Last issue ended with Sage removing her X-Uniform, and donning her old Hellfire Club – as she disappears into the Hellfire Club’s 5th Avenue Location.  Just down the street from Avengers Mansion.

This issue opens with The X-Men (Nightcrawler, Storm, Bishop and Rachel) standing in front of the abandoned Hellfire Club.  It hasn’t been used, in forever.  Wolverine comes out of a sewer, all of the tunnels leanding into the Club have also been shut down.

There is an ad for the 2 Disc DVD set for Spider-Man 2, probably still my favorite Spider-Film.

Also joining them, is Emma Frost!  Taking time away from her Head-Mistress duties at the Xavier Institute.  An X-Man is in danger, so Emma wants to help.  Rachel is a real jerk to her.  Storm tells Rachel to be behave.  Emma reveals a secret teleportation portal, that is actually part of the next door building, but the Club uses it.

The team teleports away, while Emma and Rachel continue on.  Rachel accuses Emma of betrayal, which is insane to me!  Emma has been full fledged X-Man, for over four years – at this point.  And that’s since Morrison’s reign of the title.  She was with Generation X for even longer!  She’s an ally.

Rachel, being a brat, tries to fight Emma on the astral plane.  Emma, being more experience, makes short work of Rachel.  There are some decent blows but Emma keeps being the clear winner.  She is also wittier.

There is an ad for Smallville Season Three, which was great, and X-Men / Fantastic Four, which was not – four X-Men get bombarded with cosmic rays, I’m surprised it took this long to tell that story.

Uncanny X-Men 452 Kitty Pryde

Rachel tries to take a cheap shot by turning Emma super fat.  Now no one will ever lover her.  Instead, mental Cyclops still loves Emma and this breaks Rachel’s heart.

Look how hard Kitty is laughing there!  Oh, if only Claremont got to use Kitty in a proper way, with his third return to Uncanny.

Rachel decides to act her age, and work with Emma.

Hong Kong.  Emma dressed in a modest White Queen style outfit and Rachel is in a similar styled outfit.  Emma turns Rachel invisible, so she can explore.  Emma runs into Courtney Ross, who is now the White Queen Elect.  Viper is standing behind Courtney, Ponsor could have made her hair greener but it is a Claremont comic, so the dialogue will never fail.

This section of the comic ends with Selene, who is the mastermind of the assault, ambushing Rachel.  They have a long history together, ever since Uncanny 189, which was twenty years ago, at this point.  I wonder if Claremont purposely did that, I doubt it but he does plan on the super long term.

Meanwhile, the final two pages have the rest of team in a sewer.  Someone shoots the X-Men, and we see that it is Bishop with the smoking gun and Wolverine is about to fight him.

November 2004 X-Men Titles

Uncanny X-Men 452 – Chris Claremont and guest artist Andy Park bring you a new tale of the infamous Hellfire Club!
Exiles 54 – The Exiles versus . . . a danish?!
Alpha Flight 9 – The past is our future and the future is now as Alpha Flight jumps the time stream to stop the death of an old ally!
Gambit 4- An unexpected tragedy!
X-Men The End 5 – The final story of the X-Men continues!
Starjammers 6 – The exciting conclusion!
Sabretooth 3 – The fur flies as Sabretooth takes on Sasquatch!
District X 7 – Brand new story arc!  Bishop must solve the mystery of a terror under the streets!
X-Force 4 – Guest starring, Deadpool!
Emma Frost 17 – A stunning revelation about Emma’s new best friend!
X-Men 164 – The mind-bending conclusion to the battle with the new Brotherhood of Mutants!
New X-Men 7 – Brand new story arc!  Could the Xavier Institute be . . . . haunted?!
Rogue 5 – The truth about the mysterious new man in Rogue’s life is revealed!
Cable / Deadpool 9 – The Six Pack become a thorn in everyone’s side!
Jubilee 3 – Jubilee is caught between a rock, a hard place and rival LA gangs!
Wolverine 22 – The awesomeness continues with Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.
Excalibur 7 – Professor X and his team take on Dark Beast!
Mystique 21 – Crosses and double crosses are the order of the day . . . so will Mystique end up on top?
Nightcrawler 3 – Kurt and Amanda make a very disturbing discovery . . . but will it be too late?
Astonishing X-Men 7 – First isue of a new story arc from Whedon and Cassaday!

For issue 449’s review, I thought I was commenting on New Excalibur, this volume of Excalibur, I skipped except for issue 14, that had Kitty’s father in a flashback, he fought in the same war with Xavier and Magneto.  Of course he did!  Millar / JRJR’s Wolverine was awesome!  Astonishing’s Danger storyline, may be the weaker of the four.

X-Mail, letters from – Erin, Alissa Groff and Marquelon Sigler of Birmingham, Alabama.

Next Issue : The X-Men in Paris!

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August 2020 Free PS Plus Games

Posted by John Klein III on July 28, 2020
Posted in: Fun With YouTube, Games, Websites. Tagged: Call of Duty, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout, Lego Dimensions, PlayStation Access, Rise of the Tomb Raider, YouTube. Leave a comment

The August 2020 Free PS Plus Games are going to be :

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered and Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout!

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (a clunky title, but it explains everything you need to know) was released only back in March 2020, and already a free game.

Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout is following Rocket League’s success by having its launch be part of the PS+ initiative.  The game is very much inspired by Takeshi’s Castle, like a very colorful and crowded version of TBS’ Wipeout.

I’m pretty excited to try these games out.  CoD MW2 CR comes out today, Tuesday, July 28, and Fall Guys launches on August 4.  Hence why the announcement came early.  I’m going to play Modern Warfare 2 on Recruit difficulty and try to get as far as I can in a night.  Fall Guys, I’m really hoping has couch co-op as I think Walker Dennis will love playing it as well.

.  .  .

PS Prices

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered is currently a $20 game, and has gone as low as $15 in the past.

Fall Guys has no previous pricing, and I supposed we won’t know what it retails at until September, so I will have to remember to recalculate the running total for the October announcement as the game would still be free by the time the September games are announced.

Our current running total is $165 plus Call of Duty WWII Digital Edition, and I would add Fall Guys, but we’ll know the price of the game eventually.  So adding $15, our new total is $180.  We’re almost at $200 and not even into the fourth quarter of the year.

Since CoDMWCR is only the campaign, it was not given any DLC.

.  .  .

Reddit reactions have mostly been comments about how this is the fastest turnaround for a game’s release to being a Plus title ever, at four months.  People seem to be really excited for Fall Guys, so that’s nice.  We will all be getting in on the game at the ground floor, and the lobbies should be super full.

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PS4 Deals

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered are your PS Plus games for August. from PS4Deals

.  .  .

Here are my YouTube peeps :

Nathan of PlayStation Access

Adam of PlayStation Grenade

Ben of Platinum Chasers

.  .  .

Here is PlayStationTrophies.org’s guide to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered :

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-campaign-remastered/guide/

.  .  .

I stayed up a little too late to beat Rise of the Tomb Raider!  Such an amazing game!  I got to the last campfire and it said there was no turning back from this point and it was still around 11:45pm, so I figure I could give it another 30 minutes, at the most.  Then I woke up around 2am this morning with mega heart burn, and that usually puts me in a wide awake frame of mind, so I finished two tombs, earning the Tomb Raider trophy, and that felt pretty good too.  I may try to buy those last two guns in the Supply Shack, but first I need like 50 more coins, and I might finally get back to The Council.  Just in time for one of our PS+ titles to come along too.  So that all timed out pretty nicely.  If either Tomb Raider came (Shadow or 2013) goes on sale below $10, I’m buying those games, no matter what!  I had such a great time!

Though I do worry that Rise may have perfected any kinks that 2013 had, but Shadow should be everything that was great in Rise, but more of it, right?

.  .  .

Walker Dennis has gotten really into Lego Dimensions again.  He’s also gotten into Doctor Who, right when it can’t be found anywhere besides HBO MAX.  Which I really wish Roku would just make a deal with HBO Max and make it so we can watch the app not on my phone but on our actual TV.  Philo no longer has Doctor Who either and Amazon Prime Video has BritBox, but that’s an extra $7 a month that I rather not spend.

I bought Walker another Doctor Who disc, so once it comes in, we can have two Doctors on screen at one time, so that should make him pretty happy.  He’s been pretty obsessed with watching Twice Upon a Time where the First and Twelve Doctors meet.  I overrode the Simpsons TV toy tag so we already have two TARDISes (?).

If we play a level a night, we should be able to earn Walker his second Platinum, but sometimes our nights gets away from us, but it would be fun to earn that trophy with how much he loves that game.  We have to finish five levels and then do 25 puzzles of each type : Searching, Painting, and Weather Powers, and I would have sworn we have done the work for those, but those are the three I’m concern we will have to keep completing the proper Portal 2 level in the main game.  But hopefully we earn one of those during the next five levels, as I’m concern the game is glitched, but 25 does seem like a lot, so we must be close.

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Hamilton’s Just Say No To This and Katherine Ryan’s Response

Posted by John Klein III on July 21, 2020
Posted in: Fun With YouTube, Songs. Tagged: Hamilton, Katherine Ryan, Music, YouTube. Leave a comment

I’m trying my best to not just flood the blog with Hamilton related thoughts, but I keep coming back to this one.

Whenever I get to the “Just Say No to This” song.

Thanks to YouTuber Tommy Love for hosting this video!

Which I will admit, annoys me so much about Hamilton, but it is part of his history and it affects so much of the rest of his story/life, that it has to be included.

But now I can’t watch this segment without stopping the play and immediately want to watch Katherine Ryan’s incredible take on the situation :

Thanks to Netflix UK & Ireland for hosting the video!

I’m so glad she’s on her way to 2 million views, as I’m sure we’re at least a hundred of those.  As soon as the song starts, my brain already wants to watch Katheryn Ryan’s segment.

What I may just do is actually play the video on my phone and use it as a commentary to the scene.  I’ll do it at least once.  Plus, it will time out pretty nicely.

I would highly recommend her Netflix special, Glitter Room.  It is very funny.  The first time we watched it, we were essentially waiting for the above segment to start, and there were a couple times, we were like, here it comes, but then it didn’t happen.  Well worth the wait.

She has a 2017 special, In Trouble, that is also pretty funny.

Hey, Lin-Manuel Miranda even supports her view point!  So it does get better than this.

Oh it is THE BEST. https://t.co/Da2jm9HO0q

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) July 4, 2020

 

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Playing NBA 2k20, Erica, and Rise of the Tomb Raider

Posted by John Klein III on July 15, 2020
Posted in: Fun With YouTube, Games. Tagged: Burnout Paradise, Erica, NBA 2k20, PlayStation Access, PS Plus, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Council, YouTube. Leave a comment

I finally got around to playing the July 2020 Free PS Plus titles enough to write about them!

NBA 2k20 actually feels like an improvement over 2k19.  The Prelude was pretty fun.  I started the entire game with a two player match between the Phoenix Suns (me) and the Chicago Bulls (Walker Dennis, originally).  I think starting off this way was a good refresher course.  It gave me a comfortable zone to practice the game.  I only scored one point with the green glow, signaling a perfect shot.  The Prelude isn’t too long, I enjoyed making choices throughout it.  I do regret ditching Rosario Dawson’s college advisor for Thomas Middleditch’s professional agent.  Though I had no real problems minutes later when Middleditch is opening all types of venues for my guy.  I also liked how my guy looks the same from 2k19, though I”m sure that’s because I didn’t fuss around too much in the creator option.  I did try to download the app to scan my own face, but it kept failing on me.

The true highlight is Lamorne Morris (Winston from New Girl) cuts my character’s hair before the NBA Draft.  Just checking his Wikipedia page, it doesn’t look like he has a new series yet, which is absolute bonkers.

Thanks to BMcKayGaming for hosting the beginning of the scene.

So much fun!

I was having some real stress about not making it into the Phoenix Suns, but I totally did it and felt so good!

2k20 doesn’t have any MyNeighborhood related trophies, so I sort of feel like I am now done with the game. I may look into how to get some of the other trophies, but I didn’t earn any besides what I earned after winning that original game.

.  .  .

Turns out, I only completed one proper playthrough of Erica.  So I finished my second playthrough as soon as the game was announced to being a July game.  Tonight I plan on playing my third playthrough.  I would then be half way through the game, so hopefully I just commit to it.  I also really hope to just stumble onto Fallout Girl, but I’ll definitely get it during the sixth and final playthrough.  Such a great game, but like Man of Medan, I need a decent break between playing these decision making story based games.  Which I have been really thinking about Man of Medan a lot lately, and I really need to do an All Brain Decisions playthrough and another where I kill them all.

Someone was nice enough to really recommend using the phone app for Erica, and I would also join in that recommendation.  It seemed like I had extra time to make decisions.  It might be better even on a bigger phone or a tablet, but I don’t have that option.  When I got to that moment of following Officer Blake or staying in Erica’s flat, I got all types of nervous, as that’s where my original attempt at my second playthrough fell apart.  But I was able to follow him and enjoyed following the rest of the playthrough.

.  .  .

Rise of the Tomb Raider starts off pretty fun.  I finished my first night with the game at a camp site.  It felt like a good place to stop, but really, I haven’t played enough of the game to really write a bunch about my time with it.  I also don’t like this specific post being not published until after the 15th, but I will commit to playing more of the game.  At least a few more nights with it.

Every Friday, I search Roku to see if I can watch Ratchet & Clank or any of the three Tomb Raider films, and none of them are availalbe on any streaming platform, which seems like a real missed opportunity when we are subscribed to like five different streaming services.  None of the films have been on sale through VUDU either, but I will let you all know if that changes.

.  .  .

PlayStation Access released their Top Ten Driving Games video, in their series of Top 10 PS4 games :

Which really made me want to revisit Burnout Paradise Remastered.  So I played a slew of that game, meaning I did not play any of the other games for a bit.  I was bouncing between Burnout Paradise and NBA 2k20, its Prelude being a decent length.

Walker Dennis saw that the Delorean, the Jansen P12 88, is in the game, and that means something to him now (before it was just a cool looking car).  He loves placing it in hovering or floating mode,  He’s been having a blast with the game, so now he plays between Burnout and Goat Simulator.

The Jansen P12 88 is a great car to look at, but gosh, it gets so easily destroyed, but Walker Dennis is all about driving fast enough to time travel and then crashing the car head on.  But I’ve seen him not even driving that fast but still taking a turn a tad short and it destroying the car when only a headlight should have been busted.  So it is very fragile.

.  .  .

Like most people after July 3, my wife and I have become obsessed with Hamilton.  Which I really want to play an American Revolution game, but only Assassins Creed III has that setting.  George Washington does not feature in that many games besides Assassins Creed III and The Council.  So I have been playing The Council a lot more than I thought I would be in such a short span of time.  Which I have really been enjoying, though Episode Three doesn’t have enough of George Washington, but I do like how I do bump into him a few times.  Which will have to be enough.

Two more episodes left!  I am starting to worry I will not get to level 15, the trophy I am most anxious about, as the rest of them are going to be easily done by replaying Episode One at least twice more.  If I don’t earn level 15 by the end of Episode 5, then I’m going to have to replay the entire game again, and just focus on whatever skills give me the most experience points.  Which could be fun as I really am enjoying the heck out of the game.

.  .  .

I bought Mohjong for two dollars during the July Savings event, and I like either ending my night with a game, or starting my gaming session with it.  It is very relaxing.  My only gripe is that it has all of this nice background music and setting, but a very gamey sound effect for when tiles match, that I wish was more inline with the aesthetics of the rest of the game.

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Uncanny X-Men 449

Posted by John Klein III on July 14, 2020
Posted in: Review, Websites. Tagged: Alice Tremaine, Claremont, Coipel, comicbookdb, Hanna - Scott, Uncanny. Leave a comment

Uncanny X-Men 449

By Chris Claremont & Olivier Coipel

Inker Scott Hanna

Colors Chris Chuckry

Letters VC’s Rus Wooton

Cover Dated November 2004

Who know VC was active way back in 2004?

At first, I was confused why I bought this for Father’s Day 2015.  I thought one of my three favorite websites tricked me.  Then I came across the scene with Nightcrawler and Storm, at the Purity Rally.  This was the only issue I was missing of Alice Tremaine’s 13 appearances.  So now I own all of her appearances.

http://comicbookdb.com/character_chron.php?ID=37337

She is in all six issues of Mekanix (a great miniseries!) and then her final appearance is this issue.  Then Claremont brings her back in X-Men The End, Book Two – issues 1, 5 and 6.  He continues to use her in X-Men The End, Book Three – issues 3, 5 and 6.

Another interesting note about Alice Tremaine, that I just discovered with this post.  If you Google “Alice Tremaine” you will see the stepmother (the wicked one) that harrasses Cinderella.  That step-family of Cinderella’s last name is . . . . Tremaine!  That has to be done on purpose, right?  Claremont would know the most famous usage of “Tremaine” So Claremont, amongst all of the other kudos he deserves, deserves a few more points for the naming of this character.

In my collection, I own issues 448 and 452.  I’ll review those, some day.

Inside front cover ad is for the Thomas Jane’s Punisher DVD.  Such a good movie!

Uncanny X-Men 449 Recap Page

Previously in the title.  The current team (think a Pre-X-Treme X-Men) are Storm, Bishop, Sage, Rachel Grey, Nightcrawler and Wolverine.  This team is called, X-Treme Sanctions Executive (XSE).  That’s the mission statement.  Last issue, Viper (one of Wolverine’s ex-wife’s) is back on the scene, looking for some sweet revenge on Sage.  Viper takes the team to a modified MurderWorld, she has also taken away their powers.  As bait, she has taken the Queen of England hostage.  Last issue ended, apparently, with her shooting Sage – to the head!

The Tower of London.  Viper is bragging, over Sage’s dying body, no one insults Viper, and gets away with it.  Rachel shows up and punches Viper to her silly face.  Viper gives back, as good as she can take it, which confused me until I reread the recap page.  I’m so use to skipping those, that the fight made sense.

There is an ad for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, I still haven’t seen it.

Bishop gets into the action and Viper teleports away.  Sage stands up and reveals that Wolverine has been using an image inducer, this whole team.  Wouldn’t the bullet have just passed through her head?

Uncanny X-Men 449 Alice Tremaine 1

A flatscan introduces Alice Tremaine, of University of Chicago fame.  They are hoping to turn a college movement, Purity, into a global party.  Chicago to London, does seem like a major step.

Kurt and Storm are stuck in the room, and the only way out is through hateful crowd.  Storm uses her African knowledge, that one doesn’t run from jackals, also, the flatscans don’t know that the two mutants don’t have their powers.

Uncanny X-Men 449 Alice Tremaine 2

Alice Tremaine starts her hate speech as Storm and Kurt start walking towards the stage.  If I know Alice Tremaine, this is her best case scenario.

Uncanny X-Men 449 Alice Tremaine 3

Some dumb jerk throws a chair at Storm but Kurt’s tail catches it.  Kurt, and me, don’t care for the term – mutie.  Kurt confronts the idiot and that fool passes out.

Uncanny X-Men 449 Alice Tremaine 4

Alice Tremaine confronts Storm.  Earth is for humans and they will defend it.  Storm whips out her XSE badge, they are sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them.  Kurt steps between the ladies and tells Storm that they are done here.  Some dumb face wants to shoot them, as they leave, but another guy (a smarter one) is worried about the backlash from their fellow mutant brothers.

Once they are far enough away, Storm shows off that her powers have return.  Storm wanted to fight Alice Tremaine, so much!

Meanwhile.  Old School Excalibur ally, Courtney Ross, wants to be the new London White Queen of the Hellfire Club.  She wants Viper, who has a gun at her head, to be the Lord Imperial.

The London Eye.  XSE gets to the giant Ferris Wheel.  A taped message from “Arcade” (I’m not sure if it really is him or just a picture of him) reveals that it isn’t the Queen, in the upper car.  Which I’m curious where the real Queen is, if this was ever a credible threat.  I imagine, the X-Men are simply told the Queen has been captured, they believe it – that is the life they live.

In the top ar is Mrs. Ella Thurlough, one of the Queen’s housemaids.  If nothing is done, a simple bomb will explode, only killing her.  If there is a rescue attempt, even the slightest, a small nuke will go off.

Alistaire Stuart, old friend of Nightcrawler’s and Rachel, is there to confirm that what the message states, is true.  Rachel can’t believe that Alistaire can be so cold hearted, or practical.  I misread the page, I thought it read like – one bomb over the housemaid and a small nuke, somewhere else in the city.  Instead, the two bombs are located in the car, atop of the housemaid.

Storm has a plan.  Rachel is going to keep the housemaid calm, as Storm creates very intense winds Bishop is there to absorb the blast.  Rachel brags that Storm’s winds are stronger than those found on Jupiter.  Which seems too much, for such a small section.  Of course, XSE saves the day.  I do like how Wolverine has nothing to do, but watch from below.

Later.  The team assumes that Arcade’s message is just pre-recorded and he wasn’t involved, at all.

Elsewhere.  Sebastian Shaw arrives, to make a deal with Courtney Ross – who has to really be Sat-rr-9, right?  As we saw original Courtney Ross die, pay back in the day,  As they, Viper is there too, toast, their new pact – Sage has Shaw in her gunsight.

Other titles coming out in September 2004 –

Uncanny X-Men 448 & 449 – The X-Men trapped in Murderworld!  By Chris Claremont & guest artist, Oliver Coipel!
Exiles 52 – Worlds Collide!  Literally!
Alpha Flight 7 – The end of Alpha Flight?!
Gambit 1 &  2 – New ongoing series!  The Ragin’ Cajun is back!  By John Layman & Georges Jeanty!
X-Men The End 3 – The final story of the X-Men continues!
Starjammers 4 – Will Tolo exact his revenge?
District X 5 – Tragedy strikes as the hunt for Mr. M continues!
X-Force 2 – The coming of Jon Spectre!
Emma Frost 15 – Who is Astrid Bloom?  And what does she know about Emma?
Weapon X 28 – The Series Finale!  Sabretooth v Mister Sinister!
X-Men 161 & 162 – The Brotherhood of Mutants are back!
New X-Men 5 – New penciler Michael Ryan debuts!
Rogue 3 – Rogue and Gambit no more!?!
Cable / Deadpool 7 – The Burnt Offering begins here!
Jubilee 1 – New Series! By Robert Kirkman & Derec Donovan!
Wolverine 19 – Greg Rucka’s final issue!  Guest-starring Nightcrawler!
Astonishing X-Men 5 – You’ll have to read it to find out!
Excalibur 5 – Food Fight begins!
Mystique 19 – The prelude to Quiet, the story where everything changes!
Nightcrawler 1 – New Series!  By Robert Aguirre-Sacasa & Darick Robertson!

I imagine I’ve read the Uncanny X-Men issues.  I must have read Exiles and Alpha Flight.  Gambit, I own that first issue, still.  X-Men The End, must be the first book.  I would have also been reading Cable / Deadpool. Jubilee by Kirkman, I imagine that was him just trying to make a name for himself.  Astonishing X-Men 5 is dealing with the after shocks of Colossus’ return.  I should have dropped Excalibur after the third issue but I read all 24 of those.  If Mystique was still being written by Sean McKeaver, at that point, it was still such a good title.  Nightcrawler, now that was a series that could have lasted longer but I really enjoyed it.

X-Mail, with letters from – Nadav Millman of Israel and James Hunter of Newbury, England.

Next Issue, X23 joins the title!  But she has already appeared in NYX.

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