ROM 65

Posted by John Klein III on March 17, 2016
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ROM 65

Story Bill Mantlo

Art Steve Ditko & P. Craig Russell

Letters Janice Chang

Colors Petra Scotese

Cover Dated April 1985

It is St. Patrick’s Day, and we continue to celebrate it here, at S&FwM with a spotlight issue of . . . Shamrock!

The cover states this is the “Final Conflict” but it isn’t the final issue, there is one more after this.  This is, though, my last issue that I have of the series.

I didn’t know that Steve Ditko did the art for this issue, that’s outstanding – as is the art!

Inside front cover ad is for Bill Mantlo’s Cloak and Dagger, that is now going bi-monthly!  Art by Rick Leonardi and Terry Austin.

ROM 65 recap

We get a brief recap bubble of what has happened.  The Dire Wraiths, ROM’s greatest foes, have cast a spell that has frozen him in place.

The event known as, WorldMerge, is occurring.  The Dire Wraiths can’t go home and they can’t take over the Earth – they are going to merge the two worlds.  The Dire Wraiths have even corrupted our Sun!  Poor ROM is forced to watch this process unfold.

The human race, not willing to depend on costumes, has spent billions of dollars (in a matter of days) to create a space station that is a giant weapon, as well.  The station is called, The NeoNeutralizer.  Forge, of the X-Men, helped build it and is on the station.  Henry Gyrich is also up in space with Forge.  Forge needs ROM’s Neutralizer, to power the weapon.  Gyrich wants all of the aliens off the planet, then he wants Forge to turn the weapon onto the superhumans – both mutants and regular folks with superpowers.

As ROM is stuck in his space, hordes of Dire Wraiths have come to taunt him.  Every Dire Wraith is present.  If only ROM could fire his gun, he could send them all to Limbo – but not Magik’s Limbo.

There is a half page ad for Rocket Raccoon’s first miniseries – by Bill Mantlo, Mike Mignola and Al Gordon.

ROM, the greatest of the spaceknights of Galador, has been fighting Dire Wraiths for two hundred years.

As soon as ROM wonders why Earth’s heroes haven’t come yet, they come!

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All of the big names are there!  That’s Kitty Pryde on the left there, in that very generic purple shirt.  She’s below Captain (Monica) Marvel and Valkyrie’s knife and above Mockingbird there.  I’m struck with the thought about how many of these characters are in Facebook’s Avengers Alliance game.  Captain America, Beta Ray Bill, Scarlet Witch, Hercules, Tigra, Vision, Mockingbird, Shadowcat, Valkyrie, Beast, Hercules, Iceman, Colossus & Wonder Man (the worst!), Wolverine, Iron Man, Angel and Black Knight.  Others who are not in the game are – Moondragon, Namor, Starfox (which makes sense as potential rapist, doesn’t seem like a great character to play as) and that Etrigan looking fellow to the right.  Now that I’m looking closer, that’s Nightcrawler between Colossus and that off model Wolverine.

We’ll know that is Shadowcat by the next image.

There is a sweet two page spread but my computer is ruined by this two page ad (that must be a pull out) for Mark Jewelers.  Who was reading this issue, saw this ad, and threw down $540 on a ring?

I’ve already scanned the right side of the page, before I realized the setup.

We get team pages –

The West Coast Avengers – Tigra, Wonder Man, Iron Man, Mockingbird and Hawkeye.

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The Avengers – Captain Marvel, Hercules, Black Knight, Captain America, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Beta Ray Bill (when was he an Avenger?) and Starfox.

The Uncanny X-Men!  Colossus, Kitty Pryde (really not sure why she didn’t get a costume), Rogue, Nightcrawler, Professor Xavier (even!) and Wolverine, who is purposely in a Ditko designed costume.

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The Dynamic Defenders – Iceman, Angel, Valkyrie, that Etrigan fellow, Beast and Moondragon.

From Russia, the Sensational Soviet Super-Soliders.

And as this clearly came out after Mantlo’s Contest of Champions – Shamrock and Captain Britain (in that horrible costume!).  This is the only time Shamrock appears in the comic, but it counts.

A slew of humans arrive too including ROM’s supporting cast – Rick Jones, Brandy Clark and Cindy Adams.  Cindy’s mind is being shared by a Dire Wraith – that will be important later.  Brandy has a thought of how to break the Dire Wraiths’ spell.  She kisses ROM (driving Rick to jealousy) and that does break the spell!  The Dire Wraiths are evil, so a act of kindness, undoes their magic.  Sort of like a Care Bear Stare, I guess.

ROM starts sending Dire Wraiths to Limbo.  We see Captains America and Marvel helping out.

Cindy gets a headache, as the alien voice in her head, tells her that they need to stop fighting on Earth and go stop the actual threat in space.  ROM realizes she is right and takes off.

There is an ad for the Power Pack and Amazing Spider-Man Tips on Ways to Prevent Sexual Abuse.  Essentially, don’t let anyone touch your body.  If no one believes you, you keep telling someone until they do believe you.  Also, it isn’t your fault.

Forge and Gyrich are arguing about the mutants’ motivation in fighting for Earth.

ROM plugs his gun into the cannon.

Bullpen Bulletins.  Web of Spider-Man 1 is coming, making three monthly Spider-Man titles.  ROM 65 is also promoted.  It’s been building up for over five years, and now it’s coming to a mind-numbing conclusion!  That’s right, it’s the end of the Wraith War, with the Dire Wraiths making an all-out assault on mankind!  Standing between them and victory are ROM, the Avengers, the Defenders, and the X-Men!  (But where are the Fantastic Four?  Find out in FF # 277!) Story by Bill Mantlo!  Art by Steve Ditko and P. Craig Russell!

The Checklist, the ones I’ll be interested in –

Fraggle Rock 1
Thing 22
Daredevil 217
New Mutants 26
Web of Spider-Man 1
Iceman 3
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 12 – The end of the war to end all wars!
Amazing Spider-Man 263
Captain Ameica 304
Indiana Jones 26
Power Pack 9
Micronauts 7
Alpha Flight 21
Doctor Strange 70
Dune 1
Incredible Hulk 306
Avengers 254
X-Men 192
Power Man / Iron Fist 116
GI Joe 34
Fantastic Four 276
Iron Man 193
Spectacular Spider-Man 101
Defenders 142
Star Wars 94
Thor 354
KItty Pryde and Wolverine 6
Doctor Who 7
Marvel Age 25

I wonder if this issue is suppose to take place after Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, when Kitty was inbetween hero identities, and possibly outfits?

Gyrich, if you give him two pages to talk, gets more and more racist with each new panel.  During Gyrich’s madness, the cannon ray is undoing all of the damage from the MergeWorld event.  The day is saved!

I imagine the next and final issue is used to wrap up any subplots that may have needed to be tied up.

Back cover ad is for Star Comics, with five new titles coming!  Planet Terry, Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham, Wally the Wizard, Top Dog and Royal Roy.  They join favorites – Heathcliff, Ewoks, Starberry Shortcake, Get Along Gang, Muppet Babies and Fraggle Rock.

Giant Size Little Marvel AvX 3

Posted by John Klein III on March 16, 2016
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Giant Size Little Marvel AvX 3

Words and Art Skottie Young

Colors Jean-Francois Beaulieu

Letters Jeff Eckleberry

The issue opens with the theme song getting weaker and lazier.  There is a fun editor note, stating that Young has been punished.  The twins, Zoe and Zack, are going to visit both Clubhouses, the X-Men get to go first.

The X-Men have a 400 inch television, that is in 6-D, so Fing Fang Foom, can come out of the television set to kill them.  Iceman has made a very dangerous roller coaster.

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Look how cute Kitty and Lockheed are, in that top panel!  I love it so much!

Wolverine is trying to sell the fastball special, as not being dangerous but it really is!

Beast turns Zoe into a Hulk like character and Zack is turned into a mouse.

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The final stop on the tour, is the Danger Room!  Zoe handles herself well.  Magik gets to make an appearance, so she is three for three!

Avengers Clubhouse.  Iron Man isn’t sure why everyone loves the X-Men’s training simulation room.  Cap has to explain that is is because it is called, Danger!  Iron Man reverses Beast’s transformation.

On the page that has the Capture the Flag game, does anyone else have black ink spots on the rope, next to Hawkeye?  It doesn’t look like part of the page.  As there are light ink spots on the opposite page.

The clubhouse is also connected to Asgard.  Captain America has a sad fitness room, but they have to pass it so that they can go into the super bouncing room, that Spider-Man provides with his webbing.  Wolverine is in the room too, as they let anyone be Avengers.

Iron Man has made a special suit of armor, so that the twins’ minds can control, at the same time.  Zoe tries to explain that twins’ minds don’t work like that.  Their duel brains make the armor blow up.

The twins are rocketed out of the clubhouse.  They end up in the hand of Galactus, who has Thanos in his other hand.  I imagine this is the Proper Thanos.  Thanos reveals that their sky has a ceiling, that is invisible.  Which has been a question that I’ve had, about Battleworld.  If you fly high enough, wouldn’t you see the giant walls that keeps the regions apart?  Apparently, there are invisible barriers.

Issue ends with the Guardians of the Galaxy, making a play for the twins to join their team.  Which, on the opposite page, has an ad for the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy cartoon, coming to Disney XD, September 26.

Issue four has Illyana’s soulsword on the cover, so I’m for sure committed to the next issue.

Bragging Rights : Heroclix – Shadowcat

Posted by John Klein III on March 15, 2016
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I got this for Christmas, from the Wolverine and the X-Men collection.  They made her removable from the base so that she can be included in the Excalibur set.

Heroclix Shadowcat Wolverine and the X-Men

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 1

Posted by John Klein III on March 14, 2016
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Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 1

Writer Sam Humphries

Artist Alti Firmansyah

Colorist Jessica Kholinne

Letters VC’s Joe Sabino

Cover Yasmine Putri

I was really hoping that the Action Figure variant was going to be this Kitty Pryde but it makes sense that Quill gets the first action figure variant.  I’m hoping she gets the next one.  This comic isn’t quite the ride I thought it was going to be.

Star Lord and Kitty Pryde 1 Recap

As of Secret Wars 2015 4, Quill is still with the Proper Marvel Universe Characters – Spider-Man, Black Panther, Reed Richards, Captain Marvel and Thor.  So I’m not sure how Quill separates from the main group, to make this issue possible.  Maybe issue five explains that.

Issue opens in a nightclub.  The bartender wears a shirt that resembles Black Bolt’s symbol.  Quill is a lounge singer.  In this region, no one knows Disney songs, so he comes off like a genius.  Quill recounts the end of the universe, he doesn’t quite understand how all of this happen.  We are suppose to ask Reed, if we want answers.  He says that “in the chaos, he got separated” so that might be all the explanation that we get.  Not sure how Secret Wars 2015 4 delayed this title, so much, as it seems like this one page doesn’t spoil nor tie in, to the series, at all.

Quill is in Manhattan, so it must be on that region of Battleworld.  A lady offers to buy him a martini, but he turns it down.

Outside, a Drax with a hair style that will put Conan O’Brien’s hair to shame, it is so high!  Drax calls Quill “Steve Rogers” as it was the first name Quill could come up with.  Doom’s goons are looking for him, so he has to go by a different name.  Drax knew a Steve Rogers, from a few domains over.  Which is an odd comment, as I thought no one was suppose to know about the other domains.  This Drax likes to tell jokes like how the proper one likes to fight.

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We get to the co-star of the title!  Look at that dress, it is clearly inspired by the Proper Kitty Pryde’s cosmic upgrade.  There have been interviews stating that this is suppose to be the Age of Apocalypse Shadowcat, but I’m not sure if that is obvious, with this issue.

Kitty Pryde is here to meet with someone.  That person is . . . Gambit, the Collector!!  Gambit has ordered a St. Croix.  Which Google only tells me there is a bottled water but maybe I’m not doing a search right.  Kitty wants to keep this, strictly business.  Gambit states that she is an agent of Valeria Von Doom’s Foundation, so that makes sense, as AoA Shadowcat was leading Generation Next.  This does make me want to track Runaways better, but she wasn’t mentioned or seen, in the first issue of that series.

Shadowcat is after an anomaly, and Gambit wants his reward.  He hands her a lock of hair, the origin of the hair is unknown.  She also calls this “Doomforsaken Manhattan.”   Since the Foundation doesn’t know the origins, it proves that the Gospel of Doom may not be completely true.  The students of the Runaways title, come from various regions – so they know what is up.  Plus, Valeria lives with God Doom, so she sees him – all the time.

Gambit’s reward?  Longshot empowered blades, made from his very own bones!  That’s pretty intense!  Gambit takes back the lock of hair, apparently.

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Quill is about to start his next set, we see that Strong Guy is part of her band.  Not sure who the wolf guy is and maybe that is Polaris, with the green hair?

Quill starts to sing, Once Upon A Dream, from Sleeping Beauty.  Which is the song he sung, before proposing to the Proper Kitty Pryde.

Thanks to YouTuber LordDaine, for hosting this video!

Which is something that you get, when you have the same writer write the Secret Wars Tie In series, that wrote Quill’s last series.  Good for you, Humphries!

Quill then sees Kitty Pryde!

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I love reading Quill’s mental commentary.  Kitty is the best lady in the galaxy.

Firmansyah does a good job of recreating many of Paco Medina’s moments.  I’m surprised her wearing the banana costume didn’t make it.

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Quill leaves the stage, so fast!

Gambit tries to make a move on Kitty but she pops some metal claws – so that should be enough to prove she is AoA Shadowcat.  How she isn’t dead, is beyond me but I’m also cool with it.

Gambit and Kitty did hook up, once in New Avalon but Kitty is quick to tell him – that was a mistake.

Quill tells Gambit to back off.  Gambit isn’t happy that Kitty brought someone.

Kitty doesn’t recognize this blonde fellow.  I really do wish that we saw Gambit take back the lock of hair, I feel like this is an important story beat, but wasn’t shown.

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Gambit charges the champagne bottle and throws it at the non-couple.  Drax, is the club owner.  Gambit quickly throws the Longshot blades, so he didn’t get to keep them long.

Strong Guy is the drummer of the band.  Storm is at the club, she was enjoying a drink.

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Kitty wants Gambit to be stopped, but he is too quick.  Kitty is worried about the backlash of Valeria, who for all purposes, is the daughter of God Doom.  So I would be afraid of her wrath, as well.  The hair is gone as are the blades.  Quill doesn’t pick up on the importance of what is happening.

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Quill, gets caught up in the moment, and kisses Kitty.

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She does not like that!  His face gets punched, so hard!  His blood falls on the machine, that detects origins.

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Issue ends with Kitty learning that Quill is a living anomaly.  She handcuffs him to her and starts running towards Doomgard.  The last place Quill wants to be!

Such a great first issue!

Bragging Rights : Heroclix – Kitty Pryde and Lockheed

Posted by John Klein III on March 13, 2016
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I own this and I’m pretty sure that this was my first Heroclix that I bought.  I went a little nuts, buying all my favorite characters – it got pretty expensive.

Heroclix Kitty Pryde Lockheed Xplosion

A great website to buy Heroclix is :

http://www.popularcollections.com/marvelheroclix.html

All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A – Z 12

Posted by John Klein III on March 12, 2016
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All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A - Z 12

Head Writer / Coordinator Jeff Christiansen

Writers Michael Hoskin, Stuart Vandal, Al Sjoerdsma, Eric J. Moreels, Sean McQuaid, Chad Anderson, Mark O’English, Anthony Flamini, Ronald Byrd, Jacob Rougemont, Mike Fichera, Madison Carter & Chris Biggs

Cover Artist Keu Cha & Tom Chu

Cover Dated 2006

On March 6, we lost comic legend Paul Ryan.

Paul Ryan

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2016/03/07/r-i-p-paul-ryan/

In this issue, his work is spotlighted for the Kristoff Vernard profile –

All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A - Z 12 Paul Ryan Kristoff Vernard

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Other profiles worth noting –

All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A - Z 12 Paul Smith Umar

Paul Smith’s work is used for the Umar spotlight

Union Jack

Unus the Untouchable

Citizen V’s V-Battalion

Scorpion’s time as Venom is profiled

Vision of Young Avengers is featured

Cyclops’ younger brother, Vulcan, gets an entry

All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A - Z 12 Arthur Adams Warlock

Amazingly, neither Magik or Kitty is mentioned in Warlock’s profile but Art Adams’ Warlock spotlight has Magik in an image.

All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A - Z 12 Billy Tan Warpath

Kitty is mentioned in the Warpath profile, featuring Billy Tan artwork

Young Avengers’ Wiccan is spotlighted

Sabretooth’s little buddy, Wild Child, gets two pages

MC’s Wild Thing gets an entry

Runsaways friend turn foe, Alex Wilder, gets a page

Winter Soldier gets a page

All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Univeres A - Z 12 Trevor Hairsine Pete Wisdom

Kitty Pryde gets plenty of mentions in Pete Wisdom’s profile, art by Trevor Hairsine

Frightful Four leader, Wizard gets three pages

All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A - Z 12 Ryan Sook Wolfsbane

Magik is mentioned in Wolfsbane’s profile, art by Ryan Sook

Xavier’s Underground Enforcers is featured

All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A - Z 12 Juvaun Kirby X-Babies

Shadowkitty is mentioned in X-Babies, art by Juvaun Kirby

Villain group, Zodiac, gets four pages

Captain America classic villain, Arnim Zola, gets a profile

Psylocke slayer, Vargas, gets a half page

Finally, Alpha Flight team member, Yukon Jack, gets a half page

Uncanny X-Men Volume Three Issue 35 – Oum Variant

Posted by John Klein III on March 11, 2016
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Uncanny X-Men V3 35 Oum Variant

Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Art Valerio Schiti

Color Art Richard Isanove

Lettering & Production VC’s Joe Caramagna

Cover Siya Oum

I saw that Magik was in this issue but then I saw this variant and thought that that would be awesome to own.  I figured I was going to add it to my Wishlist but then Hastings actually had a copy!  They are getting more and variants, which is pretty awesome.  Look at all of those pouches on Cyclops’ belt!

Tempe, Arizona!  Animax has gone to her father’s school, and interfers with his football game.  Animax, who we haven’t seen since the beloved Battle of the Atom crossover.  He abused her and her mother, and she is here for some sweet vengeance!  Her mutant power is to invoke dragons.

The New Xavier Students (who chose to not go to the Jean Grey School, like how Scott wanted them to) arrives on the scene.  Goldballs shouts his hero name, as if he is a Pokemon, attacking the dragons.

The Cuckoos diamond armor up, which is nice that someone remembered that is in their move set.  They can even use their telepathic powers, while in diamond form.  That shows up Emma Frost!  Who I’m sort of missing, these days, as I haven’t read a comic with her in it, in what feels like a while.  Is she even slated to be in any of the October / November relaunch titles?

Benjamin Deeds, changes his appearance to match Animax’s look.  This does calm her enough to get her POINK!ed.

After the fight, Hijack gets interviewed – he wastes time with the fact that they don’t have a hero group name.  Hero Squad is taken, but it shouldn’t be.  Goldballs is also a media darling.

Hellfire Club.  This team is crashing at an old Hellfire Club location.

Goldballs wakes up to a world that is in love with him.  His mother lets him know that people have contacted his parents, to try to talk to him.  His parents are very proud of their son, which is nice.  I never understood while every parent has to hate their mutant child.  Like, sixteen years of love and memories and then one uncontrollable act makes them turn their back on their child?  That isn’t real.

Goldballs is invited to the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon states that he is part of, Hero Squad.  He is on the cover of, Falling Stone.  I don’t like that Fallon says his real name but I imagine it really is impossible to keep a secret identity in this modern age.

POINK is no longer the new BAMF, it is the new THWIP!  So that has to be pretty popular.  Probably nowhere near as SNIKT.

The goldballs are actually gold, so they must hurt, like crazy!  But they disappear, rather quickly.  On a show I don’t recognize, Goldball’s parents out him as a mutant, and it becomes a whole dumb thing.

Hero Squad takes out Klaw, but Goldballs gets a bottle thrown to his neck!  However that happens, is beyond me.  A woman threw the bottle and the Cuckoos shut her stupid racist mind down.  Triage starts to heal Goldballs’ neck.

The issue ends with the team going to the Jean Grey School.  That was a pretty fast rise and fall, but that’s the new era we are in.  Adult Iceman and regular Storm, invite them into the school.

Not a bad issue, it all leads to Uncanny X-Men 600, which will come out, one day.

Fun with YouTube : 2008’s Superhero Movie

Posted by John Klein III on March 10, 2016
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As a Kitty Pryde fan, I don’t own many movies that I’m embarrassed by.  She doesn’t get referenced in too many non-X-Men films.  There is 25th Hour and then there’s 2008’s Superhero Movie.  Which was one of those parody movies.  This one uses mostly the first Spider-Man film for inspiration.  The best scene of the movie is when the main character, Dragonfly, goes to the Xavier School for the (Non-Asian) Gifted.

The Kitty and the Kitty wannabe happens at the 0:22 through :028 mark.

Thanks to YouTuber Movieclips for hosting the video!  I did not think it was going to be on YouTube at all.  Now, if I can only find that Edward Norton talking about his desire to walk through walls like that character from the X-Men.

If I remember correctly, Superhero Movie, wasn’t that bad, it may be one of the better parody films.  Disaster Movie has a fun Batman cameo, so I will count that one as one of the better ones as well.

Years of Future Past 3

Posted by John Klein III on March 9, 2016
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Years of Future Past 3

Writer Marguerite Bennett

Artist Mike Norton

Colorist Fco Plascencia

Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna

Cover Art Adams and Paul Mounts

I had to add the Norton variant to my Wishlist.

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In the caves beneath New York City.  Poor Kate, hasn’t seen Lockheed in 15 years!  I take it, through her dialogue, that she hasn’t showered Christina with tales of the little purple space alien that just happens to resemble a dragon.

Kate explains that she lent Lockheed to Angel.  Back then, President Kelly (who has been the President, for more than the legal amount of terms!) had the Sentinels use radiation-based weapons.  Which caused Lockheed to become mutated, he grew large and also half blind.  Though he can see better in the dark, but is that better?

Kate asks Lockheed to defend the mutant race, one last time.

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Lockheed busts free and starts taking out Doom Sentinels!  It is these panels that we see how gigantic Lockheed has become.  Those Doom Sentinels are the same size as the traditional Sentinel, and Lockheed dwarfs them.

Look at that jerk of a Doom Sentinel, jumping on Lockheed’s back!  For shame!

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Storm arrives on the scene and starts aiding Lockheed.

Kate leads Christina and Cameron to safety as the rest of the X-Men try to save the other refugees.  Rachel is on the scene, as well.

I like that Storm does some battle chatter with Lockheed.  One of the Doom Sentinels’ fallen heads fires back.  The eye beams blast Lockheed, full force, to his belly.

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Lockheed falls to the ground AND HARD!  Poor purple dragon!  I hope he is okay!

A wall starts to fall on Cameron and Kate jumps and phases them through the wall.  The important item here, is that she shouts that Cameron is her son!  The what!?!

I thought that she could have been his mother, from last issue – due to the power set – but I couldn’t see her and Wolverine siring a son.

Years of Future Past 3 Lockheed Mention

I guess Colossus heard what Kate yelled as he doesn’t even try to pretend that he didn’t.  Logan isn’t happy that this is how the truth came out.  Colossus confirms that he is the father of Cameron.  Though Norton does draw him more like Wolverine but I guess if Colossus had brown hair, instead of black, that is how he would look.

Colossus tells his wife to take the children to the last sanctuary for mutants.  The X-Men will look for Lockheed.

There is an ad for CollectorCorps.com as they also have a $25 mystery box.  One of these days, I would like to take advantage of these.  The Ant Man tie-in box looks like those peeps got some fun items.  A t-shirt, four action figures and maybe a comic or trade.

Coney Island.  Later.  The Doom Cathedral.  Christina really doesn’t want to listen to her mother, right now.  Since Doom is God, any place that has his visage, is sacred land.  We see who runs the church, which of course is – Priest Nightcrawler!

Kate asks Kurt to call her, Kate, but he knows her as Kitty and still calls her that.  Kate begins to introduce her children and the way I read Christina’s “both of us” is with such teenage angst, that it is thick.

Nightcrawler’s “Colossus–?” is interesting.  Is Kurt asking about his wearables or who is the father of these two teenagers.

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Kate tries to talk to Christina but she walks away.  She turns to Cameron to explain his origin.  When he was still an infant, the Sentinels attacked and Wolverine took off with the boy.  Which explains why Wolverine doesn’t respond to Cameron’s “dad” or “father” but really, after 16 years, why would he not respond to that?  Maybe because he saw this day coming and didn’t want to be so attached.

Christina was born in secret, but in the camps – which sounds tricky.

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I like how Cameron sums up this whole secretary nonsense.  Cameron forgives his mother, as she didn’t ask him too.  Christina couldn’t be told about her secret older brother, as she may have let the news slip in front of a guard.  Cameron has suspected that Logan wasn’t his father.

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Logan never spoke of Shadowcat or Colossus, they were missing from all of their stories.  I imagine Logan did this, to not color Cameron’s view of his parents.  Another reason why I thought Kate was the mother was that Carmen and Cameron, are pretty much the same name.

Cameron’s summary is pretty sad and heartbreaking.  Christina got all of the heart and Cameron got the fear.  She the heir and he, the spare.  It is pretty saddening.

Cameron wants to be alone, and finds Christina.  He makes a Star Wars reference, but she doesn’t get that reference.  He jokes that, at least, they didn’t have any unresolved sexual tension.  Not unlike Sons of Anarchy 3×10 when Jax made out with his half-sister, Trinity Ashby, in the episode Firinne.  Which was an intense season, when Jax is trying to get his son, Abel, back in Ireland.  Kurt Sutter, show creator, writer and guest-star, kept writing it as if Jax and Trinity could have sex, at any moment, AND they let us, the audience, in on the family connection so early.  My wife and I watched their scenes together, with so much worry.

But I have to imagine, with hormones raging – they must have fantasized about the other.  Plus, they probably never told their parents or guardian, in Cameron’s case.  Making that whole ordeal, even worst – with this revelation.

Christina is having a hard time grasping this familiar secret plus her new goal in life, to save all of mutant kind.

Mutant Internment Camp No. 1432.  Which is just on the other side of the church.  In front, is a carnival, and in the back, is an interment camp.  oh boy.

Kurt has tried to free these detain mutants but there are power blocks in place.  They just need to get the mutants onto the church grounds.  Christina wants to just jump into action but Cameron tries to reason with her.  She just got her powers, Kurt and Kitty are not at their prime.  Cameron, also, will not take any part in the plan.  These mutants have been prisoners forever, they are weak and broken, they are not the army that the X-Men need.

Christina armors up and jumps off the roof of the Church and down into the camp.  Cameron gives chase.

Years of Future Past 3 Kate Pryde 4

Kurt and Kate also teleport down.  They don’t really put up a decent fight.  Kurt gets a power dampening collar on.  He shouts that it is a trap!

General Ackbar It's A Trap!

We see the other three members of Mystique’s Brotherhood of Mutants – Destiny, Avalanche and Pyro.  They do not need saving.

Which great issue, a lot of information is revealed and we even got Lockheed!  I can’t wait for the next issue.  So far, my favorite series coming out of Secret Wars 2015.

Ideal Logo

Posted by John Klein III on March 8, 2016
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As much as I do love our current logo –

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I really want to be able to combine these two logos :

Logo Shadow and Flame Logo Magik

The words “Shadow & Flame” then some type of stylize ‘with’ to go with Magik’s logo.

That would be pretty ideal and awesome.

Though I’m not sure how copyright rules apply as I would like to still ‘own’ the logo so I’m not even sure if that idea would work.

Someday, I would like to be able to get shirts made (at least one for me) and that would be pretty cool to not get into any trouble of a legal nature regarding it.