Sovereign Seven 3

Posted by John Klein III on February 17, 2016
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Sovereign Seven 3

By Chris Claremont & Dwayne Turner

Inkers Jerome K. Moore & Dwayne Turner

Letters Task Force 7 + 1

Colorist Gloria Vasquez

Color Separations Olyoptics

Cover Dated December 1995

This is the first and only issue of Sovereign Seven that I have own, and read.  Luckily, this is written by Chris Claremont, so the characters are clearly defined and properly introduced.

Thanks to this great website –

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/09/what-it-did-wasnt-pretty-a-look-back-at-sovereign-seven/

I know a lot more about this series than I did prior to reading this issue.  This series was created by Claremont and Turner, but Claremont is the one that owns these characters.  That’s right, DC gave Claremont his very own creator-owned title, that exists in the Proper DC Universe.

I own this issue, for only two panels but we will get to that in a moment.

Sovereign Seven 3 Recap Page

So I was reading this issue, trying to figure out how we got here.  I got to the letters page, and I find a very helpful Previously box.  The team works at a bar called, Crossroads, which is also the Nexus of Realities, for the DC Universe.  So that is how the cameo that got me to buy this issue, happens.  The team’s leader, Cascade, was investigating the basement and was taken over by an entity, now she is known as – Nike, the Greek Goddess of Victory.  Since she is a Clarmeont character, Nike likes to dress in very revealing outfits, as she is a bad girl.

Inside front cover ad is for Bon Jovi’s These Days, featuring the single, This Aint’ A Love Song.

The issue opens with Finale, falling off a cliff.  To be honest, this issue is a pretty big fight issue of the Seven versus Nike, well, the six versus Nike.  Nike throws Rampart towards a door.

Elsewhere.  On the other side of the door, is Maitresse and Morgrin.  Maitresses is Cascade’s mother, and they have a very dicy relationship.  Morgrin is Maitresse’s advisory and oldest friend.

Meanwhile.  Network and Indigo are watching over Cascade’s body, as Nike is her spirit – twisted and given form.  Network is the team’s telepath, so she establishes a mind link to the rest of the team.  Cruiser is the team’s muscle, he has to eat to maintain his strength, and his life.  Reflex, the team’s speedster, tries to assist Cruiser, as he holds the team’s lives in his hands.

Zelus, a tiny little guy, punches Network and she goes over the edge that Finale did, but she is able to catch herself on the ledge.

There is an ad for Batman Forever trading cards, so that film must be coming out.  I’m pretty sure I had a full set of these cards.

Meanwhile, back at Crossroads.  The two ladies who run the place, Violet and Pansey, are upset with the Sovereign Seven.  When the Seven came to Earth, they wrecked the bar and are now working off the damage.  It worked for Doc Hollywood.  It is this scene that I finally get what Cruiser is doing.  He is on the main level, and is holding onto the team.  Reflex is fast but he is also a giant of a man, so he isn’t able to go down to the cavern slash basement.  Which reminds me of Excalibur’s Lighthouse.

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Referring to Excalibur, Claremont used the nature of Crossroads to sneak in fun cameos.  This issue gives us Kitty Pryde, Illyana and Lockheed!  Lockheed orders a latte!  Illyana and Kitty are worried about their homework.

Here is a higher quality of the cameo –

Sovereign Seven 3 Kitty Lockheed Illyana

Conal Savoy, a waiter, delivers sandwiches to Reflex who gives them to Cruiser.

The rest of the issue isn’t as great as the cameo but let’s keep going.  Everything reads and looks fine but my interest isn’t really there.

Network saves Finale, who was still falling!  As the team tries to reunite, Nike is still whacking away at the door.  Finale is back, and wants a fight and tackles Finale.

There is a two page ad for The Adventures of Batman & Robin, on Sega’s two systems – Game Gear & Genesis.  I had a Genesis but I don’t think I owned this game.

Finale loses the sword fight with Nike, but Nike doesn’t kill Finale.  Instead, she uses the sword to breach the door.

The team tricks Nike into re-entering Cascade’s body.  Cascade doesn’t want her mother freed, so she closes the door again.  Her mother, Maitresse, is a great evil force, so it is a good thing that she is locked behind a door again.  Cruiser pulls the team back up.

There is an ad for The Adventures of Batman & Robin, with four villain spotlight VHS Tapes, each for $9.95!  The Riddler, Two-Face, Joker and even Robin got his own tape.

The Letters Page, there is a contest to name it (classic comics!) has letters from – Michael Sheridan of Merchanicville, NY, John D’Ugo of Staten Island, NY, Joe Kucharski III of Haddon Heights, NJ, Andy Boudreau of Rose Bud, AR and James Hannum of Pleasantville, TN.

We also learn that Task Force 7 + 1 is the umbrella credit for Tom Orzechowski, L. Lois Buhalis and Clem Robins.

Next issue, team keeps getting use to Earth. There is a killer on his way, with a grudge against one of the seven.

. . .

We go back to Excalibur with issue 96!

X-Tinction Agenda 2

Posted by John Klein III on February 16, 2016
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X-tinction Agenda 2

Writer Marc Guggenheim

Artist Carmine Di Giandomenico

Colorist Nolan Woodard

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

X-City.  Genosha Attack Minus Five Minutes.  Rachel and Beast talking about their new recruits.  Apparently, Beast has gone back in time and taken – Thunderbird, Wolverine and Banshee – all before their deaths in Giant Size X-Men, which is a weird place to state when they could have died.  Beast wanted to prove that it was possible, which really seems to lower the stakes, for this series.  If people die, then Beast can just bring them back.  I get that the ones with the extinction virus, that wouldn’t be an option for them, as they would just die again, from the virus.  It is an odd inclusion.  Why even bring it up, it must be important later but it is teased here.

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The attack happens, like it did last issue.  We get Kitty and Lockheed(!) in the fight!  It was a pretty good week for Lockheed, appearing in this title and in Years of Future Past 2.

Rictor and Meltdown do end up confronting each other.

Rachel summons her X-Men to the baseball field.

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Poor Kitty AND Lockheed take a direct hit of Havok’s cosmic blast – but no one mentions Lockheed again.  I hope the little guy is okay!  Rogue tells Nightcrawler to get Kitty to the Infirmary.

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X-City.  Scott Summers Memorial Hospital.  Kurt asks Dr. Reyes to heal Kitty.  Dr. Reyes does a scan and reveals that Kitty has a punctured lung, pneumothorax and a ton of internal bleeding.  Reyes needs Kurt to bring her, Triage.  Which makes sense.

Rogue fastballs Wolverine, which he isn’t familiar with the term.  If he’s been dead for the past twenty years of publication history, would the X-Men even have come up with the, fastball special?  Wolverine being gone from all of those storylines, is too big of a deal to just add to this title.  So many implications that will never be addressed – most likely.

Havok and his team have lost their quinjet and scramble to come up with a new plan.  Rachel tries to harass Havok and Rahne but they get Wicked to have ghosts from Rachel’s past haunt her.  Rachel freaks out from seeing the ghosts of her parents and grandparents.

Karma is on Havok’s side and starts taking control of peeps – first up, is Rogue.  Rogue absorbs Rachel’s powers.

Kurt arrives, and I can’t find Kitty anywhere on the page so I’m not including it.  Dr. Reyes confirms that Triage is who he says he is, which surprises him.  What really surprises both Triage and Nightcrawler, is that Dr. Reyes knocks both of them out.  Dr. Reyes is really . . . Mystique!  dun dun DUN!

Havok tells Mystique that she has to come to them.  Rogue starts taking out fools, and Karma also takes over Beast.  Mystique arrives on the baseball (battle) field and Tempus (who is also on Team Havok) teleports everyone back to Genosha.  Wolverine jumps into the portal energy so he is gone, as well.

Everyone who is back, feels pretty bad about having to attack their friends, but if they were real friends, they would have not forced their hands.

The Genengineer hooks Triage to the machines, to see how the best way to use his powers.  But what he really wants, is to use Triage’s power to cure a virus but not the extinction virus – but the virus called, mutants!!!  dun dun DUN!!!

Back at the X-City.  Rachel and Beast are regrouping.  Beast is worried as, if anyone was infected, they could have infected some of the mutants in the city.

X-tinction Agenda 2 Kitty Medical Update

Issue ends with Beast revealing there were no serious injuries.  Even Kitty only has a concussion, so I’m going to assume Lockheed is okay too.

Next issue should deal with the team of volunteers that Rachel is going to use to go to Genosha and get their friends back – Bombshell, Graymalkin and Wolveine  (also those Karma was controlling).  So now the story is going to repeat some of the original X-Tinction Agenda, with the X-Men having to go to Genosha and get their friends back.

Will Kitty be on this new away team?  Will we see Lockheed with a bandage on his wing?  Time will tell!

Marvel Comics Presents 174

Posted by John Klein III on February 15, 2016
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Marvel Comics Presents 174 Vengeance Cover Marvel Comics Presents 174 Lunatik cover

Excalibur

“Cross Time Critters”

Writer Skip Dietz

Art Paco Diaz Luque

Letters Jon Babcock

Colors Ashley Posella

Cover Dated Late February 1995

Marvel Comics Presents 174 Credit Page

This was the second to last issue of Marvel Comics Presents, so that is why the stories were either solo adventures or second to last chapters.  Though, I do suspect that they were getting rid of all of their inventory stories, as the series end was nearing.

Marvel Comics Presents 174 Lockheed 1

This story takes place just before Excalibur 42, which came out in October 1991.  This issue and Excalibur 86 came out in February 1995

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1995,_February

So this story was sitting in a vault for almost three and a half years.

The Technet have invaded the Excalibur Lighthouse base.  The only one in the basement, is Lockheed.

Marvel Comics Presents 174 Lockheed 2

Lockheed holds his own against Ferro.

I like Posella’s choice to darken Lockheed, right before he spits hot fire.

Lockheed also torches Gatecrasher’s hair.  Which caused me to flip back a page but I still couldn’t tell what hair was burnt.

For this, Gatecrusher opens a portal and Lockheed and Devil Dinosaur trades places.

I’ve been a fan of Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy since I first read Amazing Spider-Man Annual 1998.  Such a fun comic and the pair of Kirby characters, are even more fun.

The Technet have no defense against Devil Dinosaur as he makes very short work of them.

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Moon Boy is more than happy to make friends with a smaller purple dragon.  He doesn’t quite understand where his buddy went.

I wish the Technet were better introduced, so I didn’t have to keep looking up the characters.  Ringtoss gets a ring around Devil Dinosaur’s mouth.  Now Gatecrasher can switch the two reptiles again.

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Lockheed gives away Kitty’s sunglasses so that Moon Boy will give him a delicious meal.  Moon Boy thinks he now looks like Boom Boom, who he met during the Fallen Angels miniseries.  Really glad that someone is keeping that miniseries alive . . . not!

I like that now that Moon Boy has Devil Dinosaur back, he now misses his new found friend.

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Kitty phases into the basement and sees that Lockheed has taken out the Technet.  They are getting back to their feet and she challenges them to another round.  They leave, as they are pretty smart.

Kitty isn’t sure where Lockheed got rid of her sunglasses, but that’s okay.  I wouldn’t mind an extra page of Kitty telling Kurt the adventure and him being proud of Lockheed.

This was a fun eight page story.

. . .

There are three other stories, in this issue.

Vengeance, that is on its penultimate chapter – though I can’t tell how many chapters it had

On the flip side, of this issue –

Lunatik, also on a penultimate chapter.

Nick Fury also had a story.

 

Excalibur 95

Posted by John Klein III on February 14, 2016
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Excalibur 95

The Writer, Warren Ellis,

is pleased to announce that

Pencil Artist Carlos Pacheco and

Ink Artist Bob Wiacek

join him as Excalibur’s creative team

oh, and

Colorist Joe Rosas

Color Seps Malibu’s Hues

Lettering Richard Starkings and Comicraft

Editor Suzanne Gaffney

and

Our Fearless Leader, Bob Harris, is still here, too.

Cover Dated March 1996

Issue Title – Amplified Heart

We continue our tradition of spotlighting comics with the word “Heart” in their issue title, on Valentine’s Day.

Issue opens with Moira MacTaggert recapping the history of the X-Men.

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Moira introduces the team, to us, the reader.  Nightcrawler, Amanda Sefton, Shadowcat, Pete Wisdom, Wolfsbane, Meggan, Non-Captain Britain, lousy Colossus, Douglock and even, Rory Campbell.

This issue must take place after Age of Apocalypse.  X-Man is now in the Proper Marvel Universe and we are getting a full page of recap of where he comes from.  Apparently, once he got here, he fought Xavier and won.  I imagine that Xavier didn’t appreciate this loss and will get his sweet revenge during the Onslaught storyline.  After this, Nate Grey has come to Muir Island to learn more about himself.

Moira was speaking with Xavier.  Nate has done a brief scan of her memories.

Excalibur 95 Shadowcat 2

Muir Island, in the Dead of Night.  Pete Wisdom, who has made a full recovery from the beating that Colossus gave him, three weeks ago.  Colossus didn’t like his Katya dating a new man.  Amazingly, Excalibur didn’t kick him off the island the minute the beating stopped.  Kitty, here, is trying to explain what Colossus has been through.  As they walk, the island starts to rumble.

At the same time, Kurt and Colossus are chatting.  Colossus is sad, as no one is talking to him.  For good reason, three weeks ago, he dman near killed Pete Wisdom.  People should be unease around him.  They are close enough to see the explosion, that caused the island to shake.

The Communications Suite.  Nate looks like he wants to kill Moira!

Excalibur 95 Shadowcat 3

Widom is under the impression that Moira has purposely blown up the Communications Suite, with one of her experiments.  Pryde is phasing them through floors, to get there faster.

Brian and Meggan are woken up, with all of this ruckus.

Nate is screaming at Moira, thinking that she wants him dead by the time he is twenty-one.  Moira, being the brave woman that she is, stands up to him.  She doesn’t want him dead at twenty-one, his powers should kill be him by the time he is that age.

Doctor Rory Campbell is shaking, hugging his knees.  He knows he is destined to turn into Ahab, the Mutant Hunter.  So he is scared of doing anything, at this moment, that might lead him down that path.  Wolfsbane is on her way to her adopted mother.

I’m not sure how much of this issue is a continuation of last issue, so I’m playing catch up.  Nate read Spoor’s mind, which was a mistake as Spoor is a villain.  One of these days, I’ll have to read these issues to figure out what Spoor’s deal is as I don’t recall him, at all.

Douglock is on his way to the Communications Suite.

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Kurt is the first one there, so Nate has time to bury Kurt under some rubble.  Pryde and Wisdom show up, Nate throws a mind bolt, which Pryde phases so Wisdom takes the direct hit.  Wisdom’s ribs are broken, again.

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Pryde asks Moira to come closer but Moira tells her to stay put.  Moira, full of Scottish temper and sass, dares Nate to read her mind.

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Colossus is running towards the Suite.  Wolfsbane tells him to stop, as Moira needs to teach Nate Grey a lesson.  Pryde is super impressed that this plan is working.  Nate is like a superpowered teenager, that has never had any oversight.

Nate sees Colossus kill Moira’s son, Proteus.  Which must have been terrible for Moira, to have her son’s killer on the team.  Him drinking her juice and eating her eggs.  I imagine she must have relived that moment, over and over again.  Everything he joked or laugh at a joke, she must have been so annoyed.

Moira and Nate are able to finally talk, now that he has calmed down.  Moira wants Nate to believe her.  To help, Colossus offers to let Nate read his mind.

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This sparks a Spartacus moment, as Pryde would allow him to read her mind, as well.  As would Wisdom, Braddock and Meggan.  Wisdom says it in his usual charm.  Nate can’t handle all of these different minds, around him.  Douglock, not reading the room, offers for Nate to read his cortex.

Campbell shows up, and offers Nate to read his very terrified mind.  Colossus shows up, suggests Nate learn things the hard way as that worked for him.

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Nate, probably just wanting to move on, finally opens his mind to everyone.  He learns that Pryde is here as this is the only fight (Xavier’s dream) that is worth fighting for.  Wisdom is there, as the job needs doing.

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Morning over Muir.  Issue ends with Nate flying away – more confused than he was at the beginning.

Swordstrokes, letters from – John Smith / Doug Tennant / Bobby Johnson / Craig Langrall / Emily Hu (so many people not wanting their addresses published) / Tom Johnson of Butlayo, MA / Vivien Collins of Colchester, Essex, England / Tina Kemp / Misha Syeed of San Diego, CA and Mark Hager of Ransomville, NY.

Next issue – Nightcrawler and Meggan get caught up in a deadly mid-air dogfight — while the villainous Mountjoy hooks up with London’s Hellfire Club — and Shinobi Shaw turns to Brian Braddock for help!  Be there . .. or be sorry!

We’ve reviewed issue 96 already this month.

Bullpen Bulletin.  X-Men publishes its 50th issue.  Storm is getting her own miniseries.  Colossus joins Excalibur.

Issues coming out in January –

Uncanny X-Men 330
Cable 29
Generation X 13
Wolverine 99
X-Factor 120
X-Man 13 – Could love be in the air for young Nate?  Perhaps . . . but first he’s going to have to survive an encounter with Sinister’s cloned Marauders if he’s going to help the beautiful Threnody!  By John Ostrander and Luke Ross!
Excalibur 95 – It has to happen sometime, The X-Man comes to Muir Island and meets Excalibur!  But is he there as friend . . . or foe?  By Warren Ellis and Carlos Pachaco!
X-Men 50
X-Force 52
Storm, 2 of 4
Askani’son, 2 of 4
Professor X and the X-Men 5

These numbers are very hard to read, 3s look like 8s, 5s look like 6s.  Not great.

Inside back cover is for two USA Network shows, Weird Science – which I enjoyed and Campus Cops, which I don’t remember at all.

Excalibur 76

Posted by John Klein III on February 13, 2016
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Excalibur 76

Words Richard Ashford

Pictures Ken Lashley & Randy Elliott

Letters Pat Brosseau

Colors Chris Mattys & Pat Garrahy

Edits Suzanne Gaffney

Bigger Edits Bob Harras

Biggest Edits Tom DeFalco

Cover Dated April 1994

Cover has a fun spin on the “Hope You Survive the Experience” tagline.

Inside front cover ad is for Naked Gun 33 1/3, the Final Insult.  It was mostly okay.

Cottbus, Germany, 1994.  This issue is super dated.  It has been nearly a half of a century since the death of Hitler.  Ten years after Orwell’s Big Brother failed to appear.  Four years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Two years after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

People are fighting in the streets. This is all due to D’Spayre and his lady companion, Margali (Amanda Sefton’s mother, who is green at the moment).  I feel like this is the fourth comic I own with D’Spayre, and as silly as his name is, I sort of dig him.  He’s causing all types of despair (get it?) to the good Germans.  We haven’t seen D’Spayre in these pages since Excalibur 35.

Excalibur 35

It has been 41 issues, so that’s so nearly three and a half years.

During the events of Issue 75, Nightcrawler got hurt.  He’s in the hospital, amusing the nurses.  Amanda shows up and asks for his help.  They kiss, they get their superhero uniforms on, and they are out.

Actually, Nightcrawler is hurt from the events of X-Men Unlimited 4, that just came out.  Two decades later, the worst kept secret is finally canon – Mystique is Nightcrawler’s mother.

There is a two page ad for the game I never got to play but wanted to, SO MUCH! – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters.

Amanda tells Kurt that their mother (Margali is Kurt’s adopted mother) is in trouble.  Since Kurt believes Mystique is dead (she sacrificed herself so that he can save Rogue), he wants to protect his other mother.  We do get a fun moment when Kurt realizes who is in his family tree now.  Rogue, his adopted stepsister.  Graydon Creed, his half brother.  Sabretooth, is a technical stepfather.  That’s up there with the Maximoff / Pym family tree that I’m such a huge fan of.

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Since the last time Shadowcat saw Nightcrawler, he was jumping into a jet and flying to America – so she has been waiting for any sign that he is okay.  Look at that sweet looking Lockheed, by Lashley & Elliott.  His shade of purple is pretty nice as well, good job Matthys & Garrahy!  Makes him look a little grim.

Look, also, at how sweet Lockheed is!  He’s putting a blanket over his best friend!  That guy is the best!

Kitty has been through an emotional roller coaster.  Illyana has died, Rachel is lost in the timestream, Captain Britain is back but with a few screws loose, thus Meggan has received a power upgrade as he has, as well.

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Carmen Pryde calls his daughter but she sleeps through his message.  Poor Carmen, doesn’t look so good there.  He tells her that he loves her, like a good father.  Kitty mutters that she loves him too, which wakes her up.

I’m not really sure where this story is going.

http://comicbookdb.com/character_chron.php?ID=10329

We don’t see him again until Excalibur 14 (the Magneto / Xavier not-so-buddy book) and that’s only in a flashback that we learn that Xavier and Mr. Pryde were old war buddies.  That’s in 2005, so that is 11 years later.  Mekanix, in 2002, is when we learn he dies in the Genosha genocide, New X-Men 115.  Which I just now realized that I don’t own and should add it, just for that connection.

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Kitty tries to answer the phone.  In her rush, she phases through the computer, causing it to go haywire.  We’ll have to see if this subplot ever comes up again.  Not during this month, but maybe some other day.

Kitty hears a sound and goes to investigate it.

In the MedLab, Dr. Rory Campbell is trying to hold Brian back.  Brian is calling himself, Britanic, and wants to leave.  Rory notes that Brian has some clear memory issues.  Since this is only the next issue, the scientists don’t know enough about his time spent in the timestream, to allow him to travel about.

Britanic is being summoned and he wants to go.

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Kitty and Meggan agree to follow, to make sure he doesn’t hurt himself or anything else.

Poor Campbell learned, last issue, that he will one day turn into Ahab, of the Days of Future Past.  Which is pretty heady.  Now knowing that, he is unsure of any moves that he should make, as it may trigger that future becoming a reality.  Why he just doesn’t leave and spend no time with mutants, is beyond me.

Issue ends with Kurt and Amanda, in Germany.  They start trying to quiet the riots.  Kurt takes a brick to the head!  Proving that he is a mighty X-Man!  Kurt goes down and D’spayre loves it!  We’ll have to find out what happens, some other time.

On Sale, Then –

Beavis & Butthead 3
Doom 2099 17
Excalibur 77 – Concluding Nightcrawler’s origin!  With Captain Britain
Ghost Rider 2099 1 – which is also spotlighted in the Hype Box
GI Joe 148
Marvel Age 136
Sabretooth Classics 1
What If 61 – Spidey flips out when the unthinkable happens to Mary Jane
X-Factor Annual 9 – Professor X finds there’s no safe place to hide from Haven
X-Men 32 – Are you hungry for Revanche?  Read this issue!
X-Men 2099 8 – Say — that couldn’t be the original X-Men in this issue — could it?

Sword Strokes, letters from – Courtney Knapton of Manchester, CT / Tue Sorenson c/o Waage of Denmark / Robert Smith / Stephen Strawn of Little Rock, AR / Chris Stempie of Canada / Dharma Aymara Arthur of Panama City, FL and Joey Marchese of Union, NJ.

Next issue – Conclusion of the D’Spayre storyline, the beginning of The Douglock Chronicles and Zero from X-Force and the first Deadpool Limited Series.

. . .

We’re taking a break from Excalibur to review Marvel Comics Presents 174 and DC’s Sovereign Seven 3.  Then we come back around for Excalibur 96 – Lockheed is missing from nearly 25 issues, that’s two years!  Marvel must have gotten so many letters!

Cable and Deadpool 30

Posted by John Klein III on February 12, 2016
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Cable Deadpool 30

Writer Fabian Nicieza

Penciler Staz Johnson

Inker Klaus Janson

Colorist Gotham

Letterer Dave Sharpe

Cover Dated September 2006

A slight preview of my few Civil War tie-ins that I own that I’ll be reviewing in May.  This is the Cable & Deadpool tie-in issue to the big event of 2006.

Cable Deadpool 30 Recap

Fun recap of the American Civil War.  Marvel’s Civil War gets recapped with one sentence, that the New Warriors caused an explosion at a school in Stamford and now heroes are fighting each other.  Deadpool mentions how Spider-Man’s identity became known and how that will screw with his continuity for years.  I feel like they are still dealing with the fallout of that, in a way.

Deadpool is Pro-Registration.  His job, during the Civil War, is to get others to register – by fighting them, of course.

Deadpool decides to go after the Great Lakes Champions (at this point in time).  Deadpool is using his first person narration boxes but the GLC can hear him, which confuses him.  Present are Mister Immortal, Big Bertha, Flatman and Doorman.  Flatman is proud how they won the poker game, to earn the right to use the Champions name.

Deadpool beheads Mister Immortal.  Big Bertha brings Deadpool inside her folds, which he likes.  Which disgusts her, as she doesn’t care for chubby chasers.  She’s not happy with people finding her skinny form attractive or her plus size form – so I’m not sure what she wants.  People to like her for herself, which is a reasonable request.

Before he lost his head, Mister Immortal tries to explain to Deadpool, that they have registered already.

Deadpool is about to lose this fight and sets a concussion grenade off.  Squirrel Girl shows up and hands him a decisive victory – in classic Squirrel Girl fashion.

A fun moment with the police, who don’t know what to do as the Great Lakes Champions have never brought anyone to the Milwaukee Police Station before.  They don’t have protocols in place, not even jokingly.

Deadpool quickly tries to explain that he shouldn’t be processed – like criminal scum.  He was trying to get the GLC to register.  The caption informs the merc with a mouth that the heroes are already registered.  As soon as the Superhuman Registration Act was passed, the team were first in line to sign.

Mister Immortal, while Deadpool is feeling pretty down, tries to make things worst.  Pointing out how Deadpool isn’t either an X-Man or a mutant.  Deadpool jokes about how he could know that, unless he owns the trading card set.  This embarrasses Mister Immortal, as he does own the trading card set.  I had a few of those Fleer cards myself.

Daily Bugle.
New Number Ones –
Annihilation 1 of 8
Heroes for Hire 1
Agents of Atlas 1 of 6
Claws 1 of 3
New Arcs –
Sensational Spider-Man 29
Runaways 19
X-Factor 10
Black Panther 19

Cable Deadpool 30 Shadowcat mentioned in joke

Mister Immortal tries to make it less embarrassing, stating that the cards are not in mylar or anything.  He likes to flip the cards.  Deadpool uses that comment to state how he would like to flip Shadowcat – hence why I own this issue.

Squirrel Girl, who I really enjoy, protects Kitty’s reputation and tells him to shut his evil mouth!  Good for you, Doreen!

Agent Hafner, with the Commission of Superhuman Activities. He sort of brags about how his jurisdiction covers – Wisconsin (where they are now), Minnesota and the Dakotas.  This forces Deadpool to comment about how busy Hafner must be.

Hafner enlists Deadpool to track down non-registered heroes.

Manhattan, Eleven Hours Later.  Cable confronts Deadpool, they are now on opposite sides of the war.  I do like Cable joking with Deadpool that his singing is going to get him kicked off of American Idol – I imagine that is the reality show Cable is referencing.

This catches Deadpool by surprised, he was given a list but he has lost it.  He found it and doesn’t want to fight Captain America or Luke Cage.  Well, he’s willing to fight Cage, if he wears his classic yellow silk shirt.  I didn’t even know those shirts were silk!  So soft and smooth!

Deadpool scans the list for any big-chested women, but is happy to see that the nimble Young Avengers are on the list.  A tad odd that the list is on paper and not on a screen, of some sort.  I imagine, those are the hard noes that will not be registering and are fully on Cap’s side.

I do like how polite the two’s disagreement with the sides are.  They are not going to actually fight each other so they make quips and continue their way.  Though Deadpool is under the impression that Cable is just above this fight so he isn’t on any side.

Cable is meeting with Captain America, to offer asylum on Cable’s island country of Providence.  Or was it a giant ship?  Maybe a combination?  I believe I recall it flew at some point.  I do like Cable and Captain America chatting, the two have so much in common.  Soldiers from different eras, and all that.

Cable is trying to explain the big picture to Cap.  Cap is thinking in terms of months and years but Cable is talking about how this is merely the groundwork for decades and centuries.  Superhumans will be used as a military force, which the Initiative was sort of used for.  Cable also mentions how he is the President Pro Tem of Rumekistan, which I do remember that.  This title was pretty great, while it was coming out.  Then that whole Cable dying in Second Coming sort of forced this title to become a Deadpool Team-Up book, which was fun in its own way.

Cap and Cable exchange some dry humor.  Cable repeats that Cap will lose and renews his offer.  He’s willing to give Cap a promotion.  Captain America jokes about being “Captain World” but Cable was thinking more along the lines of “Captain Overview.”  These two are pretty old.

Deadpool was watching this entire scene.  He knew whose side Cable would fall on.  Deadpool has decided to take on Daredevil.  Now he has to figure out how to get to Long Island.

Long Island, morning.  He stole a taxi.  He thinks his narration boxes are working again but a lady on the street informs him that he is talking aloud.

Deadpool and Daredevil have a fun four page fight.  Lots of red on these pages.

There is a full page ad for the Ultimate Clone Saga, starting in Ultimate Spider-Man 97, by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley.

Deadpool and Daredevil do get to trade their philosophy about what registration means to them, which is nice.

In the next issue, if I remember correctly, Deadpool realizes that this Daredevil is really Danny Rand – Iron Fist!  The second to last page of the issue, is a repeat (on purpose) of a previous issue’s fight with the two of them, but with Iron Fist proper.  It is a very clever artist hint.  Deadpool is starting to realize it but is kicked in the head before he can reveal it out loud.  So he is Danny Rand, pretending to be Daredevil, pretending to be a civil engineer as Captain America hooked his main allies with secret secret identities.  Cable hinted that these secret identities were already known, before they were taken on, by Iron Man’s side.

I believe that readers of Daredevil’s own title or even Civil War proper, would have known about the whole Iron Fist as Daredevil reveal.

Deadpool comes to and says everyone’s secret cover identities as he sees – Captain America, Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Hulkling, Wiccan, Hercules and Black Goliath.  Deadpool, in another fun moment, states how the Young Avengers are nubile.  Goes as far to say that Hulking and Wiccan are looking especially nubile.

Deadpool realizes that, with a Sweet Chrstmas, (another fine hint), that he is about to get a wuppin’!

The Next Issue caption tag states – Deadpool gets a Whuppin’! so it is officially going to happen!  Such a fun issue!

Dear Deadpool, letters from – Tammy Suto of Rayland, Ohio / Jason / Joshua Shepard / Dannyboy / Fans from Utopia Comics in Holt, Michigan.  I do like Deadpool answering the questions.

Next Issue, Deadpool informs us – I take on more renegade heroes and face off against my own pal, Cable!  Whose butt will be kicked first?  Find out int he second of three Civil War issues, penciled by Snazzy Staz Johnson, inked by Klaus “in da house” Janson and with a cover by Ace Amanda Connor!

It is a pretty good arc, if you ever want to track it down.

Excalibur 74

Posted by John Klein III on February 11, 2016
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Excalibur 74

Title – In The Name Of Love

Written with Love by Richard Ashford

Drawn with Passion by Ian Churchill

Inked with Adoration by Harry Candelario, Cam Smith and Randy Elliott

Lettered with Affection by Pat Brosseau

Colored with Devotion by Garrahy and Matthys

Grouply Edited with Appreciation by Bob Harris

Chiefly Edited with Concern by Tom DeFalco

Cover Dated February 1994

Issue opens with Rachel feeling bad about Brian being stuck in the timestream.  He keeps reaching out to her, and she feels the timestream pulling at her.  She has the idea that the solution is to swap places with him but she doesn’t want to give up the life she has grown accustom to.  What she should be giving up his this hairstyle she is sporting.  It looks like Churchill has given her the look of the back of her head being shaved but with some bangs up top with long hair flowing from the base of her head.  It looks so silly.

Meanwhile, Moira and Rory Campbell are monitoring Meggan, who is even further into her comastose phase.  Shadowcat is also in the room, feeling bad.  Meggan also looks more like a demon, she is utterly lost.

Rachel comes into the room, Campbell can tell that there is some awkward tension between Meggan and Rachel – he decides that he will learn more about this.

Poor Kitty is going through a lot with Illyana’s recent death and having to betray Colossus, so that the X-Men could fix his mental state – so now he can convert back to his human form.

Meanwhile, Kurt is checking in on Spoor, a villain with a poisonous power.  Spoor wants Kurt to kill him, as he will be killing more.  I don’t recall this story, at all.

Outside, Rachel is lost in a thought, when Rory shows up.  She confides in him about her suspicious about Brian.

Some Titles that were on sale, this week –

Doom 2009 14
Excalibur 74 – Meet the Russian version of the Sentinels
Gambit 3 of 4 – Gambit goes to Paris!
GI Joe 145
Marvel Age 133 – X-Men, War Machine and Daredevil
NFL Pro Action 1
What If 58 – What if the Punisher killed Spider-Man?
X-Men 29 – Revanche, Gambit and Sabretooth team up to rescue the X-Men
X-Men 2099 5 – The X-Men go to New York to face Avstarr!

Meanwile, Mister Sinister (from the cover) is talking to the Gamemaster.  These are pretty missable three pages – I have never been much of a Sinister fan.  Siena Blaze, who is in the room with Sinister, was sent on a mission to get some sweet DNA from Moira’s son.  She failed with that task but she did get some of Rachel’s blood.

Back with Rachel, she is thinking about Scott and Jean’s upcoming wedding.

Kurt is in his room, thinking about Cerise as well as slightly teasing the upcoming X-Men Unlimited 4 – as he wants to confront Mystique about his origins.  Which I can’t believe that, in 1994, we didn’t know that Mystique is Nightcrawler’s mother.

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Since we are catching up with characters, we peak in with Kitty and Lockheed.  Kitty is sad that Illyana isn’t going to be able to see Jean and Scott’s wedding.  Lockheed is poking his head in the boxes.  Excalibur is still new to Muir Isle so she hasn’t unpacked yet.  She also hasn’t unpacked from her trip to Westchester.  Which is awkward timing, that she went for Illyana’s funeral and will have to go back to the wedding but it isn’t like she doesn’t have access to a  private plane.  It also is helpful that she doesn’t have to answer to a boss, for the additional time off.

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Churchill draws a pretty nice Lockheed.

In Kitty’s bag, the bamf doll that she loaned to Jubilee is back in her bag.  Jubilee didn’t need it, after all.

Kitty is feeling bad for her betrayal of Colossus but it was for his own good.  Plus, he will get over it.

Back in the MedLab, Meggan grabs Rachel by her throat – surprising everyone.  Meggan knows that it is Rachel who is keeping her separate from her lover, Brian.

Rory injects Meggan with a drug, to calm her.  Rachel is mad, as he shouldn’t have interfered.

Sadly, Lockheed isn’t in the big 75th issue, so the next issue we will review is Excalibur 76.

Ultimate End 3

Posted by John Klein III on February 10, 2016
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Ultimate End 3

Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Penciler Mark Bagley

Inker Scott Hanna

Colorist Justin Ponsor

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Ultimate End 3 Recap

I didn’t get the second issue of this series, but the third one more than makes up for that!  From what I read, of the second issue, it was pretty much a giant fight of the two Hulks.

It has been brought to my attention that the versions of characters seen in this series, both the Proper Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe – may not actually be those versions of the character.  Which probably explains why Ultimate Captain America is just walking around, after seemingly dying towards the end of Cataclysm.  Which was with this creative team, so they could just undo that story.  Plus, I never really thought Cap died in there, as he was shown running towards the back of the Quinjet prior to it hitting Galactus, so he must have survived that.

There was also some wordage that implied that Doom had created and recreated this region, several times.  I bright all of this up as the Cyclops, seen in this issue, is not the real Cyclops – as we saw what happened to him in Secret Wars 2015 issue 4.  There is no way this miniseries takes place between issues three and four of the main series – that I still only own the first issue of.

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This issue opens with Bruce Banner, the proper one, is a prisoner of Ultimate Nick Fury’s.  All the united heroes, including Magik! – are present.  Fury is not impressed with Banner, at all.  People died, good SHIELD agents, in the attack that occurred in the prison, and Banner (being a Hulk) is fully responsible.

Proper Iron Man wants Fury to calm down, as that’s no way to speak to one of his friends.

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I thought Ultimate Captain America would just be on the cover but he is there, confronting his Fury.  Spider-Man really doesn’t like Fury saying his real name, but Fury was use to saying Ultimate Peter’s real name.

Emma reads Bruce’s mind and assures him that he should tell the story.  Bruce, as Doc Green, is confronted by Ultimate Banner – who wants Green to stop his research.  As a Hulk, all they ever do is ruin everything.  They go back to worth until they fight.  Which is weird, and maybe this is explained in the second issue, but Doc Green turns pink (like Banner) and loses the goatee while Ultimate Banner turns into a proper green Hulk.  Like Ultimate Hulk’s appearance stole the gamma radiation from Proper Hulk and that’s what happened.  But Proper Hulk is still Hulk, but pink and with brown hair – so maybe what we are seeing being depicted is him unHulking out?

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Bruce tries to explain what happened, but it still doesn’t explain it.  Maybe it is him using “Hulk out” that is throwing me off, as it appears like he did the opposite.  He Hulked down.

Fury has heard enough and tells everyone to leave.

I do like Proper Tony claiming Bruce as a friend, I guess in times like these, those of a same universe just stick together.  Falcon tells Tony to back down.

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Tony tells his universe folks that Fury is looking for an excuse to start locking them up.  Tony walks away, and passes by Magik.  I love Bagley, but showing Illyana having her soulsword holstered, is a mistake.  How is that sword attached to her?  Does she have a giant belt loop where the widest part of the sword can go into.

Poor Banner, he just wants to help.

We get to the second half of the issue and we get a little awkward section.  We see Frank Castle, in prison guard, gets to a safe house.  This must be the Ultimate Punisher, right? He has a black belt.  Proper Punisher, I imagine, comes in, and he has the classic white gloves, white boots and matching gloves but Ultimate Punisher throws a knife and kills him so quickly.  So this is awkward as I can’t imagine the Proper Punisher dying so easily – even if confronted by an Ultimate version.  Proper Punisher has been an angel, has been turned into FrankenCastle, I mean, he shouldn’t be that confused.  But he also hasn’t been this blood thirsty to kill costumed folks so that’s why I think it is Ultimate Punisher, moving on.

Brooklyn.  Bombshell confronts Proper Wrecking Crew (as their Ultimate counterparts are, Damage Control).  The Wrecking Crew are angry as they are forced to become bank robbers so that they can make some money, so they don’t mind that they are four grown muscle men, about to fight a high school student.  Just then, Thunderball gets a bullet through his head.  Punisher kills Wreckler, Piledriver and finally, Bulldozer.  He turns his eye to Bombshell but we cute to a new scene – so if she doesn’t die on panel, I would like to think that he didn’t kill her.  Even though he narrates, this is the only way it could end.

Triskelion Containment Center.  Two scientists are looking over Bruce, he’s trying to help them but they are not amused.  Just then, the power goes out.  Which is weird, as one of them claims that it is impossible to have a power outage, when it happens ALL THE TIME!

Issue ends with Banner, inside an Iron Man suit, as Tony brings him to safety.

Not really sure where this series is heading.  Clearly this series isn’t going to end with the two universes separated, as Secret Wars 2015 will have that big moment.  So is this just a very fancy Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, which I will be all for, but it sure doesn’t feel like the last hurrah for the Universe Universe, like I thought it was going to be.

Excalibur 68

Posted by John Klein III on February 9, 2016
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Excalibur 68

Plot Scott Lobdell

Script Dan Slott

Pencils Steve Buccellato

Inks Harry Candelario

Letters Chris Eliopoulos

Colors Steve Buccellato

Dead Space, Part One of Three

Cover Dated August 1993

Alan Davis and Mark Farmer left the series and now we have Lobdell back on board.

The opening narration reveals that, on the way back from the Days of Future . . . Future, Captain Britain got separated in the timestream.  There is a handy editor note, from Suzanne Gaffney, that informs that we hadn’t missed an issue, we are merely jumping into the action.  We are also heading towards trying to fold Excalibur into the X-World.

Meggan is catatonic, in the waterfall, her has morphed her body to match the water.  The team is quite worried about her.  Rachel can’t reach her, even with her telepathic powers.

Kitty gets out of a car, she’s in a foul mood.  To make matters worst, microMAX is now in charge of the team.  He is wearing a business suit.  He believes that, with Captain Britain and Meggan gone – the team really needs to train more.  Kitty is in no mood for this jerk’s dick attitude.

Overhearing this, Kylun leaps from a tree and microMAX grows in size and prepares for a fight.  Kylun was merely testing his new friend’s wit.  microMAX is in charge, by FI6, and he hints at previous storylines – exploding bathrooms, dinosaur doppelgangers and cross-time capers.  Did Dan “Amazing Spider-Man” Slott really read these issues?  Does he even remember writing this issue?

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What has Kitty in such a foul mood?  One of her closest friends, Illyana, is dying of the Legacy Virus; and she’s suffered too much death with Doug and now Brian’s disappearance.  To make the tears continue to fall, she thinks about Kate Pryde and how she was all alone, with her friends and family dead.

Feron arrives, and like a giant douche, commands Kitty to stop crying.

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This, of course, doesn’t work as it isn’t – at all – what one should do to someone who is crying.  Feron’s intentions were to distract her and have her be able to direct her anger towards something else.  She finds it sweet, and Lockheed is so relieved!  Kitty hugs Feron, for his lame attempt as she really needs a friend right now.

Why she doesn’t go to Kurt and Rachel, is beyond me.  Though we do see this pair, as they go back inside.  I get that Rachel was always ‘edgy’ in her manner of dress but she just looks like a biker chick.  Rachel apologizes to Kurt, for being so indifferent about losing Brian.  Cerise comes flying into the room and grabs Kurt, they instantly start making out.  She hasn’t see him in 15 days.  Which I can’t recall if she didn’t go on the mission- or why she didn’t.  Kurt is upset, as no one seems to be caring that Brian is gone.

There is an ad for Mortal Kombat, coming in September 1993!  I was in the seventh grade and people were obsessed!  Rayden / Sub-Zero / Liu Kang / Johnny Cage / Sonya Blade / Kano / Goro / Scorpion, the original eight!  The franchise has gone so much over the past 16 years!  It still can’t even play its own self!

A Grove Behind Braddock Manor.  As microMAX and Kylun are sword fighting when they are ambushed by . . . THE STARJAMMERS!

Is Stridex even a company, any more?  I recall these zit pads never working.

Rachel senses danger and summons the team otuside.

Kitty and Kurt don’t understand why their allies are harassing their new team.  Corsair and his peeps are here for the worst war criminals in Shi’ar history.  So the team thinks this is regarding Rachel, again.

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microMAX gives the order to fight, which Kurt disagrees with but joins the fight.

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The two teams haven’t seen each other since Spotlight on Starjammers 2, which had them fighting there, as well.  Hepzibah fights Kurt, with Lockheed trying his best to assist. Feron binds Cosair, who has flashbacks to when the Shi’ar first captured him.

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Feron is taken out.  Lockheed has changed targets to, Raza.  Who I had as an action figure in the 90s and totally didn’t play him correctly.  Lockheed’s good buddy, Shadowcat, phases through Raza and he is down.

Rachel announces that this fight is useless, she isn’t going to go with the Starjammers.  Chod states that they are not here for her, which surprises Nightcrawler.

Cosair says they are here for a grave murderer of the Shi’ar.  Cerise arrives, in full battle garb.  This storyline is the beginning of Cerise leaving the title and not appearing again until issue 125.  I’m not sure why editorial thought they had to get rid of her.  I believe, just from reading the rest of the series, that they wanted to get the team back down to the main five original members.

Cerise surrenders and Kurt kicks Raza in his dumb face, Chris Sims style!

Some titles that were on sale, that week –

Dark Angel 13
Deadpool, 1 of 4
Doom 2099 8
Excalibur 68 – Scott Lobdell is the new regular writer!
Marvel Age 127
Spider-Man 37
What If 52 – What if Wolverine Led Alpha Flight?  Some how, everyone dies – I imagine
X-Men 23 – The Dark Riders spring a test on Cyclops, and he forgot to study!

Corsair instructs Hepzibah to open the stargate and the Starjammers and their new prisoner disappear.

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Rachel is telekinetically keeping the stargate open, Kurt had this plan the entire time.  Kitty reminds him that someone should stick behind for Meggan – which is odd as that is what Pre-Ahab and Moira are there for.  Well, Moira lives here too.

Feron volunteers to stick behind.  Kitty is actually going to stick behind too, as they need an adult.  Though there are already two of them, but I guess they need an official member of Excalibur.

The rest of the team go through the portal, Kurt doesn’t have a plan at all, he’s playing it as it goes – as the issue ends.

The back cover ad is for Crunch n Munch, that had Marvel trading cards, which I feel like was on the back of so many covers during this year or era.

The next issue we are reviewing is issue 74 of Excalibur!

Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe 3

Posted by John Klein III on February 8, 2016
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Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe 3

Writer Cullen Bunn

Artist Dalibor Talajic

Colorist Lee Loughridge

Letterer VC’s Joe Sabino

Cover Artist Kaare Andrews

Cover Dated October 2012

In the same vein of Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe (a one shot I have to rebuy one of these days), comes this miniseries.  I only read this issue, as this is the X-Men issue.

Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe 3 Recap

Here is what happened in the previous two issues.  Deadpool has already killed – The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Avengers and the Hulk.  Taskmaster has been hired to stop Deadpool, who is feeling compelled to keep murdering heroes.

Taskmaster is following the path of destruction that Deadpool has left.  Taskmaster comes across several of Multiple Man’s bodies, a beheaded Green Goblin and have caused Power Pack’s ship to crash.  The death of Power Pack spurs Taskmaster to make sure Deadpool dies for this.  I’m sure that makes Brian Perillo happy.

We catch up with Deadpool, who is currently torturing Xavier, who is sitting in front of thirty television sets.  Deadpool stabs Xavier in the leg, forcing him to summon his X-Men with his classic “to me, my X-Men.”  To they come, as why wouldn’t they?

Cyclops is leading Emma Frost, Cannonball and Pixie – when he gets a red glob thrown at his head.  Cyclops, foolishly, tries to blast it off his face and his entire head explodes.  It was worth a shot, I suppose.  Emma, Sam and Pixie die in the fallout.

We get hints that Deapdool is killing everybody, as he knows they are all fictional characters.

Next up is Colossus, Gambit and Rogue – so one of these should be getting a great death.  Colossus is trying to hold up a falling door when the floor electrocutes the three of them.  That was a twist!

Xavier tries to read or control Deadpool’s mind but he’s never really been able to, in the past.

Deadpool decides to let Xavier in on the secret.  In issue one, I imagine, Psycho Man messed with Deadpool’s head.  Deadpool has known he’s been breaking the fourth wall but he finally realizes what is beyond the fourth way.

Xavier is done with the madness and shuts down Deadpool’s head, well tries to, anyway as whatever he saw, kills him.

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Deadpool is disappointed in Xavier’s easy death.  He checks in on Magneto, who is dead inside jellified acid.

Finally, is Kitty Pryde.  Here we go.  That isn’t a bad costume design, pretty much her classic outfit with a stylish red headband.

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Deadpool couldn’t quite figure out how to kill Kitty so he contains her, and she’ll probably starve in there.  I like to think, that after this issue – she makes it out and is sad about what she finds, outside of her cage.

Wolverine is still running around, Deadpool thought he killed him already.  Wolverine runs into Arcade, who is crying about the use of his MurderWorld.  Wolverine straight kills Arcade, for his involvement.

Wolverine enters another room.  He sees X23 and Daken, dangling from wires.  Deadpool informs Wolverine that the computer is set up, so whenever their healing factors kick in, flamethrowers turn on.

We get another Deadpool v Wolverine fight.  Deadpool is armed with a carbonadium blade, so Wolverine’s wounds are going to stick.  Deadpool explains to Wolverine that it isn’t his healing factor that keeps Wolverine coming back.  It is his popularity.

There is a two page ad for Hickman’s two-part crossover involving The Wizard.  Fantastic Four 610 (art by Stegman) and FF 22 (art by Dragotta).  Something to do with Bad Father / Worse Son.

Meanwhile, over at 177A Bleecker Street.  Taskmaster is inside Doctor Strange’s home.  He isn’t impressed with the detour.  Doctor Strange has been killed but clearly Deadpool was looking for something, as books are thrown in every direction.  Even upside down!

Issue ends with what Deadpool was looking for, the directions to . . . the Nexus of All Realities!  Next issue is going to have Man-Thing, ya’ll!

There is a full page ad for Punisher 16, Prepare for the War Zone by Greg Rucka and Marco Checchetto.

Also next issue, Punisher gets Punished!

Not that many X-Men actually die in this issue, Ten for sure, and three more eventually and maybe four if Kitty doesn’t make it out.