Roku 3 Shit Poor Customer Service

Posted by John Klein III on October 15, 2015
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http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=82833&sid=8639fc91c03228af2efc9a677c71e0e4&start=15

In this my comments get deleted, I want to state what poor customer service I’ve experienced on January 18, 2015.

Had two 50 minute conversations that were completely unhelpful and unprofessional.

Case Number – 3312128
Serial Number – 1GU455030477

It was working with the reboot trick but then the idiot made me do a hard reboot and now this 96 dollar item is useless. Now I get to waste ten dollars, and not get reimbursed because of ROKU’s stupid own problem, and I get to wait ten days before I might get one that works.

As tomorrow is a holiday, I can’t mail until Tuesday, so any help would be fantastic.

When I get a bad ink order, they ship me a replacement overnight, then I return the defective unit back in a provided box. That is how proper businesses do it.

I’m telling everyone about the <I just took a Roku to the knee> poor phone customer service, with all the times I was put on hold, and not recommending this service.

Also, apparently, because we are 20 days pass the 90th day, the supervisor wouldn’t help us, at all.

The guy said “someone” was looking into it, but wouldn’t give me a time table or listen to my idea of reverting to the previous update to prevent this problem in the future and to solve the problem AND save me money and time. The worst customer service I have ever received and the supervisor was equally troublesome.

The third person I spoke to, couldn’t get my phone number, address nor email address correct – so who knows if I am even getting those directions to fix this in two weeks.

Oh! And they fought me on the fact that ten days isn’t two weeks. Right, with Sundays not being a mailing day, if I ship it Tuesday, my replacement won’t be in my hands until close to the second Tuesday WHICH IS TWO WEEKS! Never had to explain to two people how to do their jobs AND how to be provide better customer service.

If a thousand people bought a $96 Roku 3, they can afford to overnight the fixed product. ESPECIALLY as they are saving money on fools on the other side of the phone.

Should have either not purchased this product or spent money on the cheapest item. What is the point of buying the most expensive product, it there are no rewards?

. . .

So don’t buy Roku, or if you do, buy the $35 version.  We wish we stuck with Amazon and bought the Fire TV.

Wolverines 2

Posted by John Klein III on October 14, 2015
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Wolverines 2

Writer Ray Fawkes

Art Alisson Borges

Colorists Israel Silva & Brett Smith

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Cover Dated March 2015

I was missing this issue but Hastings was able to back order it for me, which was pretty nice!  Now the only issue of the series I’m “missing” is issue 13 but that’s an all Deadpool and Fantomelle issue, so we’re skipping that one.  Can’t believe Fawkes and Soule didn’t check in with the main cast of the title, for even a page.  They did the same for issue three, which I also don’t own, as that is a pure Fantomelle issue.

After issues 9 – 12, that seemed like they took a major detour involving Fang of the Imperial Guard, it is nice to read this issue and how the series had a clear direction.

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Nevada.  Mystique is getting a status update from the previous issue.  Mister Sinister not only stole Wolverine’s statue body but also Daken’s left eye and arm.  Neuro also tells her that Sabretooth and Shogun are offline.

Destiny is who Mystique is hearing in the narration boxes.

It makes perfect sense that the two groups of characters are not working well a a team, as the Paradise folks are essentially holding the Wolverines hostage, with the codewords.

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The Wrecking Crew have made short work of Skel, Shogun and Sabretooth.  Wrecker is ready to move on, as there isn’t anything keeping them there, now that Sinister is gone.  Lady Deathstrike is still on the move.

Daken is freaking out, rightfully so.  X23 is trying to sooth him and Junk is way over his head.

Mystique starts to give Endo and Neuro orders.  I don’t miss those two characters, at all.  Mystique sends Endo inside to retrieve Daken, I guess they don’t know that he doesn’t have his healing factor.

Junk says Daken’s control word to put him to sleep, Arquebus.  X23 can’t believe Junk had the nerve to that.

Endo comes running in and gets a crowbar to the legs.  Before the Wrecking Crew and start a beat down, Mystique offers them money, to simply walk away.  If not, she will hunt down all of their family members and ruin their lives.  Wrecker accepts, as he is being paid twice for doing the one job and the crew goes.

Everyone gets on board the Changeling.  I like Junk having to ask, who is Sinister.  That makes perfect sense, really, like only a hundred people probably should know who he is, he isn’t one of those villains that gets in front of a camera.

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Shogun starts arguing with Ogun, as he knows what to do to heal Daken.  Shogun had picked up a few Regen Serums, Ogun rather just let Daken die, one less threat.

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Neuro would rather not waste one of the limited Regen Serums on Daken either, they need those with healing factors (to save the Paradise folks) so if Daken no longer has his, he is no longer essential.  X23 can’t believe the folks she is stuck on a ship with.

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Shogun does the right thing and injects Daken.

One Hour Later.  X23 has stayed by Daken’s side, so she is there when he wakes up.  Now that Logan is dead, sadly, Daken is the closest thing to family that she has.

Lapland, Findland.  Sinister’s base.  He starts running tests on Wolverine.

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The team wants to take the fight to Sinister.  Mystique warns how dangerous Sinister is, he uses time and space as weapons.

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Not only that, if he captures you, he will turn you into a mindless weapon.  Or worst, just take some DNA, and keep making clones of you that do whatever he wants.  Mystique doesn’t know where Sinister is, but Neuro does.

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Daken had a tracer on him, that was luckily in his arm, so now they know where Sinister is.

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Neuro gives the reason why they need Wolverine, as vague as it is.  Wolverine’s body apparently has the key that will free the Paradise experiments from their internal death clocks.  Neuro had uploaded all of Paradise’s research, so he knows a great deal about Sinister.

Neuro just wants to find someone first, Fantomell, who will be perfect for this breaking and entering.  We see her on the last page, so I guess I own her first appearance now.  Not like I suspect she will be a big character once this series last issue (20) comes out nor after Secret Wars 2015.  Though Soule does seem to be sticking around Marvel, and he and Fawkes seem to really like her, so maybe she will become a big character.

Spykecam / Bad Girls

Posted by John Klein III on October 13, 2015
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X-Men Evolution – Spykecam – 1×8

Evolution Rogue Shadowcat Dance

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Bad Girls – 3×14

Faith Buffy Dance

You’re welcome

All New X-Men 37

Posted by John Klein III on October 12, 2015
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All New X-Men 37

Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Artist Mike Del Mundo

Colorists Mike Del Mundo and Marco D’Alfonso

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Let’s get this out of the way, for preservation sake.  For whatever reason, this was a giant scheduling fuck up.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/02/06/new-x-men-37-published-39/

It isn’t just an issue that 37 was so far behind, that it had to come out the same week as 39, but it wasn’t even the original story –

http://marvel.wikia.com/All-New_X-Men_Vol_1_37

Solicit Synopsis:

• You know your friends from growing up? The ones you went to high school with, and are to-this-day some of the people who know you best?

• Well, imagine there are only five kids in your high school, and you’re all hated and feared by the world around you.

• Sometimes, it’s nice to take a step back and realize that what you’ve been told is your “team” is really something much better—your best friends.

 

I don’t want to harp on it too much, as I do adore Sarah Pichelli, and she had a death in the family so Bendis was able to pull this story together.

https://www.tumblr.com/brianmichaelbendis/110750237282/im-sorry-but-im-confused-with-all-new-x-men-37

So that is why it came out when 39 came out, and I wanted to do the Black Vortex issues as a group so I also am writing this after 37.  I imagine that the story that was hinted above, will probably show up in issue 600.  There is 40 pages of that issue, but I reckon that if she didn’t get any pages done, the story above is never going to be seen.  Not that I was all that excited to read a Bobby and Hank buddy book, especially as they have barely hung out for 37 issues prior to this.  Instead, we got a Jean and Emma story.

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Madripoor.  Magik has teleporrted Jean and Emma, so that Emma can give Jean some in the filed training.  Magik doesn’t want to leave the ladies behind.  I don’t blame Illyana for not wanting to go back to the school.  What is there for her to do that will trump this adventure.  Illyana leaves and the issue suffers for it.

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Jean talks about how Illyana is getting tired of being a taxi service, which more people need to talk about that.  She has so much potential but instead, she ends up bookending stories.

Emma gives a brief history of Madripoor.  It was a Hydra Terrority, a Ninja Assassin Terrority and then Mystique’s attempt at a mutant paradise.  Jean also learns about MGH, Mutant Growth Hormone, which apparently has been around forever now.  I thought it was something that came along in the 90s with the Legacy Virus but it has been around since 1972, with Amazing Adventures 11,which is the first appearance of Grey Furry Beast.  That’s two things!

Emma shuts off Jean’s telepathy, she can do that.  I like Emma implication that Xavier was putting blocks on Jean’s mind since their first sessions together.  Jean can’t believe it but if she just researched Xavier’s deeds, she would find out that he has done so much worst.

Emma’s powers have come back as she has been earning them back, with the assistance of the Cuckoos.

Emma’s goal for Jean, today, is to practice her telekinesis.  Jean claims she uses her telekinesis but she isn’t flying about.

Jean finds her target, the Blob, who is both in charge of Madripoor and extremely addicted to MGH.  Bob is confused as Jean looks so much smaller here than how he remembers her.  Which I like, the existence of the Original Five is not a known detail to the public at large.  Though Mystique knows but she must not have told Blog about that.

Jean throws Blob across the room, along with everyone else but he gets right back up and charges at her.  Something I wouldn’t want done to me.  He flings Jean across the island.  Jean is littler and Blog is much larger.  Like Kitty, I enjoy seeing Jean use a gun, of course, bullets have no effect on the unmovable object.

That could make a decent What If, the Blob did join the X-Men, way back in Uncanny X-Men 3.

Jean and Blob end up floating about in the sky.  He calls her bluff and she drops him to the ground.  The fall doesn’t kill him but he is knocked out.  Emma approves of the session and gives Jean back her telepathy.

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Issue ends with Emma wanting Jean to be better.  Magik isn’t coming to pick them up but how does someone leave an island?  I imagine Emma keeps a credit card on her for these circumstances.

Wolverine by Barry Lyga

Posted by John Klein III on October 11, 2015
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Wolverine Barry Lyga Young Reader Novel

This is a Young Readers novel, written by Barry Lyga.  From doing some quick research for the image above, apparently this had a subtitle of, Worst Day Ever – but that doesn’t appear on the indicia or the cover of my copy.

The fun aspect to this book, is that it is written as if it is a printed blog.  I like how the images used in the book are explained away.  There are panels from comics throughout the book, so that it isn’t just text.  The panels are pulled from various titles and artists, and it is explained that the main character is an artist and likes to use various styles.  That is some clever writing, with production in mind.

The main character and his power is what I really want to discuss in this review.  Before that, the main reason why I bought it was two reasons.  I flipped through it and saw that Kitty Pryde made a few appearances and it was used at Hastings, so it was only $2.49.

The main character of the novel is, Eric Mattias.  He is writing his blog as he is a student of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.  He is writing the blog as he has the worst mutant power of them all.  His mutant power is, as it described on page ten – people don’t notice him.  If he concentrates really hard, he can get people’s attention.

This book came out in 2013.  In May 2014, three guys got together and write X-Men Legacy 300 – Mike Carey, Simon Spurrier and Christos Gage.  Together, they created . . . ForgetMeNot.  Who, in comparison to Mattias, has it so much easier.

ForgetMeNot’s power makes you forget about him, once he is out of your line of sight.  Mattias’ power is that, even if he is in front of you, you still can’t see him.  Xavier knows both of them, but it hurts his head, concentrating so hard, to be able to register Mattias.  Mattias tries to make his hero name, Nowhere Kid or Nowhere Boy.

Mattias, early in the novel, causes Colossus to trip over him in a Danger Room scenario.

My main issue with this novel is this, does Lyga know that ForgetMeNot exists and is essentially a middle aged man version of his 13 year old character?  His novel came out first, so do any of the three ForgetMeNot creators know about the book?

Eric, Wolverine and Angel go on a mission where they rescue Cannonball from Unus the Untouchable, so it isn’t in continuity but it is a fun book.  A very fast read.

There is an intense battle with Wolverine and Sabretooth, towards the end.  Kitty Pryde shows up too.

Uncanny X-Men Volume Three Issue 32

Posted by John Klein III on October 10, 2015
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Uncanny X-Men V3 32

Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Pencils Chris Bachalo

Inks Tim Townsend, Wayne Faucher, Mark Irwin, Victor Olazaba & Al Vey

Colors Chris Bachalo & Rain Beredo

I could go for more covers of one character with multiple costumes.  That is an awesome gimmick!

We get Uncanny back on track with this issue, hopefully!

The Xavier School, Location, secret.  Today.  Scott comes outside and sees his brother, Havok, standing about.  Havok’s face is all scarred from AXIS.  One of maybe three consequences from that event. They hug, which is nice to see.  The base is empty.

Three hours ago.  Scott is breaking the news that the Jean Grey School is going to be taking the students.  No one wants to go, why would they?  They have been told for months how horrible that school is and the teaching staff.  Hijack seems to be taking this the hardest.  It is simply nice to be reading about the students again.

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Scott has decided to turn himself over to the authorites, due to his actions that lead to Xavier’s death.  Mostly, that Scott told Xavier to walk away and Xavier, instead, chose to keep playing with fire.  I imagine the authorities are going to do a quick Google search and see that Xavier has ‘died’ at least four times and shrug their shoulders.

This is the first Magik has heard about this part of the plan.

Goldballs loses control of his balls and slaps them against Scott’s face.

Now.  Havok is taking a nap and Scott is in the room, doing some packing.  This wakes up Alex, who has been sleeping for fourteen years.  Apparently this happens a lot, after a major super-power event, which is as decent of a name for crossovers, in-universe.  Poor Scott, all that he owns, can fit into a few bags and boxes.

Havok wants to tag along with Cyclops.  Cyclops is trying to take back the public perception of him.  Xavier leaving everything to Cyclops, blew his mind.  He wasn’t the guy’s son, he actually had one of those (before Legion wrote himself out of continuity) and Cyclops killed his adopted father.

I like Scott’s answers to Alex’s “what’s wrong with us?”  Parents captured and mother killed by aliens.  They had powers in a world that hates and fears them.

Then.  Scott is knocked out by Goldball’s balls.

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Kitty wants all of this tomfoolery to just stop.  Magik wants Kitty to come with her, Kitty just got back from space with her boyfriend.  So is this Post-Black Vortex?  Kitty wants a shower but Illyana grabs her arm and the two ladies are off to what will most likely be my favorite arc of this series!

Emma tells Triage to heal Scott.  Just let the guy take a tad nap.

Emma isn’t going to the Jean Grey School, why would she, she should totally go back to the Hellfire Club.  Someone should make that group, important again.

Now.  Alex asks the question most of us had this entire volume, when is this Revolution going to start?  I like how Bachalo clearly doesn’t want to draw Alex’s scarred face, so he keeps picking angles that only hint at his left side.

Then.  Emma and Scott are finally have the conversation they should have had prior to this volume.  Their break up has never really been addressed.  Emma apparently asked Scott about the revolution too.

Nothing Cyclops did, has ever worked, in terms of mutant and human relations.  The X-Men fought for the dumb flatscans and they were feared.  They fought alongside them, and mutant children died.  They moved to an island and it was attacked in full force.  All Cyclops had, was threats.

Emma was willing to start over with Scott, she knew all of his motivations already.  Emma implies that she is willing to get back with him, but he tells her that he wouldn’t touch her with Namor’s trident.  Which goes to show how much he paid attention to Namor.  Why did they break up?  Was that ever really addressed?  They sort of where together under Kieron Gillen and Bendis had them broken up by the time his first issue came along.

Emma diamond forms up.  Emma has had full use of her powers for a while now.  He keeps wanting to know when her powers came back, and she keeps talking about how much she has been on his side.  I really did enjoy the Emma Scott relationship.  She has let Scott in like none before him, and they were the best of teams.

Alex is way to excited about Emma being out of Scott’s life.

People made a big deal of last issue’s cover, with Havok and Cyclops fighting, not being reflective of that issue but it isn’t reflective of this issue too.  It should have been them hugging but I guess that would have tipped the emotion of the issue.

Alex has a plan to get Scott back on track.  Scott takes a guess that it is a, Summers Brothers Pizza Parlor, and Alex wishes that was what he came up with.  There is a What If, I sort of what to read!

Next issue, Monsters!  Which has Magik and Shadowcat, being Demon Hunters, which was hinted at way back in All New X-Men 25!  The only hinted at story that people wanted to see and now it comes!  I hope it isn’t disappointing nor just one issue.  I also wish that Lockheed will be involved!  I’ms o excited!

Real Dates

Posted by John Klein III on October 9, 2015
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 Organized by Month

January 22, 2061 – Scott Summer’s Inauguration – 100th Anniversary X-Men

January 23, 1984 – the date of Senator Kelly’s mutant registration act – Uncanny X-Men 181

February 27, 2002 – the date Nightcrawler is to turn in his homework – X-Men Evolution 4

March 8 – the day humans disappeared – X-Men : No More Humans

June 21, 2007 – Ian McNee first notices his Tarot cards are acting unusual – Marvel Tarot

July 7, 2007 – Ian McNee figures out his Tarot is broken and starts researching it – Marvel Tarot

August 20 – Kitty’s First Day for – Getting her dorm the way she like, the first time she realized she had a crush on Colossus and first day of classes – Wolverine First Class 1

September 1, 1980 – the day Jean Grey died (the first time) – Uncanny X-Men 172

October 7, 2005 – Kate Pryde is arrested with her fellow X-Men – Excalibur 66

October 8, 2005 – Kate Pryde is sentenced to life in the concentration camps – Excalibur 66

October 31, 1980 – the present day of Days of Future Past – Uncanny X-Men 141

November 9, 1945 – the date Dire Wraiths used as their birthdays – ROM Spaceknight 17

December, 2013 – the month and year of the Present Day – Avengers Volume Five Issue 24

. . .

I will update the list as I learn more dates.  I know it probably would be nicer to have it as the actual dates but then dates like No More Humans where there is no listed year, confuses things.  Plus this way, I can quickly look at the list and see if I need to do something fun or interesting for that date.

If you know any others, let me know!  It doesn’t necessarily have to be X-Men related.

Wolverines 12

Posted by John Klein III on October 8, 2015
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Wolverines 12

Writer Ray Fawkes

Artist Ario Anindito

Colorist Matthew Wilson

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

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The Changeling.  Deathstrike’s Chambers, So the fight has moved from Shogun’s room to Lady Deathstrike’s room.  Ogun is trash talking Shogun, so he must know what is happening here.  Ogun reveals that he and Lady Deathstrike have a partnership, built around the idea to erase Sharp.

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Fang wants to speak to Shogun.  Mystique wants Junk to set up the spectral disruptors, which one would think she would have a code word for that, so that she wouldn’t tip her hand.  Junk does so and now Fang is distracted.  Mystique has a gun, that Reed found a similar one in the Negative Zone but this gun, she got from AIM.  The gun shoots across universes, so now she can destroy the gland that contains Fang’s soul.  X23 doesn’t want Mystique to succeed but Daken holds her back.  Which is awkward, as he only has the one arm, how much leverage is he really holding over her?

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While this fight is going on, Lady Deathstrike is pushing Shogun closer to death.  Ogun prepares to make his move, while Fang is losing a fight to Sabretooth.

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Fang teleports himself and Shogun away.  Mystique and Lady Deathstrike are both upset with this turn of events.  Mystique is sure that the gland was hit so Fang is truly vulnerable.

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Galaxy Desginate NGC 4945.  An Unnamed Planet.  Ogun is distracted by the new environment but decides to soldier on.

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Fang grabs him by the head.

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Sharp is back in control again and now he can’t hear Ogun’s voice.  Fang shut Ogun down!  Sharp takes responsibility for Logan’s death.

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Shogun (I will continue using that name) recognizes that Fang is not at full strength.  Fang falls over but he has enough energy to send Shogun back to Earth or to keep him on the planet.  Which makes no sense, as the second option, requires no energy at all.

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Sharp retells the ending of Death of Wolverine 4, that he was present for.  Sharp had a brief . . . fight, seems to be too generous of a term, with Wolverine.  It was mostly a delay tactic.

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Wolverine stopped fighting and just stared down Sharp.  I like seeing Proto-Sharp, as I could barely remember his first costume design.  Sharp kept fighting but one counter later, he was knocked out. Sharp woke up to the lab destroyed, he suspects that Cornelius is dead but he isn’t.  Marvel Database confirms that Cornelius dies but I thought he got away on the helicopter.  I guess I should reread that issue.

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Fang wishes he was there for all of that.  Instead of thanking Fang for burying Ogun, he starts fighting him.  Probably as he suspects that Fang plans on resetting him so that he and Ogun are sharing the same body.  I imagine that Fang would have listen to the request to keep him the same.

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Fang fights back, revenge was never what Wolverine was about – but I recall at least ten stories where that was all Wolverine was about.

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Fang sends Sharp back to Earth.

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Lady Deathstrike wants to know where Shogun is, as he teleports back in front of everybody.  Shogun tells the gathered villains that Fang is done with them all.  Lady Deathstrike wants to know who is in charge of the body, but it is Sharp.

Barcelona, Spain.  Fantomelle is looking over her Wolverine treasures and sees Fang’s costume.  She isn’t sure how it got into her room.  Culpepper brings in another costume but I don’t recognize it.  They are putting everything in boxes as their client is on their way.

Issue ends with the client being . . . Deadpool!  I like how fans could tell it was him, from the previous two pages, with the yellow dialogue balloons.

Deadpool recognizes the costume but I still don’t.  The color scheme, more orange than yellow with blue stripes, does look familiar.  Deadpool wants to be the next Wolverine.

Year of the Artist, Day 162: Paul Smith, Part 4 – X-Men Unlimited #43

Posted by John Klein III on October 7, 2015
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http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/06/11/year-of-the-artist-day-162-paul-smith-part-4-x-men-unlimited-43

I had originally meant to post this first, before my review of X-Men Unlimited 43, but these things happen.

As I commented over there :

Aw, the solo Lockheed issue that was meant to explain where Lockheed was during his absence from Excalibur 125 and Kitty’s return to the X-Men in Uncanny 360. There is a hint that Lockheed believes Kitty is dead (or missing) and Kitty never mentions Lockheed – like, at all! – so we are suppose to assume that she believes he is missing and / or dead from this unexplained story.

Yet, this story – at most – can only take place over a few weeks and not the months she spends with the X-Men.

That little detail has always ruin this solo Lockheed story for me. But the story itself, I really like. Lockheed, being drawn by his co-creator, Paul Smith, in a cute done in one (half) fashion.

I would be cool if we were treated to more adventures of Lockheed as what is he up to when he isn’t with the X-Men all of those times?

I just find issue with the placement of continuity but that isn’t the creative team’s fault so I try to still enjoy the story on its own.

Since I typed all of this on my own, I feel okay with just copying and pasting it here.

I’m sure at the time I read this, which would have been when it was originally printed – which it is cover dated April 2003 – I wouldn’t have recognize it as being THE Paul Smith, Lockheed’s co-creator, on art duties.

Stephen Grant wrote the story.

The issue itself also has a New Mutants story in it.  Magik is there in a flashback sequence, so I will be reviewing both stories when I do the review for the issue proper.

That story is done by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz.

 

Wolverines 11

Posted by John Klein III on October 6, 2015
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Wolverines 11

Writer Charles Soule

Artist Ariela Kristantina

Colorist Sonia Oback

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Knowhere.  Years Ago.  Fang is telling X23 a story of when Wolverine got drunk, for once.  There is a moment when Wolverine, who is so drunk, that he snikted himself, but I’m not sure how that is even possible.  The claws come out of the base of his hands, which is how Daken’s one claw comes out.  They should always pop out of his back of his hands.  But whatever, it is a fun scene.

Knowhere.  Now.  X23 doesn’t believe that story, and neither do I.  Fang tires to go back and forth on referring to her as Laura or X23.  I had that problem (I still do) with addressing my in-laws as either Leslie and Dennis or Mr. and Mrs. Brannman.  Now, I just try to make clear eye contact or get their attention first.  He decides on, Laura.  Apparently, Wolverine always referred to her as, Laura, so he will honor that.  That must have been Logan’s rule, when not in her presence.

Fang isn’t here to torture Laura (I guess I will call her that, as well) like he did to Daken and Sabretooth.  Wolverine always liked her.

Fang recites a part of Uncanny X-Men 107 & 108, which I don’t own as they predate Uncanny X-Men 129.  Wolverine stole Fang’s costume, as his was pretty torn and tattered.  Laura doesn’t mention how she wore the costume, for some time, starting with Uncanny X-Men 451.  Which I don’t own but I do own 460, and she is still wearing that costume.  Where she gets a lady version of Fang’s costume, I don’t believe has ever been explained.  After that, House of M happens, and then the titles bounce around for a while until Ed Brubaker takes the title to Shi’ar space and it is unreadable for a year.

Fang explains how he wasn’t killed by the Brood.  He was, but the Lupak race are constantly born again as clones but with the memories of the previous model.  This hits close to Laura, as she is a clone.

The Changling.  Mystique explains the situation.  They can’t hide from Fang, so they have to kill him, before he can kill them.  Mystique hates this delay, as she has things to do.  This is issue eleven of a now, fifteen issue series, so there isn’t any time to waste.  Except for the all Deadpool issue that is coming.

Junk feels over his head, he isn’t Neuro, so all of this data that he has now on Fang, confuses him.  Mystique looks over the data, and dismisses Junk.

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Crew Deck.  Shogun’s Chamber.  Lady Deathstrike is ready to kill Shogun but Ogun wants her to wait.  Ogun has control over Shogun’s mouth, when he is sleeping.  He needs Lady Deathstrike to bring Shogun to the brink of death, so that he can take over the weak body.

Fang and Wolverine didn’t always get together once a year, they both had busy lives.  Wolverine had his adamantium ripped out by Magneto while Fang was busy having a family.  Wolverine joined Avengers, and Fang was busy with the Imperial Guard.

Laura has seen Wolverine’s statue corpse and Fang has also seen it, in the care of the X-Men, and he has paid his respects.  Fang is quasi-trying to figure out Wolverine’s final days.

Fang has tricked Laura, as he has been drinking something with a intensified trigger scent, which I forgot she had that as part of her story.  So Fang just really wants a fight.

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Lady Deathstrike slaps Shogun awake.  He doesn’t want to wake up to a fight but she is bored.

Colorado Rockies.  Fantomelle and Culpepper have stolen a pair of Wolverine’s dog tags.  Dogtagger, that’s who she stole it from – and he had thousands of them, but I believe that is the only one that was Wolverine’s – he wants it back and promises to not rest until he does.

Barcelona, Spain.  Later.  We see their home base, and she has three costumes – a classic yellow and blue, an X-Force (like from the cover) and another yellow and blue, maybe it is his Cassaday Astonishing X-Men costume?  There is a pair of claw gloves and a pair of towels?

Okay, I misread the scene with Fang and Laura.  He just had the glass of the trigger scent.  Laura is upset as that is the only thing that makes her into an animal.  Fang’s original goal was to have her drink it and set loose on Mystique’s team.

Now Laura and Fang are fighting in the bar.  What changed his mind was that Laura had dyed some of her hair with yellow and blue.  He mostly just wants to know why she is on a team full of monsters that Wolverine hates.

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She mentions that Shogun and Junk have code words.  Fang dismisses the idea of code words, but they are real threats, Shogun could kill her with a single word.  Fang throws some pills at her, which I’m not sure what they contain.  Laura tells Fang that Shogun was one of the last people to see Wolverine alive.  Fang wasn’t even looking to speak with Shogun.

Mystique is finishing telling the team, what is the plan.  Junk is hoping to stay out of it, as he isn’t on Fang’s radar.  Daken tells Mystique that once you go on an adventure with Fang, that’s all he wants.  Mystique isn’t so sure about that.  Mystique wants to destroy Fang, which of course, is when he returns with Laura and his interest has been piqued.  This, naturally, ends the issue.