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Wolverines 19

Posted by John Klein III on December 13, 2015
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Wolverines 19

Writer Charles Soule

Artist Ariela Kristantina

Colorist Sonia Oback

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

The Changling, One Hour Ago.  Mystique is watching a new section (to us) of Destiny’s video.  Destiny is explaining how crucial the final steps are, to bring her back.  There will be a lot of improvising.

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Poor Lady Deathstrike is holding onto Shogun.

Mister Sinister comes at Mystique, so hard.  She starts talking and he grabs her by her lying dumb mouth.

X23 wakes up Daken, he wants nothing to do with Sinister and wants to just leave.  X23 is under the impression if they all defeat him, Mystique will get them home.  As they are currently in the middle of the ocean.  X23 wants a progress report on Shogun from Lady Deathstrike, She informs the spawn of Wolverine that Shogun is dead.

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Ogun, in awesome page turn reveal, tells her that he leaves.  Which is so fantastic!

Lady Deathstrike thought Fang killed Ogun but he just pushed him way down.  Sharp was finally at death’s door so Ogun was able to finally do what he has been wanting this entire time, and take control over the body.  Ogun really enjoys Lady Deathstrike, which I like seeing a more romantic side of him.  If, romantic, is the right word.

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I really enjoy Lady Deathstrike’s disbelief of the situation.  She has two dudes, well two minds, sharing one body, fighting over her to be her gentleman companion.  Ogun’s stakes are pretty low, if he dies, he will get a new body and if Sinsiter dies, that’s one more impressive death to add to Ogun’s vita.

While talking to Mystique, Sinister gets a s-word through the chest and Mystique drops to the ground.  She shouts that everyone should get to the ship.  Which I guess wasn’t destroyed in the crash.  There was a giant explosion but everything, once the dust settled, was pretty much the same.  That’s some impressive construction!

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Sinister recognizes that the person he is fighting, should be the soldier, Sharp.  Ogun corrections him, Sinister is facing – The Father of Blades.  Which I imagine sounds cool on the page but I’m feeling like I have to give a lot of emphasis on it, to give it the proper weight.

Ogun claims to be the demon that caused Sinister nightmares as a child.  Sinister, in possibly the coolest line of the year, tells Ogun that he was never a child.

Ogun cuts off the fingers of Sinister’s left hand and Sinister is barely impressed.

Mystique gets the Wolverines back together and starts giving orders.  Sabretooth can’t believe he killed Junk, he has no memory of it.  Lady Deathstrike is to watch Sabretooth.  Mystique keeps calling him, Shogun, and Lady Deathstrike hints that is no longer Shogun but Mystique doesn’t have time to ask follow-up questions.  X23’s orders are to grab the contents of a red chest in Mystique’s room.  Daken is to check on Siphon.

X23 opens the chest and sees that old costumes are in it but it looks like a wedding dress, to me.

Marvel Tribute Herb Trimpe 1939 - 2015 In Memory of a Giant Among Legends

There is a great Marvel tribute to Herb Trimpe’s passing.  1939 – 2015, in memory of a Giant among Legends.  So true!

Mystique, as X23, tells Daken that they should fight Sinister.  Mystique gives Portal the Zhulong, a dagger like item that will let him teleport anywhere.  So he agrees to help her, also, he doesn’t want Sinister to kill him.

Elsewhere.  Siphon bites Daken and he puts a collar on Siphon.

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Ogun mistakenly tells Sinister how Ogun was so smart to take over Sharp’s body, once it was almost lifeless.  Sinister injects Ogun with the same serum that released Endo, Neuro and Skel from their sooner-than-expected expiration dates.

Sabretooth still can’t believe he killed Junk, he suspects that Mystique had a hand in that. X23 interrupts Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike’s conversation to tell them that she is really done this time with Mystique.

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Siphon obsorbs Sinister’s healing factor, which I didn’t see coming!  I should have, as Sinister bragged earlier about how his healing factor rivals even Wolverine’s!  And that guy survived an atomic bomb explosion!

I like how, once the serum kicks in, Sharp takes control of the body and the mask is back to being broken.  When Ogun was in charge, the mask was for real.

Sinister doesn’t recognize Siphon.

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It looks like Shogun (Sharp?) cuts off Sinister’s head.  Siphon is back to being able to speak, and if he isn’t hurt – to badly – he shouldn’t have to feed for months.  So, of course, he is shot multiple times.

Shogun and Daken are not happy with this turn of events but Mystique just has Portal teleport them elsewhere.

X23, Sabretooth (who is colored blue throughout this issue, but not everytime) and Lady Deathstrike arrive on the scene.  X23 wants to know where the others were teleported too.  Portal just teleports them to that location as well.

Issue ends with Portal teleporting the two of them to the Nexus of All Realities and he warns that the Nexus has a guardian.  Which I already know who that guardian is, but the last page shows up Man-Thing!  All who know fear, burn at Man-Thing’s touch!

So that ends the Sinister plot, and I imagine the final issue leads us into Secret Wars 2015?

I can’t believe I didn’t think about how the Nexus of All Realities, in Florida, would play some role in Secret Wars 2015, that just makes sense!  I’m glad the series got back on track and it was so great to see Ogun back in charge, even for a little bit!  I can only imagine Ogun/Sharp/Shogun appear in the final issue.  Here is hoping!

Wolverines 16

Posted by John Klein III on December 3, 2015
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Wolverines 16

Writer Charles Soule

Enhanced Pencils Ario Anindito

Enhanced Colors Sonia Oback

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

The road to the finale begins here!

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The Changeling.  Six Miles Above the Atlantic Ocean.  Two Hundred Miles West of the Azores.  Issue opens with Shogun spitting blood into a sink.

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Shogun is spitting blood, as the Paradise folks’ expiration date is coming upon them.  Junk reveals that he is a little further along the path, as he now has tar like veins on his arms, and they are spreading.  Neither Junk or Shogun are thrilled that their time seems to be shorter than they had expected.

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Junk is now learning more about his powers, he just learn he has chameleon abilities.  Junk really was hoping to join the side of the heroes and maybe one day, being an Avenger.  Shogun calling Junk, brother, seems odd to me.  Maybe the real Sharp is coming out now that Ogun may be completely out of his system.  Shogun is curious about Mystique’s plan but they can’t wait for her time table.

Junk can’t believe how far off course the Paradise team has come.  They keep getting distracted by the Wolverines nonsense.  Though he makes a point of liking Fang’s adventures, which I can only imagine is a meta message, as fans have to be like me, right?  In that Fang was the detour from the book proper?

Junk calls the Wolverines, all of them, monsters, as X23 walks into the room.  Which is bad timing as she is the best one there.

Rome, Italy.  The Arcadians, the ones the Paradise folks were being experimented on for so that the Arcadians can get the good material.  They are attacking Endo (who is not dead, apparently), Skel and Neuro – which a handy editorial note that we first met this group in Weapon X Project 5.  Neuro and his crew seem to be beating back the Arcadians, rather easily.  Some more Arcadians show up and Neuro surrenders.

Epsilon, the field leader, goes on television and announces who The Arcadians are.  On the Changeling, they are watching the news coverage.  Junk really doesn’t want to leave his former allies behind in the hands of the clear enemies.

The Changeling Deck E — Detention.  Mystique is checking in on Portal, who looks a tad by Wolverine – out of costume.  Portal and Mystique don’t have any history together.  She doesn’t want him as an enemy but she wants to save a friend, which I’m sure we haven’t had Destiny hinted or mention since issue two or three.  Siphon is sleeping in the next cell.

Junk wants to go save his friends.  Shogun has to explain who the Arcadians are, to Sabretooth, even though Sabretooth was in the room when the news was being aired.  Daken brings up the good point that Neuro wouldn’t go save Junk and Shogun, so maybe they shouldn’t go after them.  Shogun has to agree with Daken but Junk doesn’t care – Neuro may be horrible but he liked Endo and Skel.

X23 offers to help Junk save Endo and Skel, as they did seem like nice people.  With X23 on board, Shogun is happy to go through with the mission.  Which makes sense, he doesn’t want to be the sole fighter so that he has to do all of the fighting and still watch out for Junk.

Mystique comes in and does the one thing one shouldn’t do with this group.  Mystique tells Junk and Shogun that they can go, but she still needs X23 for her primary mission.  So X23 is definitely going now and Sabretooth and Daken are now a go for the mission to, as screw Mystique!  Which I really like that turn of events.

Daken is definitely growing his hair out, so he is now going to look like a tall (Dark) Wolverine with a missing arm and eye.

The Gulf of Mexico.  Arcadia.  Later.  Lady Deathstrike has also joined the team, Shogun tries to talk to Lady Deathstrike but she has no interest in him now that Ogun is no longer around.  The team makes very short work of the Arcadians.  It helps that the Arcadians are fake, as they are weak shells of people, filled with foam (or something).

The team opens the door and sees the real Arcadians but they are all dead.  Mystique warns them to get out of there but they continue on.  That Mystique, she doesn’t take any hints.

Neuro shows up and reveals that Mister Sinister is behind all of this.  He wanted to get the team out into the open.  Some light blue bald Mister Sinsiter cronies show up and pop two claws each, per hand – so Sinister really used Daken’s arm to beneficial results.  The issue ends with Sinister on deck.

Wolverines 14

Posted by John Klein III on October 24, 2015
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Wolverines 14

Writer Ray Fawkes

Artist Salvador Larroca

Colorist Sonia Oback

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Now that the silliness of the pure Deadpool issue is behind us, we can get back on track as this series ends with issue twenty and I imagine these last six issues are going to be fruitful.  Now that Ogun may be completely out of Shogun’s head, I’m not even sure I should be buying this?  I’m sure he will bounce back, it is Ogun, that is what he do!

36,000 Feet Above Neveda.  Mystique is trying to get all of her players where she needs to have them.  I like that we get her To Do List.

  • Daken must be ready to
  • Siphon must be brought
  • X23 needs to go to De
  • Portal is Essential
  • Deathstrike must f
  • Neuro cannot retu
  • Sinister will br

Deathstrike and Sinister is purposely vague but the rest makes sense with the reading of this issue.

Mystique calls Daken, using a fake identity.  We get to the main problem with this issue.  Larroca draws Daken as if he is Wolverine.  He has a full head of hair and even worst, mutton chops.  That isn’t Daken in they very least!  The point that other characters call him, Daken, and that he is missing his left eye and arm, prevents this from being another character.  How did an editor not catch that?  Also, does Larroca think that Daken looks just like Wolverine?  I suspect that Daken has never looked like Wolverine, like ever.  Well, except for when he was Dark Wolverine but that was merely a costume choice.

Mystique tells Daken where Siphon (the green fella that stole his healing factor) is located, he jumps out of the Changling.  Mystique, as Mystique, tells X23 what is happening.

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X23 jumps out of the plane.

Mystique calls Sabretooth, Shogun, Deathstrike to the bridge.

For some reason, both Daken and X23 crash hard onto the ground.  Even with their parachutes deployed, they don’t land like they’ve jumped from planes for years.  A big rig truck comes by and Daken throws the driver out, via the window.  They head to a deserted gas station.  Once inside, they see both Siphon and Blade.

I do like X23 quickly trying to get Blade to recognize her from the X-Men Volume Two relaunch with Victor Gischler’s Curse of the Mutants storyline.  Blade remembers her, not like it really matters.

Blade was hoping to kill Siphon but is okay with Daken softening him up.

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Sabretooth notices that two of their number are missing.  Mystique simply states they stepped out.  She has an announcement to make.  Just then, Portal (who owns a similar mask to Darkhawk) portals in and attacks Mystique.  Sabretooth punches Portal to the back of his dumb head.

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I really like how casually Shogun knocks Portal out.  Shogun isn’t impress at all.  He can tell Mystique was manipulating the entire situation, he sees right through her.

Mystique hints that Portal is going to be a huge help to them.

In the middle of their fight, Siphon starts quoting Miyamoto Musashi’s Book of Five Rings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings

“Know your enemy, know his sword”

Blade asks who Siphon is, and I like how Siphon speaks up, revealing the origin that he knows.  He is another Paradise reject.  When he hungers, that is all he can do is feed.  Once he feds, though, he starts remembering who he use to be.  He may have been a teacher.  Siphon apologizes for stealing Daken’s healing factor, he was told that Daken was better off dead – as he is a mass murderer.  Siphon isn’t wrong on that front.

With each new cut, Siphon warns, that he uses up the healing factor power that he . . . siphoned.  When that happens, he will hunger again and be simply a monster – once again.  Blade knows monsters and commits to taking out whoever wins between Daken and Siphon.  X23 would rather that the fighting just stopped.

Siphon, now that he can be a gentleman, agrees to Daken’s duel.

“The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight.  The only reason a warrior fights is to win.”

Siphon appears to break Daken’s one arm (or make it go numb) at the elbow.

Just then, the floor breaks apart as vampires come rushing out of the ground.  Of course

Daken is on the floor, crawling back to Siphon, when X23 has had enough.  It is a sad sight.  She comes at Siphon, cuts him deeply.  He (somehow) grabs her by the throat and is about to siphon her healing factor.

The issue ends with Daken, getting to his feet, he isn’t ready to go down yet.

“Do not fear death”

I can only imagine that come issue fifteen, Daken looks back on model.

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.

Wolverines 4

Posted by John Klein III on May 30, 2015
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Wolverines 4

Writer Ray Fawkes

Art Ariela Kristantina

Colorist Sonia Oback

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

I still need to get a copy of issue two and Shogun didn’t show in three but I’m sure we’ll get by okay.

Barcelona, Now . . . Fantomelle is a new character introduced last issue, she is a master thief.  She is being confronted by Siphon, the villain first seen in Logan Legacy 7.

Shogun, X23 and Skel are there for the assist.  Fantomelle has a mental connection to her fox, Culpepper – get it, because foxes are so cunning.  Skel tackles Siphon, he doesn’t have a healing factor, so he has nothing to lose.

For some reason, Kristantina has decided to not show Shogun’s head or upper chest.

Fantomelle escapes with her fox.  X23 gives chase, having to shout at her that they are not there to hurt her.

Shogun slices Siphon’s throat.

Mystique blasts Fantomelle with a type of stun gun, I believe.  Shogun starts cutting into Siphon.

The villains bag Fantomelle and her fox.  Mystique keeps calling for Shogun to stop fighting.  They put in a few more hits on Siphon and destroy the hospital or business building.

Fantomelle wakes up, the fox tells her that it has been hours.

Mr. Sinister’s Fortress.  The villains are hoping she can still back Wolverine’s statuesque body.  We cut to Daken, who thinks he should be dead as he is still missing his right eye and left arm.

Fantomelle runs into Neuro, who reveals the name of this place is, Changeling.  Which Mystique said that earlier in the issue but I didn’t know what she was referencing.

Sabretooth is talking to Lady Deathstrike, who apparently Mystique is setting up to die – which must be super awkward to know about.

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Shogun promises that if Fantomelle wants to leave, she can – she isn’t a prisoner.

X23 states what I was thinking, that Sabertooth is seen in two conversations at the same time.  I feel silly now, as it just dawn on me that one of them is clearly Mystique.  Probably the one harassing Lady Deathstrike.

Is Sinister in the same location as the villains?  Why show us a full page of Sinister’s fortress and follow that up with Fantomelle waking up?  Sinister should be breaching Wolverine’s adamantium shell within the hour.

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Neuro tells Fantomelle that the place they need her to break into is in Finland.  The fox recognizes how high tech the security is.  Shogun reveals that the place is known to be impossible.

X23 tells Daken that they ran into Siphon, he is annoyed as he wants his revenge on him.  I like the subplot of Sabretooth wanting to play cards with Daken.

Sinister is muttering to his lackeys that nothing is impossible or impenetrable, so he was told some bad news, I take it.

Mystique is crying and punches a mirror.  She gets a secret audio feed into the situation room.  There is a note on her mirror that looks like it states “Don’t Trust Sabretooth.  Skel must be cured by Sinister.”

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Took me until the third panel before I realize that it was Ogun speaking to Sharp.  Ogun views Skel, Junk and Endo as the most expendable members – and I would have to agree.

Fantomelle can tell that Shogun has two voices in his head.

Mister Sinister’s airspace is invaded and he instructs one of his lackeys to jump ahead three hours and continue with the project.  I don’t live that type of life.

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Issue ends with the villains, is there a better name for the group?  Wolverines / Weapon X Program rejects, seems too long and complicated.

Apparently Mister Sinister is set to bring Wolverine back to life, which I take it, the villains don’t know that is his ultimate goal.

Women of Comics

Posted by John Klein III on March 12, 2015
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Comics Should Be Good are running the votes for Top Female Comic Creators, and I just can’t up with ten writers and artists, I mostly know female colorists.  So I thought I would at least promote the creative women that I’ve grown fond of over the years.

Writers – Devin Grayson and Gail Simone, both are mostly DC writers but both have written for the X-Men or X-Related projects.  Kathryn Immonen is another great female writer as in Marjorie Liu.  Of course, Ann Nocenti needs to be named, fantastic editor but famous for her Daredevil run.  Also, legendary Louise Simonson.  Kim Yale is a good writer, as well.

Artists – Jill Thompson, Alisson Borges, June Brigman, Elena Casagrande, Emily Warren, Colleen Coover, Vanessa Del Ray, Sara Pichelli, Ariela Kristantina, Sonia Oback, Alti Firmansyah, Yasmine Putri

Inker – Rachel Dodson

Colorists – Christie Scheele, June Chung, Laura Villari, Renee Witterstaetter, Marie Javins, Sasha Kimiatek, Lynn Varley, Michelle Wrightson, Laura Martin, Rachelle Rosenberg and the legend, Glynis Oliver (Wein)

Letterer Janice Chiang

For anyone who wants to vote, voting ends on March 16, here is a handy link

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2015/03/02/vote-for-the-top-50-female-comic-book-writers-and-artists-of-all-time/

Kelly Thompson, of She Has No Head! fame, has compiled a list of over a thousand women, so that list is here –

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2015/03/01/she-has-no-head-women-in-comics/2/

I really need to learn more female creators.  I was hoping compiling this list would have given me ten names on both sides.  I know we can group Pencilers and Inkers together but that still doesn’t get me to ten.

I went through the 49 pages of Tags that I have on this blog and came up with the above names.

I need three more writers before I can make my list official.  That’s a lot more ladies than I thought I have read or seen their work.  I really only thought I knew a small handful but look at the artists, alone, is impressive.

Okay, I was going to make a separate post but here is my list –

Ten Writers

  1. Louise Simonson
  2. Ann Nocenti
  3. Marjorie Liu
  4. Devin Grayson
  5. Kathryn Immonen
  6. Kim Yale
  7. Gail Simone
  8. G. Willow Wilson
  9. Kelly Sue DeConnick
  10. Kelly Thompson

I’m being a little cute with those last three.  Wilson is writing X-MEN, that I haven’t read and DeConnick is writing Ms. Marvel, that I’ve heard good things.  I figured Thompson must be getting a few votes, so I threw her name up there, as I do like some of her columns.  I also got those two names from just reading the comments section of the Voting thread, I figured someone had to write some names down that I would recognized, that’s all I was asking for.

Ten Artists

  1. Sara Pichelli
  2. Rachel Dodson
  3. Jill Thompson
  4. June Brigman
  5. Colleen Coover
  6. Ariela Kristantina
  7. Altri Firmansyah
  8. Yasmine Putri
  9. Alisson Borges
  10. Sonia Oback

I will put the results when the final list comes out.  Besides the top two artist, I am okay with anyone making the list.

I’m very excited about Simonson and Nocenti’s placement.  Actually, I want Liu to place highly on the list too, Immonen, I’ve only read the one thing of hers (AvX vs 6) and I’ve own a few issues of X-Men Evolution, written by Grayson, so I do want all five to be on the list.  I can only imagine that the Top Ten of both, will be dominated by American comic creators.  That just makes sense with who is voting on the list.

EDIT ON MARCH 16, 2015 –

I felt bad for not including Marguerite Bennett so Kelly Thompson was nice enough to let me edit my list.  Good bye, DeConnick and hello Marguerite Bennett!  I thought it would be in poor taste to knock Kelly off of her own list, or keep her in the tenth slot, so I bumped her up one.  That’s the least I could do.

Ten Writers

1. Louise Simonson
2. Ann Nocenti
3. Marjorie Liu
4. Devin Grayson
5. Kathryn Immonen
6. Kim Yale
7. Gail Simone
8. G. Willow Wilson
9. Kelly Thompson
10. Marguerite Bennett

Ten Artists

1. Sara Pichelli
2. Rachel Dodson
3. Jill Thompson
4. June Brigman
5. Colleen Coover
6. Ariela Kristantina
7. Altri Firmansyah
8. Yasmine Putri
9. Alisson Borges
10. Sonia Oback

Results start on March 21 and I’m now pretty jazzed about it

Wolverine and the X-Men Volume Two Issue 10

Posted by John Klein III on January 6, 2015
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Wolverine and the X-Men V2 10

Eulogy, Part One of Two prepared by Jason Latour

Artists paying their respects

Robbi Rodriguez & Israel Silva
Ian Bertram & Ian Herring
Kris Anka
Jim Rugg
Declan Shalvey & Matthew Wilson
Ronald Wimberly & Sasha Kimiatek
Ariela Kristantina & Sonia Oback
James Harren & Matthew Wilson

Lettering & Production VC’s Clayton Cowles

The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.  Storm looks at her pocket watch, it is 12:30pm.  Wolverine’s ex-girlfriend, Melita Garner, is still writing his book.  She has finally got to the point where she can interview various X-Men and students.  She starts with Beast.  This issue is mostly not very good, in terms of her goals, as no one really gives her any stories or insight.  Beast is decent.  Iceman gets a joke about karaoke.

Later, Melita is interviewing Armor.  For some reason, Armor is Marvel’s go-to brunette, who will be mourning Wolverine.  Which is so frustrating.  Armor is working on her armor, piecing it back together.  I’m not why she even has to do that, is that new?

I got this for the Wolverine and Lockheed photo!

Wolverine and the X-Men V2 10 Lockheed

Essentially, Eyeboy tells Melita that Wolverine always said he was the best there was.  Lockheed likes it when Logan jams.

Melita interviews Fantomex.  Next was Genesis.  Then Oya, who does tell a story about picture day.  People joke about how much Logan worried about being attacked by ninja.  Oya’s story involves when he was attacked by ninjas.  Broo also tells a story.

Issue ends with Kurt taking Melita to Harry’s Hideaway.  Kurt and the patrons are all drinking to Logan’s honor.

The final page has her on the phone with someone, maybe her editor?  She is mostly done with interviews. she has Quire to still interview.  She has one last big name to interview, as Storm lands in front of her.  Which is so odd as if you are going to tell Wolverine’s story, you have to interview Jubilee, Kitty Pryde and Cyclops.  That just makes sense.

I’m set to own issue 11 but if that’s not Kitty on the cover or she doesn’t appear in the issue itself, then no issue for me.