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Touted as Marvel major crossover of the year… Marvel Comics’ Civil War issue #4 which was suppose to come out tomorrow has been delayed… til the End of September. WTF!
Marvel Delays Civil War
In information released to comic book retailers Tuesday, Marvel has announced that issue #4 and 5 of their hugely successful Civil War series are being delayed.
You notice how Joe pulled this shit after he leaves Chicago…
When NEXTWAVE discovers that H.A.T.E. and Beyond are terrorist cells themselves and that the BWMDs were intended to kill them, they are less than pleased. In fact, they are rather angry.
So they make things explode. Lots of things. Starring Monica Rambeau (formerly Captain Marvel and Photon), Aaron Stack (Machine Man), Tabitha Smith (X-Force’s Meltdown), monster-hunter Elsa Bloodstone and The Captain! Guest-starring Fin Fang Foom!!! If you like anything, you will LOVE NEXTWAVE!!! BOOM!!
And stop taking Cyclops’. First Jean, then Storm, then Rogue… He gets too much play for a short, hairy with rage issues.
Image Courtesy of Uncanny X-Men.net
A conversation between Karsh and myself about the new Firestorm of DC Comics, who happens to be black. See balck folks do read comics.
One more day of this early morning shit and I be sa free nigga until next Monday. As a Thanksgiving stable, I’m going to go over my mom’s in West Bumblefuck Indiana, gorge on tryptophan and sit through the 15 hour torture that is JRR Tolken’s Lord of the Ring Trilogy. I talked to my mom last Friday and I knew I was doomed:
Mom: So what movies are you bringing Thursday?
Me: I just got Batman Begins and Unleashed…
Mom: Oh you got the Batman movie, cool.
Me: Yea, I rented Crash the other week but it sat on my table until I took it back.
Mom: Really? Crash was really good, it had me on the edge of the bed when I saw it… [goes on about Crash] I got that Thai boxing movie where the guy was elbowing dudes left and right
Me: I got that too
Mom: So just bring something good, even though you know what we’re watch… LoTR.
Now I see that being a geek is an inherited trait. With my mom being a fantasy/sci-fi geek and my dad exposing my to comic books I’m surprised I get laid.
Imagine that you’re fifteen years old, and you find out that your parents are part of some kind of evil cult, with mad scientists, criminals from the future, evil mutants, and space aliens, that runs the west coast criminal underground. Wanting no part of your parents diabolical plans, you and the children of the other evil members runaway, hoping to stop you parents and maybe survive to go to the prom.
Runaways volume 1 was the sleeper hit of 2004. Phenominal art of Adrian Alphona and dialogue writing by Brian K. Vaughn was a staple of this series for all 12 issues. Now that Runaways volume 2 is out and up to a great start. All I can say is: Robots get more ass then I do!
Something is definitely wrong with Chris Claremont. If you don’t know who Claremont is, I apologize for that now. Claremont was the one who re-invented the X-men int he early 80’s. Created characters like Kitty Pride aka Shadowcat and co-master minded the Phoenix Saga. Essentially known for characterization and not story/plots, I guess I should had seen this coming.
So I watch Power Rangers, Fuck You! I have no problem in admitting the joy I get eating a bowl of cereal (low-carb cereal is really shredded cardboard), watching bad voice over acting and flashy choreographed action sequences from fools in primary colors. I’m a geek, what do you expect?
I was there from the beginning, “Day of the Dumpster” with Jason, Kimberly, Billy, Trini and Zack. I was there when Tommy became the Green Ranger and handed their asses to them. I remember all the Zords, I even saw the first movie in the theater, yea I was a lame. It never occurred to me that this was probably why I didn’t laid until late in my high school years.
I continued watching Power Rangers through out middle school and into high school. Ensuring my social outcast standing. I watched the show, played the lame console gamesand got further into the mythos. At 15 years old, I had all the original 14 inch Figures and Zords. Don’t where I got the money to buy them, but know I just had them, and had them up until I moved into my apartment in June 2004.
As the show moved through its different incarnations, the budgets got bigger and writing got better. There were newer Rangers, newer Zords and newer reasons from the monster to grow big. It was until Season 6, Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy when the writers did something brilliant. They killed the Pink Ranger, unfortunately it wasn’t the annoying Kimberly who playing some other annoying, whiny bitch on WB’s Felicity.
Now the one thing that a geek loves besides pornography, a crossover. Look at how many many times Marvel and DC Comics cross over. Ultimately all crossovers suck chimpanzee nuts but we love them anyway and a good fanboy will do what he does best, geek out. And While I never got to see the Power Rangers: In Space and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover, I ‘m sure I would have went full out fanboy. I was a fan of the TMNT comics which is nothing like the bastardized cartoon that came out in the 80’s and the cartoon that’s out now is based on the comic strip.
One crossover I did see, had me geeking out for a day, remember I’m lame. On an episode of Power Rangers: Wild Force, they gathered all the red rangers. It didn’t matter that this episode completely ignores the PR continuity, it was just cool to have every red ranger from MMPR to PRWF. So I’m glad I’m sharing all this with you, and as I said plenty of times, I’m quite lame, I do watch new shows, I even TiVo them. But I don’t care what y’all think or say cuz I’m still getting mines and I get it good. So peace, and May The Power Protect You.
I just discovered this title and it’s off the chain. I think I slept on the entire Marvel MAX comics line. When the line was launched I only picked up Cage, a miniseries starting Luke Cage aka Power Man, but since I started to get to the comic book store, I picked up the Alias trade paperback and a nigga was hooked.
Now I’m reading Supreme Power. Its a mock up of the Squadron Supreme, a book that was Marvel‘s answer to DC Comics’ Justice League.
I remember Sigma telling about this book before he left town, probably would have listened if I wasn’t so dick-matized.
Sorry I’ve haven’t been around lately, but with work and avoiding school I got caught up.
