COMICS!!!!

Let's start with X-Men: Legacy #214, let's see... The many deaths of Charles Xavier, Sebastian Shaw blows stuff up, Mister Sinister is... wait? What?

Blue Beetle #29, okay, so drugs, super-powers, and immigration?

Teen Titans #61, Blue Beetle/Kid Devil team up issue, line up to hit the big guy together at the end and... GO!

Avengers: The Initiative #15, MORE SKRULLS!

Robin #175, I don't quite understand where this issue fits into the Batman R.I.P. story, and I'm not really sure how I feel about the issue itself, over the next few issues this has the potential to either wow me with a well written plot, or hurt my head with it's faulty logic, it can go either way.

Uncanny X-Men #500... Wait? What? Magneto seemingly appears for no real reason, Sentinel's as art.

Okay, that's all I got... Crap, gotta run, I'm late!

-James

A great tide of filth.

I'm gonna start with This winner, way to build a stereotype pal. This has got to be the coolest hockey story ever. I think I like the category for news, so let's just keep going with it, check out This.

This just makes me like Quebec even more. Here's a great reason to be safe at work. If only more people were willing to be as mad at an inanimate object as This man, the world would have much taller grass. As our last bit of real news, Here's a video from a crazy old dude.

From over at Whitechapel Here's another one of those stories that just kind of galls me. This made me laugh like hell, and finally, Redbull Makes You Fucking Awesome, SCIENCE SAYS SO.

That's all, see you later in the week.

-James

Madrox: Mulitple Choice.

I know I said I'd be back to WoD after a few weeks, but the game is on hiatus so I'm gonna keep writing about other things until I need to get my brain back into the game's twisted little space in my head.

Yesterday I came across a hard cover of the Madrox miniseries that came before the current volume of X-Factor. I'd already heard good things about it, and I'm a fan of the series that spun off from it, so I thought "What the hell, this can't be worth less than $10."

I'd have paid more. X-Factor has it's own focus on keeping the stories in the vein of Noir, with Jamie specifically trying because it's how a detective acts to his mind.

In the mini Jamie travels to Chicago to investigate the murder of one of his dupes, while Guido and Rahne stay in Mutant Town to run the detective agency, at the time know as XXX Investigations.

During his investigation Jamie encounters a mob boss, his gorgeous girl friend, who seems to have "encountered" his dupe, and the mob boss's super powered hitman. Meanwhile back in New York the same hitman tries to kill the dupe Jamie left in his place.

It's a great little piece of detective fiction, I enjoyed it, you should give it a read.

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Oh, and www.stopc51.com.

-James

COMICS!!!!

Since I didn't make it out for comics last week here's the bottom of last week's stack.

X-Force #5, oooo, I gots a variant cover. Archangel's back, The Purifiers look like they're about to have themselves a little civil war, and after three issues Wolfsbane finally seems to get the heroin she was dosed with out of her system.

Amory Wars Volume 2 part 2, read this book, now. If you like fighting, aliens, and super powers, read this book.

Secret Invasion #4, Carol's a Skrull, any team lead by Nick Fury is bound to kick a lot of ass.

Bomb Queen Volume 5 part 3, you know what I'm gonna say about this book by now. Violence? Check. Sexual content? Check. Excesses of both? Check. Yup, it's an issue of Bomb Queen.

That's all I've got, now, shoo, out, go, I'm locking up.

-James

A great tide of filth.

I think I have to start Here. If you haven't seen Dark Knight yet, go now, the blog will be here when you get back...



For everyone waiting Here's a comic to entertain you, and a Song from over at OCReMix.Org. Here's some pretty art from Brandon Graham, who's comic, Multiple Warheads, I should plug more.

Now that everyone should be back, you can all go Here and discuss the movie civilly. Since I'm already at Whitechapel, Here's Your Flying Car.

-James

The Watchmen trailer.

The Trailer for Watchmen is now out and so I thought I'd say a few things about a story some of you may not be familiar with.

It's not an action story. It's not set in the future. It's a serious drama about flawed characters. It's set in 1985. Charlton Comics characters provided the base inspiration for the characters in the story, my Favorite included.

The story is deep and layered, one of the elements of the story is going straight to DVD since they couldn't squeeze it into the movie.

There's really not a lot more I can say without stepping on the plot, but the story isn't linear, there are flashbacks to explain elements of the plot set in it's present, Watchmen will make you think.

-James

A notice is posted on the office door.

I'm off on friend duty today, I'm remaining scarce with the details but I apologize for the short notice of absence, I promise a Saturday post to make up for the lack of today's.

Your tyrannical Overlord,

-James

COMICS!!!!

Okay, I noticed most of my books this week fall into One Event Title or another, so I'm gonna break things up that way.

Starting with Divided We Stand:

X-Men: Legacy #213, the Gambit/Sebastian Shaw team-up issue, fuckin' a! I'm sure many people are happy that Gambit's not a bad guy any more... again... for now.

Uncanny X-Men #499, aw, no more X-Hippies. Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Colossus battle Omega Red.

Young X-Men #4, it was Donald Pierce all along, you don't say, I'm shocked, who would have guessed? *Yawns* I just want to see the original New Mutants kick his ass, as usual.

Next up, Secret Invasion:

X-Factor #33, Longshot's a Skrull! Also, there's She-Hulk.

Avengers: The Initiative #14, Hank's a Skrull, Crusader's a Skrull, and the 3-D Man can see you.

Wow, event tie-in books break down real easy don't they?

Teen Titans #60, Kid Devil, he's the heart of the god damn team these days, they just don't know it because they don't listen to him. Miss Martian too. I want it stated here and now, anyone who ever calls this team a fill-in lineup is dealing with me, you can e-mail me if you want to argue about it. Ravager leaves the team, New Book starts soon.

Runaways #30, it's a bit cheesy at times, but Runaways has always been a superhero book that breaks your heart. This issue ends Joss Whedon's run on the book and the next issue is a new #1.

Ultimate Spider-Man #123, way back when we were promised that the Video Game based on this book was going to be Cannon and we all thought they'd forgotten. While there are going to be some obvious changes from the content of the game it looks like it's going to be an excellent adaption.

Blue Beetle #28, Jamie fights a retroactive villain of Dan Garret, and makes a different choice on how to handle them. Jamie is also a member of the current Teen Titans line up and is one of the characters we've gotten since Infinite Crisis that I demand you love as much as Superman or Batman.

Finally, Booster Gold #1,000,000. This is the end this story deserved, Booster Gold, the A list hero no one has ever heard of, I like it.

That's it this week, it's amazing how many of those event comics I can fit into a single entry, isn't it?

-James

A great tide of filth.

Friday my brother showed me Upl8.tv, this is the result.

Like Crazy Dancing Midgets? How about Decepticons? Tetris as performance art? How about This? Metal Slug wishes it was this cool. This reminded me of every time someone has asked me to fix their computer, it's why I love tech support people.

This one comes from a friend.

I wanted to make sure This made it up here. On an unrelated note, because I haven't mentioned it in a while, www.stopc51.com.

There's an E-Mail address in the sidebar now, I doubt it's gonna see much use but, hey, what the hell.

A scattered collection of thoughts.

I don't have a full post for today, so instead I'm going to assail you all with the half formed trite that infects my brain.

This is likely one of you being punished by some cosmic force, don't worry, I'm not naming names.

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A while back Alexander was on TV and for whatever reason it was playing in the background at my apartment. The following is an exchange between my mother and brother, this came back to me last night at work and I thought I'd share:

Mom: They have sleeves on their shirts why aren't they wearing pants? I think they're going to lose if they keep fighting in their bare legs.

Brother: Nah, if they had Bear Legs they'd be in business.
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I picked up the first issue of the second volume of The Amory Wars last week. Now, if the connection to Coheed And Cambria is just a little too blatant for you, ignore it. This is an excellent little piece of Space Opera.
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When I told a friend about the latest issue of Cable on Monday he joked, "What if it's not Jean, what if it's Rachel, just to fuck with people?" I've had This song stuck in my head since, dick.
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There, I'm done, see you Monday.

-James

COMICS!!!!

So, I didn't make it out to pick up comics again, so I'm gonna start this week with Cable #5, which I picked up on the weekend. When Messiah Complex ended I started joking that Cable had traveled forward in time to raise Jean Grey because the cyclic implication made me laugh.

Elsewhere this week I said that "Michael Bay's" Dark Knight should be nominated for Best Screenplay, in a universe that features even one just god, it should fight tooth and nail for both it and and our box office dollars with a feature film adaption of Paint The Line.

A great tide of filth.

I'm gonna start with This, my brother showed it to me and I haven't stopped laughing at it since. Next, Elk Spread Bison Bourne Disease, wait? What?

I got through the final mission in GTA IV over the weekend, it kept me busy for more than a few hours and is the reason this week's tide is so damn short.

This is just too awesome not to share, I smell an Oscar.

That's all I've got for you, sorry.

-James

My return to Warcraft.

I know what you're thinking, "he's been back to playing how long? And he's making us hear about it?"
Well first of all, you can't start a sentence with "and", it's worse grammar than the contractions that pepper everything I write.

One of the things about my coming back to the game has been that my friends had started characters for the opposite faction that I usually play, so I rolled my up a Gnome-Lock, because I like 'locks. After I rolled the character I jumped back over to my Rogue with the Knights.

I spent most of the next half an hour knocking the dust off of him, and just as I'd started running quests with him one of my friends asked me over MSN when I'd be Alliance side next. I jumped at the chance to chat with my friends again and switched back to my Gnome. It was as if I'd never been gone, things were exactly the same, well, except the scenery, that was new.

The biggest difference in the environment from what I was used to was the lack of earth tones in the local pallet, everything was very cold. To be fair it was a snow covered mountain, I'm just used to working my way up to the snow, not starting in it.

All this talk of scenery has reminded me how much I've missed riding through Quel'Thalas, I think I know where I'm starting tomorrow.

-James

COMICS!!!!

While this isn't a comic I'm starting with it:

Baby's First Mythos, best kids book ever! I got to meet C.J. Henderson back in January and he happily shared advice about his craft with me. His writings amuse me and I thought I'd share them with you.

Next up, an actual comic, I borrowed One Bad Day off of a friend, and while it was mildly depressing it was quite well written. I'm using it as an excuse to plug Steve Rolston, who's art peppers my comics and CD covers.

That's all I got this week, I didn't get out to pick up my comics this week, last chance, don't make a mess in the office.

-James.