That eco-song is genius.
Well, so much for surprises. If Wolfcub is the new Wolverine stand-in with the usual generic "feral" powerset, shouldn't he have scented that "Cyclops" was an impostor from issue one?
Bleh. Maybe the entire point of the first arc is to drive home that the kids are just a bunch of easily-manipulated newbs who badly need training, which is why the actual X-Men have a responsibility to relocate them to San Francisco with the rest of the team. That would make the "We are the X-Men" line a lot more palatable.
Maybe it'll be something like the X-men weren't looking out for them so they have to stand on their own.
I personally hate character deaths, but I can't stand Ink and want them to kill him quick.
In that I kill Giants book is there something wrong with the main character? Cause being a teen and in the fifth grade means you've failed a lot.
"Maybe it'll be something like the X-men weren't looking out for them so they have to stand on their own."
Possibly, but I think the solits have next arc involving the kids being with the X-Men again and the senior team looking to fill a gap in the junior roster.
Even though it wasn't reviewed, Captain Britain and MI 13 has done more in 3 issues that I suspect Secret Invasion will do in 8. Excellent balance of action and character moments.
Slaymaster!!!!
Oh, god, is this true:
"This Slaymaster escape his reality along with Sue Storm and began hunting down Elizabeth Braddock's of alternate worlds killing them and taking there eyes much like his 616 counterpart did to Betsy Braddock." [sic]
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I think there should be some kind of silent moratorium on writing sequels to or revisiting old Alan Moore comics. I know this may not be a sensible or popular view - especially considering Lost Girls, League, etc., etc. - but I don't ever want to see another flaming solicitation that reads
"Oh hey, remember that old Swamp Thing comic with the funny alien crocs that flew around in a tortoise?
Right, well we're going to do that, but louder, and with tits."
...I'm pretty sure it was Moore, and not Delano, that wrote that Slaymaster story. That bit about ninjas and calloused hands stayed with me for years.
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Actually, the bigger problem is CLAREMONT doing sequels to Alan Moore comics, rather than anyone else, since he's the one running them into the ground and trampling it down just to be sure. (I mean, really, what's the point in bringing the Fury back only to have fricking SAGE beat him hand-to-hand. Point. The. Missed.)
It occurs to me that I should probably point out that the version of "The Hours" on the albums has the movie samples re-created (presumably for copyright reasons), and therefore isn't actually as good...
Just a thought but if the Skrulls take magic, would that have an effect on magic types like Dr. Strange, Druid, Nico from Runaways and Wiccan?
Um Matthew, I'm not sure if it's intentional, and my apologies if it is, but you know that entire issue of Swamp Thing is a "revisitation" of Walt Kelly's Pogo?
I think Song Wars volume 1 is actually pretty weak compared to what they've come up with recently (though that didn't stop me from buying it!)
Generally, I prefer Adam's songs, but "The Hours" aside, I think Joe's got the best few tracks on this collection. "The Right and Wrong Song" is genuinely a work of genius.
Agreed, there's been some better stuff later. But the eco-songs are good, and the public transport ones, and the "right and wrong" thing, and the "friends of listeners" ones, and... I mean, I could live without the height songs and Adam's meatballs song, but there's plenty there to justify the money.
Andrew: yep.
Adam & Joe: bloody iTunes? Aw, HELL no.
I liked the song Garth Jennings did a couple of weeks ago. Also "Dr. Sexy." My favourite AandorJ song is still The Footie Song, though, which I play rather more frequently than I'm comfortable admitting.
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Actually, the bigger problem is CLAREMONT doing sequels to Alan Moore comics, rather than anyone else, since he's the one running them into the ground and trampling it down just to be sure. (I mean, really, what's the point in bringing the Fury back only to have fricking SAGE beat him hand-to-hand. Point. The. Missed.)
Actually it looks like Cornell's CB&MI13 is using Claremont's Exiles/Excalibur crossover as part of the Secret Invasion, which shocked me.
But he had Merlin make a comment about the Fury which surprised me. I remember reading Claremont saying that the only reason The Fury was unbeatable was because Alan Moore created it and people got furious. But Cornell seemed to agree.
If Claremont said that then he REALLY needs to go back and reread Moore's run. Moore bent over backwards to establish the Fury as a virtually indestructable killing machine by having it wipe out the superhero population of a parallel Earth, surviving the destruction of that Earth's dimension, killing Captain Britain, and mowing down the Special Executive without much effort. It's not that the Fury was unbeatable, it's that Moore set its power level WAY too high for it to be taken down as easily as Sage did.
It looked like Cornell wanted to use Merlyn as a good guy, and so had to acknowledge Claremont's dungheap in order to chuck it out the window, more than anything else.
Just in case anyone's popping by, I thought I'd give Mitch Benn of The Now Show an out-shout on the music front. A couple of topical songs per episode is, perhaps, a bit "That's Life." But they're still good.
He even has a Spider-Man parody song, to dovetail neatly into the comics thing.
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