SDCC Moment of WHA?!: Toxin

Figured for the little name-drops or hints of stuff I'd make a new sort of post for the SDCC stuff (I know the convention has a different name but fuck it).

This little tidbit comes from the Cup 'o Joe panel. It's just a tiny reassurance but also JUST enough to get my hopes up:

There are no current plans for an Alpha Flight series or the character Toxin, although Quesada noted that in-audience editor Steve Wacker would respond well to threats of violence when it came to the latter question. More serisouly, Quesada viewed Toxin as a case full of "untapped potential for the character, but the Spider-Man plate is pretty full."

So yeah, there's always a chance that my favourite Symbiote will return. Also I'm taking Quesada up on that acts of violence towards Wacker thing. Toxin has one of the best limited series around and deserves more attention, especially now the world's been changed by Brand New Day.

Interlude: MARVEL LEGENDS SDCC EXTRRRRRRAVAGANZA

Marvelous News and Topless Robot have both been nice enough to inform the world about the Marvel Legends revealed at SDCC. Now I'd be a poor comic geek if I didn't also post the pictures and state my opinions on what ones matter. Most importantly I'll be saying the THREE that SHOULD be voted for by SDCC's patrons.

HIT THE JUMP OR CLICK ME 'CAUSE I'M A LINK AND THERE ARE PICTURES THAT TAKE UP SPACE AND WORDS THAT ARE LONG SO THEY'RE BEHIND THE JUMP OR THIS LINK IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH!
























































































From Left To Right:
Fantomex
Deadpool
A REALLY Shitty Hulk
BRUDDA VOODOOOOOOOOOOO (or is that DOKTA VOODOOOOOOO now?)
Black Widow
Warpath (cleverly hidden at the back there)
Ms. Marvel classic/Moonstone pretending to be Ms. Marvel
I Don't Know
Constrictor
Valkyrie
Bombastic Bag-Man
Madrox
Alternate Phoenix
I Don't Know
X-Force Wolverine (didn't we already have one of these?)
The Hood
Bi-Beast
Lady Bullseye


CHRIST THAT'S A BIG LIST. Only three of these can be chosen by the public. Hasbro pick the other three.

Now it's pretty obvious that if we don't vote for them Hasbro will pick Deadpool, Wolverine and The Hood. All three are popular and the first two are highly sought after for some reason.

As such the three that matter (and as such should be voted for) are:

FANTOMEX ('cause he's cool as fuck and a better Weapon Number than Wolverine could ever be)
MADROX ('cause NO FUCKING DUH IT'S MADROX!)
and CONSTRICTOR ('cause villains are under-represented in Marvel Legends and he's pretty awesome... as long as those tentacles can come off when you want them to)

Okay that's a post, expect the rest of last week's quick-fire reviews and a FTP text review of either Guardians of the Galaxy #...16? I forget... or Amazing Spider-Man #600

Interlude: More Rikki Barnes Art

Something I missed from Tom Brevoort's blog!

I know I shouldn't obsess over every little thing that comes out in the lead up to this but I want to and I am and you and the rest of my very small readership have to live with it. Or enjoy it.

Interlude: Pointing Out Something Better To Read On Another Website

OR more specifically an interview with Zeb Wells, writer of the brilliant New Mutants ongoing over at Comic Book Resources.

Pointing it out is pretty redundant but the man is of great interest to me, handling characters like Cannonball and Legion with the sort of respect you don't get from other writers.

If you want to have a good idea of what he has planned and to see some exclusive artwork follow the link to X-Position (comicbookresources) NOW!

Things of interest in the interview:

• Wells has no plans to address Cannonball's status as an immortal X-ternal. Good.
• Dani and Cannonball's relationship will take a strange turn in issue 5 (bets: they're gonna GET IT ON!)
• If we saw anything other than fluffy unicorns in Legion's head we may all be insane (OH SH-)
• Wells would love to see Cassandra Nova appear in his book?
• Empath blah blah blah NEW TEAM WHA?
• I probably missed clues about how Legion returned from the dead in issue 3. That's gonna bug me.
• Sunspot's powers... Not what they seem? I don't get it. He used to fly and such but I just figured that changed for no reason.

OHOHOHOHO! SOMEONE SPOTTED THE CONTINUITY ALERT I JUST BROUGHT UP IN THE QUICK-FIRE REVIEWS! WAHAHAHAHAHAHA:

Continuity alert! Officer Patricio Oliver is reporting for duty and needs to know where Sunspot was on the night in question:

How come Sunspot was portrayed as part of the Hellions team in “Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia”? And will the team have a role in the “Dark Reign” crossover?

The X-Men/Avengers crossover takes place between issues #4 and 5 of “New Mutants,” so while the team does have a role in “Utopia,” it won’t be playing out in our book. Believe me though, Fraction has some big things going on with a few of the characters, and we’ll grab the football without missing a beat come issue #5.

OH THANK GOD! It all makes more sense now! Back to the bullet points:

• Zeb Wells is a jackass who fucked up with Sunspot saying "madre de dios" (self-confessed)
• The title "New Mutants" will take on a whole new meaning come issue 9... WILL THERE BE SOME ACTUAL NEW MUTANTS POST M-DAY?!

Awesome.

Source: X-position (comicbookresources)

Apologies: I'm back!

And You're Not Amused

So yeah, disappeared off the map this weekend. Kinda followed up on that whole 'no laptop is a problem' thing. Quick-Fire reviews for LAST WEEK will be up in the new format tomorrow, followed by the FTP Text Review for... Whatever and rounding off with a Top Ten that's taken a lot out of me. Oh and I have a new microphone for the New Mutants video so the pace should up on that. All relevance to Merc with a Month is null and void however, as I'm going to just intersperse these reviews with others of more interest to myself and my tiny tiny audience.

Peace out and keep ya eye on this space!

Let's Try That AGAIN! (The One They Call Unusual plug)

THE ONE THEY CALL UNUSUAL

Milan's original post (for posterity):

Well, Max might not be happy for me to do this... oh, I mean FLIP THE PAGE. But my site has been updated for once and I want to share this with the readers of this site.

My site, http://theonetheycallunusual.blogspot.com/ , will be me commenting on pop culture as well as other random stuff that I find amusing. Feel free to visit and thanks.

The One They Call Unusual, or Milan Matejka.

Ps. Currently writing an article to fit the page but you have to contend with the welcome opening from the site. And sorry in advance.

It has movie related stuff.

By all means visit it, it has some good stuff from way back and a steadily beginning trickle of new content.

It won't hurt you.

Maybe.

P.S.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

1000 Hits AND Matching Output From Last Month?!

Okay okay, so most of those hits are just random ones from me updating or trying to fix stuff with the site but a celebration's a celebration. So here's our celebration:

COMIC NUDES!

Oh.... Oh God I'm so sorry.... WHY DID I DO THAT?!

Further evidence Liefeld is a (disproportionate) DICK!

Source: Well Old But Awesome Article Over At Geekanerd (also further proof of his dickery)