I haven't been to good about keeping my posts updated here. But since I have been working outside of home on my blogs, I haven't been able to put the time and thoughts into doing a really good post. I have however got some new pictures scanned and cut, to use on two posts that I will hopefully have time to do tommarrow. My internet should be up and running and I will do at least one if not two tommarrow night. I have pictures for a post on Batman, in the Legends of the Dark Knight series, that I really enjoyed. In fact it was one of the first LOTDK stories that I read. The other one will be another on on Spider-Man. But for now I do have one interesting tid-bit of information on a new comic series that I will really be looking forward to.



This is some art that Bernie Wrightson has done for a comic series that will be based on Stephen King's Dark Tower novel series. It promises to be a good series, for me anyway, just for the fact that Bernie Wrightson is doing the art. I am a big fan of his work. He does some incredible art in the "macabre" type art. I have never read the Dark Tower novels, but if Stephen King knows anything, it is how to scare his reader. And Bernie Wrightson is the perfect artist to complement his writings. Well I hope that was at least something, and like I said look for something new Wensday. Take care all, and thanks for stopping by.

Now all I need is a tagline for this blog . . .

What a strange little word. So fictional, yet so real, to those that know what it is. Of course, chances are if you are intentionally reading this blog, and didn't stumble on it because of some bizzare word caught by a search engine, then I won't be telling anything that you don't already know. And chances are, thanks to the X-Men movies that even if you didn't have a clue before, what the hell adamantium was, you surely do now.

And to just veer off the point for just a minute before I get into the subject. . . Wasn't Hugh Jackman, just an awesome Wolverine? I mean I had my fears about any comic book related movie. And I still do. That dude with the face, and the hair that's just everywhere . . . anyway that guy proved that you can take an awesome charecter like Daredevil, surround him with actors that play their roles so well, with parts written so well, in regards to the charecter that they are protraying, and still ruin a movie. Ben Affleck . . . sorry delayed reaction.

But anyway, let's get to the story. Of all the Wolverine stories, this is one of my favorites, as far as on-going, throught the series and into the X-Men books.





To make a long story short, just to get you up to speed with what just happened. Magneto formed a aliiance of mutants that agreed with his ideology of mutants being superior to humans. Anyway he starts this "haven" for those that follow him, in a giant space station orbiting the earth. Called it . . . damn I can't remember, and I don't have the book right here with me. Well at any rate, Xaviar and the X-Men go to the space station to stop Magneto, and his intentions have been to rid the earth of the humans. Although this time, his intentions appear to be nothing more than wanting to seperate him and his mutant followers from the humans that fear and hate them. Xaviar feels that Magneto has an alterior motive, and assembles the X-Men to invade his "castle".

In this battle, as both seem to be at even ends, Wolverine attacks Magneto with every intention of killing him. When Magneto strikes back at Wolverine, the above pictures illustrate what he does to Wolverine.

After the insuing battle and the safe return of the X-Men to Earth, Wolverine once again is back to his old self. Or so he thinks. He tires to participate in a exercise in the Danger Room, only to find that without his adamantium, he is much more vunerable than he was before. As he is attacked, he uses what he has always used in battle against his enemies, his adamantuim claws, or so he thought. There is something different about them.



They are bone claws. But before, since Wolverine's memory has been affected by the lacing of the adamantium to his skeleton, he never knew that the claws were part of himself, always thinking that the claws were adamantium, not bone claws laced with adamantium. What a surprise! Wouldn't you be?



So after this discovery, Wolverine felt that he was a liability to the X-Men, so he left to go out on his own, where he felt that he would not be a burden to the team and the people that he cared about.

Shortly after he left, however, he found himself on the wrong side of of a criminal (with a bad sense of humor) calling himself Cyber.



This was only four short issues after him leaving the X-Men, having lot his adamantium. In this issue, he seems to get on the wrong side of Cyber. Or you could say Cyber got on Wolverine's bad side and an obligatory battle starts. With Wolverine going at Cyber in a patented feral state, slashing and cutting. But to no avail. After all Cyber is one tough cookie. And so after taking a stab (literaly) at Cyber's face, Wolverine gets a bitch slap from Cyber, something he is not use to. Something that with his adamantium skeleton would have never happened to him before. Like a healthy person facing untreatable cancer. The fear of being vunerable and unable to defend yourself against something that can't be killed. Something that lives inside of you, eating you away, until there is nothing left of you.

SNAP!



And so Wolverine suffers another blow to his ego. Now not only does he not have the adamantium that he was so use to, now he has a set of broken bone claws.

Never fear, however, Wolverine does get his adamantium back. That however will be for a future post, and one that I will have to read up on before I do a post. I have read so much in the many years, that all the details of all these stories sometimes run together.

Well thank you, once again for reading, and I hope that you have enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed the memories that go with, bring this story back to life. Take care people.

Just couldn't leave without posting pictures I found of Storm and White Queen by Liam Sharp. The Storm picture is from X-Men Unlimited #5 and the White Queen picture is from X-Men #35. Can he draw a hot woman of what? 8-) Enjoy.

Words & Art by Walt Simonson
Marvel Comics

What a truly fabulous run of Thor. Simonson does the impossible and the unbelievable and still remains true to Thor and the Norse Mythology. Many things have happened to Thor. In light of the late 90's, before the original title was cancelled, this is above and beyond. It had seemed by the time Marvel had gotton Thor to issue #500 that they had no thought as to what to do next. And so with Mike Deodato Jr.'s art and the many writers that covered the last remaining issues of Thor, it seemed like it was nothing but Fabio's block party. Thor looked like he was constantly in a cologne commerical. Surrounded by many scantily clad females. And the ability to NEVER have a shirt on. Of course there is nothing like a man with great abs, long blonde hair, and bisceps that won't quit. (Not to memention that Deodato's women's asses didn't quite either. Just take a look at The Enchantress in those latter issues.) If you can imagine that, then you know what I look like. 8-)



I will try to scan a better picture, but as of now that is all I could find on the web to get me out of a pinch.

But I wasn't going to write a post about the latter issues of Thor. I wanted to write about Walt Simonson's Thor. In these to issues, Thor is challenged by a dragon that is going by the name Fing Fang Foom. The ice giants wish to vanquish Thor, their sworn enemy. So to do this they will to call upon what is know in Norse Mythology as the World Serpent. A serpent supposedly so large that it wraps itself around the world. Well in their attempt, to litereally, fish out the World Serpent, they catch Fing Fang Foom. So after insulting FFF, for they were expecting a dragon of much bigger stature, they tell FFF of their enemy. How that in recent events, Hela (ruler of hell, which I can't imagine why the Norse picked a woman to rule hell . . . haha) had cursed Thor with brittle bones, like those of a human.

Well, FFF, seems intrigued by these trolls audacity to ridcule a dragon of such might, that he wants to meet this Thor and discover just how powerful he is. So he seeks out to find Thor. In the next picture, FFF runs into Thor, but because Thor seems just like "food", as FFF calls those smaller than him, he doesn't realize that it is Thor. Read on . . .



As the dialouge between Thor and FFF continues, Thor does finally reveal that he is in fact Thor. So FFF challenges him. He tells Thor that is he can lift just his foot off the ground, he will do the honorable thing and take Thor away from the city where they can do honorable battle, without harming other people. However, if he cannot lift his foot then he will battle him there with no regard for the other people. And if he will not accept the challange, then he will kill all the people and then Thor. Needless to say, Thor vanquishes the challange and off they are to the hill where they are to do honorable battle. As they travel, FFF tells Thor of his might and how this battle will matter little, as he will defeat Thor and he will be nothing more than food to him. Finally they find their spot to battle. FFF still boasting of his might, intends to reveal something to Thor that is suppose to make his turn tail and run. Check it out.



He reveals that he is indeed Jormungand, the legendary Word Serpent and that Thor has no prayer. And so we lead into Thor #380.



Thor #380
Words and art by Walt Simonson
Marvel Comics

This issue starts right into battle. As Thor and FFF trade massive blows. Each thinking that their's will be the finally blow to defeat their enemy. The pages that follow this battle are truely some of the most awesome full page spreads that really show off Simonson's great art. The power of his pencil brings to life a battle that no man has seen. But it makes it almost believable. As if the battle is jumping off the page right into your eye sockets and brain.

One of the best is the following two pictures. The first is of Thor as he is bitch slapped by FFF's tail and sailed across the countryside like a ping pong ball. The magnitude of the blow is, as comics in past like to do, puncuated by words that are suppose to bring the sound to life. You remember how Batman's punch to this ememies was always puncuated with a word like "BIFF" or "POW", blasted across the screen. Well that idea for the TV show was taken right from the pages of comic books.

The second picture, is Thor's answer to FFF. As he pounds FFF's mug with his enchanted hammer Mijolnir (I hope I spelled that right). It plummets FFF to the ground and the earth answers in a whine that no man has ever heard. And that reminds me of another reason why I like Simonson's Thor. The dialogue and the captions. The old language of Norse. He keeps it true to the old language without losing the reader, as the very old issues did. The older issues, as Thor was first premired in Journey Into Mystrey, was like reading a King James Bible. Very old dialogue. Anyway here they are.





And so at the end of the issue it would seem that both hero and villian were evenly matched as the finally page of Thor #380 shows. What is to happen to Thor? Did he defeat Jormungand? I don't know, but I'm sure he will turn up in another issue and you'll have to wait and see. That is unless you go to your nearest comic book shop and check out some of the awesomeness that is Walt Simonson's run on The Mighty Thor.



Once again, thank you for reading my comic babblings and I hope that you return to read more. And I hope that you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed posting it. Thanks again, and take care of yourselfs and don't forget that comics can entertain even adults. Enjoy life and drink beer, it's better than wine. 8-)

Deadpool has to be one of the most outragous and hilarious charecters in Marvel Comic's possesion. ALthough starting out as somewhat of a more serious charecter in X-Force (#2 I believe), he has since developed into a smartass mercanary that also has something to say. He spews more banter in battle than a politican does in their speeches. He also fancies himself a ladies man, although because of his apperance due to the healing factor he got from Weapon X project, his face lacks much to be desired. Still he hides it behind a bravo of pickup lines and one-liners. Check this out from his first mini-series By Mark Waid and Ian Churchill.



Just too funny. Everything he says is like that. It's like having a sideshow comedian in your presence at all times. And this is not to say that Deadpool is never serious. There are many things that he takes quite seriously. Like hiding his apperance behind a mask or image inducer. Although I cannot recall for some reason his face came back to him by the time Deadpool changed to Agent X. I believe it had something to do with the "Funeral For A Freak" storyline in Deadpool's ongoing series. Which is memory serves was around isssue #58-63 or somewhere in that neighborhood.

In that series however he never does stop trying so hard to hit on Syrn, Banchee's sister. Of cource drawn by Ian Churchill, any gal is a babe. But that is my impartial opinion. 8-)

One of the best apperances (or at least the one I remember the most, although there were many in his own ongoing series, which then changed to Agent X before it was cancelled) was in Heroes for Hire #10-11. Although issue #10 contained more of the introductions and the smartass quips, issue #11 had some too. Because if you know Deadpool, he has a remark to everything. Check this one out as Deadpool arives at the HFH's base of operations in an airplane. The first responses to the HFH is just too funny. Check out the remark he makes to Iron Fist, that has to be one of the best. Although the look on Luke Cage's face as Deadpool tries to be "hip" with him is also side-splitting.







You gotta wonder what is so damn funny about Iron Fist? Well for those of you that don't know what the hell is laughing at looking at Iron Fist's feet, obviously don't know Iron Fist well. It has something to do with the formal footwear for Oriental warriors. (Of course that also is an assumption that John Ostrander knows something of the culture there.) Check it out. Thanks to Pascual Ferry's version of Deadpool is one of my favorites.



Too funny. Not to say that Deadpool is never serious. There are many things that he is very serious about. One of them is hiding his face behind a mask or image inducer (who wouldn't like to have one of them?). Deadpool's face is less than handsome, as a result of the healing factor experients he was involved in at the Weapon X project. Although by the time he changed to the name Agent X, due to some amnesia, if I remember correctly, his face was much better. I think it might have also had something to do with the "Funeral For A Freak" storyline in his own ongoing series, shortly before the title change. It was around Deadpool #57-63 or somwhere in that neighborhood.

Deadpool is really one of the best charecters that can be a most entertaing read in so many catergories. There's comedy, action, and drama all in one book. Not many charecters are that versatile. One of the underappreciated charecters as well, I think. Not many people are familar with Deadpool, if they have just a passing knowledge of comic books. If you haven't read anything with Deadpool in it, I highly recomend it. It is well worth the read and there are several appreances and mini-series to start of with before you get into his ongoing series. Here's a quick checklist.

Deadpool (mini-series) #1-4
Deadpool: Circle Chase (mini-series) #1-4
Deadpool (ongoing series)
Heroes for Hire #10-11
X-Force #2 (1st apperance ?)
He also appears off and on in both X-Force and Cable as well.

Well, I hope you enjoyed the read and please leave any suggestions or comments on what you would like me to different. Or what charecters or comic books that would interest you for me to talk about. I'm making a call to all comic book readers, I don't get to talk comics much. When I do, mt wife just stares blankly at me and nods her head, so I think she is listening. 8-) Never could get her into comics much. The only thing she reads is Angel and Buffy and that is just because she already likes the TV shows.

Thanks again for reading and yall take care.