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Granted, I’m probably late to the party on this but as I’m not picking up X-Men these days I hadn’t paid it too much attention, but I finally nailed why the Schism #1 cover looks so damn familiar.

It’s basically Wolverine playing the Jean Grey role, isn’t it?

Does this mean we can look forward to a The Cross-Dressing Antics of Mr Howlett one-shot? Or perhaps a team-up with Deadpool?

Dare to dream, Marvelites. Dare to dream.

I had a revelation yesterday. A revelation.

There I was, mocking Frankencastle mercilessly when it suddenly occurred to me: what an opportunity Marvel has missed now that he’s apparently being turned back into plain ol’ Frank Castle. I mean, think about it:

You have FrankenCastle.

You have vampire Wolverine.

So why not let Steve Rogers have a remission and have him revert back to CapWolf?

You know what you’ve got right there? The Marvel Universe’s version of the holy trinity of Universal Horror monsters.

If you want to get really creative, throw in a Marvel Zombies refugee, wrap someone up as a Mummy, and turn a hero into a Creature from the Black Lagoon-style, er, creature and, hell, just have Sue Storm be stuck in invisibility mode and you’ve got your Horror Avengers right there.

Instant win!

There are some reports that Rosamund Pike is up for the role of Emma Frost in the upcoming X-Men: First Class movie.

I’m even more confused by this than ever. I was under the impression that Fox were placing this in the same continuity as the previous X-Men films; after all, the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine is apparently still alive (I’ve been wondering what they’ll call that – More Origins?) so that would make sense.

That said, James McAvoy being cast as Professor X suggests that the events of this movie will be taking place at least, say, twenty years prior to the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and let’s say thirty years before the first X-Men film (just spitballing dates) and it would seem to preclude any appearances by any of the previous X-Men cast except perhaps for Wolverine himself.

Here’s the thing, though; Emma Frost was already seen in the Wolverine movie, played by Australian Tahyna Tozzi and was, confusingly Silverfox’s sister. Frost ended up heading off with young Cyclops at the end of the film.

So…how does that reconcile with the older Pike playing Frost about twenty years previous to her appearance in Wolverine?

Easy:

I suppose the Emma Frost in Wolverine was never actually identified by name, so we can get away with it but still, this irks me – although I shouldn’t expect anything else from the way that Fox has screwed with characters in the X-Men movies.

Also, and this is just a pet peeve, Emma Frost is not fricking English – although I suppose we have Grant Morrison to thank for that. Sigh.

I had a brief Twitter conversation recently about how absolutely perfect the characterization of Banner is in the current run of Incredible Hulk, but on retrospect I don’t so much think it’s a perfect representation of who the character has been in the past; moreover I think it more accurately reflects who the character has become over the past five years or so since Greg Pak started writing him.

Since Greg Pak took over, Banner has been shot into space, seen Hulk claw his way to power on Sakaar and return to Earth for revenge but, more significantly, he’s been okay with it. Banner reached an understanding with the Hulk – and his bride, Caiera – that he’s never had before. It wasn’t the uneasy detente of Peter David’s run, it was a full fledged complicity in Hulk’s actions – and it’s revealed aspects of Banner’s character that has been dormant for far too long.

Banner’s a genius, yes. But the shroud of social incompetence he used to wear has been shrugged off; he’s cold, calculating and brutal. He’s now taken to training up his son, Skaar, to be able to kill the Hulk when he inevitably re-emerges – or at least that’s what he’s leading everyone to believe.

He’s willing to go to extraordinary lengths to protect his son as well. Take this most recent issue, which culminated in Daken using that claw with the ability to block healing abilities (apparently) to gut Skaar; Banner doesn’t hesitate to pull an old-power-powered gun on Wolverine.

Problem is, Daken doesn’t believe he’ll use it and he’s not the only one.

And that’s when Banner talks about his past; his killing of his abusive father was established in Peter David’s run and there, if I remember correctly, it seemed that the Hulk had more problems coming to terms with it than Banner did.

Of course, some people still need convincing…

…and convince them he does. Here’s the thing, though, it was originally suggested that the Hulk was basically born of the guilt from Banner’s act of patricide – and Pak here takes it one step further. Here, Banner suggests that the Hulk isn’t Banner’s repressed violent side; it’s his outlet to protect the world from Banner. He can’t be Banner while he’s Hulk – which means that Banner can’t plan.

It’s a great take on the character, and elevates him to a level that we haven’t seen before.

Also, Bendis’ thing about the Hulk killing people in his rampages? Gone forever, apparently – and good riddance.

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A new teaser got released today:

I agree with IGN that this is probably related to the Dark Reign: The List one shots, or Dark Reign in general, as opposed to Marvel killing their cash cow.

On the bright side, it can’t be any worse than the other Wolverine: The End, which was (a) shit, and (b) gave us Wolverine’s brother, John, who I suspect may be the precursor to the even shitter Romulus guy who is currently running around.

So, yeah. Can’t be that bad, at least.

GENIUS.

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This isn’t a movie review. There’s plenty of those out there already, and you don’t need to see another one.

But I will say that I enjoyed the hell out of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Yes, there were issues. I wish we’d seen more of the Weapon X team in action prior to Logan storming off; I wish that a little less time had been spent with Logan the lumberjack; screaming at the sky gets a little old; the ending felt a little weak – but overall, it’s a pretty fun action flick.

As a comic adaptation it fares a little less well, but I don’t think that’s ever a particularly good way to judge a movie. It needs to stand on its own merits regardless of background knowledge, and I think it does.

And there are some things that I liked a lot – Jackman was good as ever, Schreiber was great as Sabretooth, I enjoyed Kitsch’s Gambit, and Ryan Reynolds was fantastic in the few scenes he was given.

Not so good were the final format that Deadpool took and the special effects on Patrick Stewart’s cameo – but it set up X-Men First Class pretty well, and I can forgive shoehorning Cyclops into the movie for that.

I also didn’t mind Emma Frost and Heather Hudson showing up (and was that Toad and Quicksilver in the prison?) as they were only named in the credits, not the movie, so it can be ignored in the future if needed.

And did I mention that I loved Taylor Kitsch’s Gambit? I’m a big fan of Friday Night Lights in general, and Kitsch in particular, and I loved the few moments he was given in the film – I doubt we’ll see him in a solo movie, but I wouldn’t mind seeing him again somewhere.

But hey, I get that it left a lot of people disappointed – and I do think it could have been better; I just enjoyed it for what it was: a not particularly ambitious action movie.

Maybe the in-development sequel will fare better…and that Deadpool movie could be great if it’s handled properly.

Variety confirms that a Deadpool spin-off movie starring Ryan Reynolds is in development.

Rob Liefeld approves this news!

…because he continues to be a great artist (not darkly realistic, but with a great comic style) but he continues to be dragged into Jeph Loeb-penned messes like Hulk.

Why, Ed, why?

(Although the more I look at that cover the more I think it looks like Paul Pelletier, but my point still stands…)

This is a great idea from Diamond – get Hugh Jackman to plug Free Comic Book Day alongside the Wolverine movie. Kudo’s to the people who put this together!

If you have a comics, movie, or, hell, any other kind of blog, why not put this up on it?

Marvel’s released a preview image of Dark X-Men – presumably what X-Men Legacy turns into in a few issues.

I’m not sure about all these ‘Dark’ books cropping up, mainly because I don’t think they all can sustain a long run, but this has one thing going for it:

Dagger!

And another:

Namor! (He is Marvel’s First Mutant, you know).

The rest of the team looks to me like Xavier, Exodus (unless Cloak’s really changed his look), Daken Dark Wolverine (sigh), Mimic, and two other members. That looks like Emma Frost in the black outfit, but I’m wondering if it might not be Lady Mastermind.

And that guy at the back with the big ‘Omega’ sign on his suit? My bet’s on this guy…

EDIT I have been corrected on the id of two members above. On one, my back up guess was right, and on the other I’m apparently way off base…but I’ll leave the post as it stands for now, at least…

WARNING! This post may be considered NSFW. At the very least it may make you throw up in your mouth a little.

After learning of Extreme Smash! yesterday, I started thinking about other Liefeld projects that never came to completion (not that I’m saying it won’t be completed, just looking at the track record) including Youngblood: Bloodsport – not to mention Youngblood: Genesis and Youngblood: Imperial.

But it’s Bloodsport that I found some scans of over on the apparently-defunct Facedown In The Gutters, and they were of a few panels from the start of the issue.

Let me set the scene briefly: it’s the near future. Youngblood and the rest of the Extremiverse are apparently pretty much bored by their fame and success. They have sex, do drugs, and generally act like spoiled brats but don’t do too much superheroing anymore on the basis they don’t really need to.

Even a hardass like Brigade‘s Battlestone has apparently given in to the pleasures of the flesh – as can be seen by the fact that he’s doing lines while in a jacuzzi which are being served up by a woman who appear as though she may have abnormally long arms.

For former Youngblooder Seahawk, though, all the decadence is getting to him.

Apparently Seahawk likes to wear his mask while he’s in the jacuzzi.

I don’t know why.

Yeah, so…wait, what was that again?

Oh…well…I mean, he wouldn’t actually…

Oh.

He would.

That’s Cyclops and Wolverine. ‘Dressed’ as Jean Grey and Mariko. Giving blowjobs to Seahawk and Battlestone. Under water in a jaccuzzi.

It may not surprise you to learn that the writer for this piece of art was Mark Millar.

There’s something you don’t read too often.

And it only gets better from there on in, folks…

On the way home from work, I walk past the Clearview Cinema on Broadway; for the last week or two, the posters in the lobby have been calling to me through the window and, on Friday, I finally popped in to take a photo.

I mean it’s not just me, is it?

I can’t be the only one thinking that an employee in there was thinking of this:

EDIT -Much better quality now thanks to First Showing.

It’s not the best quality but it’ll do until something bigger comes along- and at least you can click to embiggen!

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Wolverine may well be one of the most ubiquitous characters in the Marvel Universe.

Not content with having solo adventures in two of his own books (admittedly one of them is off in some kind of alternate future malarkey right now), he also hangs around with the New Avengers, the X-Men and X-Force, not to mention cropping up regularly elsewhere.

Once upon a time, though, he was only in Uncanny X-Men and the odd guest appearance – and then came his own ongoing solo book. I’ve recently been reading these early solo adventures and the early Marvel Comics Presents, set around the same time.

Mostly set in Madripoor, it was only natural that the recognizable (and, at that time, publicly believed dead) mutant disguise himself when he went to hang out in the corrupt island nation.

After all, he didn’t want to blow the X-Men’s cover.

What disguise did this genius use to mask his Canadian accent, the most distinctive hair ever, adamantium claws and clinging stench of stale cigars? A small piece of tights over his eyes.

Let’s take a closer look.

It’s not even a domino mask!

Clearly this disguise wasn’t going to fool anyone, so in the opening arc of Marvel Comics Presents, Wolverine adopted a new disguise after being tortured and having a cigarette put out in his eye (which grew back, of course):

An eyepatch. Yes, he wasn’t Wolverine while in Madripoor anymore. He was Patch.

Honestly, the man makes Clark Kent look like a genius.

Alright. I’m officially sold on this.

He ain’t heavy…

Looking good – fingers crossed!

Bone claws, you say?

Who’s your daddy, you say?

I mean, that poster’s just lousy.