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I'm really tempted, but I've read some of the other Hasbro helmets run a bit small... it does look fairly well sized on the models though. Wish I could try it first.

Seems like an unfortunate choice, I'm guessing they did it because they foresaw the writer's strike and allowing him to ad-lib would make him a writer and thus require him to go on strike (or be a scab). If the strike ends in time I wonder if they'll be able to go back and just dub in changed lines ...

Astonishing X-Men Gifted (1-6) Dangerous (7-12) I loved this whole title when it first came out. Whedon was a legend in the making at the time, and Cassaday's art was (might even still be) iconic. This re-read promoted a re-examine of the problematic storytelling choices (see my comments about my n...

??? They don't look anything alike, apart from maybe the thin mustache. No white skin, no full-black eyes, no goatee, different eyebrows... and why would Stasis have an X-gene to suppress? Also I don't think we've seen any Stasis clones before? Animals seem to be his thing. (Or is das_boot saying it...

Percy: "Fine, I'll go make my own Sins of Sinister! With Beast-Gods and a Wolverine Futurama-style head jar that can only say SNIKT!"

Another astoundingly mediocre issue. My first skim in the store had me a bit optimistic since it seemed like there was a lot more text, but... nope, still not a lot happening. The opening part is especially bad with a crazy amount of telling-not-showing - narrator text that spells out that Orchis ha...

I didn't include things like Fallen Angels, X-Corp, or Children of the Atom because six issues does not make an ongoing no matter what Marvel marketing might try to tell you lol COTA had such a tortured path to finally getting published that it feels impossible to say what the plan was. But Fallen ...

Swap X-Force/Wolverine with Red/Immortal and my list would be pretty similar to Cable's. Maybe move the two X-Men volumes around but I'd need to review them, especially Hickman's.

Sunspot's dubiously positioned knee looking like a big ol *ahem* Ok thank god I wasn't the only one thinking that... Magneto gets to be the cool reformed villain parent of the X-Men, but Xavier hasn't had a single solid "hero moment" in the Krakoan era, IMO. This is something I've noticed over the ...

Good on its own merits. Thompson continues to write Rogue/Gambit LEAGUES better than Philips is in their current title. But the tie-in with Cyclops' team is pretty pointless, who show up and basically do nothing except contribute to a combat splash page. All the important stuff - Captain Marvel, Rog...

I think it is possible to max all social links on a first playthrough, it just requires following a very specific schedule to a tee, and doing some stuff that might be kinda arduous like clearing dungeons on one day as soon as they're available, and/or savescumming for RNG parts (like random stat in...

Cursed movie!

Did I miss an explanation of why Star-Lord isn't wearing his helmet anymore? I was wondering why he didn't activate it in the finale. Gunn gave an "explanation" on Twitter that basically boils down to "for the plot." Interesting to note it was destroyed at the end of GOTG2 but showed back up in Inf...

https://i.imgur.com/Cm2TXPw.png I think I'd rank them 1 > 2 = 3. I personally preferred 2 but I can totally see why people would prefer 3 (and it's been awhile since I've seen 2, so on rewatch I might change my mind). Going into this, I was really prepared for some-or-all of the Guardians to die, b...

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06 May 2023, 23:23

Joseph also got the ol "off with his head" last time we saw him too.

Ah that's what Milkshake was getting at... completely forgot about that.

Yeah, almost definitely gonna be Joseph then.

FWIW Gillen says the entirety of next week's X-Men Red #11 takes place during the "days later" period before the last scene this issue.

I guess I'm too used to Spurrier because I thought the part about Vox and where this story is placed wasn't confusing at all, it actually is par the course for the way Spurrier writes stories. I agree it's par for the course for Spurrier, as I often find his stuff to be overly complicated and confu...

I like a lot of what happened here, but man, the pacing is terrible. In-story: the whole plot about Nightcrawler being used by Orchis as an assassin gets relegated to a couple of panels. Banshee apparently loses Vox Ignus off-panel. And Pixie is at Arbor Magna to see Nemesis get resurrected, but the...

Joseph is an obvious possibility (is he obscure enough for Orlando though?) The line on his neck made me think of Kuan-Yin Xorn (the one who pretended to be Magneto, got decapitated by Wolverine), but he's been resurrected and hanging around with Legion so it shouldn't be him. With Ultimate Invasion...

California doesn't exactly have ranked-choice at the state level, but we do have an "nonpartisan blanket primary" (or "jungle primary") where everyone competes in the primary election, regardless of party, and then the top two vote-getters move on to the "general" election. Sometimes this still resu...

I figured based off the previews their time in the Pit would be pretty short, but I'm still surprised it was this short given it was the big cliffhanger at the end of SoS. I do kinda sympathize with the view that it feels a bit pointless, but I think there are two effects it has. First, it does show...

Place-wise, anything that's not US/Europe, though that almost goes without saying. More specifically, ever since studying it in college I thought one could make a really cool historical epic series out of the Taiping Rebellion. Combination of GoT-style politicking/treachery, a really interesting rel...

[...] her telepathy was ineffective against Sabertooth in Sabertooth #1. Are we talking about the scene in Sabretooth (2022) #1 right after he kills the bear, then gets attacked by five X-Men (Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler) and kills them all? Because I'm pretty sure that scene is j...

As for why Ironfire? He was never infected and so he was basically the last Arakki alive. So that meant he had zero Sinister in his x-gene. Which was the catalyst… Oh, yeah, duh. I think I was disregarding the idea that he would be the sole survivor, surely others on the station lived? But I guess ...

Huh, this certainly had some unexpected turns. Maybe need more time to really take it all in. I'm a little surprised that it seemed to create more questions than it answered, this very much feels the middle book of a story rather than a wrap-up to an event, for better or worse. - All but three mutan...