Monthly Archives: April 2009

The Fatal Puddle

by windiebird

Ladies & actual ladies! It is Thor’s day (peace upon his Nordic hammer) and we are one day from Wolverine-y goodness! Your loving bloggers won’t be hitting up any midnight madness tonight but you should be seeing the reviews up after our Sunday matinee experience.

Little did you know that your faithful heroes were actually grandmas in disguise! Just like Transformers but with a little less laser-action. And more naps.

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Deadpool! We all know that comics are, largely, soap operas with explosions and skin-tight bodysuits. In any given issue of a book, you’ll see dinosaurs with alien symbiotes, doomed lovers & more exaggerated bulges than a gay parade.

That being said, Deadpool’s story contains some of the twistiest twists and craziest sub-plots to be found anywhere in the Marvel universe.

He routinely breaks the fourth wall and is perfectly aware that he is a character in a comic book. He’s switched bodies, lost limbs, been decapitated, been defeated by Squirrel Girl, been shrunk by Pym particles & made friends with Death.

His powers are an interesting set, essentially stemming from a massively hyper-charged regenerative healing factor, initially introduced to his system via gene therapy using coding from Wolverine. Go with it.

He had joined the Weapon X program in the hopes that they’d assist with his seemingly fatal cancer prognosis. And boy did they. The power they gave him somehow combined with his cancer and managed to give him: resistance to foreign chemicals (such as alcohol or drugs), immunity to disease, extended life span, immunity to telepathy, superhuman strength, superhuman speed, superhuman stamina & amazing agility. All of this is made more deadly by his proficient mastery of many styles of hand-to-hand melee and close-combat blades. He has even been cursed by a voodoo master with immortality. Thanos didn’t want Deadpool to have fun with Death in the afterlife. Or something. Go with it again.

He’s the quintessential Merc with a Mouth, as they say and he’s one odd clown from the Marvel universe. We’ll see how they dress him up and change him ’round for the movies but look out for explosions, swordfights and some witty banter!

Is there anything better?

-windiebird

Bolt’s Legacy

by windiebird

It’s day three of our X-Men Origins: Wolverine countdown and boy howdy are we excited! Today I thought I’d give a little shout-out to one of the minor mutants (don’t worry, he’s legal) slated to appear in the film.

Bolt

I’m not going to lie to you. This kid lasted 17 issues (in a span from October 1995 to May 2004). So here’s the skinny on Christopher Bradley, the electrifying Bolt. Played by Dominic Monaghan in the film, Chris Bradley is essentially a cock-asian Static Shock. He can absorb ambient charges of static electricity from the surrounding atmosphere and discharge it by touch or as a concentrated beam. His powers manifested at his home, causing a power outage. The next day at school, while dealing with the typical hormone-frenzy that is high school, Chris got a taste of his full power. He unleashed electricity all over the school and was rescued by Phoenix and Gambit.

He got the standard invite to the Institute (I’m still waiting on mine, any day now) and after some disagreements with his best friend, Chris headed to Graymalkin Lane. After some training with the X-people it was discovered that Christopher had contracted a strain of the Legacy virus. He goes a little crazy, finds a mentor in Maverick, decides to be a hero, finds out Maverick has died, dons his mantle and is subsequently killed by Maverick the First in a tragedy of errors.

An interesting story and we’ll see how they change it for the film, like make it…not super-depressing?

-Wednesday love from the windiebird

The Savage Creed

by mutantaday

So is day two of the count down to X Men Origins: Wolverine, coming out May 1st. Now like any good blogger it is important and necessary not to be obsessed with the main character [Hugh Jackman] of a movie, and recognize that other people do exist….like when they call Hugh Jackman Wolverine, or like when they call him Logan, or when they call him James. You have to recognize that….I am in love with “them”. As such you must give attention to his arch nemisis, Victor Creed, a.k.a. Sabretooth.

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Starting out in the Marvel universe as purely a villianous murder, Victor has been the pong ball  between evil and not so evil. Formerly fighting side by side with Wolverine in the Weapon X project, Sabretooth is most noticeable as being Magneto’s muscle while apart of The Brotherhood of evil Mutants, or simply, The Brotherhood. His character has also been linked to being Logan’s father, which was later proven not true, as well as the lover of Mystique, [birthing the mutant-phobe Graydon Creed],  known to many as Raven Darkholme or the former Rebecca Romaine, (stay-moist), from the X movies.

Joining the X Men as well as X Factor his mind has been on the brink many times on Earth 616 [Don't hate me for using that term].  In fact the only time Sabretooth has not been a homocidal maniac is in Age of Apocolypse {irony} when not only does he care for WildeChild, (be it by chain), but also for Clarice Ferguson, also known as the teleporting Blink.

Played by Tyler Mane in the X movies, Liev Schreiber will take over the roll in the new Origins movie giving some insight to the characters background and personality….ya know besides the constant “I’m going to kill your face” complex that he has.

-Mutant a day

King’s Gambit

by windiebird

Here we go, folks. It’s the week. THE week. The week in which Hugh Jackman finally marries MaD and flexes all over the place, while sweating dramatically.

Okay, it’s actually the week before Wolverine busts onto the screen once more in the fourth X-Men-related film! X-Men Origins: Wolverine is going to be another great entry in the series so we thought we’d kick it off by giving our treatment to a few of the characters you should be seeing in the movie!

Let’s start with Gambit, that dastardly devil.
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(Art from the folks at Gambit Fans)

Of all the X-Men to have appeared in the past none have come close the sheer style Gambit has always been written with. A mysterious Cajun with a twinkle in his eye and a big, hard stick for all the ladies. Well, all the ladies who cross him.

Or sit on him, I guess.

Anyways, the point is he’s tres mysterioso. Not to mention the incredibly hard life he’s led from the time he was a young New Orleans thief. Raised in the local Thieves’ Guild (it was the 90′s just go with it) he quickly rose to favor. He lost a sister, married a lady from the Assasain’s Guild and generally made a killing by robbing what he could. He also developed his amazing mutant talent, kinetic energy control.

Gambit uses his talent mostly by charging inorganic objects with excess kinetic force, causing a time-delayed explosion of controllable size. So, basically Gambit can throw ‘splodey cards. Which is in the top 25 Most Badass Things To Be Able To Do, hands down. He’s able to charge organic matter just as easily but since that’s kind of a dick move in most cases, he avoids it as much as possible. Originally unable to control the sheer power he was unconsciously channeling, he enlisted the aid of Mister Sinister (I guess Twisted Sister was busy) to modify his nervous system to cap the energy his body would contain.

Gambit has trucked with the Marauders, the X-Men, the Thieves’ Guild, a few small-time operations and been a lone wolf.

His most notable love interest is the mutant Rogue and her inability to maintain contact with any living being for any extended period of time has…caused some friction in their relationship. Well, lack of friction, really.

HEY-O! But these two lovebirds are just victims of their circumstances, which makes for a great love story.

He’s been evil, good, rich, poor, in love and hated. But let it never be said that Remy Etienne LeBeau ever lacked a flair for the wilder side of life.

-windiebird

On Fire & Getting Fired…

by mutantaday

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So with the release of my husband’s Hugh Jackman’s movie coming out, X- Men Origins: Wolverine, it seems that people have literally lost their frikin’ minds!
As you all know, well now you do, there is a leak out there of an unfinished Wolverine and since people are tar-tar and can’t wait to see it in theatres, the word is spreading and more and more people are tarnishing their good sense and jumping on the bandwagon of what I think is bad guy protocol.

This has happened SO much that even critics are trying and have gotten their grubby little hands on it and have gone so far as to write reviews and publish them.

Fail.

And with that failure the dude got canned. The dude being Fox News columnist Roger Friedman. Oh Fox . And Fox affiliated people. When will the shenanigans end!!!

It wont, that’s why we love Family Guy so much. I mean did you see the last episode wh….wait…uh .. Wolverine, yes.

So here is the article…read it. There is also a nice pic of Jackman. BTW, he says it’s freaking AWESOME! Which is to be expected. I mean, check the pic at the top. Wolverine is on fire. in my pants.

-Mutant a Day