“We’ll kill things, blow things up, it’ll be fun!”

So I just recently came across some advance episodes of the new Marvel animated series, Wolverine & The X-Men. From watching just the first episode, you can tell that this series pulls a lot of its influences from the X-Men Movie Trilogy, the X-Men Evolution animated series and several poignant X-Men story arcs like Days of Future Past, and Joss Wheden’s Astonishing X-Men. Set against the de facto back drop of fighting for a world that hates and fears them, the X-Men find themselves lost without the tutelage of their beloved leader/mentor, Professor Xavier, whom along with X-Men long stay, Jean Grey, who disappeared in an explosion at the X-Men’s home, Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. With human-mutant relations escalating to a boiling point, its up to Wolverine to pull the team of mutants back together and save the world from the brink of destruction.

Without giving away any more spoilers, its great to see that most of the characterization is spot on; Cyclops is very brooding and lost without Jean, Emma Frost is a manipulative bitch, and Storm has a ethereal regality about her. While some of the characterization is great, some are not. Some mutant powers are either forgotten or not present for the art of story telling. Character back stories has been alter to either have it appeal to a broader audience or maybe to avoid continuity all together. But than again I could just be nitpicking. Either way I believe that anyone from the guy who remembers watching Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends growing up to the die-hard Marvel Zombie would be able to enjoy this series. Its just a damn same that it won’t be broadcast in the U.S. until January 2009 and on the Nicktoons Network of all places.

The real Mojave Experiment involved a nuclear powered pen to right all the zeros necessary for Seinfeld to be in this commercial.

Sitting through one bad film reel & projector, bad customer service, noisy movie patrons, 15 minutes of credits, where I swear there must of been 5 people alone in charge of dying Gwyneth Paltrow hair red, just to see Samuel L. Jackson in an eye patch. And the movie was good by the way…

I would so get this if you can shove a kryptonite stick up Superman’s ass.

BET cages ‘Black Panther’: Marvel Comic hero heads to TV

Marvel Comics has signed a deal to turn one of its superheroes, the Black Panther, into a primetime animated series for BET, starting early next year.

BET made the announcement at its upfront presentation in New York as the highlight of a batch of new series being readied for the 2008-09 season, under the supervision of Reginald Hudlin, president of entertainment for BET… Read more at Variety

I’ll promise to be good if this goes into ‘development hell’ forever.

Don’t ask why I bought this game, or why I’m actually playing it, plastic guitar and all. But I’ve actually learned something interesting; my pinky finger won’t move unless I move my ringer finger and after five minutes of playing the room will start to spin and the Tetris Effect kicks in.

My money is on Sonic for the track & field events

Just taking a brief break from the real world, since I’m not getting overtime money, there’s no new episodes of Heroes til late April, there’s an awful smells coming from my couch, Adult Swim is getting kinda stagnant and Chicago weather is being typical Chicago weather (gorgeous one day, completely fucked up the next).

Been playing Hitman: Blood Money and the new God of War 2 which is pretty kiss-ass.Been thinking about doing a video entry but I just lack a good subject. Things like “People Tony Has Pissed Off” comes to mind, but that would be putting too my energy in folks that aren’t that significant. Well I have to finish this Hitman mission where I kill a bunch of folks in a rehab clinic but Ghost in the Shell comes on. Yeah, I need to get laid… badly.

Wow, the different a day can make… While the conclusion to Civil War #7 wasn’t bad, it wasn’t too good either. For a title thats been delayed TWICE, it seemed so rushed and so anti-climatic. I wonder if I can get a refund or at least store credit for my soul.

I just reread all 7 issues and while overall the series does has its flaws, its not bad, but it still fails to deliver at the end. Even with conjunction with CW Frontline, we’re given that public opinion kinda supports the Secret Avengers and what they’re doing. Maybe its me but I just don’t think a gang of firefighters and EMTs would just come out and bum-rush Captain America and cry at him like an abused child. I’m not saying one side was more right then the other but Tony Stark deserves some type of comeuppance for the amount of highly questionable things he’s done.

Anyway, take a look at what I got:

Michael Holt aka Mister Terrific II