― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
No, wait, STRONG GUY!
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
The two characters have a personality as distinct as night and day, however they share long hair, agility, thrown weapons, stunningly good looks, a mysterious history and a love interest in Rogue.
Obv.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Longshot and Gambit have personalitiesas distinct as night and day, however they share long hair agilitythrown weaponsstunningly good looksa mysterious historyand a love interest in Rogue.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Nerd) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Longshot and Gambit have personalitiesas distinct as night and day, however they share long hair agilitythrown weaponsstunningly good looksa mysterious historyand a love interest in Rogue.As a result of this,it has dinosaurs.
― JW (ex machina), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
He only says that because he wants to eat ice cream out of Halle Berry's ass.
― Bluebell Madonna (Ex Leon), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
"The two characters have a personality..."
1) Only one?2) SEZ YOU.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2003/04/29/cyclops.jpg
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOM (Dan's not here yet) BOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Just Ponder That For A While) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 May 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― nickalicious watches LOST (nickalicious), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Anybody else seen the new one yet. It had a couple of days premiere before it starts a full schedule on Friday. &it was cheap in the afternoon so I went.Not sure hnx it fits with the rest of the Marvel cinema thing is there any overlap?Anyway did seem a bit dumb but it is a !.2A. Does seem to take itself more seriously than I could. Maybe that's why I couldn't see an active thread for it?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
anyway if they just made movies about wolverine that were as good as that wolverine in japan movie I'd be happy.
― akm, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
but that wolverine in japan movie was terrible!
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
Maybe it would be better to ask this in one of the threads on the comics in particular, but what latter-day X books (like, written after the Morrison and Whedon runs) are worth reading?
― one way street, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
no, the wolverine in japan movie was cool
I think the first wolverine movie is supposed to suck, dunno, didn't bother
― akm, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
xpost Remender's Uncanny X-Force is highly recommended as a follow-up to those two runs. I really like Marjorie Liu's Astonishing run. Some of the only Claremont-ian relationshippy X-books of recent years. Paul Cornell's Wolverine stuff is good. Uhhh...trying to think of stuff that isn't mired in X-lore.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
wolverine in japan succeeded in having the structure of an actual movie and plot/character development, but felt kind of flat and hindered by the jean flashbacks/dreams
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
Thanks, OL; I'll probably check out the Liu run first.
― one way street, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
Her run comprises like four or five trades that you should be able to find fairly cheap at this point. They're also in the process of reprinting her NYX and X-23 stuff. She's not showy but I really dig her emphasis on the relationships between characters.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
she's an excellent comics writer. Monstress is amazing
― akm, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
I've been curious about that since she kinda snuck up on my radar.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
Cool; I think my library has most of the Liu trades, and I always tended to read the X series with more interest in character interaction/development than in continuity puzzles, so I'll start there.
― one way street, Monday, 27 June 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
If you're looking for BIG X-Men that isn't necessarily new reader friendly, I'd recommend Brubaker's Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire, Mike Carey's run on X-Men/X-Men Legacy (he did some great stuff with developing Rogue), Victor Gischler's Curse of the Mutants (yes, the vampire thing, which I was pre-emptively super dismissive towards but which won me over)...uhhhhh...most of the big crossovers from recent years have been good. Messiah Complex and Manifest Destiny were solid.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Monday, 27 June 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
Liu is Junot Díaz's girlfriend
― akm, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I just recently found that out.
Peter David's X-Factor is also good on character development but it's also pretty much one ten-year-long story.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Monday, 27 June 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Oh, Swierczynski's Cable is one of my favorites from the past decade. Big, crazy action and good character development.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Monday, 27 June 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
Saw this today and surprised how much I enjoyed it on a big dumb action movie level. There were plenty of plot holes but nothing so egregious that it took me out of the story -- curious to know what Roger Mexico thought was so crazy about it! Like I could've used way more action!
The Horsemen were underused, but I was ridiculously giddy at watching Jean go nuclear.
― Nicholas Nickelback (Leee), Saturday, 2 July 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link
I liked the Bendis run on X-Men but it's best if you just stop halfway through and pretend he died or something
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 2 July 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
good christ apocalypse was terrible - easily up there with wolverine origins and last stand as the most risible x-men movies
i was particularly annoyed by the fact that the final, world-shattering battle all took place on about 20 feet of set standing in for a single intersection in cairo, the least inspiring backdrop for a finale i can remember. at least the end of the first avengers film alleviated the obviousnessness of its overpass set with some airborne action!
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 September 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
Any X-Men movie that would cut out its scenes of mutants hanging out at the mall fundamentally misunderstands its source material.
― one way street, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
this movie should've been set on fire
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
20 feet of set comment is... oh god, it's so right
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
No doubt they used green screen and CGI for those 20 feet, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
first class wasn't a great film, but it had characters more interesting than anything that'd been done in the franchise for a very long time
it's as if bryan singer saw that the franchise could have some life, threw it in the bathtub with days of future past (the near-future scenes were a boring dirge that approached the lifelessness of his last film, and the past scenes with the younger actors started out fine but quickly devolved into character in-fighting that ended with the barely-understandable final action piece), and then tried to drown it in the bathtub with this one
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
there was maybe five minutes of 'normal life at the mansion' scenes which recalled the spirit of claremont but they got dumped double-quick in favour of poor oscar isaac joylessly teleporting around the world and giving people haircuts which turned them evil
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
what I got out of this movie is that mutants have powers, and they fight a lot
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Bryan Singer does not get the appeal of the X-Men. But his movies make money so this is probably as good as cinematic X-Men are going to get.
― ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
(TBF, though, half the people who write X-Men comics don't seem to get the appeal of the X-Men either.)
― ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
there are a few angles of appeal and somehow singer made at least two films without finding any of them
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
A general rule with films like these is if that if I have to have someone explaining to me what is happening on screen with some variation of "in the comics, it is explained that..." which was the case with this film, then the movie can fuck off.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
imo additional context makes this one worse
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
there's so much terribly delivered exposition in this
Rose Byrne gets saddled with some particularly horrifying dialogue
― Number None, Friday, 16 September 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
I just remembered that Havok's death was so unclearly depicted that the movie was almost over by the time I realized that he'd actually died.
― ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Is anyone still reading Krakoa X-Men or have we all tapped out
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 26 March 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
I was deep into mutant stuff in 5th-10th grades and then dropped out. Started following a x-men cover thing on twitter and I'm stunned at how awful some of the 90's stuff looked. Just... ugh. The logos themselves are hideous, and seeing the bastard children of Jim Lee and Rob Leifeld barf barf barf was Slimer from the Ghost Busters in there at some point?
Did it actually get good again?
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 26 March 2023 04:05 (one year ago) link
That was Doop.
Doop is awesome.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 26 March 2023 05:08 (one year ago) link
I'm reading more of it than I expected, I'll read nearly anything by Kieron Gillen and Ale Wing, and the current crossover (taking the three main titles 10/100/1000 years into a future where Sinister has succeeded in infecting the immortality process so that everyone is Sinister) is pretty wild.
Cow_Art - this is the foundation for the modern X-Men, if it sounds like something interesting - "Mutants can't die" as a foundation stone is at least an interesting start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_X_and_Powers_of_X
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 26 March 2023 11:27 (one year ago) link
Is Gambit still around? Gambit suuuuuuuuuuucked
First X-men I remember reading was on a road trip with my parents and I got it from a spinner rack in a gas station. I think the entire issue was Cyclops and Madeline (fake Jean Grey?) stranded in the ocean after their plane went down and fighting off a shark. The mix of action and soap opera really got to me.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link
I read whatever came out till March 2020 and enjoyed it. Then, during the pandemic, I subscribed to a bunch of comics in order to support my local comic store during the "strange times", and finally got them delivered to the house in a bundle sometime in 2021. By that point, there so many of them, it was too exhausting to comtemplate starting them. I have, like, the Jimmy Olsen series, some Ale Wing and Chip Zdarsky minis, the last year of Immortal Hulk, and way too many Hickman Krakoa X-Mens. I'll read them sometime, probably!
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
My desire to catch up was put off, somewhat, by the news that Hickman left.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
Also I find Leinil Yu's work annoying to read!
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:51 (one year ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, March 26, 2023 8:49 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This
Plus there are constantly more and more and more series!
I may wait until this whole direction ends and then trawl to figure out which storylines are best regarded and buy those trades
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 26 March 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
good luck having those trades still be in print by the time you figure it out obv
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Sunday, 26 March 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
Meantime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv3Ss8o9gGQ
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link