Male Editor Problems.

Sorry. Blogger was acting up yesterday so I posted on Tumblr.
http://onizaru.tumblr.com/post/74246372240/marvels-male-editor-problems
Thanks for your patience.

Invaders freebie.

Who doesn't love freebies. Soundwave comics near me had a combo deal on all new marvel now comics. It came with this free lithograph. So I picked up Invaders #1, Avengers #25, Avengers World #2, X-factor #2. Just a quick update. See you tomorrow space cowboys. No paper cuts.

Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign

A while back I get one of those pop ups that you get on Steam advertising other games to you. I see Marvel characters on it and have mixed feelings already. I have enjoyed the Facebook games to an extent but not sure if I want to put up with more of the free to play format from them. But, alas I am a sucker for comic book stuff so I downloaded the game even though it doesn't have steam achievements or trading cards. Hopefully I would find enough entertainment in it.

So first thing I notice is that I am playing Puzzle Quest. You would think I would notice this but sometimes I'm a bit thick. If you have played Puzzle Quest before you know it is a story based game where you fight your opponents in a bejeweled style game where you match gems to collect them and use the gems to power up your abilities. This game is all that with a Marvel wrapping paper on everything. If you are familiar with the way they do stories in Marvel's Facebook games then you will be quite familiar with the stories in this. It uses the same ISO-8 story arc that they other FTP games have been using. Your characters heal over time and you earn rewards for each match that you can use to obtain new characters, or covers.

Each cover unlocks a character and if you already have that character then you get a power up for one of that characters powers. Each character has a rarity shown with the amount of stars above its cover and the more levels you have in your abilities the more you can level your character. You level your character using the ISO-8 that you have collected from battles and daily log-ins. As your character levels you'll do more damage and get more abilities. Characters can also be bought with the games in came currency. You can buy it with real monies or try and earn it from winning battles. Slots must also be purchased to hold all of your characters.

The standard amount of Marvel collecting addiction has been applied to this game leaving you coming back after your heroes have healed to fight more baddies. With most members of your roster you can find different versions such as modern, classic, Marvel NOW! Need room for a cover? You can just sell old covers that you aren't gong to use anymore. For me I sold that storm as soon as I could. I just didn't feel like using it. The Hawkeye they start you off with however I have leveled up quite a bit.

So how did I feel about Dark Reign? Meh. It is definitely a good time waster. My heroes take too much damage as poorly as I play so I don't end up playing for long. It is another addition to my list of games that I log into to do dailies. At least this one I feel like I am getting somewhere. I log into Solforge daily and all I get is more cards that I still do nothing with but dailies. I will keep playing for some time to come I'm sure but the game really did one good thing for me. I went and bought Puzzle Quest. This game is great if you don't have a copy of any of the versions of Puzzle Quest. It is everything that is good about Puzzle Quest with the added on annoyance that you would expect from energy timers and the like on Facebook games. So if you can't afford a copy of puzzle quest or are really in to comics I would suggest it. If you aren't into comics but just want to play a puzzle game I would say that you should pass on this one and pick up Puzzle Quest: Galatrix.

One more thing I want to talk about before I go is Marvel AR and Black Widow. First off I loved Black Widow. If you liked Hawkeye there is a good chance you will like Black Widow. The art is excellent and the story is what you would expect. It takes a lot of ques from its other Avenger's solo comic but it doesn't seem to detract from this book. I'm looking forward to more and sad that I didn't pick up the variant cover. I hadn't been paying much attention to the AR stuff in the comics that I have been reading recently. Mostly because I have been reading them on my phone or on the computer already and didn't have time to scan the AR code in the actual book. However after enjoying this book as much as I did I wanted more and the AR was the way for me to obtain that. However after nearly 20 mins of trying different lighting solutions and different internet connections even I got now where. I just couldn't get the AR to work for me. So I was a sad panda about that I hope that this isn't something that is going to happen a lot with these books now that I am reading All New Marvel Now. At least now I can appreciate that the AR wasn't just an ad in the back of the magazine.

So that is about it for this week. Because weeks as far as this blog is concerned start on Wednesdays. Thank you for keeping up. I swear there used to be a way to hashtag my blog posts to get people coming here to read the things the wanted to read. I think they do it now as actual word by word on the post but I'm not sure. If anybody knows how that works now let me know in the comments. If you don't comment I'll be sad again. And you will know that it was all your fault. I loved you and this is what I get from you. I'll keep on loving and you'll just take and take until there is nothing left of me. Take some of my fat with you while you are at it. Also if you can take stretch marks take that with you as I will look silly as a skinny man with stretch marks. Like I got pregnant or something. Anyways lets get onto what is up for the comic week.

Wednesday I'm going to pick up (or put in my box):

Batwoman #27 (Scribblenauts Unmasked Variant Cover) if I can find one. If not i'll pick up a different version.
^Harley Quinn #2
^Scribblenauts Unmasked A Crisis Of Imagination #1
Trinity Of Sin Pandora #7 so that I can get my Constantine fix
^All-New X-Factor #2 
All-New X-Men #22.NOW 
*Avengers #25 
*Black Widow #2
Hawkeye #16
Origin II #2 (Of 5)
*Avengers World #2
*Invaders #1

Now the problem here is that that is easily $40 worth of comic books and I have maybe $15 I can spend until payday. I will be picking up the asterisk comics on Wednesday for sure and ^ comics after payday. everything else is going to have to wait for additional funds.

Saturday Heroclix
On Saturday I'll have finished reading Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe and I'll give you my take on it. I expect to enjoy this one.

Tuesday Filler
Nothing in particular is planned for Tuesday so whatever comes up will be what comes up. Most likely I'll do some more talking about

PS. I added the ability to tip me with bitcoin/dogecoin/litecoin/feathercoin so that is an option. Any size tip is awesome. I honestly feel cool just having my 5 dogecoin so far.

WXM 042 Fantomex MAX

Around the Time Wolverine and the X-men, or WXM came out for Heroclix is when I really started to pick up the game a lot. I had played in a few events and was really getting into it. So it doesn't surprised me that My first batch of favorite pieces are from there. Fantomex was one of those pieces that was pretty heavy on power. He can make an E.V.A. token that can go anywhere on the board. Most of the people I played with didn't really know much about Fantomex either it seemed. Then a short while later a mini series started under the MAX label. So I bought them.

First off, who is Fantomex? Fantomex doesn't know who he really is. He is an expert thief and a Frenchmen. Well he claims to be French but really the virtual world he was raised in is based in Britain. He is a super sentinel created by Weapon Plus. Shout out to Google plus. He was born like a person but is totally full of nano machines and does shit like turn his hand into an acetylene torch. The most uncanny ability of his is his external nervous system called E.V.A. Eva is another personality of his which is directly connected to him. She exists outside of his body while possessing machines and has and empathetic connection to him. When he feels pain she feels it too. Basically the rest of his powers consist of being an expert agent and thief.

So what did they do in Fantomex MAX? The story covered Fantomex following a government agent that he is in love with down to the bottom of the Mariana trench. Down there is a secret building of untold purpose. Whilst down there he finds out it was a set up for them to get the master thief to help them activate a machine that operates from down there. I'll tell you in a minute what that machine does. He gets the keys of course, EVA learns some more about herself and the world is saved. Yet again without the rest of the world really knowing it was in any kind of danger.

So was this book MAX? Well while Fantomex and his crew of characters definitely seem like they fit a MAX setting. MAX line of books are for adult and explicit content if you are unaware. Unfortunately they only seemed to use it for crude jokes and dropping F-Bombs. I feel the art was a bit off at times too. Being my first experience with Fantomex I wasn't sure what to expect. Andrew Hope and Shawn Crystal aren't exactly going on my list of artists to follow.

So here is my gripe. If you read avengers 24.now then you know what the premise was. Someone hurled a planet at our planet. In the Fantomex MAX series they hurl a planet at Earth. Really. It is completely unrelated in any way and will never be mentioned by the Avengers. They still haven't revealed who threw a planet at earth but after reading last weeks comics I'm getting a feeling it had something to do with Loki. However I think it would have been just fine for it to have been the planet in Fantomex. It is just weird and unfortunate that the stories would work out like that without them being tied together. I was going to make a comment about bringing Fantomex to more of the spotlight but apparently he was on X-Force for years and I didn't know it.

Another cool part for me happened in book three. There is a scene where the guy with the mind powers is inside Fantomex's super sentinel mind. He plays scenes from Fantomex's childhood in The World I guess. The lines were in untranslated French and German. The French I could mostly make out with only being wrong a little bit but the German I had no idea. Thankfully I am a child of technology and whipped out my phone so that I could use Google Goggles to read the text for me and translate it into English. This process worked out better than I even expected. I had used Goggles to look up Magic: The Gathering cards before but this was a whole new level of usefulness.

So yeah. I'm glad to know where Fantomex is coming from now when I play his piece. Thank you guys and girls for reading. I'm honored to share some time with your eyeballs. Remember, no paper cuts.

P.S. There was no Heroclix event this week. Hence no post about it. 

Thunderbolts 20 point Now, Constantine 10

Not much on the list this week. Reading more back issues than current around now. Even the Superior Spider-Man that I picked up I won't be reading till i'm caught up.

Thunderbolts. A group started by General, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, AKA Red Hulk. A group of loners have banded together to help each other complete their individual goals. The team had just finished up a mission with the Punisher at the helm. They completed his goal of taking down random mafia men guys things. However, they unleashed the murderous murder spree of Mercy, a shape-shifting teleporter that has been helping people kill them selves.  So now they team needs to take down Mercy at the strongest point in her life. And they aren't sure how to stop here. That is some of them aren't sure. Others have worked with a guy before that is perfect for the job. Ghost, mother fucking, rider. In the first part of his introduction they make a joke about the Ghost Rider movies. That at sloppy camera man with giant calves. 

I took a look at some of the Thunderbolts books that came before this one after reading the annual issue. I wanted to get into it because of Heroclix. I like the art in this new issue much better than before. Look forward to reading more of Thunderbolts and having more to say about it.

Constantine number ten. The only comic I had been keeping up with for a while. Thankfully I read Phantom Stranger last week so I'm not lost this time. I'm still a bit sad that all of Constantine's comics have been tie ins but at the same time I'm starting to like it more that I have bought some of the tie ins and followed it through. So last week the Phantom Stranger kidnapped the Justice League Dark and took them all to the borders of Heaven itself. This is where Constantine picks up and where we finally get to see something that feels a bit more Hellblazer than what we have been seeing before. 

Basically what goes down, is Constantine stares gods in the face and goes, nah, you guys bore me, I bet I could capture you like mother fucking Pokemon. Because its just that simple for John. After a brief discussion with Scottish Terrier God he bails and captures an angel. 

I felt like Constantine is going in a better direction this week than it was before and hope it continues that way as I continue to pick up whatever comic they have next in the Blight series. 

Superior Spider-Man. You have no idea the restraint I am using to not read the one I have. I'll be lost though and I hate that. I want to catch up before I read it. I hear its good. So maybe it will be good. But I do know somethings about comics that I didn't read. I know Daredevil is about to get a new number one. Well in the mean time {spoiler} Matt Murdock got on the stand and admitted to being Daredevil. It was a neat scene. Eager to see what this does for the character even though everybody already knew and he just wasn't admitting it. 

Thunderbolts had two big issues with it for me. If you read my Tuesday Filler blog then you already know I have mixed feelings about ads. Well this took the cake. First off there was an AR logo on the front cover even though the only thing in the whole book that was AR was an ad on the last page. This is a quite misleading. I did finally get AR to work for once but sheeeeet. I was expecting some behind the scenes sketches or something at least. Not some boring whats up news thing. Secondly was the worst part. I wasn't too upset about the AR thing. More bummed. But this was a doozy.

What the flipping flip. In case it is hard to make out that is one 4 page, fold out, ad t'words the front of the book and one 5 page, fold out, ad t'words the back. Gesshhhbbbfhhheh. What the hell man. I get that you want us to read other ANMN series but damn. Don't drive the point in this damn hard. I'm already buying them. Shit they finally got me buying marvel comics for the first time in a long time.

Deadpool: The Gauntlet turned out to be a free comic book this week so head on down to your local comic book store and pick up your copy. It comes with a free digital edition. The digital edition is even an Infinity comic designed for online reading. I'm only halfway through the book so far but seems good so far. It's great Deadpool. He does his own theme music. The theme music scene is way better in the infinity version online. It also contains a sexy princess. Hopefully I can rig up that theme music scene later as a gif.


Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for reading. I appreciate you. I hope you have a great end to the work week. We may not have a real Hope Corgi but at least we got Scottish Terrier God. I guess that counts for something.

Remember, no paper-cuts.