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New Mutants Annual #5: A Case of the Cutes

by Judith Kurzer Bogdanove (W.); Jon Bogdanove (P.); Hilary Barter (I:), Steve Buccellato (C.) and Joe Rosen (L.)

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Jon and Judy Bogdanove, Steve Conley, Greg Hildebrandt, Pop Mhan, John K. Snyder III, and John Workman are coming to Baltimore Comic Con

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Boom-Boom’s Take On Me New Mutants Annual #5 (1989) by Judy and Jon Bogdanove

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If Romeo and Juliet did the bhangra - art and culture

After the hugely popular stage musical, Mughal-e-Azam, director, Feroz Abbas Khan, is back with Raunaq & Jassi, a new take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It bears all the elements of Khan’s signature style – lavish sets, colourful costumes and attention to detail. Khan’s latest is based on a classic, and so was Mughal-e-Azam. But that’s where the similarity ends. Khan said that Raunaq & Jassi’s scale and messaging should not be compared with any of his previous works. Mughal-e-Azamwas a theatrical adaptation of K Asif’s 1960 film, retaining the story and characters of the original. Raunaq & Jassi has only taken the idea of Romeo and Juliet, that of star-crossed lovers in the backdrop of hate. The script, music and dialogues are original. “We have made many changes... For example, there comes a point in the story when the two families forget why they hate each other,” said Khan. “Doing something on the lines of Mughal-e-Azam would have been an easy journey for me. The idea was to take the path less taken.” Why is the play set in the Punjab of the 1950s? “Think of Punjab and a certain terrain with a distinct sound and image of celebration come to mind. We have also set the story in 1950s rural Punjab to add colour to the overall story,” said Khan. He acknowledged that it was challenging to revisit a story which has been told in many languages in various eras. “I chose to go with a classic because it remains eternal. We’ve told the story in verse as the original tale is in verse,” he said.

“Doing something on the lines of ( Priyanka Parashar’/Mint ) There are high expectations from Khan’s latest. “People thought I would fail with Mughal-e-Azam because how could one surpass K Asif’s masterpiece? This time, they want me to succeed,” said the director. Khan has worked with the same team that helped him deliver Mughal-e-Azam: Manish Malhotra (costumes), Piyush Kanojia (music), Iqbal Raj (lyrics) and John Narun (projection design). Neha Sargam, who plays Jassi, had also played Anarkali in Mughal-e-Azam. “The previous play made my job easy this time round because I could work on my pronunciation and diction,” she said. “This role is more performance oriented as compared to Anarkali’s role which required a lot of singing,” she added. Raunaq & Jassi is scheduled to be staged from February 29 to March 1, at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Delhi Stage to screen, best adaptations New Theatre, London, 1935 Directed by John Gielgud, the play had Peggy Ashcroft as Juliet. Laurence Olivier and Gielgud alternated between Romeo and Mercutio. The George Cukor film, 1936 Starring Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, it featured in The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made. Old Vic Theatre, 1960 Lauded for its realism, this play was directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Judi Dench played Juliet, John Stride Romeo. West Side Story, 1961 Retold as a musical about two rival gangs in New York, the film won 10 Oscars. Natalie Wood played Maria (Juliet); Richard Beymer, Tony (Romeo). Royal Shakespeare Company, 1986 Set in the 1980s, in this play the actor wore Armani suits and death came with a drug-filled hypodermic needle. Directed by Michael Bogdanov, it had Sean Bean and Niamh Cusack in the title roles. Read the full article

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Entry 068 - Artie & Leech

Names: Arthur Maddicks and Leech

Code Names: Artie and Leech

First Appearance: X-Factor #2 (Mar ’86) and Uncanny X-Men #179 (Mar ’84)

Powers: Thought projection and Power negation

Teams Affiliation: Morlocks, X-Factor, X-Terminators, Generation X, Future Foundation

About

There is something pure about a friendship between young kids. The unconditional decision that “we’re friends now” is a joy to see. So much of adult friendship is based on schedules, compromises, planned excursions that it is good to be reminded about how simple it used to be. There are powerful friendships in X-Men, Kurt and Logan, Kitty and Rachel, Bobby and Hank, but more than all of those, is the unadulterated goodness of Artie and Leech.

Portrayed by Connor Stanhope and Cameron Bright

Artie was a regular kid until his eleventh birthday. His mutant ability kicked in, turning his skin pink and lumpy and removing his ability to speak. He could psionically project manifestations of his thoughts but his communication skills were limited. His father, a scientist, tried experiments to cure his son and captured Beast to that end. X-Factor soon came to their friend’s rescue and a battle broke out. Knowing that Artie would be in the crossfire, Dr. Maddicks pleaded for X-Factor to take his boy to safety, sacrificing himself for his son.

Artie enjoyed his time with X-Factor and started looking up to Rusty, one of the older students. When they went to the Morlock Tunnels to assist in during the Mutant Massacre, Artie got lost and ran into Caliban and his new best friend Leech. Leech was a Morlock with green skin, a big head, and a grasp on sentence structure that could only come from growing up in the literal sewers. The trio was cornered by Sabertooth and Caliban was injured. Artie decided to be a hero and searched for X-Factor, only to find the god of Thunder instead. Thor helped the group make their way to X-Factor’s base and Leech didn’t forget Artie’s courage.

Art by Walter Simonson, Bob Wiacek, and Petra Scotese

Artie and Leech became fast friends. All the other kids in X-Factor were older, they were worried about girls, and boys, and the future, and all sorts of things. Artie and Leech? They were just worried about playing. Sure they got caught up in adventures, but they were happier delivering Christmas presents to misfortunate children and messing around with the rest of the cast. X-Factor finally realized that eleven-year-old boys should probably be in a real school and sent them to St. Simons boarding school. The school quickly realized how close the boys were and declared that Artie and Leech were never to be separated.

Art by Jon Bogdanove, Al Williamson, and John Wellington

At the school, they met a young boy named Taki. He was wheelchair bound and had a learning disability, combining that with the death of his parents turned Taki into a bitter boy. Artie and Leech, being the best kids, tried to reach out to him but Leech’s power negation field interfered with Taki’s electronics and Taki was not polite about it. Artie would not tolerate his best friend being treated like that and made Taki apologize. He came around to the power of friendship and became a buddy to the boys.

Art by Jon Bogdanove, Al Williamson, and John Wellington

That night, demons under the command of N’Astirh captured the boys by mistake and brought them to their master. N’Astirh had little time for their incompetence but his goblins decided that it would be a shame to let good meat go to waste. N’Astirh told them that they could eat sweet Artie and Leech only after they captured the babies he would need to open a portal to Limbo. Artie used is powers to get a message out to the X-Factor kids and resigned himself to his fate. As the demons brought more and more babies, Artie and Leech did their best to keep the kids safe, even giving up the clothes on their back. Taki and the X-Terminators (Rusty, Boom Boom, Skids, and Rictor) freed the boys and saved the day, and Artie, Leech, and Taki returned to St. Simons to continue their studies.

Art by Jon Bogdanove, Al Williamson, and John Wellington

The two moppets were eventually captured by Marrow and her Gene Nation and subsequently rescued by Generation X. Skin and Chamber helped the boys build a treehouse in the school’s biodome to call home. After Onslaught and the apparent death of the Fantastic Four, Franklin Richards joined them and became fast friends with the boys. They quickly assembled a motley crew including Howard the Duck, Man-Thing, and a Rigellian Recorder and jumped through dimensions to save the multiverse. Franklin eventually found his was home and the boys stayed at the school until it disbanded.

Art by Martin Egeland

After M-Day they boys were split. Artie lost his projection powers but kept his physical deformity. Leech kept his powers and joined the 198 outside of the Xavier Institute. He found his way back to the Morlock tunnels where Masque imprisoned him for his own uses. They boys found their way back together thanks to their old buddy Franklin. At his birthday, Franklin wanted to give each of his guests a present. For Artie, he had his sister Valeria make a helmet to mimic his old powers. For both boys was a key to their new home, the Baxter Building.

Art by Neil Edwards, Andrew Currie, and Paul Mounts

Reed Richards decided that the key to the future rested with young children and enlisted Artie and Leech, as well as other young geniuses, in his new program the Future Foundation. Their goal? Solve Everything. The boys loved spending him with their friend Franklin, even if Leech was being used to covertly dampen Franklin’s reality warping powers. After the end of the universe, Artie and Leech joined their best friend Franklin and the rest of the Future Foundation and the edge of reality. Franklin had become akin to a god, recreating worlds and Franklin had Artie and Leech to be there with him.

Art by Esad Ribic and Ive Svorcina

Must Read

Artie and Leech are consistently delightful and none more so than in a backup story for New Mutants Annual #7. Written by Judy Bogdanove and drawn by husband Jon, Close Encounters of the Mutant Kind is a delightful tale of Artie, Leech, and Taki getting confused for aliens and getting a new grandma. It is short, sweet, and adorable. Exactly like our two moppets. It is on Marvel Unlimited so go check it out.

Art by Mike Mignola

Ranking

So, I love Artie and Leech. I want them to live in my spare room and go on adorable adventures and never grow up. I am not under the impression that they are particularly deep characters but they fill their role perfectly. They are better X-Factor kids than Skids, but nowhere near as good as Boom Boom. I like them more than Caliban but less than Wolfsbane. They are like Omega Red in that, they aren’t deep but they are fun. I straight up like them more than Omega Red so that places them as the new number 40 in the Xavier Files.

Artie and Leech were requested by /u/iaro and /u/fredlong4257 on Reddit, Scott Barrie from this site, and Kevin Newburn from twitter. Kevin procured me a sweet shirt from Emrald City Comic Con so he got to pick this week. If you have a request just submit it at the bottom of this article and I will add it to the list that currently stretches into December 2018! If you want to cut to the front of the line, we have a Patreon you can support for just $1 to get a line cutting reward.

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Entry 068 – Artie & Leech was originally published on Xavier Files

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Igor Bogdanoff : mis en examen, il parle enfin !

Il a été arrêté par la police parisienne, ce mercredi 22 novembre à 5h du matin, après s’être introduit au domicile de Julie Jardon, son ancienne petite amie mannequin et actrice, âgée de 23 ans , et menacé son petit ami. Dénoncé par ce dernier à la police, Igor Bogda­noff a passé les dernières heures de cette nuit sous les verrous, avant d'être déféré devant un juge en début de jour­née. Il a depuis été placé sous contrôle judi­ciaire et sera convoqué dans peu de temps devant un tribu­nal correc­tion­nel."Je n'ai jamais été enfermé" Alors que l'affaire a été dévoilée par Closer, et confirmée par Le Parisien, la star de télé est sorti du silence. Choqué de la couverture médiatique de cette "affaire privée", il assure qu'il n'a "rien à se reprocher". Il développe : "A la peine personnelle d'un amour qui prend fin vient s'ajouter une peine médiatique à laquelle je ne m'attendais pas. Ça m'a vraiment affecté". L'animateur a contesté la version des faits présentée dans les médias, expliquant : "Je n'ai jamais été menotté contrairement à ce qui a été dit. Quand les policiers sont venus me chercher, ils m'ont dit: "On ne va pas vous mettre les menottes, on vous connaît". Je les ai remerciés. Et ensuite la garde à vue s'est bien passée. Je n'ai jamais été enfermé", raconte-t-il.En plus, Igor Bogdanoff assure "ne pas avoir fait irruption" chez celle qui fut sa compagne pendant deux ans et demi. Il confie : "Je lui ai simplement dit d'ouvrir la porte. Je suis rentré et on a parlé sere... Retrouvez cet article sur Public

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The New Mutants Annual #5 by Judy Bogdanove, John Bogdanove, Hilary Barta, and Steve Buccellato