#X-FORCE Annual Vol. 1

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE MERC WITH A MOUTH UNLEASHED -- GOING TO WORK ON LIVING BODIES.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 876×1370 -- Spotlight on a mega killer Deadpool pin-up by Ken Lashley & Matt Banning, from "X-Force Annual" Vol. 1 #3. October, 1994. Marvel Comics.

Pencils by Ken Lashley

Inks/colors by Matt Banning

Source: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Force_Annual_Vol_1_3.

[karmirage]

some fun facts for the @tournament-of-x voters

The oldest contestants currently in the match (and by oldest, I mean “the date of their first appearance”, not their actual ages) are Magneto, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake/Iceman, and Scott Summers/Cyclops. All four of them first appear in X-Men #1 in 1963.

The youngest contestant currently in the match (again, in terms of the dates of their first appearance, not actual age) is Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool, who first debuted in Howard the Duck #1 in 2015.

Of the contestants, only Laura Kinney/Wolverine appeared first on screen -- her first ever appearance was in Season 3, Episode 10 of X-Men: Evolution in August of 2003. This would be later followed by her first comic appearance in NYX #3, in December of 2003.

As far as classic teams go: the 33 characters remaining include three of the original five X-Men (Jean, Bobby, Scott), four of the classic nine New Mutants (Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma, Dani Moonstar/Mirage, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, and Illyana Rasputin/Magik -- Dani, Xuân, and Roberto are also founding members), and two people who have two first appearances (both Illyana and Nathan Summers/Cable appear in canon continuity as babies/toddlers prior to appearing later under their aliases -- Illyana appears in Giant-Sized X-Men #1 in 1975 and Nathan appears in Uncanny X-Men #201 in 1985). Two contestants are also part of the iconic Giant-Sized X-Men team created in 1975 -- Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler and Ororo Munroe/Storm. Two members of the original Generation X remain (Monet St. Croix/M/Penance and Jubilation Lee/Jubilee), as well as two from the Academy X era (David Alleyne and Megan Gwynn, from the New Mutants second generation team and the Paragons, respectively), three if you choose to count Laura Kinney/Wolverine, who joined the remaining students of New X-Men vol. 2 just after M-Day.

All the contestants save nine made their first appearances in X-books (X-Men, Giant-Sized X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants, X-Factor, X-Force, Generation X, X-Men: Evolution and New X-Men). The ones who do not first appear in X-books are Mystique (Ms. Marvel #18 in 1978, though she technically had a cameo appearance two issues prior), Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma (Marvel Team-Up #100 in 1980), Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue (Avengers Annual #10, 1981), Dani Moonstar/Mirage and Roberto da Costa/Sunspot (both in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 in 1983), Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan (Young Avengers #1, 2005), Tommy Shepherd/Speed (Young Avengers #10, 2006), Eden Fesi/Manifold (Secret Warriors #4, 2009), and Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool (Howard the Duck #1, 2015).

Demographically speaking, four characters in the tournament are canonically Jewish -- Magneto, Kate Pryde, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan, and Bobby Drake/Iceman (thanks for the reminder, @/ant-ifascottlang!) Though it hasn’t been confirmed, one might assume that Tommy Shepherd/Speed and Lorna Dane/Polaris are also Jewish, being related to them.

The 70s and the 80s are proving themselves to be the most popular -- 8 candidates that were created in the 70s are still in the tournament (Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler, Ororo Munroe/Storm, Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Mystique, Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier/Aurora, Kitty/Kate Pryde, and Emma Frost/White Queen), and 8 characters created in the 80s are still in the tournament as well (Irene Adler/Destiny, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma, Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue, Dani Moonstar/Mirage, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, Nathan Summers/Cable, Julio Richter/Rictor, and Jubilation Lee/Jubilee).

Of the other decades: seven characters were introduced in the 2000s (Eloise Phimister/Negasonic Teenage Warhead, David Alleyne/Prodigy, Laura Kinney/Wolverine, Megan Gwynn/Pixie, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan, Tommy Shepherd/Speed, and Eden Fesi/Manifold), five were introduced in the 60s (Magneto, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake/Iceman, Scott Summers/Cyclops, and Lorna Dane/Polaris), and four were introduced in the 90s (Remy Lebeau/Gambit, Lucas Bishop, Neena Thurman/Domino, and Monet St. Croix/M/Penance). Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool is the only character remaining in the tournament to be introduced after 2010.

One character is canonically Muslim -- Monet St. Croix/M/Penance.

Eleven characters are canonically LGBTQ+: Bobby Drake/Iceman, Mystique, Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, Kitty/Kate Pryde, Irene Adler/Destiny, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma, Julio Richter/Rictor, David Alleyne/Prodigy, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan, Tommy Shepherd/Speed, and Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool.

Laura Kinney/Wolverine, Remy Lebeau/Gambit (thanks for the reminder, @/souldagger!) and Megan Gwynn/Pixie have been confirmed by writers to be queer, but there has been no on-panel confirmation for any of them beyond Pixie’s appearance/alternate dimension self in Secret Wars.

Without counting the upcoming Uncanny Avengers, at least three characters have been recurring Avengers -- Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, and Eden Fesi/Manifold. Rogue and Sunspot also notably led teams of Avengers. Several other candidates have been Young Avengers -- David Alleyne/Prodigy, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan (who was a founding member), and Tommy Shepherd/Speed.

Ten characters are mutants of color -- Ororo Munroe/Storm is Kenyan-American and grew up in Cairo, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma is Vietnamese, Dani Moonstar/Mirage is Indigenous American, specifically Cheyenne, Roberto da Costa is Afrolatino and from Brazil, Julio Richter/Rictor is Mexican, Jubilation Lee/Jubilee is Chinese-American, Lucas Bishop is Aboriginal Australian/Black American (according to Chris Claremont, who confirmed that Bishop is indeed descended from Aboriginal Australian mutant Gateway), Monet St. Croix/M/Penance is Monacan-Algerian, David Alleyne/Prodigy is a Black American, and Eden Fesi/Manifold is Aboriginal Australian.

While Laura Kinney/Wolverine first appeared as a visibly brown girl in X-Men: Evolution, her design has since been lightened and she does not have a confirmed ethnicity.

Only eight of the remaining contestants have never appeared in live-action adaptations -- Irene Adler/Destiny, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma (though her name is shown on a computer screen in X2: X-Men United), Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier/Aurora, David Alleyne/Prodigy, Megan Gwynn/Pixie, Eden Fesi/Manifold, and Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool. Of these, only Karma, Penance, Prodigy, Manifold, and Gwenpool have no on-screen appearances at all -- the others appear in the various animated series (Destiny has a recurring appearance in X-Men: Evolution, Pixie pops up in Wolverine and the X-Men, and the Beaubier twins appear in the X-Men cartoon of the 90s). While Penance is listed on Wikipedia as being in Wolverine and the X-Men, it does not cite an episode, though her twin younger sisters appear in Season 1 Episode 10 “Greetings from Genosha.” **this post has been corrected -- Monet St. Croix/M/Penance appears in the direct to TV Generation X movie (thanks for the reminder, @/cranechel!)

[thequiver]

Who is....Tom Cassidy | Black Tom Cassidy? - A Reading Guide

Tom Cassidy is an X-Men affiliated mutant from Marvel comics first introduced in 1976. He is the cousin of Sean Cassidy (Banshee) and a father-figure to Theresa Cassidy (Siryn/Banshee). Tom is heavily associated with Cain Marko (Juggernaut), who he met in prison. Tom's powers are directly tied to the land, and are heavily related to bio-kinesis. During the Krakoan era, Tom fused with the mutant island, Krakoa, which caused him a great deal of distress and drastically changed how he interacts with the world around him.

Below the cut is a full list of Tom's appearances as of 8. January. 2024!

X-Men (1963) #99, 101-103, 107, 122, 124

Spider-Woman (1978) #37-38

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #229-230

Marvel Team-Up (1972) #150

Classic X-Men (1986) #16[B]

X-Force (1991) #1-5

Deadpool (1993) #1-2

Venom: The Madness (1993) #1-2

X-Force (1991) #31

Deadpool (1994) #1-4

Generation X (1994) #Annual '95, 23-25

Uncanny X-Men (1981) #361

X-Men (1991) #88

Uncanny X-Men (1981) #369

X-Force (1991) #91

Generation X (1994) #60-61

Cyclops (2001) #1-2

Uncanny X-Men (1981) #411-412

X-Men (1991) #161-164

New Excalibur (2006) #6, 7, 13

Deadpool Corps (2010) #1

Deadpool (2008) #58-60

Uncanny X-Men (2016) #11-14

X-Men: Blue (2017) #1

X-Force (2019) #1-10

Empyre: X-Men (2020) #1-3

X-Force (2019) #11

X-Men (2019) #11

Juggernaut (2020) #5

X-Force (2019) #12, 15-16, 18-19, 23

Wolverine (2020) #16

X-Force (2019) #24-26

X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #15

X Deaths of Wolverine (2022) #1

Sabretooth (2022) #1

X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #26

X-Force (2019) #27

Life of Wolverine Infinity Comic, Vol. 1 #10

Wolverine (2020) #20

X-Force (2019) #28

Legion of X (2022) #2

X-Force (2019) #29-31

Legion of X (2022) #5

X-Force (2019) #32

Wolverine (2020) #27

X-Force (2019) #34

X-Men (2021) #17

X-Force (2019) #36

Wolverine (2020) #30-31

X-Force (2019) #39

Wolverine (2020) #33

X-Force (2019) #43-44

Wolverine (2020) #40

X-Force (2019) #47

[keycomicbooks]

X-Force Annual #1 (1992) Greg Capullo Cover Art & Various Pencils, Various Writers, The Scheduler (First appearance) 

#XForce Annual #1 (1992) #GregCapullo Cover Art & Various Pencils, Various Writers, The Scheduler (First appearance) Story 1: "Shattershot, Pt. 4 of 4: The Mirror Liars" continued from X-Factor Annual no. 7 Story 2: "The Crush" feat. Wiz Kid, Artie and Leech Story 3: X-Force Villain's Gallery Story 4: Pinups SAVE ON SHIPPING COST - NOW AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL PICK UP IN DELTONA, FLORIDA https://www.rarecomicbooks.fashionablewebs.com/X-Force.html#A1  #RareComicBooks #KeyComicBooks #MarvelComics #MCU #MarvelUniverse #KeyIssue

[cetacian]

The Fall and Rise of Orca: Bootleg The Thing Possession and Bad Puns

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Harley Quinn 2022 Annual  Vol 4 Issue #1 “Task Force XX Chapter 5″.

In the wake of the Justice League seemingly dying and other hero teams being preoccupied, Luke Fox gathered together a team of semi-reformed villains in order to retrieve the dangerous Element-X from an abandoned League moon base with the intent of destroying it, with Harley Quinn being among the team’s number. The U.S. military soon became aware of the team’s rocket flight to the moon, complicating matters. Once the team arrived, team leader Lashina was quickly possessed by Element-X, now a sentient alien being. Luke informed the team that he had in fact sent the element to the moon base after having a vision of it destroying all life on Prime Earth as team member Solomon Grundy was also taken over by the alien element and morphed into a hybridized monster with Lashina, forcing the team to defend themselves and fall back. While team member Killer Frost was able to fend the hybrid monster off via draining its collective life-force, the monster soon turn its attention to activating the base’s teleportation system in order to reach Earth after the power had been restored by the team. 

Luke, realizing his terrible mistake, went to call Jon Kent for aid, only to be ambushed by military forces, shortly before they themselves were attacked and possessed by the hybrid monster. As Luke did his best to evade the monster and the soldiers, the remaining team members teleported back to Earth, fighting off the soldiers until Luke was able to don his new armor and rescue them. After some soul searching from Luke on finding his own hero identity and regrouping, the team set out to face the extraterrestrial threat once more.

In the midst of the fight against the soldiers, the monster had escaped, forcing the team to regroup and plan a strategy. Luke recalled that Killer Frost had been able to draw lifeforce from the monster, thus hypothetically giving them a chance of ending the threat. The team considered where the monster might be going, theorizing at first the near Gotham City, as its goal was absorbing as many people into its collective as possible, but realizing that the even closer Blackgate Penitentiary was its primary target. By the time the team arrived, the monster had already had taken over the prisoners, guards and staff, forcing the team to fight their way through once more. After the hypothesis of Killer Frost being the alien's weakness was proven correct, the team split off with Luke and Bronze Tiger holding off the brainwashed horde and Harley, The Verdict and Killer Frost heading off to find the monster.

However, they were soon stopped by a strange rumbling and faced a new obstacle with an infected, familiar face:

The hammer Harley is weirding was shown earlier in the story to have some sort of enhanced electrical power, though she seems to be just using normal strength here, probably to avoid leathal damage. It's still hard to say if Orca would normally be able to tank that kind of hit without being under alien possession, so I'll put that in the maybe pile. I also don't know whether the puns are charming or groan-worthy. Probably both.

Killer Frost was soon able to gain the upper hand, freezing Orca to the wall as The Verdict elected to stay behind in order to give Harley and Frost more time to find the monster:

Not sure if Orca is breaking out of the ice due to enhanced strength from the alien or if she can do that normally. Real orcas are able to withstand temperatures of the Antarctic waters, so I'm going to say this is within her normal strength range. Plus we've already seen she was able to punch Etrigan's head 360 degrees around, so this is probably a cake walk for her.

After an intense battle, Killer Frost was able to drain the monster's lifeforce, allowing Grundy and Lashina to return to their normal forms and ending the hivemind control of the prison, Orca included:

Luke took responsibility for the events as he still hoped to find his own identity and things ended on a happy note with the team going out for frozen yogurt.

I don't always like stories where Orca is just an extended cameo, but this felt almost like a one shot episode of an action animated series, so it was actually fun from the small section I looked at. Not a big fan of Orca being subjected to bad puns, but she wasn't otherwise disrespected in the story, so I'll let it slide. I wonder if this is taking place after the Punchline storyline where she was in Blackgate. In which case, they forgot her prison croptop jumpsuit. Also are we ever going to get any follow up on her potentially facing a life sentence after being framed for a prison riot? No? Okay then.

I think the only major complaint I have is the design for Orca. It makes sense for her to be hideous when she's got alien tentacles coming off her, but the more normal looking shots are way out of proportion and just flat out ugly:

If I have to look at it, so do you.

Sorry this entry had such a long summary, but context is context.

Next time, Orca joins a furry gang!

[night-gay]

Into the Anthill pt 52 - Long Live The Wasp

Basically every major super hero gets to come back from the dead at some point in their career and Jan's turn has finally come. Turns out she never actually died, which is a retcon that I can live with if it puts her back on the page again.

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Avengers vol 4 #32-34

The Avengers I.D. cards each have a unique distress signal aside from the oldest batch, so when a distress call from their oldest signal type was detected from Inner Space Tony reached out to Hank immediately. Hank suspected it was Janet, and when the source of the beacon turned out to be the exact spot in Central Park where she died facing the Skulls he was sure this time it was finally her. Tony gathered Cap and Thor for the mission and intended to leave Hank behind but relented given the circumstances. Hank shrank them all down into the microverse, amazed at the foreign technology and buildings they were met with. But of course, nothing was as important as her; Janet van Dyne, alive and happier to see them than she'd ever been. At the moment of her 'death' she was instead shunted into this microscopic world where she’d been on the run ever since.

Lord Gouzar, a vicious tyrant centaur who’d come to rule over the Microverse by killing everyone who came before him, wanted her dead. Gouzar’s forces caught the Avengers off guard and defeated them, taking Tony away to study his armor while the rest were imprisoned in a force field. After he’d recharged the armor enough, Tony used his uni-beam to cause a diversion while Thor broke the barrier holding them captive. Before they could be overwhelmed again, Wonder Man used Pym Particles to follow them into the Microverse and save them. Hank and Simon were able to return them all to Central Park, but Lord Gouzar followed them there and was immediately beaten into submission by the 20 or so Avengers on the scene. With Jan finally back home the Avengers threw her a big ‘Welcome Back’ party at Stark Tower.

Avengers Assemble Annual vol 1 #1

An encounter with Sunturion prompted Vision to confront Hank and Tony about why they left his broken remains in a cardboard box in a warehouse after his death. They told him that they’d tried everything they could think of, but with no guarantee that his persona would remain intact they had no choice but to wait until his body could heal itself. The process was further complicated when Iron Lad’s armor became the young Vision. Vision was not content with their answer, but understood their reasoning. The issue ended with him finally reaching out to Billy Kaplan, the reincarnation of his once-son William Maximoff. 

Avengers Arena vol 1 #13

Molly of the Runaways came to Hank for help after Nico and Chase had been gone for 3 weeks, which got him wondering about several of his students (Hazmat, Mettle, Reptil, X-23, and Juston) who had also been gone the same amount of time. Tigra tried to reassure him, but his hunch led him to contact Captain Britain who confirmed that several of his students had gone at the same time as well. He reached out to SHIELD hoping they'd have a lead, which they didn't, although a teenage girl in their custody with Deathlok tech went missing at the same time too.

Arcade, who had secretly kidnapped all of the missing teens to participate in a battle to the death for his amusement, rigged Mettle's corpse with cybernetics to act as a decoy and throw Hank off his trail. Mettle had actually been the first casualty of the Murderworld game and far from the only death by this point.

Minor/Cameo appearances from this period:

Daredevil vol 3 #19, 24, 26-27

[mattelektras]

Hiii do you have a reading list for Felicia,silver sable,and Selene Gallio?!

silver sable my z list gal

my own list for felicia is super outdated so i found one here

aaaaand selene:

first appearance: new mutants vol 1 #9-11

uncanny xmen vol 1 #183-4

new mutants #22-23

uncanny #189-191, 208-210

new mutants #51-61, annual #4, #70-75

uncanny #245

captain america vol 1 #393

uncanny #283

excalibur vol 1 #64, #95

x-man #16-28

x-force vol 1 #94-99

x-force vol 3. i'd read the whole thing for context because its where the necrosha event happens

captain america vol 9 #1-8

house of x #5

x-corp

current x-force

immortal x-men #1-2

[screentones]

continuing my doug read and i just finished excalibur annual vol 1 2 and i will never be the same again :) i'm just gonna post all doug's entries below cut so i can access them easie :)

1.

if anyone else should ever read these discs, i hope it's you, kitty. you've known me the longest, you're the one i shared my hopes and dreams with. after i found out i was a mutant, you understood my longing to belong, make friends, fit in again. but i don't think you ever understood how…inadequate i felt. i was a member of the new mutants and my mutant power of "speaking in tongues" didn't exactly make me "most valuable player" on the team. i kept how i felt locked away--but i don't need to do that anymore. something happened today that changed my life forever. when we were in asgard, i merged with warlock. i saw him, the better half of the team supreme, dying, needing "food" to survive--and my guts twisted up with fear. i wanted to help him--but i was afraid it would be painful. i never have been much on pain…but i couldn't let him die. here was a chance for me to really make a difference. so i "soul-merged" with warlock--i gave him some of my life-force energy and in return, i was able to see through his eyes--all the auras that every living thing radiates. it was so beautiful. as long as i live, i will never forget the way it felt to be inside someone else's mind. i understand a little bit more about what it must be like to be professor xavier. i never realized what incredible power he wields. to actually see what another being is seeing goes so far beyond simple understanding, beyond translation. when warlock became my body armor, i felt invincible. after i merged with his mind, i realized how precious each life is, and how fragile. i know now, there's no such thing as invincibility.

2.

we just returned from asgard. if i had known who was going to be waiting for us when we got back, i would have stayed in harald einarson's hall and remained his serving drudge. professor xavier appointed magneto as our teacher! magneto leading the new mutants--it's inconceivable! magneto's attitute towards me has been awful--he forbade me to participate in any training exercises in the danger room! "the exercise is to measure physical abilities. since your linguistic talent is mental, there's no need for you to participate." those were his exact words. i was so angry--i can't remember ever feeling that mad in my life. i wanted wolverine's claws so i could rip out magneto's throat! i wanted to blast him like cyclops! i wanted to explode in molten rage like magma! instead i blew my top up in the control booth. i know my power isn't physical. no one needs to remind me i'm our weak link. why can't magneto see that that's exactly why i need to work out with the team. how am i going to pull my own weight if no one gives me the opportunity to learn how? it's so ironic--professor x encouraged me to train and experience combat situations in the danger room. while magneto wants to shield me from even the slightest possibility of any physical danger. magneto says that the needs of the team outweigh any individual consideration. i know the professor would disagree. i'm determined to prove magneto wrong about me. i'm going to prove everyone that doug ramsey isn't useless. warlock and i.

3.

"all life--every moment--is a classroom, for those willing to learn. the key is within your grasp, douglas. be calm, as i taught you--have confidence in your abilities, and your own courage--and you will find it." professor xavier said those words to me--every word--and i will never forget them. i was scared spitless. it looked like all of us were going to die fighting a crazed techno-organic monster! we were up against magus--warlock's demented father. this was the battle royale-time was running out for the whole team. i didn't know what to do. i didn't know what to do. i was definitely in over my head. then the professor said those words to me. i wanted him to save the day for us--but he wouldn't. then i realized that he wouldn't just leave us. somehow in the middle of my blind panic, i deciphered what he was telling me. maybe it was my mutant talent kicking in; maybe it was his serene tone of voice at such a desperate moment. whatever it was, i understood what he meant--the answer was within me. i realized that all life is based on genetic codes. magus/warlock--father/son--there had to be shared dna between them! merging with warlock meant i could decipher and rearrange magus's genetic encoding any way i wanted. i regressed magus back to infancy. i did that. i slew the monster. me--doug ramsey. today, i earned the right to be called a hero. today, soul-merged with warlock, united with him in a death duel against his own father, it was my knowledge combined with warlock's power that stopped magus. today, we claimed our courage and became partners, comrades, amigos. today, cypher is no longer just a cipher.

4.

warlock's disappeared. i've heard about cops who work together for a long time. a bond forms between them, a fusion of instinct and experience. the result is a dynamic that is greater than the sum of the parts. subtract one person from the equation and you end up with something less than zero. i've lost my partner, and i don't know what to do about it. i thought i was handling things pretty well. then the nightmares came, unpacked their trunk, and moved in. 32 variations on the same theme: i am permanently transmoded into organic circuitry, unable to control the viurs. i infect my teammates; i infect the world. my technological midas touch turns me into a pariah, an outcast. bad as they've been, the absolute worst dream was when warlock became the magus and killed me. i die at the hands of my friend. my partner betrays me. each night, i wake up screaming, drenched in swear, afraid i'm losing my mind. i feel so powerless. without warlock, i'm afraid. i am just a cipher. i'm not sure what i'm afraid of--what i will become, what i have become--or what i won't become.

5.

couldn't get back to sleep. went down and fixed breakfast for myself and washed the dishes. wandered around the mansion and found myself in the danger room's control booth, where i'm writing this entry. i've figured out what frightens me the most--more than the nightmares, more than magus. [so spit it out, ramsey--lay down the words so you can look at them] with warlock gone, i can't help but think about what could happen to me. i'm not naive enough to think that the new mutants are unbeatable. that any of us are immune to the dangers we face when we go into battle, but is it too much to ask whoever's running this show for a hero's death? i mean i don't want to go, but if i have to, that's how i'd like to go. the physical strength and protection warlock gave me as my partner are gone, but that doesn't mean i am willing to retire to the sidelines. i know there's a place for me alongside my teammates. if they need me, i'll be there. if necessary, i'll lay down my life for them. before dani had ever even heard of the new mutants, her grandfather told her about brave warriors being granted "good medicine deaths." i understand what he meant by that, now. our own wiseman, the professor, made us start reading shakespeare. in one of his plays he wrote, "if it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come--the readiness is all." the readiness is all…

[tidemoonchild]

Comics I have read:

Amazing Adventures vol. 2 (1970) #11-14

Marvel Team Up 124

Age of X-Man: Alpha/Omega, Prisoner X, The Amazing Nightcrawler

Merry X-Men Holiday Special (2019)

All-New Wolverine (Issues 1-30 & Annual 1)

Ghost Rider (2016) (Issues 1-3)

Hawkeye (2016) (Issue 12)

Astonishing X-Men (2004) 1-42 + Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men (2008)

Secert Invasion (2008) + Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust? (2008; only the parts with Abigail + Beast and Wonder Man)

Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter (2009)

Spider-Woman (2009) 1+7

 S.W.O.R.D. (2010) 1-5

Dark Avengers Annual (2010) #1

Heralds (2010) 1-10

 Uncanny X-Men (1981) #535-538

 X-Men: Regenesis (2011)

Uncanny X-Men (2012) #1-10

Wolverine and the X-Men (2011) (complete)

AvX: Consequences (2012) #3-4

Avengers Arena (2013) #3, #18

X-Men: Legacy (2013) #7, #19-24

Cable and X-Force (2013) #8

 Age of Ultron (2013) #10

Avengers Assemble (2012) #16-17

Captain Marvel (2012) #13-14

 Avengers (2013) #15

Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #8-9

Uncanny Avengers (2012) #7, #9

 Avengers Undercover (2014) #10

 X-Men (2013) #18-22

Spider-Man and the X-Men (2015) #5

Captain Marvel (2016) #1-6

Ultimates (2016) #6

Civil War II: Choosing Sides (2016) #6 [B Story]

Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) #11, #17, #19

Star-Lord (2017) #1-2, #4-6

Monsters Unleashed (2017) #2

Old Man Logan (2016) #16, #18

The Mighty Captain Marvel (2016) #0-2, #4-6

Totally Awesome Hulk (2016) #18

Ultimates 2 (2016) #7

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

SURF'S UP IN THE. UNDERSEA KINGDOM OF ATLANTIS -- A MUTANT SUPER-TEAM FOR THE 1980s.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on published, inked, & remastered pin-up artwork of "Namorita and the Sensational Atlantean Mutants -- SURF!," from the "New Mutants Annual" Vol. 1 #5. October, 1989. Marvel Comics. Artwork by Rob Liefeld and Joe Rubinstein.

FUN FACT: Rob Liefeld is celebrated today for turning this lowest-selling title of the X-franchise into a financial blockbuster, which eventually led him to helming a book of his own with the "X-FORCE" title in the early '90s.

Resolution from largest to smallest: 1826x2738, 1145x1711, & 1078x1600.

Sources: The Dork Review (blogspot), Heritage Auctions, & www.pinterest.com/pin/401101910553682916.

[karmirage]

incomplete list of niche characters i restrained myself from submitting to the niche comic character tournament

Ryoko Sabuki/Radiance: 7 appearances. Granddaughter of Gwen Lou Sabuki, whom I did submit. Biggest sensation since Dazzler, which would mean more if Marvel remembered Ryoko existed. Light generation and manipulation, just like her grandma.

Ameiko Sabuki/Goldfire: 9 appearances. The dead sister of Ryoko. I don't think she ever even showed her face in her non-powered form.

Leyu Yoshida/Sunpyre: 9 appearances. The dead little sister of Shiro Yoshida/Sunfire.

Marnie/The Rumor: 9 appearances. Spider-Man side character. Badass old lady. Figured out Peter Parker = Spiderman in like two issues.

Takeshi Matsuya/Wiz Kid: 29 appearances. He's literally so funny to me. I think he should be allowed to say fuck.

Nuwa: 2 appearances, once in an X-Force annual and once in a Tabitha Smith oneshot story. Her personality shifts wildly between those two and they never elaborate on why.

Tamara Kurtz/Dragoness: 28 appearances. Evil and loving it. Has wings, but they're technological, not part of her mutation.

Rina Patel/Timeslip: 19 appearances. No hate to whoever submitted Robbie, but she is definitely the more niche New Warrior.

Georgia Dakei/DK: 13 appearances. I like it when teenagers sass tf out of adult characters I think it is so fucking funny.

Sybil Dvorak/Skein: 44 appearances. her original villain name was a slur and i am SO glad they changed it. canon sensory issues queen. Also evil and loving it. Canonically bisexual (for evil).

Larry Bodine: 1 appearance. This is the guy from New Mutants vol. 1 who killed himself after his classmates joked about outing him. Yes this is the issue of NM with Kitty's infamous slur speech.

Rebecca Littlehale/Lighttrakker: 3 appearances. Kid from Power Pack who could teleport to light sources she could see.

Helen Takahama/Jolt: 74 appearances, which makes her the least niche character here. I need to reread Thunderbolts. In MC2 (Mayday Parker's universe), she was an Avenger.

Charlie Burlingame/Charcoal: 41 appearances. Created by a reader via a Wizard magazine contest. Legal problems means that he was never brought back when he was killed off.

[mojoworlddotcom]

Despite how little I post about it (never), I am always thinking about hypothetical x-force cartoon.

[thequiver]

Who is.... Kevin MacTaggert | Proteus? - A Reading Guide

Kevin MacTaggert, also known as Proteus, is the son of Moira MacTaggert (the former leader of the Muir Island X-Men, longtime ally of Professor X, and co-founder of Krakoa). Kevin is a reality manipulator who mostly inhabits an energy form (a psionic being composed of energy that has a vaguely human form with no physical characteristics) but he requires a human host to sustain himself, wearing through victims the more he uses his powers (which only grow with each victim he possesses). He currently inhabits soulless Charles Xavier clones to sustain life. He's best known currently for having terraformed Mars, being on The Five, and for having been an enemy of the X-Men.

Under the cut you'll find a complete list of all 79 of Kevin's major appearances (as of 17. 2. 23) in chronological order

X-Men Vol 1 #119, 125-128

Classic X-Men Vol 1 #32

New Warriors Annual Vol #1

X-Men Annual Vol 1 #15-16

X-Force Annual Vol 1 #1

X-Factor Annual Vol 1 #8

Excalibur Vol 1 #72-73

X-Man Vol. 1 #12

Star Trek/X-Men Vol 1 #1

X-Force Vol 3 #19

X-Necrosha Vol 1 #1

X-Men: Legacy Vol 1 #231-233

Astonishing X-Men Vol 4 #4-11

House of X Vol 1 #5-6

Maruaders Vol 1 #3

X-Men Vol 5 #7

Marauders Vol 1 #9-10

X-Factor Vol 4 #1

Marauders Vol 1 #11

Hellions Vol 1 #7

X-Factor Vol 4 #5

S.W.O.R.D. Vol 2 #2

Excalibur Vol 4 #18

Marauders Vol 1 #18

X-Factor Vol 4 #8

S.W.O.R.D. Vol 2 #4

Way of X #1-2

X-Men Vol 5 #21

Planet-Size X-Men Vol 1 #1

Cable Vol 4 #11

X-Factor Vol 4 #10

Excalibur Vol 4 #22

Way of X #5

Trial of Magneto #1

New Mutants Vol 4 #21

Trial of Magneto #2

Onslaught Revelation #1

Inferno Vol 2 #2

Marauders Vol 1 #26

Trial of Magneto #4-5

Who is... Scarlet Witch Infinity Comic Vol 1 #1

Immortal X-Men Vol 1 #1

X-Men Vol 6 #10

Knights of X Vol 1 #1

Immortal X-Men Vol 1 #2

X-Men: Red Vol 2 #3

X-Men: Hellfire Gala Vol 1 #1

A.X.E.: Judgement Day Vol 1 #1-2, 4

Amazing Spider-Man Vol 6 #9

A.X.E.: Judgement Day Vol 1 #5

X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic Vol 1 #62

Immortal X-Men Vol 1 #7

A.X.E.: Judgement Day Vol 1 #6

X-Men: Red Vol 2 #9

X-Terminators Vol 2 #4

Immortal X-Men Vol 1 #10

[siglai]

Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.[6][7][8] (born 18 August 1983), known by his stage name Mika (/ˈmiːkə/ MEE-kə, stylised as MIKA), is a Lebanese-born British singer-songwriter.

After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday, Mika was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2007 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2007.[9] Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007, which sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit Award—winning Best British Breakthrough act—and receive a Grammy Award nomination.[10] He topped the UK Singles Chart in January 2007 with "Grace Kelly". He has since gone on to record four more studio albums (most recently My Name is Michael Holbrook released in October 2019), as well as serve as judge/mentor on both the French version of The Voice and the Italian version of X Factor. Mika has also starred in his own television variety show in Italy, Stasera Casa Mika [it], which won the 2017 Rose d'Or Award for Entertainment, and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

Contents

1Life and career

1.11983–2006: Childhood and early career

1.22007–2008: Life in Cartoon Motion

1.32009–2010: The Boy Who Knew Too Much

1.42010–2014: The Origin of Love, X Factor Italy and Songbook Vol.1

1.52015–2018: No Place in Heaven

1.62019–2020: My Name Is Michael Holbrook

1.72021–present

2Personal life

3Discography

4Filmography

5Tours

6Awards and nominations

7References

8External links

Life and career

1983–2006: Childhood and early career

Mika was born in Beirut, the third of five children (three sisters Yasmine, Paloma and Zuleika and one brother Fortuné), to an American-born Lebanese mother and an Israeli-born American father, Mary Joan "Joannie" (née Mouakad, daughter of John Mouakad and Odette Farah) and Michael Holbrook Penniman (son of William Frederick Penniman III and Dorothy Dyar). His father was a banker[7][11] and was born in Jerusalem, where his own father – Mika's paternal grandfather William Frederick Penniman III – was a diplomat.[11][12] Mika's maternal grandfather John Mouakad was Syrian (from Damascus).[13][14]

When Mika was a year old, his family was forced to leave war-torn Lebanon and moved to Paris, France.[12][15] The first piano piece he learned to play was "Les Champs-Élysées", by Joe Dassin.[12] At the age of 7, he wrote his first song, a piano instrumental called "Angry", which he describes as "awful".[7] The family moved to London when he was 9 years old. There, he attended the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, where he experienced severe bullying. He also had problems with dyslexia. In response to these experiences Mika was home-schooled by his mother at the age of 12, for six to eight months.[7] He then attended St Philip's School in Kensington, where he was the head of the Schola Cantorum (the St. Philip's Choir). Later he attended Westminster School and the Royal College of Music, which he left to record his first album at Casablanca Records.[16] As a child Mika was trained by Alla Ardakov (Ablaberdyeva), a Russian opera professional.

Mika's first single was a limited 7"/download release called "Relax, Take It Easy" (2006). It was play-listed by UK's BBC Radio 1 and was made Record of the Week by DJ Scott Mills. The Dodgy Holiday EP also became available for download. The song "Billy Brown" was available for free download for a week from the iTunes Store. A song titled 'Over-rated', which was recorded in 2004, was "unofficially" released online. His debut radio appearance was on Dermot O'Leary's BBC Radio 2 show in September 2006.

2007–2008: Life in Cartoon Motion

WHO

[keycomicbooks]

Here Are Some Comics I Picked Up Today:  X-Force #30, Punisher War Zone Vol 1 30, STAR WARS BATTLE OF JAKKU INSURGENCY RISING #1, BATMAN #153, DC All In Special #1, DC All In Special #1 Cover B Wes Craig Card Stock Variant, CREEPING BELOW #1, HYDE STREET #1, Lobo Cancellation Special #1 Cover B Simon Bisley After Dark Card Stock Variant, NYX #2, Wonder Woman #13 Cover C Stanley Artgerm Lau Card Stock Variant, The Avengers Annual #1 Ryan Meinerding Marvel Studios Variant, Deadpool #6 Paco Medina Godzilla Variant,

GHOST RIDER ROBBIE REYES SPECIAL #1, Masters of the Universe  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles of Grayskull #1, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers  Usagi Yojimbo #1, Phases of the Moon Knight #2 Woo Chul Lee Luna Variant, Spirits of Vengeance #1 Derrick Chew Kushala Variant, STORM #1 2024 Lucas Werneck Variant,  Violator #1 2024 Cover C Todd McFarlane Variant

[gaknar]

I know I said X-Men Vol. 2 #1 is next, but of course, there’s something else we need to take care of first. That’s right, baby. It’s X-Force time. I actually already started reading this book. The last few issues of New Mutants are collected here, as well as the Kings of Pain crossover annuals that I loved so much. It also collects that Freedom Force story from the annuals where the whole team gets dismembered, and I didn’t realize it was in there because it collects that complete story after the Kings of Pain story, which makes sense but like a noob I assumed the annuals would be collected as they were originally printed, which wasn’t the case. Man, pretty soon I’m going to be concurrently reading 3 or 4 of these big collections at the same time in order to keep up with everything. There’s going to be a Leaning Tower of Early 90s X-Men Omniboo on my night stand that will probably get orange juice spilled on it.