#douglas ramsey x reader

[dinogoofymutated]

Guys I need to write down these ideas for grocery shopping with the boys bc they're taking over my mind.

Piotr helping you with the items on the top shelf. Warren paying for your groceries and refusing to let you carry the bags. Pietro being impatient and running off to go get something the moment you mention it, being kind of an ass while you shop and pouting like a puppy dog the whole time. Kurt waiting patiently for you as he holds the grocery list, and items suddenly appearing in the cart as he grabs them with his tail and hopes you won't notice when you go to check out. Getting foreign food with Doug and him reading out the instructions as you cook it together. Budgeting with Scott as you convince him that you just have to get pudding for beast, or pop rocks for Jubilee. Sure, they're not on the list, but everyone deserves a little treat, right? Loosing Logan in the store for a minute and him having to sniff you down, only to find you in the beer isle trying to remember his favorite brand, or buying him a new flannel shirt because he ripped his last one.

Just domestic shit guys fbsbsbbsbs

[rei-ismyname]

HEIR OF APOCALYPSE #3

A slight improvement on the confused and mischaracterised misfire of last issue, but this is a 4 issue miniseries. There's 20 pages left with nothing interesting set up, just disparate threads and tension-free conflicts that are over before they begin. If you haven't read it yet, I don't recommend it, though I'm always eager to hear anyone's opinion on X-Men. For those that have read it or don't care, spoilers under the cut.

I'm doing this dot point-style. I like to be off the cuff with my initial thoughts, and if I have more to say I'll come back to it in long form.

- Warren and Apocalypse (I guess he's not called |.A.| anymore - that's a shame) are having it out! No, wait they're not at all. They trade one liners then Apocalypse tells him everything. I'm glad Warren got to speak his pain but it's so fleeting with nothing new to say. What is the point? If we're only getting lip service, I'd rather the limited space be used for something else, something new.

- Nobody is actually dead. So those fakeouts feel even sillier in retrospect and the implication is that if it wasn't a simulation they'd all be dead. Gotcha! Except nobody reading actually fell for the cheesy cliffhanger. The characters in the story sure did though, and they're sad about it.

- Why the fuck is Sinister still breathing then? Resurrection is a thing of the past and 3 of your friends plus a former student turned mass murderer are dead as far as they know. They've all just spent years with this man and he burned paradise, betrayed everyone repeatedly and showed no remorse. His Dominion bullshit nearly ended the universe and it definitely led to Krakoa being sacrificed and 250 thousand mutants abandoned in a cosmic abstraction. Apocalypse, you know the guy with a 5000 year relationship with the island, didn't end him on sight? Dude killed Hope gruesomely once, AND she sacrificed herself permanently for a chance to beat Enigma. Does Cable have any thoughts on that? He raised her from birth and spent his life protecting her - they're family. Father and daughter. No thoughts, not mentioned. Everyone should be killing this man who's been torturing and slaughtering mutants for over a century. They discuss it, kinda, and just leave him grinning and joking about their casually dead loved ones. Cable threatens him and gets an ableist joke in return. Cable is angrier at Douglas Ramsey for accidentally setting off a trap. If it's a joke to him and nobody else cares, why should I? HE LITERALLY KILLS MOST OF THEM TWO PANELS LATER.

- Forge gets three lines, Emma doesn't want to be here/doesn't like Sinister, Danielle Moonstar gets to say the same thing Emma did twice then fire some arrows. Cypher gets to translate twice and bumble a corny trap (or are we supposed to think it was intentional?) The Gorgon is very perceptive until he's not at all and gets hit with a mind control disk (I guess he's not immune to that anymore. Cool, whatever.) I'm sure I'm forgetting someone's lines but it doesn't matter. They're pretty interchangeable so just imagine it's your fave.

- Aaaaaand they all die. They don't seem very stressed about it tbh. Emma telepathically forces Sinister to jump off the same trap/bottomless pit they're all meekly tumbling into, nice! One wonders why she didn't do that at the start. The characters except Sinister alternate between being very concerned about danger/death and being deeply casual. What are the stakes here? In HOA #1 we learn Apocalypse promised 'no fights to the death.' Is it meant to be unclear if they trust that promise? It's impossible to tell either way, so I don't know what the stakes are. They're reacting to their friends dying in front of them which indicates very high stakes, except nobody is displaying a sense of self preservation. Is this a tournament or a Saw trap obstacle course? Is it just Sinister that troubles them?

- Warren and the reader get the reveal that they're in zero danger (not a surprise ofc) but the contestants don't. I'm truly not sure if they'd even react to this information. Again, low and confusing stakes. The comic ends there which means we've got one issue for a climax and resolution.

- As it stands, there's been minimal character work. I'm not sure if we even have everyone's motivation for entering the tournament. For those that we do it's the only new thing we learn. The premise is Apocalypse testing everyone but at this point everyone fails. The tournament has unclear objectives and dull obstacles, so Apocalypse fails. He keeps stating his unimpressive motivation but maybe he'll add to that in the finale.

- The only consistent action in the series so far has been the conflict with Sinister. It's the only beat where I can point to the stakes as established, that other contestants might take seriously. Plus it keeps being centered, which begs the question 'will Sinister be Apocalypse's heir?' Does Sinister want that? He's the only contestant that sought him out, and he's been taking on everyone else by himself. It looks like he does. Nobody else seems to want it, but they're sure to object to Sinister in the role, right? Would it even change his behaviour if successful? He's been opposing and messing with mutants for over a century. Not much of a status quo change.

- Cable, Cypher, Mirage, and Forge are still in the tournament, but do any of them even want it? I'll have to check if we've been given that. I know Cable doesn't.

- Either way I think it's likely that conflict with Sinister will dominate the final issue. We haven't been given anything else and there's no time for it either. If there's no confrontation what was the point of centering the dude? He's a great character, especially once Kieron Gillen reworked him (twice actually. Additive retcons both times. I wish he was writing this) but we got so much of him during Krakoa. He was interesting to a point, but his presence as the snake in Eden was always more interesting than his journey. In fact it was made very clear there's nothing there. 'Bad jokes. Memes.' Even if he's got a bold new reason for existing (because he needs one now. He was cloned by Enigma to help with Dominion. He has nothing now.) it hasn't been setup and we need a break from him tbh.

- If he's not focused on next issue what was the point of having him suck all the tension out of the plot? Maybe we'll get both threads tied up. 10 pages each and the tension has already peaked. Damn, that's disappointing. What galls me is that Apocalypse is on Arakko and he's stated that he's staying, done with Earth. Are Genesis and two of his remaining three children still exiled? What's the political situation like? How's recovery from 4 back to back wars going? What do Earth governments think about a planet full of very old and powerful mutants on Mars? What effect does Storm leaving have? Are they going to be in future stories? Is anyone going to point out that they can terraform planets still? (I know Hope is gone but Synch or Khora can do it.)

- Any of that sounds much more interesting to me tbh. I'm going to stop there for now. I have more to say, but I might save it until the series wraps up next issue. Hit me with an ask if you want my thoughts on anything else specific. Thanks for reading.

[mutant-perfection]

Did you know that during the duration of Storm being infected with a techno-organic virus, that M was the only one to find a solution to cure her? Out of all the genius-level mutants on Krakoa, Monet was the one to achieve victorious in this quest. She’s too smart, too strong, and too beautiful for pedestrians to handle.

Giant-Size X-Men: Storm (2020) #1

[weirdletter]

Phantasmagoria Magazine, Issue #16, edited by Trevor Kennedy, Phantasmagoria Publishing, Late Summer 2020. Cover art by Randy Broecker, internal illustrations by Franki Beddows, Randy Broecker, Dave Carson, Mike Chinn, Stephen Clarke, Peter Coleborn, James Keen, Allen Koszowski, Reggie Oliver, Jim Pitts, GCH Reilly and David A. Riley. Info: amazon.com.

Randy Broecker! Ramsey Campbell! Richard Chizmar! Interviews with Malachy Coney, Anna Taborska, Douglas Tait and Mathew Waters! Plus: Elak, King of Atlantis with Adrian Cole and Jim Pitts, Stephen Jones’ The Best of Best New Horror: Volume Two, The Phantom of the Opera, Psycho, Jaws, Candyman, Quatermass, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, Before You Blow Out the Candle... Book Two, 1970s horror films, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, fiction, artwork, reviews and more!

Contents: A Note From the Editor by Trevor Kennedy Randy Broecker interview and portfolio Ramsey Campbell interview Richard Chizmar interview (including reviews of Gwendy's Button Box and Gwendy's Magic Feather) The Many Faces of... The Phantom of the Opera: feature by John Gilbert Vic and Son: cartoon by James Keen Phantasmagoria at The Secret Bookshelf: feature with Trevor Kennedy and GCH Reilly Meanwhile, Back in Atlantis: feature by Adrian Cole, with artwork by Jim Pitts and review of Elak, King of Atlantis by David A. Riley Anna Taborska interview (including illustrations by Reggie Oliver from Anna's new book, Bloody Britain) The Fundamental Power of Psycho (1960): feature by Barnaby Page Jaws, Forty-five Years Later: feature by Barnaby Page Resurrecting the Candyman: feature by Michael Campbell Phantasmagoria Fiction: "Eigenspace X" by Mike Chinn "Hanuman" by David A. Riley. "Liver and Bacon" by Joe X. Young "Beady Eyes" by Barry Bellows "Shadow of an Incubus" by Christopher Fielden "Tomatoes According to Geoff" by D.T. Langdale "The Discontinued" by Jessica Stevens "Wolf Hill" by Sean O'Connor "He Thought He Was Dying" by David A. Riley "Towak" by Richard Bell "Three Sure Sentences" by Emerson Firebird Introducing Before You Blow Out the Candle... Book Two: with Marc Damian Lawler Malachy Coney interview Quatermass and the Kid: feature by Raven Dane. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970): feature by Dave Jeffery Twenty-first Century Twilight Zone: feature by Abdul-Qaadir Bakari-Muhammad Douglas Tait interview Mathew Waters interview 1970s Horror Films: feature by David Brilliance Reading R. Chetwynd-Hayes with Marc Damian Lawler Phantasmagoria Reviews Readers' Comments Acknowledgements

[thegeekerynj]

An Occasional Attempt to Read, Discuss and Review the Wonders of Comics By: John Rafferty, cranky old man, and Fan of All Things Comics

Short Takes

Short Reviews, when the Big Mouth doesn’t have much to say...

Giant Size X-Men#1 Nightcrawler Haunted Mansion Writer: Jonathan Hickman Pencils and Inks: Alan Davis

“Hey Douglas, ever watch a Horror movie, and right as the idiot is getting ready to do something stupid like a touch a weird alien wall - and the music gets all creepy and you’re yelling at the screen:

Don’t Touch It You Idiot Don’t Touch It!

And, of course, the idiot does.’

I saw Giant Size X-Men #1. I saw Jonathan Hickman. I saw Alan Davis. I heard the music get all loud and creepy.

I don’t know. I expected more than a mind illusion story, after Krakoa has been built up to be the All Knowing Super Intellect, but to be beat by a sleeping telepath? And one of Mastermind’s kids, to boot? Unless she’s levels better than her father, like Xavier stronger, I just don’t buy it.

Cypher and Warlock’s reveal was a nice touch. I have always liked this duo, and love watching the interactions, and looking for clues to the coming of Magus... The innocence of the Doug Ramsey and Warlock relationship is often worth the price of admission, here, it’s nice, but it just isn’t enough.

With artwork that is exceptionally clean and pretty action sequences both frenetic and exciting, Alan Davis continues to prove he is a truly exceptional talent. Of particular note, his portrayals of both Lockheed and Warlock, characters who’s look is unique enough too cause an artist not up to the task fits. He makes them his own, and rather than break the story, he makes it.

Ah, but there’s the problem. The story, this is a rarity. A real swing, and a miss by Jonathan Hickman. Considering the name of the book, I expected more, because there is a certain expectation that goes with the words Giant Size #1... maybe I’m just a jaded reader at this point, but more likely I have come to expect a whole lot more from the writer, who, for my money, phoned this one in.

Out of 5🌶 🌶 🌶

Hellions #1 Let There Be Snakes

Writer: Zeb Wells Artist: Stephen Segovia

‘These aren’t Predators. These are square pegs, straining heroically against round

holes.’

‘ That was a metaphor’ *#!? You!’

Manuel De La Rocha - Empath. John Greycrow - Scalphunter. Alex Summers - Havok.

Kyle Gibney - Wild Child. Peter - Orphan Maker and Nanny (sufficiently creepy).

A team of psychopaths, emotionally stunted and damaged mutants. Led by Mr. Sinister,

babysat by Psylocke.

So, we’ve finally gotten here. The Misfits of the Misfits of Science. The Mutants so off

the hook insane, so far out in left field, that it took one just as bent as the team to lead,

and another with a certain fundamental moral laxity to act as Judge, Jury and

Executioner, should a member of this team decide to go off the rails.

Zeb Wells gives us a great start point for this group, 2 - 4 page synopses of each

character, starting with Alex Summers. Each of the team members gets a specific

treatment, highlighting his specific skill, ability and disability, finally getting to Sinister,

how he finagles his little ‘wetworks’ squad, and Psylocke, and how she becomes the

’engaged killswitch’ for the Hellions.

Stephen Segovia’s layouts and finished art are wonderful. Fight scenes are explosive,

with just the right amounts of ‘blur’, as if to show how the eye could actually see things happening.

In some of the layouts with the ‘actors’, the action layouts seem almost fractured, much

like the characters...Active storytelling at it’s best, learned from masters...

TNK DNG TNK DNG TNK DNG

Until next time... I can hardly wait for this Lunatic Legion to kick into High Gear!

Outof5 🌶 🌶🌶🌶🌶.5

Justice League #44 - Cold War Chapter 1 - The Monster Within

Writer: Robert Venditti Artist: Xermanico

‘You seek to drag me to Hell, Monsters?

I’LL RACE YOU THERE!

Come get your quarry!’

A funny thing about Team Books.

For the most part, even though they’re TEAM stories, they usually focus on ONE player,

one’s actions are responsible for what is happening. this character is usually obvious

right from the outset, and the drivers become evident right after that.

It’s rare the story works the other way. There’s no real connection between the initial

attack and the Character interacting, as happens here Aquaman, in Antarctica, fighting

non-aquatic monsters, and calling for the JL’s help.

The monsters, Greek in nature, are all escaping from Tartarus, and now, with the

League, have shifted their attentions...

The story seems to be a lead-in, with the attack being a McGuffin, just the vehicle to

collect the players. Now, with everyone at hand, and some of the heroes eyes starting to

glow green, we get the distinct picture that everything isn’t as it seemed...

At which point, Jim Corrigan shows up.

It’s always a good point to leave the story, just as the Spectre makes an appearance...

Pretty art, Xermanico has a really steady feel to his artwork, with some pretty pencils,

and interesting layouts. The closing splash, with the Spectre overshadowing the

League, well it intimates a level of foreboding, as only a Spirit of Vengeance should.

Seeing him show up increased my interest in the next book greatly. Otherwise, I’m not

sure much would have dragged me back for the story.

Out of 5 🌶 🌶🌶🌶

[dinogoofymutated]

OKAY the more I learn about him the more the fic potential is starting to worm it's way into my brain.

The potential that comes with understanding any language?? INCLUDING body language ?? Him knowing exactly what you need or if you need to leave somewhere without having to say a thing???

Hell, can u imagine the toothbrush conversations??? My family/friends have a bad habit of calling me when I'm brushing my teeth, and I usually just hum the shit I want to say and with some trial and error they understand eventually, but can you imagine him just understanding everything perfectly on the first try??

It reminds me off the time A wasp flew into the bathroom while I was brushing my teeth and no one would come help or try to figure out what I was hum-screaming about until I managed to say "IZ' A WAB!!! IZ A WAB!!!!"

The Fact that he would understand EVERY WORD but still probably laugh at it later. He'll tease you about the Wab for forever. (Unless you're allergic. Then that's actually horrifying)

I SAW THIS MAN ON A TIKTOK AND I NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM

DEAR GOD??? WHY IS HE SO??? like I've hear Cypher's name thrown around but I had no clue he was so???? DAYMN.