Now here is what should have been issue 25 of X-Men Forever, even at the end its says, End of Volume 1, but this issue didn’t fit the flow and feel established by issue 24.
Giant-Size X-Men Forever #1 gives the reason why Professor X will not present in Volume 2, well at least not for the first few arcs.
Apparent the last time the X-Men were in Space and ran across the Shi’Ar, Charles monkeyed with the security systems and left them unwillingly open to attacks by the Skrulls, Good work Chuck! So the Shi’Ar come to Earth looking for Charles to bring him back and fix the problem he caused. Upon leaving he gives Scott, Cyclops, full and complete control of the X-Men and the School.
There is also a couple of pages used as setup for the first arc in Volume 2.
With one lone director in charge of the Consortium, we don’t know who it is though, she lets SHIELD know that the X-Men are no longer to be trusted and something has to be done, and then SHIELD gets the Avengers on the case, and with the Continue Reading…
I get pretty excited for new Sage albums. Ever since I saw him destroy Coachella with an amazing set in ‘04 I’ve been a loyal fan. When I had the CD in my hand and I was walking out to the car I actually chanted his name to the tune of Grieg’s famous symphony. Embarrassing, I know! It’s a beautiful day so I can’t wait to cruise and listen to this disc. First things first, I hit up a coffee shop to grab an americano as well as a cinnamon bun (in fact I buy a tray of 6…homies gotta eat too) as I never review rap albums on an empty stomach. The first track “little Houdini” hits and it’s a great outlaw tale about a man breaking out of jail to see his dying mother. The beat is very interesting and Sage rides it hard, switching up between soft-spoken and hard-nosed delivery so easily. In fact, all the beats on this album are “rock-based” in one way or another and most are great. Sage has a good feel for how to rap over a live band. Even though the style of the songs switch with every track, he effortlessly finds the flow needed to capture the emotion of the beat. A couple of the beats are kinda bland and it’s Sage that holds them together, big time. Continue Reading…
I never had any intention to pick this up when I original heard about, but then I saw that it was drawn by Mike Allred. If you don’t know who Mike Allred is, shame on you.
izombie is the story of Gwen, a gravedigger with a few interesting twists, in a town with a good couple of turns. Her best friend is a 60’s mod ghost, a were-terrier has a massive crush on her, and vampires run a paintball course. Oh.. and Gwen herself is a zombie. She needs to feed on a human once a month not to turn into a mindless zombie, but it does come with a price, after eating the brain of the recently deceased, she is entrusted with helping out the person achieve a peaceful slumber after death.
I am assuming it is different for each brain, we aren’t told but in issue 1, she must get vengeance for a wrongful death.
Yeah, this book is messed up, but it is written in such a way that it feels pretty organic and of course, having Allred on art helps out so damn much. He could draw poop throwing poop at other poop and I would still enjoy it as much. Continue Reading…
When it comes to X-Men, I am probably the last person who would want to talk to about them. Yes, I can name most, if not all of the X-men Characters, but if you want to know about the continuity and the ins/outs of relationships of the characters, I may kill you. Serious.
XMF #23 is the second to final issue of this run (they are doing volumes, Vol 2 starts in June) and not a single answer gets answered, but thankfully no new questions are raised as the X-Men conclude their confrontation with the Neo-Sentinels, The Consortium, and try to stop the Plaque -X Cannon that would wipe out every mutant on Earth.
Some rather big things happen in the issue, as you can probably tell from the cover image. Everyone’s favourite blue-furred mutant genius, sadly, dies. I still think there could have been someway to have save him, Jean Grey could have put a TK shield around and protect, but he gave himself up for the greater good of mutant kind.
Also, a shocker of shockers, Mister Metal Pants Tony Stark, dies as well. I think Continue Reading…
Finally, a reason to get an iPad! ShinyTweet and Tweetdeck on iPad both look pretty slick. I may be a bit biased, being that I use Tweetdeck for PC and Mac, but I do think it looks like it uses the iPad screen more efficiently. Lets compare the two.
I’ve listened to this album before so I can’t give it the true “Birds eye Review” treatment. Guess that means I’m gonna do a straight up old-fashioned review. Fortunately, I’ve heard it before and liked it; so I was looking forward to listening more intently. Right now Victoria, BC is a happening place for hip-hop and C.F.C have been playing locally for many years. This is their second full length album (as far as I know??) but I’m too lazy to Wikipedia that shit…sorry guys! I would say that I like this record a lot more than their first. Better beats, better rapping and a concept idea for the album too! The album art alone is hilarious/ridiculous and fits the personality of the band so well. The album starts up with back-to-back instrumentals (which I thought was a great choice) setting the tone for the whole album. The opening beat might actually be my fav on the album, it’s a ridiculously catchy flute-loop. When the lyrics do start, rappers Deep C and Stevie G seem to adapt to the beats with a breezy, laid-back style. Both have an old-school influenced Continue Reading…
Google have released a new video that has their brower, Chrome, squaring off against potatoes, sound and lightning.
There has been some criticism in the Twitisphere about the legitimacy of the clip. If you look closely, Google are clicking the forward button, not search, meaning these could be sites saved to the hard drive. Either way, I’m still impressed.
A new full album collaboration between two artists has arrived (yawn!). This time it’s the front man from The Shins, James Mercer, and leading collaboration expert Danger Mouse. Throughout the 2000’s, I would get extremely excited about anything involving Danger Mouse and his control over the production boards.Yet over the last year or so, there have been so many albums with his tag on it, that I sort of lost track. Alternatively, I’ve never really been excited by anything that The Shins had anything to do with. So when I heard about this collaboration, I really didn’t put too much stock into it. Although with high accolades, I was handed the album by my co-worker. When I started the album, I recognized the first track from the radio. The song is called High Road and has a fairly catchy group sing-along hook mixed with a great beat in the background. Continue Reading…
‘But this is a Disney movie, what’s it doing here?’ I hear you say. To which I say settle down children and listen up. It’s surprising what a Jazz playing crocodile will make you forgive.
I went in to this fully expecting to end up spewing hatred toward Disney, because this happens to be my very favorite fairy tale and we’ve all seen what the Disney treatment does. Truthfully though the tales we know now are much different then the classic Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which I also blame Disney for, so I decided to bite the bullet and watch it.
We all know the tale or some version of it right? Good.
So this version has a bit of role reversal, well a lot really, and lots of kissing too, which I kinda like. Anyway in this one the prince is the one who must get over himself and because the girl he kisses isn’t a princess, she turns in to a frog. Makes some sense, which is new for Disney. It’s nice to see some character development on the prince for a change, usually the prince charming of these movies is pretty flat ‘he’s perfect’ and that’s it. He reminds me of Puss Continue Reading…
So when I see that Murs and 9th have made a new album, I get really excited. Similar to the excitement that comes from breaking a monthly dry spell. With that said, this is their fourth album together and the previous three have been very good. Once I pop the album in, the first track starts and its banging. Then Kurupt shows up. Are you kidding me? West coast legend and a great guest cameo. I love it when rappers use artists who they admire, to make tracks with, as opposed to creating a song with some “flavor of the minute” rapper. Track two sounds great on my first listen as well. The next track is called Asian Girl and I’m laughing so hard at this track the first time through. Any song which refers to eating Pho is amazing and a must listen. The next standout track is Cigarettes and Liquor, and it’s a banger. From one listen I make the hasty statement, “BEST RAP SONG I’VE HEARD IN 2010 SO FAR.” Crazy hey? I pick up my friend and fellow hip hop head B-Fresh, only to break my “only Continue Reading…
Now here is what should have been issue 25 of X-Men Forever, even at the end its says, End of Volume 1, but this issue didn’t fit the flow and feel established by issue 24.
