Showing posts with label Psylocke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psylocke. Show all posts

Saturday, October 16, 2010

blacker ops

drive-by readings
Uncanny X-Force #1 (Marvel)
"The Apocalypse Solution, Chapter One"
Rick Remender
Jerome Opeña
Dean White
Cory Petit
Esad Ribic (cover)
Clayton Crain/Rob Liefeld/J. Scott Campbell/Marko Djurdjevic (variants)
what we learned: X-Force just won't die. and though the previous hype for this new incarnation came across as cheesy, Rick Remender's take is fresh and his choice of characters and characterizations are on the money. the new team follows the money trail to a resurrected Apocalypse, and Archangel himself has made the decision to clearly kill the S.O.B. its also refreshing to see someone use Deadpool for his talents as a coldblooded wisecracking skilled killer that he is, and not simply as the premiere wisecracking raconteur of the MU. this is clearly the best work of Jerome Opeña's burgeoning career.
oh shit moment: gone are the days of simply killing human footsoldiers of the anti-mutant forces. Remender ups the ante and puts our heroes in real harm's way. i don't expect this original team to be still intact at the end (you could say the same thing about the past incarnations, but its probably the vibe of this new team).
what's next: the best time to kill Apocalypse is while he's a child.


no one explains how Warren lies down on his back.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

and ..... he's dead.

and this is why it takes too long for the X-Men to eliminate their enemies. longtime loser and '90s hair model/spoiled brat Matsu'o Tsurayaba finally bites the dust, way past his expiry date. and to think Wolverine doesn't want him dead and tortures him every single year for killing his wife Mariko. huh - really?? i didn't see him in this state when he was hassling our mutants back in the '90s. so Wolverine only thought about it thereafter, like when Matsu'o went from B-list to D-list?

same day every year? really? what about that time when he actually became a Hand assassin?


apparently, this is the alternate ending of Edward vs Bella, The Twilight Chronicles


c'mon, Matsu'o, say the "z". you're almost there. Utz! Utz!


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Psylocke #4

Thursday, January 14, 2010

life is never fair

in Psylocke #3, we finally learn Matsu'o Tsurayaba's secret - he's become Mason Verger. what, all that Hand money and they didn't even bother to fix you up?? i suggest place a call to 1-800-DAREDEVL.



and who is responsible for this dastardly deed?



Daken gets to chop up Frank Castle, while Wolverine only skewers a former D, now Z list villain. we'd all love to see Logan slice and dice Norman Osborn, but that would be too easy now, wouldn't it, Marvel?

basically, what this shows is that Wolverine may be excellent in killing foot soldiers, run-of-the-mill ninjas and expendable aliens, but not any of the upper-tier supervillains. it took him like a hundred years before he killed Sabretooth. and he even whiffed on Mystique.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

ninjas don't like sexy chicks who can kick their asses



am sure the plot - Psylocke hunting down the already-forgotten '90s X-villain Matsu'o Tsurayaba, complete with Kill Bill references ("Kill Matsu'o", 77 Club/Crazy 88) - will all be about a misunderstanding, especially if it involves fighting Wolverine and Yukio.

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from Psylocke #2

Saturday, November 7, 2009

always be covering



unspoken subtext: "try not to disappear again, because if this Emma thing doesn't work out, we can, y'know ... continue what we started way back in the '90s. i know you weren't yourself then ... but hey, you looked good then. and you look good now."


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Psylocke #1