Episodes 3-5 were really really good, especially the last two. I'm still not a Luke Cage fan by any means, but I'm really enjoying how this show is put together as after the second episode the pacing seems to have evened out. The lighting is still top notch and despite some of the rap music, the music is extremely well executed. Can't wait to get another 3 episodes watched tomorrow.

I just finished Luke Cage.

I think it's my favorite Marvel show so far.

Season 2 of Luke Cage needs to happen NOW

So this show just keeps getting better and better. We watched episodes 6-9 tonight and this show has exceeded the first season of DareDevil, making it my second favorite of the series right now. The stuff that went down these last few episodes was pretty badass. My only nitpick is I want to see some regular costume super villains for a change, which all of these shows have been lacking. Nevertheless, we're most likely just going to finish it tomorrow because I don't want to wait any longer to see how it ends.


I read through X-Cutioner's Song today and overall, it was a decent story. It wasn't as amazing as I remembered, but it wasn't as bad as I was fearing. The worst part of the series was Jae Lee's X-Factor artwork because my god, none of that even matched the art throughout the rest of the story. Did he even look at what Bishiop and Cable wear? Or did he just go off and make up his own looks for them? There were a few panels of his I did like, especially when Cyclops and Jean were on the moon, but for the most part, he was unfit to do the art for this crossover if he wasn't going to make it match up with the other three series.

Stryfe remained pretty bad ass and this was the storyline that made him be one of my favorite villains when growing up. It was pretty cool finally understanding his whole plight and why he wanted revenge. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be very much in the way of a story here though. It was just one action scene after another and having the different teams battle each other came out very forced. There was really no reason for this thing to be 12 issues long (well 13 with the epilogue) as it could have been half of that.

Overall, it was nice to reread this thing after 24 years, but it was not the 'OH MY GOD THIS IS SO AWESOMELY BADASS I LOVE IT!!!!" type of story I thought it was. Nevertheless, it was entertaining, if nothing else. On to Age of Apocalypse.

Eight episodes in to Luke Cage. Totally did not see the ending to 7 coming. I was really enjoying Cottonmouth too.

Damn! No really, DAMN!!! That was one god damn phenomenal show!! Why did it have to be over with already? This was the first Netflix series I felt 13 episodes was way too short and I'm not even into Luke Cage. I want more and I want it now. When does Defenders come out because I don't want to wait too long to see how this story continues?!

4th Defender has a release date! Iron Fist hits Netflix on March 17, 2017.

I hope his hand actually glows whenever he's using it, instead of some apologist "realism" where he just punches through people, otherwise he's no different from Luke or Jessica in terms of appearing super-strong.

I just hope they start wearing the masks with Iron Fist. I'm tired of non costumed super heroes and super villains in these shows (especially the villains).

So I have begun to read Age of Apocalypse and finished the Legion Quest story. I wish there had been a little backstory as to when Legion regained consciousness since the last time I saw him he was in a coma, but whatever. For the most part, it was an interesting read and it was most certainly funny to be reading it before and after Flash had aired last night. I did not realize that Gaby was Legion's mother. WOW!! No wonder he is so messed up. Anyway, that four parter was a good but the Cable story that comes after that sort of takes place between those events was garbage. It added nothing important, there were a lot of inconsistencies (Angel is wearing blue and white in the four parter, but he is wearing red and white here, and also he never comes to visit Jean and Scott), and it seemed way more convoluted than it needed to be. I also felt it took away from the impact the ending of X-Men 41 made.

I did also read X-Meh Alpha, the story that pretty much launches the whole series and it was good. It pretty much just gives a brief look at the way the entire world is. It kind of just felt like a generic post-apocalypitic world that has been done to death. Of course, there isn't much to go on right now, so I'll be back when I have read through more.

In general I'd say Iron Fist looks pretty good. The tattoo looks a little goofy in real life but I'm sure I will get over that soon enough. The glowing hands look pretty snazzy though. Also, it seems we're getting another hallway fight scene. The impact of those is fading a bit. I do look forward to the hallways gaining sentience and them banding together to beat on the Defenders a bit under the command of announced villain Sigourney Weaver. :)

So I finally saw Deadpool.

It lived up to every bit of hype it had going for it.

Can we finally get some costumed super villains?

Don't Crossbones, Red Skull, Loki and Kingpin have costumes? I DO remember hearing some costumes simply don't work in live action, which explains Hawkeye and Civil War's baddy.

I've been hearing rumours on FOX considering giving Marvel Studios Fantastic 4 back. What are everyone's thoughts of that possibility?

Well it's not like Fox is going to be doing anything with Fantastic 4 after how badly the last movie bombed.

Quite frankly, F4 and X men both NEED to be in the MCU.

I'd love to see a WW2 Wolverine/Cap team up movie.

Crossbone was barely wearing a costume though.

I'm talking about the likes of Bullseye, Typhoid Mary, the Serpent Society, etc. The costumes would work fine if they actually put effort into them. And yes, Baron Zemo needs to don his costume too. I'm bored with all of these generic, average clothed villains. What's the point of being a super villain if they aren't going to look cool? They put so much effort in making most of the super heroes match their comic counterpart, so why not the villains?

Again, they said Zemo and Hawkeye don't really work in live-action, and considering Zemo's supposed to be a chessmaster type of villain, not having a costume makes sense as he doesn't want to stick out as a villain. I remember a picture of Vulture being shown and that costume looked pretty good though

They can say everything they want about Zemo, doesn't make it right. Why bother having him if you aren't going to put a costume on him?

"Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?" What people like about Zemo isn't the costume, it's what he does that makes people like him. It just makes sense to NOT have a costume on him, not just because of my previous statement, but because MCU prefers armour over costume if you catch me drift. With the exception of Spidey because the spandex is iconic, Dr. Strange because he doesn't really need armour but good spells and Luke Cage apparently because he doesn't need anything

...I really don't see how Hawkeye's costume is worse than Cap's or Batman's.

Cap's wearing military armour, and batsy is a different company. I don't know the exact reason, but that's the one we got

Change Hawkeye from spandex to Kevlar like DC did with Batman heck Marvel themselves already did this with Wolverine in the comics.

The only reason I can really think of is the purple on blue color scheme of his outfit but they could always tone down the colors to make them less garish*like they did with Cap*.


*not attacking you btw it's just that explanation never made sense to me.*

Oh I never saw it as an attack, just a healthy debate

Oh good read my reply to you before I posted it and saw it might've come off as confrontational.


Annnnnnd I misspelled "down".:lolol

it's 5:17 i didn't notice

For some reason my DVR decided to record the show before Shield and just call it Shield rather than the actual Shield episode, which makes no damn sense, so I had to watch the ****er On Demand and sit through bs unskippable commercials.

Overall, it was a really good episode. The fight choreography was absolutely stunning, especially towards the end when they took down the guys in the dark. A shame we didn't get Ghost Rider this episode, but it looks like he will be appearing in the next one. Oh, but how long are they going to drag things out before Ava goes rogue?

Must be Golgom. :lolol
Jokes aside Ghost Rider does make the show fun so far.

GotG2. This appears to be just an absurdly long teaser for the actual trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD9NVxYRrZs

I was honestly hoping they'd get over this song. It got run into the ground with the first one. I enjoyed the flick rather a lot, but that one dadgum song. Bleargh.

First trailer online for "LOGAN"- aka Wolverine 3.

http://screenrant.com/logan-trailer-2017-hugh-jackman/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Div0iP65aZo

Joel? Is that you?

Also, is that Patrick Stewart riding with Wolverine in the car? If so, sweet.

No sign of X-23 yet.

Uh, isn't that little girl X-23?

Isn't she slashing people at 1:24? And Professor X says to Logan "She's like you. Very much like you".

I don't think she has claws out in that scene (maybe though?), but regardless yeah it's totally supposed to be her.

The trailer did its job of getting me interested though. Looking forward to it now much more than I was initially.

They should have used the NIN version of Hurt in the trailer, would have been way more fitting. It doesn't look bad, but I'm not sure which timeline this is following. Is this the Days of Future Past one before they changed it?

Yup the little girl is Laura.

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but tonight's episode was better than Flash's episode. WTF?! First off, getting to see the Darkhold was amaaaaaaazing. I liked the fact that the new director revealed he was an Inhuman, but the man is such a tool. He should have just told that lady to go ahead and show it on TV. No idea what Vienna has to do with anything. How does Simmons know he wasn't there? Back to the stuff that matters though, Ghost Rider was still awesome. I loved it when he killed that gang dude and everyone else in prison started to lock themselves back up. Can't wait until next week's episode because it is going to be hot!!

Oh. I've always seen images of her as an adult.

So I am halfway through Age of Apocalypse (it's taking me awhile to get through it since I've been busy with Halloween stuff) and wanted to post my current thoughts on each book.

X-Men Alpha - A decent set up for the series. Gives a good backstory to let us know how this world works. No complaints.

Astonishing X-Men - The two issues I have read have been quite enjoyable. An interesting take on the series and the artwork is probably the best of the book.

Amazing X-Men - Not as good as Astonishing and outside of Sabertooth, no one is really all that memorable. The artwork seems to be hit or miss at times too.

Generation Next - Easily the worst stories in this universe. The art work looks like horse crap and the story makes no sense whatsoever. Not to mention it is hard to tell anything that is going on and it feels like there is a story missing. Why are Illyana and another girl scared or some dude in the shadows? Who is that dude? What is it? Why did he get on a bus to eat people? God this thing blows hard.

Weapon X - The first issue was very good while the second got a tad convoluted. Jean just ups and leaves him and then he decides he has to kill her only to not do so. Oooooooooooooooooooooookay...

Xcalibur - Has been quite enjoyable thus far. Love the focus on Nightcrawler and that the Savage land is a haven at this point in time. The Morlocks being pirates was odd and the writing felt off in the second issue. They rescue the refugees from suffocating just to drown them? HUH?!

Gambit and the X-Ternals - This has been great thus far. It is interesting to have a team having to go after the Mkron Crystal and getting to see an X-Men interference free Sh'iar.

Factor X - I'm liking the story behind Scott and Alex and I think reading Claremont's run beforehand has really helped with this aspect. Love the dynamic and how Alex is a jealous brat that is just itching to take his brother's place. Also cool to see what things would have been like had they not been taken away from Sinister at the orphanage.

X-Man - My favorite of the entire series. I've loving this version of Cable despite it not making sense for him to still exist and the development of his powers.

All in all, some of the stories have been really well done while others not so much. As I said, Generation Next sucks ass while X-Man is my favorite. Love what the are doing with Nate and Sinister. One of the most interesting things for me though is Multiple Man being an entire cult. That is a pretty interesting idea. I won't say I am blown away at this point as I thought I would be, but this original Flashpoint is an enjoyable read for the most part. I am looking forward to see how this develops further.

Dr Strange comes out today in my country, but I can't watch it till Sunday. A friend of mine in the UK said it's possibly film of the year and he LOVED it

Finished season 3 of Ultimate Spider-Man. The show improved tremendously this season thanks to the general scarcity of cutaways and excessive gags. Really liked the huge cast too.

Speaking of - wondering whether it would be worth it to also watch Avengers Assemble and Agents of Smash too. (And maybe the Guardians show? Not sure if it's connected.) Don't know if they're any good, though reviews aren't too positive.