Showing posts with label xmen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xmen. Show all posts

Friday, May 1, 2009

Giant Size X-Men

Professor Xaviers' spankin new team debuts to rescue his first X-Men in the living island.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

X-Men - The Twelve



The Twelve unfolded (in January & February 2000). Supposedly lost diaries of the mutant seer Destiny surfaced, telling of twelve beings of fantastic power that could defeat Apocalypse once and for all. The Twelve legend, however, was a ruse created by Apocalypse himself; once the Twelve were assembled, he planned to use them to transform himself into a godlike entity beyond the Celestials. The Twelve, chosen not only for their mutant powers but also for the Jungian quasi-archetypes they represented, consisted of:

* Magneto and Polaris, representing opposing magnetic poles;
* Storm, Sunfire and Iceman, representing elementals;
* Cyclops, Phoenix and Cable, representing family (Father, Mother, Child),
and chosen for the power of the Summers-Grey bloodline;
* Bishop and Mikhail Rasputin, representing time and space, respectively
* Professor X, representing the mind; and
* The Living Monolith as the core.



X-Men - The Twelve

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

X-MEN: God Loves, Man Kills



The story concerns a minister, the Reverend William Stryker, stirring up religious anti-mutant fervor and kidnapping Professor X in an attempt to eradicate all mutants. It is one of the most clear-cut examples of X-Men comics using mutant relations as a metaphor for race relations. Another notable feature is that the heroes do not fight any costumed super-villains in the story; although Magneto was featured in the Graphic Novel, he is not the X-Men's foe in this story, but rather forms an alliance with them against William Stryker.

X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Star Trek meets The X-Men




The story opened with the original U.S.S. Enterprise, commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, monitoring a spatial rift anomaly of pure psionic energy near Delta Vega. Kirk is distressed by the anomaly's presence since this is the same place that Gary Mitchell and Elizabeth Dehner were mutated into god-like beings and eventually lost their lives (circa "Where No Man Has Gone Before"). The Enterprise was also receiving a subspace distress signal from beyond the rift. A ship appeared suddenly and was just as suddenly destroyed by an expansion of the rift, though Mr. Spock did manage to sensor scan the ship to indicate that it held seven "near-human" life forms.

Star Trek meets The X-Men