Astonishing X-Men Episode #1: Gifted on Hulu

Astonishing X-Men on Hulu.com

Well the long awaited Astonishing X-Men motion comic is now available on Hulu.com. I have to say I hated the way some scene were animated and voice actors but over all it was really good.

Watch Astonishing X-Men: Gifted on Hulu.com

HIWAINARU FANTASY XIII

Final Fantasy XIII – Hiawainaru Fantasy XIII

Not Safe for Work or Minors

I hate hentai but I did find something recently that has not only brought me hours of laughter but has also peaked my interest in Final Fantasy XIII’s main character – Lightning.

Simone Bianchi’s Thor: Defining Moments Giant Size Cover

I have to say I wasn’t original a fan of Simone Bianchi’s Heavy Metal influenced work but I’ve been really falling in love with his work lately. I think truthfully I hated his redesigns of the Astonishing X-Men’s costumes for his run with Warren Ellis but the way he rendered this image of Thor moves me a little. I really want to see what his Iron Man looks like after seeing his Thor and Captain America.

DC Comics: Milestone Forever

Milestone Forever

McDuffie will team with John Paul Leon, Mark Bright, Chris Cross and Denys Cowan to wrap up the stories from Hardware, Icon, Shadow Cabinet, Blood Syndicate and Static. I figured we were well past ever seeing these characters again in their original environment, so this is welcome news, even if it is “a bittersweet tale that chronicles the literal end of a universe.”

What is Milestone Comics?

Milestone Comics was DC Comics answer to multiple cries of everyone one on DC Earth being white or black folks with “Black” in their name. Here’s what Wiki says:

Milestone Media is a company best known for creating the Milestone comics imprint (that was published through DC Comics) and the Static Shock cartoon series. It was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers (namely Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T. Dingle) who believed that minorities were severely underrepresented in American comics. Milestone Media was their attempt to correct this imbalance.
Christopher Priest participated in the early planning stages of Milestone Media, and was originally slated to become the editor-in-chief of the new company, but bowed out for personal reasons before any of Milestone’s titles were published.

Who Dat?

The major heroes of this world were Icon (black slave Superman – I’m not kidding he was like a black slave who became a “Superman”) and his sidekick Rocket (pregnant black teen who had inertia powers because of a black slave Superman’s alien belt) , the ever popular Static (I loved his hard Static was but that damn cartoon ruined him for me forever), and the lesser known Hardware ( I have no clue who this nigga is but I guess a black Iron Man).

Oh if you didn’t believe me about DC Comics being sort of racist or ignorant with black characters and readers, check out this DC comics questionnaire for the 70’s!

I’m offended that “Black People” were below Pollution but I have to give them props – it only took them 25 years to printing Milestone Comics but they still refuse to give Black Lighting, Black Racer, Black Manta, and Black Bomber, Black Vulcan, and my favorite Black Cyborg. Oh wait he wasn’t called “Black Cyborg” he was just black.

Dark X-Men #1 Preview

John Cassady Does Classic Avengers

Can John Cassady just draw everything from now on?

Captain America Rebirth #4
The Story: Steve Rogers, the original Captain America – trapped in time! Bucky and Sharon Carter – in the hands of the enemy! As Dr. Doom and the Red Skull make a terrifying pact that could destroy what Captain America means forever! Ed Brubaker and Bryan Hitch bring you the penultimate issue of Marvel’s event of the year! 32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

Marvel Comics Event: The Siege

SIEGE #1 Variant Cover

The good folks over at Marvel.com has released the variant cover for their newest event, Siege.

From what I can tell it’s Captain American and Iron Man suiting up. I wonder why Thor didn’t make it into this beautiful rendered image by Simone Bianchi?

I’m really looking forward to this because it will not only shut up the classic Avenger fans it will also generate more interest around Thor and Asgard on Earth.

Nekron Rises in Blackest Night#4

While the lines “What is Nekron?” is incredibly cheesy, I have to say I’m really enjoying Blackest Night and it is proving to be Geoff John’s greatest work to date. The only downside I see is there will be a lot of resurrection – a lot of it.

Johns’ has killed nearly every third string character in extremely anti-climatic ways that the emotional impact of say Tempest or Damage (I have no clue what they call him anymore Atom Nuker?) just isn’t there.

One can only hope that with the deaths of these characters will mean a lack of random Event deaths in the future but we all know that isn’t going to happen but

Nintendo Power Fail – Final Fantasy IV Artwork

Back in the early 90’s Nintendo Power was the ultimate gamer magazine. It would detail secrets, give you walkthroughs, and even have a cheat codes. However it would also do terrible Americanized drawings of game characters. One of their worst was the Final Fantasy IV (II to original American gamers). Here are those drawing:

Final Fantasy IV

Cecil

Kaine

Rosa

Rydia

Edward

Tellah or Fusoya

Cid

Yang

Palom and Porom

Hulk #16 – Red She-Hulk

This bitch hasn’t even been around for a month and I already hate her. And what is the deal with Hulks eating fucking people?!!?