I AM GODZILLA

&

I NOW

RULE THIS

BLOG!

From this point forward there will be

no more Robert, only me on this blog.

My reviews, my rants, my raves

& other various tidbits I want to post.

No one else will…

“WHAT THE FUCK UP, BITCH!”

Oh SNAP, its Mechagodzilla!

“What’s happening, dude? Are you really doing a blog?! YOU?!”, MechaGodzilla

YES. Now shut up and let me finish up wha…

“Hey. Can I help?”, MechaGodzilla

Okay but remember who is in charge around here!

As I was saying, I Now…

“Ahem!”, MechaGodzilla

*sigh*

WE NOW RULE THIS BLOG. BEWARE!

No one is safe with Godzilla

& MechaGodzilla

now blogging on BtS!

So this morning when I finally crashed, I was drifting off and got dreaming about Garrison Kane (WAIT — you sickos! Not THAT kinda dream!) – a Marvel Comics character. Many might not remember him but I did in part because he was one of the very few non-mutants who graced the New Mutants & the then new X-Force book PLUS (and this was huge for teenage me) he was Canadian. Now outside Alpha Flight and Wolverine, not many Canucks made it out to the Marvel Universe and had any kinda real impact. Now I am not saying that Garrison Kane had any impact but he was out there. So then I went to the Marvel Comics site and found this…

http://marvel.com/universe/Kane%2C_Garrison

“Then Kane along with Weapon X members, Mesmero, Marrow, Sauron, Wild Child, Washout, Aurora, and Sabretooth went on several missions for the Director. Later When Cable’s underground movement attacked Weapon X, Cable used his telepathic abilities on Kane to knock him out. When Kane awoke he saw the error of his ways and sacrificed his life to draw all of Madison Jeffries technology into himself, allowing the underground to further attack Weapon X.”

FUCK! He’s dead, Jim! I wonder if Madison Jeffries remembers him? Maybe that could be written into an issue of X-Science Team one day. The KANE I remember was the one created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld (Red & Silver with the high collar and his hands that shot off) not the later versions of Cyborg Kane with different hair (good for him to stop the receding hairline that he had) & cannons for hands (How the Fuck would / could you eat with those? Like a dog in a bowl? With your feet? HOW?!).

R. I. P. Garrison Kane (until a creator dusts you off)!

Hmm… so Garrison Kane then first 90% of Alpha Flight gets killed off. Does Marvel have issue with Canadian characters?

** Updated: Link to Necrosha interview at the bottom of the post.

I am so LOVING this X-Force Lost Boys inspired ad for the upcoming Necrosha cross-over storyline! It is great how the team (Warpath, Archangel, X-23, Elixir, Wolverine, Wolfsbane, Domino, Vanisher — in the order of the poster, right to left to back) is laid out to match the original Lost Boys poster art.

This is a great ad for the upcoming NECROSHA storyline which pits X-Force and some of the X-Books against Selene and her new horde of baddies that include Cameron Hodge, Bolivar Trask and Graydon Creed. I overheard that this is Marvel’s Blackest Night which ain’t really a correct assumption since this is not really good guys vs zombie good guys (YET) but that could be where they go if Selene decides to raise the dead of Genosha (which then makes sense for the title of the series being called Necrosha, I guess… hmm) other than raising the dead of Cypher (Douglas Ramsey) & Caliban who were once New Mutants and members of X-Force alike.

Okay so maybe this is slightly like the idea of raising the dead of Genosha for power BUT these are not (yet) revealed to be un-kill-able zombie mutants of all the dead former X-Families raised in order to scare and horrify their victims before taking their hearts as a power-up for their undead Master. Plus didn’t Marvel do the whole Marvel Zombies things FIRST which Blackest Night is a copy of so then this really ain’t a copy but it’s just putting zombies into the Marvel 616 Universe proper. Wait.. what? Fuck… am I interested in a series that involves fucking Zombies?!

FUCK! Hmm… I may need to reconsider buying these books. Might skip New Mutants as the artwork and story have been HORRIFIC to date. I was so excited for NM coming back but WOW did that turn out wrong, rushed and way off the mark for the book.

Anyways it all starts this week with X-Necrosha One Shot that comes out this week! Let me know what you think if you pick it up or if your excited to be getting this series / crossover.

Oh and I saw this ad in the issue of Thunderbolts I picked up this week.

Updated: I dug up this cool interview with Criag Kyle & Chris Yost about the upcoming Necrosha crossover here, check it out:
http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.9662.Wednesday_Q&A~colon~_Craig_Kyle~and~Chris_Yost

This week I have been thinking about my father a great deal. I realized that my father was a huge part of my comic book addiction, especially The X-Men. I found that I have these memories of the X-Men comic books & my father.

When I was young, little kid, I got a big toy chest with the American flag on it from my parents (the irony ’cause I am a Canuck). It became the central place for all my toys. At around the same time, I used to get comic books from the local hospital where my mother worked. Every week, new comics came into the childrens floor and the old comics, once read by all the kids, were given to my mum to take home for me. I was very lucky and they had all these old issues of Superman, Detective Comics, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman & The X-Men. I remember this because one day I was watching either Captain Kangaroo or The Friendly Giant and I got the idea to line the inside of my toy chest with comic book pages. SO I went and cut out pages from these used comics and glued them into my toy chest. Later I looked back to see I had almost a full run of John Byrne’s X-Men run glued on the inside of this toy chest. Once the free comics ran out, my father realized how much I loved them and went out to the local corner store and bought me a bunch. He kept this up for a while until he showed me where he was getting them and told me if I worked around the house, I could get an allowance & buy then my comics.

Once I realized I could get comics from the local corner store, it then became fun adventures with my friends to find other comics from other corner stores ’cause not everyone got the same comics or had older issues on dank, dusty stand down around with the candies. So week to week, I would go finding these comics where I could & feed my addiction that way. This continued and got more serious when I went on a trip with my father to Los Angeles. Every time we hit a gas station along the way, I went scavenging for more issues of Marc Silvestri’s X-Men run where Storm lost her powers, Rouge just joined the team and they were in San Fran for the first time.

Later when my parents split up, I fell deeper into my comic addiction going all over the North Shore to find corner stores for certain new comics or older issues. When I used to go with my father on weekends, we always used to go out to other corner stores so I could search out comics I didn’t have. This became apart of our routine during the time we spent together as he had moved out so we hung out on the weekends. This continued until I hit high school and at that time did I hear about and visit the first Comic Book store in my life — The Comic Shop out on West 4th Ave in Vancouver, Canada. Now this store (and others) had been around for a while but I never got to see them when I was younger.

In the summer of grade 9, my father made the decision to move to Los Angeles for work. I ended up staying up in Vancouver with my mother & sister but I did visit my father each summer from that point forward for most of my life. Each time I went down to LA to see my dad, we always went to find comic book stores around and my dad NEVER had problems with me buying and reading comics. He was happy that I was reading. Granted at times, I am sure he wished I had more hobbies than just comics — computers being another hobby which became a big part of my life, another big part of my life I shared with my father. It was after my second trip to LA that I came back to Vancouver and found many comic book stores in North Van, where I lived, and they became my new hang out. I kept reading The X-Men up and until soon after Jim Lee restarted the book back in the 90’s until my interest weened around the time I stopped going to school and had to get out into the work force. From the point forward, I would pickup the X-Men when I could but it wasn’t until Grant Morrison’s run on the X Books did I come back for a bit and again during Matt Fraction’s run.

For most of my life, I have been buying comics & my father was always supportive of my comic book hobby. Whatever issues I had with my father, this was one of the best things that we shared. I used to ramble to my dad for hours about all the comics I got and he never told me to shut up or saying that he wasn’t interested. He just listened and at times made little jokes about what I said but most of them time he enjoyed hearing more tell him all the comic book stories I had just read with a little smile on his face. This is one of the best memories I have of my father & I still have the toy chest.

Kudos to Cover Brower website for the covers!