Paj!

Is that official? If so, I'm glad they're using the actual logo.

The Don of the Rock Mafia.

--- Just bought; I love the design of the Morrison JLA deluxe editions. The font and layout bellow "classy" everytime you look at them. Not sure why, but from what I gather the Vol.2 is out of print? Cause it's ridiculously priced/unavailable normally on amazon.

BABY IT BURNS. Etienne is actually a good song though. I love how it's a trilogy, with two bits being the needless-yet-appreciated Skyeboat Song. Come on Scotland! I love Fayth too. HE TOOK MY SEX!

I don't like Yanick Paqette, his art is very undefinitive/generic, and every female pose is OTT sexualised. At least in Bulletter. Oh wait, just realised he's the guy who did Ultimate X-Men during Kirkman's run. His art there was better, tbh. I wish Morrison would work only with true stunners though. I await another collaboration with Jae Lee. They did the succinctly great Fantastic Four: 1234 together.

*shrug* I don't know or care what Dan Dare is about. I'd heard of it before, but have no idea why/how.

I await pictures/videos. I actually would have corralled Chair into going with me this year, if I wasn't away.

I have no time though. Sky+ is my TV life atm, I always have too many Miami and LA inks to watch, and just watched another Lisa Williams. The Ink shows are wearing a bit thin though...it's always the sob stories shown, and how many people want fucking dragon tattoos or koi fish? What a pointless thing to get, the same as everyone else. [/off-topic rant]

I hate not having Sky/cable sometimes! Everything real is on sky/cable/whatever. I also would have kept up with Lost if I had it on TV. And all the films I could watch! *dreams* But then again, I've had full access to my cousin's sky whilst in Orkney, and all I've watched is Lisa Williams: Life Among The Dead and La Ink.

I permanently have Self-Inflicted from her first album in my head. I don't even know how it goes apart from that single chorus line. These wounds are self-inflicted/Just one more thing I'm addicted (to!) Not sure why. I don't particularly like it, or have ever listened to it intently, apart from when I remember It's always in my head and I see it on iTunes. I also liked Thinking of You, but I'm always one for a power-ballad. Her voice is 7 times out of 10 incredibly grating.

I'd use Cyclops and Jean too, but then try and let the story determine who's included. Why I'd like to see Ultimate X-Men be the basis , story-wise, of an X-Men film, is that they get Wolverine into the team without undue fuss, and without it seeming silly. I might use that team actually. (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Storm and Colossus - then Iceman and Wolverine) Colossus feels replaceable, though he was always written well in Ultimate. Maybe Beast then, he adds so little. But that team covers the holy quartet of Cyclops, Jean, Storm and Wolverine, as well as some others.

It seems to be "Obscure winner this year, "mainstream" winner the next, obscure, "mainstream" etc etc. Speech Debelle won out of nowhere last year (I'd never heard of her and I'm fairly on the pulse, in the sense that I usually at least hear about people. So I predict Xx will win too.

Well the attraction thing was prominent in the comics throughout the 90's, as in the cartoon, but obviously very little coming of it. Then the writers revealed Gambit's big secret; he (without understanding what would happen) helped organise and run the team that masacred loads of mutants in the sewers many years before. Rogue dumped him to die in Antarctica. (Woo!) He came back eventually, vaguely forgiven, and slowly did less and less of worth. He then became Apocalypse's horseman, Death. He obviously came through that, but ASAIK, he keeps having relapses into this Death persona. All in all, no one really knows what to do with him.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee- I love it. The visual review of everyone worth mentioning. Assessing who's great on Utopia, and who they need to remember hates them (Hi, Arcade).

Gambit reminds me of awful. There's a reason he's kinda faded into the background/become an annoying semi-evil schizophrenic in the comics. He's a reminder of the 90's at their worst. He's one of the least essential famous X-man and Rogue is enough southern snark on any team. In Ultimate X-Men they even killed him off and gave her his powers! But then maybe I just hate him. / Prefer Rogue, and how she's become a better character without his baggage. They could just base a new film on Ultimate X-Men...Millar's stuff is very "real world" anyway, and the first arc could make a great film.

I'm really interested to see what Joss will do. His X-Men is outstanding, but that's comics. But he does do big action with good characters well in general so hopes are high.

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is the best thing. But I can understand why people prefer Jagged Little Pill/only know that exists. It's so explosive. She's great live, too.

Ok, well I felt it was a whole load of nothing. Just various reasons to meet characters fans wanted in the other X-Men films (and some they didnt) for a few minutes then move on to the silly finale. It was completely unnecessary and kinda answered nothing. At least X-men 3 tried and failed/had potential, Wolverine was a fail from the get-go. The X-Men franchise is being dragged down in the mud compared to the top-quality superhero films being made elsewhere. Sure it jump-started the superhero movie revolution in 2000, but it needs to DIE. I love X-Men too much to watch more rubbish being churned out.

You've won.

Some things NEED a reboot, though. Sadly Fox want to milk this sagging tit for all it's worth, which produces crap like Wolverine Origins, before Marvel can get the rights back and make it themselves (like they have with all the other recent and upcoming Marvel films).

The Batman Beyond intro does actually remind me of you/your online persona, Daft. --- Please, no Robin! I hate it. And Chair that idea is funny but not really, because it would never happen. It could work in the comics or another literary medium, but in film it would seem like a massai waste of time on the audience's part, and a waste of introducing the character in the first place. It's something you'd expect in a Frank Miller comic/film. Shock tactics like that would be ridiculous to see in a Nolan Batman film. And I hate 19, it reminds me of the Chris O'Donnel Robin. I like Riddler in the comics, but I can't see him translating to film well, in any sort of similar form. I think Black Mask and Catwoman is still the soundest idea, and one that rings fairly true within the Nolan-verse, imo. And I don't need Catwoman like the (amazing) Burton one...she wouldn't make sense here. But even if she only "becomes" Catwoman near the end, it would add (if Selina herself was used well).

Oh god, I thought they were the reboot. Fuck this shiiiiiiiit. And nice going having continuity issues already with Emma Frost. I'm sure they'll explain that away as "That wasn't Emma Frost (in Wolverine)! See, she's Silver Fox's sister in that!". UGH UGH. This franchise is dead. It should have ended with a Singer-directed, James Marsden-featuring X-Men 3.

Apparently it's heavily implied Joseph Gordon Levitt will be the Riddler. Ugh x 2.

The brick Spidey is the fugliest sculpt ever.

Wait...I thought this film was going to be about the actual first class of X-Men? Not the zany adventures of Charles and Eric. How strange.