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The 6 Wickedest Vertigo Villains
A week or so ago, I was diagnosed with benign positional vertigo, and it sucks. Basically, a bunch of bits and pieces inside my head landed in the wrong part of my inner ear, giving me a bad case of the dizzies. It’s not total vertigo, where the room feels like it’s spinning and I can’t walk straight. I basically just get a wibbly wobbly feeling when I turn my head, making things a bit fuzzy and putting me off balance. And there’s no cure!
Sounds like something a super-villain might do, eh?
I probably shouldn’t watch this movie
Thankfully, the doctor was able to put me through a couple maneuvers that shifted the bits and pieces around a little bit. He didn’t fix the problem completely, but he definitely lessened the wobbliness to manageable levels. Now I have to hope it goes away, and I’ve got drugs to dull the headaches or the nausea. I’m surviving.
And since this sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to compare to comic books, I looked up some super-villains who use vertigo-based powers! It’s definitely a super-villain thing. Ugh.
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 12/3/16
I come to you people more the worse for wear. I got some crummy medical news the other day about some inner ear/balance problems that I kind of just need to suck up and deal with. Ugh. It’s just generally crummy. So forgive me for any noticeable typos or bad attitudes.
Fortunately, not many comics came out this week, considering it was a fifth week in November. So we’ve only got a couple comics, from the new debut of Ghost Rider to the next exciting Power Rangers issue! The latter easily wins Comic Book of the Week for more out-of-the-box ideas!
The Red Green Power Ranger!
Ms. Marvel also came out with a new issue this week, but it quickly morphed into a big election PSA. Like, I had to go back and check the cover to make sure this wasn’t some kind of free handout. It gets really in depth about the ins and outs of voting…even though Election Day was several weeks ago. Not quite sure what was going on there, and it was a little too hopeful about the election to actually review.
Comic Reviews: Ghost Rider #1, Great Lakes Avengers #2 and Mighty Mophin Power Rangers #9.
Cyclops Was Right Yet Again, Let Me Count the Ways
For the past year of X-Men comics, the once glorious Cyclops has been hailed as nothing short of the next Hitler. He’s been on this trajectory for awhile now, but comics took an 8-month jump at the beginning of the year, and everybody was very hush hush that not only had Cyclops died, but he died doing something absolutely horrendous to the Inhumans.
Well the big mystery was revealed in the conclusion of Death of X last week, but all that it revealed was that Cyclops is a true hero, now and forever.
Now and forever
I don’t know what the heck Marvel is doing. Either they don’t understand what it means to be a super-villain, or this is the greatest long con in superhero comics history. Part of me is leaning towards the latter.
Join me after the jump for the latest revelation, as well as all the reasons why Cyclops has been right for years. I really do think Marvel is toying with us.
The 6 Best Dinosaur Superheroes
As I embark on my own potential comic book career with Gamer Girl & Vixen (pre-order the graphic novel today!), I’m finding it very interesting how few awesome concepts get turned into superheroes. There are very few sports-themed superheroes, even though sports are pretty much currency here in America. There are very few dog-themed superheroes, despite an overabundance of cat sueprheroes.
And there are very few dinosaur-themed superheroes, even though dinosaurs are awesome!
Yes, this was awesome too
We’ve got bat superheroes, spider superheroes, wolverine superheroes, cat super-villains and nearly everything else under the sun. But dinosaurs get a pass. Why is that? For that matter, why aren’t there more dinosaur everythings? Why is there only one popular movie franchise about dinosaurs? Jurassic Park doesn’t own dinosaurs as a concept! They belong to the whole world!
Join me after the jump for a true dinosaur celebration, as I managed to find at least six dinosaur comic book characters!
The Teen X-Men Can’t Seem To Settle On What To Wear
Superhero costumes are pretty iconic. When you see Superman, you definitely know that’s Superman. They’re a time-honored part of the whole superhero party. The X-Men, especially, have some really iconic costumes. Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Gambit, Jubilee, Psylocke, Colossus; no matter who you’re talking about, these heroes wear some very iconic threads.
So what’s the deal with the time-displaced All-New X-Men? It seems that every time Marvel relaunches their comic they give these guys a new set of uniforms. I realize they’re teenagers, and the X-Men do change costumes a bunch, but four different sets of uniforms in only four years?
I don’t really have much of a point to make. Just an observation. Personally, I’ve grown pretty tired of these characters. Their series was pretty good when they first appeared back in 2012, but I just don’t care anymore. There are more than enough present day X-Men who deserve to be explored. I have no idea why Marvel is sticking with this group — unless it’s still part of their screw-FOX plan. The ultimate middle finger to those movie-making bastards. Why tell compelling X-Men stories with the incredible cast available when you can just keep telling mediocre stories starring the most boring X-Men cast possible?
And they won’t stand a chance at becoming iconic if Marvel just keeps throwing them into seemingly random costumes.
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