No Lives Left

Soldier X #2 (2002) Background: Soldier X is moniker for one of the more powerful mutants from the X-men, Cable. Also known as Nathan Summers, Cable is the child of Scott Summers and Jean Grey. Oh wait, but there's still more. Jean Grey wasn't actually  Jean Grey. See, one of the main villains in the X-Men, Mr.Sinister, was at war with Apocalypse, another X-men villain, and need some weapon to stop him. He knew that the genetics of Scott and Jean would produce an offspring with tremendous power--Enough power to stop Apocalypse. But Jean Grey ended up being possessed by Phoenix Force around this time. The Phoenix Force is like a very dangerous trance Jean falls into due her "true power" manifesting. This gives her amazing powers at the loss of her ability to reason. The saga ends with Jean supposedly dying and leaving Scott in heartbreak. With all that happening, Mr. Sinister moves on to plan B and decides to clone Jean and create Madelyne Pryor. Madelyne h...

Batman #536 Background: This issue was written as a tie-in to the DC crossover series The Final Night.  During this storyline, an entity called the "Sun-Eater" comes to Earth's Solar System and absorbs all of the suns energy. Superman and the Justice League tried to stop the Sun-Eater from devouring the Earth's sun by first teleporting it to another dimension. But the Sun-Eater proved too powerful for the device used to teleport him.The second plan was to divert the Sun-Eater by creating an artificial second sun. This involved big names like the Green Lantern, Firestorm, Ultra Boy and even Superman. This failed as well. So with all the energy sucked out of the sun, the Earth went into perpetual night. The lack of the Suns warmth was slowly freezing the Earth over. Riots and crime spiked up due to global panic. Long-eared Batman everybody! Many crazy plans to stop the Sun-Eater came from super villains like Lex Luthor and even an emissary from DC's ve...

As a preface to this series, a friend of mine sent me 52 random DC and Marvel comics for my birthday. I thought it would be a fun writing exercise to read them and write about them. So I present to you the Comic Grab Bag! Enjoy! Nightwatch #7 (1994) " Through mysterious means, Doctor Kevin Trench acquired a sophisticated battle suit of immense power. Failing to use the power adeptly his first time out, he withdrew from the world. But now he has come to realize that all it takes for evil to triumph is for good to give up and do nothing. Thus, Trench has become a grim crusader, poised to battle high-tech terror wherever and whenever it rears its head! Stan Lee presents...Nightwatch!" Backstory: Nightwatch was introduced into the Marvel universe back in 1993 in issue #99 of  Web of Spider-Man.  He inherited the suit from watching a man die fighting terrorists. To his own surprise, that man was himself. Like the blurb says, Trench to...

So this just happened and the internet is mad. But before I address why this is such an outrage. I must tell a story. If you trace back to the beginning of the "Mighty No. 9" Kickstarter, you'll notice that it got funded like crazy. I don't remember if it broke records but it did end up making close to 4 million dollars when it was only asking for $900,000. Why such a crazy campaign for funding, you ask? Well, there's another story... Back during the old NES days, Capcom came out with an amazing platformer called Megaman. A tiny boy in blue who could shoot energy blasts from his arm won the hearts of millions of Nintendo fans. The proceeding years after begot sequel after sequel. Then Megaman X came out for the Super Nintendo and continued onto the the Playstation. Somewhere along the way, Megaman transferred to the 3d open world in an RPG called Megaman Legends  and even got a sequel! With so many games and sequels, you could only imagine the size ...