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The ‘X-Men – Curse of the Mutants’ story arc continues with a one shot featuring Storm and Gambit. The two  master thieves are sent on a mission to retrieve a item critical to stopping the recent Vampire threat.

One of my pet peeves with comic books is that the cover art does not often reflect the internal content. Most of the time the cover art is better. I’m looking at you Mike Mignola!  This issue is actually the reverse. Upon first glance I was not interested in this book. The cover didn’t grab me and urge me to read the issue and Gambit’s facial expression is ridiculous. On top of that Storm and Gambit are not my favorite characters in the X-Men roster. (Yes I grew up in the 90′s… The Fox X-Men cartoon failed to instill in me a love for Gambit that many of my peers have.)

I gave the book a read anyway, it’s a one-shot that ties into a story arc I am enjoying for the most part, so why the hell not. Yes, this X-Men vampire business is a total Twilight fad cash-in. But at least it tries to be tongue in cheek about it. (And this arc is making more sense than whatever-the-hell is going on with the Avengers right now. Time Travel…. ugh.)

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Marvel is currently in what they have coined “The Heroic Age” and so far I have been rather unimpressed with the books that have been released. In fact the X-Men “Second Coming” arc has been the only event I have had any real interest in recently. The Heroic Age is supposedly full of less dark over tones and heroes who do heroic acts etc… which is all well and good, but what about fans who enjoy a little blood, violence, and anti-heros?

X-Force ‘Sex & Violence’ is for those fans.

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SHOOOOOCK!!!!!!!!!

This is such a load of epic win it hurts. I looooooved the 90′s X-Men cartoon when I was a kid. At that time Anime was almost unavailable, especially for an 11 year old kid. Every now and then I’d catch Vampire Hunter D super early in the morning on the Sci-Fi channel, and I’d be completely entranced by this weird violent cartoon that was not intended for kids. (Which increased it’s badass-ness)

If I had seen this intro for X-Men back then, I might have pissed myself. The speed metal soundtrack doesn’t hurt either… I want to watch this video at 8am after eating a bowl of cookie crisps!

Thunderbolts #144

Marvel comics has entered what they are calling ‘The Heroic Age’ the good guys are back in control and the bad guys are once again the bad guys… I got back into comics around the start of the ‘Civil War’ event, the Thunderbolts series existed at this time, but I didn’t follow it much. At the time Baron Zemo was running a team of former villains for the government. Eventually due to multiple events, Norman Osborn comes into power and the Thunderbolts team is converted into a new Avengers team and used as his own personal hit squad.

Like all good empires, Osborn’s came crashing down. Steve Rodgers, formerly known as Captain America,  is now in charge. One of the first orders of business for the new regime is to restart the Thunderbolts program. Cap decides that the best man for the job would be criminal turned hero, Luke Cage.
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