His popularity started when he was the cool anti-hero in one, maybe two, books and everyone wanted more of him..But now hes in so many books hes just 'there' oversaturating the market.
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Both of which you'll notice, aren't X-men...
Seriously though, the X-books are filled with characters far more interesting than 'I'm the best there it at what I do, bub' Wolverine. Sure the bad(censored) attitude does appeal to some people, but I do think it's a case of self sustaining fame. People know him because he's the character who's most in the spotlight, not because he's the most interesting.
SG Mate: Cien, what the hell is this Rookery thing?
RadDidIt: (interjecting) Dude. It's the Rookery.
SG Mate: Yeah, but what IS it?
RadDidIt: Silliness Incarnate.
I heard Huge did horrible in Australia from Australian friends of mine. teehee
Iron Man will always be my favorite. Because I'm a Digital Boy
And actually Wolverine and Spiderman had a few cross overs into each comic franchise. All three are Marvel.
I always liked Colossus myself..The warrior-artist..The 'tragedy' of his sister..I always felt like they never explored that character enough...Well when Claremont was at the helm he developed all these characters, but since he left...eh.
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Claremont is back on X-men as of this month. Or back on a X-men book... I'm not exactly sure on the details, but later this month they're releasing the first of his stories again. I think he may be picking up where he left off... It all sounds very strange however it turns out, but I know I'll be stopping by the comic store to pick it up.
Edit: I actually looked up some info about it. His book is called X-Men Forever, and will be picking up from where he left off in the 90s. I'm not sure how I feel about dumping more than a decade's worth of storytelling... but then again, I haven't been very impressed with the X-book's stories for a long time.
He's also doing another book about the children of the X-men.
SG Mate: Cien, what the hell is this Rookery thing?
RadDidIt: (interjecting) Dude. It's the Rookery.
SG Mate: Yeah, but what IS it?
RadDidIt: Silliness Incarnate.
Yes I know! 
I told my comic bookstore to add those to my bin. It'll come out bi weekly..Im interested to see what wouldve/couldve/shouldve happened...Sorry I hold Claremont in high-esteem, especially with the X-men.
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Ok, I screwed up..It DOES take place at the dam, Stryph..We had some confusion in the theater..seems an elderly couple walked in 10 minutes late, the husband had a walker and instead of sitting in the handicapped seating they insisted on sitting in the middle of the theater in the regular seats...about the time all this was going on in the movie, the wife yells out her husband was having a stroke..the EMT's showed up,big scene, etc for 15 mins..turns out the husband fell asleep..lmao..but yeah that part is ok..but the movie still had a lot of plotholes, generic action, and just a mishmosh of unneccessary appearances, etc...
The whole 3-mile island thing was where stryker was doing other experiments...but still...meh..bleh!
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Not sure who Claremont was.
Chris Claremont is a writer, best known for his very long run on the X-men series of books, back before there was 20 different ones. He was the 'X-Man' for 17 years, and a lot of their most famous stories and characters came from his pen.
SG Mate: Cien, what the hell is this Rookery thing?
RadDidIt: (interjecting) Dude. It's the Rookery.
SG Mate: Yeah, but what IS it?
RadDidIt: Silliness Incarnate.
Now I know.
And knowing is half the battle, YO JOE!!!
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Chris Claremont IS the the Godfather/Father/Grandfather/Savior of the X-Men. Before he came along the title was coming out bi-monthly and Marvel decided to republish the stories cause no one was reading it hardly. Along came Chris Claremont and BOOM!!! The rest, as they say, is history.
Hell I remember in the early 90's one issue sold 7 MILLION copies in one month BEFORE the 'investor fiasco'.
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AND OFF TO SEE STAR TREK..will post soon
as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.
Tell me how Sylar is in the movie, kay?
Its got an A
JJ abrahams is a [censored] genius
I went into it thinking o [censored] star trek 11 been here done this
Went out smiling and with wow in my mind
Acting-A
Captain Kirk --- awesome
Sylar "Spock"- awesome
Old Spock-cool
Bones mccoy-good
sulu-good
uhura-great
Scotty-funny
I missed bones v spock talk I loved it when mccoy says to spock ARE U OUTTA YOUR VULCAN MIND
Story --B
Star Trek as a concept has voyaged far beyond science fiction and into the safe waters of space opera.
The Gene Roddenberry years, when stories might play with questions of science, ideals or philosophy, have been replaced by stories of loud and colorful action.
Like so many franchises, its more concerned with repeating a successful formula than going boldly where no Star Trek has gone before. But with a new crew
The 2009 Star Trek film is starfleet academy ( using new actors) using time travel to explain a cast of mostly the same characters, only at a younger point in their lives, sailing the Starship Enterprise. As a story idea, this is sort of brilliant and saves on invention, because young Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Scotty and the rest channel their later selves.
Dont get me wrong. This is fun. And when Leonard Nimoy himself returns as the aged Spock, encountering another Spock (Zachary Quinto) as a young man, I was kind of Holy moly! Time travel exists!
Time travel as we all know, is impossible in the sense it happens here, but many things are possible in this film. Anyone with the slightest notion of what a black hole is, or how it behaves, will find the black holes in Star Trek hilarious. But stop me before I get started. I mention these details only to demonstrate that the movie raises its yo-yo finger to the science, while embracing the fiction.
Apart from details from the youths of the characters and the Spock reunion, it consists mostly of encounters between the Enterprise and the incomparably larger and much better armed Romulan spaceship from the future. Its encouraging to learn that not even explosions and fires can quickly damage a starship. Also that lifeboats can save the crew, despite the vast distance from home base.
That would be because of warp speed, which for present purposes consists of looking through an unnecessary window at bright lights zapping past. This method of transportation prevents any sense of wonder at the immensity of outer space and is a convenience not only for the starship but also for the screenwriters, who can push a button and zap to the next scene. The concept of using warp speed to escape the clutches of a black hole seems like a recycling of the ancient dilemma of the rock and the hard place.
Young Spock is deliberately taunted in hopes he will, as a Vulcan, betray emotion. Because Zachary Quinto plays him as a bit of a self-righteous prig, its satisfying to see him lose it. Does poor young Spock realize he faces a lifetime of people trying to get a rise out of him? Nimoy, as the elderly Spock, must have benefitted, because he is the most human character in the film.
Chris Pine, as James Tiberius Kirk, appears first as a hot-rodding rebel who has found a Corvette in the 23rd century and drives it into the Grand Canyon. A few years after hes put on suspension by the Academy and smuggled on board the Enterprise by Bones McCoy (Karl Urban), he becomes the ships captain. There are times when the command deck looks like Bring Your Child to School Day, with the kid sitting in daddys chair.
Uhura (Zoe Saldana) seems to have traveled through time to the pre-feminist 1960s, where she found her miniskirt and go-go boots. She seems wise and gentle and unsuited to her costume.
The special effects are slam-bam. Spatial relationships between spaceships are unclear because the Romulan ship and the Enterprise have such widely unmatched scales. Battles consist primarily of jump-suited crew members running down corridors in advance of smoke, sparks and flames. Lots of verbal commands seem implausibly slow. Consider, at light warp speeds, how imprecise it would be to say At my command ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Between 2 and 1, you could jump a million galaxies.
I understand the Star Trek science has never been intended as plausible.. I understand that the character types are as familiar as your favorite slippers. But the franchise has become much of a muchness. The new movie essentially intends to reboot the franchise with younger characters and carry on as before. The movie deals with Space opera
the end music is great ( first star trek music)
Awesomeness
i want sulus sword!
as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.
-yawns- was a Babylon 5 fan way more than a Treky.
boo stryph * boots from thread*
as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.
You wouldn't boo if you saw Kosh woop [censored], the first Kosh of course.
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Its got an A
JJ abrahams is a [censored] genius
I went into it thinking o [censored] star trek 11 been here done this
Went out smiling and with wow in my mind
Acting-A
Captain Kirk --- awesome
Sylar "Spock"- awesome
Old Spock-cool
Bones mccoy-good
sulu-good
uhura-great
Scotty-funny
I missed bones v spock talk I loved it when mccoy says to spock ARE U OUTTA YOUR VULCAN MIND
Story --B
Star Trek as a concept has voyaged far beyond science fiction and into the safe waters of space opera.
The Gene Roddenberry years, when stories might play with questions of science, ideals or philosophy, have been replaced by stories of loud and colorful action.
Like so many franchises, its more concerned with repeating a successful formula than going boldly where no Star Trek has gone before. But with a new crew
The 2009 Star Trek film is starfleet academy ( using new actors) using time travel to explain a cast of mostly the same characters, only at a younger point in their lives, sailing the Starship Enterprise. As a story idea, this is sort of brilliant and saves on invention, because young Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Scotty and the rest channel their later selves.
Dont get me wrong. This is fun. And when Leonard Nimoy himself returns as the aged Spock, encountering another Spock (Zachary Quinto) as a young man, I was kind of Holy moly! Time travel exists!
Time travel as we all know, is impossible in the sense it happens here, but many things are possible in this film. Anyone with the slightest notion of what a black hole is, or how it behaves, will find the black holes in Star Trek hilarious. But stop me before I get started. I mention these details only to demonstrate that the movie raises its yo-yo finger to the science, while embracing the fiction.
Apart from details from the youths of the characters and the Spock reunion, it consists mostly of encounters between the Enterprise and the incomparably larger and much better armed Romulan spaceship from the future. Its encouraging to learn that not even explosions and fires can quickly damage a starship. Also that lifeboats can save the crew, despite the vast distance from home base.
That would be because of warp speed, which for present purposes consists of looking through an unnecessary window at bright lights zapping past. This method of transportation prevents any sense of wonder at the immensity of outer space and is a convenience not only for the starship but also for the screenwriters, who can push a button and zap to the next scene. The concept of using warp speed to escape the clutches of a black hole seems like a recycling of the ancient dilemma of the rock and the hard place.
Young Spock is deliberately taunted in hopes he will, as a Vulcan, betray emotion. Because Zachary Quinto plays him as a bit of a self-righteous prig, its satisfying to see him lose it. Does poor young Spock realize he faces a lifetime of people trying to get a rise out of him? Nimoy, as the elderly Spock, must have benefitted, because he is the most human character in the film.
Chris Pine, as James Tiberius Kirk, appears first as a hot-rodding rebel who has found a Corvette in the 23rd century and drives it into the Grand Canyon. A few years after hes put on suspension by the Academy and smuggled on board the Enterprise by Bones McCoy (Karl Urban), he becomes the ships captain. There are times when the command deck looks like Bring Your Child to School Day, with the kid sitting in daddys chair.
Uhura (Zoe Saldana) seems to have traveled through time to the pre-feminist 1960s, where she found her miniskirt and go-go boots. She seems wise and gentle and unsuited to her costume.
The special effects are slam-bam. Spatial relationships between spaceships are unclear because the Romulan ship and the Enterprise have such widely unmatched scales. Battles consist primarily of jump-suited crew members running down corridors in advance of smoke, sparks and flames. Lots of verbal commands seem implausibly slow. Consider, at light warp speeds, how imprecise it would be to say At my command ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Between 2 and 1, you could jump a million galaxies.
I understand the Star Trek science has never been intended as plausible.. I understand that the character types are as familiar as your favorite slippers. But the franchise has become much of a muchness. The new movie essentially intends to reboot the franchise with younger characters and carry on as before. The movie deals with Space opera
the end music is great ( first star trek music)
Awesomeness
i want sulus sword!
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back to topic ...*ahem*
as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.
I agree With the puppy *snuggles in solidarity* It had a good mix of fan service and new plot yes light on heavy moralistic questions, but in the ladder days of the first decade of the new century I have moralistic questions besetting me enough I want to be entertained in a universe that reminds of of kindlier gentler nostalgia with nice leggs in short skirts...
Up with Minny skirts
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I liked the new Star Trek. A lot.
It's a brilliant bridge from the established continuity to this new reboot; and this new reboot manages to create a (ahem) space of its own that works.
The Enterprise looks sleeker, more muscular than before; the interiors look less sterile, soft, and bright, and more industrial, brilliant, and chromed. Engineering is no longer centered around a single glowing column with circuits hidden away in panels, but spread out in a massive bay filled with incomprehensible machinery laid bare.
The starships are uglier in their internals, prettier on their bridges; everything is sharp and shiny, emphasized by the frequent glossiness and lens flares.
The characters are all given refreshing treatments that hearken to the originals without being imitations: we have a more delightfully rougish Kirk (whose shirt, alas, never gets torn in the fistfights), a drier and more rebellious Spock, a McCoy that's ornery yet warm. Chekov, before an underutilized character whose purpose was to fall for a woman headed to a deadly planet, get bugs shoved in his ear, and tell Sulu when the next rest area was has been upgraded to a brilliant systems guy who knows how to best operate the ship; Sulu is a livelier, better combatant. Scotty, who makes his appearace rather late, is even funnier than ever.
My only complaint with the characters is with Uhura. She's upgraded from a space secretary and has awesome scenes before she trades it all in (sigh, it's a frequent disappointment with any female character) to become the pretty girlfriend.
It's less reserved and intellectual compared to the Star Treks that went before it; it's more action-oriented, and, in a way, less concerned with philosophy and morality. It is, in some ways, a response to BSG's reboot. While BSG's reboot took a action-oriented series and converted it to a meditative and philosophical one with a modern military design ethic, Star Trek's takes a meditative one and converts it into an action-oriented world with modern muscle car design.
It's well worth seeing, if only because everything is so beautiful, coupled with a fairly tightly-written script and interesting direction.
Also, Kirk wears his bruises well.
Also: the computer interfaces are much more sensible, too--while the screens in TNG, DS9, and VOY looked neat, the LCARS was rather silly. In this reboot, they're sensible.
The sound was well done, too~sound cuts out in space for some scenes, or is muffled, depending on where the viewer is and the dramatic tenseness of the scene.
Re: Uhura's costume. It's delightfully retro; the crime is her character's arc in the movie. While completely understandable in context (with a nice call out to some behind-the-scenes stuff from the original series--this movie is filled with nicely-placed references), it wastes her character.
Definitely worth seeing.
He's famous because he's talented. He's one of those rare triple threats that can sing, dance, and act.
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And he's hot and has an accent. Always helps.