Saturday, July 23, 2011

Whose Fault Was M-Day?


When a storyline is followed up by an event called the Decimation, its a big deal.  I mean lets forget that the entire storyline took place in a warped reality (not an alternate timeline, but this reality...warped), but it ended with 95-99%, depending on who you ask, of mutants losing their powers in one form or another.  The truly lucky ones were turning 100% baseline human, however, a large portion of the now-former mutants were left with remnants or consequences from their lost mutations (like Marrow and Blob) and many still simply died for one reason or another (Magma's boyfriend Antonio or poor Wing).  With so much tragedy also came much blame being thrown around.  But whose fault was it really?

The obvious answer of course is Wanda Maximoff, the mutant Scarlet Witch.  It was her powers that killed many Avengers and destroyed Avengers Mansion before warping reality into the House of M and last but not least, as she reverted the world to somewhat normal, she cast her spell to depower the mutants of the world.  Whether she was in her right mind or not, it was her mutant hex and magic abilities that wreaked so much havoc upon her friends and family.  But what caused her to do this?






What about Janet Van Dyne?  In her own giggly drunken state she started blabbing about Wanda's lost children, causing Wanda to begin her slide off the deep end.  As the Wasp, Janet has been in all sorts of dire situations and probably, I suspect, more then her fair share of parties and drunken moments.  So why suddenly after a few simple cocktails by the pool could she not hold her own tongue when she's done so many times at Avengers or UN functions in the past?  So maybe she gets a bit of blame of Avengers Disassembled, but did she cause House of M or M-Day?



How about Pietro Maximoff, the arrogant speedster Quicksilver?  He's been an Avengers and an X-associate for many years and at the first sign of these teams thinking to harm his sister, and he runs to Daddy?  A father, I might add, that he has denounced over and over through the years and he has fought against as a members of the two superhero teams.  Keep in mind that while Wanda had already caused much destruction, she was now sedate and calm and no longer hurting anyone, so I don't suspect that they were ACTUALLY going to kill her at that moment.  Yet, Quicksilver felt like then was the exact moment to steal his unconscious and deranged sister and bring her to his still-sort-of-evil father for help?  Not to Professor X, who happened to be handy, but to the attempted world-conquering Magneto?  Perhaps not the brightest of moves Pietro...



And yes, let's talk about Max Eisenhardt (aka Erik Lensherr aka the mutant terrorist Magneto).  Now granted that he didn't know for many years that the twins were his children, but ignorance is no excuse for tyranny and abuse towards people that (for one reason or another) are helping you in your crusade.   And even once he discovered they were his children, he never once put their needs before his or the needs of mutants at large.  Even after finding out their lineage he continued he continued to crusade against their respective teams (Avengers and X-Factor) and ignore any familial responsibility or obligation he had.  Even at their worst points as enemies, Mystique always cared about Rogue and Nightcrawler in her own way (and back in the 80's Rogue and Mystique had many mother/daughter moments in between battle). 


There's been much debate and controversy as to who is truly responsible for M-Day, and the truth is that its everyone and no one's fault.  Each of these people (and many other, like Wolverine and the rest of the Avengers/X-men in general) had their own parts to play and it is tough to lay blame squarely on just one person.  Its easy to say that Wanda went nuts and wreaked havoc on everyone around her but we would be remiss and irresponsible to ignore the parts of fault that lay on her brother, father and best friend.

So there is some food for thought, until we find out that someone masterminded the entire thing and it was really none of their faults.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Check out A-Page!!

Following the footsteps of X-Page, Comic-Page has its next big update!! 

A-Page is launched and updates are underway!!  So far we have a table of contents (to show what you can be expecting soon) and all the Avengers up through the 80's recruits (like Ms Marvel and Falcon).  Next up I'll be finishing up the main Avengers team and moving on to West Coast, Young, Dark, etc Avengers.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Happy Anniversary to GDB's House of Ideas!

Well that just flew past!  As of yesterday, this site is a month old!!  Go take a look through our archives and see why this website really took off in the first month!! 

Also don't forget to check out the new sister site, Comic-Page!

Thank you to everyone who's been visiting the site!  Keep all those hits and suggestions coming everyone, so we can make this the best comic book blogging site out there!

My Weekly Pull List - 7/20/11

 
AVENGERS #15 FI
AVENGERS ACADEMY #16 FI
FEAR ITSELF DEADPOOL #2 (OF 3) FI
FEAR ITSELF FEARSOME FOUR #2 (OF 4) FI
FEAR ITSELF FF #1 FI
FEAR ITSELF HOME FRONT #4 (OF 7) FI
GENERATION HOPE #9
HERC #5 FI
HULK #37 FI
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #506 FI
IRON MAN 2.0 #7 FI
UNCANNY X-MEN #541 FI
X-FACTOR #222
X-MEN #15

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Buying/Selling Page Updated

I just got done listing a whole bunch of items on eBay so I updated my Buying/Selling page accordingly!  Go check out all the issues I have for sale, lots of $1 issues, not to mention New Mutants #100 and X-Factor #1!  Also just got in a bunch of older Uncanny X-men issues, just in time to round out your collection before Volume 1 ends!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Mutant Generations: The Summers Family

Today I'm introducing a new feature of the site: Mutant Generations.  There are many families in comics that seem more prone to producing mutants then others.  To get this brand new ball rolling, I thought I would start with the family of the current leader of the mutant race (at least for the next two months...)

Corsair (Christopher Summers) of the Starjammers and his wife Katherine Summers had 3 children, Scott, Alex and Gabriel.

-Scott developed the ability to absorb solar energy and convert it into optic blasts of pure concussive force powerful enough to blow through almost anything in its path.  Due to a childhood injury (or possibly a mental block, yet to be confirmed), he is unable to control his optic blasts with the help of a visor or glasses made of ruby quartz.

-Alex developed the ability to absorb cosmic energy and convert it into white hot plasma blasts capable of melting or destroying everything it touches.  He has been shown to have varying levels of control over his power over the -years, often having to resort to a special containment suit to harness them.

-Gabriel originally developed the ability to absorb and manipulate energy on the electromagnetic spectrum, but after M-Day his power levels were supercharged to Omega level when he was awakened from suspended animation from absorbing a vast amount of lost mutant energy.

Scott Summer had several women who are very important to him, and several times these unions have produced powerful mutants.

-When he married Madelyne Pryor (a clone of Jean Grey), they had a son, Nathan, who was infected with a techno organic virus that ravaged his body, so he was sent to the future to be healed.  He grew up to be the warrior Cable, who possessed telekinetic and telepathic powers, the majority of which he used to keep his lifelong struggle with the TO virus in check.

-When Nathan was first brought to the future, the Clan Askani wasn’t sure if they could save him so they cloned him.  This healthy baby, who had no trace of the techno organic virus in its system, was kidnapped by Apocalypse and raised to him to be the mutant terrorist Stryfe.  Without the TO virus to hamper his abilities, Stryfe’s TP and TK powers grew infinitely stronger then Cable’s.

-In the Age of Apocalypse, Sinister took samples of Scotts Summers and Jean Grey, and he used them to create the ultimate mutant weapon against Apocalypse, Nate Grey the X-man.  These DNA samples coupled with Sinister’s genetic manipulation gave him gave him telepathic and telekinetic powers with virtually no limit.

-In the world where the original Phoenix never died, she and Cyclops were married and had a daughter, Rachel Summers.  Like her mother, Rachel developed powerful TP and TK powers and she also developed the ability to send her own consciousness through time.  When she later bonded with the Phoenix Force, her powers expended to an incredible degree allowing her limitless TP and TK as well as the ability to travel physically through time.

-In a version of the Days of Future Past storyline, where the Sentinels rule, it is shown that Scott and Emma Frost had a daughter together.  Her named is Ruby Summers and she developed the ability to shoot powerful optic blasts from her eyes like her father, but she also inherited an invulnerable ruby form from Emma Frost (similar to Emma’s diamond form).  She has been able to stay in her ruby form for decades but isn’t sure what will now happen is she turns back.

Cable, while growing to adulthood in the future, married Aliya Jenskot, and the two had a son, Tyler Dayspring.  Despite being the child of two telepath/telekinetics, he developed the very specific ability to mentally connect to another person and project their memories as solid projections.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Marvel Comics On-Sale 7/20/11


Here's the list of Marvel releases for this week!  Am I the only one who thinks that they are KILLING us with Fear Itself tie-ins???  Its just getting ridiculous.

AVENGERS #15 FI
AVENGERS ACADEMY #16 FI
CAPTAIN AMERICA CORPS #2 (OF 5)
DAREDEVIL #1
FEAR ITSELF DEADPOOL #2 (OF 3) FI
FEAR ITSELF FEARSOME FOUR #2 (OF 4) FI
FEAR ITSELF FF #1 FI
FEAR ITSELF HOME FRONT #4 (OF 7) FI
GENERATION HOPE #9
HERC #5 FI
HULK #37 FI
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #506 FI
IRON MAN 2.0 #7 FI
MARVEL UNIVERSE VS WOLVERINE #2 (OF 4)
SKAAR KING OF SAVAGE LAND #5 (OF 5)
SPIDER-ISLAND SPOTLIGHT
THOR HEAVEN AND EARTH #1 (OF 4)
ULTIMATE COMICS FALLOUT #2 (OF 6) DOSM
UNCANNY X-MEN #541 FI
VENOM FLASHPOINT #1
X-FACTOR #222
X-MEN #15