Category: 30 Day Marvel Challenge
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #30: Your Favorite Event
Civil War Civil War was an Marvel event that began after a battle between Nitro and the New Warriors results in the death of 60 school children. In response the U.S. government tries to institute the “Superhuman Registration Act.” With this tragedy and the events that saw the Hulk go on another rampage (killing 26 […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #29: Your Favorite Series
Thor: God of Thunder I don’t really have too many series that I’ve followed to completion, but one that I did was Thor: God of Thunder. Written by Jason Aaron and Penciled by Esad Ribic, the series focuses on Thor and his encounter with Gorr the God Butcher. The series is part of the larger […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #28: Your Favorite Comic Time
The Modern Age The Modern Age of Comics is generally considered to have begun from the mid-80’s to today. The age followed the Bronze Age and is noted for having more dark and complex stories and characters, like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. Horror, Fantasy, Mystery and Science Fiction became more mainstream at […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #27: Your Favorite non-human race
Inhumans (Inhomo supremis) My favorite non-human race is the Inhumans. Mostly because I’m the most familiar with them and they have a lot of variation among their race. This variation exists both in their powers and how they look. Created by the Kree, the Inhumans are ruled by their King Black Bolt and Queen Medusa. […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #26: Your Favorite Elementalist
Ice Man (Robert Drake) Universe: Earth-616 Creators: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby First Appearance: X-Men #1 (1963) Iceman is one of the original X-Men. Born in New York, Bobby first discovered his mutant abilities when he found himself unable to stop feeling cold. When a bully, Rocky Beasely orchestrated an assault on Bobby and his girlfriend […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #25: Your Favorite Video Game
Marvel video games can be hit or miss. When I was a kid Marvel games were largely limited to the arcade. One of my all time favorite games were “X-Men: The Arcade Game (1992),” a side scrolling fighting game. The goal of the game was to basically fight through waves of Sentinels and other villains […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #24: Your Favorite Cartoon
As I’ve mentioned before the X-Men: The Animated Series was my primary introduction to X-Men and Marvel. Although there was an animated series for the Hulk, Spider-Man, Iron Man and Fantastic Four as well. The series debuted in 1992 and ended in 1997. The series spanned 5 seasons and 76 episodes. The first thing that […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #23: The Best Transportation
The Blackbird Technicality this day’s challenge is “the best form of transportation.” I’m going to cheat a little and choose two. One is a technology and the other is a mutant power. I have always found the X-Men’s iconic Blackbird. While a conventional means of transport the Blackbird is both in real life and in […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #22: Your Favorite Universe
The number of “universes” in the Marvel is extraordinary. From a quick glance apparently there’s at least 10,000. Check here if you would like to count. There are multiverses, megaverses, dimensions, realms, realities, and alternate-realities, all that is collected within an Omniverse. Also, the Omniverse apparently includes Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image, Dark Horse, Archie, […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #21: The most memorable death
Even a casual comic book fan knows that in the comic book universe death is cheap. Chances are that most of the prominent characters have die at least once. Professor X has died 4 times, so has Wonder Woman, Wally West (The Flash), Rogue, Iron Man and Superman has bit the dust 5 times each, […]