Category: Challenges
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #20: Your Best Casting of a Character (if you were casting)
I have to admit that I’m not particularly passionate about this day’s challenge. I’m generally not one to wonder before hand who should be cast in any particular role. Of course that doesn’t mean that I think casting is irrelevant. Casting can have a profound effect on whether you by into a series or not. […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #19: Your Least Favorite Comic to Screen Character Adaptation
As I’ve stated before, I’m a fan of Fantastic Four. So you probably wouldn’t be surprise that my least favorite adaptation is the FF movies. The first Fantastic Four movie that I saw was the 2005 movie and the sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. There was a third film, Fantastic Four reboot […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #18: Your Favorite Comic to Screen Character Adaptation
Choosing actors for comic book characters can be hit or miss. Generally, you at least want someone that looks like the character. Then you want someone that acts like them. The MCU has managed to do a generally good job with these character adaptations, but it’s not perfect. While there are many good ones, Tom […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #17: Your Favorite God
Odin Borson Universe: Earth-616 Creators: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby First Appearance: Journey into Mystery #85 The Marvel universe has incorporated the Gods from ancient mythology into their universe. They are considered to “Gods of Earth,” an “extra-dimensional race of beings who once existed on Earth in its distant past and are now or were once worshiped as […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #16: The Most Powerful Character
One-Above-All Universe: Multiverse Creators: Mark Waid, Mike Wieringo First Appearance: Fantastic Four #511 (2004) Marvel has a number of “all powerful beings” that sometimes run together on me. Most of them can manipulate space and time, reality. Some are “abstract entities” that exists for a specific purpose. They’re Eternity, Infinity, Oblivion, Death, and the Phoenix […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #15: The best rivalry
Your fancy claws can’t cut what they can’t hit. An’ your hotsy-totsy healing factor… won’t save you… when I rip out your heart! Sabretooth Wolverine and Sabertooth The rivalry between Wolverine and Sabretooth is legendary in comics. It’s not always clear as to why these two are rivals exactly. That said it is likely that […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #14: Your Favorite Romance
Rogue & Gambit Universe: Earth-616 Creators: Chris Claremont, Michael Golden, Jim Lee, Mike Collins First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men (Gambit) #266, Avengers Annual #10 (Rogue) Marvel has several storied romances, Jean Grey and Scott Summers, Storm and Black Panther, Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible and Mary Jane and Peter Parker. The romance that I was my […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #13: Your Least Favorite Character
Scott Summers (Cyclops) Universe: Earth-616 Creators: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby First Appearance: X-Men #1 (Sept. 1963) From what I can tell many Marvel fans find Scott Summers (Cyclops) to be the worst. He’s one of the original X-Men. The oldest son of Christopher Summers (Corsair), Scott became the first student of Professor X. He was […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #12: Your Favorite Weapon
Mjolnir Previous Owners: Eric Masterson, Jane Foster, Loki Laufeyson, Odin Borson, Steve Rogers, Thor Odinson Creators: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby First Appearance: Journey into Mystery #83 (August, 1962)Appearance of Destruction: Mighty Thor #705 (May, 2018) Mjolnir is the hammer that is wielded by Thor. Odin ordered the Dwarves of Nidavellir to forge Mjolnir. The dwarves Eitri, Brokk and Buri used […]
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30 Day Marvel Challenge – Day #11: Your Favorite Power
Telekinesis Emma Frost and Illyana Rasputina with the Phoenix force, using telekinesis to destroy. Art by: Olivier Coipel From: Avengers vs X-Men As I briefly mentioned when I choose Jean Grey as my favorite character, my favorite power is telekinesis. The simple reason was that it was cool. However, more importantly I think that it’s […]