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Comic Book Question 5

by Revis Edgewater

IF YOU COULD CREATE YOUR OWN AMALGAM UNIVERSE CHARACTER, WHO WOULD IT BE?

For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll explain. Back in the late 90s/early 2000s (I could look it up, but I’m feeling lazy at the moment), the Big 2 in the comic book industry, Marvel and DC, did a huge crossover event. During this event, the main Marvel universe and the main DC universe merged together, creating the Amalgam universe; a universe whose heroes and villains were a combination of one character from each of two original universes. For example, years ago, I mentioned in a post that the most badass character in comics came from the Amalgam universe: Dark Claw, a combination of Wolverine and Batman. Imagine Wolverine, with his adamantium skeleton, claws, and healing factor, but also having Batman’s intelligence, resources, and fighting skills. Most badass character in comics.

His nemesis, Hyena (a mixture of Joker and Sabretooth), was pretty badass too. Some of the others I remember are: Super Soldier (Superman + Captain America), Amazon (Wonder Woman + Storm), Speed Demon (Ghost Rider + Flash, a combination I never would have thought of), and Sparrow (Robin + Jubilee). There were many more, but those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.

As for my answer to the question, I put a lot of thought into it. I wanted to create a conflicted character, so I started thinking of two characters who were complete opposites. The first thing that came to mind was Superman and the Punisher, but Injustice Superman was basically that combination. Then, I went to Deadpool and Batman, the least serious comic book character and the most serious. But, finding a balance between the two would be tricky. It’s probably a little too tricky, so I moved on from that. That’s when I thought that maybe I should do two characters with opposite powers as opposed to opposite personalities. After pondering that one for a bit, I realized I was overthinking it, and I should just go with a combination I liked.

That’s when I came up with the Cajun Hood. I’m still not sold on the name, but I was trying to include both characters in it, and it’s the best I’ve come up with so far. The Cajun Hood is a combination of Gambit and the Red Hood. Both already wear body armor. When fighting up close, he’d use Gambit’s quarterstaff. When fighting from a distance, he’d use Red Hood’s guns, but he’d imbue his non-lethal rounds with Gambit’s mutant kinetic energy ability. He’d have Remy’s Cajun heritage and thief upbringing, but the Jason’s tragic backstory of being killed and brought back to life.

Personally, I think that would be an awesome character.

What about you? What would your Amalgam universe character be?

A New Favorite

by Revis Edgewater

I was looking around Marvel Unlimited a while back when I found a limited series called Night of the Living Deadpool. Zombies + Deadpool? Absolutely. I was all over it.

The series was pretty good. Not the greatest, but it was an entertaining read. It did well enough to spawn a sequel series called Return of the Living Deadpool. Overall, it was pretty good too. There was, however, one moment of pure brilliance.

From Return of the Living Deadpool.

“Post-chimichanga toilet rodeo”. That is my new favorite Deadpool-ism.

And Fiction’s Greatest Assassin Is….

by Revis Edgewater

Deadpool!

With 46.6% of the vote, the Merc With the Mouth has won the title of Fiction’s Greatest Assassin in this episode of Versus.

Tied for second, with 13.3 % of the vote were Fitz and Lord Vetinari.

The rest all tied for third with 6.6% of the vote.

I want to take the time to thank all of the wonderful people who submitted answers for this poll. I’d also like to take the time to thank everyone who voted in the poll. I hope everyone thought this experiment was a fun one.

If you have an idea for a Versus question I should submit for answers, feel free to leave it in the comments.

Have a good night everyone.

Versus: 0205

by Revis Edgewater

Hey, everybody. It’s time for the newest episode of Versus. This time it will be a battle royal, with you, the readers deciding the outcome. A week ago, I put up a post asking for you to tell me who you think Fiction’s Greatest Assassin is. I received a good number of answers. So, I will be putting the nominees in a list below, along with the arguments that the people who nominated made for them. At the bottom of the page, I will be putting a poll up for everyone to vote on.

If you are one of the people who nominated a character, be sure to tell everyone to come vote. We want this to be biggest voter turnout yet for Versus (though that’s not going to take much, to be honest).

ONTO THE BATTLE!!!

  1. Nominated by Jessie : Fitz – hands down.
    Because he’s an excellent assassin but he can’t ever seem to control his heart. Which thinking about it doesn’t make him unique in the assassin world… perhaps it’s just that last time I read a book with him in it Robin Hobb had me convinced that *I* had a black eye, that I was actually Fitz. And when a writer sucks you in that completely how can you not love their character?
  2. Jodi Lea says: I’m thinking Medusa. Why? Because she seduced her prey to come to her, and because she really rocked a bad-hair day.
  3. faithhopechocolate weighed in with: Lord Vetinari, patrician of Ankh Morpork. Why? Because he graduated from the Guild of Assassins and now rules the city and surrounding areas, having created peace by being a quiet but reasonable tyrant who hasn’t done any killing himself for years that we know of, by using all the tricks he learnt about sneaking around and gathering information so that the Guild of Assassins have actually taken him off their books.
  4. Jaded’s choice is: Anton Chigurh. Pure business, no compassion, and to my knowledge has never been caught.
  5. Firewaves21 has the opinion: I think the white walkers might be fictions greatest assassins. Those guys are bad ass and pretty darn scary. I know we are all waiting on the edge our seats to see if anyone, anything, can defeat them. eeeek
  6. djmatticus has his two cents: Fictions greatest assassin is: la femme Nikita.
    She starts as a drug addict, is forced into an impossible decision, makes the best of it through force of will, and ends up surpassing the people who trained her.
  7. And last, because that’s how I roll, is my choice: Deadpool. There’s a book that’s called “Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe” that shows Deadpool assassinating every single Marvel character there is. Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, even Galactus. If you can kill every Marvel character there is, then you are Fiction’s Greatest Assassin. Plus, you know, he’s Deadpool, so that also makes him Fiction’s Coolest Assassin.

There you have it folks. There are the choices. Be sure to cast your vote in the poll below. Good luck to everyone who nominated someone.

Agent X

by Revis Edgewater

I recently started a subscription to Marvel Unlimited. For those of you who don’t know, Marvel Unlimited lets you read pretty much every Marvel comic ever printed, except for those published in the last 6 to 8 months or so. Now, you’d think that since I’ve been out of the comic loop for a while, I would use this opportunity to catch up on some things. So far, though, I’ve been using it to reread comics that were once part of my collection.

I have decided to talk about a couple of them as part of this NaBloPoMo. Up first is Agent X.

Agent X is actually a spinoff of Deadpool. The basic story is that a mysterious figure shows up on the doorstep of one of Deadpool’s aassociates a few days after the merc with a mouth goes missing and is presumed dead. This mysterious figure has Deadpool’s personality and healing factor, so , even though he looks slightly different ( he has scars on his face shaped like x’s instead of the normal all over scarring ) , friends and foes alike assume he is Deadpool . 

Agent X , also now going by the name Alex Hayden , can’t remember anything about his past, and he doesn’t care. All he cares about is starting the biggest and best mercenary business in the world. The rest of  the series is the stories of the jobs he gets.

This series only lasted 15 issues. The first six were good. The last three were good. The six in the middle? Not so much. What did the good ones have in common? They were all written by the same person: Gail Simone.  She was so much better than the other people they had write. The main difference is that when she wrote it , the jokes (you know  there’s going to be jokes. It’s a Deadpool type book) flowed freely and were usually funny. The other writers made the jokes seem forced and they were usually not funny. 

Anyways, the series ends with everyone learning (surprise, surprise ) that Agent X is not Deadpool. They team up to defeat the bad guy and then go their separate ways.

As for what happened to Agent X after the series was cancelled, I’m not sure. He probably popped up again somewhere down the line in Deadpool’s adventures. Hopefully, the got along better during their second meeting than they did in their first . 

All in all, they are worth the read. Just don’t give up on it when it starts to get worse towards the middle.