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Showing posts with label X-Men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label X-Men. Show all posts

Sunday, June 23, 2019

50 Cent Comics - Astonishing X-Men #52



Next up from my 50 Cent MegaCon score is Astonishing X-Men #52. The X-Men has always been one of my favorite comic franchises though I stopped reading on a regular basis long before Astonishing X-Men came along. The Uncanny X-Men, The X-Men (later), X-Force, X-Factor, The New Mutants and Excalibur...those were the titles I remember.


There's a lot going on in this issue. Karma is being mind controlled by someone else...awkward as that's sort of what she does. Oh, and Wolverine explodes. There's some kind of bomb in his stomach. I'm not too worried though. With that mutant healing factor of his I'm sure it will all work out in the end.







Astonishing X-Men #52

Monday, June 10, 2019

50 Cent Comics – X-Treme X-Men #32

Next up from the batch of 50 cent comics I picked up at MegaCon in Orlando this year is X-Treme X-Men #32. Back when I bought comics on a regular basis, The X-Men titles were among my favorites. However, this was before X-Treme X-Men came along so I'm not really sure how that one fits in. I'm not sure this cover really has anything to do with the story.

Anyway, the story involves a woman trying to blow up a club full of mutants for some past abuse she suffered. This issue is from December 2003 but you can get a pretty good idea of the time period from the...

...video game advertisements like this one for Soul Calibur II for the GameCube. The only 3D fighting game series I really played and liked.


Discrete sound cards aren't as big of a deal as they used to be but the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 was one I used to really want. I always contented myself with on-board audio though. I don't think I really had a discrete sound card since whatever Sound Blaster variant I had that came with my Pentium II from Gateway 2000. And that Sound Blaster 16 ASP I had for my 486 DX2-66 back in the day was awesome for its time. I still kind of want one of those Audigy 2s though...


Another video game ad to date this issue. This time for a game I never heard of for the original XBox.

See the previous entry in this series here: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/2019/06/50-cent-comics-avengers-255.html

Monday, October 29, 2012

Wolverine #137

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Wolverine #137 from April 1999