So I was finally able to read X-Men: Second Coming, and I must say, that was a pretty strong opening. This crossover has every potential to be as awesome as Messiah CompleX. But there’s a little something that bugged me. Okay, there’s the fact that Nightcrawler calls out Wolverine and X-23′s murderous ways mere seconds after he kills a couple of humans as well. Or the fact that Cyclops blew out a huge hole in his fucking wall when we all know that Cyclops is the most stoic X-Man ever. (continue reading…)

I really, really dug Messiah CompleX. I didn’t care much for Messiah War (heck, I don’t even know if it did anything to changed the status quo), so I don’t really know how I should feel about Second Coming. Although it’s going to be written by one of my favorite comic book writers of the moment, Christopher Yost, I feel like it’s going to be a bit meh. I expected a new mutant era post-Messiah CompleX. Where did we find Hope, the Mutant Messiah after that crossover? Stuck in the future, time-hopping with the motherfucking Cable, trying to escape Bishop. And the mutants stuck in the present suddenly ended up in San Francisco. I actually like this move, but it felt disjointed coming from the fact that the mutants are fucking facing extinction. Then we get aberrations such as the Bianchi-designed costumes, Dark X-Men, and Greg Land.

Billed as the final part of a trilogy starting with Messiah CompleX – and as the closing arc of everything that started with House of M – Second Coming is a crossover between four major X-books – Uncanny X-Men, X-Force, X-Men Legacy, and New Mutants. Like Messiah Complex, the storyline will weave between the four books for several months. In a nutshell, Second Coming sees the return of Cable and Hope to the present, just as Bastion launches his final, terrible campaign against the last of the mutants.

Needless to say, I’m not excited for this. Hope Summers was pushed to the sideline post-Messiah CompleX. I totally lost interest.

Apparently we made it into the finals of the Philippine Blog Awards 2009 <– Click here to see us in the list!

While I honestly don’t EXPECT us to win, I do HOPE!

Such is me in my blue lantern shirt:

But hope isn’t enough of course! Comicgasm would have never made it into the finals if it weren’t for us being awesome in one way or another. We sure ain’t gonna win if we just sit back and scratch our balls while staring at the sky as w usually do. Sure we delay posts 80% of the time – but really, what made us into the finals I wonder?

So I sought to describe Comicgasm and I learned that we are awesome because of a few things that we are. Some of these are essential truths that make up the fabric of the universe itself and cannot be defied! Deny them at your own cost.

COMICGASM FACTS:

-The name of Comicgasm was derived from two words: comics and orgasm. Therefore, whenever we post, someone has an orgasm.

-Contrary to popular belief, there is explicit nudity & visual sex scenes in DC, Marvel & Archie comics. Comicgasm simply chooses to keep those pages to ourselves. (See Justice League: Cry for Justice #2 and Archie #601)

- It is a well known fact that only three organisms in the world have pleasure when they have sex: Man, dolphins & Comicgasm.

- When Darkseid hits you with his Omega ray, you don’t die. You just Comicgasm.

- Chuck Norris counted to infinity twice – but only because he was trying to measure the amount of testosterone in Comicgasm.

- Superboy-Prime thought Comicgasm was stupid. Therefore the Legion of Three Worlds exists.

- DC & Marvel once disapproved a superhero idea inspired by Comicgasm’s awesome claiming the character was too powerful. Instead it was turned into a joke. We now know this as the Chuck Norris Facts.

- The modern Marvel comic book series no longer mentions the Infinity Gems. This is because Comicgasm has paid Marvel not to reveal where we get our awesome.

- Disney bought Marvel so they can finally have enough money to pay Comicgasm for Walt Disney’s cryogenically frozen body.

- The Nick Fury character was based on Samuel L. Jackson. The Samuel L. Jackson character was based on Comicgasm.

- The Green Lanterns recite an oath from the guardians. The Guardians recite an oath from Comicgasm.

- Comicgasm confronts the Guardians of the Universe with a Poke’ball and shouts “I choose you!”

- A member of Comicgasm has in fact met, sat down and chatted with Neil Gaiman – without knowing who he was. (and got him addicted to calamansi juice – see proof here.)

- When Alan Moore once got writer’s block in coming up with a character for his novel, he read Comicgasm. Inspired he created Dr. Manhattan.

- Comicgasm designed the costumes of Power Girl & Black Canary and hates the design of Wonder Woman’s costume – saying it ain’t revealing enough.

- When the Hulk gets angry, he gets bigger. When Comicgasm gets horny, he gets BIGGER.

- Comicgasm was supposed to be superhero – but we refused to wear spandex. Not because we don’t like spandex, but because we ALWAYS have a hard-on.

- Comicgasm won a hard-on contest with The Thing.

- Comicgasm won a staring contest with Daredevil.

- Comicgasm has retractable claws but no healing factor. We don’t need it. We like bleeding awesome.

- Comicgasm owns Dominic Ochoa’s long lost twin brother.

AND THAT’S IT. I finally know what lead us to this place so far!

If you have any more Comicgasm facts, pls pls COMMENT! XD

Imagine…

A Comic Con without a lot of comics…

Imagine…

Tons of bad program management laced with even worse cosplaying… (I’m only homophobic in cosplay events.)

But at the center of it all, stood a humble post with a couple of bubbly people – Milch & Lawrence. They were just quietly doing their thing – attending to curious customers, being annoyed at me because I couldn’t afford anything, etc.

Unknowingly, they brought us HOPE.

In two ways:

1. They had a statue of the Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) in the middle! In my humble opinion, there were too many Anime-holics whereas characters like Hal should have been in the limelight.

I mean seriously, its either we don’t have enough true comic fans, or they get scared away because of things like this:

SERIOUSLY. These characters aren’t even in Manga. (among other reasons)

2. I AM NINOY.

Ok this is the much more serious part.

23 years ago, Senator Ninoy Aquino died a hero.

A few days ago we saw the death his wife, Former President Corazon Aquino.

Common factor? HOPE.

Imagine Nation Studios brings to life via these sculptures the heroes we know and love.

Well this will be basically unpaid advertising, but if you want to obtain / have custom-made / take a look at / bother the people who make these things, go to their multiply here.