As usual this amazon pick will probably already be gone by the time I finish this which is why there have not been a lot of them in my last posts.
Nevertheless I want to pimp the trade of Ultimate Comics - X : Origins not only because it´s a steal at 5 EUROS but because the interiors are fully done by Arthur Adams and it´s some of his best work in recent years.
You might be reluctant to pick this up because Marvel terminated the Ultimate line but while it lasted they did their share of kickass comics ( the revamped version of the Avengers in ULTIMATES not only was the blueprint for the Marvel cinematic universe, it also established Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury ) and this is one of them. And despite the fact that it takes place in a mutant universe with a lot of backstory you don´t need to know much about it since the issues fill you in on anything important.
The first four issues are done in one stories and especially the second one is one of my all time favorite issues that I always carry with me when I leave the house. So this trade gets my utmost recommendation as you get two masters of the comic craft - Jeph Loeb and Arthur Adams - at the top of their game. Now as I said this reading tip may be already redundant by the time you read this but I still wanted to include it because the trade - and sometimes even the hardcover - keep popping up in amazons bargain section as this story was overlooked by many comic book afficionados.
There is one last thing I want to mention in regards to Ultimate Comics - X : Origin but for that I have to go on a short tangent. And I know that it looks like I am just doing this to include a few more sexbombs ( which is never a bad thing ) but I promise that it is relevant to the review. So please bear - or better bare - with me. Longtime readers might remember the german after midnight striptease superstar cult show Die Rote Meile that had an entire male generation glued to the tv set thanks to the parade of living blow up sex dolls which I mentioned in a few posts.
The series was named after the red light district of St. Pauli in Hamburg and was a sequel to The King of St. Pauli. It follows the lives of strippers, prostitutes and their pimps but they are all portrayed like regular people not like in american tv series where people from this walk of life are always portrayed as bad people. I remember an episode of a series about beach cops on bikes ( that sounds as action packed as it was ) with people from the porn industry and they also made them killers because all people in adult entertainment are horrible people. Anyway, I watched every episode of Die Rote Meile because they had a very easy concept : one strip in every episode which was not interrupted by commercials. I don´t know if they could do that Today as they put commercials into everything.
Anyway, one of the best strippers of the regular cast is Sylvia Leifheit who has a secret identity in the series as she plays the typical devoted wife by day, secret stripper by night. Sylvia made me realize two things : firstly, while I usually don´t go for skinny chicks she is just oozing so much sex appeal that I would do her in a minute. And second, hair color can really make a difference because her character in the series is actually a blonde and despite having the same figure as a blonde she´s kind of a - meh - looking girl while as Luna with the black wig she´s a real firecracker !
A few years back I got the complete first season of Die Rote Meile on DVD at amazon at a pretty decent price and I´m glad I seized the opportunity because it really goes for ridiculous prices now. I can really recommend this show and Sylvia Leifheit alone is worth the price of admission.
Now you may ask what that has to do with the comic book I am pimping. For which I have to do another callback. I know, I hate to go all How I Met Your Mother on you. I hate this kind of thing because my father always used to tell stories that way and he often forgot what his initial point was when he came to the end of the story. Which may be one of the reasons why I never watched a lot of episodes of How I Met Your Mother. Okay, our second tangent takes us even further back to the year 2007 when COMICBABE BATTLE was still a regular feature on this blog ( I think it´s still one of the most popular topics on the blog and every year I try to bring it back ). My very first post in that series was my ranking of the X - TREMELY X - RATED X - BABES and some readers with a really long memory may recall that Jean Grey didn´t make it in my top five, she was my third runner up.
Besides her longtime relationship with Cyclops, a plethora of unfavorable costume designs and just one too many death and resurrection the fact that she was a redhead never scored any extra points with me. I don´t know what it is but while I certainly get the appeal of redheads in real life ( You know the old saying : you can sleep with a blonde or you can sleep with a brunette but you will never sleep with a redhead. Also there is the hottest redhead ever, real life Power Girl all natural 38DDD Busenwunder Christina Hendricks whom I cast as Maxima in my very first CASTING THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA MOVIE post . ) there are not a lot of women with red hair in comics I think of as hot with the exception of a few very scantily clad redheads like Red Sonya or Jessica Rabbit. Maybe it has to do with the fact that in comic books hair color is not that big of a difference.
Be that as it may, here is where we come back to Ultimate Comics - X : Origin because in the story Jean Grey dyes her hair black to go undercover and like with Sylvia Leifheit on Die Rote Meile Jean Grey with the black hair is a real firecracker. And I´m not only saying that because something like the scene below happened to me in real life. During one of my long train rides to Munich ( back when I was doing my military service ) I had the luck to be seated next to a young girl with really incredibly big breasts and the three hour long journey went by flying as I could look right into her plunging cleavage. I would have put the moves on her but she told me that she was underage when she caught me peeking at her titanic twin torpedoes. Which destroyed my hopes of taming her in the ICE lavatory but at least I could openly drool all over her mouthwatering mega melons.
When you have written more than 1030 posts you naturally reach the point where you run out of comic book related videos about the X - MEN.
But don´t fear, this post still contains the obligatory comic book video and it also gives me the chance to post a video about the famous 90s X - MEN cartoon that I wanted to post for the longest time. Some people say the 90s were not the best times for comics but they sure were for cartoons.
Now I don´t have much luck with Die Rote Meile either as there are very few clips on YouTube from that show and they are all very short and of bad quality. So I resort to the few videos about erotic dancing that I have left which brings back an old reader favorite for a sexy encore performance.
From time to time I throw away the rule book in regards to what kind of videos I put in these post and just go for what I find interesting, cool or funny. Or all of the above like in this commercial with the real MacGyver.
Originally I had included a very interesting documentary about Peter Falk and his famous role of Columbo but that was deleted before I could finish it. So to make up for that here is Tod am Strand ( original title Identity Crisis ) guest starring Patrick McGoohan best known for The Prisoner and Leslie Nielsen who can be seen in one of his rare serious roles. Leslie is of course best known for his part of Frank Drebin in Police Squad. Ultimate Busenwunder Anna Nicole Smith was his co star in The Naked Gun 33 1/3 - The Final Insult and daimn, she would have been a heck of a Power Girl !
Which must have been what 89 year old billionaire J. Howard Marshall was thinking when he married the then 26 year old Playmate Of The Month of May 1992 and Playmate Of The Year 1993 in 1994. His family was probably not very thrilled about this since they assumed she only married him for his money which she planned to inherit as soon as possible by having lots of freaky sex with the old guy in as many positions as you can think of. Of which horny J. Howard Marshall probably was aware from the get - go.
This must be the absolutely best way to go : after getting filthy rich you marry a young and flexible blonde Playmate Of The Month with giant 41DD boobs whose only goal in life is to kill you with sex. Who knows to which endurance testing hardcore sex orgies the overinflated living blow up love doll submitted the lucky guy - we only know that it took her thirteen long months to succeed. Man, that was probably the best year of his life !
Anna Nicole Smith didn´t last much longer either with her untimely death in 2007 but instead of engaging in all the negative gossip and rumors about the steady decline of her film career I want to remember her at her best .
Coming back to Columbo, something they especially mentioned in the documentary was that the tv bosses were never happy with the show. For their understanding having the viewers witness the murder took away all of the suspense, the audience had to wait fifteen minutes until the main character appeared on the scene and unlike most tv cops Columbo never used a gun. Which just goes to show that sometimes you don´t have success in spite of going against the mainstream but because of it.
Since Anna Nicole Smith is no longer with us we will need somebody else who can play Power Girl so here are five candidates who could all fill out her magical cleavage window : Aimee Spiers ( 30 ) born on the 5th of October in 1988 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Chantel Zales ( 24 ) an american glamour model ( 34E - 25 - 36 ) born on the 6th July of 1994 in Albuquerque New Mexico, Jayce Ivanah, Sarah Allen an australian fitness model, bikini competitor and personal trainer who was born back in 1985 and last but not least the mega busty ( 35D - 26 - 36 ) Kinsey Wolanski whose birthday was either the 30th of August in 1996 or the 1st of June in 1997 who appeared in MAXIM, Sports Illustrated, FHM and the movie Slasher Party .
As promised here is the comic book video and since this is a Marvel Comics post I thought it would be appropriate to take a look at their What If ? line. For Today´s readers : this was a series that told stories of alternate worlds and realities where things happened different than in the 616 universe which was the main Marvel universe. For older readers like me that is what is happening in the Marvel universe right now since the top dogs scrapped the complete continuity. Now it´s a whole world of What Ifs like What If Thor Was A Woman ? ( which happened in WHAT IF issue 10 ), What If Steve Rogers Were A Hydra Agent ?, What If Captain America Was Black ? etc. as long as it keeps those non comic reading SJWs happy.
Some may see this song as a commentary to the current state of Marvel Comics but I assure it is just coincidence. I don´t have a music video that fits the post and I already took out the video from three previous posts.
We are taking another detour outside the realm of comic books, movies or pop culture to delve a bit into science. Although you could say that it kind of has to do with it since it explains how our human bodies process colors.
I am still pimping The Justice League Vs The Fatal Five which for me is THE BEST animated movie DC has done in the last years. While it is jarring to have Superman who not recognize the Legionnaires ( Who else had a River Song moment with that ? ) at least we have some of them in the movie.
For me this is much better than Gods And Monsters which was basically an ELSEWORLDS ( which was DC´s version of Marvel´s WHAT IF ? - see how it all connects ? ) and while the stories in ELSEWORLDS can be very engaging you don´t connect on the same deep level with the new versions of the classic characters as with the heroes you followed for decades. But I guess that is something people who don´t read comic books will never learn.
Anyway, check out The Justice League Vs The Fatal Five no matter if you are a Legion fan, a Justice League fan or just a fan of good comic stories.
We tie it all together with our last video which is The Most Dangerous Game from 1932 with Fay Wray who some of the older amongst my readers may remember from the first King Kong movie. This is the very first movie adaption of the short story by Richard Connell which not only has been the plot of a dozen movies and tv shows it also was the inspiration for the Legion of Super - Heroes story The Hunter ! in Adventure Comics 358.
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Listen, Columbo, just for a minute how about we stop pretending that I´m brilliant and you are simple.
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