Lightning review of Ultimate X : Origins !

Time for another unscheduled spin - off post. This was originally part of my main Arthur Adams birthday post and I really thought that with three spin off posts I had more than enough but even after all this cutting the main part is still a bit long and this lightning review just lends itself for this.

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.

Surprise Flashback Friday with Mike Mignola

After we took a break from the brilliant Race Against Time story to bring you a special FLASH FRIDAY edition honoring Kevin Maguire´s anniversary last week I thought we could continue this week but because Mike Mignola turns 56 Today we are taking another break for a very special post which I like to call FLASHBACK FRIDAY - to keep the Flash theme going.

Now what does FLASHBACK FRIDAY mean ? Well, as the kids of Today would say : we´re kicking it old school. Mike Mignola is best known now as the creator of HELLBOY and having a knack at drawing horror but - to tie in to Yesterday´s post - when I got my first issues of THOR by Walter Simonson he was on Hulk. First just doing the covers but after Sal Buscema left the book with one of the longest runs in history Mike Mignola did interiors.

Mike´s stint on the book was rather shortlived because at the end of the Crossroads story line ( which is now finally available in trade together with the two previous stories Pardoned and Regression ) there was a crossover with ALPHA FLIGHT after which the creative teams switched so he ended up chronicling the adventures of Canada´s super hero team.

He did a number of comics at Marvel but his biggest claim to fame is probably drawing the very first ROCKET RACCOON mini series written by the great Bill Mantlo who also was his collaborator on HULK. A few months back I got the ANNIHILATION CLASSIC hardcover from amazon for 9 bucks which is a real bargain price for a 30 Dollar book but the main reason for me to buy it was to finally have the complete ROCKET RACCOON mini series in a nice hardcover. Man, that series is so much better than what they are currently doing with the character. On one side it´s sad but on the other side anything that brings money to Bill Mantlo is okay with me.

So to come back to the question I posed myself, in this post you will not see any HELLBOY art or work from Mike Mignola´s other horror work but rather something from the series he did before he became famous and a well known artist. Most birthday posts will probably be full of HELLBOY stuff and I want to showcase the Mike Mignola I grew up with. And who knows ? You might even be inspired to check out some of his earliest work while you are waiting for the next HELLBOY mini series to be finished.

Once again there are a few people to thank without whom I couldn´t have made this post - or at least it would not look nearly as good - starting with Piperson at THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES whose Mike Mignola birthday post from 2014 not only provided the black and white page from Rocket Raccoon but also has more excellent examples of Mike´s magnifique work.

Now originally I wanted to add more pages from Cosmic Odyssey but being the perfectionist that I am I went looking for better scans and ended up with more than I bargained for so that this great story will be featured an upcoming DEATH IN COMICS post. The series really seems to divide the readership and there are some who really can´t wrap their head around it like the reviewers at BRONZE AGE BABIES who have posts for all of the issues ( issue 1 / issue 2 / issue 3 / issue 4 ) while the guys at COMICS BULLETIN clearly did get the story as it is analyzed in all of its aspects by different writers ( part 1 / part 2 / part 3 / part 4 / part 5 ) . I won´t even try to summarize it in a few short sentences, you have to read it for yourself. More praise comes from Danny Djeljosevic at YELLOWED PAGES who even goes as far as to proclaim that Cosmic Odyssey Is Basically 24 By Way Of Infinity Gauntlet and it also gets a very good review from Brad Hawley at FANTASY LITERATURE . I´m not forgetting my spanish readers who can check out COMICS VORTEX to read more about the series and Jared at DENTRO DEL LABERINTO has another review of Cosmic Odyssey. Now I might be biased here but it seems that american readers have more problems grasping the series while it tends to rated more favorable in Spain. Last but not least, AROUSING GRAMMAR has an entire post dedicated to - spoilers ! - The Time John Stewart Blew Up Xanshi.

Strangely enough Today´s birthdays start with two playmates, ukrainian model and Playmate of the Month Miss February in 2002 Anka Romensky ( 34C - 23 - 35 ) who turns 35 and Kimberly McArthur ( 37E !!! - 22 - 24 ), Playmate of the Month January in 1982 who celebrates her 53rd birthday.

Kimberly McArthur appeared in an episode of Magnum P.I. as a lady in a hot tub but she is best known for her role in Andy Sidaris´ first official Babes, Bikinis and Bullets movie Malibu Express. Now while I DO post pictures of sexy babes I try to keep these post safe for work which is why I´m not posting any of the pictures of Kimberly McArthur which is a shame because - daimn ! - that woman is built to play Power Girl. I did however find two pictures of Anka Romensky I can post and this is the tamer one.   

Speaking of tamer versions, if you have seen this post before it was finished you might have noticed that I changed the video below. Originally I included the Playmate Play - Offs from 1986 which is a lot of playmates - including Kimberly McArthur - competing in bikinis and wet t - shirt. While that can be seen as risky because of the wet t - shirts and some nipplage showing I thought it was okay but I watched it and at the end some of the playmates take their tops of. Okay, they are covered in mud so they are not really naked but I thought it´s better to be safe than sorry. So here is another kind of contest involving playmates and Kimberly McArthur and I already posted the first part of this. And if you prefer to watch the Playmate Play - Off you can probably still find the video on YouTube.



Now Kurt Busiek who turns 56 really deserves a post of his own but since I can only do one post per day - and most times making these posts take at least two days - I will have to leave that for another day. Since I already did an Astro City post on Brent Anderson´s birthday it will probably be about Avengers so I can post more George Perez and Carlos Pacheco art.

Today one of the sexiest MILFs in Tinseltown Jennifer Tilly celebrates her 58th birthday and although she appeared in classics as Embrace Of The Vampire ( where her performance is overshadowed by Alyssa Milano´s naked breasts ), Liar Liar or Bound I never got to do a proper post on her.

The brunette knocker knockout has slowly but surely built an impressive resume, including an Oscar nomination for her performance in the 1994 Woody Allen period comedy Bullets Over Broadway. Notorious for her squeaky voice which might alienate the squeamish of ear ( while turning on all others ) and her naturally large breasts, she has often displayed deep cleavage in photos as well as in movies. On occasions she is topless in movies, but rarely in full frontal form, though she did do a fully nude scene during the 2001 Broadway revival of the play The Women. Showing a good sense of humor, she parodied herself in Seed of Chucky in 2004.

Now it was difficult to choose just one video for this post from the many that are available of Jennifer Tilly. Even leaving all the movie clips aside that still leaves her various oversexed appearances on Craig Ferguson or the episode of The Graham Norton Effect ( was this the program he did before The Graham Norton Show ? ) where she is rocking a huge cleavage.

As I already posted a video of Jennifer Tilly making an appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in an earlier post I chose one from a poker tournament and to back this up a little Jennifer Tilly playing poker caught me completely by surprise. At that time they had started to show poker games on tv in Germany and to say the truth I just couldn´t stand it. It was on at least two tv stations and one of them showed them every day. And during every commercial break on any tv station you had to endure at least three commercials about playing poker. So naturally I did not watch any of it and when I found out what I missed I was of course devastated and had to turn to the internet to find clips on YouTube.

What really got me was that everybody was really excited about it which is no wonder since it´s not everyday that Jennifer puts her raunchy rack on display like that. Of course when you use such weapons of mass erection playing poker - and Jennifer had no problems distracting her opponents by showing off her gorgeous breasts - it plays with the imagination and there was a lot of sexual innuendo and play of words concerning that. The list goes from " huge pair ", " top pair ", " big flash " to everything else and words like " poker " suddenly sound like " poke her " and " going all in " had another meaning. To break the others concentration Jennifer made sure to bend over quite often even using the old " Oops, I have to pick up my bag. " excuse to give everyone present a good eyeful of her perfect 36C puppies. It´s a wonder ( or a shame ) they didn´t fall out of her dress.

Now for this post I have chosen the best clip of Jennifer Tilly playing poker and using her big pair to distract her opponents EVER !!! You can see by her smile that she´s fully aware that both guys are staring at her boobs.

The guy she tries to beat acts like he doesn´t notice that she is putting her twin torpedoes on display because he knows that once he takes a peek at her massive mounds of pleasure he is done for. But so does Jennifer who uses every dirty trick in the book like leaning forward, changing positions so she is shoving them in his face making sure he can´t help getting a good eyeful or putting her huge puppies on the table where they are better illuminated all the while thinking : " I´ll get you hard yet. "

They are both dissimulating and it looks like he´s praying for strength not to look at her and to keep his huge erection from breaking the table. I think this is called the cleavage standoff. In the end Jennifer´s clever tactics win : he has given up all resistance and is drooling all over her.  



Today is also the anniversary of B. B. King´s birth and initially I wanted to post a great audition of The Thrill Is Gone from The Voice which I had already prepared but in the end I said let´s get a video with the man.



Yesterday we had Agatha Christie in our entertainment block Today it´s Lauren Bacall 2014 who starred in the 1974 adaption of Murder On The Orient Express. She appeared in some of the best known Humphrey Bogart movies like To Have And Have Not, Key Largo, The Big Sleep but also in How To Marry A Millionaire with Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe which I just bought last month but haven´t had the time to re - watch.

I still remember the basic plot and any movie with Marilyn Monroe in the cast is worth watching, she was just the epitome of beauty and elegance - even wearing glasses. That´s one thing I´ve completely forgotten about.

Coming back to Lauren Bacall, as coincidence would have it she appeared in Sex And The Single Girl together with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood who both starred in The Great Race with our next candidate Peter Falk.

He´s best known for playing the disheveled mastermind Columbo a series that is still on reruns. Something else that is not as often on tv as it used to be but what you can still see from time to time is the aforementioned The Great Race Columbo called The Great Race Around The World in Germany ( Das große Rennen rund um die Welt ) with Natalie Wood as Maggie Dubois, Tony Curtis as The Great Leslie and Jack Lemon as evil Professor Fate. Peter Falk plays Profesor Fate´s henchmen Maximilian Meen and as an interesting fact Denver Pyle whom we all love from The Dukes Of Hazard plays the Sheriff. Also originally Robert Wagner was supposed to play the lead but because he had recently divorced Natalie Wood they went with Tony Curtis. Natalie Wood wasn´t the first choice for the role of Maggie Dubois either but they gave her the part after Lee Remick declined and Jane Fonda decided to walk off to do Cat Ballou.

Initially the movie was a flop and it is known for having the biggest pie fight in movie history. The whole family would always watch it and the scene that impressed me most as a little boy was naturally the one where Natalie Wood rips up her clothes and tries to escape in her underwear.

Speaking of Natalie Wood in underwear you can see more pictures from that scene here, Paco Granados at NATALIE WOOD has a plethora of GIFs from that movie and you can read more about Natalie Wood at JESSICA . Despite it´s initial failure The Great Race is one of the classic Hollywood films and it´s one of the movies I still watch even if I have already seen it a hundred times. Naturally I know only the german dubbing and the thing that first comes to mind even before " Das soll mir der Große Leslie erst nachmachen. "  is Jack Lemon shouting " Max ! Drück auf´s Knöpfchen ! "



If you have managed to soldier on until now I think you deserve a reward and what better than a cartoon video from Mike Mignola ? And because I would feel uncomfortable putting one of the animated Hellboy movies on the post here is Amazing Screw - On Head based on a comic by Mike Mignola. As I understand it this was the pilot for a supposed series that never got made and now it is on kickstarter to gain the necessary funds.



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