I haven't had time for posting lately and that will likely mostly continue for the foreseeable future. My mom nearly died, it was a whole thing... She spent a couple of weeks in the hospital and is now in a place to get occupational/physical therapy to continue her recovery. I'm continuing to try to be with her as much as possible and to help as much as I can, and then do whatever else I need to do in whatever time is left over. Sadly, that means my work on part two of The Dragon Mythos in completely delayed, for now.

But there will be good things coming to those who wait. Not only more revelations but something more ambitious. Using available information, instead of creating a raw outline, an attempt is being made to recreate textually to the extent possible Louise Simonson's unpublished X-Factor #65. The issue that caused her to quit Marvel.

I also posted a while back that I believe OG Iceman will be returning as the Dragon sometime around Christmas. I stand by that. I haven't been able to keep up with what books are coming out, so I can't be more specific than that, so everyone just keep your eyes peeled.

Big things are coming. For Jean... For Bobby... A battle between light and dark, good and evil, life and death. A battle for the very existence of the Marvel Universe. A battle to be lead by two destined to be both mortal enemies and perfect lovers, and already the oldest and dearest of friends.

It is the stuff of Greek myths and tragedies, a story that has been building for decades, and its time has come at last...

Rant incoming. OMG - Gail Simone is a horrible person. She completely Gambait the fans with UXM #5. He is literally on the cover with his cats and that is it! The entire issue is about Rogue, wtf. GS is telling fans, its the year of Gambit, but doesn't use him beyond being a romantic character and then when the fans are told, he's going to be in an issue and all we get is the cover ... my forum is on fire over this, its just disappointing. Did I buy it, yes - for the cover of him and his cats. The only action the character had  gotten in months. I'm so tired of women writers at Marvel.End of rant.

While disappointed in the outcome of the election. There are positives too.
1 - he can not run again, he's done. He can try all he wants and make some things happen but in general - nada.
2 - No pres gets anything done in 4. Look at history.

Seconded.

Ordinarily, I like a healthy debate on issues and I think people should be able to do that in a respectful way. There is so much biased news coverage that sometimes people directly sharing information with each other is the only way they learn what is actually going on, especially as people retreat into information bubbles that only reinforce and amplify their own existing views. We are increasingly becoming two countries that occupy the same physical space but have a fundamentally different view of much of what is happening in the world around us.

That being said... The amount of toxic rhetoric, hate and vitriol being expressed right now in our country has been dialed up to an eleven. People are already canceling Thanksgiving dinners with their families with the holiday still a month away. Not only will many friendships not survive this election, plenty of marriages will not survive it either.

This close to an election, a passionate plea to support one candidate or another is not likely to sway anybody; and making that argument by saying negative things about the other candidate is more likely to just invite conflict with those of a different view.

Maybe we can all take a step back from that ledge a bit... Stick to seeing our friends, neighbors and fellow countrymen as witches and demons only when they are dressed like that for Halloween!

And maybe table the political discussions here, at least for the foreseeable future...

If it's not too much to ask, can we please stick to Marvel comics topics. Political views can be detrimental to friendships here, and cause unnecessary disputes amongst its members and lead to a toxic environment. Thank You.

I mostly use Imgur now. I didn't know the new Tinypic existed. I checked it out and I like the interface. I had to replace one of our pop-up image up-loaders a while back and I wasn't really happy with the replacement, so I just replaced that with Tinypic. Much better!

Wow, a lot of my images are gone. I think I got ride of photo bucket. LOL. Using Imgur or Tinypic now. LOL

Silly me, didn't know where to look or I would have the Andrei stuff there. And yes, the same Andrei who could not talk about his project, now he can or at least a little.

Thanks for finding a bigger image, I'll probably post that the Guild site but not worried about it.

Is that what Andrei was working on that he couldn't talk about? That is so cool!

If you are referring to "The Ragin' Cajun - [GAMBIT] Appreciation Thread!" as being archived, it is not nor has it even been archived. It's in the X-Men Appreciation threads sub-forum of the X-Men boards, same as it has been for as long as the forum has been here. I just made a test post in it and it went through fine.

Larger image...

I haven't had time for posting lately and that will likely mostly continue for the foreseeable future. My mom nearly died, it was a whole thing... She spent a couple of weeks in the hospital and is now in a place to get occupational/physical therapy to continue her recovery. I'm continuing to try to be with her as much as possible and to help as much as I can, and then do whatever else I need to do in whatever time is left over. Sadly, that means my work on part two of The Dragon Mythos in completely delayed, for now.

But there will be good things coming to those who wait. Not only more revelations but something more ambitious. Using available information, instead of creating a raw outline, an attempt is being made to recreate textually to the extent possible Louise Simonson's unpublished X-Factor #65. The issue that caused her to quit Marvel.

I also posted a while back that I believe OG Iceman will be returning as the Dragon sometime around Christmas. I stand by that. I haven't been able to keep up with what books are coming out, so I can't be more specific than that, so everyone just keep your eyes peeled.

Big things are coming. For Jean... For Bobby... A battle between light and dark, good and evil, life and death. A battle for the very existence of the Marvel Universe. A battle to be lead by two destined to be both mortal enemies and perfect lovers, and already the oldest and dearest of friends.

It is the stuff of Greek myths and tragedies, a story that has been building for decades, and its time has come at last...

Rant incoming. OMG - Gail Simone is a horrible person. She completely Gambait the fans with UXM #5. He is literally on the cover with his cats and that is it! The entire issue is about Rogue, wtf. GS is telling fans, its the year of Gambit, but doesn't use him beyond being a romantic character and then when the fans are told, he's going to be in an issue and all we get is the cover ... my forum is on fire over this, its just disappointing. Did I buy it, yes - for the cover of him and his cats. The only action the character had  gotten in months. I'm so tired of women writers at Marvel.End of rant.

While disappointed in the outcome of the election. There are positives too.
1 - he can not run again, he's done. He can try all he wants and make some things happen but in general - nada.
2 - No pres gets anything done in 4. Look at history.

Seconded.

Ordinarily, I like a healthy debate on issues and I think people should be able to do that in a respectful way. There is so much biased news coverage that sometimes people directly sharing information with each other is the only way they learn what is actually going on, especially as people retreat into information bubbles that only reinforce and amplify their own existing views. We are increasingly becoming two countries that occupy the same physical space but have a fundamentally different view of much of what is happening in the world around us.

That being said... The amount of toxic rhetoric, hate and vitriol being expressed right now in our country has been dialed up to an eleven. People are already canceling Thanksgiving dinners with their families with the holiday still a month away. Not only will many friendships not survive this election, plenty of marriages will not survive it either.

This close to an election, a passionate plea to support one candidate or another is not likely to sway anybody; and making that argument by saying negative things about the other candidate is more likely to just invite conflict with those of a different view.

Maybe we can all take a step back from that ledge a bit... Stick to seeing our friends, neighbors and fellow countrymen as witches and demons only when they are dressed like that for Halloween!

And maybe table the political discussions here, at least for the foreseeable future...

If it's not too much to ask, can we please stick to Marvel comics topics. Political views can be detrimental to friendships here, and cause unnecessary disputes amongst its members and lead to a toxic environment. Thank You.

I mostly use Imgur now. I didn't know the new Tinypic existed. I checked it out and I like the interface. I had to replace one of our pop-up image up-loaders a while back and I wasn't really happy with the replacement, so I just replaced that with Tinypic. Much better!

Wow, a lot of my images are gone. I think I got ride of photo bucket. LOL. Using Imgur or Tinypic now. LOL

Silly me, didn't know where to look or I would have the Andrei stuff there. And yes, the same Andrei who could not talk about his project, now he can or at least a little.

Thanks for finding a bigger image, I'll probably post that the Guild site but not worried about it.

Is that what Andrei was working on that he couldn't talk about? That is so cool!

If you are referring to "The Ragin' Cajun - [GAMBIT] Appreciation Thread!" as being archived, it is not nor has it even been archived. It's in the X-Men Appreciation threads sub-forum of the X-Men boards, same as it has been for as long as the forum has been here. I just made a test post in it and it went through fine.

Larger image...