What the heck is “Shift”? Go HERE for an explanation.
Andrew & Billy Talk About The Many Virtues Of TBS:
Billy: “He keeps his car really clean.”
Andrew: “He likes good Chinese.”
Billy: “He’s nice to the Vs. peoples…”
Andrew: “Um, he has nice hair?”
Billy: “No. He’s a good rock climber?”
Andrew: “Pfft!”
Billy: “This is really hard.”
Andrew: “Tell me about it.”
Catching You Up!
Exiles cards previewed so far:
• Blink, Earth-295, Clarice Ferguson – That’s a cover we swiped. She’s standing in front of a downed Sentinel. Wait, did somebody say “Sentinels”?
• Illyana Rasputin, Magik, Earth 4210 – I love how much this feels like an Underworld card.
• Five In One – I like Mimic, I do, but as far as power limitations go, this has got to be one of the lamer ones. “You can only copy five at a time… why?”
• Miguel O’Hara, Spider-Man, Earth-6375 – because you can never have too many Spider-Mans in Modern Age.
• Mimic, Earth-12, Infected – Ew, take care of that acne, dude.
• Panoptichron – Nice card, yes, but too bad about it depicting a crappy part of the run. What’s that? Claremont is still writing it? Nevermind.
• Blink, Earth-295, Dimension Jumper – This card has alternate art. OH, exciting!
• Mimic, Earth-12, Team Leader – Yes, this guy really is THAT bad-ass.
• Proteus, Earth-58163 – Ah, Proteus. I’m glad nobody cares that I couldn’t find a picture of the “actual” Proteus. Then again, Proteus doesn’t actually have a body of his own anyway.
• Shadowcat, Cat, Earth-Unknown – …pervs.
• Warp Shards – Artist correction! This is actually James Calafiore. Oops. .
It’s A Super-Dimensional Romp For The Entire Family!
Okay, I’m going to have to cheat you guys and only give you a short article this week. Sorry. Can’t be helped!*
Interested in spoilers? Try these:
• There are THREE Mimic character cards in the set.
• There are FOUR Blinks.
• Wolverine gets a couple of legacy cards in the Exiles section…
• …one of those cards is a character!
• 100% of the roster if filled with 98% of the Exiles from the comic.
• Weapon X characters from the Exiles comic do not appear in the Exiles section.
• Then what about Sabretooth, you ask?
What Will It Be This Time?
Because pretty much EVERYONE demanded it:
“Earth-Mojoverse”
“Third time’s the charm!”
TBS: “Seriously, guys? Why is it always like this?”
Billy: “Oh! He makes really good Vs. sets!”
Andrew: “Dude, he’s standing right there.”
TBS: “No, that’s fair… Legion was pretty stains.”
Recommended Reading:
1. Exiles Vol. 1: Down the Rabbit Hole
2. Exiles Vol. 2: A World Apart
3. Exiles Vol. 3: Out of Time
4. Exiles Vol. 4: Legacy
5. Exiles Vol. 5: Unnatural Instinct
6. Exiles Vol. 6: Fantastic Voyage
7. Exiles Vol. 7: A Blink in Time
8. Exiles Vol. 8: Earn Your Wings
9. Exiles Vol. 9: Bump in the Night
10. Exiles Vol. 10: Age of Apocalypse
11. Exiles Vol. 11: Timebreakers
12. Exiles Vol. 12: World Tour, Book 1
13. Exiles Vol. 13: World Tour, Book 2
14. Exiles Vol. 14: The New Exiles
15. Exiles Vol. 15: Enemy of the Stars
16. Exiles Volume 16: Starting Over
17. New Exiles Volume 1: New Life, New Gambit
18. New Exiles Volume 2: Soul Awakening
Again, a Wiki page exists! Go read it, if you haven’t already. Or like, I don’t know, read some comics?
Go away now! But stop by next week for a pair of previews (90’s style!) here on read/RANT! And then, of course, come back on Friday for another edition of Origin Stories to cap off the week. Later, dooders!
*I mean, who doesn’t know about patch 3.0.2?
Tags: Exiles, Marvel Comics, Versus, Vs. System
October 17, 2008 at 9:33 pm |
Nice and simple. Oh, and my preview card has alternate art? Cool. Still, isn’t the Recommended Reading list kind of lazy? I mean, Exiles vol 1-16 and New Exiles vol 1-2. In other words, every Exiles issue.
Longshot? Nice.
October 18, 2008 at 12:19 am |
…long live the Legion!
October 18, 2008 at 12:23 am |
@Pi: it’s not lazy if i actually read them all, is it?
@SS: somewhere, a TBS is patting itself on the back.
October 18, 2008 at 3:42 am |
I quite like the “only 5 at a time” limit. Stops Mimic becoming AMAZO.
October 18, 2008 at 7:14 am |
No, it’s lazy because everybody who hasn’t read any Exiles comics will then not know which ones are good and are bad. With 5 especially good stories, you could have people read good Exiles stories as opposed to the bad ones. You seem to have some opinion on Claremont ( I am assuming bad), so if you take out the bad stuff, people can have a more manageable list. Unless you think everything is good, in which recommending they just read it all from the beginning seems easier. (note: replace good and bad in this post with “what you think are good/bad”)
And like what Alan said. Otherwise, after their second mission, he could pretty much win anything with just mental powers, and if necessary, could destroy anything physically also. I mean, even at half strength, half Dark Phoenix, is, well, ridiculous.
October 18, 2008 at 8:39 am |
Are all the Weapon X characters in the set going to be from the Exiles “Weapon X” team, or will some of the earth-bound Weapon X be included as well?
October 18, 2008 at 9:46 am |
re: Mimic – i quite understand why the writers put a limitation on his power, but that’s not really what i was making fun of. they chose the number 5, yes? well, why not 4? or 3? or 2? hell, why not 6 or more? the number 5 just seems arbitrary.
re: laziness – the “recommended reading” section has always been a list of comics or trades that have inspired a given set, theme, or team. so, it’s not really meant to denote what i think is good or bad… although, i guess the name is misleading. sorry about that.
re: Weapon X – a mix of both.
October 28, 2008 at 7:12 am |
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