More on Secret Wars, NX, and the Commanding Fungus Officer who Tracks Gems and Stars

It's been over a month since I've posted here and I apologize.  I could make any amount of excuses and they wouldn't matter because... well...  Who cares?  Work, no computer at home, some sickness, all sorts of stuff.  But whatevs. 

Let's move on, shall we?  I'll try to cover as much as I can as terribly as I can.

First off, we have a lot more information about Marvel's upcoming Secret Wars.  We know Dr. Doom is somehow the orchestrator as the real identity of Rabum Alal (rah-boom ah-lawl) as a sort of future version of Dr. Doom along the lines of how Immortus is future Kang.  What we also now know a few more of the lands involved like the Regency which houses a pre-Brand New Day Spider-Man who is still married to Mary Jane, and a land dedicated to Doctor Strange where I presume there be the weird magic things happening, an entire world dedicated to Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur (love those guys), a land dedicated to Old Man Logan, and a few others.  What is really interesting is the potential for Marvel to not just simply go full Crisis on Infinite Earths their world, but do more of a Nu52 of their world as they can pick and choose from what timelines and characters from which they like and implement them as they wish.  Let me explain.

The most obvious one to me is Jubilee in terms of character replacement.  Hailing from "Westchester" a world which never stopped being what seems to be the animated X-Men cartoon universe.  So why Jubilee?  Well, as of House of M our good friend Jubilation became a "Flatscan," worked as a social worker of sorts for other depowered mutants, joined the renegade-esque New Warriors utilizing technology specifically from the Wizard, the Ghost, and Hank Pym.  Most technology was based on the Wizard and her gloves simulated super strength, super durability via force field, and flight, the Ghost tech allowed her to pass through objects, and once used Pym Particles to grow to giant size.  Either way, she grew out of that phase and went full vampire, and while some people delighted in this change the vampire phase is now on a strong decline while there seems to be some thirst for the old sparkler Jubilee if certain circles are to be believed.  And this can be a very good thing, because Marvel could basically put in place a Jubilee which was wildly popular for a while and not have to explain it with anymore than a handwave of, "Blame it on the Crisis Incursion."  And I really believe this has a chance because this is the best place to bring back Wolverine.  "But he just died!"  Let's not pretend he was gone forever, as almost no popular character gets to stay dead.  This is a perfect place because Wolverine in the early 90's was also ridiculously popular (as he really always was) and the old team up of Wolvie and Jubes would be a big appeal. And there are other characters like Spider-Man who can be again married to MJ, Iron Man who will again be returned to normal like with Heroes Return where they literally altered reality to bring back pre-Kang/Immortus fuckuppery, and a few others I'm sure I'm just not thinking of.  This isn't to say Marvel will push the big reset on all of their characters, as I'm sure Captain Falcon America and "X marks the" Cyclops are here to stay.  This can be both good and bad, and Marvel should take this chance to get rid of some of the crappier continuity to streamline and untangle the web of nonsense Marvel has.  And while I'm sure the previous sentence blustered people into a furor, I'll comment more on that in another post. 

Nintendo says they're working on a new console with the project name of "NX."  Knowing Nintendo, they'll throw away this perfectly fine console name and replace it with "Bleeg" as the official console name.  No new info, just that.  I wanted to say it because I do want to see Nintendo release another console.

Last but not least is I picked up and played Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.  Wonderful little game.  Beautifully crafted, plenty of quickfire fun, accessible to pretty much anybody but challenging enough to satisfy me.  I say challenging in how the puzzles work, not necessarily challenging on how well I handle a controller.  It really has a fun personality to it, and well... I'll probably review it.

Sorry I've been off the radar for some time.  I'm hoping to get a computer soon and post more here since there's plenty to share.


              ~ Love,
                        Mak

Happy belated Valentine's Day AND St. Patrick's Day.