Greetings Earthlings!

The Mole Man aka Harvey Rupert Elder
Expert [+4] Staff fighting, Expert [+4] Geography, Expert [+4] Spelunking, Expert [+4] Deviant weapons systems, Expert [+4] Monster training, Master [+6] Minions

Expert [+4] Radar sense
Vulnerability: Bright light

Skrulls
Good [+2] Martial training, Good [+2] Alien technology, Good [+2] Aggressive
Poor [-2] Arrogant

Miracle Man aka Joshua
Good [+2] Con-man, Expert [+4] Deception, Good [+2] Quick thinker, Good [+2] Show-off, Poor [-2] Overconfident

Expert [+4] Super-Hypnotism

Namor the Sub-mariner
Expert [+4] Regal bearing, Good [+2] Warrior born, Good [+2] Leadership, Good [+2] Navigation

Expert [+4] Super-strength, Good [+2] Flight, Good [+2] Water breathing, Good [+2] Invulnerability, Good [+2] Amphibious, Good [+2] Absorb electricity
Vulnerability; Heat Fire

Doctor Doom aka Victor von Doom
Expert [+4] Brilliant scientist, Expert [+4] Weapon development, Expert [+4] Charismatic, Expert [+4] Time travel, Poor [-2] Arrogant bastard

Good [+2] Super-strength*, Expert [+4] Super-armor*, Expert [+4] Energy Blast Stunt: Electro-shock, Expert [+4] Adaptation*, Good [+4] Fight*, Good [+2] IR Vision Stunts: See invisible, Super-hearing, Good [+2] Sorcery, Expert [+4] Super-intelligence

*Limitation: Must be wearing armor
Vulnerability; Hideously scarred.

Puppet Master aka Phillip Masters
Good [+2] Biologist, Good [+2] Experimental scientist. Expert [+4] Marionette making, Good [+2] Loves Alicia, Poor [-2] Hates the Fantastic Four

Master [+6] Mind control Limitation: Must have special radioactive clay.

Impossible Man
Expert [+4] Prankster, Expert [+4] Child-like personality, Good [+2] Playful
Poor [-2] Easily bored

Master [+6] Shapechanging

Red Ghost aka Ivan Kragoff
Expert [+4] Rocketry, Good [+2] Physics, Good [+2] Engineering, Good [+2] Simian training, Poor [-2] Obsessive

Expert [+4] Phasing Stunts: Turn others intangible, Invisibility

Miklho the Gorilla
Good [+2] Obeys Red Ghost, Good [+2] Smart

Expert [+4] Super-strength

Peotor, the Orangutan
Good [+2] Obeys Red Ghost, Good [+2] Smart

Expert [+2] Levitation

Igor, the Baboon
Good [+2] Obeys Red Ghost, Good [+2] Smart

Expert [+4] Shapechange

Mad Thinker
Master [+6] Scientist, Master [+6] Mathematician, Master [+6] Robotics, Poor [-2] Must always be right

Expert [+4] Super-intelligence, Expert [+4] Super-Gadgeteering, Expert [+4] Super-gadget- varies

Mad Thinker’s Awesome Android
Good [+2] Obeys orders, Good [+2] Tough, Poor [-2] Mute

Expert [+2] Super-strength, Expert [+4] Wind blast, Expert [+4] Mimic materials. Limitation: Must touch first, Expert [+4] Invulnerability


Super-Skrull aka Kl’rt
Good [+2] Skrull Patriot, Expert [+4] Soldier, Expert [+4] Bred for combat, Poor [-2] Arrogant

Good [+2] Elastic Body, Good [+2] Super-strength, Good [+2] Invulnerability, Good [+2] Fireblast, Good [+2] Flight, Good [+2] Invisibility, Good [+2] Force Fields, Expert [+4] Super-hypnotism, Expert [+4] Shapeshifting

Note: the Super-Skrull’s Fantastic Four-like powers (bolded) go up to Expert [+4] if receiving beamed powers from Skrull homeworld.

Molecule Man aka Owen Reece
Good [+2] Lab tech, Good [+2], Good [+2] Good [+2]

Master [+6] Molecule rearrangement

Hate-Monger aka Adolf Hitler
Expert [+4] Charismatic leadership, Good [+2] Plotter, Good [+2] Public Speaking, Good [+2] Persuasive, Poor [-2] Psychotic

Expert [+4] Super-gadget; Hate-Ray, Good [+2] Super-gadget: Blaster

Diablo aka Esteban Corazan Del Diablo
Master [+6] Alchemy, Good [+2] Scientist, Good [+2]

Expert [+4] Super-Alchemy, Good [+2] Immortal, Expert [+4] Super-intelligence

Attuma
Expert [+4] Armed combat, Good [+2] Barbarian Leader, Good [+2] Cunning, Expert [+4] Minions- Atlantean barbarians, Poor [-2] Easily enraged

Expert [+4] Super-strength, Good [+2] Water breathing, Average [0] Swimming
Limitation: Cannot breathe above water



Dragon Man
Expert [+4] Obedient, Poor [-2] Easily controlled

Expert [+4] Super-strength, Expert [+4] Super-armor, Expert [+4] Invulnerability, Good [+2] Adaptation, Good [+2] Fire breath, Average [0] Flight, Average [0] Prehensile tale
Vulnerability: Can be controlled by sonics

Frightful Four
Wingless Wizard aka Bentley Whitmore
Expert [+4] Inventor, Good [+2] Stage magician, Good [+2] Chess grandmaster, Good [+2] Physics, Poor [-2] Feels he is superior to most people

Expert [+4] Super-intelligence. Expert [+4] Super-gadgeteer, Good [+2] Super-strength*, Good [+2] Energy Blast*, Good [+2] Super-armor
*Limitation: Must be wearing Power gloves
** Limitation: Must be wearing armor

Medusa aka Medusalith Amaquelin
Good [+2] Regal bearing, Good [+2] Likes to fight, Expert [+4] Dosent give up, Good [+2] Beautiful, Poor [-2] Amnesia

Master [+6] Prehensile hair

Paste Pot Pete
Good [+2] Inventor, Good [+2] Inventor, Expert [+4] Chemical adhesives, Good [+2] Marksman, Poor [-2]

Master [+6] Super-gadget- Paste Gun Stunts: Entangle, Swinging, Stun

Sandman aka Flint Marko
Expert [+4] Brawler, Good [+2] Tough, Good [+2], Good [+2] Poor [-2] Doesn’t think things thru

Expert [+4] Body of Sand (Stunts: Hammer blow, Sand phasing, Absorb a blow), Good [+2] Armor Vulnerability: Water

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As usual this is the FF in the early days of their careers. Any comments always welcome

Mister Fantastic aka Reed Richards
Master [+6] Scientific Mind of a generation, Expert [+4] Innovative, Poor [-2] absent minded

Expert [+4] Elastic Body, Expert [+2] Super-Intelligence, Good [+2] Super-gadgeteer

The Thing aka Ben Grimm
Good [+2] Ace Pilot, Good [+2] Handy in fight, Good [+2] Improvised weapons, Good [+2] Born hero, Good [+2] Poor [-2] Thinks he is a monster

Expert [+4] Super-strength, Expert [+4] Invulnerability

Human Torch aka Johnny Storm
Good [+2] Loves hotrods, Good [+2] Prankster, Expert [+4] Gear-head, Good [+2] Teenager, Poor [-2] Cocky

Master [+6] Body of fire Stunts; Fireblast, Flight, Fire objects
Vulnerability: Water & cold attacks
(Note: I edited Human Torch based on some suggestions)

Invisible Girl aka Sue Storm
Good [+2] Actress, Good [+2] Heart of the team, Good [+2] Attractive, Good [+2] Good [+2] Poor [-2] Lacks confidence

Expert [+4] Invisibility, Good [+2] Force Fields

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52 #16
I have really enjoyed the interplay between the Question and Renee Montoya. Not sure about the whole Black Adam/Isis thing though.

Birds of Prey #97
This was delayed a week, wasnt shipped or something last week so here it is. It wasnt worth the wait. I dont get the Black Alice character and what was the point of the story?

DMZ #10
Brian Wood delivers again. Anyone know how long he plans on ding this comic?

JSA Classified #15
Amos Fortune eat something that doesnt agree with him and its the worse case of indigestion ever!

Justice League of America #1
Ok does everything have to be written solely for collection in trade these days? nothing freaking happened except set-up. Oy! I hate that! Get through the whole issue without them coming out and saying what the new line-up will be.

Eternals #3
Even though this is definitely written with an eye to being collection you actually feel like the plot is being advanced. I like the description of how being super-fast feels. And there is a passing comment about the damn Civil War thing in here as well.

Marvel Westerns: Strange Westerns Starring the Black Rider
Another fun romp thru the western comics genre. Though seeing Englehart and Marshall Rogers was the main draw for me. The Gunhawk back-up was fun as well.

Werewolves: Call of the Wild
Cant recall if I mentioned the first issue of this or not. Nice werewolf story, without the werewolves appearing doing bloody thing on every page. Well above the quality of a lot of Moonstone stuff.

( THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #1 (of 2) )

As I have said before I am a sucker for handbooks and I love Invincible so..... Besides it will be handy for converting characters to Truth and Justice.

( LOW ORBIT, VOL. 1 )

I will always try the first couple issues of a SF comic because there arent enough of them.

( NOBLE CAUSES, VOL. 6: HIDDEN AGENDAS TP )

Another in a long line of comics I read only in TPB. Noble Causes has always read better for me this way.

( NEGATIVE BURN #7 )

This issue I get some Mike Ploog and RG Taylor again (who with Dave Darrigo did the excellent Wordsmith series many years ago. Its worth tracking down). YAY!!

( AVENGERS NEXT #1 & 2 )

I read Spider-girl every month so there is no way I am going to miss this. I enjoyed all 12 issues of the original series. The first six issues of said series is available in digest size as well.

( BULLET POINTS #1 (OF 5) )

Not sure why they just dont call this a What If? Curious how JMS shoehorned Uncle Ben in the Cap mythos.

( THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST #1 )

I am a big Iron Fist geek. Hopefully Brubaker and Matt Fraction can bring Daniel Rand back to his glory.

( MARVEL LEGACY: THE 1980's HANDBOOK )

I am always a sucker for handbooks like this. And we get to see Rocket Racoon, New Universe and the Spaceknights!

( THUNDERBOLTS #108 )

What is Zemo's endgame? Will Songbird kill Zemo? Will Radioactive Man find true love? Will Mach IV chrome his armor? Will Joystick give birth to her love child from the Grandmaster? Ok so I made some of that up.

( WHAT IF? AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED )

I like Jeff Parker's writing and I am interested if he can improve upon the whole Disassembled mess. Though with the crap job Bendis did that wouldnt be hard.

( WHAT IF? WOLVERINE: ENEMY OF THE STATE )

I dont read the mothly Wolverine book. But I am a Jimmie Robinson fan from his work on Amanda and Gunn and Avigon. He also has been garnering some notice for Bomb Queen coming out from Image lately. So I will give this a shot.

( WHITE TIGER #1 (of 6) )

I dont think I have ever read any of Tamora Pierce's prose work though from what I have seen online so far interests me so this goes in the buy pile. I am just trying figure out how if she is Hector's niece from the old White Tiger stories how she grew up so fast when Franklin Richards is still in the first grade?

Once again I am doing my monthly cruise thru Previews. Breaking it up into DC, Marvel and Image. Hopefully get to some of the smaller publishers later in the week. This mostly stuff that looks interesting to me or you might not hear about.

( BATMAN/THE SPIRIT )

Jeph Loeb is cool. Darwyn Cooke is cool. J. Bone is cool. And the Spirit is cool. And the Batman is okay too.

( HUNTRESS: DARK KNIGHT DAUGHTER TP )

Like the Justice Society trade that came out earlier this month I am really geeked about this bit of pre-Crisis goodness. For me this is the real Huntress.

( BIRDS OF PREY #100 )

New role for the Black Canary? What was wrong with the old one? They better not be taking her out of this book.

( JSA CLASSIFIED #19 )

Not a big Scott Beatty fan, but the combination of Morales and Bair on the art along with Dr Mid-Nite is a enough of a draw for me.

( NEW TEEN TITANS: TERRA INCOGNITO TP )

Wolfman and Perez at their peak on the Teen Titans. The whole Terra saga under one cover and the first appearace of Dick Grayson in his very 1980's large collar costume.

( SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL #1 )

Hmmm Cooke and Sale doing a book together? Can we expect some neo-Silver Age comic goodness? I think so.

( RED MENACE #1 (of 6) )

This looks to be interesting. I havent liked the writers take on the new Flash book, but then I dont know why they had to have another new Flash either.

( 100 BULLETS VOL. 10: DECAYED TP )

Three quarters of the way through the storyline with this trade. Wonder how bloody the end will be when it comes?

( FABLES VOL. 8: WOLVES TP )

Yet another book I only read in trade. Be interested to see the maps. This is one book that it is really hard to wait for though.

Looks like SciFi has cancelled SG-1....

From Gateworld

( close the iris,,, )

Like my earlier post about the X-men these are the badguys that have shown up in the earlier issues of the X-men.

Blob aka Fred J Dukes
Good [+2] Thinks with his fists, Good [+2] Carnie, Good [+2] Prefers simple life, Good [+2] Loves to eat, Poor [-2] Overconfident

Average [0] Super-strength, Expert [+4] Immovable, Good [+2] Invulnerability, Good [+2] Super-Armor

Quicksilver aka Pietro Maximoff
Expert [+4] Protective of Wanda, Good [+2] Proud of his mutant heritage, Good [+2], Poor [-2] Short-tempered

Expert [+4] Super-speed, Good [+2] Lighting-fast fists
Vulnerability; Doesn’t Know he is Magneto’s son.

Scarlet Witch aka Wanda Maximoff
Good [+2] Gypsy Dancing, Good [+2] Exotic Beauty, Good [+2] Not really a villain, Good [+2] Loyalty is to Pietro, Poor [-2] Insecure

Expert [+4] Luck Control Limitation: Poor Control
Vulnerability; Doesn’t Know she is Magneto’s daughter

Mastermind aka Jason Wyngarde
Good [+2] Actor, Good [+2] Devious bastard, Good [+2] Mentalist, Good [+2] Tricky, Poor [-2] Cowardly

Expert [+4] Mental illusions

Toad aka Mortimer Toynbee
Good [+2] Suck up, Good [+2] Slavishly devoted to Magneto, Good [+2] Infatuated with the Scarlet Witch, Good [+2] , Poor [-2] Craven

Unus the Untouchable aka Angelo Unuscione legally changed to Gunther Bain
Good [+2] Circus folk, Expert [+4] Professional Wrestler, Good [+2] Poor [-2]

Master [+6] Force Field (Super-armor)

Juggernaut aka Cain Marko
Expert [+4] Barroom brawler, Good [+2] Soldier, Good [+2] Hates Charles Xavier, Poor [-2] Overconfident

Master [+6] Invulnerability Stunt: Can’t be stopped, Master [+6] Super-armor Stunt: protects from mental attacks Limitation: Must be wearing helmet
Vulnerability: Mental Attacks

Vanisher aka “Telford Porter”
Good [+2] Petty Thief, Good [+2] Espionage, Good [+2] Good [+2], Poor [-2] Non-combative

Master [+6] Teleportation

Magneto aka Eric Lesherr
Expert [+4] Scientist, Good [+2] Believes in the cause of Homo-superior, Good [+2] Metallurgy, Good [+2] Dosent back down, Good [+2] Leads through fear, Poor [-2] Overconfident

Master [+6] Control of Magnetism Stunts: Force Field, Reverse blood flow, TK, Expert [+4] Magnetic Blast, Good [+2] Flight


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And by the way I am working on Strikeforce: Morituri

This is the X-men thru about the first 25 issues. They weren’t particularly powerful then. I gave Marvel Girl the latent telepath just because she needed something besides the TK.


Marvel Girl aka Jean Grey
Good [+2] Teamwork, Good [+2] Girl Next Door Looks, Good [+2] Crush on Scott Summers, Good [+2] Studious, Good [+2] Poor [-2] tentative

Good [+2] Telekinesis, Good [+2] Latent Telepath
Limitation: No control of telepathy

Angel aka Warren Worthington III
Good [+2] Handsome, Expert [+4] Comes from money, Good [+2] Teamwork
Poor [-2] Vain

Good [+2] Flight Limitation: Wings, Good [+2] Superior eyesight

Iceman aka Bobby Drake
Good [+2] Teamwork, Good [+2] Practical Joker, Good [+2] Unlucky in love, Good [+2] Youthful exuberance Poor [-2] Immature

Good [+2] Body of Snow/Ice, Good [+2] Ice Blast Stunts: Ice Slide, and Ice Shapes Vulnerability: Heat, Fire

Beast aka Hank McCoy
Good [+2] Athletic, Expert [+4] Genius, Good [+2] Teamwork, Poor [-2]

Good [+2] Super-Agility Stunts: Climb Walls and Flying Kick, Average [+0] Superstrength

Cyclops aka Scott Summers
Good [+2] Natural Leader, Good [+2] Teamwork, Good [+2] Studious, Good [+2] Field Tactics, Poor [-2] Driven to perfection

Expert [+4] Optic Blasts Stunts: Reflect Blasts Limitation: Cannot control without visor.

Professor X aka Charles Xavier
Expert [+4] Teacher, Good [+2] Mutant Genetics, Good [+2] Leadership, Good [+2] Rich, Good [+2] Using Cerebro, Poor [-2] Protective of his students
Vulnerability: Cannot walk, paraplegic

Master [+6] Telepathy Stunts: Astral Projection, Stunbolt, Mental Illusions, Detect Mutants, Mind Control, Expert [+4] Super-gadget Cerebro

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