499 – Light Me, Boy!

Quick little note about the SNES version of Mortal Kombat: The blood in that version was colored white and was supposed to represent sweat, combined with that version of the game removing the fatalities. (And if your reaction to that is “That sounds dumb, why would you play that version of the game?”, well, that’s why the Genesis/Mega Drive version outsold the SNES version. May have also sold some Genesis systems too.)

OO!
My ears perked up.
Please-consider covering X-Statix.
No X-Pod has covered it yet.
It would be an X-Pod 1st…

They have the mutant power of:
murder

Okay,on the the episode…

I find it a little hard to see Sam’s clothing choice as being overalls, they don’t even seem to be dunagrees. If anything, the fact they’re so high at the waist and have braces (or I’ll allow “suspenders” for our former Colonials) makes them look like fishing waders to me. Maybe he likes to do a little fly fishing in his free time.

Jesse’s power working on both electrical equpipment and brains makes sense to me, he scrambles electric signals, which I think makes the human brain and nervous system fair game. I’d be more curious if he affected one but not the other.

So we have frequently purple, gun-armed, cyber-ish, humanoid assassin monsters? Is no one else thinking that someone styled these after the Fury?

Not all the monsters kids are necessarily girls, the second family you mention have a son rather than a daughter. Now it may well be that young Phillip arrived as a daughter but is now living his best life with accepting, understanding parents (prior to them going all urban mini-kaiju), but I’m not sure even a Counter-X title was up to presenting that as a throwaway character yet. (Even if the Doom Patrol had introduced the non-binary Rebis and the absolutely trans Coagula long before this)

To me, Boom-Boom needs to have the time delay as part of her power, that was her powers “Unique Selling Point”, and what made her “Time Bomb” for a while. Her having the wrist mounted launcher thingies was okay… I guess, as it let her throw them further, but I think it also allowed her to shoot energy blasts, which I wasn’t a fan of. Her doing a version of Wisdon’s “hot knives” are… nah…. that’s a step too far for me.

I don’t feel quite as forgiving as your goodselves about the absence of endings in story arcs like this. I get that it might seem more real and messed up in the sort of way the title was going, but I tend to find that as feeling more like an excuse for a cop-out “Drat it, I can’t think of an ending… let’s just blow some shit up and on to the next arc”

They didn’t release an X of Swords tarot deck as a pack, which I agree seems a wasted opportunity, but they came close with the Herloclix tabletop figures, where the X of Swords booster packs came with individual cards, either the one’s from the event itself, or others. I believe a whole deck was worked out and created, but can’t swear to that.

We got the Two of Cups featuring Doug and Bei the Blood Moon, the Nine of Cups with Mad Jim Jaspers, the King of Swords with Broo and Warlock as the Eight of Wands (literally) and so on.

A skim on e-bay will show you many of them, and this list is incomplete but has more than most enjoy! (It does cheat and have some characters show up more than once, like Shadowcat, Apocalypse and Wolverine. Kate, for example, is both the Nine of Pentacles and the Queen of Wands)

I freely confess I’ve always liked the tarot concept aesthetically, but I have no expertise in what the symbology is, so can’t speak to how appropriate these all are, so apologies if any cause outraged offence from purists.

Extra funny Metal Gear Solid thing
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