True Marvels

I'm sure everyone watched Iron Man 2. The most important part of the movie was, of course, the appearance of Thor's hammer and Captain America's shield.
And Robert Downey Jr.

Therefore, it's no surprise that the Thor movie (with Natalie Portman. Side note: Why is Portman playing that nurse in Thor? I don't even remember her name. GIVE PORTMAN HER OWN SUPERHERO MOVIE. I suggest Domino. Or any other leatherclad character) and the Captain America movie is coming out.

But what's this?A Black Widow movie?
Wait a second. Didn't a lot of people (including myself) have a problem with Booblett Boobhansson playing the Russian spy? Didn't we originally want the lesser known but better talented Emily Blunt to be BW? And didn't every single thing I said about ScarJo's performance come true?

Of course it did. I am psychic.

Then I realised I was being unrealistic (and also kind of lame). In Hollywood, talent is often confused with other things. For example: drug addiction (River Phoenix), trashiness (Megan Fox), douchebaggery (Tom Cruise [except for Minority Report]) and assuming-your-audience-is-stupid (Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler).

In Scarlett's case, it's Boobs.
(I don't think I actually needed to type that out. But I had to make sure that the connection between Scarlett and her Boobs is clear).

Ah. I am so glad to have gotten that off my chest
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*booooom tish!*

When they are so many more deserving Marvel characters than a minor Avengers heroine (anti-heroine? former villain? villoine?), I can only put forward the above explanation as to why this movie is even being made. It just so happens that Scarlett is playing her.

Yeah, we're really impressed with your boobs.
I meant martial arts skills.

She could have been any character, and it would not have made a difference. Despite portraying the least personality amongst all of the cast, she still gets her movie. But I think humanity has made it pretty clear - who needs personality when you can have Boobs! And Boobs in PVC too!

This is how I imagine the discussion of her movie went down.

ScarJo: I want a Black Widow movie.

Movie studio execs:

Yes.

In that case, I would suggest my favourite Avenger, Scarlet Witch, to be portrayed by Christina Hendricks to ensure that she gets her own movie.

And sequels. Possibly we can even squeeze a tv series in there.

Greatest Motivational Speech of the 21st Century

Doesn't matter what the press says.

Doesn't matter what the politicians say or the mobs say.

Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.

This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement to stand up for what we believe in, no matter the odds or the consequences.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tells you to move, your job is to set yourself beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world,

'No, you move'.

- Captain America

No Second Chances

Marvel is a dick.

I. Need. A. Job. Or the entire season of Fringe.

I’ve been at home, with nothing much to do. So I started something that I’ve always wanted to do: make comic characters.
Yup. I mean, it’s not like I create them from scratch. What I did was adapt pre-existing characters (Marvel ones, of course), redraw them and slap on my designs and facial features. Which takes a lot more time than I thought it would.
But I did it! And since I promised Ally and Vit (or at least Ally. Here’s a surprise for you, Vit. Hahahaaaa) that I’d do it, here it is!
Please bear in mind that this is total comic book fantasy, and if I actually looked like this, I would be in the next Transformers movie instead of sitting in front of this laptop, blogging about my lack of employment.



Fable
Dear Me. I couldn’t figure out what powers to give myself, so I have four arms. Hahahaa. Kidding. I have shadow stuff, that can become things. Like my suit. And arms. And rocketlaunchers and Robert Downey, Jr.
Body by: X-23. Of course. Heheh.



Paragon
Dear Ally. I couldn’t figure out how to make you look cool while healing people, so you get to fly til I figure it out. I wanted to give you sparkly blue stuff too, but my Photoshop brushes are misbehaving. I could give you weird-coloured skin, like Elixir, just to have something visible, but that would be so cliché. Uh huh. Are you sure you don’t want to control an army of zombies?
Body by: Polaris.


Radiance
Dear Vit. Yours was the hardest to do, because I had to find a position where the hands were open, so that you could blast energy spheres.
You know, I felt so cool just writing that sentence down.
Body by: Domino.

So you guys not only got to be my audience, you also received a small education in some of the coolest characters in the Marvel Universe! i.e. Polaris, X-23 and Domino.
Extra references would be Spiral, Aurora, Jubilee and Psylocke.

You're welcome.

And yes, I am perfectly aware of how excessively nerdy this whole thing is. I think I’ll turn everyone into Jedis for my next art fest.

sometimes you gotta run before you can walk

Dalam 24 jam yang lepas, aku telah melihat filem Iron Man sebanyak 2 kali. Adakah ini bermaksud aku harus keluar dan memperolehi sesuatu hobi atau melakukan sesuatu yang membawa kebaikan kepada dunia ini?

Rasanya tak.

Iron Man merupakan filem paling hebat yang pernah dibuat selama lebih kurang sejak aku dilahirkan. Mengapa aku berkata begitu? Ada beberapa sebab:

4. Ia adalah filem buku komik. Filem buku komik selalu cool. Kadang-kadang agak bodoh, tapi masih cool, seperti X3, Punisher dan X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

3. Ia mempunyai sut besi yang mempunyai reaktor nuklear sebagai sumber kuasa yang terletak di dalam sut tersebut. Reaktor nuklear. DI DALAM SUT yang sedang dipakai oleh ORANG.

2. Watak utamanya adalah Tony Stark. Tapi saya tak peduli pasal tu. Saya sebenarnya tak kenal pun Stark sebelum ini. Yang penting tentang sebab ini adalah watak ini dimainkan oleh Robert Downey, Jr. yang merupakan lelaki paling hot. Ya. Bukan dalam dunia, bukan dalam galaksi, atau alam semesta. Lelaki Paling Hot, Noktah. (Bukan lelaki paling hensem atau comel, ok? Cuma Paling Hot).

1. TONY STARK could build one! IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!

(Saje je nak tulis).

Hanya filem Deadpool boleh mengalahkan filem Iron Man. Serious.

Tony Stark Likes Redheads

I was checking out the latest pics from Iron Man 2. They included Stark looking hot, Whiplash the new villain looking unwashed, Pepper looking sweet, Stark looking even hotter, and Black Widow, undercover and in a spy outfit.

And then I realized that there was a silver lining to having Johanssen as Natasha, and that was the spy outfit. The figure hugging, zip front spy outfit.

Because you see, the only nemesis nemesis-y enough to be a threat to Stark is one in black PVC with an hourglass shape. That, and a villain whose power is to manifest large amounts of good quality alcohol.

I can’t wait for the new Iron Man! Even though Whiplash looks sorta like a hobo who raided a garage, it will still be a cool movie.

Because Tony Stark. Is. Awesome.

I also saw on ComicVine that a Magdalena movie might be in the works. I’ve never read any of the Top Cow comics, but I used to religiously watch Witchblade on TV.

Witchblade is in no way related to Magdalena, except that they have the same ‘villain’, Darkness. Who also has his own comic book.

In fact, everyone and their distant ancestors who appear in the original Witchblade run have their own comic at Top Cow.

Jenna Dewan is attached apparently, and if you guys have forgotten who she is, she’s the girl who spent endless hours of screentime with Channing Tatum in Step Up. I think she’s a bit short, but she’s pretty cute and not Megan Fox, so that’s good.

Speaking of Megan Fox (because everyone is anyway) she’s also jumping on the comic heroine bandwagon (again), rumoured to be signed to play the mostly naked protagonist of Fathom, Aspen Matthews.

Which is kind of correct I guess. Every other image of Aspen is lacking in what we like to call outer clothes, much like every other image of Megan Fox.

In other news, fans of Superman (yep, all five of you) be warned: DC is losing rights to its gayest character within the next four years or so.

That means they will no longer be able TO PUBLISH SUPERMAN COMIC BOOKS HA HA HA.

Sucks to you, wonderboy. That’s what you get for prancing around in BLUE TIGHTS and not being as cool as Batman. Or Tony Stark.

I spent a pleasant day baking brownies and watching Serenity, the movie of one of the greatest ever tv series that I have yet to watch. Haha.

Anyway, it’s always gives me great joy to watch (again) the disgustingly handsome Simon Tam save his psychotic ballerina sister and then hook up with the rest of the crew of Serenity, with dialogue by Joss Whedon.

Simon Tam (to his sister, River): If shooting starts, just run away as fast as you can. Get somewhere safe, get away. (Eyeing the rest of the crew in the ship with her and saying in a loud whisper) It’s ok to leave them to die.

Malcolm: Simon, I swear to you, if anything happens to your sister…I’d get real choked up. Really upset. There might even be tears.

For two minutes of pure anime awesomeness.

A Risky First Move

Today I drove to buy goreng pisang.


(Yes, my life is so boring now that I am reduced to reporting stuff like this).


Actually, to those of you who know me, this is groundbreaking news.


Not because I actually bought pisang goreng (which in itself is a sin against the frickin god of diet because it's so oily and carb-y and covered in chewy batter and tastes so indecently delicious), but because I. Drove.


Without killing, maiming or mutilating anyone, mind you.


An achievement in itself.


I did, however, miss a left turn and...swerved...into the wrong left rather...quickly, nearly causing my poor beloved mother to have a...coronary infarction.


Fortunately, there are less people living on my side of the state than there are ligers on this planet. This being Kuching and all.


(No, I did not misspell TIGER).

OMG, I love guys who have that shirt-vest-pinstripe thing going.

I also love Daniel Henney.

I guess if he wore a sack, I'd say I love men who wore that too.

Oh, and I watched Wolverine again. Did now knowing the backstory of all the characters change the way I viewed the movie in comparison to the first time?

Not in the way I saw the characters. In fact, I didn't even sit through the whole movie. I just ran back and forth from my laptop to the tv whenever Agent Zero showed up.

I guess I'm an X-MEN fan, not a Team X/Weapon X/Wolverine standalone fan.

Or maybe the movie was just cool and populated with good looking people, but I know in my heart of hearts that that is all it is - a cool movie with nothing really much to do with the actual characters.

Remy LeBeau was just a good looking guy with a pack of cards and a bo stick.

He wasn't really Gambit.

(Cue pensive staring off into the horizon as everyone righteously agrees...or not. Hahaha).

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME

So I finally watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine, making my life that much more complete. Now all they have to do is make movies about Gambit (played by an actor of my choice), Rogue (played by an actress of my choice), Storm (not played by Halle Berry), X-Force (old and new), and Runaways. Then I can probably die happily.


The movie blew my mind. Not because it was so incredibly cool and fantastic, which it was, but because I found myself split in two. The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl and The Girl. Like so.

SPOILER ALERT
(but since all of you guys watched it before me, it doesn’t really matter does it)

The movie starts out with little Wolverine committing murder. He has a brother with fangs and icky nails. They run away together and watch each others backs for the whole opening credits.


The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl: What? Sabretooth and Wolverine were brothers????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Who is responsible for this little piece of inconceivability??? Stupid FOX. But whoa, bone claws??????? That kinda rocks.


The Girl: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww poor little sickly James Howlett. Now he’ll have to face the world alone. With claws. And his brother. Whose actor is going to grow up to become one good looking dude.

James and Victor join an elite taskforce put together by none other than William Stryker, the ubervillain from X-Men. The taskforce consists of Wade, a super-swordsman with ex-girlfriend issues, Wraith, a teleporter, Bradley the technopath, The Blob, and Agent Zero whose superpower is being incredibly hot…I meant, not being able to miss a shot.
They take out this diamond dealer in a scene that allows everyone a show of skill, but especially Wade because swords are incredibly cool and his character is slightly important.
Then they go to Africa to look for vibranium…I mean adamantium.
Unwilling to kill anymore, Jimmy quits the team and walks off while everyone stares on looking really cool.


The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl: Huh? Stryker didn’t implant mind-controlling devices in their head? God, he must have been really young. Who’s Wraith? And who is Bradley? And Agent Zero? I don’t remember these characters. I strongly suspect they don’t exist. But wow, that scene rocked. I wanna learn to swordfight now.



The Girl: I can’t believe Wolverine just walked out on them like that. I mean, who would walk away from Daniel Henney and Ryan Reynolds? Don’t worry boys! I will cheerfully kill the citizens of a small unknown village to bask in the glory of your incredibly toned bodies and absolutely sexy abilities with weapons of murder and mayhem.

Wolverine hooks up with a hot schoolteacher named Kayla Silverfox.

The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl: Kayla who? What happened to Mariko, his ONE TRUE LOVE (besides Jean Grey)??????????????????????????????? The Woman he was going to marry, whose father played a role in Weapon X and whom he murdered and subsequently forced her to become Lady Deathstrike, hot cyborg of death? Or something like that. And Silverfox is not even a mutant? No way. She’s waaaaay too hot to not be a mutant.


The Girl: Wow she’s hot.

Stryker comes looking for him to invite him back. Viktor comes looking for him to kill him. They fight quite a lot. Jimmy ends up in the hospital. He agrees to let Stryker help him avenge his hot dead girlfriend.


The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl: That made zero sense. Can’t Wolverine smell people lying?



The Girl: Where’s Agent Zero?

Jimmy becomes Wolverine/ Weapon X. Submerged in a container with needles still stuck into his bone, he overhears that he is about to be betrayed. He leaps out of the tank in Berserker rage and runs really fast and far away. Buck. Naked.
Agent Zero comes after him (finally, some Henney). Not being the hero, he doesn’t succeed. In a scene that is only a slight ripoff from Ironman, he dies.

The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl: It’s not like Zero was a canon character anyway.
The Girl: Ah, shite.

But now Wolvie has no place to go. Except to Wraith. And Blob, who knows about Stryker’s island and its only escapee jengjengjeng…REMY LEBEAU.
(Intermission. The name REMY LEBEAU is practically sacred to me. You, Fox, Blob, or any random stranger should never, ever take his name in vain. Because he is Gambit. Yeah. That’s right. The coolest marvel character of all time).
They go to Vegas to look for him.


The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl: Wolvie traveling with a partner? That doesn’t feel right. And Wraith is such a ripoff of Locus. Who was a chick. And insane. Who takes a teleporter with a cowboy hat seriously?


The Girl: Wraith is sooooo cute. I just want to pinch his cheeks.

They find Gambit.
He is holding a pack of cards, and has soft cheeks, big eyes and a cute nose, and NO CAJUN ACCENT.



The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl: BLASPHEMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Girl: He’s cute. And those card tricks are waay cool.

Victor finds them. Kills Wraith. Wolvie almost kills Victor, but Remy the Bumbling Idiot gets in his way.
Remy agrees to take him to this island.
Also, prior to this, Victor had captured a square-jawed young boy with red optical blasts.


The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl: At least Remy has a bo stick. And a cameo by young Cyclops! It warms the cockles of my geeky heart.
The Girl: He cut his school in half with his laser eyes!!!!! That is wicked. And that stick is incredible. And Wolverine is the King of the One-Fingered Salute yo.

They get to the island. Kayla isn’t dead. Stryker is working with Victor. They are making Weapon 11 (XI, get it? It’s supposed to be like an in-joke). Stryker has taken a whole bunch of mutant kids hostage, those he hasn’t killed anyway. Kayla’s sister is one of them.
Wolvie helps Kayla free the kids. Kayla’s sister manifests a diamond form. Wolvie fights Victor. He fights Weapon XI aka Deadpool aka Wade Wilson. Professor X saves the kids. Wolvie gets shot in the head with adamantium bullets by Stryker. Kayla dies, but not before doing her mutant voodoo on Stryker.
Wolvie wakes up with total amnesia.


The Incredible Rabid Marvel NerdGirl: at this point, I would like to bring up Mariko again, but it’s not like anyone cares. If you noticed, I bolded and italicized the matter of Kayla’s sister. Who, in the real world is known as Emma Frost. NOT Emma Silverfox. And her diamond form is a secondary mutation, her primary mutation being the world’s greatest mindfucker. ARGHHH.
And was that Quicksilver?
And why did Prof X look so freaking weird?
And tachynosis (or whatever)??? What’s wrong with being a plain old empath?
And is that island possibly…a future Genosha?
The Girl: This movie rocks.

Note of Curiosity: Hugh Jackman’s butt gets a rating of 8 out of 10, the highest rating still going to Robert Downey Jr. in Ironman with a 9.5. I would give him a 10, but then I’d have to upgrade the whole system for Ironman 2.



NoC2: The movie is apparently kind of mostly canon! WOW.

I bet you were expecting Daniel Henney riiight?

Who needs a halo...

And a redhead shall lead them

I am at my grandparents place.


I sleep, eat and watch tv. In that order. Sometimes I eat AND watch tv.


Shocking, I know.


My phone went off the other day. My ringtone is 3oh!3's Don't Trust Me.


The lyrics go like this:


She says she loves me oooh, she says she wants me oooh


she'll never leave me oooh


don't trust the ho


don't trust the ho


never trust the ho....



After getting the fish eye from my uncle I changed my ringtone

To Lily Allen's Fuck You.


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The actual purpose of this post is to review Wonder Woman. The cartoon. That Warner recently released because they're too cheap to make an actual movie.


But anyway. It's pretty cool for an origins animated movie, better than the Avengers origin animated movie (because Scarlet Witch wasn't in it. Puh-leez. You don't really expect me to take a Witchless Avengers seriously right).


And man, those Amazons had sexy voices! I had no idea Keri Russell could sound so incredibly hot!


I'm not a big WW fan. She always struck me as bizarre, even in a place where bizareness is key.


She's an Amazon. She grew up on an island, and has never seen a man for like thousands of years (that in itself is enough for me to be unable to connect to her). She walks around in a shiny one-piece. She has a lasso.

A lasso.

Of all the uncool crimefighting gadgets...a lasso has got to be the uncoolest.


It even beats Marrow breaking off bits of her calciumate growths to fling at people.


It beats Maggot with his independent digestive system.


It beats a beauty pageant tiara that doubles as a boomerang. Which also happens to be owned by WW.


See? How do you take a swimsuit model with gold accessories as a serious crimefighter?


You can't.


But the cartoon actually made it seem pretty cool. And funny. Like when Diana (WW) won the contest to escort the crashlanded dude back to America, Artemis suggested to Hippolyte (her mother) that they could have stopped her:


Artemis: You shouldn't let her go.


Hippolyte: Do you really think we could have stopped her if we tried? No.


Artemis: I could have shot her. In the leg.


Beat.


Artemis: I would have missed her major arteries, of course.


Yeah.


I think Artemis should have her own series too.

The Things They Say About Her

Dear Ms. Scarlett Johansson/ Mrs Scarlett Reynolds/ Whichever,



I totally respect you as an actress and human being. In no way am I writing this to undermine your contributions to the movie world (e.g. you in your underwear in Lost in Translaton, in only a man's shirt in The Island and He's Just Not That Into You).

In fact, I find it very inspiring that you have managed to make a mark on the film industry at such a young age, without having to act in movies that outrightly objectified your obvious beauty, unlike Megan Fox who basically had to walk around like an unpaid prostitute in a miniskirt and cutoff top to gain worldwide status as a Hottie in Transformers.
Oh. You mean all teenagers dress like that? My bad.

Anyway. I am not condemning your angelic face, incredible hooters*, tiny waist and Botticelli hips that makes every virile male within a 50 feet radius of your image need to take a cold shower. Most people would condemn you for that, but I understand that you were born that way and can't change it.

The purpose I am writing this, Ms Johansson, is because I have heard a very unnerving rumour that you will be appearing in Iron Man II. That would be fine with me, so long as you keep your appearance to below five minutes of screen time and remember to pick up your clothes on the way out of Stark's apartment.

BUT, instead I hear that you are being considered, or in fact, have already been confirmed to play the Black Widow.

I realise that most people of your status/age/ gender don't read comic books. And yeah, I'm not a fan of comic book Iron Man myself. But that does not give you the right to earn money by screwing up the mental image thousands of comicbook fans have of a redheaded Russian spy.

Maybe if Black Widow was the Dutch Milkmaid, you would be ideal for this position.

Maybe it is not your fault that you do not look diabolically yet sexily evil. Like a Russian redhead should.

And maybe it is also not your fault that if you wear a skintight black costume, no one is going to believe that you are playing anything but dress-up precursor to turning Iron Man II into an episode of Leather Fetish Monthly (or whatever).

What I am saying is that you don't look like her, you can't look like her no matter how hard you try, and you will never be her.

It would be a disaster akin to casting Anna Paquin as Rogue, but at least the people in the cinema weren't thinking about sex everytime she pouted her lips (she saved that for True Blood); or Kirsten Dunst as MJ. Or Taylor Kitsch as Gambit.

I think I'll write a letter to him, too.

Ms Johansson, you are young and talented. You will not run out of roles for maybe, let's see, another five years. Those roles will allow you to interpret the character. If you try and interpret Black Widow, which you will because you don't read comic books (if you do, then I don't understand why you took the job. Except maybe for the paycheck. Or you wanted to be equal with your husband, Ryan Reynolds, who will be playing Wade Wilson in Origins), you will destroy her.

You won't mean to. But you will.

Not because you're not a good actress. But because you're just not the right actress.

That is all I have to say.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Me.





*Never, in normal conversation, would I use this word. Ever.

This bunny is from fuckyoupenguin.

It was too cute.

I couldn't help myself.

I'm Not A Victim, I'm Not A Freak

I have become hopelessly addicted to the Whateley Universe.
I know I know.
WTH is Whateley right?
And how do I always stumble across these gems of the internet universe?
(tip: I look. Also, I'm pretty smart).

Anyway, it's basically a school for superheroes.
Yes.
I am reading the unabridged version of Sky High.
There's also a lust demon princess character. With tentacles.
Just in case you're interested.

I know you are.

So I was thinking. What if we woke up one day and suddenly turned into mutants? (Hopefully retaining our original gender whilst doing so. Apparently transgendered mutants are quite common).

Trinna would be a Siren with a super scream voice knockout (much like she has right now) and a telekinetic package (superfast, supersmart, superstrong).
And her costume would be black and red, and sponsored by Guess?
Kahkahkah.
And her codename is...ROCKET.

Cool right?
Heheheh.

I came up with Iylia's name at the mamak already, so it wasn't that much fun. Also, there's a Whateley character with the same codename.
But anyway. She can be a psychic empath with the specialty of inducing obssession.
Her code...HEARTBREAKER.
Supercool right?
She can also burp really loudly.

If I were a superhero, I'd be a Superhero okay? Like, I'd put Mr. Incredible to shame. I'd have the whole flying + telekinetic + psychic + whatever deal and then end up in a nuthouse from inability to cope and/or have a meltdown and cease to exist.
Hmmmm.
Force fields then. Force fields are good.
Shiny force fields. Made of...diamond.
Also increased intelligence.
Wow. I could legally trade my own mutant powers to drug...I mean diamond cartels all over the world, thus negating the necessity for slave mining in certain parts of Africa.
Taa daa.
World Peace, thanks to me just existing.
And you can call me...BRILLIANT.


And Kat can be...wait for it, wait for it...KATGIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With the ability to manifest CATS.
Imagine...walking down a dark alley...in the middle of a cold, creepy night...and all of a sudden, you are overwhelmed by hundreds of mewling, squeeping...KITTENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scary right?
Damn straight it's scary.

You know what's even scarier? Frogs.
Man. If I ever met a frog manifester, his days are numbered by sharp diamond objects.

The Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes

This is a reason to read comic books

Let me tell you about comic books.

They Rock.

I am not exactly a connoisseuer (um, however the hell you spell it).Right now I'm reading X-Force, X-Men Legacy and Runaways.

Runaways is supercool. While reading it, you should bong and listen to The Beatles' Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (which in my humble, non-bonghead opinion, is the ultimate bong song.seriously) for an out-of-this-world experience.

Anyway, all the aforementioned comics are cool. Of course. Otherwise I wouldn't be reading them.

But the one with the most ultimate cool factor is X-FORCE. Why is X-Force cool?
Wolverine.
X-23.
'Nuff said.
(Also, amazing art. Beautiful art. Seriously. Dude. These people should win Nobel awards for imagination. And for creating characters like X-23 and Wolverine)

For those of you not in the know (which I assume is all of you unless Wai Yung reads my blog), X-23 is basically a chick version ripoff of Wolverine.
In my opinion, any ripoff version of Wolverine cannot help but be inherently cool (except Sabretooth, who is just lame and needs a wardrobe redesign).

Except X-23 is COOLER than Wolverine.

Yes! I have said it! She is so insanely insane that she is cool. She even has claws on her foot. And she's hot. And she wears leather. And she's a brunette (I like brunettes). And she's a borderline murderous psychopath. But she works for the good guys.
Plus she doesn't say 'Bub'.
Also, I suspect that she is taller than Wolverine.
HA HA HA HA.

Of course Rogue, Polaris and Gambit are still the ultimate, all time favourites. But X-23 is in a league of her own.
The X-23 League.
Yeah.