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  • 50 Cent Comics – The Uncanny X-Men #290

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    Next of from the stash of 50 cent comics I purchased at MegaCon this year is The Uncanny X-Men #290 from July 1992.

    For a while, The Uncanny X-Men was probably my single favorite title though I wouldn’t start buying them on a regular basis until almost a year after this issue. This issue features a battle primarily between Hiro and the Cyburai. What could be more cool than cybernetic Samurai? Then there was the drama between Storm and Forge. Forge had asked Storm to marry him in a previous issue and Storm apparently said let me think about it. She decided yes but not before Forge got sick of waiting and retracted his proposal. Overall a pretty uninteresting issue despite the cybernetic Samurai…unless you were really shipping Storm and Forge I guess. However I guess this issue is important in one regard. It is this issue in which Forge leaves the X-Men. He wanted to help Mystique who he would later have an affair with. Sometimes reading the X-Men is like watching a soap opera.

    Again, it was really the ads that were more fun to look at. There are lots of video game ads in this issue. The Super Nintendo had been relatively recently released so there are still plenty of ads for the original NES plus the Genesis and Game Boy. This ad is for Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge for the NES, Genesis and Game Boy. It is a rather mediocre racer if I recall correctly.

    Here we have Forge maniacally fixing the blackbird. We also have the more interesting ad for Super Castlevania IV, one of the early games for the Super Nintendo.

    Some more dialog with Forge. Or you can look at the ad for Hook for the NES…

    I miss Rick Moranis being in movies. My favorite roles of his will always be from Ghostbusters and Spaceballs but I liked the Honey, I Shrunk/Blew Up the Kids movies too.

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  • 50 Cent Comics – Avengers #311

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    Next of from the stash of 50 cent comics I purchased at MegaCon this year is Avengers #311.

    This issue is from December 1989. I still wouldn’t start buying comics on a regular basis for a couple more years and I never really bought Avengers title anyway so I’m just jumping into the middle of the story here. Apparently the story in this issue continues directly from Quasar #4 and Quasar takes the primary role in this issue. This serves as a reminder that there were quite a number of characters that rotated in and out of the Avengers line-up and Marvel still has a pretty much unlimited number of stories they can tell on the big screen if they so choose…though they’ll have to be willing to do it with some more obscure characters. Apparently a whole cast of villains is attacking members of the Avengers all over the place as part of some master plan by some master villain. This is part of an ongoing storyline titled “Acts of Vengeance” and this issue features an attack on Hydrobase which is the floating island headquarters of the Avengers at this point in time.

    I didn’t find this issue all that interesting but the ads certainly were. Clearly this was when the original Nintendo Entertainment System was near its peak as almost every ad is for an NES game or accessory. First up is Operation Wolf, one of the best light gun games of the time.

    Next up in terms of ads is one for Bubble Bobble. One of the best puzzle type games for the NES.

    And here we have a two for one with two games from Capcom, one of the best Nintendo licensees. Strider and Mega Man 2 are both classics.

    Some NES accessories are even advertised. Here we have wireless controllers by Acclaim. Unfortunately, these are infrared and a little too dependent on a direct line of sight to make them desirable in my opinion.

    Another Capcom ad, this time for Bionic Commando. Another classic and another excellent game.

    And for the wrestling fans we have World Championship Wrestling. Oh, and in cased you missed it, Hydrobase gets destroyed.

    Finally, a non NES ad. This one for some Tiger handhelds. However, they were still based on popular NES games. I don’t think that in most cases they translated well to a black and white LCD game though.

    One of the more interesting ads… This one is for a board game by TSR called Web of Gold. Yes, apparently before there were 3D video games, there were 3D board games. I’m not at all familiar with this one so I can’t say how good it is but TSR made some pretty neat stuff.

    Not sure there was 50 cents worth of story in this issue but there was certainly 50 cents worth of video game nostalgia. R.I.P. Hydrobase.

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  • 50 Cent Comics – X-Treme X-Men #32

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    Next up from the batch of 50 cent comics I picked up at MegaCon in Orlando this year is X-Treme X-Men #32. Back when I bought comics on a regular basis, The X-Men titles were among my favorites. However, this was before X-Treme X-Men came along so I’m not really sure how that one fits in. I’m not sure this cover really has anything to do with the story.

    Anyway, the story involves a woman trying to blow up a club full of mutants for some past abuse she suffered. This issue is from December 2003 but you can get a pretty good idea of the time period from the…

    …video game advertisements like this one for Soul Calibur II for the GameCube. The only 3D fighting game series I really played and liked.

    Discrete sound cards aren’t as big of a deal as they used to be but the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 was one I used to really want. I always contented myself with on-board audio though. I don’t think I really had a discrete sound card since whatever Sound Blaster variant I had that came with my Pentium II from Gateway 2000. And that Sound Blaster 16 ASP I had for my 486 DX2-66 back in the day was awesome for its time. I still kind of want one of those Audigy 2s though…

    Another video game ad to date this issue. This time for a game I never heard of for the original XBox.

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