Alien vs. X-Men #1-2
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Characters don’t exist out of context. Characters are created as part of a universe, with a set of rules and conventions. My go to example is the “Batman always wins”. True in the DC universe. Drop him in (say) the Wildstorm one, and the more cynical rules of that place would lead to the rich guy to be incinerated from orbit the first time he pulled on his costume and decided to cross the Authority [...] Iron Man’s suit can face off against hyper-advanced aliens, due to it being based on the romantic conception of science, etc. Take that to a hard Science-Fiction Universe, and Iron Man is toast. Thousands of Iron Man armours would be killed by a single Knife Missile, in Iain M Banks’ Culture universe. Take a thousand Knife Missiles to the MU, and Tony would take them down on his lonesome. -- Kieron Gillen
The Colonial Marines had weapons that absolutely can deal with the aliens. All you need is things to go poorly briefly, and things can cascade. Some of this is tonal. Is this the Alien in an X-Men story or the X-Men wandering into an Alien story? This is the latter. -- Kieron Gillen
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NS: R.I.P. Sir Patrick Stewart
Oct. 29th, 2026 03:58 pmcyberghostface posting in scans_daily
Patrick Stewart has passed away at the age of 86.
As far as comicbook casting goes he was perfect as Professor Xavier in the X-Men films. With this year’s ‘Doomsday’ it’s a role that spanned over twenty five years. He of course was also known for playing Picard and Star Trek and a plethora of other roles on stage, television and film.
The web novel Worm is getting a IDW comic adaptation.
Oct. 27th, 2026 12:21 pmbrerrabbit posting in scans_daily
Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Oct. 27th, 2026 10:13 amicon_uk posting in scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Well, in positive news, Brazil elected Lula for a fourth non-consecutive, term flying in the face of projections following the previous round that Right wing Flávio Bolsonaro would win.
And in Serbia, long time, pro-Russia leader Aleksandar Vučić, has admitted defeat in an election which saw the Student List, a movement with no obvious leaders and whose members are not career politicians, achieve power after two years of effort.
If this looks like a less than subtle reminder to our American members to make use of their right to vote in their upcoming Mid-term elections (Where mail-in voting has already started I believe), you're damned right it is!
Walter Koenig, best known as the original Chekov in Star Trek, though also for his far more nuanced and sinister role as Alfred Bester of the Psi-Corps on Babylon 5, has passed away at the venerable age of 90.
And the world of animation also lost Eric Bauza at the ridiculously young age of 46. To list his voice acting credits beyond the obvious Warner Brothers ones of Bugs, Daffy, Foghorn Leghorn and Road Runner, would take forever, so here's his IMDB page which lists 421 different series/games he performed in, that's titles, not number of roles, or performances of each. Chances are, if you've enjoyed any even vaguely mainstream animation over the past 20 years, he was in it somewhere. Utterly invested in animation as a genre and an advocate it as an artform, his loss is a tragic one ebcause he should ahve had so much longer to share those talents.
Oh, forgot to ask, anyone got interesting plans for Halloween?
If it helps get in the mood, Mainframe Studios has released HD copies of both their CGI movies based off of Jill Thompson's Scary Godmother: Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktacular and Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Well, in positive news, Brazil elected Lula for a fourth non-consecutive, term flying in the face of projections following the previous round that Right wing Flávio Bolsonaro would win.
And in Serbia, long time, pro-Russia leader Aleksandar Vučić, has admitted defeat in an election which saw the Student List, a movement with no obvious leaders and whose members are not career politicians, achieve power after two years of effort.
If this looks like a less than subtle reminder to our American members to make use of their right to vote in their upcoming Mid-term elections (Where mail-in voting has already started I believe), you're damned right it is!
Walter Koenig, best known as the original Chekov in Star Trek, though also for his far more nuanced and sinister role as Alfred Bester of the Psi-Corps on Babylon 5, has passed away at the venerable age of 90.
And the world of animation also lost Eric Bauza at the ridiculously young age of 46. To list his voice acting credits beyond the obvious Warner Brothers ones of Bugs, Daffy, Foghorn Leghorn and Road Runner, would take forever, so here's his IMDB page which lists 421 different series/games he performed in, that's titles, not number of roles, or performances of each. Chances are, if you've enjoyed any even vaguely mainstream animation over the past 20 years, he was in it somewhere. Utterly invested in animation as a genre and an advocate it as an artform, his loss is a tragic one ebcause he should ahve had so much longer to share those talents.
Oh, forgot to ask, anyone got interesting plans for Halloween?
If it helps get in the mood, Mainframe Studios has released HD copies of both their CGI movies based off of Jill Thompson's Scary Godmother: Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktacular and Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy
Nightwing #142 is Dick going to Gotham.
Oct. 25th, 2026 03:58 pmthanekos posting in scans_dailyThe end of #141'd promised " Bad Seeds " next.
#142 delivered with those seeds blowing over to Blüdhaven.
Dick ' notice[d] it, but it hardly register[ed] ' - he was focused on Blüdhaven's criminal mayor Bisogni.
An explosion blossomed and Dick thought ' Ignore it. '
( He had older growth to deal with. )
#142 delivered with those seeds blowing over to Blüdhaven.
Dick ' notice[d] it, but it hardly register[ed] ' - he was focused on Blüdhaven's criminal mayor Bisogni.
An explosion blossomed and Dick thought ' Ignore it. '
( He had older growth to deal with. )
NS: ‘Clayface’ discussion
Oct. 22nd, 2026 09:35 pmcyberghostface posting in scans_daily
What did people think of ‘Clayface’?
I thought it was a solid film overall. Tom Rhys Harries is great as Matt Hagen. It’s very much a body horror film with a bit of gore and gruesome imagery so it’s not for everyone though.
At minimum I think it shows the potential going forward in the DCU that we can have films like this exist in the same universe as ‘Superman’. I would love to see more comicbook horror films going forward.
