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Two posts in about a week? Holy crap! But don't get used to it. Just wanted to bring you a nice moment I just stumbled upon. Leave it to Kurt to be the heart of the X-Men:

(From Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1, writer Rick Remender.)

Sometimes...

... I like to revisit my old haunts. I realize sometimes you can't use actors' likenesses, but...

Well, I guess that's a pretty passable Hal Jordan. What? It's supposed to be Barry Allen? The Barry Allen played by Grant Gustin? Nope, not seeing it.

(From The Flash: Season Zero -which happens at the same time as season one, since he already has his powers- artist Phil Hester.)

You thought I was gone...

... but I'm not! Almost one year after my last post, I'm back again! Just a couple of small dissections, first up:

Rogue's powers have never worked that way. She doesn't share powers, she copies them. And even if she shared them, that would leave Psylocke with less power, not feeling the strain of Rogue's use of the telekinesis. And "generating" TK? What?

(From X-Men V4 #4, writer Brian Wood.)

Next one (and last one for now, don't know if it'll be another year):

That's a Latverian soldier. In Latveria. Where they do not speak French.

(From A+X #14, writer Gerry Duggan.)

You're gonna go blind!

There are some sound effect words, or onomatopoeias that just can't be used after something. Writers Bendis and Mack and/or letterer Joe Caramagna should know that (I'm sure someone as foulmouthed and internet-savvy as Bendis knows it) "fap" is used as a verb on the internet to refer to male masturbation. It's not a secret, and it's actually derived from the sound of the hand slapping the thigh, so it IS an SFX...

I have seen it before in a couple of books; but only once or twice... this double page spread is just... too much.

The hotel room exterior, the Jack and Matt Murdock murdock clippings, the nun picture (yeah, I know it's Matt's mom)... all that makes it even more disturbing. The last panel provides a clue, and the next page shows us it's just someone punching a sandbag:

Can we not use that SFX except for what it's intended?

(From Daredevil: End Of Days #8 of 8, by writers Brian Michael Bendis & David Mack, and/or letterer Joe Caramagna.)