Return of the 90's X-men the Funko style

Now that the mutants are back on track with the upcoming "ResurrXion" in the comics and the last Wolverine movie, "Logan", X-men fans have another thing to look forward. As announced from the collector corps blog, Funko will bring back our childhood memories as they launch this coming November an extensive line of 90's X-men. This line includes mutants in variety of forms including Pop!, Dorbz, and Mystery Minis.

First with the fan favorite Funko Pop, Fellow mutants Cable, Archangel, Quicksilver in his classic blue suit, Psylocke, Sabretooth and Storm in her Mohawk style. They will also launch a Magneto Pop! keychain to add badassery in your keys.

Second in line are the adorable Dorbz, these Dorbz figures are approximately 3-inches tall andcome packaged in a window display box. Joining their ranks are Storm, Psylocke, Sabretooth, Cyclops, Dark Phoenix, Emma Frost which has a diamond chase variant ( 1 in 6 rarity) and Cable which is a Walmart exclusive.



Last one is the Mystery Minis which includes Wolverines and ten other X-men characters.



All products above will be available this coming November so be sure to check out your favorite Funko retailers.

Bonus. Check out this cute Beast riding the Blackbird Jet coming this December!

All new and All different Toycon!

Toycon is considered as a con to watched out for all toy hunters in the Philippines. Whether you collect Marvel and DC action figures, Gunpla, Hotwheels, Dolls, Figuarts, Die Casts, Statues and other stuff, this is the real deal. This is the place where you can find the toy that you wanted when you were a kid or the missing piece in your collection.

However, with the sudden announcement
of the ticket price, some people don't seem to like the idea of change. The increase of the ticket price was unreasonable at first but for me, it's damn worth it tho I'm hesitant to go in the first place.

I've been attending toycon for a few years and I can say that there are numerous problems. First, is the place. It's like you're in an air conditioned Divi but with less wild people. Lot of people roaming around, taking pictures, and looking for the toys. If you're a cosplayer and wearing heavy armor, props in all your body, sweat all over because of the heat but you have to act in character and roam around, I can say that you're really have the passion and love on what you were doing. That is why i salute all the cosplayers who gave an extra excitement and a plus factor in the event. Let' us be frank here, people love to take  selfies with them, especially with a hottie cosplayer, right??? Ooopppss!! :) Cheers to all the cosplayers for surviving the event!! Second is the Food area. you can't properly eat with the amount of people and extreme heat ( For me coz I sweat a lot). But if you are hungry as hell, i don't think that it will matter. 

Nevertheless, this year's Toycon is a game changer. It happened last June 10-12 at SMX convention center. A larger location that can cater more congoers. The gigantic Voltes V is this year's main attraction with the 22 ft iconic robot. Lot of people took  with it, who wouldn't  if you see that gigantic robot right? Of course i'm one of that people. Anyways, they also have a Stan Lee area where you can see stuff with his signatures, like a lot of signatures. a lot of guest like Hodor from Game of Thrones, Mario Maurer, Dean Cain, Pat Lee and many more.

Things that i enjoyed were the tons of booths where you can find great stuff tho I wasn't able to find the Pizza Spidey :( the display area from different toy groups, like I can stare at the display cabs for a long period of time. Gigantic Funkos and NBA players statues that were also selfie catching for the people. Lots of stuff I can't even put it all here hahaha.



The last flaw that we just noticed was the.....space management. Yeah it's spacious especially on the right side, likke more people on the selling area that leads to less people going to the artist alley. I also didn't see the point of putting colorful stuff at the center and the lighting was bad.

Weighing the good and bad, I can say Toycon 2016 is still good. The excitement and thrill of toy hunting is still there. Meeting fellow collectors and gaining new friends would be the real highlight of Toycon 2016. It's a great start to level up the pop culture convention knowing that Asia Pop Comicon will be back this August.

Hauls!

Superhero movies and evolution of viewers

2016 is a great year for all the geeks as we saw the debut of DC's trinity at Batman v Superman, first solo film of Deadpool, the most anticipated civil war and recently X- men Apocalypse. In this digital age, movie viewers tend to rely on reviews which can also affect the performance in sales of the movie. Good example is The Amazing Spider-man 2, for me it's a good movie but some douchebags posted spoilers in the social media which results in disappointment for moviegoers which leads to poor sales and cancellation of the franchise. The movie might have flaws but the consistency and story is right there but unfortunately we won't be able to see what will happen next since Spider-man's rights are back to Marvel Studios/ Disney.

BvS also suffered that same fate tho if you think about the movie plot wise, kinda shallow (Martha!) But I enjoyed the movie. Civil War is also criticized by netizens saying it doesn't follow the comics (meh! You just googled it don't call yourself a Marvel Geek).

To conclude this nonsense article just enjoy the movie. Don't say negative comments even though you haven't seen the movie yet. If you're a Marvel fan that's good, if you're more of DC that's also good. After all it's a win win situation because we're able to see our favorite characters in the big screen.


PS
Don't spoil the movie to anyone. Don't be that shit :)

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Secret Wars in Marvel Future Fight

Netmarble Games' Marvel Future Fight brings "Secret Wars" in the new update of one of the anticipated games in smartphones. With the said update some players are quite happy and some are not.

They added 3 new playable characters that came from secret wars series " A-Force". Nico Minoru/ Sister Grimm, She-Hulk and Singularity. They also added new uniforms from different Secret Wars series like Symbiote Spider-man, 1602 Angela, 1872 Bullseye, Maestro, Hala Field uniform of Captain Marvel, Groot from Thors, Marvel Zombies Venom. Some of the uniforms are not yet available in the shop yet you can have a preview of the alternate costumes of kingpin, captain america, iron man and black widow.

Battleworld

In order to feel the secret wars in the game they also included "Battleworld" in which you will select 5 heroes and fight with other players. You can get biometrics if you manage to be part of the rankings. The requirements to participate in the battleworld changes every 2 days I think? They also included comic book covers to collect via dimension rift and gain rewards.

TBH the update is not quite good for me despite the added features. One reason some players don't like it because of the changes in the villain siege specifically in the chaos and honor token shops wherein only hulk and captain marvel are the heroes you can buy for 500 tokens with 3 biometrics. Then the other heroes are now in the chaos or honor chest. It is now more cheaper but you randomly get 1-3 biometrics for 165. Maybe I was just satisfied with the previous update (Antman update) that's why it didn't meet my expectations but I'm still playing the game and hope we could get a much cooler update once Captain America: Civil War hit the theaters.

ONELASTTIME

Few hours ago, Hugh Jackman posted it on his facebook page telling his fans that this is his last time putting his claws. We all know that he play Wolverine from various X-Men movies and even having his own solo movie. Many fans are disappointed of the news since most of us don't like reboot nonetheless you are not good in portraying your character. As a long time Wolverine fan, I can't figure out who can be the next Wolverine because in my point of view he's the right Wolverine despite the height differences in the comics. And for #OneLastTime I would like to see him play the Wolverine in berserker mode especially there are speculations that the last movie is all about "Old Man Logan".

To anyone who read this what do you want to see in the last Wolverine movie? #ONELASTTIME

Manga!

MANGAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Aside from reading comic books from western countries, I also read "Manga". Manga are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. In Japan, most of the people from all ages read mangas. Unlike comic books in western countries, mangas offered a wide variety of genres: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, suspense, detective, horror, sexuality, and business/commerce, among others. Since then, manga became a part of Japan's culture. Another difference between westernize comics and mangas is that mangas are read from right to left.

Basically, Mangas are typically drawn and printed in black and white but there are also some colored mangas. Also in Japan, mangas are usually serialized in large manga magazines, often containing many stories, each presented in a single episode to be continued in the next issue. If the series is successful, collected chapters may be republished in trade paperback books called tankōbon. A manga artist (mangaka in Japanese) typically works with a few assistants in a small studio and is associated with a creative editor from a commercial publishing company. If a manga series is popular enough, it may be animated after or even during its run which is good and can sometimes boost more popularity for the series. Sometimes manga are drawn centering on previously existing live-action or animated films. Aside from being animated, some mangas are also translated into live action films. 

Some of my favorite mangas are One Piece, Naruto, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Kuroko No Basuke, Shingeki No Kyojin, Ratman, Slam Dunk and many more. Since in our country mangas are not sold in singles, I can only see trade paperback books. In order to keep up with the manga series I used the internet to read mangas that are scanned by random people and the post it on different websites. I highly recommend to read mangas because it can help you be a good person ( I'm a living proof HAHAHA )

The best there is!

Snikt! Last Thursday I watched another Marvel's movie for 2013, The Wolverine. Seriously I waited years for this movie because Wolverine is my favorite Marvel character. To give you a head's up, the movie was set after X-men 3: The last stand. Logan faces anxiety or somehow nightmare due to what he did to Jean Grey that's why if you watched the movie you can see Jean pops out every time Logan is depress. He goes on wild and tend to go alone but destiny seeks out when he met Yukio and blah blah blah.

Okay, in the film, Logan travels to Japan, where he engages an old acquaintance in a struggle that has lasting consequences. Stripped of his immortality, Wolverine must battle deadly samurai as well as his inner demons. I observed many things regarding the movie (Good and Bad)

1. Stripping out the healing factor - It's a good plot for the movie to do this so we can see what is the real power of the character when he is vulnerable. I read many articles that on the comic book side they were able to also do this. ( Check out Wolverine# 7).

2. Yukio - through out the film whenever I see Yukio I always tell to my girlfriend " si Charice oh cosplayer na!" hahaha. She looks nice and probably she will appear in the comics too due to the hype.

3. Wolverine is not that intelligent in this film- seriously? In the comics, Wolverine is fluent in many languages including English, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Cheyenne, Lakota, and Spanish; he has some knowledge of French, German, Thai, Vietnamese, Farsi and Portuguese. Ogun taught him Japanese ideograms. You can see in the movie that he ask yukio what does it mean whenever he doesn't understand something.

4. Less talk less mistake? - kinda boring but if you watch just to see fight scenes it might satisfy your movie urge.

5. Silver Samurai- I remember my gf asked who was the robot, " Si iron man ba yan or transformers?". Why make it robot? I wish they do the original concept in comics wherein Silver Samurai is a real samurai not just another piece of junk in a suit. ( But the fight scenes are awesome)

WATCH IT OR WOLVERINE WILL SLASH YOU, BUB. 

What to pick for july 3? (Product)

Don't know what Marvel comics to pick this coming week? Try to check this out.

AVENGERS AI #1 

AVENGERS #15 INF

DAREDEVIL DARK NIGHTS #2 (OF 8) 

DEADPOOL KILLS DEADPOOL #1 (OF 4) 

GUARDIANS OF GALAXY TOMORROWS AVENGERS #1 

IRON MAN #12 NOW 

RED SHE-HULK #67 NOW 

SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN #1 NOW 

THUNDERBOLTS #12 NOW 

VENOM #37 

WHAT IF AVX #1 (OF 4) X-MEN LEGACY #13 NOW

I think the best one to pick this coming week is "The Superior foes of Spider-Man". Since Superior Spider-man is now getting a boost, I guess all Spidey fans will get this one. This comic book focuses on the villains encountered by Spider- Man (Otto Octavius) which gave the readers a paradigm shift from the late Spider-man (Peter Parker). For more info you can go to the nearest comic book store or you can also check www.comicxhub.com for more details.

Comicx Hub (Services)

Don't know where to get the latest comic book in town? Tired of going to mall and searching for new issues of your favorite super hero series? Well the Comicx Hub is the answer to your problem!

Nowadays, people tend to spend their time surfing the net and some of them find it burdensome to go out and pick their comics. Comicx Hub is the country's largest and first online shopping website for Comics, Toys & Collectibles. In stock are thousands of back issue comic books, hard cover graphic novels and trade paperbacks from a wide variety of international and local comic book publishers in various comic eras.

So how this thing works? Basically you can go visit their website at www.comicxhub.com  and you can see the different products they offer. Each week they provide new releases and once you order your comics should get to you from Next Day to 2 to 3 days if within Metro Manila and 3 to 5 days within Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.  

Off course they want customers to provide their customers with fast and reasonable rates of shipping (sometimes free) that's why they have in their wing some of the best door to door delivery like LBC, 2Go and DHL. For the payment you can choose from Credit Cards to PayPal accounts, Bank Deposits and In Store Pick up. They even have a facility that allows you to use your ATM cards for payment! 

A panoramic view of the store
photo by Lawrence Sol Cruz

You can also go to their offline store at 3F Bloomingdale Plaza, Shaw Blvd., Brgy Kapitolyo, 1603 Pasig and for sure you'll find it amazing because of the nerdy and geeky stuff. So what are you waiting for? Go grab some and tell your friends that, "I got mine online!"

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