Cosplay of the Day

Cosplay of the Day

Yes, that is WWE Smackdown Zelina Vega as Jade from Mortal Kombat.

Cosplay of the Day

Cosplay of the Day

Yes, that is WWE Smackdown Superstar Billie Kay as Kitana from Mortal Kombat. 

This Day in Comic Book History

On this day in Comic Book History, 

The Punisher first appeared (Amazing Spider-Man #129, October 30, 1973)

Saturday Showcase: Bloodscream

    For this Saturday Showcase, I want to discuss one of my favorite Wolverine villains from the '80's.  The villain in questions is Bloodscream. Bloodscream originally debuted as Bloodsport back in 1989 in Wolverine Vol. 2 #4.  He was created by Chris Claremont and John Buscema.  He made is debut along with Roughouse to attack Patch aka Wolverine in Madripoor.  Why does he attack Logan?  Well to know that you need to know his story.

First appearance of Bloodsport aka Bloodscream and Roughouse.

    Bloodscream was born in England in the 16th century.  As a young adult, he served as a naval surgeon in Sir Francis Drake's pirate fleet between 1577 and 1580.  He is critically injured in battle and brought before Dagoo, a necromancer, to save his life.  In the process of saving his life, Dagoo made Bloodscream into a vampire-like being.  Before killing Dagoo, he learns that the only way to reverse the transformation is to use the blood of an immortal.  (See where I am going?)

    Fast forward to World War II...Bloodscream is now an officer of Nazi Forces. During the battle of Normandy, he  comes across a Canadian soldier known as Logan.  Bloodscream gets wounded and is left for dead.  Years later, while in Madripoor, Bloodscream comes across Logan again and notices that Logan has not aged.  He assumes that Logan is the key ingredient to cure him of his immortality.  Well, little did he know that Wolverine had some tricks up his sleeve besides a damn good healing factor.  Several battles are fought, but Wolverine stands tall and Bloodscream is forced to vanish into the shadows...for now.

Healing Factor

    Bloodscream's powers and abilities include superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility and reflexes. He also has a regenerative healing factor which causes him to have an extended lifespan. He has a limited shape-shifting ability as well as the ability to drain blood from victims by touching their skin with his hand.  Since he has fought in many wars, he is a good hand to hand combatant.  He also created many underworld connections.  I guess you can have a lot of connections if you live forever.

    Bloodscream eventually returns to the Marvel universe to take on teh X-men, Avengers, Reavers, and many, many more.  Bloodscream has met his death in many fashions.  Some notable deaths were a beheading by Typhoid Mary and basically an explosion caused by Ant-Man.  Of course Bloodscream cannot be killed.  He just pulls himself together and returns to the fight once he is healed.

Death by Ant-Man

    I hope you have enjoyed this spotlight on Bloodscream.  If you are not familiar with the character, I suggest you try to get your hands on some classic issues of Wolverine to see the being known as Bloodscream.

Until next time, get your READ on!

Marvel Universe Handbook

Saturday Showcase Bonus: the Gentleman Ghost Who's Who

Saturday Showcase: the Gentleman Ghost

Peek-A-Boo of Death

    We are 11 days away from Halloween so I decided to keep my Saturday Showcase with a Halloween theme.  What's more Halloween themed than a ghost?  So, I thought the Gentleman Ghost would be perfect for today.

    The Gentleman Ghost first appeared in the Flash Comics Vol. 1, #88 (October 1947) and was created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert.  He started off as a villain to Hawkman (His 1st appearance was against Hawkman in a bonus story in Flash #88), but would later take on such heroes as Hawkgirl, Batman, Superman, and many other heroes from the Justice League.

BOO!

    The Gentleman Ghost was born James Craddock.  He was a notorious highwayman and robber known as "Gentleman Jim" who terrorized England in the 19th century.  He eventually traveled to the United States where he crossed paths of  two gunslingers named Nighthawk and Cinnamon.  Nighthawk lynches James thinking he made advances toward Cinnamon.  James would not stay dead, he came back as a phantom.  He finds out that he cannot rest until those who murdered him have passed on to the spiritual plane.  Well, it turns out that Nighthawk and Cinnamom can never die as well because they are actually reincarnated souls that will eventually become Hawkman and Hawkgirl.  So, Gentleman Jim becomes the Gentleman Ghost with the main purpose of putting the Hawks down so he may rest in peace.

James Craddock aka the Gentleman Ghost

    In the relaunch of DC Comics, (New 52) the Gentleman Ghost is no longer a phantom, but merely a thief who dresses up to strike fear.  In the new DC Comics, he is not used for his true potential, which is a shame.  He was and still his on of my favorite villains in the DC Universe.

Abilities:

*Spectral ability to turn invisible and incorporeal*

*Renders anybody who touches him deathly cold*

*Teleportation*

*Adequate marksman with antique flintlock pistols*

*Interdimensional travel*

*Spectral energy projection*

*Control over undead*

*Enhanced speed, regeneration, and strength*

*Invokes a white horse that serves as a means of transport*

*Can create spectral weapons*

Until next time, get your READ on!

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Hawkman episode #2 (1960's)

A Visit to Venus -

Octo-armed aliens capture a manned space probe and use it to lure Hawkman to a trap.

Saturday Showcase: Evil Ernie

Evil Ernie (Dynamite Entertainment)

    Nothing says Halloween more than a good scare and it doesn't get more scary in the world of comics than Evil Ernie.  Evil Ernie is an undead psychotic killer comic-book character created by writer Brian Pulido and artist Steven Hughes in 1991 and originally published by Eternity Comics.  The comic was then published by CHAOS! Comics in 1993 then moved on to Devil's Due in 2005.  Evil Ernie is now property of the Dynamite Entertainment publishing company.

   
    Evil Ernie was born Ernest Fairchild.  Ernest was born with supernatural powers.  Basically, whatever he sketched eventually came to life.  He drew a car crashing into a tree and his mother ends up wrecking her car into a tree and had a miscarriage.  This lead to her going slightly insane and Ernest's parents blamed him for everything and abused him for it.  After years of physical and mental abuse, Ernest grew stronger.  Finally, he was under observation by one Dr. Price, who thought he could cure "Ernie" of his problems.  While in "captivity" Ernest made a connection with Lady Death during one of his mental breaks to the netherworld.  He was convinced that he was Lady Death's instrument of destruction.  He fooled everyone to believe he was cured only to kill his parents and thirty five others before Dr. Price shot and captured him.

    During his second batch of treatments, he was killed and Lady Death was able to bring him back thus Evil Ernie was born.  As Evil Ernie, he brought death and destruction to his universe, eventually causing the annihilation of his Earth. Not often do you see a comic go that far, but yup, Evil Ernie destroyed all in his path and no one could stop him.

Smiley made me do it.

Evil Ernie's Abilities include:

Telepathy

Near-limitless Regenerative Ability

Superhuman Strength

Ability to animate and control dead bodies

Manipulation of Arcane Energy

Future Art Illustration

Mindscape Materialization

    So, like I said earlier, it doesn't get scarier in the world of comics than Evil Ernie.  Your parents told you the story of the boogeyman, well Ernie is what the Boogeyman fears.  Until next time, good night and good haunt.

And as always, get your READ on!

Eminem - Venom

This song is from the VENOM motion picture soundtrack.

Enjoy!

Aquaman - Extended Trailer

On This Day in Wrestling History - ECW Anarchy Rulz 2000

RVD Vs Rhino for ECW World TV Title

    On this day back in 2000, we witnessed the ECW PPV, Anarchy Rulz.  This card was stacked with some of ECW's best.  Steve "Old School" Corrino took on CW "the Enforcer" Anderson in what would go down as a bloody battle between former friends.  RVD would battle Rhino for the TV title, in one hell of a match.  Finally the great Jerry Lynn would defeat the reigning champ, Justin Credible, to become the new ECW World Champion.

    Other matches on the card included, tag team wrestling with Danny and Roadkill as well as another tag match with Whipwreck and Tajiri Vs the FBI. 
Of course let is not forget the battle between Cyrus the Virus and Joel Gertner.

    This PPV was under the TNN years which meant some things were censored as well as entrance music was changed to crappy instrumentals.  Though this was a good PPV, I would go back in the day ('90's) if you want to see true ECW wrestling.