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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Daily Scans" journal:

November 14th, 2009
07:22 pm [xdoop] [Link]	"Psi War!" ( Images behind the cut. ) Tags: char: professor x/charles xavier, creator: chris claremont, creator: john byrne, title: uncanny x-men (18 comments \| Leave a comment)
November 13th, 2009
01:30 am [xdoop] [Link]	Emma Frost vs. Rachel Summers! ( Images behind the cut. ) Tags: char: cyclops/scott summers, char: phoenix/marvel girl/rachel summers, char: white queen/emma frost, creator: andy park, creator: chris claremont, title: uncanny x-men (79 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 20th, 2009
12:24 am [zechs27] [Link]	The Magneto and Rogue Affair Uncanny X-Men #269, + 274-275 Dial Uppers Beware! ( Read more... ) Tags: char: ka-zar, char: magneto/erik magnus lehnsherr, char: nick fury, char: rogue/anna marie, creator: chris claremont, creator: jim lee, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (36 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 8th, 2009
03:40 pm [sherkahn] [Link]	Uncanny X-men #516 Preview IGN has the preview. ( It almost feels like the true Marvel Universe again ) Tags: creator: greg land, creator: matt fraction, genre: previews, group: x-men, title: uncanny x-men (44 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 24th, 2009
02:41 pm [colonel_green] [Link]	Uncanny X-Men #515 Four scans from Uncanny X-Men #515, in which Greg Land mostly manages to not obstruct the story. ( Read more... ) Tags: char: beast/hank mccoy, char: cyclops/scott summers, char: dr. nemesis/james bradley, char: dr. yuriko takiguchi, char: kavita rao, char: psylocke/betsy braddock, creator: greg land, creator: matt fraction, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (95 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 23rd, 2009
05:16 pm [starwolf_oakley] [Link]	DARK X-MEN: THE CONFESSION #1 and UNCANNY X-MEN #515 Three pages from DARK X-MEN: THE CONFESSION #1 (focusing on one half of the confessions) and one page from UNCANNY X-MEN #515. ( Confessions and recriminations after the cut ) Tags: char: cyclops/scott summers, char: professor x/charles xavier, creator: bing cansino, creator: chris yost, creator: greg land, creator: matt fraction, group: dark x-men, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (32 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 19th, 2009
11:12 pm [sandoz_iscariot] [Link]	Uncanny X-Men: Maddy and Lockheed Another one of my favorite Lockheed scenes from the Claremont/Smith era. Scans from UXM #173. ( Lockheed's a perfect name for her... ) And for no reason at all, Wolverine's single emo mantear: Tags: char: cyclops/scott summers, char: goblyn queen/madelyne pryor, char: lockheed, char: shadowcat/kitty pryde, char: wolverine/logan/james howlett, creator: chris claremont, creator: paul smith, group: x-men, title: uncanny x-men (29 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 14th, 2009
07:55 pm [sandoz_iscariot] [Link]	Uncanny X-Men: A Girl and Her Dragon When Kitty met Lockheed! Scans from UXM 166 and 168, by Claremont and Smith. ( Are you for real? ) Tags: char: colossus/piotr rasputin, char: lockheed, char: professor x/charles xavier, char: shadowcat/kitty pryde, creator: chris claremont, creator: paul smith, group: x-men, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (28 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 4th, 2009
11:27 pm [dr_hermes] [Link]	The real source of the X-Men Every comic book, cartoon and movie featuring the X-Men should in all fairness have a credit on it somewhere, "Inspired by the 1945 'Baldy' stories of Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore." I'd read some stories by Henry Kuttner that I thought were clever and amusing (the Hogbens series, the one about Gallagher the drunk inventor) and some that seemed tedious and lame (those uninspired Elak of Atlantis epics). But until I found myself lost in MUTANT, I didn't quite realize how astoundingly good Kuttner (and his wife Moore, usually collaborating to some degree, here as "Lewis Padgett") could be. This is the real stuff, genuine pulp style science fiction. It's full of inventive details and clever plot twists, with a strong premise that today seems to have a even stronger appeal for readers than it did back then.. Created by atomic radiation, a new race of bald telepaths fights a desperate secret war between their two factions of the sane and the paranoid mutants. The paranoids (who at one point are mockingly called "Homo Superior" as compared to Homo Sapiens) see themselves as godlike supermen inevitably destined to conquer and rule the pitiful normal humans. The sane mutants are struggling desperately to keep knowledge of even the existence of the paranoids from become known, fearing that vastly more numerous normals will massacre them all. It's not a simplistic struggle between pure good and evil, as even the sane Baldies resent being forced to submit and bow their heads, keeping a low profile in the hopes that their children will be fully assimilated. (Did Stan Lee ever mention in the letters columns that he and Jack Kirby had enjoyed the 'Baldy' stories by Kuttner? Certainly, they both had read a lot of pulps back in the 1940s, Kirby even illustrating some of them. As Jewish men alive during the Holocaust, did the 'Baldy' stories have special resonance for them?) All the mutants are born completely hairless, but in an attempt at blending in and going unnoticed, most of them wear fake eyebrows, eyelashes and wigs. At first, the more defiant and unruly mutants go around natural (I'm bald and I'm proud!), but widespread lynching dampens that trend. We as readers following the Baldies can see they are mostly honorable and discreet, would never use their telepathic abiities unfairly and in fact go out of their way to do useful constructive work in their careers. Still.... you can see how just knowing there are people out there who can literally read your mind without your knowledge or consent would be seen as threatening. And who doesn't have dirty little secrets and vices they want to keep hidden? (Put your hand down, you in the back. You're as bad as the rest of us.) Although they can communicate freely with each other, the Baldies can only read a normal human's surface thoughts; it's a real effort to put a thought into a person's mind, and there's no sign that Baldies can mentally coerce anyone, let alone brainwash or control someone's actions. This makes them still dangerous but much more vulnerable and recognizable than Marvel mutants who can blast destructive rays from their eyes or make Army tanks fly apart. In addition to the tension of the desperate underground war going on unsuspected by the normal humans, the "Baldy" series also has an intriguing backstory that is gradually revealed. [An incredibly lengthy review of the "Baldy" stories can be found over on my Retro-Scans site, for those who are interested. One more indication of how Lee and Kirby were deriving the X-Men from the "Baldies" is shown in how Magneto also had telepathic powers in the earliest issues. He was not as capable as Professor X, but he could scan minds and astral travel. This was quickly dropped, but it is an echo of Kuttner's vision of two groups of telepathic mutants warring with each other over humanity.) Tags: char: magneto/erik magnus lehnsherr, char: marvel girl/phoenix/jean grey, char: professor x/charles xavier, creator: jack kirby, creator: stan lee, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (29 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 1st, 2009
12:34 pm [colonel_green] [Link]	No word on whether Tinkerbell is her mom. Some news regarding writer Kathryn Immonen's next project, a miniseries in the X-Universe focussing on Pixie, as well as two scans from a past issue of Uncanny X-Men. ( Read more... ) Tags: char: armor/hisako ichiki, char: blindfold/ruth aldine, char: mercury/cessily kincaid, char: pixie/megan gwynn, char: x-23/laura kinney, creator: kathryn immonen, creator: matt fraction, creator: stuart immonen, creator: terry dodson, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (42 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 29th, 2009
02:41 pm [wonderwomanhero] [Link]	Psylocke's Adventure with the X-Club!!! Well, you may be wondering what has become of Psylocke since the Sisterhood Of Porn Faced Copyright Infringement Tracing WTFness that was the Sisterhood of Mutants event in Uncanny X-Men. Well, Betts is back, and better than ever. ( 3 Largeish Images under the cut ) Tags: char: box/madison jefferies, char: dr. nemesis/james bradley, char: kavita rao, char: psylocke/betsy braddock, creator: david finch, group: x-club, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (28 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 22nd, 2009
09:23 pm [sandoz_iscariot] [Link]	Uncanny X-Men: The Sentinels...LIVE! Here's a classic Silver Age X-Men storyline by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams. In which the Sentinels return, Alex and Lorna meet for the first time, crazy '60s jewelry is worn, and Scott out-robots a robot. ( PREPARE YOURSELF, MUTANT! ) Tags: char: beast/hank mccoy, char: cyclops/scott summers, char: havok/alex summers, char: iceman/bobby drake, char: marvel girl/phoenix/jean grey, char: polaris/lorna dane, creator: neal adams, creator: roy thomas, era: silver age, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (29 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 17th, 2009
06:57 pm [xdoop] [Link]	More November solicts for Marvel and DC ( Dark X-Men #1 ) ( Uncanny X-Men #517 ) ( X-Force #21 ) ( Adventure Comics #4 ) ( The Outsiders #24 ) ( Detective Comics #859 ) Tags: event: blackest night, genre: solicitations, publisher: marvel comics, title: adventure comics, title: dark x-men, title: detective comics, title: outsiders, title: uncanny x-men, title: x-force (79 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 5th, 2009
11:06 pm [xdoop] [Link]	The difference between Magneto and Wolverine. ( Image behind the cut. ) Tags: char: magneto/erik magnus lehnsherr, char: wolverine/logan/james howlett, creator: chris claremont, creator: dave cockrum, group: x-men, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (11 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 3rd, 2009
06:57 pm [xdoop] [Link]	Rachel and Magneto ( Images behind the cut. ) Tags: char: beyonder, char: callisto, char: magneto/erik magnus lehnsherr, char: phoenix/marvel girl/rachel summers, char: professor x/charles xavier, char: shadowcat/kitty pryde, creator: chris claremont, creator: john romita jr., group: x-men, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (75 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 25th, 2009
12:25 pm [xdoop] [Link]	CCI: X-Men Panel ( Uncanny X-Men #516 ) ( New Mutants #6 ) ( X-Men: Necrosha #1 ) Tags: char: cypher/doug ramsey, char: magneto/erik magnus lehnsherr, char: selene gallio, event: necrosha, title: new mutants, title: uncanny x-men (43 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 13th, 2009
06:59 pm [perletwo] [Link]	Uncanny X-Men #183 - 'and they called it puppy love' neuhallidae requested Peter and Kitty's post-Secret Wars breakup. Because it features lovely, lovely John Romita Jr. art in nice quiet scenes, I decided to seek it out. 5 and 2/3 pages from a 22-page story in Uncanny X-Men #183, not my scans. ( He'll Never Make Me Cry ) Tags: char: colossus/piotr rasputin, char: lockheed, char: magik/ilyanna rasputin, char: shadowcat/kitty pryde, char: wolverine/logan/james howlett, creator: chris claremont, creator: john romita jr., group: x-men, title: uncanny x-men (52 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 11th, 2009
02:42 pm [roily_rogue] [Link]	Why it sucks to be Kurt Wagner (or: "Healing factors are for sissies") Let's take a look at just how much punishment Kurt's taken the last couple years: ( Image-heavy under the cut ) Current Mood: hungry Tags: char: nightcrawler/kurt wagner, char: omega red/arkady rossovich, char: wolverine/akihiro/daken, char: wolverine/logan/james howlett, group: x-men, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men, title: x-men: manifest destiny (28 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 5th, 2009
01:35 pm [roily_rogue] [Link]	Gratuitous Logurt post. Because a person asked for more of Logan/Kurt and because I want to, here are some random scans of the two going into conniptions over each other's safety: ( Bromance ahoy! ) Current Mood: geeky Tags: char: nightcrawler/kurt wagner, char: wolverine/logan/james howlett, creator: alan davis, creator: chris claremont, creator: frank tieri, creator: joe casey, creator: joe kelly, creator: phil jimenez, creator: sean chen, creator: sean phillips, title: uncanny x-men, title: wolverine (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 24th, 2009
10:25 pm [colonel_green] [Link]	Fraction's X-Heroes Four scans from Uncanny X-Men #512, featuring Beast's adventuring X-Club, and four from Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia. ( Paradox-alicious! ) Tags: char: angel/archangel/warren worthington, char: ares/marvel, char: beast/hank mccoy, char: cyclops/scott summers, char: dr. nemesis/james bradley, char: green goblin/norman osborn, char: kavita rao, char: professor x/charles xavier, char: white queen/emma frost, creator: marc silvestri, creator: matt fraction, creator: yanick paquette, event: utopia, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men (25 comments \| Leave a comment)

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