Rogue Reappears in XMen Legacy

FINALLY.

Interview at Newsarama.com with Mike Carey on the return of Rogue and how she interacts with Xaiver and an attempt to control her powers. Hope this arc is good. I am hopeful.

Marvel Likes My Survey Suggestion

Haha!

Well, me and a gentleman by the name of Mike thought up the same survey question for Marvel's Twitter Survey.

Who is your favorite X-Men member who's NOT Wolverine?

Now don't get me wrong, I love Wolvie. However, asking 'favorite X-Man' to the internet is kind of a foregone conclusion. Naturally, I responded with Rogue.

Marvel's Twitter feed is here if you'd like to add your response. (Twitter acct needed ^^)

Link Dump - School Ate My Soul Edition

Due to the aforementioned Soul Eating (not the anime :P) here are some links from a few days back.

Twitter hits Japan. Japan hits back. I suspect this may have added to the increased viewings of the 'fail whale' last week. Unless it didn't.

In other twitter news, you can now go to Twiddict.com if the whale has reared it's blow hole and you just must post. From the Twiddict site: avoid life-changing withdrawal symptoms during Twitter downtime. We'll make sure your tweets end up where they belong.

I really like the fact that Twiddict exists. I tried Plurk and frankly, it doesn't light me afire. I think Twitter will fix it's 'issues' sooner or later. I hope.
sources: Japanator and Laughing Squid's twitter feed.

Devil Doll of W/R fame (OTP dammit!) found some Wolverine and the XMen images from the upcoming show of the same name. I see no Rogue. WTF, mate?

Tony Bedard (currently writing Birds of Prey) chats with CBR about BoP. He's no Gail Simone - (who is, really?) but I like his work so far.

You want to levitate? Done! Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation
source: Dosh Dosh's twitter feed

Kotaku investigates the rumor of a Castlevania game for the Wii and it's manga counterpart.

Do your gaming systems suck up too much energy? Maybe! (unless you're a Wii owner :P)
source: Lifehacker and Wii Fanboy

Michael Golden is Good People

Just a quick blurb from my MegaCon weekend that I thought I'd share.

Got to meet Michael Golden, who (along with Chris Claremont) created Rogue. Turns out that Golden, while still a cool guy, is not a 'superhero guy'. He's primarily a graphic designer/commercial artist. Rogue, to him, was essentially a job. Now, this sounds bad, but his goal was to make the readers happy and while he's not attached to her per se, it makes him feel good that everyone loves her. I was very impressed with his thoughts on commercial art and 'the process'. It was really wonderful in an unexpected way. I still told him thanks, job or no job, his work is appreciated. I bought an art book of his (30 clams! oy!) and got him to sign it to me. My friend was worried that I'd be sad that Golden didn't have an attachment to Rogue, but I really thought he was a very interesting person in general. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in his office for one day. He's so professional. Big Dog. *nods nods nods* (oh and he liked manga before manga hit in the US. Respect!) I wish I'd realized he was doing New Exiles covers. I would have gotten issue 2 signed.

Rogue Fanlisting

and this one is active. Good times!
Go to http://camisado.org/rogue/
to join the fanlisting.

XMen 206 - Conspiracy Theory Shot Down!

Well I know a few of you haven't read XMen 206 yet, so all I can tell you is that Rogue isn't the traitor, it's someone else. (no spoilers from me)

So, that's the good news. Bad news, still no sign of her. Hrm.

Rogue fanart by Steven Sanchez

I mourn the complete and utter lack of Rogue in Messiah CompleX thus far...to assuage my sadness, (and for the lulz) I present to you:

Rogue with a crab on her head.

Gawd, I love Steven Sanchez.
Click here for the large version.

Opinion: New Exiles 2 Solicitation

Note: Incoming bias against Gambit. Sorry, I just can't stand that character. If you like our pink underwear as outerwear, floppy haired, "ragin' cajun" then you should probably just skip this post entirely.

Majoria's News reported that Marvel's solicitations for February 2008 (ack!) have been posted here.
Of interest (and I use this term loosely), New Exiles issue 2. Here, I'll repost the text for you.

NEW EXILES #2
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by TOM GRUMMETT
Cover by MICHAEL GOLDEN
The Exiles have barely arrived in a new dimension before they're struck by disaster! Sabretooth, Psylocke and Mystiq find themselves in the middle of a long-running conflict between the two most powerful figures on the African Continent, the Black Panther and Ororo. As for Rogue, her fate ends up in the hands of a young man who calls himself Gambit - but if you think that tells you what to expect from this character and this story, try again! He needs Rogue to help him save his parents - Oh, and did we mention he breathes water?
32 PGS./ Rated A…$2.99

How to make Gambit even more stupid and/or irritating than he is now?! Turn him into Aquaman, naturally. *headdesk* Claremont used to be my hero. I have no idea wtf has happened to him since...well, since X-Treme X-Men. ;_;

Also, I can't say this for sure, as I am not up to date with the books and may be completely off base; but it really seems as though they take these alternate universes (Ultimate and such) and just retell the same old stories for new audiences. Why not take the opportunity to really change things up? (although Pompous!Rogue in NE has promise) I know in Ultimate X-Men they coupled up Storm and Beast, which was neat, but stuck Rogue with Gambit's powers. Can I please get a break from the "Romy" pairing?
...
Please?

Bad Ideas from House of M

While looking up something entirely different, I was in the Wikipedia entry for Rogue (X-Men) and found this little horrifying tidbit.

NOTE: In an interview post-House of M, writer Brian Michael Bendis revealed that he originally intended for Rogue to permanently absorb the powers of Genis-Vell and for her to become Marvel’s next cosmic powered character. However, the idea was nixed as the current writers and editors of the X-titles didn’t like taking Rogue in this direction, so Rogue only temporarily kept Marvel’s powers for the House of M series.

I don't know who was on the book that rejected that idea, but I'd like to buy them flowers and chocolates. Have Rogue floating around with Quasar, Silver Surfer and that lot? No, thank you.

Oh fer....

Preview of Xmen 204. Return of the abusive boyfriend.

Thanks for nothing, Carey.