Scarlet Betch Episode 42: X-travaganza

Hey Betches!

Despite there being less mutants nowadays, there seems to be more X-books than ever. It looks like we're going to be designating X-clusive episodes for the X-men releases. To be fair the X-men have isolated themselves on Utopia, so I guess that makes sense. Today we talk about the newest in Daken: Dark Wolverine vs. X-23, Uncanny X-men .1, Age of X (Universe and Normal story).

Also, check out my ultra-cute Mudkip hoods that I made! I heard you liek them! :P You can get them on Etsy here.

Let us know what you think! Plus, any comics you think we missed in our coverage let us know! Send us a tweet @ScarletBetch or by email at scarletbetch@gmail.com

Wolverine's Teen Girl Squad Go!

So I've been saying that Marvel needs to make a book just about Wolverine and his teenage girl sidekicks. From the original Kitty Pride and the overly-reviled Jubilee, to his clone/daughter/sister/niece X-23 and the Whedon conceptualized Armor; this would be a fantastic book full of blood, mayhem, and sleepover pillowfights. Bloody, bloody pillowfights.

Evidently Wolverine & Jubilee artist Phil Noto was thinking the same thing and produced this lovely piece of work. Please, Marvel gods above. If you see this... MAKE IT HAPPEN! Uncanny X-strogen? Logan's Angels? I'm personally a big fan of Wolverine Teen Girl Squad Go!

Go check out Project Rooftop for the full-sized pic!

SuperQueeros! for April 13th, 2011

I threw a lesbian under the bus!!! Victoria Hand has been one of my favorite queer Marvel characters ever since she came out during Dark Avengers, but I forgot that she's the new team handler for the New Avengers!! I've corrected that this week, but don't forget to pick up your post-Siege The New Avengers back issues if you love you some V. Hand! Other queers this week:

Adventure Comics #525

The misadventures of Gravity Kid and Power Boy, as well as of the not-gay Legionnaires in-training, continue! Basically Grav Kid and the freshmen are being schooled by the villains who took out Chemical Kid's family while Power Boy and the upperclassmen are dispatched to check up on them (if I remember correctly...). ANYWAY, FINGERS CROSSED FOR BOY KISSES!!!

Daken: Dark Wolverine #8

So the big Wolvie-spin-off-character fight went down last issue of X-23 and this week X-23 and Daken are teaming up! Of course, I'm sure Daken has some nefarious ulterior motive, because he's Daken and that's why we love 'im. Gambit guest stars as well, so FINGERS CROSSED FOR ("The-guards-are-coming-quick-kiss-me-so-they-don't-recognize-us,-Gambit!"-whispered-Daken) BOY KISSES!

The New Avengers #11

Victoria! I apologize for not remembering to include your exploits as an honest-to-goodness superqueero! You are patently awesome, especially due to your forward-thinking highlights!!! Anyway, I hear Mockingbird got stomped by "Superia" or something? Anyway, you should probably go save her or whatever, which shouldn't be a problem because you are LEZ-CREDIBLE. #ladykisses

X-Men: Legacy #247

Karma cameos, so it counts! Since Legion has a big role this issue/reality, maybe she'll help calm him again...? Anyway, we finally find out who X is (if not how) and Kitty gets to be super bad-@$$:

Which makes up for her being SO CRAP in the Uncanny X-Men issue this week:

YOU CAN'T THROW SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN'T TOUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CORRECTION: Kitty Pryde is never crap? Sure she has a bubble suit that adheres to her intagible body (WTF?) BUT she can't phase it! She can phase THROUGH it (see this week's issue of UXM), but this is not the "Let's give Arsenal a robot arm" of convenient comic book fixes! It's more like the "Let's give Arsenal a prosthetic arm" of convenient comic book fixes; there is still the potential for realistic angst!!!!!! #IAmStillAHappyCamper

George Takei's Spiderman Audition Causes Confluence of Massive Nerd and Gay Singularity

There are only a few celebrities which have my undying and boundless devotion. One of them is George Takei. The openly gay, groundbreaking and path paving actor who starred in the original Star Trek series as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu has made an indelible mark on American culture. His coming out only further endeared him in my heart. And having met George in person, I can say that he is the most amiable celebrity that I have met.

This recent video which includes some obvious musical plugging is nothing but utter joy and hilarity. My favorite part is when George defeats Venom with a "KABUKI!" sound effect. GOLD.

Superqueeros! for April 6th, 2011

Secret Six #32

The story you've been waiting for continues! Ever since issue #6 we've been waiting for Scandal Savage to use her "Get Out of Hell Free" card to bust her sweetie out of the afterlife. But things have gotten a wee bit complicated: Ragdoll stole the card and proceeded to get himself killed, so now, in order to resuscitate Knockout, Scandal and the rest of the Six are going to have to fight a vengeful Ragdoll and an equally irritated demon army! I'm hoping that being in Hell means that the usual consequences to gratuitous violence are suspended and that this will liberate the pen of Gail Simone so that our favorite dastardly villains can be as cruel and inhuman as they brag they are. And that we'll end the story with a hot lesbian kiss over a mountain of corpses! #dreamitbeit

Avengers: The Children's Crusade #5

OMG, it's been 8 months since this story started! Remember when Magneto kidnapped our heroes from the Avengers mansion? Yeah, me neither. This book is like the anti-Brightest Day! It has characters who are not straight white men but it is NEVER published! Come on, Marvel. Jim? Allan? Can't you think of adding some tie-ins at least? That Iron Lad-centric one shot last month was AMAZING! Why can't we get a "Generation Lost"-type story to run parallel to this one? Seriously, just publish one shots of Billy and Teddy's dates every other month and my pay check is ALL YOURS. But until you get to publishing that certain-to-be-GLAAD award-winning series I'll just have to stick to re-reading Children's Crusade over and over again and then googling up some fanfiction... sigh... #BOOKOFTHEMONTH!!!

House of Mystery #36

A lot of cool stuff is happening with Fig and Cain, but they're lost in comic-book-space-time and in need of rescuing. I'm predicting that Tursig will be rallying Fig's friends this month to form a rescue party! 'Cause he's like this rockin' general and stuff now! And maybe he'll find a hulking gay ogre friend! #fingerscrossed Anyway, it's a good title on its own merits too, so even if it's gay-goblin-deficient this month it's still a good buy!

Scarlet Betch Episode 41: Wonder Woman (W)Rants

Hey Betches!

We're back with part 3 of our podcast triad we recorded last week. With all the hubbub that has been drummed up recently regarding Wonder Stripper Woman and her revamped, less cheap outfit for the Titanic-reminiscent NBC series, we thought it would be good to recap some of what's going on with our favorite Amazon in the DC Universe. Recap... rant... it's all the same thing right?

Let us know what you think! Plus, any comics you think we missed in our coverage let us know! Send us a tweet @ScarletBetch or by email at scarletbetch@gmail.com

Thundercats, Thundercats, Thundercats HOOOOOOOO(mo)!!

The Thundercats trailer is up and it looks AMAZING!

I'm very excited! Are you very excited? Tygra was one of my first crushes! I loved his style, his stoicism, and his bolas (TWHS), but I was always miffed by the gender confusion created by giving a male anthropomorphized tiger character a first declension name. Of course, now I just think that Tygra's subversive and hip. Can you tell I'm still crushing? ;)

THUNDERCATS!