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Free Comic Book Day is Today!

http://ultimatecomicsonline.com/

http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

Also, the Wolverine movie is out this weekend.




That is all.

5/2/2009 6:34:32 AM

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Wonder if Foundation's Edge is doing this.

5/2/2009 6:38:49 AM

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I'd think so. I know ultimate comics which has two locations in Durham (9th street, and one on the other side of 40 from Southpoint), and the location in Chapel Hill are all participating, as is Chapel Hill Comics. I think all the ones in the area participate, so I bet Foundations Edge & Capital Comics (assuming they are still around) do participate.

5/2/2009 7:46:00 AM

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Had to turn off Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR & couldn't read several articles on CNN, anything to avoid spoilers on the Wolverine movie.

5/2/2009 1:51:03 PM

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In 1845, Northwest Territories, Canada, young James Howlett, (Troye Sivan) sees his father John Howlett (Peter O'Brien) killed by Victor Creed's father, Thomas Logan (Aaron Jeffery). In an act of vengeance, James kills the elder Logan using bone claws which protrude from his hands. With his dying breath, Logan tells James that he is also his son, while his mother Elizabeth tells him to get out. James and Victor (Michael-James Olsen) then run away. In the following years, adult brothers James (Hugh Jackman) and Victor (Liev Schreiber) are seen fighting together throughout the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and eventually the Vietnam War, their regnerative powers keep them from being killed in the battlefield. In Vietnam, Victor kills a superior officer after being stopped from raping a girl, and James and Victor are sentenced to death by firing squad, though their unique regenerative abilities keep them alive.

William Stryker (Danny Huston) approaches the two mutants and offers them membership in his elite group of mutants. The team consists of mutants Fred Dukes (Kevin Durand), who's super-strong and invulnerable, John Wraith (will.i.am), who can teleport, Chris Bradley (Dominic Monaghan), who can control machines, as well as expert marksman Agent Zero (Daniel Henney) and martial artist Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds). The brothers join the group, and are sent to the team's first mission: Invade a diamond traffic operation headquarters to retrieve a meteorite used by the leader of the dealers as a paperweight. After retrieving the meteorite, Stryker sends the team to Lagos, Nigeria to investigate if there are any other meteorites. Logan is disgusted by the murders committed by his teammates and abandons the group.

Six years afterward, James, now going by his last name, Logan; is a lumberjack living with his girlfriend Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). Meanwhile, Victor hunts down and murders Bradley. Stryker locates Logan, and claims that someone is out to kill members of the now-disbanded team. Stryker asks Logan for help, but is refused. Shortly after, Silverfox is murdered by Victor. Wolverine hunts down his half-brother and is easily defeated. Stryker once again asks Logan for help, and he agrees. Stryker then has Logan's skeletal system reinforced with adamantium, a vitrtually indestructible metal retrieved from the meteorite found by Team X. Before the procedure, Logan asks for his new dog tags to say "Wolverine. After the procedure, Stryker orders Wolverine's mind to be erased, but before this can happen Wolverine regains conciousness and flees. Stryker orders Agent Zero to capture him.

The elderly couple Travis (Max Cullen) and Heather Hudson (Julia Blake) find Wolverine in their barn and provide him a home until the next morning, only to be shot dead by Zero. Wolverine takes out Zero's team and Zero himself, then goes to Las Vegas. Wolverine locates former associates John Wraith and Fred Dukes, seeking to learn the location of Creed and Stryker's new laboratory. Meanwhile, Stryker captures Scott Summers. Wolverine learns the disbanded team had been capturing mutants for Stryker, and one of them, Remy LeBeau (Taylor Kitsch), aka Gambit, had escaped the island and knew the location.

Wolverine briefly fights Gambit who mistakes him for being on Victor's side in a New Orleans bar, when Victor shows up and kills Wraith. Wolverine fights Victor, only to be interuppted by Gambit. Victor escapes and after a brief scuffle, Gambit agrees to take Wolverine to the mutant prison on Three Mile Island. Once there, Wolverine confronts Stryker and learns Silverfox is still alive, having faked her death with hydrochlorothiazide. She was keeping track of the mutant to free her sister, Emma (Tahyna Tozzi), who is also in the prison. Wolverine departs, and Victor emerges. He tells Stryker to hold up his end of the bargain and make his skeleton indestructible like Wolverine's. Stryker assures Victor that he won't survive the procedure and in an act of rage, Vicor tries to kill Silverfox. Wolverine hears Silverfox's screams and attacks Victor. Finally having the chance to kill Victor, Wolverine chooses not to give in to his animal instincts and instead knocks him out. Silverfox shows Wolverine to the holding cells, and he frees the mutants there; among whom are Storm, Toad, Quicksilver, and Cyclops.

Angered, Stryker prematurely orders his newest creation, Weapon XI (Scott Adkins) (also known as Deadpool) to be activated. The former Wade Wilson has abilities of several of the killed and captured mutants such as Cyclops' optic blasts, Wraith's teleportation, and Wolverine's healing abiltity. Wolverine orders the mutants to flee while he fights Deadpool. During the escape, Silverfox is lethally injured. The other mutants, including Cyclops, escape into the woods where they all meet Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), who rescues them in his helicopter.

Meanwhile, Wolverine and Victor, now working together, are able to defeat Weapon XI. Victor flees the island afterward, and Gambit returns. Wolverine orders Gambit to ensure the prisoners are safe, while he returns to find Silverfox, who had stayed behind. Wolverine is then shot in the head by Stryker, who has a gun loaded with adamantium bullets, which knock him unconscious.

Silverfox uses her powers of persuasion to order Stryker to walk away until his feet bleed, then dies from her injuries. Gambit returns to ensure Wolverine that the mutants are safe, but due to amnesia caused by the adamantium bullets Wolverine does not remember anything. Gambit tries to get Wolverine to come with him, but he declines. Gambit wishes Wolverine good luck before departing, and Wolverine flees the scene as the ambulances and police arrive.

5/2/2009 1:58:34 PM

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