Most of us know, by now, that Otto Octavius is currently wearing Peter Parker's body... Peter's mind went into Otto's body and Otto's mind is now in Peter's body. Otto is now living as Peter Parker. He's living in Peter's apartment, doing Peter's Job, and dating the love of Peter Parker's life, Mary Jane Watson....

Here's my question for those of you out on the comic vine....

If Otto Octavius, in Peter Parker's body, has sex with M.J. (without revealing the truth of what has happened) would you consider it rape?

In my opinion, it would absolutely be rape as he would presenting himself as Peter Parker when he really isn't Peter Parker. He would be deceiving M.J. Any sex between them could never really be consensual because she wouldn't know that he's not really Peter Parker. She'd be having sex with Peter Parker's body, but not Peter Parker. I think it's obvious that she would never have sex with him, if she knew the truth...

This reminds me of the time The Chameleon pretended to be Peter Parker and ended up having sex with Parker's roommate, Michele Gonzales... The Chameleon pretended to Peter Parker and deceived a woman into sleeping with him...Michele THOUGHT she was sleeping with Parker...she wasn't...rape...

Now, in this situation, things become more complicated because Peter Parker's body is being used, but that really ISN'T Peter Parker and if M.J knew who was inhabiting Peter's body, she wouldn't go anywhere near it...

So, what do you think people? Would it be rape?

Franklin Richards, the son of Reed and Susan Richards, is now ten years old in spite of the fact that he was born in 1968 (our time.)

So, while 44 years has passed for us in the 'reader universe', only 10 years has passed in the Marvel Universe.

Now, consider this. How many heralds do you think Galactus has had in that 10 year Marvel time span? I believe the number is 11... This does not include his first herald, The Fallen One, or any heralds he might have had before Norrin Radd the Silver Surfer. Think about that... In ten years Galactus has had ELEVEN HERALDS... Now, does that really make sense?

1. The Silver Surfer
2. The Air-Walker
3. Firelord
4. The Destroyer
5. Terrax the Tamer
6. Nova
7. Morg
8. Red Shift
9. The Invisible Boy (Johnny Storm not long before he died (and got better) and had switched powers with his sister)
10. Stardust
11. Pastor Mike (From Broxton Oklahoma)

Galactus, according to his own testimony, is older than the current universe... Soooooo, is a new herald every year his normal rate? Is the rest of the universe littered with Heralds of Galactus?

Will he production of heralds slow down now that he's Franklin's bitch?

I hate grading. There... I've said it... When it comes to giving exams I'm a huge fan of multiple choice tests so the scan tron machine can do the grading instead of me...

But then, there are still... THE PAPERS... sigh... But I'm digressing. This is a comic book forum, so what am I ranting about. Read the following scan from Ultimate Comics X-Men 18.1

It has become of peeve of mine, to read papers in which the students are trying to impress me with their extensive vocabulary. Honestly, I wish they'd just keep it simple. Not just because I'm a simple person, which I am, but because they often times construct sentences that make no sense.

Now, here in this scan please note the words, "AN historic moment..." it's incorrect. "AN"? REALLY? No... no. no. no. no. NO!!! and SMURF NO!

if one wishes to use the word 'an' before a word beginning with the letter H, then the H must be SILENT. Essentially, since the H is silent, the word sort of begins with a vowel.

Example: An herb. Note, the H is silent. (this applies to citizens of the United States. Many Europeans say the herb like the name Herb so you hear the H)

- An herb

- An honest man

- An hour

- An honor

- An heir

The H in all these words is silent, so it reads like

- An erb

- An onest man

- An our

- An eir

But HISTORIC?!?! PLEASE STOP IT!!! This bugs me the way scratching one's fingernails down a chalk board bugs other people. it doesn't bother me as I'm hard of hearing and can't hear it. Not that THAT has anything to do with this rant...

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In my last blog, I talked about how the name "The Avengers" is really a bad name for a group of super heroes. The Avengers are supposed to be the good guys, and, supposedly, they don't believe in things like killing, or revenge. Yet, the word "Avenger" means one who seeks or takes vengeance...

Avenger - One who takes vengeance or seeks revenge.

However, someone pointed something out to me... While I gave them a hard time for their name, I didn't offer any alternatives... So, I've been thinking about it. What name WOULD I give The Avengers if I were to rename them. And after much thought on the matter.... I GOT NUTHIN'.

So, let's open it up to the panel.

Good people of comic vine, if you were to rename the Avengers, what name would YOU give them? While we're at it, can we come up with a better name for The Defenders and The runaways?

For a super hero team the team name is important... Or at least it should be. But I can't help but wonder about some of them. Consider the following team names:

AVENGERS

Avenger - One who takes vengeance or seeks revenge.

Is this REALLY an appropriate name for a team of super heroes? A team of punisher absolutely, but a group of people who do not believe in killing? Who believe in letting the Justice system prevail? The Avengers is the kind of name I would give a team if it consisted of

The Punisher, Wolverine, Deadpool, Cloak (without dagger), and ghost rider...

NEW AVENGERS

Do I even have to go there?

X-Men

I cannot POSSIBLY be the only human being who looked at the name "X-Men" and thought, "What? Are these a group of transexuals who were once men, but thanks to expensive and painful surgery, they are no living happily as "not quite women" but ex-men???

Omega Men

Maybe I'm being picky with this one, but Omega usually implies "last." The word Omega literally means "Big O" which, to me, implies something...sexual. But let's not go there.

Freedom Fighters

Yes, this group is from back in the 70s. I don't know if they've been around in the last couple of decades or not. However.... "Freedom Fighters" sounds like a para-military group staging a revolt. In fact, many "freedom fighters" are considered "terrorist", and by definition, most of them are... Just seems like a poor choice of a name for those trying to defend the innocent, and maintain order.

Birds of Prey

Think about that a moment. Birds of Prey. or just BOP for short. How about RAPTORS! All birds of prey, by definition, are raptors. THAT would have been a kewl name, don't you think?

But there's more wrong than just the acronym B.O.P. Let's consider the members of B.O.P.

Bat-Girl - Bats aren't birds; they're mammals with webbed wings. They are, however, the only mammals that can actually fly rather than glide.

Katana - Um... This is a Japanese style sword, not a bird.

Mockingbird - Okay, this one is at least a 'bird' but...Bird of Prey? It's not a raptor; it doesn't have the hooked beak nor does it use it's talons for killing. No, it sings and eats bugs and berries....

Poison Ivy - Okay, now they're not even trying! Not only is an Ivy not a bird, it's not even in the same Kingdom! This is a plant!!!

CYBER FORCE

Oh COME ON!?!?!?!? Seriously? "Cyber" force? Do I even HAVE say why this is a bad choice for a super hero team name?

WET WORKS

Um... See "cyber force"

SUPER FRIENDS

The name "Super Friends" has never and will never strike fear into the heart of evil.... It sounds like a group of critters that live in the 100 acre woods.

I think, if I named a super hero team, I'd give them an odd name that made no sense... Just to throw the enemy off as they wondered why we called ourselves the "Cup Holders" or "Place Mats" or "Post Its" or "Shoe Horns"....

I like consistency in characters, stories, and universes...

So, it goes without saying that I have to accept many of the things in the comic universe that just don't...fit...or make sense. But at some point, shouldn't there really be an editor who reads a story before it's accepted for publication and says, "No, you can't print this story; it doesn't fit... or, it doesn't make sense... or, it's just plain stupid..."

For example. Here's a scene from x-men legacy 267 in which some Avengers are fighting some of the X-Men at the Jean Grey school. Btw, there was a REALLY good reason for the fight. Frenzy called Moon knight crazy, so he attacked her... How dare anyone call Moon Knight crazy?! I just bet his Wolverine split personality wanted to KILL Frenzy for that insult. Anyway, the scene clearly shows Kitty Pryde phasing through Iron Man's suit and him CLEARLY stating that he has counter measures against just that sort of thing...

Okay, so what's the problem? If we can accept that Tony Stark can build metallic suits with electrical circuits that the Master of Magnetism can't affect, it's VERY easy to accept that he has counter measures to Kitty's phasing ability. In fact, he even has a suit that can phase. So what's the problem?

Well, only weeks later, in the new A+X (002), Tony Stark seems to have COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN that Kitty's phasing power affects electrical circuits.

Shouldn't there be SOMEONE at Marvel who finds that odd??????????

Okay, so what else? Well, most of us remember Peter Parker outing himself during Marvel Civil War. And we know that everyone was made to forget courtesy of Dr. Strange, Reed Richards, and Tony Stark.... So, what's the problem? Well, now everyone just seems to know... No explanation, no exposition, no nada... '

Well, okay, there was a little blurb at the end of Spider Island where Dr. Strange explains that the spell was weakened... But that's IT??? Not even a nervous, Peter Parker saying, "Hey, everyone seems to remember my secret identity!" And why isn't he worried that the rest of the world will start remembering who he is? Shouldn't a Marvel editor SOMEWHERE think, "Hey, we really should explain this..."

Oh, and speaking that that scene from The Amazing Spider-Man 689... How about that new pacifist, 'Never kill anyone except Hope' Wolverine?

Seriously? NOONE at Marvel thought, "Hey...You know...Having the pacifist peace loving never kill anyone version of Wolverine tell Spider-Man, "It's okay to kill a brooken and dying old man," is sort of...not right.....

Do the writers at Marvel not bother reading each others work? Do they not have meetings to discuss things? at all? Seriously??? These are only a few examples. Am I just expecting too much?

First off, I blame the writers...

Secondly, I am, admittedly, a Wolverine Fanboy. I realize his ability to heal is off the charts ridiculous (surviving a nuclear blast at point blank range?), and that he is EVERYWHERE to the point that it seems his real mutant power is the ability to be on every Marvel Super Hero team in existence... and his secondary mutation, by extension, must be multi-tasking.

But, I'm still a wolverine fan... Even though AvX has been shoved down my throat... but then..........

Well, who, besides a mass murdering villain, in the Marvel Universe has killed more people than Wolverine? Seriously, who? Most of the time it's warranted, and often times it's because he's being mind controlled or possessed. But who in the Marvel Universe has put more people in the grave than Wolverine? (Ive no doubt there are a few, but I can't think of them at the moment.)

And that brings us to the point of this blog. Check out the following two scans:

Seriously, Logan? You don't have time to ask a question or make a comment because you, "have a eulogy to give?" Shouldn't you be great at that by now? In fact, shouldn't you have them categorized, numbered, and memorized?

You have to go to a funeral because someone ELSE killed someone?!?!?! And you have the cajones to bitch about it?

Did you give Jean Grey a rash of s--t when she wiped out an ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM?

"Killed anyone lately?"

Why do you ask, Logan? Do you think your record is in danger? Even if Cyclops gained the powers of Multiple Man and went on a murdering spree it could take him YEARS to catch up with you...

Logan, you're being an ass... And that is from a fan.

I have a question in my mind that I've been thinking on for a very long time now. It occurred to me that the people of comic vine might have some valuable insight. Let me first make clear that I only have the question. I don't have the "right" answer. In fact, I don't even know if there IS a "right " answer....

Consider a medieval type of setting. In this setting there is naturally ruling family. Now, we've all read stories and seen movies where the ruler (King, Queen, Empress, etc...) is killed and deposed and the heir to the throne escapes and lives in seclusion. So, here's my question:

How long would be TOO LONG for the rightful heir to come back and fight for the the throne?

So, let's say the Empress is killed, and her eldest daughter, who is obviously next in line to be Empress, escapes and lives in seclusion until she is able to build and army to come back and fight for her mother's throne....

It wouldn't be easy gathering the resources and manpower to fight the one who deposed the previous ruler, so it would naturally take some time; perhaps even years. Now, even if the heir took as much as, say, SEVEN years the people would still remember the heir, and their parent. The people would still remember that the previous ruler was wrongfully killed.

HOWEVER, let's say the heir took as much as TWENTY years.... Would that be too long? After twenty years has passed, have the people for the most part forgotten the previous ruler? In twenty years, many children (who are now adults even) have been been born under the current ruler. It's likely that many good and decent people now serve the current ruler. If the previous heir comes back after TWENTY years, and starts a war, would not many innocent people be killed to undo a previous wrong? Is it possible that the kingdom would be better off with leaving the current regime in place?

If the current ruler (the one who wrongfully took the throne by murdering the previous ruling family) is obviously evil, IF the people are obviously suffering, then the answer is easy... But what if it's not so black and white? What if, instead, there is some evil in the land because of the wrongful ruler, but there's also much good in the land...

So, good people of Comic Vine, what do you think? How long would be too long for the rightful heir to come back and wage war to regain the throne?

Ben Grimm is a terrorist. He should be arrested, convicted and imprisoned.

Now, just let that thought FESTER for a moment... Ben Grimm is a noble character who happens to be one of the most well loved Super Heroes in the Marvel Universe. Not only is he a good guy, but he's a GOOD GUY.... EVERYONE likes Ben Grimm...

And if I met someone that actually believed Ben was a Terrorist and that he should be arrested and imprisoned, I would want to bitch-slap that person... (not that I would.)

HOWEVER.... I can only assume that those writing the current AvX storyline would disagree with me (but they wouldn't admit it...) What makes me think this?

Consider the following two characters; Ben Grimm and Emma Frost. Consider what happened to them and what they did.

Ben Grimm	Emma Frost
Possessed by:	Asgardian god of Fear. Brother of Odin	Phoenix Force.
Crimes	Murder (an untold number of American citizens died at the hands of Ben Grimm. He may of killed people from other countries, I'm not sure). Massive property damage (billions of dollars of damage) TERRORISM. While possessed, Ben Grimm's entire purpose and focus was murder and destruction with the direct intent of INSTILLING FEAR in the human population. He was quite literally, a terrorist.	Murder (I know of only one person she has murdered by there could be more. This person was a citizen of the United States.). Tyranny - making citizens of Utopia bow down and worship her.
Summary	While possessed by a powerful and evil Asgardian god, Ben Grimm murdered many people, destroyed billions of dollars worth of property, and terrorized millions of people.	While possessed by half the Phoenix force, Emma Frost murdered one man, and then forced a small group of people from her own country to bow and worship her.
Result	Ben Grimm was freed from possession (by his nephew Franklin) and not charged of any crime.	Emma Frost was arrested for terrorism, and taken into custody by the Avengers.

In New Avengers 30, Emma Frost is in an armored transport vehicle being transported as a prisoner. Luke Cage calls her a Mutant Terrorist...

So, what am I to conclude. Ben Grimm murdered many people and caused billions of dollars of property damage, and more importantly, was quite literally a terrorist in that he actually wanted to create terror... He INTENDED TO TERRORIZE, TO INSTILL FEAR....

Emma, on the other hand, murdered one person, and helped give the earth clean energy, food, and water... She also released her serious inner bitch and forced the citizens of Utopia to bow down and worship her... but she was NOT a terrorist....

Bot Ben and Emma were possessed by powerful beings... Both were not truly in control of their actions... While possessed, Ben did things that were FAR worse than what Emma did... And yet, BEN is one of the people transporting Emma, the mutant terrorist....

Hypocrite much?

So, if Emma Frost truly is a terrorist, then why isn't Ben Grimm? Or Bruce Banner? Or Wolverine?