BATMAN DOES NOT EAT NACHOS!

'Nuff said.

Super Fan Art!

More art! Art with Green Lantern! I finished this awhile back, but I still thought it should be shown.

Pictures! Pictures of Art!

About a month ago, I promised some art. And, I have held up to that promise. Surprising, isn't it. Sadly it isn't Robin art, but it is art nonetheless.

This is Batman facing numerous black mask thugs after deploying a couple of his smoke pellets.

This is also Batman. He is decimating numerous false-facer's deployed by Black Mask. You can see the army of anxious goons in the background.

Now, if you look closely, you can the the resemblance between the two images. Batman and the thugs are in the same pose in the two images. When I decided to draw a picture of Batman destroying a posse'  of false-facer's, I had a brilliant idea. I could do two for the price of one! So after I pencilled the scene, I had my dad scan the image(Link to his blog here) and started two separate files, and inked, colored and saved them. And voila! Two awesome pieces of art.

Signing Off, Xavier G.

C2E2 (and deadpool)

          One thing I noticed immediately when I walked into C2E2 was the fact that I was in a huge community of geeks and fanboys.(kind of obvious, but read on.) It was terrifying, awesome, ultimate, spectacular and amazing.   I was in heaven, surrounded by comic-books, action figures and dead pool cosplayers.(More on that later. Definitely.)
            It was kind of scary that there was so much stuff. If I had a million dollars, I could have wasted all of it in less than an hour. Yeah, that's scary. I only got one thing, and I bet there was better stuff out there. Yeah, thats kind of sad.
             So, Deadpool. Yeah. Um, okay. This-- This is just kind of, um, weird, I guess. There's a character in the Marvel universe named Wadey Wilson, A.K.A. Deadpool. He is just a weird super-hero. Really weird. And if you're thinking oh, yeah Deadpool, he was in that Wolverine movie awhile back.  Wrong. Really wrong. Like, Spider-Man 3-was-cool, wrong. But, he is just a really awkward guy, with very strange villains. So, there is a Deadpool video-game coming out very soon, and apparently now, everyone loves Deadpool. (Don't ask me why. Really, please, don't. I'm begging you.) So, there are like 50 billion Deadpool cosplayers, all in character. ARRRRGH!!! So annoying!

C2E2

        I have awe-inspiring amazing news, and very, very depressing news. I have been researching the Ultimatum event in Ultimate Marvel Comics. It is very depressing, and hosted the deaths of many of my favorite characters in the Ultimate universe. The basic summary of the event is found at the Ultimatum page on wikipedia. Know that this is a very sad and apocalyptic story line.
       Okay good news time! I went to C2E2 last weekend and it was awesome! I could spend so much time talking about the vendors alone. But I think one sentence sums it up.

   "There's... so... much... stuff..." -Xavier Golden, April 27th 2013, Chicago McCormick place.


    I went to an amazing (you could even say Superior) panel about the upcoming events in the Superior Spider-Man man comic I am currently subscribed to. It is an awesome comic and the people their obviously had great ideas. I was very glad I came this year and will definitely go next year.

Take back!!

I was just reading my previous blog posts and for my Maximum Ride book review, DO NOT READ THE SERIES!! It ends badly, with clones. Okay, I cannot diss clones as I am a Spider-Man and he has, like, 20 clone sagas. (15 to be precise) anyways, you can read the first book but don't read the rest!!

-Xavi Golden

p.s. I think this is the first time I have posted two posts within three minutes (maybe five)

Robin's Reckoning (Spoiler Alert!Spoiler Alert!Spoiler Alert)

           Episodes 32&33, season 2 of Batman the Animated Series: Robin's Reckoning

This episode depicts the start of the separation between Batman and Robin, the Dynamic Duo. Even though they don't actually separate until season 3, you can see when you watch this that there is a rousing tension between the Dynamic Duo and that Robin is very angry at Batman for ordering him around.
The plot for Robin's Reckoning, pt.1 is very simple. Tony Zucco(The killer of Dick Grayson's parents as huge Batman fans such as moi already know) is leaving Gotham city. Okay, yeah, not exactly an "Almost Got 'Em" awesome plot but, in part two the story goes deeper. Part two reveals to the people who don't already know (unlike moi, once again,) that when the Haley Circus did not pay Tony Zucco's protection fee, the gangster sabotaged the trapeze wires, and that led to the death of Dick Grayson, a young acrobats' parents. Dick Grayson is adopted by Bruce Wayne, for the young billionaire knows what this child is feeling, losing his parents to a gangster. (If you don't know why, why are you reading this!!) Dick Grayson seeks revenge, but is almost killed by the gangster who killed his parents. This is when Batman comes in and reveals himself to his ward as his adoptive father.
Next, viewers assume is when Dick Grayson becomes Robin and the Dynamic Duo is formed. But the episode's flash back end's before that actually takes place. Robin, learning of Tony Zucco's whereabouts and confronts him by almost running him over with his bike. Batman appears after a fight with the rest of Zucco's gang and tells Dick that his reason for reluctancy of letting Robin confront Zucco is in fear that Zucco might kill Dick, as he killed his parents.

   Out of 10 stars, this episode gets a 7 out of 10. I recommend this to anyone with a love for Dick Grayson and a hankering for a good 45 minutes of T.V.


- Xavi Golden, huge fan of Dick Grayson, and an even larger Batman fan. Next, fan art that is a real depiction of the character