Random Happenstance

Timing, part five.

It's not a stellar game, but the Oldest and I played (and still do play) a lot of X-Men: Next Dimension. It's fun, and it's a game you can pick up, play for a bit, and put back down without having to devote several hours to. I mention it, because Bishop is friggin' huge in it: if these toys were on that scale, Bishop would be another inch and a half, or so, far taller than Nightcrawler and Deadpool.

And Bishop isn't above pistol-whipping you, either. If you're like me, and just a fan of some X-Men and not others, it's a great game, and besides, some characters might just win you over too. John DiMaggio, the voice of Bender on Futurama, supplied Juggernaut's voice, for example.

I wrote this a while ago, and was hoping to post it before it happened, but the little mutant baby, who still remains nameless to the best of my knowledge, is being turned into a seven-year-old (or so) in an upcoming issue of Cable. The magically-aging baby is a well-worn cliche of soap operas and science fiction alike, and one I would've preferred to see avoided. (Or, has Cable spent years in the future uneventfully raising the baby to her current age? That would be less of a cheat, since it wouldn't be like Cable got out of changing diapers.) Although, you have to admit, in terms of drama, a baby is probably more like a prop than a character; so you can see the desire to phase the baby into someone who can hit a mark and hold up their end of the dialog.

Bishop was an eBay purchase, loose, without the Apocalypse build-a-figure piece or his guns. Still, I had enough guns to hold him over. We'll get more into this, but he's currently hunting Cable and the mutant baby; which is playing to his strengths. I wonder how it would go down if the situation was reversed: the planner Cable trying to capture the hunter Bishop. Well, we're not going to see here, sorry.