 Let's check this out. Make sure we're going live. We should be kicking it in. Let's check it out. Right on, right on, there we are. Hi everyone, this is Gicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today, today is May 22nd, 2021. And we're doing a comic book live stream. I almost, I almost set up three comic book readings for this set of live streams. And this is the first one that we're doing, but I managed to get two in. One we're gonna do today and the second one we're gonna do in four days, I believe. Okay, I believe we do it on Wednesday, maybe. Wednesday morning, same time, 10 a.m. PDT. Okay, I was trying to set up maybe three to do the full, finish off the readings that we have picked for this five that we have chosen. But we're gonna end up with one being left over. And we're gonna do a poll and we've got three comic books that we're gonna read. Well, we're gonna read, not in this stream, we're gonna read one of them in this stream, but we're gonna run a poll to see which one we're gonna read today. Lord of Iron, how are you doing? Morning, Chicho, can't stick around long, but wanted to say hi. Hello, hello, good morning to you, Lord of Iron, and thank you for popping in. Hope you're doing well. Should be a good reading. I'm not sure which one we're gonna read, but whatever it is, it's gonna be good reading. And no worries about sticking around. The video will be up on all four platforms where we're sharing information because this one doesn't require for us to bypass sensor tubes, sensors. Rage, I felt loud, 306, Chicho, how are ya? Doing good, brother, doing good. Our sister, of course, if you're raging. We're gonna do a comic book reading, so I'm happy about that. It's weekend, nice and sunny. It's not the rainy season anymore. I think for, I don't know how many comic book readings we did, like at least like eight in a row or something like that. We had rain, so it was really nice actually reading comic books while we heard the raindrop fall down, but springtime right now is beautiful, nice and sunny, so we're getting nice, natural daylight coming in, so it should be fun. Doing well, looking forward to the reading. It's very nice and chill. Considering the chaos that's going on in the world, it's always good to sit back, sit back, lay back if you're like reading upside down, which I really like. Lay back and read some comic books. Gravity of the situation, how are you doing? Welcome, welcome, Ichichou. Did you watch the final season of, yep, Castlevania, indeed. I just finished it like three days ago? No, I finished it about five days ago or so. Awesome series, awesome series. I'm not gonna give any spoilers away for people, but a very good series, man. It's super fun. I hope they bring it back somehow. Did Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis wrote it? And I don't know, I don't know the history behind it. I don't know if he's got Castlevania, Part Two, Re-Emergence or something like that. Warren Ellis tends to do that, so I hope he does. I hope he does. Phony smile, off topic question. Can you advise me as a new, which cryptocurrency is the best to invest in? Any sources to learn from? Phony smile, on our Discord page, we have a personal finance playlist, not a playlist, personal finance folder channel, where there's a lot of people talking about different types of cryptos and stuff like that. So if you wanna find out what cryptos, some of the people that are on our Discord are talking about, you can go there. For me, I'm not really investing in any cryptos because I want crypto to be a currency. I'm not interested in it for it to be a collectible and asset class. So for me, it's like water. Crypto should come and go like currency. I'm not hoarding currency. You should always have a little bit of cash on hand. Liquid assets, I guess. And cash is as liquid as you can get, right? So that'd be a good place to go to. And there's a lot of different currencies around that. A lot of different currencies around that. Bitcoin used to dominate the crypto world and it still does dominate the crypto world, but most of the trades on cryptocurrencies, basically at the beginning was 100% Bitcoin. And then it stabilized around 50 to 60% of all crypto assets were Bitcoin. Now, Bitcoin is down to 42% or so. So there's a lot of changes taking place. You gotta be on the ball with it, right? Hey, let's go, boy, that what are you doing? Gravity situation. Warren Ellis got busted for sexual harassment so he isn't going to be part of anything with Castlevania going for, oh, are you serious? I didn't know that. That's unfortunate. I don't know the situation. I don't know the specifics so I can't really comment either way. It's too bad, he's a great writer. I hope it gets sorted out for whoever is in the right, right? Tacos, con, beans, how are you doing? Okay, for Jesus. Phony smile, thank you, my pleasure, my pleasure. Zare, how are you doing? Good morning, good morning, brother. Hope you're having a fantastic Saturday. Hope you're having a fantastic Saturday. Gang, we got three comic books to choose from. Good afternoon, chocolate milk, chocolate milk, chocolate milk. 212, good afternoon, good afternoon. Hope you're doing well. Three comic books, 2020, 1990, 1955. Horror superhero, first appearance of Gambit and humor, EC comics. Phony smile, the rain sound in the background creates a nice ASMR effect as is your soothing voice. Yeah, the rain sound I really like. And my soothing voice is, I didn't really realize that a soothing voice until I started creating ASMR people. I'm like, thanks for putting me to sleep. I'm like, you're welcome. Crowd is situation, Netflix is planning on doing further Castlevania stuff, but not with Alice Unfortunately, that's unfortunate. He did amazing writing, it was fantastic writing. But it's good to hear that they're planning on doing continuing the Castlevania franchise. I'm very happy about it, right? Zare, anybody watched that Snyder zombie movie yesterday? No, I didn't even know about it. What's it called? Was it based on a comic book series or a mini? Void to Other God. Did I got banned from the art channel on Discord? I can't see it anymore. Oh, I don't think so, Void. Posted a few airsoft paintball pictures and now I can't find the art channel. I apologize if that's the reason. I don't think so. I saw your pics with the crosshairs as well. And sure, there's collectible market for firearms as well. And they are beautiful. They're some amazing firearms that look beautiful. You know, the tech-wise, engineering-wise, they're phenomenal and design-wise, they're beautiful, right? It's on Netflix. Oh, I didn't know what that does, Zare. Is it animation or is it live action? I hope not, Void. And we've had a couple, two or three months I used to ban people. They're sort of gone. So we don't really... As far as I know, no one's been banned. Oh, shh, neap. How are you doing? Sup, Chicho? How's life? Hope you're having a fantastic Saturday morning. It's fun here. We have our neighbors that are gonna be throwing a party. They built a last week or so. They built a tiki bar outside. And they're having people over to have a tiki bar party. So there's gonna be a fair bit of drinking going on. Probably starting around 12 o'clock, one o'clock when we finish the live stream. So I might actually go join them. I haven't been drinking too much, as you can tell. I haven't been having any liqueurs around. So I don't think I've touched alcohol for at least a month or so now. So I might go join them for a tiki bar party. Just say salutations. After a comic book reading. Gang, should we, should I do a, we're gonna give it another minute or so. Or you go, I might go. We're in the same complex, same building. So I open my door, they're right outside. I'll make myself a little drink and go say salutations. Hello, hello, hello. Maybe, I don't know, I don't know. The crowd is much younger than I am, but they're good people. They're very good people. We get along fantastic. The comics are the same or different. Excuse my ignorance. So this is the comics. No, these are different comic books. I've never had a sip of alcohol, planning to do it on my midlife crisis. Go slow, go slow. People will never drink. You can, you can have drinks and you'll know what's strong, right? You can feel the, it's pretty strong alcohol. Sometimes they make the drinks that you can't even taste the alcohol. And people drink over drink, right? When you over drink, you pay the price. So sipping is key over an extended period of time. As for the comic books gang, let me tell you what we got here. And we're gonna run a poll. I'm not sure Cheryl's gonna be making it here today because she's the one that usually runs a poll. If not, I'm gonna run the poll because I'm pretty sure Elder God is on mobile, okay? So the choices we have for today's reading. And we've talked about this in these books in the last couple of live streams that we did because we started off with five. We're down to three, right? First one is I Walk With Monsters. It came out in 2020, okay? Last year. And it's sort of a horror comic book. And the writers from the United States, the artist is from the UK and the colorist. No, sorry, the artist is, sorry, the writer is from the UK. His name is, I got my notes here. Paul Cornell, okay. The artist is from New Jersey, Sally Cantarino. Okay. And Durbla Kelly, the incurrent colorist is from Ireland. So sort of an international thing. Cheryl's preparing an event. She might be late and I'm on a mobile. I'll run the poll, Elder God. It's all good. I'll figure out how to run it. Okay. I looked at it a long time ago to do it. So this is a horror series that came out in 2020. This next book that we have is Uncanny X-Men 266. This is the first full appearance of Gambit. It's a pretty key book, okay? And the writer for this is Chris Claremont. Came out in 1990, Chris Claremont. Pencils is by Mike Collins. Inks by Joe Robinson. Okay. The cover is by Andy Kubert. Okay. And Colors is by Brad Vankata. Okay. Very key book in the X-Men universe, obviously. Okay. And that's Storm right there. And the third book that we have is Impact Comics from EC Comics from 1955. It's the second issue of the Impact series that came out under the comics go to authority. So this is early Silver Age comics. Okay. 1955 is when Golden Age is the boundary between Golden Age and Silver Age, right? So Golden Age Silver Age, late Golden Age, early Silver Age, Impact Comics. And the people that worked on this are some of the giants in the industry, right? We've got Al Feldstein, Jack Davis that the cover for this. And this cover is absolutely brilliant. I love this cover. One of my favorite covers, right? Reid Crandall worked on this. Mary Severn worked on this. Jack Davis, as I mentioned, Jack Kamen worked on this. Graham Ingalls worked on this. Carl Wessler has worked on this. And EC Comics, this company right here, everything they put out as collectible is sought after. EC Comics, entertaining comics or entertainment comics. So very much sought after publisher from the Golden Age of comics. And the prices for these books have gone through the roof. This one is on the cheaper side of EC Comics. The EC Comics, the Golden Age pre-comical authority, the prices, the horror, the sci-fi stuff, they're fetching hundreds, if not thousands of dollars if they're in really good condition, okay? Void Hook, whoa. I've seen that EC logo so many times. Never realized it was comics. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see if you can focus in the mylar. I got this in mylar. Awesome, awesome. And this one is comic code authority. This one came out approving the comic code thing, right? So this one is generic. It started coming out in 1955 and went all the way to, I think DC Comics was the last one that decided not to follow the comic code authority, which is crazy. And gang, don't forget, Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to be transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. For more information, see wikileaks.org, defend.wikileaks.org or our Julian Assange and Wikileaks playlist on Sensor 2. I want to make my own comic, but I can't draw. Welcome to the club, brother. I'm gonna see if I can run a poll here. Let's see if I can do a poll. How do I run a poll? Thought that, oh man, I should have looked this up. Poll, let me see if I can do a poll. I think it's this poll. Poll, okay. Responses minimum. Comic book reading, I don't know what number this is. Comic book reading. Reading, I'm gonna do this, reading. So our first one is gonna be Walk With Monsters. Walk With Monsters. Our next one is X-Men, X-Men number 266. And this is Walk With Monsters number one, number one. And our last one is Impact Number, number three, Impact Number three. Okay, and I gotta set the time on this game. So let me see. Allow additional votes, two minutes, two minutes. No, no additional votes. And we can start the poll anytime. Are you guys ready? I can't see the chat now because I got the poll going on. How do I, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Okay gang, we're gonna start the poll. Hopefully no one's saying, oh, wait, wait, wait. I'm gonna give it, actually, you know what? I'm gonna give it three minutes, just in case people roll in because we're running this poll pretty fast. So we're gonna start the poll gang. Three minutes, start poll. Poll is running. I'm voting it so quick. Cheecho, first poll. Everyone remember this moment? This is my first poll putting together. I'm voting it quick, voting and smoke break. Okay, awesome. The poll's going, gang. What do we got? We got three votes for X-Men, two votes for I walk with monsters and impact is no votes yet, okay? I'm not gonna, I'm gonna try to be a tiebreaker if there's gonna be a tie, right? Impact gets one vote, okay? So right now we've got three votes for X-Men, 266, first full appearance of Gambit, two votes for I walk with monsters and one vote for impact. We got three votes for I walk with monsters, four and four, I walk with monsters and impact gets two votes, goes up a little bit, right? So we got X-Men goes up to five votes, four votes for I walk with monsters, two votes for impact. Impact, for me, Elder God says. Elder God goes with the oldest first, right? So we're about a minute in, two minutes left, okay? I'll be smoking. You go have a nice smoke, Void. Hopefully you'll enjoy the reading. It should be nice and chill. Pole booth are rigged, pole booth are rigged. Not this one, not this one. This is open, right? We're counting the votes as they come in. We're not shutting down the votes and all of a sudden votes appear for one of these comics to read, right? It's a close one, it's a close one. We got six votes for X-Men, 266, first full appearance of Gambit, five votes for I walk with monsters, wow, wow, wow. Info, info, how are you doing? Info all sphere, I hope you're doing well. Matt P.S., hope you're doing well. Seven votes for X-Men, 266. Look at this, there's two vote difference between X-Men on a walk with monsters and impacts got two votes going on. Dead man voting Elder God says. I demand the votes to be submitted at 2A. And I think there's a water damage somewhere here, isn't there? What's going on? What's going on? So we got seven votes for X-Men, five votes for I walk with monsters and two votes for impact. We got about 45 seconds left, gang. So if there's any votes you wanna cast, you cast them. I'm not sure how many people we got on the stream right now. It's a nice chill stream for the morning. Nice, nice. We got 25 people and we got, how many? Oh, look at this, nine votes for, got distracted, nine votes for X-Men, 266, votes for I walk with monsters. We've got about 30 seconds left back, gang. Rx, how are you doing? Nine votes for X-Men, 266. Looks like Gambit is gonna be a full, first full appearance of Gambit with Chris Claremont writing it. People want X-Men, 10 votes for X-Men, 266, and X-Men takes it. I'm actually surprised. I thought X-Men, 266, the first appearance of Gambit, was gonna be the first pick, first comic book we were gonna read out of the five selections that we had previously. Okay, I'm surprised it wasn't. Awesome, awesome. And this book, gang, is in really good shape. And I bought, just so you know, I bought these off the racks when they first came out and I paid, you know, $1.25 for them. At the time it was getting like 20 or 30% discount from the comic book store. At the time you, back in the day, used to be able to get discounts, right? Depending on how many comics you bought and how connected you were and stuff. And you could have bought this on the cheap for a while. Now this comic book is pretty expensive, okay? 18 to 25, good turnout at the polls, nice, nice. Yeah, that's right, we had 18. 18 people show up, nice. Yes, came back and won. That's what you cast your vote in. He's from Louisiana, he's from Louisiana. I can't do the Cajun accent, gang. So I'm just gonna read it as is. And I have a hard time reading Gambit talk because he uses words like whatever. When I, I don't even know. I've never even read Gambit out loud. I can, when I read it, I don't read out loud. I just read it in my mind, right? So it makes sense in my mind when I'm reading it. So we'll see what goes when I'm reading this thing out loud. Cute alligator stomp. Fun. Isn't Cajun like Quebec, French, Canadian? Yeah, to a certain degree, but I can't speak French. So I'm done for, right? Even though I took it to school. I just cheated all the way through school to get my, you know, what I needed to get for them to say, yes, you've studied French. Thank you very much. Fenetra, window. Did you know they wanted to cast a Channing Tatum for Gambit? No, Channing Tatum, Channing Tatum, that he rings a bell, but I can't put the face to it. I think it got scrapped. Oh, Channing Tatum, I forget which guy he is. His name's familiar though. Gang, should we begin our reading? We're about 23 minutes in. Okay, I'm going to turn off notifications. Let me go down here. And I forgot to do my intro, but here's the intro, just speedy Gonzales stuff. He does some comedy movies, does he? Let's get it, let's get it. Yes, yes, France colonized North America, they did. There's lots of Francophones in Canada and in the US. I don't know if you call them Francophones in Louisiana and whatnot. But gang, if you want to know what this is about, I am on Patreon. We are live streaming on Twitch. I do announce these live streams on Mines, VK, Gap and Parler. Videos that live streams where we don't have any visuals, which we do today. We do upload the audio as a podcast to SoundCloud and we will be uploading this live stream, this reading to YouTube, Bichute, Rumble and Odyssey. And for those of you that are supporting this work on any of those platforms, all of those platforms, gang, thank you very much for the support. It is in large part because of your support that we're able to do this. And mods on Twitch, Allah God, how are you doing? Thank you for being here and taking care of business. Let me take these guys down and I'm gonna take down the notifications. I'm gonna take down the chat. Okay. Chats going down or notifications going down. Well, chatting time always was in the vow. To be honest, Quebec is so different from France. So different from France. So different from France. Sensor two, sensor two. I'm gonna turn off the chat box, gang. Boop. I'm gonna take down this video. Let me find the click and I'm gonna take it down and I'll see you guys after the reading. Hi, everyone. This is Chichu. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book reading. And we're reading a pretty important book. Okay. It's one of the key books from the modern age of comics. It's X-Men number 266, first full appearance of Gambit. Okay. And this comic book, the cover art is done by Andy Kubert. Okay. I'm not sure how you were supposed to pronounce that. And the story script is written by the great, great Chris Claremont. The pencils is by Mike Collins. Inks by Joe Rubinstein. Colors by Brad. Vanquetta. Letters by Pat. Broso and Tom. Or Zuchowski. Okay. I'm sorry if I'm brutalizing. Okay. And this is considered to be the first full appearance of Gambit and Gambit's first appearance. And it's considered to be a cameo occurred in Uncanny X-Men annual number 14, which appeared a month, I believe. Okay. Before this issue came out. Okay. So that issue came out about a month before this one came out, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. Okay. So let's take this out of the Mylar bag that it's in. And I put it in Mylar because it is on the more expensive side. And it is a very good copy or let me use comic book terminology. It should be in near mint condition. The tape really sticks to the Mylar. Let's get rid of the tape here. And this book came out in 1990. And this is Chris Claremont's run on X-Men. It's considered to be one of the greatest runs in comic book history, really. So let's take a look at the cover of this. See what kind of grade this would be in. This would be definitely in near mint condition. There are no dings. You can check out, run your finger on the cover and see if there's any dings. And there's no dings on the spine here. Now let me show you very sharp edges. Very nice book. This would be graded as far as right now that we're seeing based just on the cover as a 9.4 easy PZ, right? And here's the spine. Could possibly get a higher grade at 9.6. Oh, there's a little bit of, see that right there? But you can't feel it. And I picked up this book at cover price, basically, if not two dollars, less than two dollars. And what does the cover say? On sale twice a month. They were really pushing X-Men. Back in the 90s, late 80s or 80s and 90s. Gambit looks mean. He's been. I like Gambit. Smart guy, smart guy, loner, lone wolf, really. Enter the mutant called Gambit. And X-Men annual number 14. For the longest time, you could have got it very, very cheap. Right now, X-Men number 14 is selling for a mint price. Very expensive. The back cover, again. No dings that I can feel. This is on red, so we're reading a mint copy, really. Three to $400, depending on the grade. That's what Elder God is mentioning on the chat. And it must be done. We must read. Yeah, no, that's nothing. It's just the line from, let's see if we can see it. It's just a line from the front cover going in, right? So we're not gonna bother flipping through this. We're just gonna read this. Okay, gang. Beautiful, beautiful cover. Andy Pencils and Inks by Andy Cupert. Cupert. We'll try to be careful. I mean, look at this thing. It hasn't been read. We're reading a beautiful unread copy of X-Men 266. Fantastic. We're gonna read the fine print on this gang. We're gonna read the fine print first. Okay, so let's see if we're gonna read it. The Uncanny X-Men Volume 1, Number 266, late August, 1990, ISSN Number 02, or is that a cue? 74-5372, published by Marvel Comics. James E. Galton, President. Stan Lee Publisher. Michael Hudson, Group Vice President. Publishing Office of the Publication. That is 387 Park Avenue South, New York, New York. 10016, second class posters paid at New York. New York and at additional mailing offices. Published monthly, except bimonthly, July, August and September. Copyright, 1990 by Marvel Entertainment Group Incorporated. All rights reserved. What else does that say? All rights reserved. Price, $1 per copy in the US and $1.25 in Canada. Subscription rate for 12 issues. US, $12, Canada, $17, and foreign, $24 US. I'm assuming this is all US. Printed in the USA, no similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended. And any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. The pre-autocall may not be sold except by authorized dealers and is sold subject to the conditions that something shall not be sold, that it shall not be sold or distributed with any part of the cover or markings removed. Nor is a mutilated, nor in a mutilated condition. The uncanny X-Men, including all prominent characters featured in this issue and the distinctive likeliness thereof are trademark of Marvel Entertainment Group Incorporated, Postmaster, Send Address, Changes to the Uncanny X-Men, CO, Marvel Comics, Subscription Department, 387 Park Avenue, South New York, New York, 10016, is that what it was? The postal code, 10016, yeah, it's up top there as well. Cool, Randall, how are you doing? Just late enough to not see the, oh Randall, you wanna see the cover? Here's the cover. I'm just checking the chat game. This is a beautiful, beautiful comic. This would be minimum 9.4 if you're a hard-ass marker, 9.6 for most people, right? And if you're being generous, maybe you're at 9.8. Check this out, awesome. Let's look at who the people are. Chris Claremont, writer. Mike Collins, penciler. Joseph Rubenstein, inker. Broso and Orozowski, letterers. Brad Venkata, colorist. Bob Harris, editor. Tom DeFalco, editor-in-chief. Tom DeFalco did a fantastic job being editor-in-chief, as far as I know anyway, okay. Stan Lee presents, not Stan Lee didn't have anything to do with creating Gambit, but Sly and Lee presents Gambit out of the frying pan. Let's read some of this and see what's going on with this issue and the injustice. That's a beautiful cover, seriously, it's a phenomenal cover, right? Beautiful. That should be Storm there as well. Starring Storm, leader of the uncanny X-Men, now mysteriously trapped in the body of a child. Oh, you wanna, someone wants to check out this, we should check this out too, what is this one? Fleer football's rookie sensation. Rookie of the year, 1990. I'm not a sports car collector, so I don't know who these are. This is like, the cover is, because it's got a thing. Don Malowski, Barry Something, Truman Thomas, Bernie Kosar, I don't know. I know cards are back as being major collectibles too, football. Barry Sanders, someone's saying. Don Marino, my pleasure, hell's luck. I wanted to see the cards, so check this out. Let's see what this is about. So Gambit, out of the frying pan. Starring Storm, leader of the uncanny X-Men, now, now mysteriously trapped in a body of a child. In Mississippi Riverfront Mansion, on the outskirts of Cairo, Illinois. Who are these guys? So that's Storm right there, trapped in a child's body. And who's that? Is that Gambit? No, who are these guys? Beautiful artwork. Let's see what the dialogue is. Do you like my pets, Aurora? Or would you prefer to be called Storm? Not sure who's talking right now. Of Christendom Hounds. It's an amazing, isn't it amazing how much even the most ordinary and bad battle of people can change. When I summon forth the shadow in their souls, I wonder what form yours will take my young windrider when I do the same to you. By all means, resists. Aurora is a serious fighter. So here's the full page. Beautiful. I enjoy a good show. It will change nothing for a seriously resistant flesh and spirit now and forever in this world and any other. You belong to me, he says. Is that it? All done so soon? I'm disappointed, child, expected better. Oh well, such is life. Bring her to me. Let's get this over with once and for all. That person on the ground wasn't Gambit. What else looks like? Now, that's more like it. Like the Aurora I remember. Finally using your mutant powers, eh girl? For what is worth, Aurora thinks. This was no more than a flash of light. It will not do these human beasts even a little harm, but it will buy me a moment to try to break free of the Shadow King's grip. So this is the Shadow King. Very cool. Shadow King, this guy right there, he's one of the very powerful evil mutants in the X-Men universe, Marvel universe. Aurora goes through the door, a bathroom, blessed mother. I have seen smaller houses. Where are the windows? She thinks. I have to get out. Who am I fooling as if the evil one will let me? All he has to do is reach out with his thoughts and seize my mind as he did those others. Speaking of whom, here they come, clown in the fountain, then across the face of the first through the door, whack. They do not think well these hounds, make them angry, push and poke and prod them into a frenzy just through the towel on the guy's face that makes them predictable. Better the rage they feel that ever increasing pace of our battle should make it harder for the evil one, to mentally tell what is happening. Problem is, one mistake on my part, water jet is not very forceful. Can I add a gust of wind to send this hound on its way? Yes, must be careful of their spikes. This hound seems to be a female. Up close, they could do serious injury, she thinks. The one that ran the shower, I thought he was unconscious. Get him off me, ouch. Spike into my palm, cannot worry about that, hurts. Later, the shadow king is in the doorway. Oh nice, she threw him right at the shadow king. Perfect, boom, Tato games. Even my little wind should prove sufficient to billow the drapes and betcloth behind me. Ha ha, entangling any who try to follow. Enough, shadow king says. Isn't fun anymore kiddo, games over, you lose. Oh, there's a shadow king's arm, psychic blast. Look at that, grabs her. Shadow king, so powerful, so powerful. I wanted to take my time with this. I've waited it a human generation for the pleasure, but you're one tough little sweetheart. Better, I think, to err on the side of discretion. You're no match for me girl. All you're doing is causing yourself needless agony. Give it up, he says. Taking over Aurora's mind. Never, she says. Lightning, very nice Aurora. We'll skip the advertisements, gang. Let's stick to the story. Oh, look at this page, beautiful. Look at the detail here, busy page. Let's check out what's going on. Backlash, losing my balance. The railing, my winds, can't focus, thoughts. Pooosh, flies over the railing. The balcony, where are they? I want to summon them. Why won't they save me? She's thinking. Looks like there's a pond right below her. Lucky Aurora. Is he dead? Please, oh please, I hit him with all I had. Let it be so, she thinks. Skiff, fantasy, a dream, stories are. The shadow king can never die. Someone coming, skiff, skuff, skiff, skuff. Is it him? Who's coming? Who's coming? Let's gamb it right there, possibly. Let's check it. Rise and shine, oh my most dreaded lord and master. There are fit occasions for the exercise of your biting wit, Dr. Shin. This isn't one of them. I am but as you made me, she says. Same as you did these hounds. Save where you pulled the beast from their souls. You trapped the wicked in mine. Can't hurt me any more than that. Besides, tempting fate with you is fun, she says. Teach me. I suppose to, I suppose to, I suppose to follow in barren Frankenstein's footsteps. Storm hit me hard, he says. You need a hospital, she replies, hardly. He's fixing himself, look at that. A shame my mutant powers can't restore my clothes as easily as my flesh. Still, in millionaire's household, I'm sure I'll find something suitable to replace that. Since the millionaire is now one of your hounds, she says. He's sure not to mind, he's sure not to mind. Leon, this frog, where this fog storms doing. I suppose to cover her tracks. Oh, so there's a fog being rolled in by storm. Cool. Interesting, my telepathy seems unable to lock onto her psyche. Some form of mental interference won't save her though from my hounds. One way or another, regardless of what it takes or how long Aurora will be mine, he says. Elsewhere and far too close for comfort, orphan maker. What is the matter with you? Have you gone deaf? If you've turned off all your oral receptors, Peter, I'll be so cross. All these arms sounding and you didn't hear a thing. Out of the monitor chair, this instant, I'm sorry nanny, he says, be quiet. I haven't time for your sorries right now, you wretched boy. Our scanners detect that storm once more. She must be actively using her elemental abilities. Why didn't you lock in the locator? Why didn't you lock in the locator to pinpoint her position? Must I do everything the robot says? Who is this? I thought you were responsible, Peter, that I could trust you with really important tasks. It's her fault, he says. Ever since you found storm, things started going bad. He's on his knees. I say you can too late. The pattern is gone. The robot guy says, I guess his name is mother or her name is mother. But that other alongside hers, merciful heavens know. It can't be a mutant signature I haven't seen for years. I've prayed never to see again. I thought, hoped, prayed he was dead. More fool I, how can the devil incarnate die? Poor dear sweet innocent Aurora, in the clutches of that monster. Peter, have you any notion of what your jealousy, your negligence has done? No, and I don't care neither. I hope it's really awful, because it's what she deserves for ruining our lives. He says, I guess orphan maker, right? Let's see what the story is here. Don't say that, even if you mean it, the shadow king is the most awful and absolute evil. If he gets his hands on storm or you for that matter, he'll twist her up inside and out, transform her into a reflection of himself, and then turn her loose to do his bidding. Nanny, help, she's attacking me. Just a projection, eh? If you're lucky, Peter, the shadow king's hounds will kill you when they catch you. She's got claws, get her me. Otherwise, you may end up running by their side as part of his unholy pact. Stop being such a silly, I can't have his point. He's trying to lash out. It's only a holographic projection, not even the slightest bit real. It can't do you any harm, but storm can. That's the future, my bold brave boy. For her and many, many others, back at the mansion, he has not said a word since pulling me from the pool and along with him down to this vault. Who is he? Easier by far to tell what he does here. Same as me, I bet, a thief. The owner of this house had those paintings stolen. To add to his private collection, I meant to take them back and return them where they rightfully belong. All along though, it was a trap set by the shadow king for me. This other thief is totally absolved in his work. Absorbed in his work. He has forgotten about me. He's just stealing the paintings. By the time he notices, I want to be attenders. Sherry, Sherry, watch the door. Sherry, that's what he says a lot. Hound, ah, wah, whop, knocks the roar over. Gambit Nia, there's one the hounds behind the door. Do us both a favor, hey, pop up. Stay away from the girl. Other ideas, eh? You're gonna carry the kid, kiddling back to your boss, claim a pat on lettet and an extra ration of yummies. Figured as much, Gambit says. Always best, there goes Gambit. Can't let you do that. And faster than the eye can follow Gambit's kinetic energies kick in, right? And throwing spike flips up out of his sleeve. Into his hand. Same motion carries his arm back, then forward. Ordinary piece of metal when it leaves his hand. Something far more when it strikes the wall with the force of a cannon shell. Boom. Scram. Explosion. Aurora falls into his arms. Haven't seen, hasn't been your night, eh, Sherry? Or maybe it is, it has, considering how often I'm here to rescue you. I'm called Storm, Aurora says. Don need you, do fine enough on my own. Don't need you, do fine enough on my own, Aurora says. Yeah, right, tell me another. I'm Gambit, Stormy. And I don't believe in, believe a word. Some great choice you leave me. A fortune in classical art. Painstingly, or you, Gambit says. Painsting, paintings will keep. Us thieves, we have to stick together, Gambit says. So he's scooting out of there. Sides, I'm intrigued. If you're who I think you are, I'd like to find out. Gambit says. Ah, look at this. How you got so good, so young. Appearances are deceiving. In Aurora's case, she is not altogether what she seems. But that, my friend, is none of your fare. But she's about the cough gang. Who is this girl? Oh, what is this? Ah, we've read one of these before. Turbo graphics. We'll skip it. Let's continue with the story. Right you are, Sherry. Fuf, drops Aurora. Just the wandering, working stuff is all. Same as any other. Plying my trade. Hustling up the big score. Don't need to be told. Just stepped away, stepped way out of my league. No problem, no offense. Practical man knows his limitations, Gambit says. Minds his own business, realizes when the time comes to cut his losses. Want the girl? Yours, with my compliments. Take the art too, Gambit says. He talks and talks, and they listen almost as though they cannot help themselves as he binds them with his web of words. Even the hounds are charmed, ha ha. Wait, one hound below, two more here. There is, where's the last of the pack? Oh, there's one right there. And their master. Very snappy pattern, my young friend. I daresay, given a decent opportunity, Shadow King says zap, Gambit's mind. You might seduce even me, Shadow King says. Once you've undergone a proper, albeit painful, reorientation, that's a talent I can put to some considerable use. Shadow King says. Nailed Gambit, Gambit's on the ground. Leave him alone. Another lightning bolt? No. Nothing happened. Stupid, stupid power. Always quitting on me when I need it most. Oh, pity for you, Aurora. Blessing for me, Shadow King says. One I do not intend to let pass by. Some sort of mental zap frying the sherry's brain. Gambit's picking up something from the table, all right? Same as he tried with mine. Ay, he zaps Aurora. He's in for a rude awakening. There goes Gambit. Look at that. Putting all that energy inside that plate, I think. Let's see, let's see. Her diversion saved me. Look at that. Only fitting, I return the favor. Boo! So, the lad's more than just another pretty face. His abilities have an active, aggressive dimension as well. You shouldn't have missed, boy. With me and mine, there's no second shot. The second floor is collapsing. Look at that. Or where we're standing. Poor darling. All this excitement seems to have taken its toll. Gambit's on the ground. Exhausted, oh, look at that. Too weak to stand, much less fight. Such a shame. So many pretty words you spoke, she says. But far worse, the hints dropped. Promises made without words. That wasn't nice. I enjoyed temptation. Now more than ever, I dreamt. But I wouldn't, wouldn't be truffled with. But I won't be truffled with. The hearth, suit, billowing into the room. Storms doing, has to be lost her in the shuffle. Where is she gone? Find her fools before, barely able to breathe, she says. Ah, the soot's coming in from the chimney, right? Look at that. So she's sucking the air in. Stay close, my Gambit. She'll try to get him. Cough, is that Storm's arm reaching in to grab Gambit? Looks being sold, look at that. Yeah, that was, take a look, take a look. This is getting to be a habit. I've lost track, Sherry. Who rescues who next, Gambit says. Do not make fun, we are far, far from safe or free, she says. My wind powers will not hold that soot cloud for very long. Time enough to reach my car, maybe. Only if it is, it is parked right outside the front door, Aurora says. Off the state, not a hope then, she says. The grounds are too vast. I have enough, I have an alternative, Aurora says. But we need to reach the roof. The last hound and the evil one himself barred away. Not for long, Gambit says, brings out one of his spikes. Sayonara suckers, bam. Happy landing, hopefully in haze, ha ha. Crumbling, no sign of him. Think we got lucky, stormy. Do not call me that please, Aurora says. And do you wish to hang about to make certain? She asks, better idea. You know, Sherry, you don't talk like any kid I ever heard. I talk, I talk, Aurora says. What are you waiting for? Relax, there's time, trust me, Gambit says. Are you mad? Same as you, Sherry, Aurora, Gambit replies. Gives folks like you, like us, our major edge. 9-1-1, he dials, what? Hello, police? Remember that big Boston museum heist? I know where you can find the loot, Gambit says. If we can't steal the stuff, the least we can do is make sure the slob who stole them in the first place never gets a chance to enjoy them. So where do you go from here? Gambit asks. Hold on to me for dear life, Aurora says. Good thing you're so young. I might start to get ideas. Oh, Gambit, parachute, cute. Not likely to be much help down here, Gambit says. Just goes to show you do not know everything. Whoa, very nice, Stormy. The way you get the wind to do whatever you want. Very nice indeed. How come it doesn't always work, eh? Because some people won't shut up, Aurora replies. And let me focus the concentration I need to prevent that from happening, flying away. A while later, some distance away, saw cop cars coming as we lifted off. Look at that, this is like a plane graveyard. Saw cops coming as we lifted off. Winds dying, we're floating down just like a chute's supposed to. So I figure it's okay to chat, yes? TV trucks too, Sherry. Should be quite a media circus. Shame to miss it, Gambit says. Keep the bad guys, bad, bad guys off our trail for the immediate. Nice neighborhood, this where you call home, Stormy? I told you, name fits, Gambit says. Hands loose, kiddling, I get ya. Grab, Storm. I need no help, especially from the likes of you, Aurora says. She grabbed his little spike. Only try to be a gentleman, Gambit says. I could see the strain you were under, thought I'd give you a gentler landing is all. Say, Sherry, after all we've been through, least I've earned the benefit of the doubts, Gambit says. Why else do you think I took you off that roof? I had plenty of time to leave without you, Aurora says. From here, Gambit, we start fresh. Suits me, he says. Trouble is, I get the feeling it won't be quite so easy to walk away clean from this caper as you make out. No, it will not. The evil one neither forgets nor forgives, she says. Evil one, that sounds a bit ripe. He have a name, Gambit asks. As many as he has faces, most often calling himself the shadow king. To me though, evil one is what fits him best. He makes slaves of people, enchanting their minds and souls. Dr. Shin is such a one. She was a kind, decent woman before. That's the lady, Dr. Shin. He has a special hatred for me, Aurora says. Now he has a sense of where I am. He will move heaven and earth to track me down. Can he, Gambit asks? The hounds have tasted my blood and the shadow king my thoughts. It take, I take, I take it, that's a yes, Gambit asks. And if they catch you, what'll they do then? Whatever he pleases, Aurora says. To me, to all who stand by my side, she says. Where are we going now? Washington DC, a slightly speedy, a seedy townhouse on some federal land hard by Rock Creek Park. What does that say? Dr. Valens Copia, presidential national security advisor for superhuman affairs. Cool, Irene, it was mystic. Mystique, this is mystique. Very cool, very cool, enter mystique. To be opened, to be opened in the event of my death. In the event of my death, that's what the note says. Right on time, Val, precisely as expected, gasp. Who's waiting? Who's waiting? I'm sorry, mystique, I have to do this. I understand the shadow king wants me dead. And when he commands, his slaves must obey. How do you know? What did you mean? Shape changer, precisely as expected. One of the curses of being a pre-cock and make no mistake, destiny, as destiny was one of the best, has to be the awareness of your own mortality, of sensing in all the possibility, possible alternatives, all the moments and manners of your own death. Yet, destiny did nothing to prevent it. She willingly chose and embraced her fate. I suppose I can do no less, because that knowledge was no bar to her, while still alive, foreseeing what lay ahead for those she loved. Including the moment, Val Cooper, when you'd come to kill me. Blah, it's coming next. Next, nanny, into the fire. So nanny is the robot that we saw in the other page, the two-pager. Cool, cool, cool. Advance, D&D, nice story. Cool to see early gambit, right? The first serious full appearance of gambit. And the character hasn't changed much. It's very much true. The present character of gambit, very much true to the original character. Arachnophobia, this is a fun movie. Opens July 20th at theaters everywhere. I read these a long time ago, I can't remember what the story goes to. Yeah, very much stayed true. I'm curious to see what the prices on these things were. Check this out. Oh my God, look at the price tag on here. Look at this. Look at that. Akira, number one to three, first prints, $5. Oh wow, if you could only go back and buy those comic books. Great story, yeah, great story. Avengers, Batman 433, daredevil, Excalibur number one, 750. Man, I wish I could go back and buy those Akiras. One to three, first prints. Oh, what? Moon Knights, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, number one, fifth print, tick. One to three, third prints. X Factor, X-Men, Verichal, Punisher, X-Men, Robocop, ha ha. What's up top, posters, games, t-shirts. Lots more Batman's here too, look at that. Arkham Asylum, trade paperbacks, very cool, very cool. Awesome, fun read gang, fun read. And I don't think we did any damage to the book while doing a read. So I would say stays at a 9.4, 9.6. Let's bring back the Mylar. I hope you enjoyed the reading, it was pretty good. And Chris Claremont is always worth reading, always worth reading. And the trick with reading Chris Claremont is you need to read a few issues together, back to back. That way you get a feel for the story and the characters and how the dialogue flows, right? Fantastic read, fantastic read. And what we're gonna do, incredible comic boy. What I'm gonna do is gonna go back to the live stream and I hope you guys enjoyed the reading. We got a couple more readings left in the set. Aside from that, I'm gonna go back to the chat and turn on the notifications and the chat box. Fun, that was a good read. That was a very good read. That was a very good read. I spent so long since I read this. It's been so long since I read this. I read this when it first came out. I don't think I've read it since. Cheryl, how you doing? How's life? I ran the poll this time. Hey Chichou, I was able to pop in for the last half or so, now I need to know what happened in the first half. In the first half, basically it was, wow, you can take a look at it once the video is up, right? But basically it was just Aurora, Shadow King going after Aurora, right? I don't know what the story was. I don't know why the Shadow King has such a hate on for Aurora. I can't remember. Void says, you do. I'll watch for sure, awesome. An important book, very important book. Very, very important book. And it was, you could get a dirt cheap for the longest time, for the longest time, right? And gang, don't forget. Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that is being crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. For more information, see wikileaks.org, defend.wikileaks.org, and check out the information we've shared on our Julian Assange and Wikileaks playlist on Sensor 2. Fun gang, fun. And we've got one more reading coming up in the set, I believe on Wednesday. And if you're around tomorrow at 10 a.m., we're gonna be in the patio. It's nice and sunny. I'm gonna go pick up some seedlings today. We picked up some seedlings yesterday. And maybe we'll pot some seedlings. I'm not sure. Maybe just chill in the patio and have some drinks and relax and enjoy the morning, a Sunday morning, and just talk about anything. Open discussion. I'm not sure. Maybe bring the kitty cats out and let the kitty cats play. Just a chill session. Livestream tomorrow. Open discussion. And we'll see with platforms. We'll definitely upload it to Bichu, Rumble, and Odyssey. And this stream will definitely be loaded on to Sensor 2 as well. Please be monsters. Monsters. Please be monsters. What do you mean? What do you mean? Fun. The kitty cats. I put them outside this morning in the patio. They just love it. They get a little bit of sunshine, a little bit of playtime chasing bugs and then go to their cats and they sleep. Fun. Gang, let's call it a stream. Thank you for being here. Just a quick outro. If you wanna know what this is about, I am on patreon.patreon.com forward slash chichou C-H-Y-C-H-O. If you wanna follow this work, if you wanna know what this work is about, patreon is a great way to do so. For those of you that are supporting this work on Patreon, gang, thank you very much for the support. It is in a large part because of your support that we're able to do this. We are last streaming on Twitch for the next read. Actually, I like both remaining, so I'll be happy. Yeah, me too. And gang, by the way, as far as reading goes, I found the lowest lane, Superman's girlfriend lowest lane, the second part of Superman turning into a cat. So in the next set of readings, the five that we're gonna do and introduce after we do the next two readings, oh, I walk with monsters. 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