Okay one of the books Pained Auron is offering as a prize is Blink #2 signed by Judd Winick. Here’s what the cover looks like -
http://prettythings.pullbot.com/artworks/126258/Blink-2_medium.jpg
Haha… An Exiles spin-off signed by the main man himself. That’s a No-Prize if I’ve ever heard of one.
Just a heads up looks like mine are going to be more of the not so good variety, sorry :shake:
From the spoilers I’ve read, if they are true like everyone is wrong, or at the very least not 100% right. 
Well I’ll find out tomorrow for sure when I get the issue.
I know what happens
That was actually before Exiles, it was a spin-off of the Age of Apoc to let readers know who the fuck she is, it’s an alright series and it deals with my favorite part of the universe (Annihilus and Blastaar fued).
I don’t enjoy any of Winick’s works. And I have even less respect for Age of Apocalypse than Exiles.
Final results and winners!
Everything in my post below will spoil Secret Invasion issue #8 so if you have not read that issue yet please go out and do so. If you do not want the issue spoiled for you stop reading now. Winners will be contacted via PMs just in case they want to avoid spoilers too.
SKREW POO 2 WINNERS!
Kusanagi02: I have Tony Stark dying by the end of the series. The real Spider-Woman somehow coming out the woodworks and Nick Fury back as the Director of SHIELD.
Tony Stark didn’t die but his career did, and Nick Fury isn’t the director of… What was that again? Joint doesn’t exist. Obama laid down his mighty pimp hand and said NO YOU CAN’T. Spider-Woman did come out of the woodworks though. Winner, ALREADY???
Wellman: I actually got my money on Ms. Marvel being the Director of Shield, Fury is probably going to be the grumpy old man sending kids to collect on grocery bills in the Secret Warriors ongoing.
Ah you lost a few bucks there… Nick Fury is kind of bitter, how you gonna diss Dum Dum Dugan like that? His name is DUM DUM, he needs all the love he can get.
maxx: i predict spider-man will have an emo moment. give me my prize now.
Spider-Man didn’t have an emo moment but fret not, there will be another Spider-Man wearing a black suit in Dark Avengers and if he’s anything like movie 3 Black Spidey there will be plenty of emo moments along with some weird pelvic thrust dancing! Hell yeah that’s what I’m talking about!
TheDarkPhoenix: Hulking rising to power; Darwin playing a key role in defeating the skrulls; Nick fury taking over shield again. One of the X-men being a skrull (storm\cyke)
Hulk tried to run for President but he was beaten about by Stephen Colbert and then Obama. Charles Darwin is dead, even the Marvel Universe Charles Darwin is dead, get over it. J/K. Again with that organization that no longer exists. Cyke’s no Skrull, hell he’s about to throw Emma Frost down the STAIRS for chilling with Norman and handle his business! Let’s see her Diamond Form bounce a couple of times word!
darksoul173: Doc Strange will stop gaying and will do some Abra skruldabra and will be a key in the victory for Earth; real spider woman comes and kills skrull queen
Doc Strange is still bitching about Hulk - “OOOH HE BWOKE MY WITTLE HANDS! HE BWOKE MY WITTLE HANDS!” - to be of any use to anybody. Real Spider-Woman is just wondering why everyone gave her the stink eye.
Sano: Shuma-Gorath is behind the entire thing! When the Avengers were hiding out in that fake Starbucks Doctor Strange had everyone use the name “Shuma-Gorath” as a password to get in! You see unlike Joe Quesada, Bendis actually knows who Shuma-Gorath is! (Yeah for real, Joe Quesada doesn’t know who Shuma-Gorath is, I asked him at the NY Comic Con in February). Bendis has been building this up since he was five years old, really! Come’on man, Skrulls are green, Shuma-Gorath is green and of course “He loves you!” He wants to have everyone offered up to him as sacrifices! Everyone is wrong I tell you! 
Okay this guy is an idiot. What kind of CONTINUITY PORNOGRAPHER thinks that Marvel is that concerned with Shuma-Gorath? This guy doesn’t know shit about comics, don’t listen to anything he has to say. FUCK THIS GUY! Now let me see who suggested this… Um, nevermind…
Seriously though “HE” was revealed to be God. I guess it’s some kind of high powered being who created everything that the Skrulls worship, similar to God.
Pained Auron: hawkeye (clint barton) will no longer be ronin/hawkeye
He’s about to become Hawkeye again, and get lucky again too with someone who canon says should be dead. BENDIS HAS POWERS! Tomorrow he’ll say Uncle Ben Parker never died and there’s nothing we can do. It will be FACT/CANON/BIBLE deal with it!
m121akuma: Maria Hill retakes her position as head of SHIELD. Skrull Captain Marvel will die. Luke Cage will also die, so nobody can touch Bendis’s favorite character. Tony will kill Skrull Queen Jessica. Real Jessica will appear, having been replaced by an LMD when she was captured by the Skrulls.
What’s that organization you are talking about again? Skrull Captain Marvel did die in an earlier issue, but this contest is about how it ends. Luke is still alive putting his baby’s face on a milk carton. Wolverine got to almost kill Skrull Queen Jessica once again proving his jober aura - remember when he cut Onslaught with bone claws? - but Norman took the kill shot. Real Jessica did appear but Kusanagi beat you to it.
Sanchez: Real Black Bolt comes back and yells at everything so loud that every depowered mutant gets their powers back. They all rally together and fight off the Skrulls that werent peaced out by the scream. For his efforts, the United States Government makes Black Bolt Speaker of the House. And Luke Cage gets his tiara back.
Scarlet Witch saying No More Mutants > Black Bolt yelling. The only more powerful words in the Marvel Universe are “IT’S MAGIC! IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPLAINED!” And yeah, Obama is rolling with Osborn but you were, like MVC2 Spidey would say, “SO CLOSE!” Luke Cage is still mad you can unlock his tiara wearing self in Marvel Ultimate Alliance…
blakkphire22: galactus is a skrull :3 my money is that Mary Jane’s a skrull.
There was a Galactuskrull but it wasn’t Galactus. Since I don’t want to repeat that whole Galactuskrull debate we had in the other Secrer Invasion thread, I’m gonna skip my corny joke routine on that one. Mary Jane is not a Skrull but I do believe that Spidey was smoking mary jane during One More Day. IT’S PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON! IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPLAINED!
Adam Warlock: Something will change. Skrulls will be an endangered species making the entire skrull kill crew outlaws all over again!
Skrulls aren’t endangered, they just got their butts whooped. I will move on to the next entry before Adam Warlock flames me…
Zephyranthes: Wolverine will say the word “bub” at least once in Secret Invasion #8.
Wolverine didn’t have a single word of dialog in the entire book but I dropped Professor X a ring and he let me know what he was thinking.
“DAMN IT MARVEL GIVE ME BACK MY CIGARS AN’ LET ME RIDE MY HARLEY WITHOUT A HELMET WHAT PART OF HEALIN’ FACTOR DON’T YOU GUYS UN’ERSTAN’? AND DAKEN IS NOT MY SON I AIN’T GOT NO EMO KIDS! WHAT ABOUT MY SON ERISTA BORN ON SAVAGE LAND? WAY GO READ SOME BACK ISSUES AN’ STOP PULLING CRAP OUT OF YOUR ASS… eh? Bub…”
MixBlender: Frank castle will shoot all the skrulls up and the marvel universe will thank him. Then Frank Castle will kill the marvel universe again.
If you would of said Norman Osborn instead of Frank Castle you would of gotten this one easy. Norman won’t try to kill the Marvel Universe, I’m sure. He’s surrounded by such wonderful people like Doctor Doom and Midnight Blissed Loki, I’m sure he’s on the side of angels now. Speaking of…
akumatrunigga:NORMAN OSBORN DIRECTOR OF SHIELD or 3D-Man will place the final blow in the last panel of SI # 8
Norman Osborn isn’t the director of SHIELD but SHIELD has been removed for an organization called HAMMER and he is in charge of that! Close enough! No 3D-Man but if you got those red and blue 3-D glasses and you squint really hard, and if Spidey lends you some Puff The Magic Dragon, maybe…
RockBogart: I predict the Initiative/Registration will be abolished and revealed to be a Skrull plot. Black Panther and Storm will bring TEH ARPE; Return of The Hulk; And Lord help the Skrulls when Black Bolt gets free. Thor,Fury, Capt America, or IM will utter the phrase “Where is your God now?”
Registration is still in place. Black Panther and Storm didn’t do jack in SI #8 but I’m sure they beat people in up in Black Panther’s comic, because what else does Black Panther do in his own comic? I think Hulk is thumb wrestling with Rulk or something like that but don’t ask me to read a Loeb book to find out for sure. And no one asked questions about Shuma-Gorath. Ah okay I’m having a hard time letting me theory go… There was something close to that when Thor was named the heroes’ God. And Ares was called a God in the last ish too.
chopperbyrne: The real green Hulk will come back and go Planet/World War Hulk on the Skrulls asses. He will then take over the Skrull Empire. Jarvis Skrull will get his ass kicked by Aunt May.
“HULK NO WANT TAKE OVER PLANETS NO MORE. THE PAPERWORK IS A BITCH. ME STUPID AGAIN BECAUSE LOEB SAY I IS. BEEEEEEEANS!” Aunt May will not beat up Jarviskrull until she finds out she is 6 months pregnant with his baby. Ah, that one is a Slott joke. :lol:
**Carpet Lint: Here’s my prediction: we will be treated with a vintage Marvel non-ending, one of those that tries too hard to push the fact that “NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!” or the “WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE!?!” angle, and it will leave us all very unsatisfied and disappointed.
It will include Reed Richards reversing their shapeshifting abilities with one of those generic Star Trek type “I’ll reverse the polarity on the quantum synchornizionitizer and cross the feedback into the spectrum field emitter!” solutions, which will reveal/weaken all the invading Skrulls on Earth, leading to a comic book montage of fifteen consecutive splash pages of guys beating up Skrulls in various locales (like in the last issue, “Wakanda, New York, Israel, Latveria, Asgard, etc.”). Yawn!
Iron Man will survive and have a speech at the end, praising the value of the human spirit and the strength of hope or some bullshit, and the word balloons will cumulatively take up at least 1.25 pages.
Logically relevant and powerful superheroes like Dr. Strange, Hulk, Thor, or Silver Surfer - you know, the ones with enough power to actually make a difference - will remain in obscurity throughout this story in favour of focusing on more “relatable” characters like Clint Barton and Luke Cage.
The Sentry will still remain as the absolutely most fucking useless and uninteresting comic book character ever created.
The ending will involve a scene where the Skrulls are eventually defeated, but appeal for some sort of compromise or mercy, and the good guys pause to consider it…until Nick Fury walks in and goes “FUCK 'EM” and is reinstated as the head of SHIELD. **
Wrong about everything except the stuff we all know from reading Marvel crossovers. EVERYTHING CHANGES FROM HERE ON OUT! YOU WILL READ COMICS WITH YOUR FEET AND STAND ON YOUR HEADS THAT’S HOW DIFFERENT THINGS WILL BE! ALL NEW! ALL DIFFERENT! oh and comics will go up to ten dollars and ninety nine cents a page, shhh…
**Bowling Pin: Oooh, oooh! Can I play too?
The Hood’s villain syndicate will take advantage of the post-Secret Invasion world.
Marvel Boy saves the fucking day.
S.H.I.E.L.D. will be dismantled.
Public confidence in all heroes will finally be shattered. Registered or not, all heroes are suspect.
Nick Fury will give up the ghost.
Captain Britain will fondly be remembered as the best Secret Invasion tie-in, followed closely by Incredible Hercules. **
The Hood, kind of because he’s down with Norman! Close enough!
S.H.I.E.L.D is dismantled!!!
We don’t know about the public’s reaction yet.
Nick Fury, we don’t know just yet what he’s up to.
There was another Secret Invasion tie-in that wasn’t called Deadpool? You sure about that?
So we have three winners! Kusanagi02, akumatrunigga and Bowling Pin! Gonna have to figure out the prizes, will talk to Pained Auron and Grog about it and see what we can do. Congratulations and remember, with great mutie psychic powers you guys must have there must also come the great responsibility of giving me Lotto numbers. SHUMA-GORATH! Hey I got to say his name again! :looney:
I really hate when a new writer ruins Hulk.
Planet/World War Hulk had so much potential as a character and now he’s back to Hulk Smash.
So lame.
Too late. That’s why I got yo’ mama’s ending with a Victoria’s secret invasion.
Wow, I whiffed on all of my predictions for an unsatisifying ending…and yet I still find myself very unsatisfied. How’s that even work!?!
“You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Adam Warlock again.” Darn it! I’ll pos rep you later. Victoria’s secret invasion!
so someone is hawkeye in dark avengers. If it’s
Clint, and someone else is hawkeye, then I win right?
It’s hard to say because either way what you said didn’t happen in SI #8 for you to win like the other winners. Basically, Clint would have to say “I’m no longer Ronin or Hawkeye, I’m just Clint Barton LOVE ME FOR WHO I AM” for you to get the prize. Or die. Or get thrown in jail. Or become the new Cyclops. I dunno… Give yourself a comic if you want.
At the NY Comic Con they are ‘supposed’ to give me a free Green Lantern poster for buying tickets early, if I get it it’s yours.
I can’t believe Wolverine didn’t say a single word in the entire issue. Maybe some of the copies are defective. He’s got to have said “bub” at least once. I just know it.
His claws went ‘SNIKT’ but yeah he didn’t speak. The issue was mostly Norman telling the President everything that happened so a lot of characters didn’t get any dialog in the last issue.
My mistake earlier, Wolvie didn’t cut the Skrull Queen’s head off, it was Norman who blasted it off. Went back and edited the comment I made to m121akuma before. When Wolverine went to cut her head off there was a zapping noise and that was Norman blasting her from a distance with a wierd lazer gun that fires pink beams, I totally misread that part the first time.
So uh did I win?
Cuz I said SI would end with DP still having a series.
I didn’t even count that as a suggestion because it has to happen within the storyline for it to count. Things regarding Marvel’s publishing future aren’t valid. People who’s votes I counted had suggestions about other things within the story. There were some tidbits about Marvel’s future which I took for comedic value, sure. But they said other things regarding the storyline in their entries.
It was stated in the rules if you pay attention. Indirectly of course. All of the above are storyline examples. That’s what we were looking for.
I should’ve just said “shittily”. Then I woulda had it.