Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. - Sophocles

Wise words from ancient Greece there, in the real world it does seem impossible to predict the future but we're not concerned with the real world, we're concerned with comics and the future of far more than mortal men, we're talking X-Men. What I propose to do in this series of propheciesposts is take a look at what is going on in the X-Men Universe right now, mix that up in the atomic-randomizer I call my brain and see what comes out. Today's topic: Will Emma Frost and Scott Summers have a baby?

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Maybe no one remembers this, as it was a few years ago now, and some comics geeks can have very short memories, and require references and pictures and concrete statements from creators. But for a while, there was discussion in the X-Men comics about Beast’s sexuality.

As it turned out, he wasn’t really gay. It was a malicious lie he told the human girlfriend who dumped him by telephone because he now looked like a big cat; one that got away from him and returned to bite him on the ass. This all happened, of course, in Grant Morrison’s epic and unbeaten New X-Men run.

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Ok, so I thought I would do something in addition to my usual reviews and picks, and after some discussion decided to launch a new segment called “10 of the best….” Each time I will be putting out a category for you lucky readers to pitch in your suggestions and then I’ll collate everything and put it out there.

To start things off I thought I would do 10 of the best…….Non Mutant characters associated with the X-men. Random I know but I figured I would use my rain man like ability to recall characters from yesteryear and let you know why I think they deserve their spot in the top 10, including their finest moments.

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Over the past few months I've gotten to know Daniel Clifford pretty well, either through listening to him lose his mind on his and co-host Lily's excellent podcast; North East Geek Feast, enjoying a Halo: Reach wild ride in true Mr Toad fashion or endless twittering back and forth. So when the opportunity came up to talk to Daniel about his latest project with the Paper Jam Comics Collective; Sugar Glider I jumped at the chance to delve deeper into that wonderfully weird mind:

So what is Sugar Glider all about?

Sugar Glider is a costumed crime-fighter comic based on Tyneside but like all the superhero comics I like best, it's more about the person in the costume than it is about the crime-fighting. And the person in the costume is Susie Sullivan; a teenager with no clue what to do with her life. Everyone around her has a clear path in life - her mam is a nurse, her sister is a mother and her best friend is a sports prodigy. But no matter what Susie tries, nothing ever sticks. She's done all the dead-end jobs you can think of and tried out fashion design, wildlife photography, filmmaking, judo, athletics, etc etc. But she can't commit. I really think this is a story people can relate to - everyone's under so much pressure to decide one thing to do for the rest of their life - it doesn't even matter that the 'one job for life' thing just doesn't happen anymore. But then there's the escapist part of the story - she's found herself with this gliding suit and is trying out something a lot less ordinary - super heroics!

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Here's the reviews we didn't have time get to do on the last show.

X-force 7 - does a really good job of showing the repercussions of the first mission (the arc-angel/wolfsbane showdown) without being contrived and still manages to have some really good character moments and move the story forward for the next arc. Really reminds me of the good old days of Fabien Nicieza writing X-men, where they trusted the reader to keep up and made it compelling enough that you kept all the strands in your head.

X-force 8 - is what team books really should be. The vanisher is in pocession of what we believe is a sample of the Legacy virus and Wolvie, X-23 and angel set up a sting for the vanisher, But they still know to mix it up with character moments with the effects the mind manipulation has had on wolfs bane. Not sure what the frakk that demon-bear is at the end!

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