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Robbie Baldwin
|Robbie Baldwin
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22 (January 1988). Cover art by Ron Frenz.
|Publication information
|Marvel Comics
|First appearance
|As Speedball:
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22 (January 1988)
As Penance:
Civil War: Front Line #10 (January 2007)
|Created by
Steve Ditko
Tom DeFalco
Paul Jenkins
Steve Lieber
|In-story information
|Alter ego
|Robert "Robbie" Baldwin
|Team affiliations
|New Warriors
Damage Control
Avengers Academy
Shadow Initiative
|Notable aliases
|Speedball, Penance, Masked Marvel
|(As Speedball):
Force field generation
(As Penance):
Energy blasts
Robert "Robbie" Baldwin is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Created by artist Steve Ditko and writer Tom DeFalco, the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22 (January 1988) originally known as Speedball,[1] as well as in Civil War: Front Line #10 (January 2007) as Penance.
The character's origin and early exploits as Speedball were depicted soon after in a solo series. After that series was cancelled, he appeared as a member of the superhero team the New Warriors, in the monthly title of the same name. In the Marvel Comics crossover "Civil War", the character changes his name and appearance to Penance. Following this change, he is a member of the Thunderbolts. As of the first issue of Avengers Academy, he has reverted to Speedball and a modified version of his original costume.
- 1 Publication history
- 2 Fictional character biography
- 3 Powers and abilities
- 4 Other versions
- 5 In other media
- 6 Notes
- 7 References
- 8 External links
Publication history[edit]
Created by artist Steve Ditko and writer Tom DeFalco, the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22 (January 1988), originally known as Speedball[1] (initially as a candidate for Marvel's separate New Universe imprint[2]).
Marvel Comics published ten issues of the monthly comic book series Speedball from 1988 to 1989. The series was primarily plotted and penciled by Steve Ditko who also supplied the covers. It was scripted by Roger Stern and inked by several different artists.
After the series' cancellation, the Speedball character primarily appeared in New Warriors and its related comics, written primarily by Fabian Nicieza. Speedball continued to be the most consistent character through the second and third volumes of the New Warriors. During his run on New Warriors, Fabian Nicieza commented,
I hope everyone has realized that I love Speedball. He's one of the few spandex folks out there that really enjoys what he's doing. Through Speedball, I get to make pointed comments and references to what's going on around him, which is great fun, using his cockiness and his arrogance, but playing on his insecurity at the same time. I'm proud of the fact that I've managed to make the character that scared so many people away from New Warriors popular enough to get his own mini-series.[note 1] Speedball's a major part of the book now, and that's something that I, [penciler] Mark Bagley, [editor] Danny Fingeroth, [penciler] Darick Robertson, and [inker] Larry Mahlstedt are all really proud of. It's hard to change public opinion, but I think we've given it a good shot. [emphasis in original][3]
The character is featured in Paul Jenkins's Civil War: Front Line, after it was revealed that he was the only member of the New Warriors to survive the Stamford disaster.[4] The character underwent a drastic change in this series, in which his powers alter and takes the name Penance, joining the Thunderbolts.[5] He would also feature in his own limited series Penance: Relentless, also written by Jenkins, which examines the background to these changes.[6] In the Thunderbolts comics series, Mike Deodato based Baldwin's appearance on actor Edward Norton.[citation needed]
He appears as a supporting character in Avengers Academy #1-20 (Aug 2010-Dec 2011), back in his Speedball persona. After recruiting Sam Alexander in Nova Vol. 5 #7-9, Speedball became part of the 2014 incarnation of the New Warriors.
Fictional character biography[edit]
Robbie Baldwin was born in Springdale, Connecticut to mother Madeline, who co-starred in a soap opera with Mary Jane Watson[7] and subsequently became a teacher, and father Justin, a successful district attorney. As a high school student, Robbie gains superpowers after an accident at the Hammond Research Laboratory where he works part-time as a laboratory worker. When Hammond scientists try to tap into a mysterious other-dimensional energy source, the energy bombards Baldwin. Baldwin survives the experience but finds himself surrounded by energy bubbles and clad in an odd costume.
Minutes afterwards, during a battle with some thieves who want to raid the lab, Baldwin discovers that his body now generates a kinetic energy field that protects him from impact and makes him a bouncing dynamo of kinetic energy. Calling himself Speedball, Baldwin becomes a crime-fighter in his hometown of Springdale, Connecticut.[8] Baldwin's parents have marital problems while he secretly leads his double life. This situation leads to domestic stress that escalates over time, driven partly by the conflict between Robbie and his father, who as district attorney is expected to uphold Springdale's ordinance against costumed superheroes and has an extreme prejudice against these "vigilantes".
The energy source also affects Niels, a cat belonging to one of the scientists, giving him the same powers. Speedball makes a number of attempts to catch the cat, hoping that study of Niels would give him better control of his powers. He would later learn that a villainous scientist, Clyde, was also after the cat, hoping to gain Speedball-like powers, and had allegedly created most of the supervillains in Springdale to this end. Speedball would later adopt the cat, who under the name of Hairball, would eventually have its own super adventures with the Pet Avengers.
While still an inexperienced crime-fighter, Speedball meets Spider-Man and Daredevil during a turf war between the Kingpin's and the High Evolutionary's henchmen.[9]
The New Warriors[edit]
While shopping in New York City with his mother, Robbie Baldwin joins a battle between Terrax and a number of superheroes. The heroes become the founding members of the New Warriors, and Baldwin agrees to join the team.[10] The commute from Connecticut to the team's headquarters in New York City is difficult and Baldwin is frequently late for Night Thrasher's formal meetings. With the New Warriors, he battles Psionex.[11] He eventually reveals his double identity to the New Warriors,[12] and when Speedball and the New Warriors battle the Force of Nature shortly afterwards, his mother also learns of his superhero identity.[13] His father learns the truth some time later.[14]
After Baldwin's mother discovers his secret identity, his parents' marriage ends and Baldwin moves permanently to New York City.[15] Baldwin finds friendship with all of his fellow New Warriors, but his closest friendships are with Nova and Rage. After Baldwin is transported to the dimension his powers derive from,[16] Darrion Grobe joins the New Warriors as Speedball, although the other members think he is Baldwin. Baldwin returns from the kinetic dimension and begins a brief relationship with Timeslip.[17]
"Civil War"[edit]
At the beginning of the "Civil War" storyline, the New Warriors attempt to apprehend a group of supervillains in Stamford, Connecticut for their television reality show. Nitro, one of the criminals, creates an explosive blast that kills 612 civilians, including 60 children, as well as the New Warriors with the exception of Robbie Baldwin. This event triggers the push for superhero registration at the heart of "Civil War".[18] Baldwin is presumed dead after the incident, but he is found alive after the blast launches him over 500 miles (800 km); his kinetic field kept him alive, but it "burned out" as a result.[19]
After awakening from a coma, Baldwin is arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. and placed in federal prison.[20] Furthermore, his own mother disowns him.[21] After he discovers his powers are still functional, Baldwin is taken to the new penitentiary called Negative Zone Prison Alpha.[22] Reed Richards, the facility's creator, offers Baldwin the chance to testify before Congress. However, on the Capitol steps, Baldwin is shot by an assailant and taken away in an ambulance.[23] Although bullet fragments remain inoperably lodged near his spine, Baldwin recovers from the wound. Richards determines that Baldwin's powers are evolving.[24] Baldwin thwarts an escape from the prison and says that he will comply with the Superhuman Registration Act.[25]
Overcome by guilt and driven insane by his treatment, Baldwin orders a new suit of armor that features 612 internal spikes (the number of Nitro's victims from Stamford) to trigger his powers. Baldwin then rechristens himself "Penance" and is assigned to the Thunderbolts.[26]
The Penance revamp of the character is satirized in Deadpool/Great Lakes Avengers Summer Fun Spectacular, in which Squirrel Girl (who has a crush on Speedball and her first kiss) confronts Robbie after learning of his transformation into Penance. Robbie tells Squirrel Girl that he became Penance not out of guilt, but to become "deep" and to escape his comedy-character background. Furthermore, he reveals that he has created a similar costume for his pet cat Niels (who he has renamed "P-Cat, the Penitent Puss") while banging his head against the wall.[27]
After the events of "Civil War", Robbie Baldwin joins Norman Osborn's new government-sponsored Thunderbolts team,[28] which mostly comprises supervillains who are being forced to reform. On one of the new team's first missions, Osborn sends Bullseye and Penance to deal with a vigilante named Americop. Bullseye forces Baldwin to use his powers to cripple the vigilante. After finding out that Osborn gave the order to Bullseye to do this, Baldwin destroys an expensive, one-of-a-kind eavesdropping device of Osborn's, while reminding his boss that unlike many of the Thunderbolts under Osborn's leadership, he has no failsafe nanites in him that force his compliance.[29]
During the team's mission to capture the Steel Spider, Penance suffers a mental breakdown and slams his head into a brick wall while remarking that he is "not good enough". Found by teammate Radioactive Man, Penance is eventually brought back to the Thunderbolts Mountain where he brutally assaults one of the prisoners after taunting Baldwin for his role in the Stamford tragedy. Osborn comes close to killing Baldwin, but the team's field leader Moonstone persuades that Baldwin could be manipulated and exploited as a Hulk-level enforcer for Osborn's schemes.[30]
However, because of Baldwin's increasing signs of instability, Doc Samson arrives at Thunderbolts headquarters to provide additional psychiatric assistance. This foils Moonstone's plan to be Baldwin's therapist and exploit his fragile mental state to her own ends.[31] Samson helps Penance focus his powers back to their original state, which he uses to defeat Moonstone in combat when (under the influence of a group of renegade telepaths) Moonstone tries to kill Samson.[32]
The Thunderbolts fight Baldwin's former New Warriors teammate and best friend Nova after having recently returned to Earth. After the fight, Baldwin confronts Nova at his home and urges to register with the Initiative. Seeing Baldwin in this state prompts Nova to return to space.[33]
Ultimately, Baldwin deserts the Thunderbolts, although they pursue him. Baldwin eludes them, and with Wolverine's help, he travels to Latveria to retrieve Nitro to stand trial for mass murder.[34] During this adventure, Baldwin steals the ill-gotten fortune of Mendel Stromm, Norman's former employee and rival, after stealing information Osborn obtained on Stromm illegally via Osborn's position with the Thunderbolts.[35] Baldwin confronts Doctor Doom as part of his quest. Doom eventually concedes the fight and relinquishes Nitro after realizing that defeating Baldwin would force him to tap into Latveria's secret nuclear power plants, potentially revealing their existence to the outside world. After secretly donating Stromm's fortune to charity for the rebuilding of Stamford, Baldwin arranges for a new Penance suit (with the same appearance but fewer spikes than the previous one) built after locking Nitro in the previous one. Nitro is imprisoned, but Robbie remains in the suit and returns to the Thunderbolts.[36]
During the Secret Invasion, the Thunderbolts are sent to protect Washington from the Skrulls.[37] Shortly after, Moonstone drugs Penance and, in the capacity as a psychiatrist, declares Penance needs to be permanently committed to the nearest corrupt maximum security hospital found.[38]
Avengers Initiative[edit]
Penance, brainwashed and heavily drugged, is persuaded by Norman Osborn to join his new Initiative, at Camp H.A.M.M.E.R., and has psychotherapy sessions with Trauma, the camp therapist, having been ordered by Osborn to keep Penance in his mentally fragile state.[39] Through Trauma's "pet therapy" method, Penance is unknowingly reunited with his cat Niels. When the Avengers Resistance, consisting of many of Penance's New Warriors teammates, come to Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. seeking to release a captured teammate, Taskmaster orders Penance to attack them.[40] Their fight is interrupted by Nightmare having taken over the body of his son Trauma. Nightmare forces Penance to remember the Stamford incident, causing him to pass out in mental anguish. Tigra revives him, using her powers of empathy to help him see Trauma's predicament. With this knowledge, Penance is able to talk Trauma into freeing himself from his father's control. Penance then helps the Avengers Resistance escape Osborn's forces by rupturing a gas main. He refuses Vance's offer to join their team, not wanting his old friends to see how much he had changed.[41]
Penance turns against Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. and helps the Avengers Resistance fight the Hood and those that are with Hood. During the battle, he finally reveals his identity to his other ex-New Warriors teammates.[42]
"Heroic Age"[edit]
Robbie Baldwin returns to using the Speedball identity as part of the Avengers Academy's teaching staff.[43]
Fear Itself[edit]
Speedball takes the Avengers Academy students on a field trip to the memorial for the people who died during the Stamford incident. They are attacked by a group called "the Cobalt Men", named after one of the villains involved in the Stamford incident. Not wanting them to ruin the memorial of the dead, Speedball quickly defeats them using his enhanced Penance powers. Speedball later admits he cuts himself to store up the energy he uses as Penance because this power is more useful in a fight. He acknowledges that he should not have kept this a secret, and Hank Pym offers to help him find a better way to activate those powers. He later confronts Kuurth, Nerkodd and a hate group founded by Sin called Sisters of Sin. After this, he cheers up a little and regains his sense of humor.[44] After returning to the Academy, Speedball announces to the students and teachers that he is quitting the faculty, but still offers to help them anytime.[45]
While Speedball is conversing with Justice, a chance sighting of the successor to their former New Warriors teammate Nova leads them to conclude that the time is right to reform the New Warriors.[46] They track down the new Nova and ultimately convince him to join the new team.[47]
New Warriors: The New Team[edit]
Having taken to the road again, Speedball and Justice find themselves in the town of New Salem, Colorado, where they meet the Salem's Seven. They fight, but quickly patch things up after it is clear it was a misunderstanding. While Speedball plays video games with Brutacus, Justice has a little chat with Vertigo, Salem's Seven leader, about the town. When the conversation deviates to Justice's and Speedball's intention of reforming the New Warriors and the difficulties that that will probably bring due the persisting bad reputation for their involvement in the Civil War events, the Evolutionaries arrive, intent on burning down the town.[48] Justice, Speedball, and Salem's Seven drive them off. Their subsequent mission to stop the Evolutionaries leads to their recruiting of two heroes to the cause, Haechi and Sun Girl.[49]
Looking for Nova but seeing he doesn't answer his phone, Speedball and the others head back to the Salem's Seven and through their help and that of New Salem's magical inhabitants, they locate the boy. As it turns out, Nova along with Hummingbird, Scarlet Spider and Faira Sar Namora of Atlantis had been kidnapped and were being held as prisoners in Mount Wundagore by the Evolutionaries and the High Evolutionary. Rushing, they arrive as the Evolutionaries are about to execute Nova, following his and the other prisoners' attempt to break out. Trying to reason with the High Evolutionary fails as this one gives a cryptic refusal and Nova reveals his plan of eliminating "mostly everyone". A chaotic fight ensues, with the prisoners, Sun Girl, Haechi and the New Warriors forming an impromptu team that manages to defeat the small army of Evolutionaries through their diverse and very different powers and abilities. Shortly after, when the High Evolutionary activates his machine to eliminate the super-powered population of Earth, Speedball and the others are brought down to their knees in excruciating pain and almost die, but they are all saved by Sun Girl who as a non-altered human is immune to the machine and destroys it. With the enemy fleeing but fearing its return, an invitation is made to everyone to join Speedball, Justice and Nova as New Warriors to face the High Evolutionary should he try to repeat his scheme - an invitation that is immediately refused, save for Hummingbird (who eagerly and joyfully accepts) and Sun Girl (who does so implicitly).[50]
While Justice takes Scarlet Spider and Faira on the task of cleaning the mountain of the High Evolutionary's hostile contraptions and robots, Speedball takes Sun Girl, Hummingbird and Haechi to a nearby town - with the excuse that it had been attacked - to have dinner and to take an opportunity to know better its new teammates. When the topic of everyone's abilities is discussed and Speedball clarifies his capacity to "bounce", Hummingbird suddenly starts to inquire about his other powers, if he still cuts himself and the reasons why. Somehow, her strange psychic powers show her Speedball's mental image of himself as clad in the Penance suit instead of his normal appearance - indicating he still struggles internally with his guilt while keeping a carefree facade to everyone else. Speedball attempts to explain himself while telepathically warning Hummingbird in an ominous tone against reading his mind and to tell no one else about this. They decide to return to the base in Wundagore mountain where Justice and the others have encountered a pair of New Men that are willing to help their group. Hummingbird develops an "unfathomable" crush on Speedball.[51]
The New Men - now renamed by themselves as Jack Waffles and Mr. Whiskers - assist the New Warriors to go to New York. However, they do so by using the base's advanced technology to teleport the entire Mount Wundagore, provoking a mass panic in the city but not causing any casualties (as the mountain is "half-phased", so most of it doesn't physically interact with the water or anything passing through it). Still, the Avengers take notice of the event and dispatch Iron Man and Thor. The former takes Speedball and Justice to Avenger's tower, where they and Captain America get into a discussion about the problems of reforming the New Warriors bring and the incident with the mountain. For a moment, as animosity rouses, Robbie starts to discreetly charge his Penance powers to use them against the Avengers. But he is touched by Justice's passionate defense of the New Warriors' team name, its members and their actions. They part with the Avengers in amicable terms.[51][52]
Next day, when Haechi and Sun Girl are forcefully taken to Singapore by Inhuman supremacists led by Lash, Speedball and the rest of the New Warriors go to save them, battling through all the floors of a skyscraper building filled with innocent mind-controlled people. As they do so, Robbie questions Scarlet Spider if Hummingbird has said anything about him and jokingly suggests to don't believe anything she says because "she is really weird". When Scarlet Spider reprehends his timing and asks if Robbie can take anything seriously, Speedball discharges his Penance powers on the remaining mind-controlled adversaries and somberly proclaims "Yes. I can". They battle and defeat Lash's henchmen, who teleport away.[53][54]
During a distraction trip the group takes to a bar in Prague, Hummingbird insists in dancing with Robbie. She reveals him she is enjoying herself as most as possibly as she is certain she will die soon as "Mictlan rises" (an oncoming event that portents in her dreams had been warning her about for months).[55]
Time later, the New Warriors locate the High Evolutionary to stop him from continuing to pursue his plan. With great coordination, they expertly aboard his ship, defeat his last Evolutionaries and trap him. It is then that the Eternals appear to ensure the High Evolutionary fulfills his agenda and prevent the Celestials from judging and destroying Earth.[56] As the situation turns for the worse, Robbie coldly assess each of his teammates and sees they are fighting a losing battle. Nevertheless, he throws his best against the Eternals and for a moment manages to inspire the others to do the same and gain the upper hand. Hummingbird then uses her telepathy to discover that the leader of the Eternals, Zuras, was lying, and the Celestials weren't coming. This was seemingly in vain as the New Warriors are defeated and used to power up the machine while Zuras manages to silence them or deflect any suspicion of his persona from his peers.[57]
However, Justice, who had been dealt with separately from the rest of the team, returned to the fight and freed his teammates, damaging the High Evolutionary's machine in the process. Justice then convinced the rest of the Eternals and the High Evolutionary that Zuras had indeed been lying. The leader of the Eternals is forced to admit the Celestials weren't coming, albeit blaming the attempted genocide entirely on the High Evolutionary with the excuse "he had been tricked by him too". The Eternals leave, warned by the New Warriors not to come back.[58]
Robbie is lastly seen happily walking away with the rest of his teammates from the crashed ship.[58]
Powers and abilities[edit]
As Speedball[edit]
As a result of the mutagenic effects of irradiation by an unknown form of energy, Robbie Baldwin possesses the superhuman ability to create a kinetic force field of unknown energy, manifested as iridescent bubbles, around himself which absorbs all kinetic energy directed against him and reflects it with even greater force against whatever object with which he is in contact. Hence, if he struck a wall, he would travel at a greater velocity in the opposite direction.
When Speedball uses his superhuman powers, his voices alters in an unknown fashion and solid force bubbles of residue kinetic field energy appear on his body and, when he bounces, in his wake. While bouncing, he is immune to any kind of harm caused by physical contact. Speedball's power activates automatically when any physical contact occurs above a low level that has not yet been precisely determined. When Speedball's kinetic field activates, his body increases in height and mass (drawn from an extradimensional source); he reverts to his normal size and mass on deactivating the field. Early in his career, the slightest touch, such as snapping his fingers, would turn on this field, but he eventually gained conscious control over it. The field repelled all energy that struck it, especially kinetic energy. As such, bullets, punches, and all other physical attacks bounced off him. A side effect of this, though, was that he, too, would bounce in the opposite direction. Baldwin often used this to his advantage, such as purposely running into a wall in order to gain momentum and thus hit an opponent with twice the force.
While with the Warriors, Baldwin gained far greater control over his powers via a combination of experience in battle and Night Thrasher's mentorship off the battlefield. Whereas previously Baldwin could barely bounce in the direction he wanted, he eventually became more proficient at controlling his leaps and using his powers in various ways, such as to deliver impressive blows, and even to project a stream of kinetic energy from his bubble field at a distance. He eventually learned to mentally "throw" the bubbles that surrounded his field to use as concussive force attacks. He was able to somewhat deflect Siena Blaze's electromagnetic attack that "no one short of the Hulk could have withstood", as well as resist the omnipath Gamesmaster's telepathy, one of the few people in the world to do so.[59]
As Penance[edit]
After the events of Stamford, Baldwin believed his powers to be burned out.[60] However, they still exist, but now only manifest when he feels pain.[26] While his powers are still kinetically based, they no longer appear to manifest as a "bubble field"; rather, his powers seem far more explosive in nature. In order to stimulate his powers, his Penance suit constantly rakes his flesh. Baldwin tolerates this to a masochistic degree, once stating that he would "wear [the suit] all the time if I could."[61] By wearing the suit he has developed a natural tolerance to pain. His suit consists of 612 spikes facing inward, each to represent a person who lost their life in Stamford. 60 of the spikes are longer than the rest, one for each of the children.
Penance can achieve a variety of effects with his newfound powers. The most commonly used are explosive energy blasts from his hands, but he is capable of firing them from any part of his body via the conduits on his spikes. He can create storm-like fields of energy around him capable of harming those around him and smashing objects. He can focus the energy on parts of his body; often on his hands to form superpowerful punches. He can also engulf himself in an energy forcefield which gives him a degree of invulnerability and allows him to levitate off the ground.
Baldwin's powers are constantly evolving and his original Speedball powers are shown to be returning to him.[62] Robbie no longer needs the Penance suit to activate his powers but chose to wear it for a time to help remedy the guilt he feels, as well as for the benefits to his powers.[volume & issue needed]
Other versions[edit]
In a reality where the Hulk, after being sent into space, kills Annihilus and leads the Annihilation Wave to Earth; Robbie (as Speedball) is one of the remaining superhumans, alongside Quentin Quire and his Exiles.[63]
House of M[edit]
Robbie appears as a member of the Wolfpack. He appears in his Speedball costume.[64]
Marvel Apes[edit]
In the Marvel Apes universe, a chimp version of Speedball appears alongside an ape-hero called Ape X. The two seem to act as partners and are both Avengers. He seems loyal to them, but at the end of the second issue he is seen with a group of what would usually be considered "his enemies". He asks Marty Gibbon about the human version of Speedball, but Marty does not have the heart to tell him about the Stamford incident. He's later revealed to be part of a group trying to reveal that the Captain America leading the Ape-vengers is Baron Blood in disguise. After freeing the real Cap from the ice, the group goes out to fight Blood. Lost members of the Marvel 616 universe, the main Marvel universe, take a wounded Baldwin back home with them and get him medical treatment. He elects to stay, explaining that his entire ape-centric earth will reject him for helping humans. In the epilogue he tries applying for the Avengers.[65]
An older version of Speedball exists in the MC2 universe, and appears sporadically in the Spider-Girl series and related miniseries. At some point he became a member of the Avengers, but has since left the team.[66][67]
Marvel Team-Up: League of Losers[edit]
Speedball features in an arc of Robert Kirkman's Marvel Team-Up (vol. 3), featuring a group of C-list heroes dubbed "The League of Losers". A group of heroes including Gravity, Darkhawk, Dagger, Araña, X-23, Sleepwalker, and Terror (although Araña dies along the way) go to the future to prevent the villain Chronok from stealing Reed Richards' time machine, Chronok having come to the present and already having killed all of Marvel's major heroes.
It is revealed Chronok is from the same time period as Kirkman's Mutant 2099; the group stays with him and his mentor Reed Richards to wait for Chronok. The team defeats Chronok, but at the end of the story, Richards reveals they cannot go back to their present, due to time-travel and alternate timelines. The group decides to stay in the future, satisfied with the impact they made, however unnoticed. Mutant 2099 suggests reforming the Avengers or the "Fantastic Nine".
Due to the Marvel Universe's method for resolving time travel paradoxes, the League of Losers' actions created an alternate universe. This is the alternate future visited by Squirrel Girl, a superhero with a crush on him, in Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun (2007). She tries to convince him to return, suggesting that no-one would mix him up with the Penance from her time, but, before he can decide, the 2099 version of Mr Immortal, Squirrel Girl's GLI leader, tells her she needs to return to the present.
Marvel Zombies[edit]
A zombified Speedball participates in a multi-zombie attack on the castle of Doctor Doom; where a few human survivors were hiding.[68] Later, he is seen in the ruins of New York.[69] He is one of the many casualties in the conflict waged against the Silver Surfer, ending up torn apart by the Power Cosmic.[70]
Ultimate Marvel[edit]
An Ultimate Marvel version of Speedball is mentioned in Ultimate Spider-Man #81, and an overweight man in a Speedball costume is depicted in police custody in Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #2 (2006).
In other media[edit]
- Speedball made a brief cameo appearance in the Fantastic Four animated series. He is seen in the episodes "To Battle the Living Planet" and "Doomsday".
- Speedball can be seen in Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors.[71] He's shown in the episodes "Agent Venom" and "The Next Iron Spider" as one of the young superheroes inspired by Spider-Man on Nick Fury's list which has been hacked by Taskmaster.
- Speedball was set to appear in the live-action New Warriors TV series played by Calum Worthy before it was cancelled.[72][73][74]
Video games[edit]
- Speedball made a brief appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes video game (which was only released in Japan) between levels to talk with Spider-Man.
- Robbie Baldwin is mentioned in the Ultimate Spider-Man video game when Spider-Man jokes that Speedball is faster than the Human Torch.
- Robbie Baldwin is a playable character as Penance in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, voiced by Benjamin Diskin. Speedball's voice is heard during the Stamford cutscene. Baldwin appears in two audio logs - the first is a commercial for The New Warriors Reality Show, and the second is as he is getting his new costume where he goes into detail about who the costume is for and why. She-Hulk is deterred from defending Speedball. The heroes later encounter him guarding the portal to Prison 42 in the Negative Zone. During the fight with him, some prisoners break free and defeat him. After the prisoners are defeated and Nick Fury arrives, Penance becomes a playable character and helps the heroes get into Prison 42, noting that he respects the players for their interest in saving innocents while the other heroes are busy fighting each other in the Civil War. After the events of Prison 42, both She-Hulk and Firestar express shock at Robbie's sudden change during conversations with him. Penance's alternate costume has him unmasked, topless, and barefoot, revealing his scarred body. In the Wii version, Penance can be recruited as a playable character by completing a side-mission featuring him under the conditions 75 nanite-controlled enemies are defeated, a mini-boss is defeated, and the player scores a certain number of points by defeating enemies. Once recruited, Penance can form the Thunderbolts team alongside Songbird, Venom and the Green Goblin.
- Speedball appears in Marvel Heroes. He is kidnapped by the Enforcers that almost kill him. But he is rescued just in time by Jean DeWolff killing the Enforcers in the process.
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- ^ New Warriors vol. 5 #10
- ^ New Warriors vol. 5 #11
- ^ a b New Warriors vol. 5 #12
- ^ New Warriors #46
- ^ Civil War: Front Line #1
- ^ Thunderbolts #113
- ^ Thunderbolts #119
- ^ Exiles: Days of Then and Now #1
- ^ House of M: Avengers #3
- ^ Marvel Apes #1-5 (2008)
- ^ A-Next #1
- ^ Spider-Girl #15
- ^ Marvel Zombies Vs. The Army of Darkness #5 (2007)
- ^ Marvel Zombies - Dead Days #1
- ^ Marvel Zombies #3
- ^ "Agent Venom". Ultimate Spider-Man. Season 3. Episode 3. September 7, 2014. Disney XD.
- ^ Truitt, Brian (April 19, 2017). "Exclusive sneak peek: Squirrel Girl leads the team of Freeform's 'New Warriors'". USA Today. Archived from the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
- ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/marvels-new-warriors-squirrel-girl-cast-milana-vayntrub-derek-theler-topline-freeform-comedy-1019588
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External links[edit]
- Robbie Baldwin at Marvel.com
- Review of Relentless #1, September 21, 2007
- Speedball at the Comic Book DB


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Although there were some hits (the mains) and misses (the starters), it's still a place worthy of a visit if you're in (or from) the area.
What I was most glad to see was the reduction in prices in many of their dishes coz I feel that these prices are more suited for a restaurant of that stature in an area like this. I guess they're still experimenting and finalising their menu and pricing in this barely 3-month old restaurant, so we may yet see more changes in the coming months ahead.
Perhaps, I'll return to try some of their Borneo-inspired dishes! ;)

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..."It's fabulous," he said.
An annex of Central Market, the commercial kitchen can be rented for $25 an hour, helping entrepreneurs make their food business dreams a reality without the high costs associated with purchasing commercial kitchen equipment. Since it opened nearly a year ago, it has been utilized by 55 unique users and has created 32 jobs, according to Aeman Bashir, kitchen project manager.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency defines evacuations as the organized, phased and supervised movement of people from dangerous or potentially dangerous areas. Some evacuations occur without the direction of government officials. This happens when residents either perceive of or are aware of an actual emergency and evacuate an area on their own. Voluntary and Mandatory/Directed Evacuations involve government direction.
The definitions for these follow:
One factor to consider when deciding whether or not to evacuate is the type of disaster or emergency. Some emergencies allow you time to prepare (such as hurricanes or winter storms), others can come upon you quickly (such as flooding, wildfires or tornadoes).
If you live in a flood-prone area, it's best to evacuate during the voluntary phase so you will have enough time to move. Flood waters can come upon you suddenly and trap you, making it difficult or impossible to leave at a later time.
If you feel you will need assistance in moving the individual you care for, it's best to plan early and move early. If you wait too late to evacuate, you may not be able to find friends or neighbors to help you.
If you choose not to evacuate during the voluntary phase, it is imperative that you monitor the emergency situation closely.
Whatever you decide, it is extremely important to have an evacuation plan. FEMA provides some guidelines to help you prepare.
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text: I was told that it would NEVER survive indoors. So...I had a chat with it. I said "my sweet Jasmine plant. I would so love to have you come live inside with me instead of leaving you outside where I hardly can visit with you. If I love you up tons would you be good with that?" Jasmine "OH YES! I love the music you play in the house and the tea you give me to drink as to change things up for me sometimes-I thank you by giving you THIS!!"


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Thank You o Allah! – a hardcover picture book
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- A short lesson in gratitute and thankfulness
- Beautifully simple illustrations with short sentences that rhymes
The first thing that comes to my mind when I turn the pages, are how beautiful the illustrations are. The whole thing is like a mini galleria captured in a book. If you've ever seen any of Eric Carle's books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, well, this is something like that but in Islamic version.
It can be difficult to teach young children how to be thankful and the concept of Allah the Creator. This book is a great starting point. In the beautiful pictures, it shows that all the food, the clothes, the days and nights, the mountains and rivers, even our sense of sight, hearing and smell, are all gifts from Allah.
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Apart from the nicely rhymed sentences and beautiful pictures, I love the fact that a children's book could teach so much about gratitude and thankfulness. This is essential in building humble, modest human beings and instilling that deep down inside, we are all the same.
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If Edinburgh's Ben Cairns ever pens a memoir then the chapter covering August 2011 will probably be framed by a black border.
After a summer of hard work in the gym, it was bad enough to be dropped from the Scotland squad for that year's World Cup, but the mental hurt of rejection was soon compounded by the physical pain of the shattering knee injury, suffered in a pre-season game with Edinburgh, that has kept him out of action for almost 16 months.
The seven-times capped centre made his comeback to competitive action in the Melrose side that lost to Nottingham in the British and Irish Cup last weekend, and Edinburgh coach Michael Bradley was sufficiently impressed by reports from that game to bring the 27 year-old straight back into his side for Friday evening's Heineken Cup match against Racing Metro at Murrayfield.
Cairns will partner former World Junior Player of the year Ben Atiga in a centre partnership called into service while international duo Matt Scott and Nic De Luca are rested in line with SRU protocols for Test players. Tim Visser and Greig Laidlaw are also missing for the same reasons, although the side has been bolstered by the return to fitness of Scotland wing Lee Jones, who makes his first start of the season after a cameo as a replacement last weekend.
No 8 Netani Talei is also fit again after injury, as is Georgian loose forward Dimitri Basilaia who has been given a place on the bench.
"We're delighted to welcome the timely return of these four players from injury," said Bradley. "It's important that they get up to speed as quickly as possible and put pressure on their peers for a place in the playing squad in some massive games coming up in the next two months.
"The return of these players adds a significant level of competition for places and, in the case of Dimitri and Netani, an up-weighted physicality, which is welcome against such a combative side as Racing Metro.
"All of these players are straining at the leash, are desperate to get a win for Edinburgh Rugby and to put in a performance worthy of reselection."
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Christmas is literally right around the corner. I know what you're thinking….didn't we just do that whole Christmas thing? Atleast that's what I'm thinking. We have friends coming from out of state for Thanksgiving week. So I decided to get my Christmas on a wee bit early this year. It has been difficult taking down all of the Harvest/Fall/Halloween decor, only because I feel like I just got all of that out. Makes me tired just thinking about it. So…Christmas, here we come.
After dragging countless bins out my workshop/storage room, I got a burst of Christmas joy. This was a blessing because honestly, I wasn't initially feeling joyful about it all. It also gave me an opportunity to clean out the bins and donate many Christmas decor items I no longer use. So it's a win win!
With the snow bringing itself to a full on blizzard status in the greater Denver area yesterday, I was able to create a little something new. And I may need to make a second and third one for a little grouping of paper trees.
Want a super easy, free, DIY book pages tree?
I purchase lots of old antique books from Goodwill, thrift stores…etc. I had one book in particular that was 1/2 used (meaning, I ripped ths pages out some time ago for a different project). If you are a librarian or a tree hugger, please forgive me. I'm simply giving the book new life by repurposing the pages. I used a piece of cardboard to create my cone shape.
I hot glued it into place and it worked famously. You could always purchase a Styrofoam cone from the craft store, but I was going for the free version. I then ripped pages of the book into strips, curled the edges with a pencil and starting at the base of my cone, I hot glued each piece on. Working my way up to the top of the cone and later filling in areas randomly with smaller pieces of paper.
Sitting pretty just inside the front door. This would also be cute using sheet music. I have an old book of that too, but the print is too large for this little tree. Possibilities are endless. You could use news paper, craft paper, wrapping paper….so simple.
FYI, the watercolor Christmas print inside my type writer at the beginning of this post is a free printable courtesy of http://craftberrybush.com
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The Madder plants that I have been growing for the past three years were all started from seed. The germination rate has been very good – I'd say over 75%, and the plants were fairly easy to transplant into the garden. Once established (second or third year) they started to spread nicely and this year some second-season plants have bloomed!
There is still some room in the Madder patch, so I've attempted 2 methods to establish some additional plants – cuttings rooted in pots of soil, and using wire staples to keep longer shoots on existing plants in place in the soil so they develop roots of their own, much like strawberry runners do.
The cuttings are a second attempt – first time I put some in a jar of water (with a small shoot of willow to encourage rooting) and all they did was rot. Most of the cuttings in pots rotted as well, but a couple did root and have now been planted out in the Madder patch.
I think it's too soon to tell if the shoots held down in the soil with staples (made from lengths of hanger wire) are rooting themselves. They do look healthy, but they are still attached to the parent plants.
Madder appears to be a nice hardy plant in our 3a (Canadian climate) zone. It grows best in the same conditions that Lavender likes.
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text: Interpreting Florida Hog Sign September 30, 2010 Hunters taking to the woods and swamps in search of wild hogs in the Sunshine State naturally look for signs that the tuskers are in the area. But are they getting the right message from what they find? Wherever hogs turn up in Florida, expect them to have water close at hand. Photo by John CarterBy John CarterMany Florida hunters have done it at one time or another. The urge is irresistible. You're driving down a wooded road when out of the corner of your eye you see the most promising of all hog sign - rooting. The rest is almost inevitable. You grab your tree stand and put it on a tree in the midst of all that disturbed ground. On that first hunt, your anticipation is higher than Bill Gates' income taxes. Hour after hour you sit and wait, just knowing that with this much sign a porker will stick out his nose at any second. The hours extend to days before you give up on the spot. Finally headed home, you find that your cooler is empty and your spirits are now lower than the dirt those phantom pigs rooted through.What went wrong? How could such a great setup have failed? Interpreting wild hog sign is more difficult than most people think, and it's more complicated than parking a tree stand over a patch of rooting. While most hunters think they're wallowing in hog sign when they come across a big area of rooting, the truth is that this sign often points to nothing more than where the pigs were yesterday. However, armed with a little information and the willingness to follow some basic steps, you can avoid hunts like this and bring home the bacon on a consistent basis. HOG SIGN 101 In order to interpret hog sign, first you need to take a look at a few of the most important and often misunderstood examples. Many hunting enthusiasts have walked right by clues that could have made their hunt far more successful. Since many sportsmen in this state only have a limited number of days to bag their hog, it's important to use that time wisely. Pre-season scouting is just as important as the two or three weekends spent on a stand. With that in mind, let's start with the granddaddy of all hog sign. Rooting Wild hog rooting is really nothing more than an area of earth dug up and tossed around by hungry porkers nosing and digging for food. Rooting can range from a small area not unlike what an armadillo would dig up to acres and acres of plowed-up earth, greatly resembling a tilled field. Occasionally a big rooter can make holes a couple of feet deep and incredibly wide.Wild hogs are omnivores, their diet consisting of just about anything they can get in their mouths. The term rooting is very literal. It refers to the hogs digging down to eat the roots of various plants. Many of these plants have roots that are packed with nutrients and moisture. Earthworms, bugs, grubs and buried acorns are just a couple of examples of table fare a hog might run across while digging for roots. Any rooting is proof-positive sign that wild hogs have been there, but when they were there and if and when they'll be back are questions left unanswered, at least for the moment. Hog rooting is both good and bad. The good thing about hog rooting is that it shows wild hogs have been in the area, and they're hungry. Other than that, rooting doesn't always provide a Florida hunter with all the information needed to bag a hog. Will Carter is an experienced central Florida hunting guide, and the man who taught me how to find tuskers under just about any conditions. Besides guiding for Horse Creek Hunting Club, he also happens to be my father."Wild hogs will at times travel a mile or more to root up an area in one feeding period," he pointed out.Therefore, just finding an area of rooting does not mean the hogs are bedded down or even living nearby. Since wild hogs most often feed under the cover of darkness, it's possible that you could sit on a stand from dawn until dusk and not see a thing, only to return the following morning to discover the pigs had rooted right underneath your tree stand. Sooner or later, the moon phase changes or the hogs might simply linger in the area after daylight, but who has the time for that gamble? The odds are against it, especially in areas with a lot of hunting pressure. Even fresh hog rooting can often lead to a fruitless hunt.Although many a hog has been taken right over rooting, it's far better to use rooting areas as starting points for scouting than to set up shop over them. The only exception would be if you could actually watch the hogs feeding a day or two before the season opens, and pattern when and where they are likely to feed on opening day.Interpreting hog rooting is the vital key and there are a few tips that can help with this chore. First of all, spend more than one day inspecting these areas. Check out the rooting and then make plans to return to the same area the next day. This accomplishes two things. First of all, you are able to tell if the rooters were back that evening to feed again. If more rooting doesn't appear, the porkers may have moved onto greener pastures.Second, if you do find more rooting, pay close attention to its location relative to the first sign you found. Hog rooting is not always random. This is important because wild hogs usually root on the edge of thick cover at first. Then they venture farther and farther away from that secure zone as food becomes scarcer and the hogs become more confident in the environment. This can provide a hint as to the direction from which the critters are approaching. If the pattern appears to provide such an indication, check the nearby swamps for bedding areas and trails leading from the cover.Next, try to determine exactly what the porkers were searching for when they rooted up the ground. Do a bit of digging of your own around the rooting and see what is there. If there appears to be an abundance of food left, make a mental note to recheck that spot a couple of days later. If food is scarce in the area, the hogs may come back to finish the job near the site of the old rooting. Think of any hog rooting as one of many stops the pigs make in one feeding cycle.Trails The next of the basic hog signs are trails the tuskers use. Techniques used to locate, read and hunt over wild hog trails are very similar to that of deer hunting. Like white-tailed deer, wild hogs are creatures of habit and use the same paths several times per day unless something or someone spooks them into doing something different. Hunters trying to locate piney-rooter highways are best served to first locate feeding and bedding areas and then look for paths that offer cover and a quick escape route into thick woods or a swamp. Wild hogs often create and use paths only a few yards inside of a thicket, cypress head or swamp. Pre-season scouting should always include an investigation of these areas. In some cases walking these paths leads to the discovery of other, related hog signs.As mentioned earlier, rooters use the same paths over and over again if nothing happens to change their pattern. It's often possible to tell what direction they are traveling in and how often the trails are used. Scouting these trails is important the trails can give you an idea of where the pigs are going to and coming from. The only drawback is that with the very real possibility that miles of hog trails exist in your area, it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly which trail is being used and at what time the trail is traversed.By themselves, hog trails are nothing more than a shot in the dark. You may luck out once in a while, but to be successful on a consistent basis, look at hog trails as nothing more than just a series of road maps leading to bedding areas and other pieces of the puzzle. Just be sure to investigate the trails thoroughly, as you may need to follow these trails for quite some distance to find the pigs' true hideouts. WILD HOGS AS LEGAL GAME In most of Florida, wild hogs are considered domestic livestock and are the property of the landowner upon whose land they occur. With landowner permission, there is no closed season, bag limit or size limit for wild hogs where they are considered domestic livestock. Wild hogs are legal game and may be taken only during specific seasons in most wildlife management areas. For more information concerning wild hogs as legal game, contact the nearest Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission regional office. -- Florida 2003-04 Hunting Handbook Northwest Region -- (850) 265-3677 North Central Region -- (386) 758-0525 Northeast Region -- (352) 732-1225 Southwest Region -- (863) 648-3203 South Region -- (561) 625-5122 Beds Another of the signs is without a doubt one of the most important. Bedding areas for wild hogs can be the single best place to locate, pattern and ambush your prey. Florida wild hogs are at their most vulnerable when they're near their place of respite. All a hunter has to do is find those spots.Bedding areas can be difficult to find. They are usually located in the thickest spot within the pigs' home range. The muddier the spot, the more it appeals to the rooter's sense of home. There needs to be enough water for the hogs to be able to create an ideal wallow. A few trees or a fence post for rubbing is another desired attribute. When looking for this sign, think of the one place in your area that you would prefer not to enter. Then check for trails leading into that site.Look for scat, tracks and even a little rooting along the way. If a couple of these signs are present, put on your boots and start trying to pinpoint where the animals sleep. But be careful, because if you spook them here you may ruin the hunt before it begins.Rubs Wild hogs rub on trees or fence posts to relieve the occasional itch associated with living in the woods. They usually select trees within a couple of yards of their travel routes or around bedding areas. These signs are easily identifiable, because there is usually be a dark area where mud and dirt has been transferred to the tree. If a large number of pigs are using the area, these rubs will be very dark and caked with mud and hair, and the tree may even be damaged.Pay special attention to this sign - it usually means that the hogs are relatively comfortable in this area. And that's important, because if hogs are comfortable, then they are also vulnerable.Droppings The next sign has many names: scat, dung, manure and several others not suitable for print. Anytime a hunter comes across a fresh sample of this hog sign, he had better scan the surroundings, perk up his ears and prepare for action. Although this hog sign is not as easy to find as a path or patch of rooting, it is one of the easiest to read. If it's fresh, you're in business. If not, you are probably a day late and hunting in the wrong area.Hog dung is a sign that runs hot and cold - literally! Fresh warm dung is an obvious indication that wild hogs are close, and chances are they have just eaten or are in the process of feeding.PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER Before we try to fit all of the pieces together, it's worth mentioning that this formula is designed for the average hunter who doesn't have weeks and weeks in the woods to pattern the pigs. The more time available to you, the more patterning can be done using the terrain, available food and cover. Remember, nothing beats spending time in the woods, and the more time you spend out there the more you learn about patterning the hogs in your area.Any time you pattern hogs, you are keying on two things - the hog's need for security and water when bedding down, and the need to travel from that area to feeding sites. Start your scouting by looking for areas that have water and thick cover. Wild hogs may travel through dry areas to feed, but they prefer to bed down in areas with water.Carefully check the entire area for signs such as hog trails, even very small patches of rooting, rubs, tracks and scat. If you find two or more of these signs, slow down and look carefully for the other indications. If hogs are present, most of these signs exist there. Use hog rooting, trails and scat to work your way back to the bedding areas.In areas with a lot of thick cover, you'll need to work harder. Investigate the areas of cover, but don't just charge right into their bedroom. If you've done your homework, the pigs may be lying only yards from where you are. Always assume they are there until you have proven otherwise.Particularly, don't stand around upwind from the area in which you think the pigs might be hiding. Get downwind and carefully work your way into the cover.Once you're convinced the odds are good, back out and begin looking for places to put up a stand. For evening hunts, place your stand just inside of the cover. Make sure you're not so far in as to obstruct your view of the open areas. It's better to move just outside the cover if your line of sight is obstructed.Plan to get to your stand at least three hours before dark. At some point before nightfall, your quarry should begin to stir. You are likely to hear them moving from the thick cover to the trails before eyeing them.For early morning hunts, it's a good idea to place a stand a little further inside the cover. The pigs often return from feeding in the cover of darkness, and they usually are nearly home by the time it's light enough to shoot. Once they make it to cover, they may relax and even feed a little more just outside of their bedding area. Tree stands placed in cover near bedding areas give you the best opportunity to catch them during this time.This formula also works for still-hunting hogs on the ground. Will Carter frequently takes hunters right up into wild hog bedding areas to bag their porkers. A stealthy approach and constant awareness of wind direction are mandatory for this technique.Now that we've covered the basics of reading signs, it's time to get out there and start scouting. Remember as you scout that hog sign can be very tricky. Don't key in on just one aspect. Use all of the available clues and interpret the signs properly, and by the end of the hunt you can be heading home with dinner rather than the disappointment of another fruitless day in the woods. Discover even more in our monthly magazine, and have it delivered to your door! Subscribe to Florida Game & Fish


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Cheese in the marketplace could apparently be bought wrapped in fresh leaves. And in the boxes at the opera house, there were curtains made of netting. Aside from these and a few other comparably cogent details of life in late-18th-century France, Milos Forman's ''Valmont'' contributes virtually nothing to the body of information surrounding ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses,'' the stunningly malevolent, ingeniously multi-faceted novel upon which one hit play and one much better recent film have already been based.
The appearance of Mr. Forman's film, which is to Stephen Frears's 1988 ''Dangerous Liaisons'' roughly what Lana Turner's ''Gone With the Wind'' screen test was to Vivien Leigh's, inevitably raises certain questions. Why, when it was apparent that two very similar interpretations of the same material were headed for the screen, did no one change course? Does the appearance of two elaborate film versions of this story really indicate, as Mr. Forman says in production notes for ''Valmont,'' something healthy about the film industry? And would ''Valmont'' have looked like the stronger of the two if it had had the advantage of appearing first? That last answer, at least, is very clear: No. Bad timing is the least of this film's problems.
''Valmont'' is so much broader and busier than ''Dangerous Liaisons,'' what with Mr. Forman's penchant for introducing jugglers and musicians and muddy, carousing peasants whenever possible, that from afar it looks like the bigger of the two films. In fact, it's much less far-reaching than ''Dangerous Liaisons,'' because the story's bite has virtually disappeared. The arch, brittle bitchiness of this drama's jaded aristocrats, with their delight in plotting amorous intrigues as if they were military campaigns, is remarkably absent here, and so is the sexiness that gives the story's many seductions their sting. When one character in Mr. Forman's film complains of amorous exhaustion, it's impossible to believe he's talking of anything libidinous. He might just as well be tired from lighting all the candles on the set.
The empty clutter of ''Valmont'' and the occasional taste for oafish humor - those who enjoy eye-popping and jaw-dropping will not be disappointed - recall Mr. Forman's ''Amadeus,'' and so does the casting. Mr. Forman, who put Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham in that film and Treat Williams in ''Hair,'' isn't apt to choose subtly appealing actors when more demonstrative types will do. So a number of the performances here compare less than favorably with those of ''Dangerous Liaisons,'' particularly that of Annette Bening as Mme. de Merteuil, the sexual strategist played with such wicked intensity by Glenn Close. Ms. Bening's smoothly overripe delivery of every line exemplifies this film's troubling habits of trivializing its characters and playing to the bleacher seats.
The senior actresses in the cast, Sian Phillips as the scheming mother Mme. de Volanges and Fabia Drake as the title character's sharp-eyed aunt, have a quiet dignity that the film otherwise lacks. And Meg Tilly, passionately earnest as the virtuous wife played earlier by Michelle Pfeiffer, is gently touching at times. But Jean-Claude Carriere's screenplay rips the foundation from the story by dispensing with the young wife's religious piety, the quality that made her so tempting a target for the jaded seducer of the title. Valmont himself, played here by Colin Firth as a tamer and more reasonable figure than John Malkovich's electrifyingly impudent sexual predator, is so much milder than the women of the story that the film's title sounds like a mistake.
For every necessary touch that ''Valmont'' has reduced or dispensed with (the climactic duel scene, for instance), there is another, less vital moment that has been expanded. Where ''Dangerous Liaisons'' began with the news that the convent girl Cecile (Uma Thurman) had returned to her mother, ''Valmont'' actually shows Cecile (Fairuza Balk) being released. The cumulative effect of this padding is a troubling lack of focus, in a film that risks being badly overcomplicated anyhow. The editing that weaves the story's many strands together is much too conspicuously abrupt.
Also notable in the cast, though not necessarily for the right reasons, are Ms. Balk, who makes the virginal Cecile as irritatingly wide-eyed as Ms. Thurman made her alluring, and Henry Thomas, the young star of ''E. T.,'' as the innocent young man who is Cecile's suitor. Mr. Thomas, now a handsome teen-ager with the same serious, trusting expression he brought to that earlier role, tries dutifully to play a music teacher who's constantly tripping over his harp. What he also conveys, perhaps unwittingly, is a lost, bewildered quality that is all too appropriate. Tame Rendezvous VALMONT, directed by Milos Forman; screenplay by Jean-Claude Carriere, freely adapted from the Choderlos de Laclos novel ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses''; director of photography, Miroslav Ondricek; edited by Alan Heim and Nena Danevic; music by Christopher Palmer; production designer, Pierre Guffroy; released by Orion Pictures Corporation. Running time: 134 minutes. This film is rated R. Valmont ... Colin Firth Mme. de Merteuil ... Annette Bening Mme. Tourvel ... Meg Tilly Cecile ... Fairuza Balk Mme. de Volanges ... Sian Phillips Mme. de Rosemonde ... Fabia Drake Gercourt ... Jeffrey Jones Danceny ... Henry Thomas Baron ... T. P. McKenna


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post8308626106215351379..comments2019-09-09T17:41:49.705-05:00Comments on From the Bead Board : 2017 3rd Annual Bead Peeps Swap N Hop Reveals!!Linda A.http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-52541130676809309762019-09-09T17:41:49.705-05:002019-09-09T17:41:49.705-05:00Jika anda ingin mainkan permainan Judi Dragon &...Jika anda ingin mainkan permainan Judi Dragon & Tiger dengan lebih mudah dan mendapatkan keuntungan banyak segera dicoba menggunakan Bobol Server Judi Dragon & Tiger.

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Info JituEdihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-47613178294797895092017-06-16T10:54:46.209-05:002017-06-16T10:54:46.209-05:00These look so cute!These look so cute!Indie Beadshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-50110073397794112152017-04-17T02:31:46.528-05:002017-04-17T02:31:46.528-05:00The bird on the clasp is adorable, the colors are ...The bird on the clasp is adorable, the colors are beautiful and the fox is sweetfreebird7100https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-42078604489819144402017-04-11T18:02:34.708-05:002017-04-11T18:02:34.708-05:00I LOVE that bird twisted on the clasp! It looks so...I LOVE that bird twisted on the clasp! It looks so perfect! Rachel Mallishttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-6903209543547891182017-04-09T22:28:40.907-05:002017-04-09T22:28:40.907-05:00Everything you created is just so cute! That neck...Everything you created is just so cute! That necklace with the bird toggle is absolute perfection. You're the best Linda, thanks for hosting yet another fab Swap N' Hop. *hugs*Dry Gulchhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-73816448444648641252017-04-09T14:49:47.134-05:002017-04-09T14:49:47.134-05:00Very pretty pieces. Thanks for hosting such a fun ...Very pretty pieces. Thanks for hosting such a fun exchange and hop!Maria Rosa Sharrowhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-47150497130000688122017-04-09T14:39:56.260-05:002017-04-09T14:39:56.260-05:00Lovely work! Even though you said you don't w...Lovely work! Even though you said you don't work with orange much, I love what you did with the fox pendant.Karinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-73184936131116384412017-04-09T10:25:22.774-05:002017-04-09T10:25:22.774-05:00Your jewelry designs are constantly evolving! All ...Your jewelry designs are constantly evolving!
All of your Swap n Hop Jewelry is unified by color & style.
Just 😍 the Fox "Twist" Necklaces too!❤
Thank You So Much for Having this Fun Swap n Hop!BeaderGalhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-58699525252548204222017-04-09T10:21:34.479-05:002017-04-09T10:21:34.479-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.BeaderGalhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-33190877046185327942017-04-09T04:56:37.728-05:002017-04-09T04:56:37.728-05:00As always your creations are wonderful!! I love th...As always your creations are wonderful!! I love them all, but that first necklace is very unique and FUN!! I would LOVE to wear that!! :) THank you again for hosting this amazing SWAP...we get to meet new people, be inspired to create and add to our dreams with everyone elses creations!! THANK YOU!!! Can't wait for next year!! ~KM Krafty Maxhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-48802293048781053062017-04-08T21:24:03.940-05:002017-04-08T21:24:03.940-05:00I love the vibrant colors. The orange is LOVELY.I love the vibrant colors. The orange is LOVELY.Kristinahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-67034852887521327872017-04-08T18:06:15.369-05:002017-04-08T18:06:15.369-05:00What a lovely set. The fox stole my heart though. ...What a lovely set. The fox stole my heart though. Thank you for putting this together for us. I look forward to it all year.Ginger B.https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-53434123600775093082017-04-08T14:44:49.554-05:002017-04-08T14:44:49.554-05:00The challenge to give your best is what I like mos...The challenge to give your best is what I like most about the swaps! For me, the necklace to bracelet convertible piece is just about that - not only did you try a new technique but also came up with a unique piece of jewelry and made a clasp look like a focal! Of, course, I love all the pieces - they are bold, asymmetrical and will never go unnoticed!bairozanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-34452752906835646762017-04-08T14:21:22.058-05:002017-04-08T14:21:22.058-05:00Lovely pieces.Lovely pieces.Robin Showstackhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-3977728611411542102017-04-08T13:19:29.359-05:002017-04-08T13:19:29.359-05:00Love your pieces, Linda! The Fox necklace looks li...Love your pieces, Linda! The Fox necklace looks like a sunny day in the forest ( I need one of those squirrels ), the Ruffle earrings are fun and totally you, the asymetrical necklace with the birdie is clever and fun and Omg that multistrand bracelet! I really enjoyed being partnered up with you 😊ChristinaMarieHhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-29568800342766281802017-04-08T10:00:36.072-05:002017-04-08T10:00:36.072-05:00Amazonite is a favorite of mine so I love your set...Amazonite is a favorite of mine so I love your set. The bird on the clasp is very creative. Kudos to you for using something new. I'm not an orange person either but your fox is adorable. Thank you for hosting this fun hop.Becky Pancakehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-79280550291382150452017-04-08T09:17:44.868-05:002017-04-08T09:17:44.868-05:00Thank you for doing the blog hop. It was lots of f...Thank you for doing the blog hop. It was lots of fun.
I like your pieces a lot. My favorite is the bracelet. It looks like something I would wear a lot.Ingehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-46231060949037408312017-04-08T08:32:33.846-05:002017-04-08T08:32:33.846-05:00Oh, you made some beauties for sure!! That necklac...Oh, you made some beauties for sure!! That necklace SCREAMS spring! It had a lot to do with the colors you were sent, but your use of them is awesome. The number of techniques included in that one necklace is inspiring. As well, the fox necklace is absolutely adorable. I don't wear much orange myself, but would have to with that!
Thanks for all your hard work on the hop. I hope you enjoy the fruits of your labor.CraftyHopehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-5203667463985272432017-04-08T07:09:46.308-05:002017-04-08T07:09:46.308-05:00Thank you so much for all of the work that you put...Thank you so much for all of the work that you put into hosting this hop. It's always so much fun.

Being a big fan of orange AND foxes I am utterly, utterly in love with Mr Foxy necklace. It's an absolute beauty. And such beautiful touches on your swap pieces - the birdy nested in the class is genius. Sigh! Such gorgeousness!Nelly Mayhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-80364210759900440552017-04-08T06:48:31.964-05:002017-04-08T06:48:31.964-05:00I adore the fox necklace. The design, the colors, ...I adore the fox necklace. The design, the colors, I love it all!
Thanks you for all of the work that you did to make this blog hop possible. You are the best!Kathy Lindemerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-23994904661102556032017-04-08T04:05:36.000-05:002017-04-08T04:05:36.000-05:00Wonderful pieces Linda. Love the birds nest clasp ...Wonderful pieces Linda. Love the birds nest clasp necklace and pretty bracelet. The fox necklace works really well, the focal really is adorable.
Thank you for hosting now I'm off hopping.sam Waghornhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-49949699491547553052017-04-08T02:19:51.659-05:002017-04-08T02:19:51.659-05:00I love how you used the bird with the clasp so tha...I love how you used the bird with the clasp so that it looks like a bird's nest. The fox necklace looks great with the yummy orange beads. Thank you Linda for hosting this hop. I am looking forward to seeing everybody's workDivya Nhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6880277733564929910.post-62398558864707229142017-04-08T01:23:11.176-05:002017-04-08T01:23:11.176-05:00Delightful pieces Linda! I love them all! Thank yo...Delightful pieces Linda! I love them all! Thank you for being our hostess...I always look forward to the Swap N Hop and this year is no exception. Can't wait to see what everyone else creates! Kari Asburyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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John C. Reilly is one of the most versatile actors working today, with an impressive range of roles in dramas, comedies, musicals and foreign films. Born in Chicago, he first appeared on movie screens in 1989's CASUALTIES OF WAR; director Brian De Palma beefed up what was initially a smaller part when he saw what the actor could do. Reilly has served as a secret weapon for many filmmakers in the years since, including Robert Altman, Terrence Malick, Roman Polanski and Wolfgang Petersen. He's a particular favorite of Paul Thomas Anderson, who cast the actor in pivotal roles in HARD EIGHT, BOOGIE NIGHTS and MAGNOLIA.
Reilly's presence seems to elevate whatever ensemble he's a part of. It's no accident that in 2002 he appeared in three Best Picture nominees: Martin Scorsese's GANGS OF NEW YORK, Stephen Daldry's THE HOURS and the eventual winner, Rob Marshall's musical CHICAGO, in which Reilly himself earned an Oscar nomination (playing Renée Zellweger's overly loyal husband). While frequently seen in supporting parts, indies including WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and TERRI show the actor holding a greater share of the screen with a down-to-earth humanity that lingers long in the memory. Reilly's many theater credits include True West, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, and A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway.
As acclaimed as his dramatic work is, Reilly also excels at lighter fare. He's costarred with Will Farrell in comedies TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY, STEP BROTHERS and the upcoming HOLMES & WATSON; in next year's Laurel & Hardy biopic STAN & OLLIE, Steve Coogan is his duet partner. He voiced the title character in the animated feature WRECK IT RALPH (and in its sequel, the upcoming RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET) and was the voice of Eddie in SING. His lead performance in music-biopic parody WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY earned Golden Globe and Grammy nominations - and led to Reilly performing in character as Cox during a 2007 concert tour. He also can be seen on TV as the clueless public-access guru of Cartoon Network's "Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule."
As if he wasn't busy enough, Reilly also dons a producer's hat for the new THE SISTERS BROTHERS. Along with his wife and producing partner, Alison Dickey, he'd brought Patrick deWitt's popular Western novel to director Jacques Audiard in 2012 and quickly struck up a partnership. The dark Western stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reilly as siblings Charlie and Eli Sisters, paid assassins in the Pacific Northwest of 1851. As much an examination of inescapable family bonds as a gunslinging adventure, the film's strong early reviews position it as yet another triumph in the life of Reilly.
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