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Family Background
Emma Grace Frost was born to a Boston mercantile family, which arrived from England in the 1600's. The second of three daughters, Emma also had an older brother, named Christian Frost, who had turned to substance abuse as an escape from the drudgery of his life and the abuse of his father. Unknown to their family or themselves, the three Frost sisters were mutants, whose telepathic abilities matured upon reaching their puberty. Deemed unfit in her father's eyes, Emma produced low grade point averages and was a social outcast while attending the Snow Valley School for Girls. As a result of her emerging powers, Emma also began to experience severe migraines.[14]
After the emergence of her powers, Emma used them to excel in all aspects of her life. Due to a crush that Emma had on a teacher of hers, Ian Kendall, Emma decided on a future in teaching, much to her father's disapproval. Being seen kissing Mr. Kendall in front of the Frost estate, Emma's father blackmailed her to give up her idea of teaching. After her brother's homosexuality was revealed to the family, her father Winston Frost began to alienate Christian, resulting in his further drug abuse and attempted suicide. When it came time for their father to choose a worthy heir to the family fortune, Christian was automatically dismissed due to his drug problem and because he was gay. While the older sister, Adrienne Frost, seemed the most obvious choice, their father chose Emma. At the same time, Christian was sent to a mental institution, and Emma refused to be her father's heir, choosing to make her own way through life instead.[15]
Emma began to work minimum wage jobs and stayed at a hotel. After attempting to use her telepathy to pay for the meal with a newspaper instead of money, Emma was eventually caught and made to wash dishes, where she met Troy Killkelly, with whom she developed a relationship and eventually moved in with. Unfortunately, Troy owed money and Emma used her telepathy at a casino to erase their financial problems, but the loan shark insisted that they owed more, for interest. Troy suggested that they pretend to kidnap Emma and have Winston pay a ransom, but Winston refused, stating that his daughter was already dead to him. After Troy was killed, Emma absorbed all of the shark's knowledge of business through her telepathy. After her sister Adrienne took Emma's kidnapping video to the news, Winston was forced to pay the ransom. However, Emma freed herself using her abilities, took the money, and moved to New York.[16]
Later, Emma found herself in a mental institution, the Essex Clinic, where she was drugged and kidnapped by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto took her to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, to use Cerebro and kill all humans, while bringing together all mutants. Beast created a device that shut-off access to the cosmic rays of the Evolutionaries and accidentally killed two of them. When Cyclops vowed to protect mutantkind, the remaining Evolutionary reluctantly left, but not before erasing the memory of their presence from the minds of the X-Men and Brotherhood and vowing to return one day. After the Evolutionaries returned Emma to the clinic, her head was clear and the drugs were out of her system.[17]
Emma dyed her hair blonde and enrolled into Empire State University, where she was reunited with Mr. Kendall. While attending class, Emma met her first fellow telepath, Astrid Bloom, and Astrid began to train Emma in the use of her abilities. After learning that Mr. Kendall was dating her roommate, Christine McDermott, Emma confessed her love for him and he pursued a relationship with Emma. Christine threatened to expose Mr. Kendall's relationship with students if he did not leave Emma, but Astrid influenced him to choke her. Upon learning the truth, Emma telepathically fought and defeated Astrid, absorbing her knowledge of telepathy, and saved Mr. Kendall's job, revealing her mutant powers to him. Despite having saved his job, Mr. Kendall left Emma in disgust upon learning that she was a mutant. [18]
These events led Emma to view humans as being beneath mutants and she began believing that there was no reason to practice restraint in using her powers. Emma inherited a good deal of wealth, but most of her large fortune was the result of her business successes. Emma rose rapidly through the world of business, thanks to her intelligence, drive, personal charm, and her secret use of her psionic abilities. Also, at some point, the Dark Beast met Emma and helped her rise to wealth and power.[19]
Frost International
Emma eventually became the majority stockholder of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, which was renamed Frost International after herself. Despite her youth, Emma became a chairperson of the board of Frost International and its chief executive officer. Frost International was principally involved in transportation (both the building of ships and aircraft and their use for freight and passenger transport) and electronics. Emma also became chairperson of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Academy, a college preparatory school for grades seven through twelve located in the Berkshire Mountains in Snow Valley, Massachusetts. Frost served as the academy's headmistress and spent a great deal of her time there.[20]
White Queen of the Hellfire Club
Emma's beauty and talents brought her an invitation to join the Hellfire Club, an elite social organization of the world's wealthy and powerful figures, as a stripper. As a dancer/stripper at the Hellfire Club, Frost was approached by Professor Charles Xavier and Dr. Moira MacTaggart to join a new team of X-Men.[9] When Emma refused, Professor X erased her memory of the encounter, against Vulcan's judgment that Professor Xavier should have forcibly changed her mind.[21] Frost became an ally of Sebastian Shaw, who was a member of the Club's Council of the Chosen, a group which secretly conspired to achieve world domination through economic and political means. Like Frost, Shaw was a mutant.[22]
The Leaders of the Club and Council, its foremost Lords Cardinal, were the White King, Edward Buckman, and the White Queen, Paris Seville. The Lords Cardinal were given titles corresponding to the names of chess pieces. Buckman threw the Council's support behind Project Armageddon, which was the scientist Steven Lang's program to build Sentinel robots and have them hunt down mutants. Knowing Shaw was, himself, a mutant, Buckman told him that the Project was intended to capture mutants for use by the council in seeking power. However, Frost, through her psionic powers, learned that the project was actually intended as a means of destroying all mutants. After Shaw chose Emma over two other women and brutally murdered them in front of her, their union was official. Together, Shaw and Frost staged a coup that gave them control of the Council of the Chosen, which they renamed the Inner Circle. Shaw took the title of Black King and Frost became the new White Queen. [23][24]
Under Shaw and Frost, the Inner Circle was dominated by mutants. Frost recruited young mutants and trained them in the use of their powers at her school so that they might use those powers on the Inner Circle's behalf. Most of these mutant students were members of a team called the Hellions.[20]
Frost again encountered the X-Men when she attempted to recruit young mutant Kitty Pryde for her school. The Hellfire Club had hired the mercenary, Warhawk, to battle the X-Men, while leaving a device that enabled the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club to monitor the activities of Cerebro, a mutant-detecting machine Professor X built.[25] Professor Xavier and Frost would each approach Pryde and her parents as the heads of private schools seeking to recruit her as a talented student. Neither Professor Xavier nor Emma intended to reveal to Kitty's parents that their daughter was a mutant. Emma left after making her pitch to Carmen and Theresa Pryde, noting that whilst Carmen was in favor of her school, Theresa wasn't. As Emma was leaving Professor Xavier arrived accompanied by Storm, Wolverine and Colossus. While Kitty and the X-Men were at a malt shop, Frost ordered their capture and, while Kitty got away, Frost took the captured X-Men to Frost International. After Kitty phoned the rest of the X-Men, Emma was defeated by the X-Men and Dazzler, another mutant the Hellfire Club was attempting to acquire.[26]
Later, Kitty's parents reconsidered allowing her to join Xavier's School and enrolled her in the Massachusetts Academy. Emma used that opportunity to switch bodies with Storm, who had driven Kitty there, while Shaw attacked the X-Men with a new type of Sentinels. After using Emma's telepathy, Storm was able to gain her body back and the X-Men destroyed the Sentinels.[8]
Later, while attempting to give Shaw an important message, Frost collapsed into a catatonic schizophrenia and remained in a coma, due to Mastermind. Emma awoke from her coma and invited Doug Ramsey to her school, bringing her back into contact with Kitty. After capturing Kitty and Doug, Emma was unaware that Kitty and Magik shared a rapport, and the New Mutants came to their rescue. After having the New Mutants battle the Hellions, Kitty caused enough chaos for Magik to teleport them all away.
Later, when Shaw was in search for a new person for the title of the White King, he threw a party to which he invited the most influential men in the world and tried to decide who was most fit for this position. Rejecting the candidacy of Tony Stark, he chose Prince Namor of Atlantis, and invited him to join the Club. But Namor contemptuously rejected the proposal, saying that if Sebastian ever again dared to waste his time with such a minor thing, he would kill him. This drove Shaw into a frenzy, so he ordered Emma to force Namor to join the Club, no matter what the cost. A few days later, she acted out a suicide by jumping overboard from a yacht to attract Namor's attention. He rescued her and they spent two weeks together in Atlantis. Shaw, however, tired of waiting for news from Emma, and thinking that Namor had killed or captured her, decided to send the Sentinels to her. Sentinels attacked Namor and Emma and caused damage to Atlantis, and Namor took this as a declaration of war. Finding out where the Sentinels came from, Namor, along with Emma, went there and clashed with Shaw, Pierce and Selene. Selene mind-wiped Emma to erase the memories of her betrayal and make her loyal to the Club again. Surrounded by two telepaths, Shaw explained to Namor that he would never get close enough to kill him. Namor left, but vowed to take revenge one day.[27]
Emma continued to have problems with Empath, her best and most reckless student, and gained a leader for her Hellions in Thunderbird, a powerful Native American mutant who blamed Professor Xavier for the death of his brother. [28][29]
During the second Secret War, Emma was along the super-villains summoned by Mephisto to battle the Beyonder.
While battling with the virtually omnipotent Beyonder, the New Mutants were killed, then removed from existence by the Beyonder and subsequently recreated by him. In being recreated, the New Mutants somehow lost much of the proficiency in using their superhuman powers that they had learned at Professor Xavier's school and became detached. Emma took advantage of this opportunity and sent her astral form to speak with the new headmaster, Magneto, and offered her services with rehabilitating the children. Emma also had Empath effect Magneto's emotions of fears, insecurities, paranoia, and temperament, until he transferred all of the New Mutants, except Mirage and Warlock, to the Massachusetts Academy. The New Mutants, with the exception of Magik, adjusted surprisingly well and Emma made a lot of progress in their mental therapy. Upon realizing the manipulation, Magneto raced to rescue the children and Emma placed an anonymous call to the Avengers. After the New Mutants left to rescue Magneto, Emma and Magneto worked together to cure the children of their trauma at the hands of the Beyonder and they returned to Professor Xavier's school. Emma later met with Magneto, as Shaw had offered him a position in the Inner Circle. [30][31]
After the New Mutant, Magma, received a letter from her father, stating that she had learned enough from the outside world and it was time to return home and marry, she fantasized about life among the Hellions, at the Massachusetts Academy again. After hearing of an animal creature that was being mistreated after capture, Emma allowed the Hellions to participate in a contest with the New Mutants to abduct Bird Brain, where Magma and Empath revealed their mutual attraction to each other, and, after returning home victorious, Magma decided to return to the Massachusetts Academy. While picking-up Magma, Emma suggested to Magneto that Magma was better suited for the Massachusetts Academy and possibly some of her students were better accustomed to Xavier's School. While living with the Hellions, Magma was ordered by her father to return home, to her arranged marriage, and Emma suggested she comply. Emma also ordered Empath to accompany Magma.[29][32]
After sensing the psychic distress of a mutant Moloid, Val-Or, Emma received a message from Empath, stating that Magma had been kidnapped. After arguing with Magma's father, Emma contacted the Hellfire Club and Magneto. Emma, Magneto, and the Inner Circle left to rescue Magma, unaware that the New Mutants had already rescued her. Later, Emma contacted Magneto about a coming danger and the recklessness of his students, suggesting that he accompany her to the Hellfire Club. During the meeting, Shaw berated Magneto for his students' rash acts and Emma came to his defense. The Inner Circle battled a rain of demons that descended upon Manhattan from a portal in Times Square. After the portal was closed, the Inner Circle was approached by the demon N'astirh, who offered a truce with the Hellfire Club and proposed that if they would allow him Manhattan, he would give them the rest of the world.[33]
Returning to Xavier's School, the Inner Circle and Magneto arrived just in time to save the New Mutants from the Marauder Sabretooth, who explained that Mr. Sinister had destroyed the mansion. A battle between the Inner Circle and the New Mutants began, until Magneto trapped all of the New Mutants in a metal ball. Shaw accused Magneto of having lost all of the control the Hellfire Club petitioned his membership for, and the two battled. After he defeated Shaw, Shaw stated to the other Inner Circle members that if Magneto stayed, then he would not, and Emma stated that his funding of the Sentinels inadvertently created Nimrod and killed Harry Leland and Friedrich von Roehm, weakening the Hellfire Club, and so Shaw was voted out of the Inner Circle.[34]
Later, the X-Men joined with the Hellions in order to protect the White Queen from a time-traveling attacker known as Trevor Fitzroy, but not before Fitzroy's brutal assault plunged Frost into a deep coma and brought about the untimely demise of the majority of the Hellions. Frost's consciousness was apparently still active on the material plane and her body was kept in the Med-lab at the X-Men's mansion. [35]
Generation X
Seeking to ensure the welfare of her students and the future of the school, Frost with some foresight willed the care of the Academy to Professor Charles Xavier. It was during her psychic incapacitation that the Massachusetts Academy was legally added to the rapidly expanding Xavier Institute. While in the Med-lab an accident caused Emma Frost to possess the body of the X-Man Iceman, and likewise, his mind was transferred into her body. Emma believed herself to be a prisoner of the X-Men and tried to escape, using Iceman's powers in ways even he had never imagined. When she discovered the fate of her Hellions, she broke down. She began to realize that her training had been insufficient and that Xavier's may have been the right approach. [36]
Emma Frost returned to her own body and when she fully recovered she resumed her role as headmistress of the Academy. Together with Banshee, they trained the new class of mutants, Generation X. [37][38]
During a battle with Post, Iceman received a massive chest wound so severe that he dared not to transform back to flesh, fearing that he would die. Bobby demanded to know how Emma would use his powers to repair such damage, but Emma refused to help him. She knew that Bobby would have to do it himself, so she confronted him with his own innermost insecurities in the forms of ex-girlfriend and lover, Opal, and his father until Bobby realized that he himself had been holding back all this time. He managed to transform back with his chest fully intact.[39]
The Massachusetts Academy closed its doors following a bold revenge plan by Adrienne Frost that ended in Synch's death and Emma murdering her sister. Emma began teaching in Genosha, and became one of a handful of survivors of the Sentinel massacre there due to her Secondary Mutation, the ability to transform her body into unbreakable diamond.[40]
Joining the X-Men
Emma once again returned to the Xavier Institute to teach. She immediately took the quintuplet psychic sisters, the Stepford Cuckoos, under her wing. While most resented her presence at school, Emma struck up a friendship with Beast and developed an attraction for Cyclops. During a riot at the school by Quentin Quire and his Omega Gang, the Cuckoo Sophie died when using the drug Kick and Cerebra to subdue Quentin. Blaming Emma's emphasis on heroism for Sophie's death, the Cuckoos abandoned her. [41]
Meanwhile, with a void growing between Scott Summers and Jean Grey, Emma offered telepathic counseling that then grew into a psychic affair. The Cuckoos took out their anger toward Emma by tipping off Jean. When Jean discovered the two together on the astral plane she brutally tore through Emma's memories, forcing her to remember all the things she'd repressed in her past, including her failure to keep the Hellions alive. Breaking down, Emma admitted to Wolverine that her attraction towards Scott had grown into genuine love. [42]
Shortly after her affair with Cyclops had come to light, Emma was seemingly assassinated, shot with a bullet in her weak spot while in diamond form, causing her to shatter. Beast desperately began searching for her pieces in an effort to put her together, while Bishop and Sage were brought in to find the killer. Emma's former protege Esme was guilty, but she left the school to avoid punishment. Emma, in turn, was put back together and restored to life by Jean.
During an incident with Xorn, who took over Manhattan while posing as Magneto, both Jean and Esme were killed and the mansion was destroyed. After the events, Professor Xavier decided to leave the X-Men for some time on his own, and Emma attempted to convince Cyclops to re-build the school with her. Despite his intense feelings of guilt, Cyclops agreed, due to being prodded by Jean herself, who had ascended to the White Hot Room. [43]
After rebuilding and re-opening the school, Emma took the position as one of two co-headmasters of the school, alongside Cyclops, and also began tutoring a group of students, the Hellions Squad, as part of the new policy of breaking the students up into smaller teams. She also continued serving as an active X-Man, lending her services to several X-Men teams.
However, Emma continued to be distrusted by her fellow X-Men due to her villainous past, but now even more so due to the perception that she had "usurped" Jean's place in the group by becoming Cyclops' lover and co-headmistress. While some, such as Wolverine, Beast and Cyclops trusted her, others such as Kitty Pryde, Storm and Rachel Grey were initially dismissive and distrusting of her.
House of M
In the House of M reality, caused the reality warp by Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, Emma was married to Scott and the pair had three children. Here, she worked as a child psychologist. Also, notably, she was the first X-Man Wolverine contacted for help. She was the only other reawakened individual to side with Wolverine in the controversial opinion to kill the Scarlet Witch in order to return to the world to normal. Emma was among the relatively few mutants to retain her powers following M-Day. [44]
The New Hellfire Club
Emma's unusually antagonistic relationship with Kitty Pryde and domineering influence over Scott Summers were taken by some as possible evidence of her disloyalty. Her secretive relationship with the surviving Stepford Cuckoos was also presented as "evidence," and accusations were frequently made by others having reason to distrust her motives. The question of Emma's "true loyalties" were brought into focus as Emma abandoned the team during a fight to confer with a shadowy figure, revealed to be one of a group of four individuals watching from the shadows. The group contained Sebastian Shaw, Cassandra Nova, Negasonic Teenage Warhead (a girl who apparently died in Genosha), and a cloaked figure called Perfection, who discussed among themselves Emma's impending betrayal of the team.
In truth, Emma was being manipulated by Cassandra Nova. Moments before Emma had trapped Cassandra's consciousness inside the body of Stuff, Cassandra had implanted a mental suggestion into Emma's mind, creating a delusion wherein she believed that she had only joined the X-Men to free Cassandra. The "new Hellfire Club" were, in fact, no more than mental projections created by Emma.
Emma seemingly put her plan into action by telepathically taking out the X-Men. She forced Cyclops to confront a repressed memory, where he as a child had subconsciously chosen not to control his powers. This caused him to seemingly lose his powers, and go into a catatonic state. She dispatched Colossus and Kitty Pryde with mental projections of Sebastian Shaw and Negasonic respectively, and took care of Wolverine by reducing him to the state of a child, and Beast by turning him into an animal. Cassandra had manipulated Emma into bringing Kitty Pryde since Kitty was the only one able to free Cassandra from the impenetrable coffin where she had been trapped. Emma coerced Kitty to open the box by making her believe that she had a child, and that the child was the one trapped.
Cyclops had awoken from his catatonic state however, and deduced that Emma was being manipulated. Before the situation could be properly dealt with however, the team were captured by S.W.O.R.D.. S.W.O.R.D.'s resident telepath Sydren scanned Emma's mind and found no more traces of Cassandra's influence. During a subsequent mission on the Breakworld, Emma made up with Cyclops, who confessed that he had truly fallen in love with her as well, and also made peace with Kitty.[45]
Endsong and Warsong
When the Phoenix, forced to return to life prematurely, came to Earth in order to use Cyclops' powers to replenish itself, Emma and the X-Men tried to stop it. As part of a desperate plan, Emma convinced the Phoenix to possess her, briefly making her a host of the Phoenix Force. The resurrected Jean Grey forced the Phoenix to leave Emma, and the X-Men were able to diffuse the situation by projecting all the X-Men's feelings of love towards Jean directly into her mind, preventing her from losing control and becoming Dark Phoenix.[46]
After following the Stepford Cuckoos, including the resurrected Sophie and Esme, to The World, Emma Frost discovered that the Cuckoos and hundreds of others had been cloned from her eggs. [46]
Endangered Species & Messiah Complex
During the new Marauders' attack on the X-Men, Omega Sentinel was possessed by an entity known as Malice and attacked her. Later, when the new Acolytes team invaded the mansion for the books of Destiny, Shadowcat thought she had the books, but the books had no words, and Exodus realized that Emma Frost was responsible.[47]
San Francisco
Emma and Scott were called to San Francisco when Warren realized someone was telepathically making everyone think they were in the 1960's. It was actually Martinique tricking them.[48] The X-Men and any remaining mutants came to San Francisco, where the mayor had offered them refuge, ignoring the Fifty State Initiative. Emma called every "X-Man" (any powered and depowered mutants, friends or foes) in the world using her telepathy, to ask them to rally in SF.[49]
Things got complicated as Magneto was working with the High Evolutionary and a Hellfire Cult run by Empath.
Emma felt that something was wrong with Scott and looked into his mind. She found that his psycho-geography had formed itself as topsy-turny hotel, filled with projection of every woman Scott cast a furtive glance upon. She managed to locate the source, a mysterious black box that Scott claimed was a place for secrets -- not relationship secrets but tactical secrets that could result in death.[50]
Manifest Destiny
Frost expressed doubts about whether or not she deserved to be an X-Man, only to have veteran X-Man Wolverine assure her that she had earned her place on the team.[51]
X-Men: Legacy
Later, when Xavier attempted to warn Cyclops about his recent encounter with Sinister, Frost managed to enter the Professor's mind undetected. During the course of their encounter, Frost forced Xavier to relive each of his mistakes and morally ambiguous decisions made under altruistic pretenses. It was also revealed that while Frost was just as angry with Xavier as Cyclops was, she also wanted to help him move on with his life. Frost pointed the Professor in a new direction by forcing him to relive the death of Moira MacTaggert and reminding him of her last words.[52]
Secret Invasion
Emma fought the Skrulls in San Francisco during the invasion. There, the Skrulls set up a telepathy-blocking "wall" throughout the globe. Emma channeled the Cuckoos' telepathy into her own using Cerebra in an attempt to locate the source of the psi-blockade but was left comatose. The Cuckoos told Cyclops that Emma was dead, unaware that Emma's telepathic mind was continuing to battle the psychic team of Skrulls. Setting a series of traps through misdirection, Emma managed to break free and shut down the psi-blockade.[53]
Dark Reign
After Norman Osborn was appointed as the USA's top cop, he immediately convened a group of supposedly like-minded individuals (later dubbed the Cabal) to consolidate his grip on power. Emma joined the group consisting of Norman, Namor, Doctor Doom, Loki and the Hood as part of Scott's master plan.[54]
As Emma and Namor met again, finally restoring her memories about their first meeting and Shaw's betrayal, she offered Namor a deal: she would help him kill Shaw, and in response he would protect and defend mutants as his own people. Namor agreed, so Emma telepathically called Shaw to the Club's mansion. When he arrived she blinded and immobilized him in illusion, and at the same time showed Namor another illusion, in which she kills Sebastian. After convincing Namor that Shaw was dead and enlisting his support for mutants, Emma took Sebastian to the Graymalkin Industries and locked him in the Brig for crimes against mutantkind.[27]
Dark X-Men & SF Riots
Following a series of pro versus anti-mutant protests and riots instigated by Simon Trask in San Francisco, Emma was tasked by Norman Osborn to lead a civil peacekeeping group of X-Men, one sanctioned by himself. She was given a black costume and was given command over Wolverine's son Daken, Weapon Omega, Mimic, and the duo of Cloak and Dagger. Emma brought a final element to the team, Namor, with whom she had previously shared a romantic relationship with prior to her time with the X-Men. Though not an official member of her team, a person appearing to be none other than Prof. Xavier served as the team's spokesman and moral backup. Emma easily saw through the ploy and the "professor" was revealed to be Mystique, who was working with Osborn only because they had injected explosive nanobots into her bloodstream.[7]
Emma's first mission with the team occurred when she arrested a group of mutant vandals led by her own formerly favorite student, Hellion. Even at that early stage, tensions already arose, particularly when Daken almost perpetrated a lethal attack on one of the other mutant rioters. Emma prevented any fatalities, and the prisoners were brought in. [55]
While more tensions rose between the Avengers and the new X-Men team, enhanced by the aggression of Daken and Hawkeye, Emma put emphasis on the fact that she would only continue to be a party to this strategy of Osborn's if all the mutants were treated humanely. She insisted on touring the facility to see how the prisoners were being treated. She was then contacted, weekly, by Professor X, who informed her that he and Hank were being kept prisoner there. He also told her that the Omega Chair developed by the Dark Beast had horrible side effects, and that Osborn wasn't telling her everything. Emma then discovered that the presence of Hank and Professor X was being kept secret from her using hologram projectors. Remaining in her diamond form for protection, and unable to speak telepathically, she verbally reassured the Professor that she believed him, and that she would make sure everything would be all right.[56]
Over the next several days, she then took her team of X-Men around San Francisco, not only stopping Trask and his human-conversion bio sentinels, but also clearing up the residual riots and rounding up the remaining mutants from the streets. Her motives came into greater doubt when she and Namor stood idly by when they witnessed the Dark Beast using his Omega Machine to torture and power drain the captives, while Cloak and Dagger could barely look on.[57]
However, Emma's true motivations and interests behind her recent actions were revealed when, after another session draining Henry McCoy with the machine, Dark Beast and Weapon Omega discovered that all the mutant captives had disappeared. They discover that Mindee Cuckoo had allowed herself to get arrested just so she could lead the rest of the X-Men there. Teleporting in and out via Magik's portals, X-Force freed the prisoners. After raising the alarm, Emma led Osborn's X-Men to stop X-Force, then surprised everyone by betraying her own team. Daken and Mimic were taken down in the process, and Emma took Cloak, Dagger and Namor with her and X-Force to rejoined the rest of the mutants. Emma then rejoined Scott with the rest of the mutant community and their sympathizers on a mobile island/vessel, reminiscent of Magneto's Asteroid M, which had been dubbed Utopia. With his Cabal crippled due to the loss of two key members, an enraged Osborn ordered the Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men to bring him Namor's head and Frost's heart. However, the X-Men outnumbered Osborn's Avengers and X-Men, forcing them back. Emma personally freed Xavier. She then telepathically accessed the "white room" she had stored in the Sentry's mind, so that she could contain the Void while he made his escape. Unfortunately, the Void proved too strong for Emma and escaped, chasing after the Sentry. Worse, a small sliver of the Void was trapped in her forehead, forcing Emma to remain in diamond form so it wouldn't control her.[58]
Utopia & Nation X
Eventually, things came to the decision to remove the sliver from Emma, given that the X-Men needed a telepath in place of the Stepford Cuckoos, who were rendered unconscious when the Phoenix fragments escaped from their bodies. Cyclops attempted to go into her mind to extract the sliver. Unfortunately, the Void changed tactics and attempted to take control of him. Luckily, Cyclops was able to seal the Void within his black box.[59]
Frost, Sebastian Shaw and Donald Pierce were targeted by Selene for betraying her years ago in her plan to ascend to godhood. Additionally, Selene was also angry over Frost using the Black Queen moniker when she was leading the Dark X-Men. She resurrected the Hellions and sent them to attack and taunt Frost.[60] Their appearance was enough to leave Frost in a horrified state of shock and guilt. Once Selene's inner circle appeared on Utopia Frost recognized Blink and stopped Wolverine from killing Wither.
However, in the aftermath Selene's inner circle succeeded in capturing Warpath, injuring Angel and ruthlessly killing Onyxx and Diamond Lil before returning to Necrosha. Frost recognized that the threat would not end until Selene and her inner circle were permanently stopped, and ordered X-Force to travel to Necrosha and kill them all, including Wither.[61]
Second Coming
After the return of Hope, Emma took Sebastian Shaw to China and wiped his memories.[62]
Fear Itself
During the events of Fear Itself, San Francisco was strangely spared for a time. Namor tried to seduce Emma once more but she refused him; however, Namor taunted her about her romantic relationship with Cyclops, saying that "he married the redhead". This allowed the Serpent's worldwide fear effect into Emma's mind, heightening her insecurities. She was nearly compelled to kill Hope, who was hospitalized after fighting the Serpent's agent Juggernaut, but Namor snapped Emma out of her trance. [63]
Schism & Regenesis
After the super-sentinel attack on Utopia, Emma considered going with Wolverine to the school in order to pursue her love of teaching. Cyclops begged her to stay however and she relented. She then joined the Extinction Team. On their first big mission against a resurrected Mister Sinister she lost her arm in diamond form, forcing her to stay that way until it was reattached. [53]
Avengers vs. X-Men
Emma Frost sided with her fellow X-Men against the Avengers. She took Hope away deeper into Utopia to keep her safe and joined the fight, which began when Cyclops blasted Captain America with his optic power. During the battle, Emma's telepathic abilities were blocked by a nanocloud created by Iron Man, forcing her to rely on her diamond form. After the Avengers appeared to have won the battle of Utopia when Cyclops surrendered, this was in fact a ruse allowing Cyclops, Emma and several other mutants to escape and begin the search for Hope, who had left Utopia after defeating the Lights, Wolverine and Spider-Man.[64]
Next, Emma and Cyclops went to the Jean Grey School in order to recruit people to their side in the battle. A brief fight broke out between Cyclops's Extinction Team and Wolverine's X-Men.[65] After Wolverine was approached by Hope and betrayed her location to Captain America, Emma used her telepathy to find out where Hope was; and together with Colossus, Namor, Magik and Cyclops, she journeyed to the Moon in order to stop the Avengers from getting her. Before a battle could break out, the two teams were interrupted by Thor who fell from the skies badly injured. He was swiftly followed by the Phoenix.[66]
A fight broke out between the X-Men and the Avengers, as the Phoenix was making Hope into its new host; while Iron Man built a weapon to fight the Phoenix. Iron Man attacked the Phoenix but instead of destroying it, the Phoenix turned Emma, Cyclops, Magik, Colossus and Namor into avatars. Cyclops and the rest of the avatars took Hope back to Earth in order to prepare her.[67]
The Phoenix five destroyed almost all Sentinels on Earth, Emma went to the Avengers Academy to destroy Juston Seyfert's Sentinel even if its programming preventing it from hurting mutants. After seeing that Juston saw the Sentinel as a friend the other members of the Academy tried to help him only to be defeated by the incredible power of Phoenix. Once Emma destroyed the Sentinel and left the place Pietro revealed that he saved the control unit, so they could rebuilt it. [68][69]
Emma and her fellow Phoenixes began using their powers to make the world a better place by eliminating wars and providing water, food and energy to the entire world for free. The Avengers continued to oppose them however and kidnapped Hope, causing Cyclops to declare "No more Avengers".[70] The Phoenixes fought the Avengers whenever they showed up and captured many of their number. Cyclops insisted on not using lethal force however. Emma found out the Avengers were hiding in Wakanda and told this to her fellow Phoenix Namor, but neglected to mention it to anyone else. Namor stormed Wakanda,[71] but was narrowly defeated by the Avengers.[72]
After receiving Namor's portion of the Phoenix, Emma's power increased and she found out where the Avengers had taken Hope. The increased power also became more than she could handle and she began worrying over what she would do next. With her increased telepathic powers, she was able to know the secrets of everyone in the world and began losing control of herself by killing people who had harmed mutants (like a pilot who accidentally killed a young mutant and neglected to report it). When Colossus and Magik fought each other and knocked each other out, their portions of the Phoenix went to Emma and Cyclops.[73] Emma began exerting her dominance over the X-Men, threatening those that had thoughts that displeased her. Magneto attempted to reason with her but Emma refused to listen and threatened him. After being defeated by Hope, Cyclops realized that he needed more power and traveled to Utopia to find Emma.[74]
Cyclops could not find himself to take the Phoenix from Emma, despite the fact that she taunted him. She tried to tempt him to burn the entire world and start again from nothing, but Cyclops refused her. Their conversation was interrupted when they were attacked by the combined might of the Avengers and the X-Men. Professor X used his telepathy to try and shut them down long enough for the Avengers and X-Men to take them down. Cyclops finally gave in and brutally took Emma's portion of the Phoenix, becoming the sole wielder of the Phoenix Force. After Xavier tried to shut him down again, Scott killed him and completely lost control of himself, becoming the Dark Phoenix.[75]
Emma's later seen in custody of New Avengers members Luke Cage, Mockingbird, Daredevil and the Thing in San Francisco. There she was targeted by Purifiers, who were defeated during their assassination attempt.[76]
Mutant Revolution
Shortly after, Emma was freed by Cyclops and Magneto as she was being transferred to what could be assumed a Mutant Prison after a prison break gone horribly wrong where both Cyclops and Magneto lost control of their powers, causing extreme damage. While she was grateful for the spring, she was still furious at Cyclops and wanted to get as far away from him as she could, even revealing that she could no longer read people's minds, and that anyone touched by the Phoenix had their powers altered in some way. After a moment of deliberation, and the fact more police were on their way, Emma agreed to join with Scott and Magneto once more and along with Magik, began searching for new mutants.[77]
Emma was present during several of Cyclops' skirmishes in freeing several Mutants from their human captors, but was not present for the meeting with the original five X-Men, displaced in time, and was displeased to hear of Jean Grey once more among the living and running around in their time. [78]
During a mission to San Diego, Emma, along with the rest of her team, donned new outfits, sporting a completely black wardrobe this time around in the same vein as her teammates. She poked fun at Magneto being unable to control metal like he use to when battling the Sentinels, but was rescued by Cyclops during a counterattack. She was also in utter shock at seeing what level of destruction the alterations to his powers created in its wake.[79]
Emma later accused Tony Stark in being responsible for the Phoenix Five's birth,[80] convinced Scott to go along with Magneto's double agent status, recruited time-displaced Angel and the Stepford Cuckoos,[81] combat the forces of Limbo,[82] and assist in teaching David Bond how to control his powers.[83] When Irma Cuckoo dyed her hair, she supported her daughter's desire to be different in contrast to Celeste.[82]
Her telepathic powers later returned through unknown means shortly before Cyclops disbanded his school.[84]
The Terrigen Crisis
When Emma Frost and the X-Men received a distress call from Muir Island, they discovered one of the two clouds formed by the Terrigen Mist released into the atmosphere by the Inhuman king Black Bolt was toxic to mutants, since it had swept over the island and killed everyone there. While investigating the facility, Cyclops was almost instantaneously affected by the mists and died. Struck by grief, Emma resolved to give Cyclops a much more fitting death, and created a mental projection of him. Using this mental projection she put together a plot to destroy the Terrigen clouds. She was successful in destroying one of them, but was confronted by the Inhumans. As part of her plan to turn Cyclops into a martyr, Emma had the mental projection confront Black Bolt, and "die" by his hand. Storm managed to negotiate a truce with the Inhumans, allowing Emma to keep her life and freedom, and the X-Men gave Cyclops a hero's burial. Emma kept the secret of Cyclops' death to herself, only telling Havok, who had refused to believe that his brother would choose to die under such circumstances.[85]
When the X-Men discovered the remaining Terrigen Cloud was weeks from reaching a saturation point, which would've caused it to become assimilated with the atmosphere and render the Earth uninhabitable for mutants, Emma Frost incited the X-Men to take action wage war against the Inhumans to keep them occupied until they could destroy the cloud.[86] Despite the X-Men's initial hostility, the Inhuman queen Medusa agreed to destroy the Terrigen Cloud after learning what was at stake. Even though the X-Men had achieved their goal, Emma tried to continue riling them up since she blamed them for Scott's death. When the truth of Cyclops' death came to light, Emma unveiled a series of Sentinels she had constructed specifically to target Inhumans, prompting both factions to join forces against her. Emma was eventually defeated, but Havok stepped in to save her and teleported away with her, revealing that saving her is what he felt he owed Cyclops.[87]
New Tian and Mothervine
In preparation for his conquest of the United States, an evil doppelganger of Steve Rogers that had impersonated the real Captain America decided to neutralize possible mutant interference by granting them a sovereign land in the western United States, with the only condition being that no mutant would be able to step foot on America.[88] He appointed Emma Frost as the ruler of the mutant nation, New Tian, though she telepathically controlled Shen Xorn to use him as a puppet ruler which allowed her to rule the country from behind the scenes.[89]
During the final days of Hydra's rule, Captain America invaded Wakanda in the search for one of the many Cosmic Cube fragments randomly scattered throughout the world. Since one of these fragments had fallen in her hands, Emma approached Steve with it in an attempt to appease Hydra. However, Rogers rebuffed her once he obtained the shard. With any pretense of peace shattered, the mutants entered the final battle against Hydra in Washington, D.C..[90] Following the liberation of the United States, the territory of New Tian was taken back by the country.[91]
During the country's brief existence, New Tian was used as an experimental ground for the Mothervine virus in preparation for the further plans of a cabal formed by Emma, Havok, Miss Sinister and Bastion. Emma's most loyal subjects were granted enhancements to their abilities using Mothervine, giving Miss Sinister enough raw material to test her findings before taking Mothervine to a global level.[92] A global release of Mothervine would've quadrupled the number of mutants almost instantaneously, and would've made mutantkind the dominant species in less than a year.[93]
By the time that Mothervine's release had reached global levels and several bombs were launched towards major cities, Emma learned that people affected by it could have their will subjugated. When Magneto's X-Men were captured by Miss Sinister after a failed assault against the cabal,[94] Emma Frost finally turned against her. In the meantime, Magneto had enlisted Elixir's help to purge Mothervine from its impact zones. Emma Frost and the freed X-Men confronted Havok and Bastion and defeated them. Emma also helped Polaris tap into Havok's psyche to reverse the effects of an inversion spell cast during the World War Hate that had inverted his personality. Following the destruction of Mothervine at its source, Emma even contacted Magneto in an attempt to come to an understanding and put their differences in the past to no avail.[95]
House of X
Emma Frost was tasked by Charles Xavier and Magneto to oversee the international trade relations of Krakoa. As both the White Queen of the Hellfire Corporation and a chief ambassador of Krakoa, Xavier gave Emma two seats on the Quiet Council, Krakoa's first governing body, in return for exporting the Krakoan miracle drugs to the rest of the world. Frost also got a third seat on the Council for the Black King Sebastian Shaw, in order to ensure he'd handle all the external conflicts in the nation.[96] Emma became an inhabitant of Krakoa, living with other mutants on new the sovereign nation.
In a flashback, she appeared in court with two of the Stepford Cuckoos at Sabretooth's trial to order his release into their custody. The humans argued that he was a monster, but Emma noted that he was their monster and he wouldn't be judged by humans. While diplomatic, she was not above threatening the humans and warning them that she could easily kill them with a thought. Fearful of Emma's wrath, the humans allowed Emma and her two Cuckoos to take him back. Emma left with a warning that things were different and the humans better learn to get used to it.[4]
Emma was later seen amongst the other Quiet Council members at the assembly's initial gathering. Their first order of business was two pronged: draft the basic tenets of the new mutant society and pass judgment on mutant career criminal and psychopath Sabretooth. After the Council agreed upon the tenet that no mutant would be allowed to take a human life, Creed threatened all present with death, believing they would make an example of him via execution. Emma and Jean Grey used their telepathy to harshly silence his threats, leaving Creed a drooling mess. While deliberating further over additional tenets, Emma touched on the "broader economic concerns" of their endeavour, albeit as an issue with "complications" and likely not settled that day. [97] After drafting three official basic tenets for the fledgling nation, the Council found Creed unanimously (and vehemently in Emma's point of view) beyond redemption and sentenced him to "stasis... deep inside Krakoa. Alive but immobile... aware but unable to act on it..." The Council adjourned following the verdict, joining the rest of the island nation in celebrating its new freedom. Emma and Jean seemed to finally bury the proverbial hatchet over their rivalry, sharing a couple of beers provided by Jean and Cyclops. [97]
Powers and Abilities
|Power Grid [124]
|Energy Projection*
|Fighting Skills
|* Heightened strength, durability; Lower energy projection in diamond form
Emma Frost possesses telepathic abilities of a similar caliber to those of Charles Xavier, over which she had an extremely refined level of skill. Frost has been cited as a "World-class telepath",[98] "Omega Class Telepath"[7][99][100] Additionally, she has also been referred among the five telepaths on the planet capable of perfectly and seamlessly altering a mind,[101] has demonstrated the ability to stalemate Exodus[102], and overcome telepaths, such as Nate Grey,[103] Kid Omega, and Rachel Summers, through greater power, experience, and skill.[104]
When Wolverine thought to be protected from her thanks to Level 9 Psi-Shields created by Charles Xavier, she stated she was herself Level 10.[105] Her abilities have been stated to rival that of Charles Xavier himself, this statement only proven in her telepathic defeat of Professor Xavier.[106]
Telepathy: Since her introduction, Frost has displayed the telepathic standards of broadcasting and receiving thoughts, mind-control, altering perceptions and memories, projection of offensive blasts of psionic energy causing mental pain or unconsciousness, astral projection, mind switching, brain engram modification, mental sedation of unconscious victims, induction of mental pain by touch and limited psychometry.
- Psionic Shield: The ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and other minds she is immune or highly resistant to any/all mental intrusion, including psychic or empathic powers, hypnosis, illusions, deception, etc. Mind readers only "hear" static, while mind controllers are incapable of manipulating her or those she shielded.
- Psionic Shields Removal: When Wolverine thought to be protected from her thanks to Level 9 Psi-Shields created by Charles Xavier, she stated she was herself Level 10 and could easily take them down, though their removal might leave Wolverine as the equivalent of a three-year-old child.[105]
- Telepathic and Mind Cloaking: The ability to telepathically mask her presence and the use of her abilities from being detected by other mutants and psychic entities. These defenses can be extended to others around them as well. Cloaking via telepathy is not perfect and powerful telepathic mutants may notice and 'see' through this ability. Also including the ability to rearrange the mental engrams of mutants so her distinctive mutant thought patterns cannot be detected by Cerebro-type devises or by other telepaths.
- Telepathic Illusions: The ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
- Telepathic Camouflage: The ability to alter the apparent physical appearance of oneself and others by altering the perceptions of those around them. This can go so far as to make other people believe that the camouflaged people are not there (invisible). The only limit to this ability, if one exists, is only imposed by the number of people a telepath is trying to fool, not the number of people a telepath is actually camouflaging.
- Absorb Information: The ability to quickly process and store information, by mental transference.
- Download Information: The ability to place large amounts of information in another's mind.
- Astral Projection: The ability to project one's astral form from their body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the physical plane one can travel in astral form over vast distances.
- Power Inhibition: The ability to place "psychic inhibitors" in the minds of mutant adversaries to prevent them from using their powers.
- Pain Inducement: The ability to induce mental pain merely by touching the brow of the victim.
- Trauma Healing: The ability to erase a person's memories and to heal mental trauma through "psychic surgery", the power to stimulate or deaden the pain and pleasure centers in a person's brain.
- Intuitive Multilingualism: The ability to intuitively translate and understand any language.
- Mind Blast:The ability to place large amounts of information into the minds of others
- Mind Control: The ability to control the thoughts and actions of others.
- Mind Link: The ability to develop a mental link with any person, which remains as a connection to that individual long after the link itself is broken.
- Mind Possession: The ability to possess the mind of another, and use that being's body, and any powers it may possess, as one's own.
- Mental Paralysis: The ability to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
- Mental Sedation: The ability to telepathically "sedate" one's victims so that, if already rendered unconscious, they remain so for as long as a telepath continues to "sedate" them.
- Mind Alteration: The ability to alter the minds of others by force of will, changing their personality partially or entirely.
- Mental Amnesia: The ability to cause loss of particular memories or total amnesia in another person or group of people.
- Mind Transferral: The ability to transfer both the mind and powers of the user into other host bodies should their own physical body somehow be killed.
- Neural Jumpstart: The ability to increase the speed of neural signals in the brain, allowing her to increase another mutant's powers to incredible levels, but the effect is only temporary.
- Mental Detection: The ability to sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small but as yet undefined radius of oneself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.
- Telepathic Tracking: Enhanced psionic senses enable a telepath to track other sentient beings by their unique psionic emanations (thought patterns contained in the psionic portion of the spectrum), especially if they pose a threat to one's well-being in their immediate vicinity.
- Limited Psychometry: It is said that Emma possesses a form a psychometric powers, but she has yet to show them as they still could be a growth of her powerful telepathic abilities.
- Psionic Blasts: Can project psionic force bolts or blast waves which can do damage on either a physical or mental level and which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.
- Psionic Lightning: Channeling the ambient psionic energy in the air through a target having a physical effect. Used once against Monet St. Croix, knocking her out. Similar to psychokinesis.
Telekinesis: Emma was also stated to be a potential telekinetic. Emma unintentionally levitated some utensils while facing a nightmare.[107]
- Telekinetic Blast: Power to emit blasts of telekinetic energy.
- Force Field: The ability to project powerful fields of manipulated energy.
Organic Diamond Form: As a result of undergoing a body-wide Secondary Mutation[40] installed by Cassandra Nova,[109] Frost possesses the ability to transform her body into a flexible organic diamond form. In many ways, this is similar to Colossus' organic steel form. She must transform all parts of her body, rather than selectively transforming certain areas and can remain in this form for an undetermined amount of time. If she is rendered unconscious, Frost's body will automatically transform into its normal state. This transformation also alters Frost's personality, causing her to become rather cold-hearted and to lose her empathy for others. Emma does not have access to her telepathy while in her diamond form,[108] although she could during her first time after her Secondary Mutation.[40]
- Superhuman Strength: In her diamond form, Frost's physical strength is increased to superhuman levels. At her peak, she is able to lift approximately 2 tons.
- Superhuman Stamina: While transformed, Frost's muscle tissue becomes infinitely more efficient than the organic musculature of normal humans, or most other organic beings for that matter. Her muscles produce almost no fatigue toxins during physical activity, granting her almost limitless superhuman stamina, or at least until or unless she is forced to resume her normal state.
- Superhuman Durability: Frost's diamond form renders her highly resistant to most forms of physical injury. She is able to resist great impact forces, such as being repeatedly struck with superhuman force, without being injured. She has withstood being zapped by Young Cyclops' optic blast [110] ,blows from Hulk when he was on a rampage, and blasts from the Living Celestial. Despite the living celestial's blast breaking her arm off, this showed an incredibly powerful upper limit to Emma's powers, as a Juggernaut powered Colossus was hit by the same blast and was sent flying across the city with a hole through his chest. Her body is also resistant to temperature extremes, able to withstand temperatures as cold as -320 degrees Fahrenheit or as hot as approximately 7,362 degrees Fahrenheit before her form begins to melt. Frost is also self sustained while transformed, requiring no food, water or oxygen.
- Psychic Immunity: Emma has shown to be immune to other telepathic powers in her diamond form, but in turn, she is unable to use her own telepathic powers until she turns back.
Expert Technician: Emma Frost is highly skilled in electronic theory and electronics and has learned how to build devices that can amplify psionic energy and utilize psionic energy for various effects. She devised the mechanism by which Mastermind projected his illusions directly into the mind of the Phoenix Force.
Defense Training: Emma Frost is an above average athlete and has had some training in hand-to-hand combat. During a training session in which Emma did not have access to her powers, Banshee attempted to make an example of her. Emma quickly, efficiently, and easily dispatched Banshee, much to his embarrassment.[111]
Master Astral Combatant: Emma Frost is trained and excels in astral combat.
- While in her diamond form, Frost is unable to access her telepathic abilities.
- Alcoholic: After killing her sister, she became an alcoholic.[112]
The White Queen has designed a gun-like device, which she once used to exchange minds for a period of time with Storm.
- Emma once spent an extended amount of time in control of Iceman's body and used his powers in ways he never had before.[114]
- In a flashback story told by Frost herself,[115] she detailed a time she spent in a mental institution after being sent there by her parents. However, her early years were elsewhere depicted differently, and seem to refute this. She told this story so the young mutants could feel sympathetic to her. What happened to her brother served as an inspiration to her story.[116]
- The Emma Frost Vol 1 was planned to cover her life from high school until her first appearance as the White Queen, however, it was canceled at issue #18.
- Her brother Christian was the first person who told her white was her color when commenting on a dress she was wearing to a high school dance.[116]
- Emma's known lovers have consisted of: Prince Namor,[27][71] Tony Stark,[117] The Black King[9] and Cyclops.[118][119]
- Emma actually briefly died during the Skrull Invasion of San Francisco. She attempted to take down the Skrulls' Mind-Wall, and her mind was completely separated from her body for several minutes. The Stepford Cuckoos were able to keep her body going until she was able to destroy the Mind-Wall and return to her body.[120]
- Emma was shown wearing glasses in New X-Men #131.
- Emma has admitted to having plastic surgery.[121][122]
Links and References
- 983 Appearances of Emma Frost (Earth-616)
- 66 Minor Appearances of Emma Frost (Earth-616)
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- 1,061 Images featuring Emma Frost (Earth-616)
- 102 Quotations by or about Emma Frost (Earth-616)
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- Emma Frost (Earth-616) on Wikipedia.org
- uncannyxmen.net Spotlight On... White Queen
- White Queen feature on X-Peoples Central
- IGN Votes for Hottest Comic Book Babe - Winner: Emma Frost
- Emma Frost Files.com
Discover and Discuss
- Search this site for: Emma Frost (Earth-616)
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 4 #1
- ↑ Emma Frost #4
- ↑ New X-Men: Hellions #4
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 House of X #3
- ↑ Astonishing X-Men Vol 3 #16
- ↑ X-Men Phoenix Endsong #4
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Uncanny X-Men #513
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Uncanny X-Men #151-152
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 X-Men Origins: Emma Frost #1
- ↑ X-Men: Black - Emma Frost #1
- ↑ X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2
- ↑ Black Panther Vol 4 #22
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 #19
- ↑ Emma Frost #2
- ↑ Emma Frost #6
- ↑ Emma Frost #11
- ↑ X-Men Vol 3 #14-15
- ↑ Emma Frost #18
- ↑ Generation X #-1
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 New Mutants #16
- ↑ X-Men: Deadly Genesis #5
- ↑ Classic X-Men #7
- ↑ Classic X-Men #6-7
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #531
- ↑ X-Men #110
- ↑ X-Men #129-131
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Uncanny X-Men Annual Vol 2 #2
- ↑ New Mutants #43
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 New Mutants #54-55
- ↑ New Mutants #39-40
- ↑ New Mutants #50
- ↑ New Mutants #62
- ↑ New Mutants #72-73
- ↑ New Mutants #75
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #281
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #314
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #316-318
- ↑ X-Men Vol 2 #36-38
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #331
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 New X-Men #116
- ↑ New X-Men #135-138
- ↑ New X-Men #138-139
- ↑ New X-Men #154
- ↑ House of M #8
- ↑ Astonishing X-Men Vol 3 #13-18
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 X-Men Phoenix Endsong #4-5
- ↑ X-Men Vol 2 #201-203
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #495-499
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #500
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #504
- ↑ X-Men: Manifest Destiny #2
- ↑ X-Men: Legacy #215-216
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 Secret Invasion: X-Men #1-3
- ↑ Secret Invasion #8
- ↑ Dark Avengers #7
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #514
- ↑ Dark Avengers #8
- ↑ Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Exodus #1
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #515-518
- ↑ X-Necrosha #1
- ↑ X-Force Vol 3 #21-22
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #530-532
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #540-543
- ↑ Avengers vs. X-Men #2
- ↑ Avengers vs. X-Men #3
- ↑ Avengers vs. X-Men #4
- ↑ Avengers vs. X-Men #5
- ↑ 68.0 68.1 Avengers Academy #32
- ↑ Avengers Academy #33
- ↑ Avengers vs. X-Men #6
- ↑ 71.0 71.1 Avengers vs. X-Men #7
- ↑ Avengers vs. X-Men #8
- ↑ Avengers vs. X-Men #9
- ↑ Avengers vs. X-Men #10
- ↑ Avengers vs. X-Men #11
- ↑ New Avengers Vol 2 #30
- ↑ 77.0 77.1 All-New X-Men #3
- ↑ All-New X-Men #4
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #1
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #3
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #4
- ↑ 82.0 82.1 Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #6
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #14
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #32
- ↑ Death of X #4
- ↑ Captain America: Steve Rogers #17
- ↑ Secret Empire: United #1
- ↑ Secret Empire #9
- ↑ Secret Empire Omega #1
- ↑ X-Men: Blue #9
- ↑ X-Men: Blue #23
- ↑ X-Men: Blue #27
- ↑ X-Men: Blue #28
- ↑ Powers of X #5
- ↑ 97.0 97.1 House of X #6
- ↑ X-Treme X-Men #22
- ↑ Emmafrostfile.com internet page of Marvel.com interview of Matt Fraction
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #518
- ↑ X-Men Vol 2 #202
- ↑ X-Men Vol 2 #207
- ↑ X-Man #50
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 #30
- ↑ 105.0 105.1 Wolverine Vol 3 #46
- ↑ X-Men: Legacy #216
- ↑ Generation X #18-19
- ↑ 108.0 108.1 Uncanny X-Men #534
- ↑ Astonishing X-Men Vol 3 #13
- ↑ Generation X #43
- ↑ Marvel Fact Files #8
- ↑ Wolverine and the X-Men #36
- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #313
- ↑ Generation X #24
- ↑ 116.0 116.1 Emma Frost #1
- ↑ Civil War #3
- ↑ New X-Men #138
- ↑ Astonishing X-Men #1
- ↑ Secret Invasion: X-Men #3
- ↑ New X-Men #139
- ↑ Astonishing X-Men Vol 3 #1
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #4
- ↑ X-Men: Earth's Mutant Heroes #1
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Mr Hornby was the brother of Olive Hornby. Moaning Myrtle showed up uninvited at his wedding because she was haunting Olive, his sister, and apparently made a scene to remind Olive of the bullying she put up with when she was still alive. It was so big of a mess that Olive had to get help from the Ministry of Magic in getting rid of the ghost.[1]
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On Google, YouTube, HTML5, Adobe, and Flash
Last night Google blogged about how they were experimenting with offering some videos on YouTube that support the HTML5 video tag and the H.264 codec, and that work in Chrome and Safari. This is part of TestTube, where YouTube's engineers test out different products without rolling them into the main YouTube experience. YouTube and Flash obviously have a deep relationship. It was Flash that helped YouTube become one of the most visited sites on the Internet, and YouTube has helped increase penetration of newer versions of Flash Player by rolling out features, like H.264 support, that required the newer Flash Player versions.
There is always an undercurrent questioning if Flash is "going away" when it comes to HTML5. But I think YouTube is actually the perfect example of Flash and HTML working together. The same day Google blogged about the TestTube project, YouTube also rolled out a new rental service for some of the Sundance Film Festival videos, which is powered by Flash. And I think that shows the relationship that Flash and services like YouTube have in helping drive the web forward.
Video on the web isn't just about watching a clip any more. There are ways to monetize it, either with advertising or by adding ways to protect content that lets people watch something after they pay. There are accessibility issues that need to be addressed like closed-captioning support. What about being able to consume video on mobile devices that don't support the HTML5 video tag? These are all areas that Flash has found solutions to, which has helped the growth of video on the web and provided a reference for the HTML5 groups to see what works. And while there may be some arguments over the use of the H.264 codec, having Flash add support for that codec meant that companies like Google could roll out a Flash version and an HTML5 version without having to re-encode video. Flash has made possible many of the features in HTML5 by showing how good the experience can be. And Flash will continue to innovate and provide solutions to challenges on the web before those solutions can be standardized. It will remain the best way to provide cutting-edge technology to 98% of people online.
Open standards are incredibly important to the future of the web. Adobe continues to work hard to contribute to that movement and balance that with the need for our customers and developers to be able to create next-generation content that runs the same way on every operating system and device. If Flash wasn't providing value to people, it wouldn't be on 98% of the world's computers and we wouldn't see penetration for new versions reach 80% within 6 months of release.
So congrats to YouTube on the HTML5 video work. This is good for HTML and I think there will be a lot of Adobe, Flash, and HTML5 collaboration moving forward. Flash has an important role to play by providing innovative ideas and solutions for an increasingly multi-screen and multi-platform world.


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Last week I had the opportunity to attend a lunch-and-learn offering made by Globus Family Brands. If you haven't heard of Globus they are comprised of four unique and truly incredible products. Globus is fully escorted tours both in the US and abroad. Monograms is independent (non-escorted) world wide travel. Cosmos is value escorted vacations in Europe and US. Then, there is Avalon Waterways which is what I wanted to tell you about today. I will write other articles going into the other brands but today I want to focus on the exceptional quality and experience of Avalon. I'm very, very excited to be able to bring you such incredible adventures.
Avalon Waterways is river cruising at its best. They offer river cruises in Europe, Asia, Egypt and the Galapagos Islands. Each itinerary is incredibly well thought out and offers unique experiences. Doesn't this look like something you want to do?
There are several differences in cruising the large ocean going ships and the smaller more intimate river cruising ships. One, of course, is the size. On a river cruise, instead of being aboard with 5,000 or so other passengers as you would be on an ocean cruise, you are more likely to have a mere 130 to 160 passengers.
For those who don't feel comfortable with being in the middle of the ocean, river cruising could be an excellent option. You will have land on both sides of you throughout the trip and never leave sight of land at all.
These cruises are all-inclusive. Yep, all-inclusive! Some of the included features that you must pay extra for on a large ocean liner are: shore excursions, pre or post-night hotels (included on many of the cruises), dining options and 5 course welcome and farewell dinners, (wine, beer or soft drinks) with meals, specialty coffees 24 hr., wi-fi access, outside cabins, 80% open air balconies, destination guidebook and cruise documents. The inclusions are just part of what makes this company such an outstanding choice for cruising.
With Avalon each stop along the way is an opportunity for a shore excursion into ports that the larger ships cannot reach. Imagine starting your voyage in Amsterdam then stopping at several scheduled excursions in Germany and ending up in Paris by high speed train. What about a cruise along the Nile in Africa or the Yangtze in Asia? These cruises are more like guided tours than anything you will experience on the typical ocean voyage.
Speaking of tours, each destination has a tour guide who knows the area intimately and will show you around and acquaint you with the locality. On each excursion, you have a headset to listen to the guide. This is really nice because you can be up to 100 feet away and still hear them. Ladies, this means you can shop along the way or browse things on your own and still learn everything you wanted to learn! Now, it doesn't get much better than this.
I could go on and on about Avalon and all the things they offer. This is truly a wonderful opportunity to combine the experience of cruising with luxury and sightseeing all on the same vacation. I am just tickled to be able to share it with you. I'm thinking that I can knock "Paris in the Spring" off my bucket list by taking one of these fabulous cruises!!
I'm happy to announce that we now have our new Avalon website set up where you can browse all the offerings they have, information regarding their fleet and itineraries, as well as request quotes and rates. Check it out here. If you have any questions or need any information, please let me know. I'll be happy to help you. Also, if you have taken an Avalon Waterways cruise, I would love to hear all about it.
Happy Travels,
Edwina Parker


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Looking at Switch, Mini NES & Nintendo's console history
So here we are again – excited about Nintendo consoles. First, we've got the new Classic Mini NES arriving on 11th November, with 30 brilliant games in a tiny and affordable package.
And let's not forget the Nintendo Switch announcement from 20th October.
The Nintendo Switch is the home-handheld hybrid that many people guessed it would be, and it looks smart. Rumours are of a 720p multi-touch screen, with 1080p graphics on the TV when you slot Switch into its dock.
So while it's no PS4 Pro/Xbox One Scorpio beater, that new 3D Mario clip from the trailer certainly looked good.
But wait – we've been here before. Plenty of people were excited for Wii U, but only around 13 million people worldwide decided to buy one. That meant game shortages for players and an early grave for the console.
With that in mind, how cautious should we be about Classic Mini NES and Switch?
When we look back on the history of Nintendo consoles, will they continue the company's trend of declining system sales? Or will they pull off some Wii/DS-era magic, and suddenly be everywhere?
A short history of Nintendo home consoles
1983: NES (62 million consoles sold)
The original Nintendo Entertainment System was the console to own in the late 80s. It comfortably beat the Sega Master System in terms of popularity and games, despite having (IMO) worse graphics. NES was the start of Nintendo's worldwide gaming dominance.
1990: Super NES (49 million consoles sold)
SNES was another massively popular Nintendo system, with incredible games like Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, and the original Super Mario Kart. It sold fewer than NES but again it beat Sega's effort, the MegaDrive, by some margin.
1996: Nintendo 64 (33 million consoles sold)
The trend of declining sales continued with N64, which was thrashed by the original PlayStation. Many attribute this to Nintendo's decision to use expensive cartridges, instead of CDs that could hold way bigger games. N64 is still a beloved console, but Nintendo was no longer king.
2001: GameCube (22 million consoles sold)
GameCube was a powerful system, but it looked toy-like and its dinky DVDs weren't big enough for games like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It debuted a few Nintendo classics, but most gamers preferred PS3 or Xbox.
2006: Wii (102 million consoles sold)
Then Wii happened. It was much less powerful than PS3 or Xbox 360, but it captured the casual and family markets – just as, perhaps, Nintendo will attempt to with Switch. Suddenly Nintendo was back on top, even though plenty of fans weren't happy.
2012: Wii U (13 million consoles sold)
After the success of Wii's motion controls, Nintendo followed up with another unique concept: the touchscreen GamePad. Sadly, despite some great games, third-parties and most gamers just weren't interested.
So as you can see, Wii's 100-million-selling spike aside, Nintendo home consoles have been in decline for years.


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5000 hours for HA41PX-NT in Peru
5000 hours for HA41PX-NT in Peru
It's working as the first day.
In 2010 the Peruvian company Diesel Rivera acquired a Haulotte articulated boom, model HA41 PX-NT. After 5,000 hours of work, the machine is working at full capacity for the Peruvian company. This was the first machine that Rivera Diesel acquired for its rental fleet in 2010.
It has worked on numerous projects and for prestigious customers.
Rivera Diesel is the distributor for Haulotte Peru. The company has expanded its fleet of equipment in 2014, especially with big booms. Fitzgerald Cook, Director of Rivera Rental: "We are pleased to represent Haulotte Group and we work every day to generate more confidence, and we are also really pleased with this machine; we note that it is in continual use."
Regarding the penetration of Haulotte in Peru and the growing market, Mr Cook said: "Our customers are investing in the brand and the demand for these specialised machines from the Peruvian market is increasing Our competitors also have the Haulotte brand in their fleet, and we could say that today it is no longer a brand penetration process, but more consolidation of the brand, because in the minds of users, the brand is already known."
Haulotte Group understood the situation in Peru and its growing demand for aerial platforms.
The cooperation of Diesel Rivera and Haulotte, and the strategy implemented over the last 3 years have made it possible to be the leader in the local market.
"These significant results make Haulotte proud of what we have been able to achieve in such a short time. It is important to note that in the Peruvian market demand is increasing for AWP machines which are especially dedicated to high altitude and to the mining sector. This results in being able to succeed with a mixture of special products (telescopic and articulated RT) with over 26 m working height," says Carlos Hernandez , Head of Haulotte in LATAM .
2013 saw the start of the Perumin Exhibitions (Sept.2013) and the launch of the HT 23RTJ, which since then has been continually in demand. The new telescopic model is less than 26 m; however, Haulotte has also has a high demand for this specific height, which has been used in several mining sites with a great response from users. This new product could reach a record 5,000 hours in fewer years than the HA41PX-NT!
Haulotte has high expectations for this important country, knowing that Rivera Diesel is committed with Haulotte to achieve significant results.
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Good Ovening
200 Queen St, Melbourne CBD
I started a new job a few weeks ago; with a new job, naturally, comes new territory. I found myself based in a different pocket of Melbourne's CBD for this new role, and as a creature of habit, set out quickly to find somewhere to spend my lunch breaks with a pot of tea and a book or notepad and pen. I found Good Ovening.
This adorable little cafe is tucked into a nook on the corner of Queen and Little Bourke Streets, with an adorable astro turf and pastel lawn furniture set up outside, and a gorgeous, homely wooden table and 70's pleather seat situation inside. I'm a regular visitor now, enjoying several pots of tea (which are served with delicious, complimentary little scone/biscuit hybrids), but the other day curiosity finally got the better of me and I decided to have lunch here, too.


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"Marcelle" is seeing me for stopping smoking. We are doing a gradual cut-down plan, which is great for smokers who have a large emotional element to their smoking and therefore cannot stop in just one session. To do this, we do as much treatment as we can fit into each session and assess at the end how free Marcelle is, cutting down accordingly. This is a relatively easy and pain-free process.
We are carrying out the treatment using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and kinesiology-based muscle-testing and treatment. EFT involves stimulating the end-points of certain meridian energy lines whilst using releasing wording. Muscle-testing is based on kinesiology techniques, and is a fairly accurate diagnostic tool for determining the state of mind of the client. EFT is my method of choice for releasing the underlying emotions to the urge to smoke. The muscle-testing helps me determine how successful we have been in an objective way, so than we can then plan the next step forward. EFT gave Marcelle a great deal of calm in this session. Like any other healing modality, EFT sometimes results in a gentle release, and this time the release was with a few tears, but this soon went away, and Marcelle was left with feelings of peace and calm, and desire to move forward. She had seen how a relative had released with laughter when they attended their sessions, and so she knew she was safe and protected in her session. Although EFT can be self-applied, I find that tapping on clients whilst they are lying down comfortably is gentler for big traumas. And Marcelle had given me a big trauma behind her smoking urges. We approached this very gently, and in this session, I chose to only take the edges off it, so that Marcelle would be thoroughly comfortable with the process. But before we approached this trauma, we worked on a general fear and on an innocuous specific smoking issue. This was to help Marcelle ease into the treatment and feel happily confident about it. So, in this session, we made good headway with three emotional root causes:
1. The fear of stopping smoking.
2. Overeating, which was kept at bay with smoking.
3. Childhood trauma of physical and emotional abuse.
Marcelle reported a fear of stopping smoking of value 10 out of 10 before we started. So I started with "Even though there is this fear of stopping smoking…" and peppered it with statements that made it comical, like "Oh my God, what am I going to do" in a funny tone of voice, which also helped Marcelle feel more at ease. We then took a detour to tap on overeating. I started by tapping "Even if you didn't smoke, there is the fear of eating more, you can deeply accept yourself anyway". We tapped around on this theme, and then I asked her if she did not smoke, what would she most likely binge on? She said "Luxury". I asked her which luxury, to which she replied "Wholenut chocolate". This immediately implied a need for luxury, rewards, a treat, and feelings of deprivation. So we tapped on all those. And we tapped on "this Wholenut chocolate desire" too. The chocolate desire went from a 5 out of 10 to a 2 and ended at about zero. After that, the fear of stopping smoking was down to a 5 out of 10 – half its value just 20 minutes previously. Next we started working on the trauma. Marcelle had said that she was the black sheep of her family, always blamed for anything and given hidings. I asked her how upset she felt when I said "black sheep of the family", and she said 5. We tapped very gently on this statement and it went from a 5 out of 10 to a then a 1. We used gentle EFT with some inner child work, helping the young Marcelle feel good about herself, exonerating her from blame and taking her to a safe nice place. After that, the fear of stopping smoking was a 3, although we had not worked directly on it again. I explained that this was because the childhood trauma was a root cause of the smoking, and that by releasing it, we can move forward with ease. At the end of the session, we used muscle-testing to objectively determine how many cigarettes a day Marcelle can cut down to. This was 12 a day, 3 less than usual. I gave her a simple EFT tapping to do on the Karate chop as homework, and we set the next appointment.
Read on in this series of articles to see how Marcelle is doing. These are written as they happen, so that anyone who is looking for help can know that they are real, genuine treatments. Whether you are looking to stop smoking, or if you are a stop-smoking practitioner, I hope this article has given you useful ideas. And many thanks to my lovely client for permission to write about her case.
© Suzanne Zacharia 2011. My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is.
A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and I have outlived one doctor's prognosis by many years now.
I am now a complementary therapist, author of the Stop Smoking E-book at http://www.quit-smoking-ebook.com and trainer specializing in energy healing. Want to use this article? You can, as long as you credit me with it and invite your readers to get my FREE book "EFT How-To For You" at http://www.EFT-Scripts.com


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Get ready for this year's Perfect Pitch Concert cause this one's going to be bigger and better than ever! This March, 12 singers, carefully selected out of the top Berklee vocalists, will perform 12 original songs custom-written for each performer at the Berklee Performance Center.
A panel of industry professionals will judge the songs and performances and choose the best overall.
And as always it's completely FREE with your Berklee ID!


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"Over the next five years, we have a window of opportunity to radically change the trajectory of the epidemic and put an end to AIDS forever," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said this week at the opening of a global summit – held only once every five years – geared toward eradicating AIDS.
He's right—but you won't see that reflected in the summit's final report. It only mentions some of the populations most affected by HIV in a whisper, including men who have sex with men, transgender women, people who use drugs, and sex workers.
Yet these groups are some of the most at-risk for contracting HIV and AIDS. In the report's sole nod to them, it reminds us that sex workers are ten times more likely to acquire HIV than others, people who inject drugs are 24 times more likely, and transgender people are 49 times more likely.
Many of the barriers these populations face to HIV information, testing, treatment, and prevention are erected by governments. Laws that criminalize sex work and same-sex sexual behavior, for example, are not just discriminatory, but impact on public health, increasing HIV risk.
According to activists present during this week's meeting, representatives from Russia, Poland, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and the Holy See did as they have done previously and rejected mention of rights-based measures – such as repealing discriminatory laws – for LGBT people, sex workers, and people who use drugs. This time around, Indonesia joined the chorus—a disturbing reflection of that government's spate of executions for drug-related offenses, and government-driven anti-LGBT meltdown earlier this year.
The UN General Assembly president admitted that "cultural sensitivities" trumped scientific evidence during the meeting, called the High-Level Meeting to end AIDS. The UNAIDS executive director said anything linked to sexuality is "very complex" because it involves "confronting different societies, different opinions."
"Despite remarkable progress, if we do not act, there is a danger the epidemic will rebound," the secretary-general said in his opening remarks. This week's meeting was a missed opportunity for action, as the right to health, and indeed, the right to life lost ground to bigotry once again.


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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Theresa is zining!
Theresa wrote me in response to an off-line conversation. theresa writes that this Zine #1 is "The Miraculous Birth" One of the rectangles features a letter she has written to Simon Warren.
Junque and actual art from DK
It easy to see the art through the 'junque' Diane. I like the spelling of 'junque', it elevates the recycling to something exotic. I need to think about that for DK Suffolk, branding is everything!
Great to have a fragment of Dustin's envelope. I need to send him something. That felt book is pretty fantastic. I love the way Diane has cut the chiclets wrapper, if she did, 'ppermint' is a fabulous word and I let the VISPO wash over me! Appreciate the pastel green alliteration and emergent dyslexic writing. I recognise it. My son still writes that way. That pink list is a colour study in itself.
Congratulations to Riley and Brieanna for their enlightened posters! Definately art!
Credit card slip, possibly an early antique.
About the add and pass, I am all over it! I've been waiting.
Easter paper dyeing - not quite tie-dye but definately art. Still waiting for DK's paper tie-dye!
And the returned laminated trashpo - I am visually excited. i love the sounds 'ashioned, ashion s where' I believe it may be an early trash square, or rectangle, the foundations of the trash quilt, for sure!
Thank you Diane.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Vizma finds lost mail and it's for me!
Vizma's envelope is not only attractive, it is also instructive. Did you know that rats help their blind mates?
I sent visma a bit of plastic and a stamp motif postcard. In superb DKULT style, Vizma photocopied and shared these with me, and possibly others. I am honoured! Viz also added a carefully chosen initial to the stamps, 'G' for Guyver, G for 'go' ...
On the inside of the envelope I found the question, 'who's afraid of spiders?' I put my hand up. I am very afraid of spiders. I can co-exist with them, I can ignore the spider in the outdoor shower. But I am afraid of them! Figgy got a spider bite a few years ago and a welt grew and oozed and eventually we took her to the emergency room and they told it was a brown recluse bite. She took her antibiotics carefully. Spiders... EEK.
I love the lines,
'is becom-a disaster both
The whole thing reminds me of Madmen.
I am delighted about my trash-politzer!
Thank you Viz!
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Guido Vermeulen's Friour Editions 2013: Moon Faces 4
Delighted to receive Guido's moon faces, images that I have been delighting from as they have appeared at IUOMA.
Guido's hand-painted envelope: Facing my own tears in the Mirror X24!Love the stamp which looks like a Vermeulen collage. And the way the three greens, the butterfly, and the two larger paint daubs (and the splatters) exist in perfect harmony. The following are the images that leapt out at me this time. There are 48 all together! Thank you Guido.
|About the ambush they call love
|Admiring the cosmic spagetti, PDM to Zois and Lynn on April 29, 2013
|About the tragic loss of some stones in some luggage
|The dark ocean
|Looking the sea horse into its mouth, before it changes sex...
Monday, May 20, 2013
Living Fantasies: The Party's Never Over - a boekie just for Rebecca of Cranberry Island (Carina Granlund)
Carina's timing is unbelievable! OK, so anyone would appreciate a travel envelope from Carina, at any time, but only someone who has traveled recently on just about every kind of transportation - well not a pencil or a caterpillar , Carina where do you think those things up? But really, there isn't anyone who would more of a kick than I got out of Carina's silly, striking envelope!
Inside the envelope, Carina had packaged the remarkable LIVING FANTASIES inside more paper. Notice the blackened tooth and the repair work Carina envisages I return to.
Inspite of the drudgery Carina anticipates, her upturned motor boat makes the optimist in me smile, 'Give future me a hug.'
The teachers I'm working with are young newly employed teachers and the school is apparently quite target driven, so I hope I can flick through these pages and not get taken to the front desk to show my CRB (the form that verifies that you are OK to work with children)...
Oh Carina, thank the man with the dumb bells! The poetry in the margins is fun to try to say, too. I'll bet the fellow with the hat has a very unusual accent.
Something x-rated that has been concealed... (thank you)
and a question... I always get the kids to put some questions in their books! This is a real teaching aid.
See they're already reading and getting gold stars to show their dads.
Thank you Carina for making the R portrait so attractive. The last time I went into a school the children were obsessed with asking me how old I was (I hadn't slept much the night before), maybe this will trick them into seeing me in a new light!and how did you know we have that same houseboat/shed on Cranberry Island?
Luckily it only has a climbing hydrangea on the roof!
This is a wonderful unfolding piece that goes in surprising directions. Guy in the funky sweater likes me too.
And yes, the car did break down and it rained and rained.
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