Stretch Those Hugging Muscles!

Hey Calvin, are you happy to be all moved into your new place? {Yep. Are you ready to get down to bidness?} Yup. {Then lead on, MacPanduff.} Huh? {Never mind, just me reaching for a joke.}

Alright, well then first off I want to give a Hug to Penance, because that looks like a really uncomfortable costume, and he didn't get to hang out with his friend Nova for very long. {Actually, I'm not sure hugging him is a good idea.} Why not? {See, his costume has a bunch of spikes inside it, and if you hug him, the spikes will probably stab him.} Why would he wear a costume like that? {Sigh. Because pain makes his powers work right now, and he wants to atone for Nitro blowing up Stamford.} Oh. Well, there must be some place there aren't any spikes, so I'll hug him there.

Also, I want to Hug Courtney Duran and Cable. It looks like Coutney lost her boyfriend without even knowing it, and Cable put all that time into building his cool island city, and now it's broken. That's so sad. {Yeah, it really is. I'd imagine he'll vent his frustration on whoever it is that's planning to steal his technology.} They're gonna get hurt aren't they? {Yeah, more than likely.} Maybe I should start planning a hug for those people.

Time to bonk some people. First up, a Bonk for Moose, because he hasn't be keeping in touch with Courtney, and now he's seeing someone behind her back? He could have at least called her up to say he thought they should break up! What a bum! Why would he do that? {If that girl in my English 100 class years ago was right, it's because all guys are jerks. Not sure I agree with that statement, though.}

Bonks for Sabretooth, because he's evil, but my hardest Bonks are for Nova's dad. He was a jerk the whole time Rich was visiting, putting down Nova for being a hero, ripping on the NEw Warriors, the ones Nova had just found out died, blaming Nova for starting a fight with the Thunderbolts. They started the whole thing! {Yeah, but did you notice the TV reporter as Nova and Iron Man were leaving the scene?} What about her? {She's talking about how the 'Thunderbolts obtained the surrender of - ', and it gets cut off there. It's a safe bet she was talking about Nova, which means the media spun this as him starting the fight, and being another out of control, unregistered superhero. Rich's dad is just going off what he's being told.} But those are lies! He didn't surrender, and he wasn't out control. {Doesn't matter. In Quesada's post Civil War Marvel Universe, up is down, and black is white. Or maybe up is triangle and black is mauve, for all the sense it makes right now.}

Well now I need to applaud something just to cheer up, so lots of Applause for Nova, for staying under control, even though everybody was being mean to him, and going back to space, because that's where he's needed. {Agreed. I got shudders down my spine when Tony suggested Rich rebuild the Nova Corps as part of the Intiative. That's just what we need, the Nova Force and the Worldmind under Tony Stark's thumb. At least Hulk smashed him.} He did? {Oh yeah, smashed the heck out of him.} Well that's good. I'm gonna Applaud Deadpool too, for parachuting to the rescue, when Irene needed him the most. His showing up even made Cable smile, and that's sweet. And he shot Sabretooth a whole bunch, and that was good too, because Sabretooth was causing trouble, and he needed to get beat up. {Preach it, Adorable Baby Panda!}

So that's all Calvin had for me. Do the rest of you have anything for me to applaud or hug, or even bonk? I might not have that many bonks left after I'm done with Nova's dad though. {Just try not to concuss the guy, OK?}