Because it's about time someone did!
POINK! is the new BAMF! Who else loves some Goldballs?
Entry 32 - Goldballs
Art by Valerio Schiti and Richard Isanove Name: Fabio Medina Code Names: Goldballs First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #1 (Feb 2013) Powers: Shoots Gold Balls out of his body Teams Affiliation: X-Men I was sitting at my computer getting ready to write this article and my dad asked "who are you doing this week?"
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I will fight anyone who thinks Fabio Medina isn't the best new X-Man of the last 5 years! Seriously though, Bendis took a huge joke of an idea and made an engaging, 3 dimensional character out of him. I honestly want to see Goldballs on more rosters going forward. How do you guys feel about Goldballs?




I like Goldballs mainly because he's written as a really very likeable guy, and that's pretty much it. I think we're just ABOUT to see interesting things from him with his appearance in Spider-Man.
To be completely honest I don't get why everyone loves Goldballs so much...
I mean yeah he is fun and all and its great that we have more minority superhero with a bigger body type but he never struck a core with me. and while his powers are fun I do tend to find characters who's powers affect their problems in life and their character arcs (for example Rouge, Eye-Boy or even Maggot) to be way more interesting. And of course Goldball is fun and all but when we got Shark-Girl, Eva, Triage, Oya, Broo (which are 6 years but i still count them in the same generation) and Genesis why does Goldball strikes out as the "best one"? what makes him better then any other New X-Men?
Because Goldballs is a very memorable concept. The others just don't stick as well. Someone tells me about Oya and I shrug, you don't forget a name like Goldballs.
I don't want to be an asshole but that is a really superficial reason....
I also can't forget a name like Speedball it doesn't it doesn't mean i want him in as many books as possible.
Sometimes, superficial reasons are the reason things stick.
It didn't hurt that Fabio was a perfect distillation of good Bendis dialogue
Ok now i get it. It also explain why i don't really care about him seeing as i'm not the biggest Bendis fan.
Goldballs is great! He's my favorite new mutant since Armor.
I like the name because it's completely accurate, specific, unpretentious - not one of those vague names chosen to sound cool like Havok, Stryfe, Rogue, Gambit - just a down-to-earth, funny name for a down-to-earth, funny dude.
And I definitely like that he is heavyset. It is friggin' ridiculous how rare that is in superhero comics.
As I have said elsewhere, I am just not down with homeboy's name being "Goldballs." Maybe if there were more visible Latinx characters with decent names, a stupid name like Goldballs would be okay. But on its own I give it the side-eye.
Otherwise, I know nothing about the character aside from his appearance in the recent Spider-Man series.
I'm not trying to sound sarcastic so sorry if it comes off that way but, what name should someone who makes gold balls have?
you can argue anything he wants. Captain McAwesome, The Dude, Blaster, Shooter, Bowler, Three-Pointer, Rebound, Hole in One and even Fabio.
I'll admit I really like Bowler for some reason.