...Actually, they were ripped-off from the Avengers Message Board, after a poster successfully completed one of their suspiciously similar labors. But given that said labor was completed on April Fool’s Day 2008, it seemed appropriate that just as one board was freed of the floating Wolverine head, another should be cursed with it.

And now, the time has come for them to be passed on to you, the posters. Should even ONE of these labors be accomplished, the floating Wolverine Head that once plagued the AMB and now plagues you will be vanquished. (For real. And every labor requires proof of accomplishment, so there’s no getting around some of these rather arduous and/or humiliating tasks.)

#1: Astonishing X-Men must ship once a month for 24 consecutive months.

#2: Photoshop your head and the heads of various A-list celebrities on to the bodies of the X-Men in any team shot with at least five X-Men and get the pictures posted on PerezHilton.

#3: Write a lipogram (of at least 8 lines and 50 words) about Doop that uses no other vowel than ‘o’ - though any and all consonants are allowed - and have it printed in a Marvel comic’s letter column.

#4: A comic with Cable’s name in its title must last 108 issues.

#5: Chris Claremont and John Byrne must collaborate on a newly published issue of Uncanny X-Men.

#6: Get all five current and former XMB moderators to post in the same thread, in the order in which they became a moderator.

#7: Get photographed wearing a shirt that reads "X-Universe Message Board" while standing next to a credited actor from the X-Men movies or voice actor from any X-Men cartoon.

#8: Peter Milligan and Mike Allred must return for at least 6 more issues of either an X-Statix ongoing or limited series.

#9: Have Professor X and the five original X-Men painted on the hood of your car. Take a photo of this new pimped-out ride and send us the photo.

#10: Write a 2,500-3,000 word comparative essay that convincingly argues why Claremont’s run on X-Treme X-Men is artistically superior to the Claremont-Byrne run on Uncanny X-Men. How this is proven is entirely up to you, but neil will hold the essay to the same standards that he would any of his freshman University students in the Humanities, and the paper must receive an ‘A’ grade or better from him.

#11: All of Comicboards (even the DC ones) must celebrate "Wolverine Week" honoring Logan, complete with appropriate banners and floaty heads.

#12: The XMB must go a whole YEAR without anyone complaining about the floating Wolverine head.

#13: The posters at another board on Comicboards must vote, with a majority in the affirmative, to assume this curse and its attendant labors. The vote must be conducted by that board’s moderator and remain open to the entire posting community for exactly 24 hours. If, after the vote has closed, a majority of the other board’s posters vote in support of adding the floating head, then it will removed from this board as soon as it goes up on the other; if they reject it, it will remain here until this or any other labor is successfully completed.