Boom-Boom, Dazzler, Jubilee and Laura Kinney (the best Wolverine) have escaped 1. Dazzler’s creepazoid ex-boyfriend Alex, who happens to be a vampire; 2. Alex’s ultra-creepy mutant fight club; 3. the Collector’s disturbingly creepy space station; and 4. space. Now they’re back on Krakoa. What will they do for an encore? Find out in X-Terminators #5,…
Laura Kinney spent untold centuries fighting alongside Synch in the time nexus called the Vault. Then he got out, and she died, and the X-Men resurrected her. Except whoops! She didn’t die. She’s out. Now there are two. What’s a clone to do? X-Men #18 is written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by C.F. Villa, colored…
Billions of years in the past, a culture of proto-mutants and proto-humans faces extinction-level threats from the Unbreathing (an anaerobic civilization), from Arkea (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms), from Sublime (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms created by Grant Morrison), and from Stryfe (that guy). Can our chrono-journeying mutants save everyone? Or anyone? Time to find out in Marauders #10,…
Laura Kinney (the best Wolverine!), Alison Blaire (the no-longer-so-disco Dazzler!), Jubilation Lee (surprisingly practical!) and Boom-Boom (boom, there it is!) have fought their way out of a vampire monster arena only to end up trapped between star systems, stuck in a quasi-harem on the Collector’s spacefaring retreat. What’s a girl to do? Find out in…
Jennifer Walters is trapped. The bad guys have played their hand and shown us their origins. Things are at their worst, and everyone knows what that means: it’s showdown time. Can Jen defeat her villains, look great while doing so, and return to find a happy ending? Erm. Two out of three ain’t bad, right?…
John Sublime’s U-Men have captured our squad of mostly trans and mostly teenage mutants in his mostly creepy building, and point-of-view character Escapade has had a vision of her best friend Morgan falling to his death from Sublime’s creepy roof! Time to find out who lives and who dies in New Mutants #33, written by…
Want more tales of Kate (back then, Kitty) Pryde’s time at the University of Chicago? Hoping for more interstitial comics in which Chris Claremont himself tells stories that fill in the gaps in one of the Claremont runs? You’re in luck with X-Treme X-Men (volume three) #1, written by Claremont, art by Salvador Larroca, colors…
Inconceivably long ago in the history of the Earth, the mutants (Enriched) and the non-mutant humans (Enshrined) of the community called Threshhold battle the anaerobes of the Unbreathing and the genocidal megabacteria Arkaea and Sublime. Our Marauders have come, in sealed suits, from the future to save their kin. Some will die, some will live,…
Escapade uses her powers to save her friends, but will she be their rescue or their doom? It’s New Mutants #32, written by Charlie Jane Anders, art by Alberto Albuquerque with Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, Carlos Lopez, and Tamra Bonvillain, letters by Travis Lanham. Liz Large: I wasn’t here for the last issue, but I…
Watch Dazzler free kidnapped victims from Otherworld while Wolverine tears up the kidnappers’ prison, Jubilee jokes about Dazzler’s ample rear end and everyone except for the readers gets to marvel at Boom-Boom’s bare boobs! We’re not kidding, and neither is she in X-Terminators #3, written by Leah Williams, drawn by Carlos Gómez, colored by Bryan…
Can Remy Lebeau save the woman he loves, and her mom, and his ward, young ‘Ro, from grotesque intergalactic bounty hunters? Will morally ambiguous space mercenary Bounty (that’s her name) turn out to be a letdown or a quicker picker-upper? Will Chris Claremont wrap up all his plot threads in this miniseries finale? Find out…
Everybody wants to be a Hulk. Ask any member of the Hulk family, though, and you’ll find that it’s not easy being green, as Mark and April Booth are about to learn in She-Hulk #8, written by Rainbow Rowell, drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa, colored by Rico Renzi and lettered by Joe Caramagna. Armaan Babu: Stephanie….
Stephanie – quick! It’s Ian! I’ve traveled back in time billions of years to warn you that a rogue microorganism has infected the creatures you refer to as “pets”! We can only save your beloved cats and dogs if we first review Marauders #8, written by Steve Orlando and illustrated by Eleonora Carlini, colors by…
Life seems to have dealt She-Hulk a pretty good hand: her new romance with Jack of Hearts is going as well as it could be. But maybe Jen should check her cards again: they foretell that her future holds….Doom! It’s She-Hulk #7, written by Rainbow Rowell, drawn by Luca Maresca, colored by Rico Renzi and…
The newest New Mutant is Escapade, whose mutant power lets her switch roles, or accessories, or skills, with anyone for a few hours. Now she’s switched her residence to Krakoa, but she’s got her doubts.. Oh, and the U-Men are back, hoping to harvest organs. It’s just like old times, except not, in New Mutants…