Name: Ororo Munroe Code Names: Storm First Appearance: Giant Sized X-Men #1 (Oct ‘75) Powers: Weather Control Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Force, The Crew, The Avengers, Fantastic Four About The word unless provides a lot of insight. It is one thing to say someone will do something, it is another to understand what would make them…
In 1980 the English band The Vapors released their hit single Turning Japanese. Like all media from any time in the past, it was problematic. A decade later the English mutant Psylocke turned Japanese. Like all media from any time in the past, it was problematic. We get to talk about that loaded gun today on…
Pre-Orders are now available for The Giant Size Zine, a X-Men charity fanzine showcasing over 90 illustrations of mutants in general by 77 talented artists! This is a 50 page, 6″x9″, perfect bound art zine showcasing some great talent from the fan community. All proceeds from this zine will be donated to The LOFT, and LGBT community…
From artist Shelby Wolf comes an exciting X-Men related Kickstarter. These X-Cuties are 1.75″ hard enamel pins with adorable X-Men designs on them. What started with just Rogue and Gambit has evolved into something more as it is both fully funded and demolishing through stretch goals. At this point both the sweet boy Nightcrawler and strong leader Cyclops…
I, (state name here), a member of good standing of the Bird-Brain Warlock Haters Fan Club, do solemnly swear to be a Bird-Brain and hate Warlock and not read about him or draw him unless I have to and especially never fall in love and, if I do, may I die slowly and painfully and…
Name: Evan Sabahnur Code Names: Kid Apocalypse, Genesis First Appearance: Uncanny X-Force #7 (Jun ’11) Powers: Apocalypse Ones Teams Affiliation: X-Men About Philosopher John Locke once said, “If we will attentively consider new born children, we shall have little reason to think that they bring many ideas into the world with them.” His thought was that…
If you ever questioned that the X-Men have been fully resurrXed, put that question to rest because the pinnacle of 90’s X-Men is finally back. A new trading card set from Upper Deck is coming this summer celebrating Marvel’s merry mutants. The FLEER ULTRA X-MEN will have cards from the industries top artists. Themed sets of…
Wanna travel to an alternate universe where worldbuilding isn’t the greatest? Well we have 3 of them on this episode of Battle Of The Atom. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #284-286 (Into The Void) X-Factor #43-46, #48-50 (Judgement War) X-Men: Gold #12, #16-20 (Negative Zone War) Get the Xavier Files Zine Check out the Battle…
In 1979, a young Chris Claremont saw Alien and said, “OK, but what if there was a guy with knife hands in this?” Years later he would create The Brood and introduce body horror to the X-Men. Also, this episode has exploding pie. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #162-#167 (The Brood Saga) Wolverine and the X-Men #5-#7…
Press Release New York, NY—April 13, 2018 — A change is coming to the Astonishing X-Men in the form of a new line-up – and an all-new creative team! Announced exclusively on This Week in Marvel, Marvel exclusive writer Matthew Rosenberg (Punisher, New Mutants) and superstar artist Greg Land (The Incredible Hulk) will take over…
Name: It depends Code Names: Penance, Hollow First Appearance: Generation X #1 (Nov ’94) Powers: Diamon hard, razor sharp skin Teams Affiliation: Generation X, The Loners, Avengers Academy About I’ve been doing this site for like two and a half years now. In that time, I have tried to make things like the Summer’s family tree…
Press Release New York, NY—April 9, 2018— After their scene-stealing theatrical debut in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, Wakanda’s fiercest warriors are traveling outside of their country to fight new threats and new troubles, in an all-new comic book story by award-winning science-fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor! The WAKANDA FOREVER story starts in June with Okoye,…
An overworked assassin and his high school Spider-Friend do not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other’s life for one freaky Friday. Ranked this episode: Ultimate Spider-Man #66-#67 (Jump The Shark) All-New Wolverine Annual #1 Uncanny X-Men #314 (Early Frost) Get the Xavier Files Zine Check out the…
Name: Marshal Evan Stone III Code Names: Random First Appearance: X-Factor #88 (Mar ’93) Powers: Protoplasmic Form Teams Affiliation: X-Factor, The Acolytes, The Utopians About Back when I talked about Fantomex, I talked about the “cool character”. Someone who seems hand-crafted by a committee to tick every box that a twelve-year-old boy might think is neat….
From the celebrated creative team of Ed Brisson and Pepe Larraz. Find out more this week at C2E2 during Marvel’s True Believer panel* at 12:15-1:15pm CT in room S401.