EDITORIAL: Transphobic Bloodshot panels are what we get when we put IP over story, creators

I read Valiant Beyond: Bloodshot #1 after the panels of thinly veiled transphobic content surfaced online Friday. The cover promises “New Origin, New Universe, New Starting Point.” Because when comics’ biggest hits are DC’s Absolute books and Marvel’s Ultimate books, why not do the same?  The comic is nothing I would have sought out had…

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Fantastic Fools? How a Claremont and Byrne cold war put Galactus on trial

While the Chris Claremont/John Byrne run of Uncanny X-Men is rightly regarded as a creative high water mark for the series, containing some of its best-known and beloved stories (including “Proteus,” “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and “Days of Future Past”), their run ended somewhat abruptly, with Byrne departing after one-too-many “Colossus ripping up a stump”…

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12 new X-Men series we want to see announced after the Hellfire Vigil

This week sees the release of X-Men: The Hellfire Vigil, an all-hands-on-deck jam that sees the various factions of the mutant diaspora reunite to remember the island they all used to live on. Given the number of From the Ashes titles we’ve seen ended in the runup to the Vigil (NYX, X-Force, X-Factor) and the…

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