If you listened to some of the folks at New York Comic Con this year, you might have thought they hadn’t had a convention last year at all. I assure you, it happened. I was there. But the reality is that after a year off in 2020, and a limited rollout in 2021, 2022’s NYCC…
Arakko has fallen. The Eternal Uranos and his war machines razed the red planet until it knew nothing but loss. A pillar of mutant society fell to avenge those who suffered. The greatest Omega warriors stood against him. It wasn’t enough. How shall we judge the protectors who did not protect? Legion Of X #6…
The world of 2099 is a strange one. A world where mega corporations have consolidated all commerce and life to serve their ends. It would be called late-stage capitalism, but that implies there is an end in sight. Who could imagine such an existence? This is what Kate Pryde and her Marauders face in our…
There’s a lot of people talking about Al Ewing’s X-Men: Red these days, but let me tell you about another red-clad chad Al Ewing is writing. That’s right, it’s Ant-Man time again. Rising superstar Tom Reilly is here with Alucard Ewing to take us on a journey through the history of the Ant-Men. This time,…
Breaking up sucks. Sometimes you gotta just get together with your best gals and dance it out. Hi, 42-year-old straight guy here for X-TERMINATORS, the comic where Dazzler, Boom-Boom, Jubilee and possibly also Wolverine make bad decisions, blow shit up and fight vampires in a comic so presumably messed up it comes with a mature-readers’…
The Hellfire Gala may be long over (except in X-Men Unlimited by Steve Foxe and Alan Robinson literally right now), but the party never ends as long as Moria X is in the house! That’s right everyone’s favorite megalomaniacal supervillain robot lady with a hat and a bad attitude is back in Amazing Spider-Man #9…
Devil Dinosaur is missing and Moon Girl has recruited Wolverine and Havok to save the day. See the X-Men and also a small child take on the High Evolutionary next week in Mohale Mashigo & David Cutler’s X-Men & Moon Girl #1. We’ve got a preview here and in it, Havok gets a Hippo head….
You ever think about Robert Kirkman’s frankly underwhelming career at Marvel? I do. Before he was a zillionaire for his zombie comics, he did a bunch of comics that people forget about like late-stage Ultimate X-Men or Marvel Team-Up. It’s… well it’s a career. The most memoriable of that era was, of course, The Irredeemable…
In 1984, Jim Shooter introducted the formless, Beyonder. A being begging the heroes and villians of the Marvel Universe to slay their enemies to get all they desire. In 1985, Jim Shooter used The Beyonder to explore his midlife crisis and write his great American novel. In 1988, Steve Englehart turned The Beyonder into a…
Every year, artists, retailers, publishers and fans gather in Chicago’s South Loop at McCormick Place, North America’s largest convention hall, for C2E2. In normal years, the midwest’s premiere comics and entertainment expo heralds the beginning of convention season, bringing fans out of their winter hibernation and welcoming a new year of comics. In 2020, the…
Dingdang, this arc of New Mutants has been a corker. Vita Ayala and Rod Reis have performed a deep examination of who Illyana Rasputina and Madelyne Pryor are in the modern age, and how Limbo is a place one of them needs to move beyond while the other can repurpose it to gain agency. Check…
It’s her, Kamala Khan. The Inhuman so good that some baseball cap, phase monitoring wearing media moguls have decided that she should no longer be an Inhuman (or wildly enough, a member of the Clandestine) and instead become the MCU’s first mutant. It’s him, Logan. The X-Man so good that he can actually hold a…
I have long threatened every outlet who will listen with a pitch of me talking about how nuts the Benjamin Percy and Cory Smith run of Ghost Rider is. Folks, Ghost Rider #5 has Man-Thing, Dracula and Boom-Boom from the X-Men all cranking their hogs as they do a motorcycle race. As Ghost Rider is…
Something is in the air at Marvel. First Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez introduce Galactus’ hot mom and now Jed McKay and Marcelo Ferreira have brought back Clea’s hot mom, Umar the Unrelenting. As all of us know, Clea is of the Dark Dimension, the accursed land where the Faltine exiles Umar and her brother…
Gambit is dead. “But” you say “mutants can’t die right?” Well, my child, that isn’t fully true in Otherworld where even a mutant can die and the resurrection protocols can only return a version of them that isn’t quite right. In the last issue of Tini Howard and Bob Quinn’s Knights Of X. Gambit lived…