The mutant known as Abyss first appeared during the “Age of Apocalypse” as one of the big, blue guy’s Horsemen. Nearly a decade later, it would be revealed during that oh-so-pivotal Chuck Austen story “The Draco” that Earth-616 Abyss, born Nils Styger, is a son of the demon mutant Azazel and a half-brother of Nightcrawler….
“The Blue Dad’s back, and you’re gonna be in trouble …” While Apocalypse was away, his wife and children were wreaking havoc on Arakko. Now it’s time to see where he falls in this mutant-on-mutant war. But first, Daddy needs new Horsemen. Starting with … sigh … Vulcan. Honestly, the servitude could do him good….
Back in the 1980s, Charles Xavier left Earth to go have sex with his alien bird empress girlfriend, and in doing so left the school, and the New Mutants, to his friend/archenemy/boyfriend? Magneto. Magneto, famously, did a bad job. The Beyonder kills all his students, he fights the Avengers, he joins the Hellfire Club, he…
Emplate, aka Marius St. Croix, was among the villains to emerge from a gate when Charles Xavier offered mutant amnesty to all in 2019’s House of X #5. A data page would later reveal he had been charged with helping measure the island’s energy-absorption levels. And that was pretty much all we saw of him…
You, a fool: “Did Kieron Gillen launch an Eternals spinoff starring the Forgotten One and I missed the first two issues?” We, an intellectual website: Haha, you fool! We speak of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of global literature’s earliest surviving works, born of ancient Mesopotamia and a proto-example of the Hero’s Journey monomyth. You:…
If you missed out on the inaugural Uncanny Experience X-Men fan convention earlier this fall, you’ll get another chance to enroll, thanks to the recently announced Uncanny Experience Sophomore Year. Following the success of the first event, which featured a unique mix of traditional comic book convention staples like exclusive variant covers and creator panels…
New York Comic Con was last weekend, and the CXF team was there, getting lost in crowds, taking selfies with creators and touching all the same surfaces as tens of thousands of people in a large, enclosed space! Below are a crapload of photos and some commentary on what we saw: the good, the bad…
Marvel’s Children of the Vault combines the high-concept sci-fi of Deniz Camp’s Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E. and the global politics of his 20th Century Men, and throws in the I-hate-you-but-you-shoot-guns-good attitude of your better buddy action movies. But I do wonder why the events of this book aren’t being reflected elsewhere in the Marvel line. No…
TIL Firebird existed. TIL Firebird was created by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema and first appeared in 1981’s Incredible Hulk #265. TIL Firebird was an Avenger. TIL Firebird was romantically involved with Hank Pym, aka the Worst Avenger. Hopefully Kalinda Vazquez and Alba Glez can redeem the character in spite of that last fact in…
For years of publishing time now, Colossus has been puppeted by the Chronicler at the behest of his brother, Mikhail Rasputin. But now that Krakoa has fallen, it looks like Colossus has neared the end of his usefulness, and Mikhail has set his sights on a new organization to infiltrate … Orchis. Cool. Kill ’em…
Realm of X is set in Vanaheim, one of the Ten Realms of the World Tree, along with Asgard, Jotunheim, Muspelheim and the other ones. Y’know, from Thor stuff. Saturnine is the former omniversal majestrix of Otherworld, a completely different thing that unites the many Earths of the multiverse and has its own topography of…
What if your best friend was the devil? What would you do? Spray-paint pentagrams on the sides of big-box stores? Listen to awesome heavy metal music? Bully old ladies? Participate in blood orgies? Manipulate foreign countries to war? MURDER BABIES?! BABY MURDERER! If you’re Edith “Eddie” Miller, you and your sexy, pale, Edward Cullen-looking young…
Once upon a time, Doctor Doom made a hamburger multiverse and called it Battleworld. And in that hamburger multiverse there was an Inferno world where Madelyne Pryor went full demon. That Madelyne somehow survived the re-rewriting of reality and ended up on Earth-616, tangled with the time-displaced original five X-Men and, off-panel, was captured by…
Jean left the team. Beast turned out to be a war criminal. Logan was always sidetracked by solo adventures. Colossus turned out to be his brother’s thrall. Deadpool is working for Steve Rogers again. Guess it’s just us girls. Sage and Domino have got enough mad in them for Orchis, for Mikhail Rasputin, for pretty…
When I read Sebastian Shaw, I hear Matt Berry from What We Do in the Shadows. When I read Selene, I hear Connor Goldsmith from Cerebro. When I read the two of them in a scene together. Delicious. Check out our exclusive preview of Immortal X-Men #15, out next week, and get the basic deets…