Brian Michael Bendis is part of the reason I got back into reading Marvel Comics. Even when I wasn’t a Wednesday warrior during a stretch from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s, I had amassed a stack of New Avengers trades, along with events like House of M, Secret Invasion and Siege. They presented Marvel’s…
There are many alternate realities and possible futures in the Marvel Universe, and in many of those futures, Alex Summers has a different kid with a different mother. On Earth-1298, the Mutant X Earth, Alex and Madelyne Pryor have a son, Scotty, named for Alex’s brother, Cyclops. On Earth-13133, as shown in Rick Remender’s Uncanny…
Peanut butter and jelly. Rocky and Bullwinkle. Peaches and Herb. To the pantheon of beloved pairings we can (apparently) add Spider-Man and Wolverine, whose bond is so solid (and/or sales-worthy) that it can create a pocket universe existing entirely outside the “Age of Revelation” timeline. It is a universe in which Wolverine still does his…
So much for “now and forever,” huh? This preview of next week’s Binary #2, part of the ongoing “Age of Revelation” event, appears to show Jean Grey sacrificing herself – as she does – to stop the spread of the X-Virus beyond Earth. Sounds right. All she ever did was die on us. But wait,…
So we’re just eating Warlocks now? We wondered in this week’s Age of Revelation roundup where Doug Ramsey’s selfsoulfriend is, and he (or a version of him or another Technarch being; who’s to say, really?) appears to show up in this comic, where he is unceremoniously killed by Hellcat and then shown being eaten by…
We’ve met a lot of new kids during the Age of Revelation. Omega Kids. Elbecca the Chorister. Temper and Ransom’s baby. Kids who theoretically weren’t even born in the present of the X-books. But the fact of the matter is, we’re still getting to know the kids we met during “From the Ashes,” which was…
Sometimes, if you stare at a thing long enough, you start to see something that isn’t there. So, in the process of putting together this preview and reaching for an intro, I called over my 8-year-old daughter, who confirmed to me, without prompting, that yes, The knight on this obvious-metaphor chessboard looks like Bluey. Check…
Well, it looks like Fabian Cortez is back to one, eh? X-villainy’s best obsequious twit is back and doing his fawning lackey who will betray you at the first opportunity schtick, using his ability to boost others’ mutant power to cozy up to yet another big bad. So much for the come-to-Jesus moment he seemed…
Remember when Gwenpool retconned herself into being a mutant so she could live on Krakoa and not disappear from Marvel’s publishing line? And then she showed up in the big battle scene at the end of “X of Swords” and at the Hellfire Gala and in a Marvel x Fortnite promo comic and she argued…
Look, I don’t care that we don’t have a release date or teaser art to show. Can we just talk about the fact that Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children, the DC-BOOM Studios crossover one-shot announced Saturday at New York Comic Con featuring the former’s muck monster and the latter’s bandana-wearing monster hunter, is the…
So, funny story. We were at New York Comic Con on Friday with the intention of attending the X-Men panel, but the line to get in was so long that we were boxed out. Y’all hungry for that X-Men tea, apparently. But enough bitterness. After taking a look at Marvel’s “Shadows of Tomorrow” announcements, here…
I remember being in the room for a panel about the return of Vertigo at the 2018 New York Comic Con. Then DC editor Mark Doyle wore his finest Canadian tuxedo. Dan Watters talked about Lucifer. One of the Thrilling Adventure Hour guys had a book out. Tina Horn made dirty jokes about her sex…
How do you think Thor died? Can Doug’s voice make gods do his bidding? Or does Murewa Ayodele’s Akogun-but-with-Marvel characters thing just keep going regardless of what’s going on on the ground? If Storm’s still a god-level character, couldn’t she kill Doug? Come to think of it, if Carol Danvers has the Phoenix Force, why…
Now, more than ever, we are all the Toxic Avenger. A bunch of weirdos, hideously deformed by a cruel, uncaring system, who have chosen to strap on our tutu, pick up our mop and seek justice through unhinged vigilantism. In an age where nearly every 30-50-year-old property has been licensed into a comic (Wild West…
A thing about Marvel basing the majority of its superheroes in New York is, after a while, you stop seeing local landmarks and everything sort of looks like the version of the city you see in movies and TV shows shot in Toronto or Vancouver – gray buildings and occasional park space that give the…