Marvel on Friday hinted at what’s next for the X-Men in 2026 after this fall’s three-month “Age of Revelation” event wraps, dropping teasers for five series under the banner of “Shadows of Tomorrow.” Of the five, three are returning series, picking up from their pre-“Age of Revelation” numbering – Uncanny X-Men, X-Men and Wolverine. Two…
One of Storm’s most beloved arcs is the period in the 1980s when she loses her powers. It gives us the brilliant “Lifedeath” by Chris Claremont and Barry Windsor-Smith. She fights Cyclops for leadership of the X-Men and wins. She sticks it to enemies like Fenris and the Murder Grandpas. She proves herself as a…
A while ago, I got to chat with Jason Loo, who is writing the X-Vengers series that’s part of this fall’s “Age of Revelation” event. The book sees former New Mutant Dani Moonstar lead a team of mutated Avengers and train them in their new powers as they seek to take down the heir of…
Just as Marvel’s heroes are known for their feet of clay, their villains are as well. Magneto’s mustache-twirling evil of the Silver Age has been tempered by his past as a Holocaust survivor. Loki tends to operate more in shades of gray since appearing in the MCU. Heck, even Thanos has gotten some sympathetic backstory,…
Saturday is Batman Day, the corporately concocted day when we gather ’round the table and give thanks that a billionaire dresses like a bat and stalks the streets at night, striking fear into the hearts of criminals. And we don’t talk about why he doesn’t just give all his money away to solve all crime….
So here’s a fun fact: Magik is a fairly decent seller for Marvel. According to ICv2’s sales tracking data, based on shops that use the ComicHub point-of-sale system, Magik #8 was the 23rd best selling comic of August. That also makes it the second-best selling X-office comic of August, after Uncanny X-Men #19. Maybe it’s…
When the entire X-line blinked out of existence for the Age of Apocalypse in 1995, it lasted four months. When Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic smashed Earth-616 and Earth-1610 together to give Doctor Doom a multiversal Battleworld in Secret Wars in 2015, canceling every ongoing series (even ones that had just launched), the main series…
The thing about Namor is, if you were another superhero, would you want to team up with him? He’s a good guy, he’s a bad guy, he’s on your team, he’s off your team, he’s mad at humanity, he’s mad at Wakanda, he’s constantly hitting on your blond partner. He’s a wingfooted pain in the…
According to this one wiki I found and probably other stuff people have said interviews and whatnot, 15 years have passed between the time the Fantastic Four went on the space flight that gave them their powers and the present of the Marvel Universe. That means, if a story is set in 2025, the Age…
What if, instead of calling him Hell Hulk, they just called him Helk? Or Hellk? Also, if there’s a Hell Hulk, does that mean there’s a Heaven Hulk? And is the Purgatory Hulk also gray like Joe Fixit? Maybe we’ll find out in the inevitable Hell Hulk miniseries. Check out our exclusive preview of Hellverine…
My first X-Men comic was 1993’s X-Men Vol. 2 #20, a tale I’ve shared on many a podcast at this point. But my first issue of Uncanny X-Men was #301, which came out just a couple weeks later. As Uncanny issues go, it’s not a load-bearing one. Battle of the Atom hasn’t even ranked it…
Power Girl. Superman. Lex Luthor. Supergirl. Black Lightning. Guy Gardner. Giganta. Captain Atom. Robin. Batman. Red Hood. Batwoman. Jay Garrick. Cheetah. Cyborg. Big Barda. Plastic Man. Aquaman. Harley Quinn. Lobo. Connor Hawke. Star Sapphire. Vixen. Zatana. Metamorpho. Wonder Woman. Swamp Thing. Firestorm. King Shark. Hawkman. The Demon. Starro. They all gonna whup each other’s asses….
The X-Men, and mutants in general, are often portrayed as underdogs, a marginalized group operating in a world that hates and fears them. Yet when it’s time to do space battles, their greatest allies are the royal family of an intergalactic empire that has pressed countless alien races into its service. Sure, Lilandra has talked…
In recent issues of Phoenix, Jean Grey sent out a wave of psychic energy to stop the Dark Gods from destroying the cosmos. Y’know, Jean stuff. In doing so, a portion of her power manifested as Sara Grey, her long-dead sister. Last month, Cable attempted to intervene to show Jean that her sister isn’t real…
As you’ve no doubt seen, this is the summer of Labubu. The jagged-toothed, fur-suit wearing, Funko-supplanting, Where the Wild Things Are-looking things – and their many replicas – are the hottest thing this side of climate change. No doubt when kids go back to school in a week or two, many of them will have…