We’ve gotten a lot of new mutants (lowercase) in this first year of From the Ashes. Do you think they’ll ever meet? There’s room for story in throwing together three groups of young mutants raised by different mutant teachers: Rogue and Gambit’s Outliers, Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost’s Exceptional students and Cyclops’ Alaskan misfits. Maybe…
There’s a whole lot of time traveling going on in the X-books lately. Cable ended up in the far future town of Salvation Bay, where he fell in love with someone who, like him, had the techno-organic virus. Ms. Marvel is currently gallivanting around the X-Men’s greatest hits, fighting an amalgamation of Legion’s remaining personalities….
I have strong sense memories of the original Adult Swim lineup on the Cartoon Network. To a half-drunk, half-sleepy college kid like myself, it was animation by way of fever dream. Hey, look at those kids playing soccer, they’re so squiggly – nod off – why’s Brak’s dad so tiny – nod off – HOLY…
Remember Knull, the god of the symbiotes, whom Donnie Cates and Ryan Stegman rammed down our throats and into our hearts so well he got his own linewide crossover a few years back and just appeared in the third Venom movie? Well, he’s back, and he’s here to harass the All-New Venom, Mary Jane Watson….
Teen heroes hit different depending on the era they’re introduced and how they develop over time. Spider-Man was the bullied nerd turned power fantasy with a monkey’s paw. Kitty Pryde is your kid sister who’s better than you at everything. Ms. Marvel was a plucky can-do superhero for the Obama era. The New Mutants were…
A thing about supervillain teams is they’re often found family. Think about the Frightful Four, always scrappin’ and squabbling, but in the end they come together to defeat those pesky heroes in the Fantastic Four. Or the original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The way Magneto talked to Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, you’d think they…
When we last saw Charles Xavier, he had hatched his dead wife, the late Shi’ar empress Lilandra Neramani, from a hidden Krakoan egg and peaced out to space to save their daughter, the current empress Xandra, from the latest Shi’ar coup. Remember, Cyclops had a mental health crisis? The X-Men cried like when Krakoa went…
Not all that long ago, Mister Sinister implanted his genetic code into Emma Frost and three other members of the Krakoan Quiet Council, creating a series of alternate futures in which Sinister and the three other aspects of the original Nathaniel Essex fought to become a Dominion, not realizing they existed solely to feed data…
What do you think Scott and Jean’s psychic dates are like these days? With Jean the Phoenix again and journeying through space, and Scott in Alaska still doing X-Men stuff, catching each other up must be weird at times. Jean: How’s Logan? Scott: We don’t talk much. He’s down in Louisiana with Rogue’s team, but…
In the current arc of Laura Kinney: Wolverine, our heroine is in some kind of altered quasi-sitcom reality where she and her sister Gabby (Hooray!) live with their father, Logan, and Laura is experiencing a trauma response regarding the death of her mother in which she writes fantasies about a violent character called the Wolverine….
Earlier this year at ComicsPRO, Marvel and DC announced their first intercompany crossovers since JLA/Avengers more than 20 years ago. On Tuesday, the two publishers announced the first of them, a Deadpool/Batman book written by Zeb Wells (Amazing Spider-Man) and drawn by Greg Capullo (Batman), coming in September, and a Batman/Deadpool book written by Grant…
Frank Castle’s had a rough couple years. Blame the misappropriation of his iconography by police and their white supremacist admirers. Still, it put Marvel in a bind. It tried to get out of it by introduing a new Punisher, an ex-SHIELD agent named Joe Garrison, and turning Frank into an agent of The Hand complete…
Do you think Dani Moonstar ever gets tired of being the sensible, level-headed New Mutant? Like, remember when she yelled at Professor Xavier about her belt? That was her first appearance, and it’s the only act of teenage rebellion of hers that I can immediately recall. Cyclops has rebelled more than her. And why is…
First, the silly bit: This preview contains a panel in which two shirtless men put a blanket on a fully clothed woman. Granted, that woman was attacked by an ice dragon in the previous issue, but still, there’s an irony there. Now that that’s out of the way, if you like the panel on the…
The Asgardian gods live in cycles. They live, they fight, they die, they do a Ragnarok, they come back. Such is the POWER OF STORIES(TM). So it should come as no surprise that, even if Al Ewing’s Immortal Thor ends with the Odinson dying, the subsequent volume, already announced, starts with the hero’s return. The…