About a month ago, we shared covers from AHOY’s Toxic Avenger Comics #5, in which ol’ Toxie gets his Frazetta on in a fantasy pastiche. Now, we get up in them guts with a special preview of the comic. And little did we know, it’s Jersey AF. Not because the Toxic Avenger is from the…
Never let a crossover get in the way of your ongoing story arc. Unbreakable X-Men continues the Penumbra story from Gail Simone’s Uncanny X-Men, the city of the dead that lay not far from the Louisiana X-Men’s home like so many Zombie N’awlins Morlocks. What does any of it have to do with Doug Ramsey’s…
Last month, Marvel gave us a taste of the near future with Shadows of Tomorrow, the next era of X-Men storytelling that follows this fall’s “Age of Revelation” event. “Shadows” picks up in January with Cyclops returning to the present after his trip to X years in the future, armed with knowledge of how to…
We’re living in a golden age of Dad Comics. Remember how your dad’s bookshelf had all those John Grisham and Tom Clancy novels on it? Dad Comics are John Grisham and Tom Clancy novels but for us (well, me at least. I don’t know your life). Instead of Jack Ryan and Jack Reacher and other…
X YEARS LATER … HOW IS AUNT MAY STILL ALIVE? For someone who started out as the frailest old woman in comics, May Parker sure has survived a lot. Terminal diseases. Foreclosure. Doctor Octopus pitching woo. And apparently, in 10 years, she’ll survive Revelation’s X-Virus. She’ll have to live in stasis because she’s some kind…
This X-Vengers #3 variant cover by Edwin Galmon shows half of the original class of New Mutants – Cannonball, Sunspot, Dani Moonstar and Doug Ramsey/Revelation – as they were in happier days and as they are now. Three hardened warriors taking the fight to a former teammate gone mad with power. But it begs the…
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…