It’s her, Kamala Khan. The Inhuman so good that some baseball cap, phase monitoring wearing media moguls have decided that she should no longer be an Inhuman (or wildly enough, a member of the Clandestine) and instead become the MCU’s first mutant. It’s him, Logan. The X-Man so good that he can actually hold a…
I have long threatened every outlet who will listen with a pitch of me talking about how nuts the Benjamin Percy and Cory Smith run of Ghost Rider is. Folks, Ghost Rider #5 has Man-Thing, Dracula and Boom-Boom from the X-Men all cranking their hogs as they do a motorcycle race. As Ghost Rider is…
Something is in the air at Marvel. First Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez introduce Galactus’ hot mom and now Jed McKay and Marcelo Ferreira have brought back Clea’s hot mom, Umar the Unrelenting. As all of us know, Clea is of the Dark Dimension, the accursed land where the Faltine exiles Umar and her brother…
Gambit is dead. “But” you say “mutants can’t die right?” Well, my child, that isn’t fully true in Otherworld where even a mutant can die and the resurrection protocols can only return a version of them that isn’t quite right. In the last issue of Tini Howard and Bob Quinn’s Knights Of X. Gambit lived…
Imagine you’ve died. Doesn’t matter how. It’ll probably be doing something mundane. Except instead of the eternal void or whatever your religion may have taught you, you find yourself on a fantasy battlefield, surrounded by soldiers from throughout history, fighting skeleton warriors and being guided by a fairy who kind of looks like Wilford Brimley….
Continuing their unbeaten streak of kicking ass, Vita Ayala and Rod Reis are delivering the next in their fantastic run on New Mutants with New Mutants #27. This arc, “The Trials Of Magik” has been a fantastic and detailed look at Illyana Rasputin, the break-out start of the last decade of X-Men comics. Along with…
When is a comic not just a comic? When it’s a Matt Kindt comic. The cartoonist behind books like Mind MGMT, Bang! and Apache Delivery Service is also known for transforming books into pieces of interactive performance art. Perhaps you’ve seen him burn or cut apart a book at a signing, or played with the…
Victor LaValle & Leonard Kirk’s Sabretooth is among the best comics coming out these days. It’s a thrilling critique of the “justice system”, an exploration of evil and a true terror. Sabretooth has been in The Pit since the early days of Krakoa, what happens now that he’s out? If you aren’t reading this book,…
As comics fans, we’re all too familiar with the concept of mind control. Whomst among your favorite heroes hasn’t turned on their friends and allies because a supervillain was using some overcomplicated device to direct their actions from a hidden lair miles beneath an island shaped like a skull? But what if I told you…
Meow! What a preview. Jed MacKay keeps the cat purring with Iron Cat #1. This follow up to MacKay’s acclaimed Black Cat series an Felicia’s past loose ends come back to get her. Artist Pere Pérez joins to tell the tale of Iron Cat aka the follow up to that time Black Cat stole and Iron…
In Tini Howard and Bob Quinn’s Knights Of X we have ten mutants fighting for an Otherworld that hates and fears them. That’s a big cast but friend, it’s about to get smaller as one of the knights will die. Between the Furies (they kill superheroes) in the Crooked Market and the vampires masquerading in…
What if Miles Morales became Thor? What if Gwen Stacy became Wolverine? What if Captain America became a Nazi? What if Spider-Man became beloved character actor Margo Martindale? What if Doctor Strange became Columbo? What if Batman became v. Superman: Dawn of Justice? What if Spawn became your mom? This preview answers one of those…
Look, I’m going to be honest here, I had dreams, big dreams, of filling this section with jokes related to culture’s more important depiction of a grail quest. Unfortunately for me, but deeply fortunate for you, it’s been a decade since I last watched Monty Python And The Holy Grail. It’s Tini Howard, Bob Quinn…
It’s so important that we remember that a “deal with the devil” is a common phrase about compromising your values and not a literal deal with a literal devil. That would be a morally abhorrent thing for Spider-Man to do. Some would say an unforgivable act. Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr. deliver another issue…
Finally. We have been waiting for New Mutants #25 for far too long and now it is here from writer Vita Ayala and artists Rod Reis, Jan Duursema and Ruth Redmond. You know it has that Leinil Francis Yu cover. Maddy Pryor is back and maybe she has some thoughts about how Magik is running…