Recently, right-wing pundits have begun to circulate the theory that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship is a psy-op for the government, and that at halftime at the Super Bowl, they will preempt Usher to announce their endorsement of Joe Biden for president, using Swift’s vast influence as a pop culture icon to steer the…
I’m gonna be honest: I’m not loving this Talon-inside-Synch’s-body subplot in X-Men. It’s another example of the woman having to suffer to further the male hero’s arc, and it came during a week when Gerry Duggan was writing a lot of women — Laura, Emma Frost, Riri Williams, Jean Grey — as props for their…
Previously, in Dead X-Men: Remember that? Fun times. Even with resurrection seemingly off the table for now, mutants are finding all sorts of ways to come back. Jean Grey found herself communing with the Phoenix Force again in the White Hot Room. X-Force has a clone of Beast circa his New Defenders era just lying…
It’s always interesting to see Magneto fight a non-mutant superhero. What would they even have to banter about between punches? “So, you do spider-things, eh? Well, no matter, Magneto will see you driven before him, another enemy of Homo superior removed!” “You fancy yourself a god? See how easily I cast your metal hammer aside,…
Remember when Dazzler made the X-Men and then a giant xenophobic robot smashed into her and all her new teammates at the Hellfire Gala? More importantly than that, remember how much fun X-Terminators was? Seriously, come back to Marvel, Leah Williams. The X-line needs your feral energy now more than ever. Anyway, on Earth-65, the…
Ryan Q. “Dinosaur Comics” North loves a disembodied brain. Look at his epic run on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, in which he reforms Nazi scientist villain Brain Drain – a disembodied brain and eyes in a robot body – into Werner Herzog-style comic relief. God, that series was good. Marvel used to be a proper…
People always seem to think breaking into and sneaking around Doctor Strange’s house is a good idea. What’s up with that? The Silver Surfer crashes into it in The Infinity Gauntlet, the New Mutants Scooby-Doo it up there in Dead Souls. Heck, Sage and Domino just broke into it in X-Force a couple months ago….
The previous issue of Uncanny Avengers ended with Captain Krakoa being revealed as the evil Captain America from everyone’s favorite Trump-era Marvel crossover, Secret Empire. (We did Nazi that coming!) This issue – the final one of this volume – appears to open with another reveal: Evil Steve prefers to be called Grant now. “The…
Hmm. Moon Knight, huh? Gonna be honest, I have no idea what to say here. It is my understanding from smart people that Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio’s run has been well received. And that while this is the final issue of this volume of Moon Knight, MacKay and Cappuccio will return next month with…
For an indeterminate amount of comic book time, the members of Alpha Flight have been harboring mutant refugees in a secret Canadian base they dubbed Krakoa North, from which they intended to transport them to safety on the Shi’ar throneworld of Chandilar. But due to some antsy mutants, the Canadian government has found Krakoa North…
The past five years have not been kind to quite a few indie publishers. One saw repeat turnover of its top brass and mass layoffs. One shrank down to one book a month and ended up licensing out all its content to another publisher. One declared bankruptcy. One pretty much dicked over all its creators…
Man, remember how much fun The Marvels was earlier this month? How refreshing it was for a Marvel movie to just be a fun romp and not be obsessed with moving some overarching plot along? Just gals bein’ pals. And the Khans! How great were they? That [redacted] cameo at the end sure was a…
Of all the X-Men, Wolverine was always the one who played best with the wider Marvel Universe. He’s fought alongside Captain America in World War II, hunted Wendigos with the Hulk and locked webs with Spider-Man. So it’s been nice watching him go on a series of standalone adventures in which he teams up with…
The last time we saw Heather Hudson, aka Vindicator, her husband Mac, aka Guardian, had trapped her in a Department H simulation to restore her mental health or something, in a story in 2019’s Alpha Flight: True North anthology written by – gasp – Ed Brisson. Welp, apparently at some point in the past four…
The mutant known as Abyss first appeared during the “Age of Apocalypse” as one of the big, blue guy’s Horsemen. Nearly a decade later, it would be revealed during that oh-so-pivotal Chuck Austen story “The Draco” that Earth-616 Abyss, born Nils Styger, is a son of the demon mutant Azazel and a half-brother of Nightcrawler….