Dark Phoenix was hungry, or so the story goes. She was hungry and finally free of constraints put in place by an all-too-human Jean Grey. She took to the sky, where she found in the universe a playground built solely for her. Long dead stars shined around her. She didn’t need to breathe. She was…
Name: Jason Wyngarde Code Names: Mastermind First Appearance: X-Men #4 (March ’64) Powers: Illusions Teams Affiliation: The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Factor Three, The Hellfire Club About Life is a perception of your own reality. You interpret what you see and define your entire existence around it. You become your own person because of how you analyze each choice, each action…
Art by John Cassady Like many others, I’m a fan of superhero comics – and I use the term in its literal sense, as a shortening of ‘fanatic’. You see, my love of comics, especially superheroes, has moved from hobby to obsession – and there’s only one group that can match the warm glow of…
Dearly Beloved, We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of Massachusetts Academy headmistress, Frost Enterprises CEO, and Hellfire Club White Queen Adrienne Frost, of the Boston Frosts. The third of four children, Adrienne idolized her father, Winston; tolerated her mother, Hazel; and tormented her siblings. Cordelia, Emma, and Christian. At an early age,…
Art by Ryan Sook and Jose Villarrubia Name: Theresa Cassidy Code Names: Siryn, Banshee, the Morrigan First Appearance: Spider-Woman #37 (April ’81) Powers: Sonic Scream, Persuasion Teams Affiliation: Fallen Angels, X-Force X-Corps, X-Factor Investigations About One of the biggest things the DC Universe has to differentiate itself from Marvel is the sense of legacy. The most famous Green Lantern isn’t the…
Art by Aaron Kuder The X-Men are dying. At least that’s what message boards would tell you. A large subset of fans feel hated and feared in the same way as the merry mutants and nothing can alleviate those fears. The rise of the Avengers in the last decade and the separation of film rights…
Art by Todd Nauck Name: Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix Code Names: M, Penance First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #316 (Sep ’94) Powers: Strength, Flight, Telepathy Teams Affiliation: Generation X, X-Corps, X-Factor Investigations, X-Men About Perfection, the condition, state, or quality of being as free as possible from all flaws or defects. For many people, life is a pursuit…
Fat man has his faults … but he made his exit in style – Wolverine Dearly Beloved, We are gathered here to celebrate the life and deaths – yes, deaths, plural, three deaths, because you’re not anyone in the world of the X-Men unless you’ve died more than once – of Hellfire Club Black Bishop…
Art by James Calafiore Name: Clarice Ferguson Code Names: Blink First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #317 (Oct ’94) Powers: Can teleport objects Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Exiles About It is darn near impossible to predict what will be popular. Sure I could tell you that a female clone of Wolverine would probably have some fans but why would people…
In the mid-1990’s, Marvel Comics was struggling. The Image exodus had seen their seven top-selling artists gone, and not on good terms. Todd MacFarlane (Spider-Man), Erik Larsen (Amazing Spider-Man), Rob Liefeld (X-Force), Jim Lee (X-Men), Whilce Portacio (Uncanny X-Men), Marc Silvestri (Wolverine), and Jim Valentino (Guardians of the Galaxy) were achieving very public success at…
Art by the Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Team Name: Elizabeth Braddock Code Names: Psylocke, Captain Britain First Appearance: Captain Britain #8 (1978) Powers: Telepathy, Telekinesis, the ability to teleport though shadows on occasion Teams Affiliation: STRIKE, RCX, X-Men, Exiles, X-Force About The X-Men have always been closely related to the adolescent experience and few things are more crucial to…
Art by Marc Silvestri and Josef Rubinstein Name: Sally Blevins Code Names: Skids First Appearance: X-Factor #7 (Aug 1986) Powers: Personal Force Field Teams Affiliation: Morlocks, X-Terminators, New Mutants, Mutant Liberation Front, Acolytes, SHIELD About Community is one of the most important things in a person’s life, and I am not talking about the Dan Harmon show. That sense of belonging,…
Art by Billy Tan, Danny Miki, Roy Allan Martinez, and Frank D’Armata Name: Gabriel Summers Code Names: Kid Vulcan, Vulcan First Appearance: X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1 (Jan 2006) Powers: Energy Manipulation Teams Affiliation: X-Men About The Summers’ family tree is a mess. Centered around poor Cyclops, we have a long lost brother, a space pirate father, an…
Art by Valerio Schiti and Richard Isanove Name: Fabio Medina Code Names: Goldballs First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #1 (Feb 2013) Powers: Shoots Gold Balls out of his body Teams Affiliation: X-Men About I was sitting at my computer getting ready to write this article and my dad asked “who are you doing this week?” I started chuckling to myself and…