In Marauders #1 by Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, and Federico Blee, Kate Pryde is a ship without an anchor. Mysteriously unable to cross through the Krakoan gates, she steals a boat and sails rutterlessly towards the mutant homeland. She may feel like an outcast, but wants to ensure no other mutant does. Kate rally’s a…
Comics have a problem, and that problem is that it is really hard to make sure you are reading everything in order. That problem becomes even harder as a trade paperback readers who has to consult fan made reading orders to ensure you are missing a single page of action. The brain trust there at…
Proving that you can’t keep a great idea down, the X-Men of the internet are returning this summer! The .Exe/men were introduced by Bryan Edward Hill and Neil Edwards in 2018’s WHAT IF? X-MEN #1 as cyberpunk hackers. It was very good. They returned in MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS #9 earlier this year. And now, they…
Just mere months ago, there was a film adaptation of The Dark Phoenix Saga and it wasn’t great. Marvel is hoping we forget about that and instead focus on the celebrating the best X-Men comic ever. There will be variants by top artists on several X-Books over the coming months. Also celebrated is Chris Claremont’s…
In Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Yu’s X-Men #1, the mutants adjust to domestic life on Krakoa as Orchis plots their next move. Chris Eddleman: Rob, it’s been so long since last we’ve written, practically a full and entire week! We’ve moved on from HoXPoXToX to DoX ToX and I’m excited to get started. This issue…
Marvel Comics puts out a lot of comics. While we can’t cover every book, every week, we can tell you where you can find your fan favorite characters around the Marvel Universe. There be spoilers. History Of The Marvel Universe #4 As long time denizens of the Marvel Universe, it should shock no one that…
As revealed in the letters pages of CAPTAIN MARVEL #11, Carmen Carnero (CAPTAIN MARVEL, X-MEN: RED) will be returning to the X-Line to draw X-Corp. Issue #1 will be released on February 2nd but no other details about the project were announced. Marvel has confirmed with Xavier Files that a more formal announcement with additional…
Look, it’s the end of the day and I’m 90% writing this just so I can Tweet the headline and spite all the folks calling the X-Men evil now. There’s a neat trailer with cool art for X-MEN #1. I read it, it rules, you should buy it tomorrow. But don’t believe me, watch this…
In what can only be described as an astonishing coincidence of things I personally dislike, Marvel has announced RUINS OF RAVENCROFT: SABRETOOTH #1 coming this January from Frank Tieri and Guillermo Sanna. This is spinning out of the current ABSOLUTE CARNAGE event and will be a one-shot. This book deals with Ravencroft’s past, which explains…
This week, Adam goes to New York City Comic Con! Feel free to listen all the way through or skip around to these amazing interviews: Matteo Lolli 2:50 Vita Ayala 10:30 Marcus To 29:25 While Portacio 40:00 German Peralta 1:02:05 Matt Rosenberg 1:11:00 Adriano Di Benedetto 1:34:15 Abe Riesman 1:45:30 Jordan D White 2:11:50 Outro…
On October 16th, 2019 Marvel Comics will release X-MEN #1. This will be the 5th comic to be called X-Men #1 (not counting things like the Taco Bell or Stridex promo comics which also bore that name). This is because readers like nice clean jumping on points for stories, and the sales data backs that…
This comes to us from Lincoln Crisler. Lincoln’ genre fiction credits include a contribution to IDW Publishing’s Robots vs Zombies anthology and editorship of Corrupts Absolutely?, an anthology of dark superhero fiction. A career non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, he currently lives and works in Europe with his wife and son. The Age of Apocalypse rushes in with a…
Announced on the main stage of New York Comic Con, some familiar faces are going to be the creative team on the upcoming WOLVERINE ongoing series. Ben Percy (X-FORCE, WOLVERINE: THE LONG NIGHT) will write the series with Adam Kubert (WOLVERINE, WEAPON X, WOLVERINE: WEAPON X) and Victor Bogdanovic (ACTION COMICS, THE SILENCER) on art…
Note: This essay, published in 2019, has been updated to reflect that Grant Morrison is commonly referred to by they/them pronouns. In late 2000, writer Grant Morrison submitted a brief, typed essay to the senior editorial staff at Marvel – the ‘Morrison Manifesto’ – outlining what the X-Men would be under their pen. This manifesto,…
This comes to us from Lincoln Crisler. Lincoln’ genre fiction credits include a contribution to IDW Publishing’s Robots vs Zombies anthology and editorship of Corrupts Absolutely?, an anthology of dark superhero fiction. A career non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, he currently lives and works in Europe with his wife and son. Marvel’s X-Men…