Christopher Chance has spent his life in defiance of death, and those who would be afraid of it. Now, death has come for him at last, and it’s time for the Human Target to finally find out if people were right to be afraid all along. The Human Target #12 is written by Tom King,…
I had good episode notes but I accidentally deleted them. This one has Thor in it. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants 77-80 and 82-85 (Back to Asgard) The Mighty Thor 15-19 (Asgard/Shi’ar War) Exiled (New Mutants/JiM)
Look what [my editors] made me do. Get it? I’m told that’s a reputation reference. Well whatever, it doesn’t matter because we’re not here to talk about 2017 Taylor Swift. No, this is about 2020 Taylor Swift. Specifically evermore, her second full length album release this year which dropped last week. While we already established…
The Facility that created X-23 didn’t stop with those experiments! Meet the new Generation of X-mutants, led by X-INFINITY, in Generation X-23 #2.
It sucks to be Quentin Quire. He has become the punching bag for the X-Force creative team of Benjamin Percy and Joshua Cassara who have killed him in nearly every mission the mutant CIA has undertaken. Sure they gave him a girlfriend, and that’s pretty near, but he also has become bored of death. In…
Art by Salvador Larroca and Frank D’Armata Name: Scott Summer Code Names: Cyclops First Appearance: X-Men #1 (September ’63) Powers: Optic Force Beams Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Factor About In his one-man show My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Mike Birbiglia describes his mania after being wrongfully found at fault in a car accident. After alienating his friends and family, Mike was left with just…
Remember the Uncreated? They were a race of aliens who came to resent their god, so they killed it. Then they set about trying to destroy other races that had religions. They don’t have many appearances. Kitty Pryde met some of them in a Black Air base that exploded in Excalibur. The Starjammers fought them…
When Arnim Zola launches a catastrophic attack on New York City, he meets his match in Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers. In the battle that follows, two Captain Americas (Captains America?) prove better than one, and Sam and Steve decide they might just keep a good thing going. Begin the next era of Caps in…
There’s a whole lot of time traveling going on in the X-books lately. Cable ended up in the far future town of Salvation Bay, where he fell in love with someone who, like him, had the techno-organic virus. Ms. Marvel is currently gallivanting around the X-Men’s greatest hits, fighting an amalgamation of Legion’s remaining personalities….
Press Release New York, NY—September 15, 2017— “Ed Piskor is one of the most exciting cartoonists working today and seeing the iconic X-men filtered through his singular vision is the sort of comic book project that you can usually only dream about. But this dream is real, and it is a thing to behold!” — Jeff Lemire (DESCENDER, MOON…
The whole crew seeks to fight against the Leader, in the Hulk’s mind, and in several actual bodies, in this banger of an issue written by Al Ewing, pencilled by Joe Bennett, inked by Ruy José, colored by Paul Mounts, and lettered by VC’s Cory Petit! Robert Secundus Zach Rabiroff: [The stage is silent. A…
At the NYCC 2017 X-Men: Legacy panel, Marvel EiC Axel Alonso hinted that a new Storm comic could be possible. Black Panter and also actual award-winning non-fiction writer Ta-Nehisi Coates stoked the rumor mill with this tweet. Got to talk collaboration with the incredible @heyjenbartel Stay tune!! pic.twitter.com/IurihdWcWX — Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) October 8, 2017 Award-winning journalist for…
In A.X.E.: Death to the Mutants #2, a moody teen raises hell and writes poetry, the Deviants come to the rescue, Ikaris steals the mic and Sersi spearheads a jailbreak. Written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, colored by Alex Guimarães and lettered by Travis Lanham. Mark Turetsky: You know, sometimes I think back…
Years and years ago, in the days when I still lived at home and was fraught with teen mopiness, I had a blue overstuffed recliner in my room, a worn out hand-me-down that I loved until it literally fell apart. (If memory serves, I think the left arm gave out.) But in those days, I’d…
Orchis is closing in on Ms. Marvel, with a plan to use her to get to the X-Men. All she has to do is embrace her new mutant identity. But with so many other labels already hanging on her shoulders, Kamala Khan has to wrestle with just what it means to fully accept another one…