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. With our look back at the Age Of…
In what has turned into a jam packed Friday morning, Marvel has announced three new X-Related titles. First off is the return of GIANT-SIZE X-MEN, the classic titled that kicked off the all-new, all-different, and commercially successful era of the X-Books back in 1975. This will be an ongoing series written by Jonathan Hickman with…
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…
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…
This comes to us from Cory Bullock (@corybthosaurus) This week is something of a double feature for X-Men HeroClix fans. Not only can they pick up Powers of X #5, the latest issue of the hit mini-series from Jonathan Hickman and R.B. Silva, but they can also get their hands on the hotly anticipated brand…
This article comes to us from Kevin, a historian in his day job and an X-fan in his spare time who sometimes gets the two confused. He tweets at @MagnetoRocks. It was written in 2019. The newest era of X-Men opens with something old. In the first pages of this summer’s House of X #1,…
In House of X #1, a masked figure, presumably Charles Xavier, is seen awakening a number of people from plant-pods. We are shown that over the past few months, the X-Men have been planting Krakoa flowers. These grow into Habitats– domains of Krakoa that acts as embassies for the country of Krakoa. The Professor has…
I’m not at SDCC, I’m one of those losers refreshing a Twitter feed like a mad man looking for new information about the Dawn Of X books. We already got the titles (thanks to some very dedicated fans yesterday) but now we know more! Johnathan Hickman set the mood after fans cheered for him saying…
This Primer comes to us from Thomas Cummins. Follow his very good and popular self on Twitter. What are House of X and Powers of X? House of X (pronounced “ex” and abbreviated as HOX) and Powers of X (pronounced “ten” and abbreviated as POX) are two new six-issue mini-series’ that are the jumping off…
Written by Trent Seely A father-figure and rich benefactor brings together a team of mutants with extraordinary abilities to track down new mutants and save them from persecution or perhaps stop them from harming others. They study and hone their powers in an hidden location and use a stealth jet in order to operate under…
In AGE OF X-MAN: THE AMAZING NIGHTCRAWLER #1 by, Seanan McGuire and Juan Frigeri everyone’s favorite blue and fuzzy mutant is the most popular and famous figure in the world. This is the best indication we have that this alternate reality is actually the utopia it is claimed to be. Over forty years past his…
He was no longer welcome on Earth. More than a man without a country, he was a man without a world. And he feared that such would be the fate of all his kind. Eric Lensherr was a mutant. This is how Christopher Golden defines the thesis of his antagonist in the novel X-Men: Mutant…
After Disassembled, the Age of X-Man commences. So says an ominous message that made its way around the web Tuesday. Well now, brethren, we know just what the AGE OF X-MAN holds. During the Diamond Retailer Appreciation Breakfast we learned more, so much more. Per Comics Beat AGE OF X-MAN is a 10-part weekly story that comes as a…
About a year ago, some media outlets (aka me) wrote about a potential Storm solo series from Ta-Nehisi Coates & Jen Bartel that never came to fruition. While our world is worse for this not happening, we can at least get that Jen Bartel art on her variant cover for UNCANNY X-MEN #1. These X-Women look like…
Press Release New York, NY—June 14, 2018—He took the world by storm when he made his debut in last year’s THANOS #13, and now Marvel is celebrating the Cosmic Ghost Rider with a series of special order-all variant covers that feature Marvel’s breakoutcharacter battling different heroes of the Marvel Universe! Look for Marvel’s COSMIC GHOST…