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EXCLUSIVE: Check out Dike Ruan’s variant cover to Marvel’s Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1

Dan Grote2 weeks ago2 weeks ago02 mins

This Dike Ruan variant cover to February’s Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1 reminds us of a wonderful essay Jude Jones wrote last year about the importance of Ororo’s natural hair texture. “Storm may not be a queen anymore, but she still wears a crown upon her head,” Jude wrote at the time in response to…

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  • X-Men

Kitty makes peace with her present, just in time for the future, in Exceptional X-Men #13

Stephanie Burt4 months ago4 months ago010 mins

Kitty Pryde’s stuck in her past, and a Sentinel’s chasing her through the suburb she once called home. Can her teenage students from Chicagoland save her present-day self, or her past self, or both, before all of X-reality gets erased? You already know the answer in Exceptional X-Men #13, written by Eve Ewing, drawn by…

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What year is it in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Exceptional X-Men #13

Dan Grote4 months ago4 months ago02 mins

According to this one wiki I found and probably other stuff people have said interviews and whatnot, 15 years have passed between the time the Fantastic Four went on the space flight that gave them their powers and the present of the Marvel Universe. That means, if a story is set in 2025, the Age…

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  • X-Men

The kids go on their first time travel mission in Exceptional X-Men #12

Stephanie Burt4 months ago4 months ago07 mins

Exceptional X-teacher and self-described baby mutant rescue lady Kitty Pryde has disappeared! Looks like she got sucked into a time-and-space wormhole. Can her intrepid students go back in time to get her back? Find out (maybe) in Exceptional X-Men #12, written by Eve Ewing, drawn by Federica Mancin, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by…

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Iceman picks up the slack in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Exceptional X-Men #12

Dan Grote4 months ago4 months ago02 mins

A common in-story complaint about Bobby Drake is that he’s not living up to his potential, like a perennial high school slacker who graduated from high school 60 years ago. And while he’s certainly keyed far more into his powers these days, one wonders whether No. 6 on the call sheet in a young-mutants-in-training book…

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  • X-Men

School’s never out for Kitty Pryde in Exceptional X-Men #11 and Giant-Size House of M #1

Stephanie Burt5 months ago5 months ago011 mins

Can Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost’s teen students have just one good day? When that day goes bad, can Ironheart set it right, or at least unite scriptwriter Eve Ewing’s Chicago? Stroll toward the answer in Exceptional X-Men #11, written by Ewing, drawn by Federica Mancin, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by Travis Lanham….

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Emma Frost unlocks her Sinister Rivals skin in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Exceptional X-Men #10

Dan Grote7 months ago7 months ago02 mins

Not all that long ago, Mister Sinister implanted his genetic code into Emma Frost and three other members of the Krakoan Quiet Council, creating a series of alternate futures in which Sinister and the three other aspects of the original Nathaniel Essex fought to become a Dominion, not realizing they existed solely to feed data…

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Marvel releases X-Men: The Hellfire Vigil designs right after we drop this year’s Hellfire Gala looks

Dan Grote7 months ago7 months ago04 mins

It’s a good day for fashion, eh? Less than an hour after we posted our talented Redesigning team’s looks for a theoretical 2025 Hellfire Gala, Marvel released design sheets for this year’s Hellfire Vigil, a July one-shot serving as a year-later memorial for the First Krakoan Age and setup for some of the next year’s…

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  • X-Men

Xavier gets his gold watch in X-Manhunt Omega #1

Adam Reck, Austin Gorton, Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley9 months ago9 months ago027 mins

The X-MANHUNT concludes as Professor X reaches his destination and his assorted pursuers, friend and foe alike, catch up with him. Alliances will be battle-tested, the blades of betrayals will cut deep with poisoned tips and, when the dust finally settles, Charles Xavier will have to make a tectonic-shifting choice with the fate of all…

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  • Spider-Man

Gwen Stacy moves to the 616 in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #1

Tony Thornley2 years ago2 years ago03 mins

Gwen Stacy is officially a resident of Earth-616, for good. What does that mean for her, though? Find out in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider #1, written by Stephanie Phillips, drawn by Federica Mancin, colored by Matt Milla and lettered by Ariana Maher. After nearly a decade since her debut, Marvel Comics doesn’t seem to know…

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