Mutina returns with an odd request in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Uncanny X-Men #22
A festive event is interrupted by the daughter of darkness herself, Mutina. And she has an unimaginable favor to ask the Uncanny X-Men.
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Let’s swear a blood oath in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Unbreakable X-Men #3
You guys wanna cut your hands open and mush bloods? It’s not weird. (Hi, I grew up during the AIDS crisis, and I definitely sat through whole gym assemblies on Dec. 1 where they advised against stuff like this.) Check out our exclusive preview of Unbreakable X-Men #3, out next week, and keep scrolling for…
Return to Penumbra in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Unbreakable X-Men #2
Never let a crossover get in the way of your ongoing story arc. Unbreakable X-Men continues the Penumbra story from Gail Simone’s Uncanny X-Men, the city of the dead that lay not far from the Louisiana X-Men’s home like so many Zombie N’awlins Morlocks. What does any of it have to do with Doug Ramsey’s…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Catman Returns (w/ Matt McThorn)
If the above player isn’t working, listen to it here. Friend of the show and Patreon backer Matt McThorn is back this week, and he wanted to return to one of his earlier themes, with three more stories featuring Thomas Blake, the Bat rogue known as Catman. We get a ’90s story featuring Catman and…
Ransom and Wolverine go to Comic-Con in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #21
The Wolverine/Ransom two-fisted team-up takes a weird turn, as our badass heroes chase a villain to, of all places, a comic book convention in Argentina. How do they find and eliminate their target in a sea of masked cosplayers? And what if some of the cosplayers are the actual villains they are portraying? Uncanny X-Men…
Wolverine and Ransom go a-brawlin’ in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #20
The two baddest brawlers of the Louisiana X-Men buddy up to go undercover in faraway Argentina to chase and destroy a legendary X-villain! Behold two-fisted fury as only Wolverine and Ransom can bring it in Uncanny X-Men #20, written by Gail Simone, drawn by Luciano Vecchio, colored by Matt Wilson and lettered by Clayton Cowles….
BatChat With Matt & Will: The Deadliest Woman in the World (w/ Josh Weil)
Lady Shiva walks through the world, leaving a trail of bodies behind her. Not a hero, but often not quite a villain, Shiva has developed relationships with many members of the Bat Family: trainer to Tim Drake, rival and sometimes member of the Birds of Prey, mother to Cassandra Cain. Josh Weil joins the show…
Jubilee to the rescue in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #19, guest-starring Deadpool
Amid the changing relations between mutants and the city of New Orleans, two of the best guns for hire come to town with a mission, and their target for that mission is an X-man. Deadpool and Outlaw guest-star in this dangerous tale of mayhem vs. mutant. Uncanny X-Men #19 is written by Gail Simone, drawn…
Mutants are the holiday in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #18
For the first time in New Orleans history, the city has declared a Mutant Appreciation Day festival and street fair, with all the music, food and fun the city is famous for. If the Hellfire Gala is filet mignon, this is corn dogs and lemonade. But are all mutants OK with this attempt at bridging…
The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Louisiana in our EXCLUSIVE preview of issue #18
In 1983, Marvel released a promotional comic called The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Texas, in which Professor X and Magneto compete to recruit a mutant named Danny Wiley who has the power to transform into a winged centaur. It is his first and only appearance. Next week, the Uncanny X-Men go to…
Uncanny X-Men #17 has us giving Otter Party a 5-star Letterboxd review
When a brilliant but exploitative Hollywood director makes a surprise hit horror film featuring a serial-killing mutant girl, there are protests at theaters around the country and a rise in anti-mutant violence in those same communities. But is it “just a movie,” or is something much more insidious going on? Will a malignant force make…
The X-Men fight a damn god in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #16
The Dark Artery, gateway to an underworld of unspeakable evil, has taken one of the Outliers, and it will take the Uncanny X-Men to get them back, if they can survive the corruption process needed to enter. Plus, the secret of the Endling at last? Uncanny X-Men #16 is written by Gail Simone, drawn by…
Thinking about a school for mutants in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Uncanny X-Men #16
We’ve gotten a lot of new mutants (lowercase) in this first year of From the Ashes. Do you think they’ll ever meet? There’s room for story in throwing together three groups of young mutants raised by different mutant teachers: Rogue and Gambit’s Outliers, Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost’s Exceptional students and Cyclops’ Alaskan misfits. Maybe…
The Outliers go to Hot Topic in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #15
With one young mutant taken hostage in the underworld of the Dark Artery, it’s left to the remaining Outliers to lead the Louisiana X-Men to try to steal them back, but the ultimate terror blocks the way. The Voice of Darkness seeks a new home, and violence and fear will follow whoever takes that mantle….
Our EXCLUSIVE preview of Uncanny X-Men #15 is a good reason to revisit Image’s Bitter Root
First, the silly bit: This preview contains a panel in which two shirtless men put a blanket on a fully clothed woman. Granted, that woman was attacked by an ice dragon in the previous issue, but still, there’s an irony there. Now that that’s out of the way, if you like the panel on the…