For the third year in a row, the crew of the Uncanny Experience — Minnesota’s preeminent immersive X-Men fan convention — recently transformed the historic Minneapolis Club into the X-Mansion for a weekend. For the second time, I was able to attend (scheduling conflicts kept me away from last year’s show), with an added twist:…
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 FBI finally discovers the mutant child from the Oklahoma incident and the safehouse Storm sheltered the child in. Storm must protect this child, but there is one problem: The last time Storm was in close proximity to the child, she died a horrible death. Also, cosmic stuff happens. And Bishop is here! Storm #10…
Marvel ramped up to Comic-Con this month by announcing X-Men: Age of Revelation, a sweeping event beginning in October that will remake not just the X-line but will draw in a number of major Marvel players including Spider-Man, the Avengers, Deadpool, Iron Man, and Cloak and Dagger. The basic pitch: 10 years in the future,…
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…
It’s crazy how much Age of Apocalypse there’s been since the original Age of Apocalypse story. We wrote about it once. Based on this variant cover by Marco Checchetto to X-Men of Apocalypse Alpha, out Sept. 3, we were inspired to do a quickly googly on what the Storm of Earth-295 got up to after…
The Age of Revelation isn’t just an X-Men story, as the latest batch of series reveals shows. Marvel on Thursday revealed details about the final four books that are part of Age of Revelation, the latest in a long tradition of dark X-futures, in which Doug Ramsey, the heir of Apocalypse known as Revelation, has remade…
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….
Hot on the heels of the Abbott Elementary/It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossover, Marvel has chosen to center the City of Brotherly Love in its latest linewide event. Marvel on Wednesday revealed details about four more of the books that are part of Age of Revelation, the latest in a long tradition of dark X-futures, in…
Chill exes reunited. One X-woman on the hunt for another. Havok being a dumbass and working for Sinister, again. And Gambit as one of the last guardians of Penumbra. Marvel on Tuesday revealed details about four more of the books that are part of Age of Revelation, the latest in a long tradition of dark…
Last week, we told you about Age of Revelation, the next big X-Men event, in which the world is transformed by Doug Ramsey, aka Revelation, the heir of Apocalypse. With that announcement came logos for a buttload of new series: Today, Marvel announced details on five of those books – Amazing X-Men, Binary, Laura Kinney:…
The wild thing about looking back on comics is how much they are colored by what was happening when you were originally reading them. In retrospect, perhaps things are different. Anyway the optics on pitching a book as religious police was still an amazing unforced error. Ranked This Episode: Legion of X #1-5 Wolverine: Dangerous…
Last week, Marvel gave us one of its classic teasers, showing Cyclops and a bunch of other mutants hanging from St. Andrew’s crosses like that one time the Reavers did it to Wolverine and we all loved it. On Wednesday, Marvel announced Age of Revelation, a fall event that asks, “What if Age of Apocalypse…
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…
House of M, the Marvel event in which the Scarlet Witch, then a mutant and the daughter of Magneto, rewrites reality to create a world where Magneto rules and mutants are the dominant social class, turns 20 this year, which doesn’t sound right but is also painfully true. Also more than 20 years old? The…