The Cast of X-Men: First Class courtesy Marvel.com
Matthew Vaughn gave X-Men: First Class a sense of 1960’s James Bondian intrigue mixed with mutant drama. Vaughn directed Kingsman: The Secret Service, the new espionage film based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
Whether you love or loathe – isn’t it exciting that fans are passionate about this longtime X-Man’s fate?
That’s the power of a writer like Bendis. I don’t like to categorize characters as A to Z because to some readers that hero is beloved. (Somewhere someone is hoping for a Maggot resurrection!) I like to say there are front burner or marquee characters and there are back burner characters. Unfortunately some heroes are so far back they’re practically in the freezer. Continue reading DAZZLER Is X-MEN EVOLUTION
It’s a blast into the past as a brand new Hulk series ongoing smashes into comic book shops this week. Living legend Alan Davis will unleash the Green Goliatch in Savage Hulk #1 in a tale with the original X-Men.
“We wanted big names, super stars and break out talent to tell their unique Hulk stories within continuity,” says series editor Mark Paniccia told Marvel.com. “That might be now, or using elements of the past and perhaps even glimpses of the future. It all comes back to the current Hulk mythos while letting the talent cut loose with that Hulk story that they’ve been dying to tell.” Continue reading SAVAGE HULK & X-MEN By ALAN DAVIS
Uncanny X-Men #22 is packed with big moments as Brian Michael Bendis brings the X-Men vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. war to a head.
Beast and Cyclops learn the mastermind behind the Sentinels of S.H.I.E.L.D. attacking mutants. Magneto returns to the school with news about the fate of a lost X-Man and one of Mystique’s most twisted schemes.
It’s an extremely satisfying conclusion to many plot threads since the birth of Cyclops’s revolution team before what might be the biggest X-Men stories of the year: The Last Will and Testament of Charles Xavier. Continue reading UNCANNY X-MEN PROFESSOR X’s LAST WILL Preview
Evil mutants, Age of Apocalypse X-Men, journeys to Hell and book cancellations can’t stop this marriage.
It’s GLBT Pride Month, a time to celebrate victories and visibility of gay, lesbian and transgender. When it comes to visibility – an X-Man getting married to a man in New York City and on the cover of a major Marvel comic is big.
Pride 2014 is a time to celebrate the second wedding Anniversary of Northstar and Kyle Jinadu! It was nearly two years ago the X-Man married in Astonishing X-Men #51. Continue reading X-MEN GAY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
The New Mutants graphic novel cover courtesy Marvel
X-Men: Days of Future Past introduced two new mutants from the New Mutants era to the cinematic Children of the Atom. With the news that X-Men: Apocalypse will be set in 1983 I couldn’t help but think of popular mutants born in the 80’s.
In Days of Future Past, Sunspot (Adan Canto) got to use his solar energy powers against the Sentinels. Producers chose to amp the Brazilian mutant’s power beyond just super strength. Roberto Da Costa could fly and blast heat at the relentless robots. Sunspot was one of the founding members of the New Mutants.
Warpath (Boo Boo Stewart) used his tracking ability, super strength and fighting skills with big — knives against the Sentinels. Warpath actually started out as a Hellion (a student of Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club.) James Proudstar blamed Professor X for his older brother’s death and joined the Hellions in his quest for revenge by taking his brother’s X-Men code-name Thunderbird. James would later reform and join Cable’s original X-Force then become an official X-Man.
