THE GIFTED Burning Questions

THE GIFTED blasted onto television screens packed with mutant drama and action. The new series is set in the X-Men cinematic universe but WHEN?

We know who is in the show but HOW do they tie into the film canon?

The Gifted courtesy Fox and Marvel

When two teens manifest mutant powers they become targets of Sentinel Services. The X-Men won’t save them. The family reaches out to the Mutant Underground. X-Fans see familiar characters: Thunderbird, Blink, Polaris and meet new mutants.

After a thrilling first episode here are big burning questions! Continue reading THE GIFTED Burning Questions

What Is MARVEL GENERATIONS?

In a comic book universe with more than one Captain America, Spider-Man, Hulk, out of time X-Men and more legacy heroes…is a war on the way?

Generations courtesy Marvel

Marvel revealed a stunning teaser by legendary artist Alex Ross titled Generations coming 2017. The publisher has introduced several legacy next generation heroes that are fan-favorites. Is Generations when different heroes sharing the same role team-up or clash?

Let’s break down who’s who, where are they know and what this could mean. Continue reading What Is MARVEL GENERATIONS?

X-MEN In Love, My Mutant Valentine

Astonishing X-Men #2 courtesy Marvel

Love is a many mutated thing.

The X-Men fight for a world that fears and hates them while navigating romantic twists, turns and temptations on their team.

To commemorate Valentine’s Day here are four of favorite X-couples and there romantic status now.

Scott Summers and Emma Frost

I never imagined Cyclops with anyone else but Jean. When Grant Morrison took over the X-Men he recruited former villain Emma Frost to the Xavier School. A psychic love triangle between two telepaths and Professor X’s boy scout heir apparent, emotional cheating on the astral plane and Jean matchmaking from beyond time and space led to Scott and Emma becoming the new mutant power couple. Continue reading X-MEN In Love, My Mutant Valentine

X-MEN RESURRXION, BLACK PANTHER’S CREW & More MARVEL April Books

X-Men: Blue courtesy Marvel

Black Panther reunites with Storm, Inhumans blast off into outer space, the X-Men: Resurrection arrives with three new X-books.

Here are the new number ones we’re excited for coming in April:

X-Men Blue #1 The original Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman and Angel together again with Jean Grey as team leader and Magneto as their mentor. Cullen Bunn and Jorge Molina relaunched the time-lost mutants in a new direction.

X-Men Gold #1 Kitty Pryde assembles her own squad (Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Old Man Logan, Prestige aka Rachel Grey) on “a mission to be Earth’s finest heroes” by Marc Guggenheim and Ardian Syaf. An All-New Brotherhood of Evil Mutants will be the first villains. Continue reading X-MEN RESURRXION, BLACK PANTHER’S CREW & More MARVEL April Books

THANOS Shocker

Thanos by Jeff Dekal courtesy Marvel
Thanos by Jeff Dekal courtesy Marvel

Thanos…as you’re never seen him before?

Some of Marvel’s biggest bad guys are not the forces of ultimate evil they used to be.

Doctor Doom is trying to follow Tony Stark’s legacy in Infamous Iron Man.

Now the Mad God of Titan is under siege but not in the way you might expect.

Thanos #1 arrived with a thunderous crash like the Mad God’s boots landing on a doomed planet. Jeff Lemire (Extraordinary X-Men, Old Man Logan) and Mike Deodato team up for a big new chapter in the life of the cosmic menace.

Picking up after the villain’s escape from Earth after Civil War II, the first issue saw the return of other alien characters, a look at an infamous sector of space and set up a shocking new status quo for the classic villain. Continue reading THANOS Shocker

WEAPON X RESURRXION Killer Class

courtesy Marvel
courtesy Marvel

Marvel will launch a brand new Weapon X #1 as part of X-Men ResurrXion in 2017. The Weapon X program and X-23 will be part of Wolverine’s next film Logan, also next year.

Wolverine, Sabretooth, Deadpool and X-23 are some of the most famous and infamous former products of the Weapon X program which turned mutants into living weapons.

Here are some other deadly graduates of the program you may not know about and who could be resurrected for the next chapter in the notorious saga of Weapon X: Continue reading WEAPON X RESURRXION Killer Class