Avengers vowing to kill?
X-Men allied with Apocalypse?
The AXIS: Inversion is here.
Only Spider-Man and Nova may be able to set the world right again.
Scarlet Witch and Doctor Doom’s inversion spell defeated the Red Onslaught but it tilted good and evil among heroes and villains.
Avengers and X-Men: AXIS #5 by Rick Remender and Terry Dodson hits this week showing more of this strange new reality. Continue reading SPIDER-MAN Swings Into AXIS
What If is back! The biggest Marvel story of last year is the inspiration for the return of What If? We know how Avengers vs. X-Men turned out and changed the Marvel Universe…but what if Continue reading What If Avengers vs. X-Men
The Merc with a Mouth is counting up his cash on a variant for Avengers vs. X-Men #12 by Carlo Barberi.
Marvel revealed this new cover starring Deadpool with a ton of heavy hitting villains down for the count.
Deadpool stars in a brand new series by Gerry Duggan, Brian Posehn and Tony Moore in October.
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A major casualty of the latest AvX chapter: the marriage of one of Marvel’s premiere power couples. This ending means new beginnings for the two iconic heroes.
Spoiler Warning!!!
This Op/Ed reveals a major plot point of Avengers vs. X-Men #9
If you have NOT read AvX #9 stop reading.
Seriously
OK – Here it comes
Storm and Black Panther are over. Ororo fought with her fellow mutants but is switching sides now that she’s seeing how the Phoenix Force has taken over her fellow X-Men. It’s too late. Black Panther gave the Avengers refuge in Wakanda and now his country and people are paying the price after a Phoenix fueled Namor attacked. The relationship was already on shaky ground and the Wakanda tragedy was the final hit. T’Challa annulled their marriage. As the High Priest he can do that.
I say good for both of them. Let’s move on. I think Black Panther is being set up to rejoin the Avengers (under Jonathan Hickman) and for his own Marvel Films movie or appearance in an Avengers sequel.
Storm has always been divided and torn between her love and duty to T’Challa and to her fellow mutants. I believe Storm is being set up to take over the X-Men. Brian Michael Bendis will take over the mutant franchise with All New X-Men starring the original five students but I have to believe there will be another book featuring the current X-favorites.
I believe the era of Cyclops and Emma Frost will be over after AvX and it’s time for Storm to assume leadership of the mutant family again. There’s no better team to chronicle that than Brian Wood and David Lopez. The X-Men creative team just wrapped their first arc and I can’t rave enough about how Wood and Lopez write and draw Storm as the cool, commanding yet compassionate leader. Storm is one of my favorite characters ever and she’s a challenge to write but Brian Wood has succeeded beautifully and should continue in the Marvel NOW! era.
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Colossus and Kitty Pryde are my favorite mutant couple so I was charmed and impressed by this couple at Emerald City Comicon. During the Marvel: Pint O’ C.B. Panel, the costumed X-fans approached the microphone to ask the panel about Marvel’s most on again and off again mutant couple. The young man asked with a Russian accent, “vat’s going to happen wiv Peterrrr and Kitty?”
Writer Matt Fraction responded, “You are going to love Avengers Vs. X-Men #5.”
Moderator and Marvel Talent Scout/Editor C.B. Cebulski asked, “Hey Kitty, have you told Colossus about Iceman?” which triggered laughs from the panel and audience.
Just in case you’re not caught up with the X-books, Kitty broke up with Peter after he assumed the power of the Juggernaut. Kitty moved back east with Wolverine to reopen the Jean Grey School in Wolverine and the X-Men. Iceman recently made a move and planted a big frosty kiss on Kitty.
Marvel.com unveiled this teaser heralding Captain Marvel in July 2012. All will be revealed Saturday, March 17 at the Talk To The Hat panel, 4:00PM PST, during WonderCon 2012.
An earlier preview for the cover of Secret Avengers #27, the AvX tie-in showed Captain Marvel bursting out of what appears to be Phoenix energy and flanked on each side by Ms. Marvel and Protector.
Could this mean the entity of death and rebirth could give birth to a resurrected Mar-Vell?