Top Comics For June 4, 2014

Amazing X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel
Amazing X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel

Amazing X-Men #8 Colossus returns! Alpha Flight guest stars! A whole bunch of man-eating monsters! Chris Yost and Craig Kyle (New X-Men, X-Force) are the new creative team as World War Wendigo begins! Logan goes North, monster outbreak explodes in Canada.

 

Batman Eternal #9 The Dark Knight is Gotham’s Most Wanted as a gang war rocks the city with Jim Gordon in prison. Why does Batman head for Hong Kong for an unholy alliance to save Gotham? Continue reading Top Comics For June 4, 2014

AMAZING X-MEN #8 Preview

Amazing X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel
Amazing X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel

A new creative team takes over Amazing X-Men and bring a prodigal son home this week.

 

Chris Yost and Craig Kyle (New Mutants/New X-Men, X-Force) return to writing the Children of the Atom with Amazing X-Men #8.

 

This marks a second major homecoming in the series. After the Quest for Nightcrawler brought the Fuzzy Elf back now Colossus returns. Continue reading AMAZING X-MEN #8 Preview

X-MEN COSPLAY SALUTE

photo by ComicsBlend
photo by ComicsBlend

X-Men: Days of Future Past is here and generating rave reviews. In honor of the film based on the classic Chris Claremont story and uniting members of the original and First Class casts here’s a salute to some truly astonishing X-fans.

 

This cosplaying duo took inspiration from X-Men: First Class for their appearance at Emerald City Comicon this year.

 

Here are more of the uncanny cosplayers who display their devotion the Children of the Atom! Continue reading X-MEN COSPLAY SALUTE

DANIEL CUDMORE On X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

Courtesy Fox
Courtesy Fox

Daniel Cudmore armors up as Colossus again in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The fan favorite mutant can transform into organic steel. Colossus is among the mutants in a dark future fighting an onslaught of Sentinels.

 

In a new ABC News interview Cudmore was asked if he was a hardcore reader of the comics. Cudmore reveals his first experience with the X-Men was the classic animated series:

 

“I wouldn’t say devoted but I when I was younger I always remember the cartoon was on exactly at 3 o’clock and my elementary school was at the bottom of this really long hills so I sprinted home Continue reading DANIEL CUDMORE On X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

COLOSSUS, WENDIGO In AMAZING X-MEN Preview

Amazing X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel
Amazing X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel

The mutant reunions continue in Amazing X-Men #8 in this preview from Marvel. Following the return of Nightcrawler, an all-new arc begins in issue 8 from new creative team Chris Yost and Craig Kyle.

 

In World War Wendigo Colossus returns to find Kurt Wagner back from the dead and the team faces not one but an outbreak of man eating monsters from the Great North. Alpha Flight guest stars as Wolverine and the X-Men must fight this army of Wendigo. Continue reading COLOSSUS, WENDIGO In AMAZING X-MEN Preview

X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Reveals 25 Moments

X-Men: Days of Future Past courtesy Fox
X-Men: Days of Future Past courtesy Fox

The mix of real and mutant history continues in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

 

In X-Men: First Class the emergence of mutants in the 1960’s was tied to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Cold War between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.

 

On the The Bent Bullet (a viral marketing site for DOFP) it was implied that Magneto was behind the assassination of President F. Kennedy. It’s been reported that Magneto is on prison accused of killing JFK and Wolverine, Professor X and Quicksilver will stage a jail break.

 

Now Fox unveils 25Moments.com which implies how the fight for mutant rights has tied into world history Continue reading X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Reveals 25 Moments

X-MEN COSPLAYERS of EMERALD CITY COMICON

Emerald City Comicon photo by ComicsBlend.com
Emerald City Comicon photo by ComicsBlend.com

Pacific Northwest cosplayers help make Emerald City Comicon such a geek-tacular experience.

 

The Seattle celebration always marks a reunion with new friends you see online and in person (often in costume) at the con. As big at ECCC is growing you can still run into your favorite cosplayers, collectors and fellow fans.

 

I met Ryan and Lauren a few years ago at the Jet City Comic Book Show (also produced by the team behind ECCC) dressed as my favorite Marvel couple: Kitty Pryde and Colossus. Continue reading X-MEN COSPLAYERS of EMERALD CITY COMICON

COLOSSUS Returns in AMAZING X-MEN

Amazing X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel
Amazing X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel

After the Quest for Nightcrawler a new creative team will take over Amazing X-Men and bring a prodigal son home.

 

Chris Yost and Craig Kyle (New Mutants/New X-Men, X-Force) are writing the Children of the Atom again with Amazing X-Men #8.  Colossus is back!

 

After possession by Cyttorak in Fear Itself (in which Peter became Juggernaut) then the Phoenix Force in Avengers vs. X-Men, breaking up with Kitty Pryde Continue reading COLOSSUS Returns in AMAZING X-MEN