Top 5 Comic Books for June 5, 2013

Age of Ultron #9 courtesy Marvel
Age of Ultron #9 courtesy Marvel

Age of Ultron #9 Logan’s radical act to prevent Ultron’s victory created a bizarre new reality! How will the Marvel heroes make the world right again? Wolverine vs. Wolverine – to the death?

All-New X-Men #12 Summers vs. Summers! The young X-Men clash with the Uncanny Avengers! How will Young Scott react upon seeing the adult “little brother” he thought he would never see again?

Detective Comics #21 The girl who saved Batman returns! Harper Row wants to join the Dark Knight on a case that goes back to the beginning of The New 52 but will Continue reading Top 5 Comic Books for June 5, 2013

No Cyclops, No Havok in X-Men: Days of Future Past

Uncanny Avengers #9 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny Avengers #9 courtesy Marvel

Havok has been elevated to Marvel flagship book Uncanny Avengers but he’s missing from the next X-Men movie. Alex Summers was recruited by Captain America and Wolverine to lead the new team made of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and mutants. Alex is stepping out of his big brother’s shadow and forging a new hope for mutants. Scott Summers killed Professor X while under the influence of the Phoenix Force and has since formed a mutant team dedicated to the mutant revolution.

Both Summers brothers appear to be out of the next X-Men film. The cast of the original trilogy (Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Daniel Cudmore) will join Continue reading No Cyclops, No Havok in X-Men: Days of Future Past

Cyclops In CABLE AND X-FORCE!

Cable and X-Force #6 courtesy Marvel
Cable and X-Force #7 courtesy Marvel

The family reunion you’ve been waiting for!

Cyclops face to face with his son in Cable and X-Force #7 out this week!

Scott and his revolution team recruited new students away from Logan’s school in the All-New X-Men #10 and Uncanny X-Men #4 crossover by Brian Michael Bendis.

Will Scott try to lure a member of Cable’s crew to his new Xavier School?

Here’s what writer Dennis Hopless says of the Cyclops/Cable dynamic:

“They’re both arrogant tacticians who prefer giving orders to explaining themselves. Their relationship is more complicated because Scott didn’t get the opportunity to raise Nate. Cable respects Cyclops, but as a peer not a parent. And yet, nature beat out nurture in this case because Scott ended up with a son who shares his most irritating personality traits.”

This stunning Salvador Larroca cover to Cable and X-Force #7 says it all: Daddy’s Home.

This will be the first time Cyclops and Cable have reunited since Scott formed the new Uncanny X-Men. How will Nathan respond?

For more of the interview here’s the Marvel.com link.

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X-MEN Showdown Round Two!

Uncanny X-Men #4 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny X-Men #4 courtesy Marvel

Who says you can’t go home again? It’s easy when you have a demon sorceress/mutant teleporter on your side!

Cyclops, Magik, Magneto and Emma Frost arrived at the Jean Grey School in All-New X-Men #10 last week. Scott welcomed the staff and students of Wolverine’s school to join the new Xavier School. Some of the Jean Grey School students agreed to join Cyclops and the issue ended with a cliffhanger:

Will a member of Yesterday’s X-Men join Scott’s revolution?

This week in Uncanny X-Men #4 the action continues but will we learn who Continue reading X-MEN Showdown Round Two!

X-MEN Showdown!

All-New X-Men #10 courtesy Marvel
All-New X-Men #10 courtesy Marvel

All-New X-Men #10 is the showdown we’ve been waiting for since Brian Michael Bendis took on the Children of the Atom. Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magneto and Magik arrive at the Jean Grey School to recruit Logan’s students and staff away…to the new Xavier School.

Wolverine does not take it well.

There’s a passionate debate over what it means to be an X-Man, who shares responsibility for Avengers vs. X-Men and the Professor’s death. There’s a lot of talk but it’s so masterfully written and drawn. This All-New versus Uncanny X-Men is not an action packed showdown but an intense, impassioned, thought-provoking conflict on what it means to be a mutant in the post-AvX world.

Beast may have brought the young X-Men from the past into the present to change Scott but the future shock is affecting the once “innocent” X-Men in unexpected ways.

Mystique and Sabretooth continue their violent crime spree putting the mutant conflict on the front burner of S.H.I.E.L.D. and we’re left with a cliffhanger that made mutant jaws drop! Will an X-Man switch sides or this just a new twist of Bendis’s plots within plots?

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UNCANNY X-MEN Previews Magik Mystery!

Uncanny X-Men #5 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny X-Men #5 courtesy Marvel

The mystery of Magik!

The mutant once called “little snowflake” has become a she-devil that’s made life hell for her fellow mutants and older brother, Colossus.

Uncanny X-Men #5 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny X-Men #5 courtesy Marvel

During Avengers vs. X-Men – Illyana, Emma Frost, Cyclops, Colossus and Namor were possessed by the Phoenix Force. All of the hosts and Magneto have paid a heavy price and their mutant powers have been twisted and weakened. Only Illyana survived unscathed. Magik is even more powerful. Why?

The dark shadowy Continue reading UNCANNY X-MEN Previews Magik Mystery!

All-New X-Men, Kitty Pryde in Control

All-New X-Men #6 courtesy Marvel
All-New X-Men #6 courtesy Marvel

Mystique and Sabretooth are showcased in all their mutant malevolence on the cover of this week’s All-New X-Men #9 but Kitty Pryde is the star of this latest chapter by Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen so I chose this commanding cover to issue 6 for this story.

I remember way back when Kitty was calling herself Sprite (or was it Ariel? She changed code names and costumes so much back then!) and Kitty didn’t join to join the X-Babies (aka the original New Mutants.) The phasing mutant may have had trouble finding her identity then but Kitty Pryde is confident in her new role as teacher in All-New X-Men and it’s amazing to see and a joy to read. Jason Aaron started the transformation of Kitty when he made her co-headmaster of the Jean Grey School. Under Brian Michael Bendis, Kitty has assumed the role of teacher/mentor/taskmaster to the original X-Men who Beast brought into the future.
I love seeing Kitty being cool and confident as she drills tactics Continue reading All-New X-Men, Kitty Pryde in Control

Kitty Pryde & Colossus at Emerald City Comicon

photo by Josh Lewis courtesy KOMONEWS.COM
photo by Josh Lewis courtesy KOMONEWS.COM

Kitty Pryde and Colossus on the Northwest are back! This is one of my favorite cosplay couples portraying my favorite Marvel couple. This Kitty & Colossus are always updating their cosplay. Kitty added Lockheed at the Jet City Comic Book Show and this year at Emerald City Comicon the X-woman added a space helmet! Looks like Peter Rasputin bulked up his costume too.

While I was trying to attend panels, get scoop and be an all-out fanboy Josh Lewis of KOMONEWS.COM and Seattle Pulp was like Multiple Man Continue reading Kitty Pryde & Colossus at Emerald City Comicon