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Top Comics Picks for April 22, 2015

The Black Vortex: Omega courtesy Marvel
The Black Vortex: Omega courtesy Marvel

The Black Vortex: Omega An entire planet is about to be devoured to create an Brood army that could infect the galaxy. The Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men are pushed to their limits against Mister Knife and his cosmically empowered enforcers. With billions of lives on the line and some of their allies corrupted, who will submit to the temptation of power the Black Vortex offers. To save the universe, will a X-Man lose their humanity?

Convergence #3 The heroes from Crisis of Infinite Earths are back as Telos unleashes his wrath, an Earth 2 member falls, a Green Lantern goes in search of a time-lost hero for help. Continue reading Top Comics Picks for April 22, 2015

AGE OF APOCALYPSE In SECRET WARS

Age of Apocalypse #1 courtesy Marvel
Age of Apocalypse #1 courtesy Marvel

The Age of Apocalypse comes thundering back in Marvel’s Secret Wars this summer. One of the masterminds of that dark X-Men reality returns for a new story set in the Age he helped create.

In this day and age, publishers cancel entire lines and reboot often but back in 1995 the entire X-Men line was cancelled and these heroic mutants as we knew them vanished. It was a shock. It was a creative gamble. It was an epic alternate universe story that still has impact on the Children of the Atom now.

Professor X’s son rewrote history with just one horrible choice and the Age of Apocalypse was born. Continue reading AGE OF APOCALYPSE In SECRET WARS

KATE PRYDE in X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

Years of Future Past #1 courtesy Marvel
Years of Future Past #1 courtesy Marvel

A new generation of readers cheer for #StarKat but long before Kitty Pryde fell for Star-Lord of Guardians of the Galaxy, she was in love with Colossus.

What if Kitty and Colossus married and had a child?

When Secret Wars launches this summer X-fans will return to the nightmare future of Days of Future Past and a married Peter and Kate.

Marguerite Bennett and Mike Norton return to this timeline created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. In the classic two-part adventure Kate Pryde travel into the past, took over her younger body and stopped an assassination that led to a future in which mutants were hunted, imprisoned or executed by giant Sentinels. This is one of the most powerful and influential X-Men storylines and the inspiration for last year’s hit movie. Continue reading KATE PRYDE in X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

KITTY PRYDE Leads X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

courtesy Marvel
courtesy Marvel

Days of the Future Past is one of the most iconic and influential arcs in X-Men history. In two issues Chris Claremont and John Byrne took us to a dark future in which mutants were hunted, caged or killed by giant Sentinel robots.

An adult Kitty Pryde (with the psionic help of Rachel Summers) went back in time to prevent the assassination that would lead to this nightmare future.

But what if?

Years of Future Past by Marguerite Bennett and Mike Norton shows us a very different future in this upcoming Secret Wars book. Continue reading KITTY PRYDE Leads X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

WHO SURVIVES THE ULTIMATE END?

Ultimate End #1 courtesy Marvel
Ultimate End #1 courtesy Marvel

Will Miles Morales or any Ultimate heroes survive what’s coming?

Two founding fathers of Marvel’s Ultimate line reunite for its final story.

Marvel revealed Ultimate Spider-Man original team Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley will deliver Ultimate End – a five-part limited series tied to Secret Wars.

Bendis and Bagley were part of the team that launched the Ultimate Universe in 2000 with modern takes on iconic characters and where dead meant dead and Nick Fury was Samuel L. Jackson and a new hero named Miles Morales would become a new Spider-Man. Continue reading WHO SURVIVES THE ULTIMATE END?

CHRIS CLAREMONT On Future X-MEN Movies

New Mutants #21 courtesy Marvel
New Mutants #21 courtesy Marvel

Chris Claremont’s vision of the X-Men is the core of Fox’s film franchise. The legendary writer guided the Children of the Atom for nearly two decades in comics. The Dark Phoenix Saga, God Loves Man Kills, Days of Future Past, The Wolverine are iconic stories that inspired the film franchise. Claremont is now working on a treatment for Gambit for Fox.

After X-Men: Apocalypse how does Claremont think the film franchise could evolve?

“With New Mutants, you can appeal to kids and explore the tensions and pressures of young mutants trying to get a handle on their powers and their lives,” Claremont told The Hollywood Report Heat Vision. Continue reading CHRIS CLAREMONT On Future X-MEN Movies

ULTIMATE UNIVERSE SURVIVORS

Ultimate Universe: The End #1 courtesy Marvel
Ultimate Universe: The End #1 courtesy Marvel

The End is coming for the Ultimate Universe.

 

After Ultimatum and Cataclysm claimed the lives of so many heroes is this 2015 event the end of the line for this line?

 

Marvel launched the Ultimate Universe in 2000 with modern takes on iconic characters and where dead meant dead and Nick Fury was Samuel L. Jackson.

 

If this is truly the end of an era will some heroes survive and move into the Marvel 616 universe?

 

Here are our favorite Ultimate characters that should make the move. Continue reading ULTIMATE UNIVERSE SURVIVORS