Tag: X-Men

Top Comics For June 11, 2014

Uncanny X-Men Special #1 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny X-Men Special #1 courtesy Marvel

Armor Hunters #1 A ruthless strike team is heading to Earth to kill X-O Manowar and seize his alien armor. Earth is the hunting ground and every Valiant hero and villain will be caught up in the war. Valiant’s big event blasts off here in the first chapter by Robert Venditti and Doug Braithwaite.

 

Detective Comics #32 Batman feels the grip of the ruthless crime boss known as the Squid as he races to find a killer. It’s a twisted murder mystery in which Bruce Wayne is a suspect from the creative team that relaunched The Flash into the New 52. Continue reading Top Comics For June 11, 2014

AMAZING X-MEN INSPIRES UNCANNY Flashback

 

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

Amazing X-Men #8 is the beginning of a new arc by a new creative team that will take some fans into the past.

 

This week Craig Kyle and Chris Yost kicked off World War Wendigo. When the leader of Alpha Flight goes missing, Logan goes to Canada to help Heather Hudson find James. The suspenseful issue ends with not one but an outbreak of the man-eating monsters. Can X-Men and Alpha Flight stop the beasts?

 

Amazing X-Men #8 is the first of a five part arc by Kyle, Yost and Ed McGuinness that feels new but nostalgic and reminds me of one the first times a comic book actually scared me! Continue reading AMAZING X-MEN INSPIRES UNCANNY Flashback

AMAZING X-MEN #8 Review

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

Gruesome murders.

Happy reunions.

Sharp toothed monsters

Even sharper humor.

 

Craig Kyle and Chris Yost kick off their return to the mutant mythos with an exciting first issue. The team who created X-23 are back at the mansion with a chapter filled with action, suspense and humor in Amazing X-Men #8.

 

What I loved most is the team’s ability Continue reading AMAZING X-MEN #8 Review

DEADPOOL VS. X-FORCE Preview

Deadpool vs. X-Force #1 courtesy Marvel
Deadpool vs. X-Force #1 courtesy Marvel

Big guns, muscles and pouches plus, bigger guns? It must be the 1990’s.

 

If seeing Warpath and Sunspot in X-Men: Days of Future Past makes you nostalgic for the good old X-Force days then hold on.

 

Warpath, along with Cable, Cannonball, Boom Boom and Domino are back to take on the Merc With a Mouth in a brand new limited series that brings back the original X-Force.

 

Marvel shared a preview of Deadpool vs. X-Force #1 by writer Duane Swierczynski (Cable) and artist Pepe Larraz (Wolverine and the X-Men) with covers by Shane Davis. Continue reading DEADPOOL VS. X-FORCE Preview

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

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Costume Designs Reveal Jubilee

X-Men: Days of Future Past Jubilee design by Phillip Boutte Jr courtesy Concept Art World
X-Men: Days of Future Past Jubilee design by Phillip Boutte Jr courtesy Concept Art World

X-Men: Days of Future Past costume illustrator Phillip Boutte Jr reveals his early costume designs for the sequel with Concept Art World. You can see different early takes on new additions Blink, Warpath and Bishop along with designs for Professor X, Magneto and Storm.

 

The one reveal that might make some fans sigh is Jubilee – who didn’t appear in the film.

 

As you’ll see most of his designs remained the same but others were very different. In fact, the early Blink look was closer to her comic book roots in Generation X.

Continue reading X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Costume Designs Reveal Jubilee