Last time I posited that X-Men and X-Men franchise team rosters tended toward seven basic roles that I refer to as The Template, and that series runs that doubled up on too many of these roles or left too many unfulfilled suffered for it. Contrariwise, those runs that hewed closest to The Template were best…
[player id=2311] Introducing Battle of the Atom A new podcast where Bish & Jubez writer Adam Reck and I determine the greatest (& worst) X-Story of all time You can check out our 0 Episode now where I explain the show. The first real episode will go up 8/7 but that episode is already for…
This Editorial comes to us from Everett Christensen. Stories matter, representation matters. Representation impacts how we see others as well as how we see ourselves. If there is a direct critique to be leveled at the X-Men franchise as a whole on this point it is the lack of stories that directly address the present state…
The Weapon Plus program gave us some of the greatest creations in the Marvel universe including Captain America, Wolverine, the Stepford Cuckoos, Fantomex, Allgod, and that Squirrel version of Wolverine. Writer (and I stress writer, not artist) Luz Bianca imagined what some of the less successful Weapons might have looked like…
Name: Sophie, Phoebe, Mindee, Celeste, and Esme Cuckoo Code Names: Stepford Cuckoos, Five-In-One, Four-In-One, Three-In-One, Thousand-In-One, Weapon IVX First Appearance: New X-Men #118 (Nov â01) Powers: Telepathy, Diamond form Teams Affiliation: X-Men About Identical twins are a bizarre concept for me. They are copies of yourself, and not just physically. The major influencing factors in life like…
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Announced last night at the âMarvel: The Next Big Thingâ panel, the creator of the New York Times best-seller Hip-Hop Family Tree Ed Piskor will be the heading a new X-Men mini series called X-Men Grand Design. It will be a 6 issue series of oversized, 40-page comics to be released over the next 3 years. It…
Name: Neena Thurman Code Names: Domino First Appearance: New Mutants #98 (Feb â91) Though it is a bit more complicated than that Powers: Luck Teams Affiliation: X-Force, X-Men, Six Pack, Merc$ for Money About There is a beauty in coincidence. Domino Harvey was the daughter of Academy Award winning actor Laurence Harvey and, if she wanted, she…
Press Release New York, NYâJuly 18, 2017âThis fall, katanas and claws will clash when two of Marvelâs deadliest heroes come together, in a clash you can only imagine! Superstar writer Declan Shalvey (Deadpool, Moon Knight) and fan-favorite artist Mike Henderson (Secret Wars: Battleworld) team up to bring you a regenerative, cranky old X-Man and a…
This Editorial comes to us from Everett Christensen. On Wednesday, the 14th of June 2017, in a comic named Secret Empire – United police with giant yellow Xs on their uniforms brutalized a human at the hearsay of a mutant [1]. This not only dilutes the Mutant Metaphor, it is irrational, irresponsible, and, frankly, dangerous. Any…
Press Release New York, NYâJuly 14, 2017âWhat is the startling secret of Weapon H? Find out in TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #22, on sale 08/16! TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #22: âWEAPONS OF MUTANT DESTRUCTIONâ PART SIX! Written by GREG PAK Art by ROBERT GILL Cover by STONEHOUSE The Weapon X programâs twisted head scientists have finally completed their…
Name: Mortimer Toynbee Code Names: Toad First Appearance: X-Men #4 (March â64) Powers: Jumps good, long tongue, weird spit, experiences lightning the same way everything else does Teams Affiliation: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, The Misfits, The Hellfire Academy About My son is eighteen months old and is really into Disneyâs 2017 remake of Beauty and the Beast….
As reported on Previews World, James Robinson and Carlos Pacheco are out with Cable #150 and Old Man Logan scribe Ed Brisson is in with Thunderbolts artist Jon Malin. Cable will be hunting a time traveling killer and enlisting past versions of Longshot, Shatterstar, Doop, X-23, Blink, and Armor to help him on his quest. Check out the…
Press Release New York, NYâJuly 12, 2017âA teenage girl meeting her future self â it all begins at the Vanishing Point, where past and present and now future collide for epic and game-changing adventures in this story of the GENERATIONS! Teenage Jean Grey is willing to do whatever it takes to avoid the fate that befell…
There are a lot of models for how to assemble an ensemble cast. Some of it is going to be dictated by the showâs concept and setting – Star Trek modeled its cast after the functions of a ship at sea (or space as the case may be): A captain, first officer, helm, security, medical,…