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Previews for All of This Week's X-Men Comics in One Place [8/29/18]

Published Sun, 26 Aug 2018 12:30:30 -0500

Each week, Marvel sends out previews of all their comics shipping on the coming Wednesday. To some websites. Not to this website. We've asked, but crickets. That's their prerogative, of course.

You might think, in the year 2018, Marvel would just post their weekly previews on Instagram or Imgur so that they could be shared virally with little effort, but that's the way the comic book industry works in a nutshell. In the comics business, the need to sustain the direct market system which serves as the primary distribution method of the superhero-industrial complex requires intentionally sabotaging growth opportunities. You might sell millions of digital comics if you priced them at 99 cents, but direct market retailers would be beside themselves. Just look at what happened when DC tried to sell a few comics at Walmart. Publishers need retailers and retailers need publishers. It's a symbiotic relationship.

The 24-hour comics news system, which is the primary method of publicity for the superhero-industrial complex, is the same thing. Publishers need comic book websites to provide fluff interviews to their editors and creative teams, post previews and reviews of comics, and make a big deal out of whatever transparent gimmick publishers have come up with sell comics in any given months. Super-mega-crossover events, #1 issue reboots, variant cover bonanzas, all that stuff isn't going to hype itself. And websites need publishers, because those fluff interviews and previews and reviews and press releases about super-mega-crossover events and #1 issue reboots and variant cover bonanzas provide form the substance of the click-garnering articles that pay the bills when churned out at a pace and volume that must be maintained regardless of whether there's anything actually worth writing about.

But there is another way! By which we mean, we can just go to the PreviewsWorld website and download them with, which is what did before looking through for any opportunities for clickbait articles of our own (click click click click click) and then uploading all the X-Men ones here.

Enjoy.

Extermination #2
(W) Ed Brisson (A) Pepe Larraz (CA) Mark Brooks
Cyclops. Iceman. Angel. Beast. Marvel Girl. The original team of teen mutants brought together by Professor Charles Xavier many years ago have been shunted through time to find a world they barely recognize but were determined to help. Now, finding themselves targeted for death, the future of mutantkind lies squarely in the hands of its past. Writer Ed Brisson (OLD MAN LOGAN, CABLE) and artist Pepe Larraz (UNCANNY AVENGERS, AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER) answer the biggest question of all: can the fate of the X-Men be changed?
Rated T+
In Shops: Aug 29, 2018
SRP: $3.99

Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends
(W) Charles Soule (A) Ramon Rosanas (CA) Marco Checchetto
THE HUNT IS OVER.
The hunt for Wolverine is over… Now the time has come to put the pieces together and see what was learned. Kitty Pryde, Daredevil, Tony Stark and Sabretooth may have found what they were looking for…but it wasn't what they expected. Where has Wolverine been? What has he been doing?
Parental Advisory
In Shops: Aug 29, 2018
SRP: $4.99

X-Men Grand Design: Second Genesis #2 (of 2)
W) Ed Piskor (A/CA) Ed Piskor
SPACE INVADERS!
The Shi'ar! The Brood! The Starjammers! Watch as Marvel's merry mutants take to the stars for the very first time all over again. See the inaugural X-Men adventures of Kitty Pryde and Carol Danvers. Marvel at the conclusion of the now-classic DARK PHOENIX SAGA. A great entry point for new and lapsed X-Men fans alike!
Rated T+
In Shops: Aug 29, 2018
SRP: $5.99

X-Men Blue #34
(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Marcus To (CA) R. B. Silva
• Time-traveling Magneto must team up with the future counterpart X-Men in order to save mutantkind from extinction.
• But in order to do so, will Magneto submit to his darker instincts?
• Don't miss a major turning point for the Master of Magnetism!
Rated T+
In Shops: Aug 29, 2018
SRP: $3.99

New Mutants: Dead Souls #6 (of 6)
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(W) Matthew Rosenberg (A) Adam Gorham (CA) Ryan Stegman
• The shocking conclusion is here!
• Magik and the New Mutants have been wondering what their true mission is, and what they discover will shake them to their core!
• Secrets will be revealed…questions will be answered…and it will be the worst thing that's ever happened to them.
Rated T+
In Shops: Aug 29, 2018
SRP: $3.99

Deadpool Assassin #6
W) Cullen Bunn (A/CA) Mark Bagley
• After the shocking events of last issue, Wade Wilson is out for revenge…
• …and nobody dishes out revenge quite like the Merc With a Mouth.
• Especially when he's slicin' and dicin' a bunch of assassins who took away someone he cares about.
Parental Advisory
In Shops: Aug 29, 2018
SRP: $3.99

Exiles #7
(W) Saladin Ahmed (A) Rod Reis (CA) Mike McKone
Blink's original time-traveling companions make an appearance, including fan-favorites Sabretooth, Morph and Nocturne! And they're just in time for a showdown with the gunslinging Brotherhood of Evil Mutants! But what does that mean for Blink and her NEW family of Exiles? And the Exiles aren't the only familiar faces in town. They call him "King," and you do not want to find yourself in his Vibranium crosshairs. Who is the Black Panther of the Wild West – and what does he want with the Exiles?!
Rated T+
In Shops: Aug 29, 2018
SRP: $3.99