HOXPOX

For the longest time, Brett Booth – artist on Titans, Teen Titans, Flash, Nightwing, Flash Forward and Justice League at DC Comics – has been wanting to work for Marvel again. With a little X-Men under his belt, I understand that Marvel editorial thought his art style was too old fashioned, too "nineties" and associated […]

It's Moira MacTaggert time. In recent issues of Wolverine, from Marvel Comics, a lot has been made of his unique bloodtype, named E for Endless or somesuch. And how it has been farmed by vampires to allow them new powers, including walking in the sun. BLOODWORK There are four groups of blood (A, B, AB, […]

There are three rules that the Quiet Council of Krakoa established, in House Of X. And today's X Of Swords Handbook reminds us of them. Make more mutants being the first. And in today's Captain Marvel #24, featuring Carol Danvers going through her own Days Of Future Past, and meeting up with an older permanently-diamond […]

Marvel's Contest Of Champions continues to be a successful mobile game and recently has an update including elements of recent X-Men titles, including House Of X and the new-look Professor Xavier. How it gets there is a different way of course, this is its own continuity, with Professor Xavier revealing he has always been part […]

We're probably going to be talking a lot about X Of Swords: Creation today. We will start out small and relatively non-spoilery, such as this article, but it may ramp up through the day. When the big spoilers come you will know about it, But for now, we have a new cypher for the Krakoan […]

In fact, it's a pretty good month, because April's Marvel Unlimited offerings include the finale of Jonathan Hickman's X-Men relaunch, HoXPoX, and the start of the Dawn of X, the new era of X-Men comics that sprang out of it.Absolute Carnage, the super-mega-crossover event, continues in April's Marvel Unlimited offerings as well There's also the[...]

This week saw Marvel publish The Road to Empyre, tying up Meet The Skrulls, Incoming and a munch of Kree/Skrull Avengers stories from the past few decades, and a little Young Avengers for good measure, to make some sense of the Kree, Skrulls and Cotati races that seem to be behind much of the upcoming […]

(Marvel Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Mahmud Asrar, Sunny Gho, CLayton Cowles) This issue is messy and funny and splashy and stupid in the doofus-y way of modern cultural imperialism, recklessly risking lives for reasons not even worth discussing and creating chaos where it would have been easy to have peace. The newfound sense of […]

And today, we celebrate... Most Overrated X-Men Relaunch - HoXPoX Sure, maybe it’s because X-Men fans have just been through multiple years of Marvel purposely degrading the status of the X-Men books due to Marvel Chairman Ike Perlmutter’s petty feud with Fox for owning the X-Men movie rights, but when an A-list writer like Jonathan Hickman was[...]

Mister Sinister is one of the Quiet Council of Krakoa. The Victorian geneticist behind Madelyne Pryor. Inferno, Hope Summers and constantly messing with the Summers and the Greys, he's a bit of a baddie. But now part of the Great Krakoan Experiment. But in today's Incoming #1, from Jonathan Hickman and R.B. Silva, we learn […]

In the cutthroat world of comics "journalism," reporters can't just sit around and wait for the news to happen. We have to make the news happen, whatever the cost. And in an internet click economy that incentivizes quantity over quality, there's nothing more important than having a few good sources that are always good for […]

And by "doing our best" of course we mean that we're reading Twitter and seeing what tweets can be spun off into an article with a sensational headline.Thankfully, X-meister Jonathan Hickman is always good for one of those, and today is no different, as Hickman has revealed that, despite enormous fan response to his relaunching[...]

There's Moira MacTaggert's insistence that no mutants with precognitive abilities can be allowed on the island, as well as the scene at the end of HoXPoX that saw Xavier and Magneto ignore Moira's warnings, believing they know better how to proceed with the future of the mutant struggle against humans and machines despite having just[...]

Yesterday's Tony Stark: Iron Man #17 saw Tony go up against Hank Pym/Ultron, with heavy consequences for his team. But over at Bain Electronics, it looks like his brother Arno Stark has been making his own plans. And it could be that they may align with another comic, Jonathan Hickman's current run on the X […]

Here's a look at Pepe Larraz's new cover for the House Of X/Powers Of X hardcover, hitting comic book stores on December 11th, and bookstores on December 24th. A two week lead for the direct market, handy in the run-up to Christmas. That's the standard cover, while the Direct Market-only version not available to bookstores […]

Jonathan Hickman has been answering questions about a certain comics about over at Adventures In Poor Taste, following the conclusion of last week's Powers Of X and before this week's launch of X-Men. Along the way we learnt; The door marked GALM in Krakoan was meant to be MARS, and they got the look of […]

Has it been 12 weeks already? Powers of X #6 was out last week, which means HoXPoX is over Was the relaunch ultimately worth it? Read on to find out...Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox owned their movie rights, The Uncanny X-Men suffered great indignities, but[...]

The House Of X series came to a conclusion today with Powers Of X #6. Spoilers going forward of course. It's that kind of website. At least we wait till the comic is actually published. Mostly. We looked at how the creative team got away with doing the exact same twist in the exact same […]

Today sees the publication of the final issue of House Of X #6, the penultimate issue of HOXPOX with Powers Of X #6 out in a week's time And with this issue we start to see more of what Krakoa will be going forward A nation for mutants, a place apart from the rest of[...]

Last week saw the publication of Powers Of X #5, which laid out a redacted version of the members of the Quiet Council of Krakoa. Including the members from the Hellfire Club, three as requested by Emma Frost. Herself, the White Queen, Sebastian Shaw, the Red King and… one other.   Some sites such as […]