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 […]
The titles of House Of X #6 and Power Of X #6 will be I AM NOT ASHAMED OF WHAT I AM and… HOUSE OF X, respectively. But what of Powers Of X #5?# We see the far, far future, in the time of X3, seemingly so separate from the events of X0 and X1 […]
Hickman posted an image of Phil Noto's House of X #1 variant with Krakoan letters over it which read "Free thighs for a free people."https://twitter.com/JHickman/status/1176335484936695809Of course, there could be other reasons behind Jean's reversion to her past look, but Hickman is taking his time revealing why the X-Men of HoXPoX are so different from the[...]
It's Tuesday morning. The mind wanders… and politics and comic books combine. Shut up, I don't care. Although saying that, any criticism in the comments will ensure I never do this again. Or, ensure I do it anyway in some Nixonian internally-destructive psychological 'I'll-show-em' fashion. Your call. I apologise now.
Plus a filler issue of HoXPoX, Powers of X #5 And maybe I'll recap any X-stuff from Marvel Comics #1000, which DCBS finally sent me two weeks late See you then!Read more X-ual Healing here:A day early because I felt like it, it's X-ual Healing, the internet's number one sex-pun-themed weekly X-Men recap column! This week[...]
Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool looked at a reference in House Of X #5 that replayed a classic scene from Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri's Uncanny X-Men from the eighties. Well, a big thanks to Bleeding Cool reader Danny Devlin, who picked out another from House Of X #2, which took a scene from Grant […]
