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 […]
In today's Excalibur #9. Pete Wisdom has a rather stereotypical view on life on Krakoa. Brian Braddock isn't a mutant, you see. Only his siblings and his wife are. But how much nudity is there really on Krakoa, anyway, Pete Wisdom…? …. oh yes, point taken. And it does seem to be the reputation the […]
Once upon a time, Jonathan Hickman wrote the Fantastic Four. A part of a long-running storyline that continued into his run on Avengers and into Secret Wars, that included this scene from FF #6, with Black Bolt. Which was rather mirrored in this week's X-Men #8 with Vulcan. Which is underlined with reports on Marvel […]
(Image Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Mike Huddleston, Rus Wooton) With enough supplementary material to make a good chunk of a series bible, this stylish and slick new series has clearly spent a lot of development time with worldbuilding, sussing out how things are to effect character interactions. It's gorgeous looking, and has a super […]
(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 […]
Okay, this is weird. Really weird. Today sees the publication of Decorum #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston from Image Comics. And the release of X-Men #8 by Jonathan Hickman and Mahmud Asrar . And there's a connection. No, not that Jonathan Hickman has created another cypher language for the comic. Or the use […]
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X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman held court at the Marvel Fanfare panel at C2E2 last Friday, alongside Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski and Immortal Hulk writer Al Ewing. The trio discussed getting into comics and getting their first Marvel Comics. Hickman, according to Newsarama's live blog, said he got his at a 7-11 as a kid, and […]
C2E2 kicked off today, and Bleeding Cool ace reporter David Pierce was on hand at an X-Men writer signing event at the show. Naturally, we instructed Pierce to find out the answers to the questions Bleeding Cool readers really want to know, and what question could be more important when it comes to X-Men comics […]
(Marvel Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, Sunny Gho and Clayton Cowles) Chuck full of philosophical ponderings and ineffable questions, this issue is heavy on concept and light on actual happenings. Imagine, if you will, that you took a message board discussion of the morality and theories behind mutant resurrection, a core element […]
Not too long ago, Bleeding Cool ran the story, What If… DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes and 5G Were Planning a Similar Story to House Of X? I wrote of X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman, Before he took the Marvel shilling (and I understand it was a sizeable shilling) I get the word that he proposed Legion […]
Today, Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey & Emma Frost #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Russell Dauterman is published by Marvel Comics. But it is possible you might get a feeling of deja vu. But first, let's have a once-upon-a-time… A couple of decades ago, Marvel Comics publisher Bill Jemas decided that it would be a great […]
Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman has been bucking tradition since he began his HoXPoX relaunch of the X-Men last Summer. While many comic book creators, for example, believe that the story should be told in the form of actual comics, Hickman prefers to relay large chunks of key information in infographics or prose pages. Hickman has […]
The next edition of Giant-Size X-Men has chosen a worthy subject and an even worthier creative team. In April, Marvel will publish Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler by Jonathan Hickman and Alan Davis, as revealed on the publisher's Pull List podcast. The issue will feature Nightcrawler investigating a disturbance at the Graymalkin Habitat of Krakoa, which is […]
Each week in X-ual Healing, Bleeding Cool's weekly X-Men recap column, we choose the X-book which that week provided the most satisfying X-Men reading experience, filling one's belly like a juicy sausage grilled by a hairy Canadian with his adamantium claws on a hot Summer day. As we enter the new year of 2020, and […]
Here you go folks, in full, the Top 100 Power List of Comics, 2019 Edition. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the English-speaking comic book industry, weighted towards the direct market. It is judged by all manner of attributes, the ability to influence what comics exist and sell, […]
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 baddi., 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 […]
We mentioned Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston's new series Decorum on the front cover for Diamond Previews earlier as well as part of the full solicitations for Image Comics for March 2020. But here's a preview of the first issue, three months out… DECORUM #1 WRITER: JONATHAN HICKMAN ARTIST / COVERS A & B: MIKE […]
Next week's Diamond Comic Distributors' Previews catalogue, for comics shipping in March 2020 and beyond, should reach comic stores by Friday 27th, territory-depending. And on its front cover, a new comic book by Jonathan Hickman of East of West and House Of X and Mike Huddleston of Harley Quinn, The Strain and Butcher Baker described […]
