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Professor Xavier knows "No More Mutants"… Is this Hank McCoy being the bad guy again? Or do his plans include a repeat for what he did with Colossus? STRANGE ACADEMY #5 MARVEL COMICS SEP200684 (W) Skottie Young (A/CA) Humberto Ramos o The founding of the Strange Academy came with some gigantic risks So far the students and teachers haven't[...]

So, today's Axis will give you two big spoilers. You may already suspect both are coming. But they do have wider impact.... The first, occurring midway

Along with the relaunch of Uncanny Avengers, and ahead of their appearance in the the upcoming Avengers: Age Of Ultron movie, I am told to expect a Scarlet Witch/Quicksilver ongoning series. Spinning out of the first act of Uncanny Avengers, it should explore what this "no more mutants" means. Will it be that they were never mutants and[...]

there have been rumours that Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch would be remade into Inhumans in the upcoming Avengers: Age Of Ultron movie, rather than mutants, as per the Marvel deal with Fox Studios, who own the license to all the mutant X-Men stuff. Could it be happening in the comics ahead of that? From the Marvel[...]

Andrew Wheeler writes for Bleeding Cool The DC reboot is creating the wrong kind of buzz again this week with the launch of Catwoman #1. There are

Andrew Wheeler writes for Bleeding Cool. Axel Alonso’s recent promotion to editor-in-chief at Marvel has given me renewed hope for the publisher’s

In my most recent column I talked about the somewhat too-fervent passion that some superhero fans bring to the subject of diversification. I mentioned

Andrew Wheeler writes for Bleeding Cool; Spot the odd one out in this list: Black Goliath (1975). Black Racer (1971). Black Widow (1964). Black Lightning

One of the defining characteristics of superheroes is that they are people who can do more. They can fly, or read minds, or punch through walls. Even if

Welcome to the fourth instalment of No More Mutants, a series of columns looking at the representation of minorities in superhero comics This week I'm going to cover a subject that I wasn't planning to touch for a while, because it's the subject I'm closest to, and therefore the easiest for me to write about[...]

Quick, name an Asian character in superhero comics! Now name an Asian character who doesn’t know any martial arts! OK, as stereotypes go, that’s probably

As with a lot of comic fans my age, I have a particular fondness for the Australia-era X-Men team. It’s one of comics’ strongest teams – they were

Comics' default position on diversity seems to be one of avoidance – a position that's perfectly summed up by the Scarlet Witch's memorable phrase, 'No more mutants' Those three words might also suggest the best way forward; let's stop talking in metaphors and put the actual minorities in comics, to tell their own stories. It will[...]