That man is Cullen Bunn, and along with Marcus To, Matt Milla, and Joe Caramagna, Bunn has left Cyclops fans with a message of hope and optimism in the final issue of X-Men Blue.
And you can read all about it in X-ual Healing, the weekly X-Men recap column, that starts now…
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Next week sees the end of X-Men Blue with the publication of X-Men Blue #36 by Cullen Bunn, Marcus To, Matt Milla, and Joe Caramagna It's a bittersweet end, as we're looking forward to the Uncanny X-Men reboot, but we'll miss this book, especially because it's the only X-Men comic with a Cyclops! Seriously, Marvel,[...]
We're just two issues away from the end of X-Men Blue, and one of those issues is in stores next week A preview of X-Men #35 sees time-displaced teenage Jean Grey reunited (and it feels so good) with resurrected adult Jean Grey, reminiscing about that time they face Galactus in Generations: Phoenix and Jean Grey,[...]
Annuals, Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends, and Rick and Morty: this week had a ton of major releases. What were the best and worst? Read here to find out.
With X-Men Blue ending with issue #36 and the Extermination X-over event already begin, things are looking grim for the time-displaced original X-Men Sadly, it's not just the teen X-Men we'll be saying goodbye to Genetically-engineered super-writer Cullen Bunn took to Twitter this week to say goodbye to the X-Men franchise as a whole, as[...]
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Magneto is confronted by the future incarnations of his X-Men Blue team They blame him for the death and destruction that surrounds them However, the other surviving mutants laud Erik as a savior The question is the same as it always has been: is Magneto a devil or a savior? Magneto intends to make[...]
Extermination continues with the X-Men reeling from the deaths of Bloodstorm and Cable. They try to protect the young X-Men from Ahab. Is it a good read?
Now, the future adult time-displaced teenage version of Cyclops starring in X-Men Blue has been revealed to sport a haircut 20 years in the future that resembles that of Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer.
Previously, a Richard Spencer haircut has been reserved for jerks like Superior Octopus…
Or Quentin Quire, though Quire may have actually had the haircut before[...]
In the present, the X-Men Blue team saves a pair of young French mutants from a hate mob in Chicago They bring the mutants back to the Xavier Institute for care Later, Cyclops and Bloodstorm are ambushed while at dinner, and Iceman is attacked on his way back from a play.
Extermination #1 cover by Mark[...]
Magneto, fleeing the X-Men, has escaped into the future. He finds a wasteland he believes must be of his making. Is it? Does it make for a good read?
Go read a review for that, you… intellXual!
It's the way X-Men comics were meant to be read! It's the column that can only be known as…
For more about the column, check out the reboot issue here.
X-MEN BLUE #32
CULLEN BUNN (W) • JORGE MOLINA (A)
COVER BY R.B[...]
Can the X-Men save Emma's life? Can this team be salvaged?
X-Men Blue #32 cover by R.B Silva and Rain Beredo
As we've established, I'm an easy sale when it comes to compelling Magneto stories, and X-Men Blue continues to provide one with this comic It's not often we get a wounded and vulnerable Magneto, but Cullen[...]
Seriously, how do you have the greatest writer in the history of comics on the payroll and just not use him for anything?
It's the way X-Men comics were meant to be read! It's the column that can only be known as…
For more about the column, check out the reboot issue here.
X-MEN BLUE #31
CULLEN BUNN (W)
JORGE MOLINA (A)
COVER BY[...]
Thankfully, she can provide the help they need.
X-Men Blue #31 cover by R.B Silva and Rain Beredo
This is the kind of story I've been craving since the beginning of X-Men Blue: Magneto on a rampage and bringing arguably righteous yet brutal justice to the wicked of the world Emma Frost is a good target for[...]
With her sister Gabby and their pet Jonathan in tow, X-23 forges her own destiny in this new series by Mariko Tamaki (HULK, HUNT FOR WOLVERINE: CLAWS OF A KILLER) and Juann Cabal (ALL-NEW WOLVERINE, ELEKTRA).
1- 40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99;
X-MEN BLUE #31
CULLEN BUNN (W)
JORGE MOLINA (A)
COVER BY R.B SILVA
MAGNETO: HELLFIRE HUNTER!
• After the events of[...]
Seriously, how do you have the greatest writer in the history of comics on the payroll and just not use him for anything?
It's the way X-Men comics were meant to be read! It's the column that can only be known as…
For more about the column, check out the reboot issue here.
X-MEN BLUE #30
CULLEN BUNN (W)
NATHAN STOCKMAN (A)
COVER BY[...]
This is something that Daken and Jimmy must hash out themselves.
X-Men Blue #30 cover by R.B Silva and Rain Beredo
Let's get one thing out of the way: the fight between Poison-ized Jimmy Hudson and Daken is objectively awesome Whatever issues I may (do) have with X-Men Blue #30, that fight gives at least one cool[...]
Perhaps making way for that Uncanny X-Men reboot, both X-Men Gold and X-Men Blue will be ending in September, according to the Marvel solicitations Who was it that predicted that again? Pip pip.
Both series have a "final issue variant" for their 36th issues, which is as solid a confirmation as we get these days[...]
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 with a corporate merger on the way, the X-Men can finally get back to doing what they do best: being objectively the best franchise in comics.
Each week, armed with the joy, heartbreak, and[...]
Wolverine, of course, sided with the Avengers and Captain America, who were portrayed as heroes during the vent, even while an arrogant Iron Man used technology to split the Phoenix Force into five unwitting X-Men, who used the Phoenix's power to make the world a better place before the Avengers branded them villains and took[...]
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 with a corporate merger on the way, the X-Men can finally get back to doing what they do best: being objectively the best franchise in comics.
Each week, armed with the joy, heartbreak, and[...]
The X-Men are at the mercy of Miss Sinister as the Mothervine turns the world into mutants. Magneto tries to fight the spread on the ground, but who will save his X-Men? Does it make for a good read?
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 with a corporate merger on the way, the X-Men can finally get back to doing what they do best: being objectively the best franchise in comics.
Each week, armed with the joy, heartbreak, and[...]
Welcome back to X-ual Healing, the weekly recap column where we obsessively read every X-Men and X-Men-adjacent comic that Marvel publishes, tell you what happens, provide additional context where necessary, and examine whether the comic makes good use of the long and convoluted history of the X-Men by referencing it in a way that's accessible[...]
Is that even possible? We're about to find out!
X-MEN BLUE #25
CULLEN BUNN (W) • JORGE MOLINA (A/C)
VENOM 30TH VARIANT COVER BY TBA
Cry Havok Part 3
MAGNETO comes face-to-face with HAVOK, with the fate of mutantkind hanging in the balance.
EMMA FROST, MISS SINISTER and BASTION have formed an unholy alliance, and now is the time for them[...]
With a Marvel/Fox deal on the horizon, the Fantastic Four can return, but more importantly, Marvel can give a crap about the X-Men again!
But will they?!
Each week, we aim to recap what happened in all of the X-books, make a few jokes, and struggle to survive the experience as we reckon our love for our[...]
The X-Men are still missing, leaving it to the remaining members, Jimmy Hudson, Polaris, Bloodstorm, and Briar Raleigh to rebuild the team. Meanwhile, Magneto battles the Hellfire Club's Black King. Is it a good read?
But are these comics worth taking out a second mortgage to read?
Let's look at X-Men Blue #23 and find out…
X-MEN: BLUE #23
CULLEN BUNN (W)
JORGE MOLINA (A/C)
NEW MUTANTS VARIANT COVER BY CLAYTON CRAIN
Cry Havok Part 1
• With the X-MEN lost in space, EMMA FROST, HAVOK, BASTION and MISS SINISTER hatch their devious plans!
• Is there a[...]
We'll obsessively buy and read all of these X-Men comics until the day we die, no matter how bad they get! And if we're going to do that anyway, we might as well document the experience for you, our dear readers, brothers and sisters and non-binary siblings in suffering.
This week there are five regular-priced X-Books on the stands,[...]
Venom and the X-Men come under attack by the Poisons, in control of Jean Grey and Killer Thrill. According to Venom, this means Jean Grey is dead. Can she still be saved? Is Venom wrong? Is it a good read?