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We met up a few weeks back and had a really fascinating chat, talking up a storm about Jack the Giant Slayer, about X-Men: Days of Future Past, and then also about a whole lot more besides. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today When Bryan Singer Convinced Me That Apocalypse Is The Villain Of X-Men: Days Of Future Past  You'll[...]

It's the big X-Men #1 relaunch by Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel for Marvel NOW It has variant covers by Terry Dodson, Milo Manara, Skottie Young, Nick Bradshaw and more It's part of the X-Men Fiftieth Anniversary, it has the return of Jubilee and it has a female cast. It is also going to be late[...]

Note the lack of white. (This is far from the worst example, but one of the few where I've got new and old versions of the same image.) Cognitive Dissonance and the Uncanny Valley There's a concept called 'uncanny valley' (which has nothing to do with the X-Men). The idea is that, if you want something to look right,[...]

From All New X-Men #8… Unus The Untouchable first appeared in X-Men #8, where the guys met him for the first time.Except, there's a problem Because also in Uncanny X-Men #8, this happened. The All New X-Men were whisked away to their future and our present at the beginning of the events from X-Men #8 They only[...]

X-Men keep on slippin' into the future: The first casting calls for X-Men: Days of Future Past state, pretty plainly, that "most of the film" will be set in 1973 This means a gap of over ten years since the events X-Men First Class. Most-Read Comic Stories Today – Red Robin, Guardians of the Galaxy The Changing Costumes[...]

Patrick Willems writes; Mike really got a Game of Thrones tattoo, so we figured we might as well make fun of it in a video.

And in a medium full of fight scenes, why not a celebration of the ancient art of sticking your tongue down the throat of another. Spoilers, naturally… Wolverine & The X-Men Phonogram Young Avengers Uncanny X-Force Wolverine & The X-Men Avengers A + X Wolverine & The X-Men Oh Toad, get with the programme Hmm… all this snogging this week was from Marvel[...]

Advance reorders on Uncanny X-Men #1 are at the top of the chart, but challenged by the Walking Dead Governor Special as retailers wake up to the news that its schedule has been shunted forward to coincide with the return of the TV show to the schedule. Star Wars #2 makes a strong showing, reflecting demand[...]

Greg Capullo gives him a look of the Dark Knight Superman don't you think? And as Kitty Pryde helps Jean Grey come to terms with her telepathic powers in All New X-Men… did you catch the thought bubble, bottom right? Let's zoom in. Maggott's back? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. So what have you been reading today? Yes,[...]

X-Men by Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel, beginning in April: Looks like we were on the money with that XX teaser the other week, an X-Men book by Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel with a female-centric theme. Most-Read Comic Stories Today – X-Men, I Vampire Marvel Launches An All-Female X-Men Book Called X-Men. Looks like we were on the[...]

It stars Jubillee, with Storm, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Rachel and Psylocke as support cast, and coloured by Laura Martin. It's called X-Men The temptation to call it X-Women was valiantly resisted. And they're bringing back Sublime. With Fearless Defenders and Uncanny X-Force, Marvel do seem to be raising their game in this regard somewhat. Looks like we were[...]

JD Church writes, based on a piece we ran yesterday; Is it impossible for Beast to be an atheist in the amazing world that he lives? After all, he’s

I'm not going to duel with dualism here. In the new All New X-Men however, Beast makes his position on the matter clear Except it's complete nonsense Not for anyone reading the book, but for anyone living in the Marvel Universe. This is a man who has served on the Avengers with Thor, God Of Thunder And even[...]

From the Marvel AR for All New X-Men #5 The Beasts that could have been, from the Marvel Bullpen Using their design-a-character templates. And while we're at it, here's a look at some of the Iron Man Space Armour design as well… [...]

In the curent All New X-Men comic, we have a very poorly Beast And a Beast from the past trying to help cure him. Does he succeed? In this preview of All New X-Men #6 posted by iFanboy, we see the X-Men in the school dining room. The table nearest us has the pupils of the Jean Grey[...]

You can do it with pure telepathy, as Jean Grey discovers in All-New X-Men, out today. Kid Apocalypse, in Wolverine & The X-Men, has the aid of some revelatory mirrors to show his desire to be, well, Superman it seems Including a swipe file from the cover of Action Comics #1. X-Men Legacy is nothing but this[...]

It stays strong in my mind, the John Romita Jr/Chris Claremont run on Uncanny X-Men Rachel as Phoenix, techno organic virus, the Trial Of Magneto, Sir James Jaspers… some of my favourites And now I have an excuse to buy them all over again That is if Thomas Mason's recently recoloured page is anything to[...]

Deadpool continues to have some fun with the Justice League Of America 52 state cover variants, with this cover for Uncanny X-Men #1… "Ornithology is one of America's greatest past times," mentioned Senior Editor Nick Lowe "With Inauguration day and Spring just around the corner – we could think of no better way than to celebrate[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkd_sJqdJX8[/youtube] Think About The Ink presents; Celebrate the upcoming X-Men Days of Future Past movie, hitting theaters in 2014, with a comics review You love Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue and more so why not get to know those characters on the comic book page? Host Grace Randolph from Beyond The Trailer gives[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCVaYADzt0U[/youtube] Think About The Ink presents: Jennifer Lawrence and Rebecca Romijn have both played Mystique, and one or both will star in X-Men Days of Future Past 2014 Rebecca Romijn originated the role in X-Men, X2 and X-Men The Last Stand, but Jennifer Lawrence made the role her own in X-Men First Class[...]

Time keeps slipping into the future: Thrilled to announce @ianmckellen118 & @SirPatStew are joining the cast of #XMEN #DaysOfFuturePast #magneto #professorX More to come… Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Report: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Batman In Justice League Earlier in the year, Zack Snyder's comments regularly seemed to suggest that his Superman would be different from the Justice League movie Superman. X-Men[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2Cq9BDwq4[/youtube] From the Marvel AR at the end of X-Men: Legacy #1, in case you don't have smartphone/tablet access, Si Spurrier answers his critics Followed by editor Daniel Ketchum interviewing his mother about the cover…     [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2Cq9BDwq4[/youtube] From the Marvel AR at the end of X-Men: Legacy #1, in case you don't have smartphone/tablet access, Si Spurrier answers[...]

Why am I getting flashes to that Joe Kelly issue of Deadpool? The scene we saw at the end of All-New X-Men Brian Bendis didn't just pull it out of the ether. It was by Stan and Jack! From X-Men #8… Why am I getting flashes to that Joe Kelly issue of Deadpool? The scene we saw[...]

To be fair, there were suddenly a lot of X-Men-titled books With Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine & The X-Men, All New X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, X-Men Legacy, Astonishing X-Men, X-Treme X-Men and X-Men. That last, adjectiveless version has now been cancelled by Marvel It began as a third central X-Men title to exploit the media's taste for vampires[...]

We told you a while ago that Paul Cornell was wrapping up his DC Universe titles to work for Marvel. And now iFanboy seem to have made it official, teamed

The last page of today's Wolverine & The X-Men Massive spoilers, obviously. So who have we got in Killgore's new little troop? Well Sauron, obviously, or one of his brood A Cloak-alike with Darkness-style creatires inside him? A junior Wendigo? A female junior Mojo? Some kind of angel of death and a thin Sumo wrestler? Help[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjArLh_27-s[/youtube] Aaron Haaland writes; OMG! This week has everything! So many great books and new launches! Batman Death of the Family has Batman, Batgirl, and Suicide Squad #14 and well as the 2nd prints of the #13 tie-ins! Poor, poor Alfred! Marvel Now put out too many launches for one freaking week! All New X-Men #1 by Bendis was[...]

I've made no secret that I really enjoyed Kieron Gillen's run on Uncanny X-Men, after not enjoying the book for some time before that, despite the best efforts of some of my favourite comic creators F rom the Hope/Namor buddy comics to the militarisation of Cyclops to the many machinations of Mister Sinister (who now looks[...]

I had the chance to read All New X-Men #1 at NYCC Sorry, should have said. It is one of those books where you know the core concept going in, and then you get that core concept revealed at the end as some kind of cliffhanger Except of course you knew it going in, they're on[...]

I'll send you a pic, but my face will be covered. Well, since Scott Summers and Emma Frost are no longer a couple, might we see that sort of thing on Craigslist. Brian Bendis officially confirmed that the comic he is writing for Chris Bachalo will be Uncanny X-Men, which nicely ties up a Bleeding Cool rumour[...]