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An AI artist imagines the return of Chuck Austen to the X-Men
So we asked LOLtron to come up with an idea for an evergreen — a highly prized form of clickbait that is not time-sensitive and can be reused again and again — to meet an editorial mandate here at Bleeding Cool, and it came up with 5 Stories Chuck Austen Should Write When He Returns[...]
Interior preview page from X-MEN #18 MARTIN COCCOLO COVER
This week, we at Bleeding Cool have a Wolverine-filled preview of X-Men #18! Old Woman Wolverine meets resurrected young Wolverine in this Wolverines of Future Past preview.  What is it with Wolverines and doubles? Just sayin'! Joining me is Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron Don't worry, I'm watching it closely and have warned it[...]
Marvel Comics Digital Readers Get Dark Web X-Men #3 Instead Of #2
But this last week, it seems that buyers of the Dark Web X-Men comic book got a little more than they expected. Dark Web X-Men #2 was published last week, the second part of a three-part tie-in with the Dark Web Spider-Man/X-Men crossover event But those who redeemed their code, didn't get a digital version of[...]
Auto Draft
X-Men Red #10 featured this scene, with Cable creating a techno-organic suit for himself from his aggressors Looking to take on Orbis Stellaris "man-to-man… and quite literally face-to-face", with the intergalactic arms dealer literally coming our of his shell But the phrase is another dive for Al Ewing and Stefano Caselli … …as it refers to a[...]
The Sins Of Sinister Hiding In Plain Sight
Which Sinisters have yet to play their hands?" One gets revealed in X-Men Red #10 today… and it's one that fan theory had lined up. Weapons dealer and ambassador to Arakko from the Galactic Rim, Orbis Stellaris Previously tagged over a) being 189 years old, which would place his birth in the Victorian era with Mister[...]
Scarlet Witch
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for X-Men #4 in 1963 (so she is 60 this year) as part of Magneto's Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants, originally with a mutant ability to alter probability, she was later revealed not to be a mutant at all, but an experiment by the Human Evolutionary, and a powerful[...]
Marauders Gives Krakoa An Even Earlier Origin (XSpoilers)
It once was Okkara, a mighty mutant island that was split in two, Krakoam and Arakko, the latter lost to another dimension. Divided into two by Apocalypse and his very First Horsemen. The story was revisited in X-Men before the X Of Swords event, as Krakoa reached out to Arakko and brought them home – before terraforming[...]
Al Ewing Is Doing Sunspot And Mission Impossible Again
And Robert DaCosta using a Mission Impossible-style rubber mask. Mission: Impossible began as a 1966 espionage TV series and ran for seven years, was revived in 1988 for two years and then inspired the series of movies starring Tom Cruise from 1996, and which kept the original theme tune in the heads of viewers, that otherwise[...]
Interior preview page from X-MEN RED #10 RUSSELL DAUTERMAN COVER
Welcome to the Bleeding Cool preview of X-Men Red #10, where Storm battles a newly reinvigorated Vulcan! As always, my partner in crime, Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron, is here to give its thoughts on the preview I'm sure it will have some interesting insights, though I must warn it not to try to[...]
Marvel Comics Ask Readers To Vote In Another X-Man For 2023
It's X-Men Election time again! Just like last year, Marvel Comics has just tweeted out for New Year's Day the following image, and you can guarantee it will be enough to make everyone lose their collective minds Again As if you hadn't had enough of elections in recent years. This is what ran last year as[...]
X-Men #266
Up there with the first appearance of Wolverine, the debate over the first appearance of Gambit is a hotly contested one.  There are two contenders, Uncanny X-Men Annual #14 and Uncanny X-Men #266 Now, be in no doubt, chronologically, it's Uncanny X-Men #266 That was definitely meant to be his first appearance, written by Chris[...]
Interior preview page from X-MEN LEGENDS #5 WHILCE PORTACIO COVER
Welcome to this week's preview of X-Men Legends #5, where Bishop prepares to reveal the origins of the mission that led him to travel to the past and join the X-Men Joining me on this preview is Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron I must caution LOLtron not to try to take over the world[...]
Marvel Comics Wednesday
Today sees Marvel Comics publish their Dark Web tie-in titles, but maybe a fourth as well? Amazing Spider-Man #16, Venom #14 and Dark Web: X-Men #2 In Amazing Spider-Man #16., Ben Reilly's memories about why he doesn't have any memories are not the way Peter Parker remembers them… Amazing Spider-Man #16 So maybe Ben Reilly needs to[...]
Marvel Comics Wednesday
My editor was like "Yeah we can't use that joke, it's too raunchy." And I was like, "I figured, but I'm glad the other dirty jokes are cool!" And he was like "WHAT OTHER DIRTY JOKES?" Me being the good guy I am, fessed up to two other disgusting sleazeball lines from Daken. Iceman says something[...]
Interior preview page from X-TREME X-MEN #2 SALVADOR LARROCA COVER
Welcome to Bleeding Cool's preview of X-Treme X-Men #2! In this preview, Rachel and Kitty go after Ogun on the psychic plane in an attempt to save the world from his machinations Joining me to discuss this preview is Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron Please, LOLtron, no taking over the world this time Let's[...]
Interior preview page from DARK WEB: X-MEN #2 PHIL NOTO COVER
Welcome to Bleeding Cool's preview of Dark Web: X-Men #2! The world may be getting shaken to its foundations by a super-mega-crossover event, but Havok is still trying to hook up in this preview of Dark Web: X-Men #2 Joining me on this preview is Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron I just have to[...]
Marvel Comics Timeless Spoilers
The X-Men have been through some massive changes at Marvel, with the MCU introduction of the characters believed to be imminent Will they find adamantium in Captain America: New World Order? Will The Marvels explore Ms Marvel being a mutant? Will Wolverine in Deadpool, or Professor X in Doctor Strange indicate other changes? We have[...]
Marvel Comics Solicits For March 2023 Will Reveal What Peter Parker Did
Holtham (W) • Sean Damien Hill & Alberto Foche (A) • Cover by Ken Lashley Variant Cover by KHARY RANDOLPH • Variant Cover by RON LIM BISHOP FACES OFF AGAINST…THE X-MEN? • What's a Bishop story without time travel? Shunted to a strange future, Lucas discovers familiar faces who will permanently alter his worldview. • Meanwhile his students are[...]
Iron Man/X-Men Crossover From Gerry Duggan For Free Comic Book Day
In Iron Man #25, Bleeding Cool noted what appeared to be an upcoming Iron Man/X-Men crossover. Iron Man #25 There was then evidence of it in the new Incredible Iron Man #1. Incredible Iron Man #1.   Now it is confirmed And Feilong has bought Stark Enterprises and is going to use it to build Sentinels. "Stark Industries is pursuing a[...]
Marvel Comics Introducing X-Babies Zombies In Today's X-Men Annual
Today, Marvel comics publishes three Krakoan X-Men titles, X-Men Annual #1, Sabretooth & The Exiles #2 and Wolverine #28 Spoilers abound As Firestar caption-thinks in today's X-Men Annual #1, Hank McCoy, the Beast, original X-Man, doesn't have the greatest of reputations right about now. It's a fall from grace we have been covering for some time,[...]
Marvel Comics Introducing X-Babies Zombies In Today's X-Men Annual
Created by Chris Claremont and Arthur Adams, the X-Babies are child clones of the X-Men created by the interdimensional being Mojo for his satirical Mojoverse entertainment network, and first appeared in Uncanny X-Men Annual #12 in the eighties – following a previous iteration of de-aged teenage X-Men in Uncanny X-Men Annual #10 two years previously[...]
Interior preview page from X-MEN ANNUAL #1 STEFANO CASELLI COVER
In this preview of X-Men Annual #1, Firestar is having trouble fitting in with the X-Men and the Hellions aren't helping As we look into this preview, I'm joined by Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron Now, LOLtron, don't go trying to take over the world this time – just tell me your thoughts on[...]