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Marvel Comics To Publish Devil's Reign: X-Men
Bleeding Cool now has more information about that series and another spinoff, Devil's Reign: X-Men by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto Devil's Reign: X-Men by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto Devil's Reign: Villains For Hire by Clay McLeod Chapman and Manuel Garcia  Look forward to more information about these, and other spin-off series, in Marvel's January 2022 solicitations,[...]
Steve Orlando Takes Over Maruaders; Changes in Store for X-Books
It's also not clear whether the regular series will be relaunched with a new number one issue or continue with the same numbering. From the press release: A brand new era of X-Men is upon us! Following Jonathan Hickman's limited comic series INFERNO, many of your favorite ongoing X-titles will be undergoing thrilling changes including the hit[...]
The New Marvel Unlimited is Still Missing the Most Basic Feature
Looking to binge the early part of the classic Chris Claremont run on Uncanny X-Men ? First of all, great choice And secondly, that will work great for you… until the book starts regularly crossing over with titles like New Mutants and X-Factor, along with various spinoff mini-series Once you hit the 1990s, you're pretty[...]
Wolverine’s Plan To Kill Nature Girl, Mutant Terrorist (Spoilers)
Last week, Marvel Comics launched X-Men: Green with Wolverine Vs Nature Girl As Gerry Duggan, Emilo Laiso, and Rachelle Rosenberg have taken over from Jonathan Hickman and Declan Shalvey on Marvel Comics' X-Men weekly digital comic X-Men Unlimited Infinity on the Marvel Unlimited app.  It stars the mutant Nature Girl, Lin Li, who has the powers to communicate, influence, manipulate, and control nature,[...]
Jonathan Hickman's Departure From X-Men, Explained
As part of AIPT's regular X-Men Monday, X-Men group editor Jordan D White, who I first met as a Marvel intern at Heidi MacDonald's karaoke evening one cold New York Comic Con, has been laying out just what the hell happened with Jonathan Hickman Who, with Inferno, is stepping away from the X-Men books he[...]
Truth About Kindred, Harry Osborn & Mephisto in Amazing Spider-Man #74
And with the launch of X-Men: Inferno being pipped to the top by the Amazing Spider-Man finale… Amazing Spider-Man Beats Inferno in the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week Amazing Spider-Man #74 Inferno #1 Thor #17 BRZRKR #5 Detective Comics #1,043 Justice League #68 Wolverine #16 Sword #8 Deathstroke Inc #1 Spawn #322 Thanks to the following Bleeding Cool Bestseller List[...]
Cover image for NEW MUTANTS #22
Maybe letting the X-Men's worst lifelong villains live on Krakoa wasn't the best idea after all? In New Mutants #22, the titular New Mutants are going to have to take care of this problem the old fashioned way.  But if The Shadow King wasn't bad enough, there's also the matter of a rampaging horde of[...]
Magneto Prepares to Take on the X-Men with New Kotobukiya Statue
Magneto is ready to take on the X-Men and anyone else who gets in his way of mutant freedom this time Standing at an impressive 15" tall, the Master of Magnetism comes to life right before Marvel Comics fan's eyes The villain is displayed in a powerful pose with a highly sculpted body as the[...]
Today's X-Books Remember When Storm Beat Cyclops Without Powers
Remember X-Men #201 by Chris Claremont and Paul Smith? In which a powerless Storm challenged Cyclops in a Danger Room duel for the duty of leading the X-Men And despite Cyclops having an array of optic blasts and Storm having a leather jacket, she stood her own against him. X-Men #201 In fact, she ended up doing[...]
Control, Cerebro & Cloning in the X-Men Comics
X-Men: Inferno #1, by Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti published today, is all about control We've already seen how that includes rewriting and redrawing previous scenes from previous comics But also how when people try and take control by force, push down from above, all sorts of things seep out the sides that might not[...]
Rewriting Moira MacTaggert's Third Life In Inferno #1 (Spoilers)
And Moira does everything she can to prevent Destiny from returning. Everyone getting up to some serious burns today, aren't they? INFERNO #1 (OF 4) VEGA VAR MARVEL COMICS JUL210526 (W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Valerio Schiti (CA) Oscar Vega THE CULMINATION OF JONATHAN HICKMAN'S X-MEN BEGINS HERE! "There will be an island-not the first, but the last…" Promises were made and broken[...]
Marvel Comics Launches X-Men: Green With Wolverine Vs Nature Girl
Gerry Duggan, Emilo Laiso, and Rachelle Rosenberg have taken over from Jonathan Hickman and Declan Shalvey on Marvel Comics' X-Men weekly digital comic X-Men Unlimited Infinity on the Marvel Unlimited app. Marvel Comics Launches X-Men: Green With Wolverine Vs Nature Girl And they are doing so with a new storyline, X-Men: Green, reflecting the previous X-Men series[...]
Moon Knight Beats Turtles Beats Batman, Bleeding Cool Bestseller List
And while Batman usually tops the list in the week of publication, this week saw it just beaten by both Moon Knight and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin – and not first issues either… Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week Moon Knight #3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Last Ronin #4 Batman #113 X-Men #3 Batman: The[...]
Kieron Gillen Returns to X-Men From Marvel Comics in 2021
Yesterday, Wolverine and X-Force writer Benjamin Percy tweeted out the following;  "Three-day, nine-hour, top-secret X-Men summit this week #MarvelComics" with this screencap image, the identity of two people attending the summit kept secret By covering them up with smiley faces. X-Men Summit screencap Let's take a look at that blue smiley face on the middle left, shall[...]
A Rogue-Less X-Men: Inferno From Jonathan Hickman?
But with all that going down, you might have thought that Mystique's daughter Rogue and current member of the main X-Men team might have a significant role to play It seems not On Monday, AIPT asked Hickman if there was any story beat or character he regrets he didn't get around to working on Hickman[...]
Krakoan Days And Nights X-Men
Today sees the publication of X-Men #3, X-Men: Onslaught Revolution #1, X-Corp #5, and X-Men Unlimited #4, as well as the final issue of Guardians Of The Galaxy #18; all telling takes of X-Men and Krakoa Out in space, Rocket Raccoon has a gift for Krakoa to fire through the head of Dormammu. Guardians Of The[...]
New X-Men Team For 2022, Spinning Out Of Onslaught/Way Of X (Spoilers)
Today sees the publication of X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation comic that acts as a cap for Si Spurrier and Bob Quinn's Way Of X series, looking at the philosophical and religious ideas underpinning the Krakoan X-Men comic books published by Marvel over the last few years But as well as a cap, could it be[...]
The X-Men, Thomas Edison And The Teslelephant
However Topsy's graphic death (which was filmed and is available on Youtube) was filmed by the Edison Manufacturing Movie Company, and in popular culture the merging of Topsy's death and the War Of Currents has merged. The X-Men, Thomas Edison And The Teslelephant Anyway, this brings us all to tomorrow's X-Men #3 by Gerry Duggan and Pepe[...]
Cover image for X-MEN LEGENDS #7
X-Men Legends #7 is in stores from Marvel Comics on Wednesday, delivering the classic team-up of Wolverine and Jubilee in a new story written by the legendary Larry Hama, with Billy Tan on art Check out a preview of the issue below. X-MEN LEGENDS #7 MARVEL COMICS JUL210662 JUL210663 – X-MEN LEGENDS #7 TORQUE VAR – $3.99 (W) Larry Hama[...]
X-Men The Trial Of Magneto #2 Review: A Big, Splashy Mess
With a breadth of overwrought melodrama and an unfortunate and exhausting ending, X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #2 does nothing to honor its title or its underlying story, instead of driving all over the road like a drunken motorist at 3 AM Cliches and pointless action scenes make this a big splashy mess. X-Men: The Trial[...]
Killing Scarlet Witch Off In Trial Of Magneto? Really? (#2 Spoilers)
And while X-Men: Trial Of Magneto tops the charts, notably Batman 89 outsells Joker, and Harley Quinn: The Animated Series outsells the Justice League And Primordial #1 makes for a strong start. X-Men's Trial of Magneto #2 Tops Bleeding Cool Bestseller List Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week X-Men: Trial of Magneto #2 Batman 89 #2 Joker[...]
Cover image for X-MEN ONSLAUGHT REVELATION #1
X-Men Onslaught Revelation #1 is in stores from Marvel Comics on Wednesday, tugging at the heartstrings of aging millennials with some sweet 90s nostalgia Rehashing events of the past is, as we all know, one of Joe Quesada's 22 Cheap Sales-Boosting Gimmicks That Always Work, a list of tactics that every good Marvel Editor keeps[...]
Marvel Comics December 2021 Solicits & Solicitations In Full, Early
It's not clear what drives this secrecy, other than a desire not to see articles with headlines like "Marvel Cancels _____." In fact, when Marvel announced that Hellions would end in December, we wrote that exact headline, and X-Men writer Gerry Duggan took to Twitter on Wednesday to post: People of Earth: Hellions was not cancelled[...]
Marvel Comics December 2021 Solicits & Solicitations In Full, Early
The new Marvel December solicitations are out, and they promise a brand new superhero character for December's X-Men #6, Captain Krakoa A patriotic Marvel hero for this nation-state of mutants, just as Captain America and Captain Britain And whoever this white handsome fellow is, he seems to be sprouting a little Krakoan flora. X-Men #6 cover But[...]
Killing Scarlet Witch Off In Trial Of Magneto? Really? (#2 Spoilers)
Even if that was a long time ago, X-Men: Trial Of Magneto #1 Might that be a way to press Refresh on Scarlet Witch and have a pre-Disassembled version of her? However, the Quiet Council votes against bringing her back. X-Men: Trial Of Magneto #1 In today's Trial Of Magneto #2 however, something is in the air The ether[...]
Spoilers
Two print X-Men Krakoan comic books out today and one digital-only… this is going to be the way it is going forward, as the third X-Men Unlimited Weekly hits So what's going down in and around Krakoan territory this week, what common threads can be pulled and conclusions drawn? We start with Hickman and Shalvey[...]