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Alba (yuck)? Wolverine and the witch he met as a child (yucker)? Romance is in the air in almost all the X-books this week, it seems. Welcome to this week's X-ual Healing, the column where we read all of the X-Men comics published each week (and there are a lot of them) and tell you what[...]

Rob Liefeld's Major X has been a pretty wild success for a spinoff book featuring a character that debuted in a small part in Spider-Man/Deadpool #47.

Uncanny X-Men writer Matthew Rosenberg has made no secret about his penchant for killing off all of your favorite X-Men characters And we recently learned that Rosenberg, with the possible end of his run on the book coming with Jonathan Hickman's X-boot, Rosenberg may be stepping up his game to kill as many beloved characters[...]

Dead Man Logan is a 12-issue maxi-series all about killing off a Wolverine, which we have to admit is a concept we can really get behind. First of all,

Last year, as Marvel geared up for the relaunch of Uncanny X-Men, they published a series of one-shots under the banner X-Men Black Each of those issues told fun stories focusing on major X-Men villains, and one of them was X-Men Black: Mojo, which detailed Mojo's burgeoning relationship with a human girl named Ann. In this[...]

With the release of Marvel's July solicitations, things aren't looking great for the future of writer Matthew Rosenberg's X-Men run Despite critical acclaim from well-respected scholars, it looks like July's Uncanny X-Men #22 could be the end of the line, with an oversized issue and the wrapping of multiple plot points, coinciding with the start[...]

In the Age of X-Man, personal relationships, especially romantic and sexual ones, are outlawed, and Department X is tasked with tracking down anyone who

Uncanny X-Men writer Matthew Rosenberg is best-known for his penchant for murdering fan-favorite characters, an insatiable bloodlust that is likely to bring a gruesome end to any X-Men character you love for as long as Rosenberg continues to hold sway over the Marvel mutantverse But in this preview of War of the Realms: Uncanny X-Men[...]

Also, there is a great piece of 90's X-Men art on the cardboard insert as well That is a nice touch. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ The chair itself comes in two halves, along with a base, seats for inside,[...]

You know that thing when sometimes the "not official" artwork for an upcoming film is more evocative and visually appealing than the studio-released stuff? Yeah, well, once again BossLogic has done exactly that with this Dark Phoenix poster for what will no doubt be the final Fox X-Men release. DARK PHOENIX- The X-MEN face their most formidable and[...]

Marvel has recently announced plans to release facsimile editions of comics such as Howard the Duck #1 and Star Wars #50, amongst other classic comics, and now the X-Men are getting the facsimile edition treatment in July to coincide with Jonathan Hickman's X-Men reboot Marvel will reprint not one but four classic comics: Giant-Size X-Men[...]

Marvel is killing off characters like crazy throughout the Marvel Universe this week, so get ready for some major death spoilers from Uncanny X-Men #16, War of the Realms #2, and Guardians of the Galaxy #4. Starting with… Last week, Uncanny X-Men writer Matthew Rosenberg returned from hiatus to his award-winning Twitter account to announce that he[...]

A third trailer for Dark Phoenix… Adapting the Chris Claremont and John Byrne original story, Dark Phoenix is the story of one of the X-Men's most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into the iconic Dark Phoenix During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into[...]

I can't do a mid-event ranking of the Age of X-Man books before getting through the current week's issues, so let's do the recaps first, and then afterward, I'll tell you what I think of the Age of X-Man so far. Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox[...]

Well, familial relationships are discouraged in the Age of X-Man. But in the end, Mystique manages to make her escape… Leaving Nightcrawler with a mysterious file which will surely rock his world. Age of X-Man: Amazing Nightcrawler #3 is in stores Wednesday. Age of X-Man: Amazing Nightcrawler #3 (W) Seanan McGuire (A) Juan Frigeri (CA) Shane Davis, Michelle Delecki, Guru[...]

But in this preview of Wolverine Infinity Watch #3, Wolverine may finally cross the line when he decides to drink and drive… a space-boat, that is. It all begins with Wolverine purchasing multiple cases of beer ahead of a road trip with Loki to track down Hector Bautista, the bearer of the time stone who was[...]

In the current crop of X-Men writers, who once gleefully discussed plans to kill Honey Badger on Twitter, Canadian Ed Brisson claims the crown as the most savage, bloodthirsty of all Brisson brutally murdered adult Cable, Bloodstorm, and Mimic in Extermination, and he wasn't exactly kind to the time-displaced original five X-Men either Brisson is[...]

Since the greatest mutant ever, Cyclops, returned from the dead in Uncanny X-Men Annual #1, he's had a bit of a problem trusting people When it comes to Captain America, who led the Avengers in an invasion of Utopia during Avengers vs X-Men with the purpose of imprisoning a teenage Hope Summers on the moon[...]

Perhaps a descendant of  Wolverine's? Though, the X-Ential doesn't say "bub" at any time in the preview… We also get to learn a little bit about what apocalypse befell Earth's mutants, leading them to flee to the X-Istence at the X-Ential's behest, and it's all because of another new character… The Catalyst! Who wouldn't want to flee[...]

This week's issue of X-23 confirms the writing that was on the wall for Marvel's best Wolverine ongoing. X-23 will apparently end with May's X-23 #12.

As big and little clone sisters with sharp claws, healing factors, and a penchant for violence, X-23 and Honey Badger are cutest team in all of comics.

For many fans of superstar writer Jonathan Hickman, Hickman's upcoming House of X and Powers of X are the answer to long-awaited hopes that Hickman would take on a major X-Men project at Marvel But for fans of Hickman and Tomm Coker's Black Monday murders, the outlook is a bit poorer. Here's what the Image Comics'[...]

Major X #2 (the first printing) goes on sale April 17th. Marvel's press release follows: Ahead of Release, MAJOR X #2 Sells Out and Returns for Second Printing with Exclusive Cover! New York, NY—April 9th, 2019—Following the sell-out of MAJOR X #1 ahead of its release, Marvel is excited to announce that ahead of its release on April[...]

In July, superstar writer Jonathan Hickman will take the X-Men to a bold new era where nothing will be the same again and the X-universe will be rocked to its foundations and all of that jazz But July is three months away, which is like 8 years in terms of the 24-hour comics news cycle[...]

Take, for instance, the response of the X-Men to a hurricane in the Bahamas in this preview of Age of X-Man: Marvelous X-Men #3… Storm is well-suited to this kind of work, given her control over the weather Though one wonders why she didn't prevent the hurricane in the first place… Regardless, the X-Men are there to[...]

It was a shockingly good week for X-books last week, so let's get right to the recaps… 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[...]

Power-mad Marvel Senior Editor Jordan White dropped a major bombshell in his latest X-Men Monday column at Adventures in Poor Taste White revealed that not only would the wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey be officially dissolved due to the fact that both of them spent a considerable amount of time being dead, but[...]

When Kitty Pryde was 13 years old, she was dating the adult X-Man Colossus, at least until he left her for an alien he met during the original Secret

X-Men, invading a sovereign nation to demand the X-Men hand over an innocent teenager to be imprisoned on the moon for a future crime she might commit while under the influence of a bird-themed cosmic death god. You know what, we're not going to get into it again. Captain America can't even take an apology graciously… Now[...]

X-Men continuity can be a complicated thing to understand on its own, with all the deaths, resurrections, time travel, alternate futures, alternate dimensions, and whatnot But things get even more complicated when you add Cable into the mix That's why it's no surprise that in next week's X-Force #6, we find Stryfe, a clone of[...]