It's X-Men Monday, the internationally recognized weekly holiday wherein people who work in the X-offices at Marvel Comics tweet vague tidbits from upcoming X-Men Comics that news sites scramble to turn into clickbait articles The latest juicy tweet from ukulele-wearing, fedora-playing X-editor Jordan White teases what White calls "the character find of 2018," a new[...]
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White took to Twitter for international holiday X-Men Monday to tease an image from the upcoming X-23 #4, in stores on Wednesday, reimagining the intro to the classic television show The Brady Bunch with the Stepford Cuckoos.
It's time for everyone's favorite TV show… THE STEPFORD CUCKOOS! #XMenMonday pic.twitter.com/mIMSY00uYo
— Jordan D[...]
Celebrating the international holiday of X-Men Monday, ukulele-wearing, fedora-playing Marvel X-editor Jordan White revealed this unused cover sketch to the upcoming Shatterstar #4:
WHOA–almost forgot about #XMenMonday! Let's get some quickies out there before jumping back into a mountain of work
Here's an unused cover sketch for Shatterstar #4! pic.twitter.com/QVgDrDy7DC
— Jordan D[...]
Here's previews of all of the X-Men comics hitting stores on September 12th, and you only have to brave a single page's worth of obtrusive pop-up ads.
Marvel is publishing 7 X-books next week, for a wallet-breaking $28 bucks if you want to read them all Of course, you could always wait until the weekend and[...]
Everyone is excited about the upcoming Uncanny X-Men relaunch, starring every living X-Men and nearly every Marvel creator But the problem with the comics business is that everything starts off great with a #1 issue, but when it comes to sales, it's all downhill from there That's why Marvel relaunches all their titles roughly once[...]
X-Men, but here he is fighting an Avenger while powered up by that very-same Phoenix Force Is this Marvel's way of admitting Cyclops was right? That's how we're taking it anyway.
And since Ward released the page without any lettering, we figured we might as well finish the job for him, so here's an impromptu IMPROBABLE[...]
Meanwhile, the X-Men fight the X-Cutioner halfway around the world Stormcaster finds them and opens a portal to Storm and Uovu, providing Ororo with reinforcements But, is it enough?
X-Men: Gold #35 cover by Phil Noto
X-Men: Gold #35 finishes this Storm-centric story to prepare for the final issue of the series Storm and the X-Men fight[...]
Iceman finally returns next week, with a new mini-series by Sina Grace and Nathan Stockman in stores on September 12th. A preview for the issue has hit
Old Man Logan hunts a roving gang calling themselves the Punishers. Logan and old Frank Castle team up to bring down these murderers. Is it a good read?
Since yesterday was Labor Day in the United States, Marvel editor Jordan White and most of the X-creators took the day off, but Uncanny X-Men writer Kelly Thompson showed her commitment to the most important day of the week by posting a panel from the upcoming Mr and Mrs X #3, with art by Oscar[...]
Marvel, It's Not Too Late to Lower the Price of Uncanny X-Men #1 to 99 Cents [X-ual Healing 8-29-18]
Shapira makes the case that comics with low prices and/or extra value for the regular price in their first issues show faith in the material to build and maintain an audience, while super-sized and overpriced first issues show a lack of faith because Marvel is trying to get as much money as possible up front[...]
We can't guarantee 100% accuracy, of course.
November sees the long-awaited reboot of Uncanny X-Men from the creative team of Ed Brisson, Matthew Rosenberg, Kelly Thompson, Mahmud Asrar, R.B Silva, Yildiray Cinar, and Pere Pérez What? You think a regular-sized creative team can reboot a series this iconic?! Marvel is keeping secretive about what's going to happen[...]
Check out the previews below, and as always, check back next week in our X-ual Healing column and we'll tell you what happened in them all in one place too.
Astonishing X-Men #15
(W) Matthew Rosenberg (A/CA) Greg Land
• After the events of last issue, Havok and his team are on the run from the law.
• Plus,[...]
Read it below to find out.
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X-Men: Blue #34 cover by R.B Silva and Rain Beredo
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The House always wins, and the House frigging loves Magneto. Cullen Bunn and Marcus To made a wonderful ode to the Master of Magnetism that brought him back to his roots with a new Asteroid M, a new Brotherhood, but the old[...]
In Weapon X #22, we learned that Deadpool was working for Mentallo's cult, leaving us on a cliffhanger as he prepared to face off against Weapon X-Force.
On Wednesday, Astonishing X-Men #15 hits stores, with a cover inspired by the hit song Wanted: Dead or Alive by writer Matthew Rosenberg's favorite band, Bon Jovi And as the following preview reveals that Havok's team of mutants is as authorized as a Watchmen sequel, will their fugitive status finally inspire camaraderie between the outlaw[...]
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[...]
The Exiles join the King to take on the Magnus Gang and free Iron Lad. Plus, Blink is still looking for her old teammates. Is it a good read?
X-23 chases down the Stepford Cuckoos in the hopes of saving Gabby. Laura also runs across the geneticist that helped the Cuckoos. Is it a good read?
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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[...]
The X-Men convene on what to do about Ahab's return and the missing young Iceman Kitty thinks it's best to split the remaining young original X-Men up to make it more difficult for them to be targeted Cyclops runs out the X-Mansion, angry about the suggestion His teammates follow to console him, and they are[...]
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Iron Man and Daredevil are called to the Xavier Institute to talk about what they found with Kitty Pryde of the X-Men Both Tony and Matt have made some discoveries, but none of them are good Kitty has similar news from herself and Sabretooth While they are talking about their next move, three tungsten[...]
One of the topics brought up was Marvel's plans for Chris Claremont in the X-Men universe, as well as Cebulski's recent meeting with John Byrne.
"I can't speak too much to the specifics of anything without giving too much away," Cebulski said of the future of the X-Books "Cullen [Bunn] and Mark Guggenheim, what Charles [Soule][...]
Cyclops is one of the founding members of the original X-Men and sometime serves as the leader of the team.
Cyclops is the 19th release in our popular Marvel animated statues and is based on the art from Giant Size Little Marvel AvX variant comic book cover on issue#1 He is decked out in his blue[...]
Back in June, we learned that the cult-favorite Iceman comic would return with a five-issue miniseries in September after being unceremoniously canceled
Laura will not let anything happen to her sister.
X-Men: Blue #34 cover by R.B Silva
X-Men: Blue #34
Magneto teams up with the original X-Men of the future for the fate of the mutant race Erik was just told that his old methods will stop mutant extinction Will he return to them now?
Harbinger Wars II #4 cover[...]
It's an attempt to recontextualize the Panther and the culture of Wakanda, and I look forward to seeing where this is headed.
X-Men: Red #7 cover by Jenny Frisson
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Breaking News: X-Men: Red is still the best X-Men team book currently being published.
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I want to preface this "Bottom 5 of the Week" by saying that #'s[...]
The X-Men have had technology since the 1960s that allows them to create a fully-realized artificial environment in their basement, but in 2018, they haven't found a better way to organize information… than with a power point presentation?!
Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends is in stores on Wednesday You'd better buy it because it apparently won't be[...]
But despite Psylocke's considerable psychic powers, it was from the mind of X-Men Red artist Mahmud Asrar from which sprung the design for Psylocke's new duds.
X-Editor Jordan White posted the original drawing on Twitter:
Oh–and one more thing! Here's the original design for Psylocke's new costume, drawn up by @MahmudAsrar! #XMenMonday pic.twitter.com/yUdF5u2F9J
— Jordan D[...]
Like all X-Men comics fans, we here at X-ual Healing spend pretty much all our free time thinking about how Marvel should manage the X-books What? You don't spend all your free time thinking about that? What kind of fan are you?
Around the same time we started this column, this reporter also began a reread[...]