In the last edition of Standard Deviations, we took a look at a set of variant covers for Marvel’s House of M series released in 2005. The Scarlet Witch was a central figure in that series as she will be in this year’s Avengers versus X-Men. Also central to AvX is Hope Summers, the first
Read more...Wednesday saw the release of Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness’s Avengers: X-Sanction #1 (look for our review of the issue here). The book features the return of the X-Men’s Cable that was teased at this year’s San Diego Comic Con and is the first appearance of the character after his noble death during X-Men: Second Coming.
Read more...Duane Swierczynski’s Cable series is exactly what it needed to be. Coming out of Messiah Complex, the latest volume of Cable followed the title character and his efforts to protect the first mutant born since the M-day event during House of M. It involves one of my favorite characters, time travel, dystopian futures, and chase scenes with
Read more...It looks like 2014 starts for real with a ton of books shipping this week. Eleven new books made it on to my list for this Wednesday. ALL-NEW INVADERS #1 – I’m not entirely sure I’ll be picking this up, but the All-New Marvel Now Point One story certainly piqued my interest. ALL-NEW X-FACTOR #2 – Forgot about the
Read more...Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app. Last week’s “break” with only seven new books waiting for me will be completely erased tomorrow. If the shipping lists are
Read more...Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app. Eight books officially on the list this week, but I’m on the fence about the second issue of Brian Wood’s Star
Read more...Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app. Ten new books on my list this week. Apparently, Angelique filled some of the blanks while I was away from my
Read more...With Marvel Comics’ Avengers vs. X-Men event officially kicking off with “AvX launch parties” across the country tonight, we’re taking a look at the finale to one of the series promoted as a lead in, Avengers: X-Sanction. X-Sanction didn’t do as much to set things up as we’d expected, but Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuiness’ story
Read more...This issue of X-Men: Second Coming was simply amazing. There’s no question about it, it’s a 5 out of 5 on a distraction scale from 1 to 5. It’s difficult to even try to consider the book as a single entity given that it’s Chapter 13 of 14, but I can’t imagine someone reading it
Read more...X-Men: Second Coming Chapter ø9 is available at comics shops everywhere this week. The book featured some great action and moved the crossover into the final act. More details will follow, among them will be what some would consider spoilers.
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