By rss@youtube.com (rororomunroe) And now the second half of "Super Mario World!" This here video is an adaptation of a story I wrote back in 1993 at the age of ten. It was a year in which I was obsessed with Super Nintendo, Captain N, and had just discovered the wonderful world of the Uncanny X-Men. So this story basically throws a...

By rss@youtube.com (CyclopsFan1) This Week I review I review Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #32 Captain America #42 Uncanny X-men #501 Also a preview of the next series of classes/reviews after I finish the Astonishing X-men: Unstoppable Arc. Thank you all in advance and Please rate, comment (even if its hate) and subscribe....

By rss@youtube.com (gniwreg) This ep Hartley goes over Wolverine #67 "Old Man Logan" pt 2, Thunderbolts #122, Superman #678, Uncanny X-Men #500, Avengers the Initiative #15, and wraps things up with a review of the DMZ volume 1! Keywords: Wolverine Thunderbolts Superman Uncanny X-Men Avengers: the Initiative DMZ...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) There is a great bit in the documentary that Patrick Meaney is doing on Chris Claremont, wherein the author and Ann Nocenti are recounting a bit of their history on The Uncanny X-Men. When Nocenti mentions that she left her assistant Bob Harras in charge when she went freelance in 1988, Clar...

Pointless Logan Pandering: Courtesy of the man himself! Pick up the Kitty/Wolverine miniseries, kids! Best Line: Forge: "Didn't I learn my lesson in 'Nam? ...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Thus, it’s no accident that the villain of issue 246 is a Sentinel. Satisfyingly, Claremont also brings back Nimrod, one of the major plot-danglers left over from before “Mutant Massacre.” Nimrod was originally rather blatant in its derivation by Claremont from two sources: Alan Moore’...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Another complaint about Claremont (there are so very many) is that his brand of superhero feminism was less than it should have been, because he “cheated” by making his female characters into powerhouses. A letter was published in Uncanny late in the run, opining that Claremont had only t...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Consider: Claremont takes us on a somewhat nostalgic tour of the “X”-mythos Continuity references abound: A tour inside Jean Grey’s mental space gives us some highlights (including a fashion-show of all her costumes, which is suitably Claremontian). We’re taken back to the School for...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) 1.) FUN: Claremont seems more than willing to acknowledge the silliness of “Inferno”’s premise: Revealing that Madelyne is a clone of Jean, only three years after John Byrne’s ret-con that Phoenix was also a clone of Jean. Thus, we get more than a couple jokes about it in this issue. My favori...

By LaRevolucion44@aol.com (Rokk Krinn) SUPERMAN SECRET ORIGIN #1 MARVEL COMICS AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #606 UNCANNY X-MEN #515 WOLVERINE GIANT-SIZE OLD MAN LOGAN #1 Which Marvel comic book am I most looking forward to reading? Which Marvel comic book am I least looking forward to reading?

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Once again, there is a strong parallel here between Madelyne now and Jean Grey during the Byrne/Claremont “Dark Phoenix” epic – the slow seduction; corruption at the hands of villains who didn’t know what they were getting into; and of course, the flame imagery. Interestingly, while “Da...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Jason Powell continues his issue by issue look at Claremont's X-Men.] Logan: “Nothing like being inconspicuous.” Carol: “Basic tradecraft, Wolvie. I don’t mind being remembered. The trick is making certain nobody looks at my face.” Logan: “That outfit’ll do it, guaranteed.”

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) With its powerfully realized antagonists, morally outraged heroes, breathtakingly designed setting, superbly complex character dynamics and surprising political astuteness, issue 236 is a true triumph on the part of Claremont and company. In some ways, “Busting Loose” is the apex...

By pozzyfreak The Story: The Dark X-Men deal with Simon Trask’s new bio-mechanical Sentinels while Cyclops begins to put his offensive plan into action. Why is Iceman so intimidated by the Dark X-Men!? And by that same token, why does Cyclops see them as such a challenge?!

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By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Silvestri and Green’s X-Men look cooler with each issue. Check out Colossus on Page 2, panel 3; Wolverine on Page 14, panel 6. Geoff, tell me these aren’t “pop sexy” X-Men! Logan points out the truth of the situation. In narrative terms, the X-Men didn’t really die, despite whatever contriva...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) As Patrick has already pointed out, the middle chapter of “Fall of the Mutants” – a double-sized issue – sees Claremont tossing out ideas and allusions at a schizophrenically breakneck pace, with almost every turn of the page revealing some new wrinkle. Alan Moore and Grant Morrison are g...

By geoff.klock@gmail.com (Geoff Klock) As Patrick has already pointed out, the middle chapter of “Fall of the Mutants” – a double-sized issue – sees Claremont tossing out ideas and allusions at a schizophrenically breakneck pace, with almost every turn of the page revealing some new wrinkle. Alan Moore and Grant Morrison are g...

By noreply@blogger.com (Jim) Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus, and Northstar are flying to Westchester to stop the Red Queen. Wolverine and Cyclops are not speaking because of the lock of hair that Logan kept. 6. Wolverine and Scott are not talking because Wolverine kept a lock of hair from Scott's dead wife.

By pozzyfreak The Story: The Red Queen makes her final move toward taking over the body of Jean Grey as the X-Men retaliate against the Sisterhood. Conclusion: The Sisterhood arc ends decently enough, but Uncanny X-Men #511 is still a below average comic book.

By LaRevolucion44@aol.com (Rokk Krinn) BATMAN #687 MARVEL COMICS AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #597 UNCANNY X-MEN #511 WOLVERINE #74 X-FACTOR #44 X-MEN FOREVER #1 Which DC comic book am I least looking forward to reading? Which Marvel comic book am I least looking forward to reading?

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Still, while so much fun is generated by the various intertextual relationships going on, other bits of “False Dawn” create grins by more visceral means. Surely one of the funniest set-pieces in Claremont’s entire run is the insane visual of the Blob’s crotch zooming toward the reader as...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Sabretooth: “But when my claws rip out your throat, Logan, my boy ... you’ll die!” Wolverine: “My bones are laced with adamantium. They can’t be broke. You’d have a gentler time punchin’ steel! Scrambler can’t affect them!” [Logan stabs Sabretooth.] “He can’t affect my claws,” and finally

By noreply@blogger.com (Jim) Scott wants to know what they took from Wolverine. Wolverine answers that it was a lock of Jean's hair. I did like that Wolverine kept a lock of Jean's hair. I assume it is safe to say that Madelyne will use this to grow a new body or resurrect Jean's body.

By Brian Cronin The issue is Uncanny X-Men #117 and the creative team is Chris Claremont and John Byrne. As an added bonus, here’s Wolverine killing a dinosaur, too! I believe I read somewhere that Byrne hated that scene. He wanted to keep whatever Wolverine did to the guy ...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) At this point in X-Men chronology, Claremont was indulging his penchant for open-ending storytelling in the Uncanny X-Men series to such an extent that, although still capable of pulling off some extraordinary narrative tricks in the mainstream serial narrative, his most coherent X...

By pozzyfreak The Story: Madelyn Pryor, Cyclops’ former lover, is back and looking to make good use of a captured “X” character. With the help of Spiral, Chimera, and Lady Deathstrike, she raids a cemetery to get just the body she needs. Meanwhile, Beast introduces the final member of his science team and...

By LaRevolucion44@aol.com (Rokk Krinn) MARVEL COMICS AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #588 DARK AVENGERS #3 SPIDER-MAN NOIR #4 UNCANNY X-MEN #507 WOLVERINE #71 WOLVERINE ORIGINS #34 X-FACTOR #41 Which Marvel comic book am I most looking forward to reading? I am looking forward to Dark Avengers #3. Bendis has managed to do on Dark Avengers what he has not been able to do on New Avengers and that is to deliver an interesting story that involves the entire roster of the team and actually moves with a point and purpose. However, the Marvel comic book that I am most looking forward to reading is Wolverine #71. Millar's Old Man Logan story has been an absolute blast to read and has certainly been the best thing that has happened to the Wolverine franchise is years.   [read the full post]

By Brian Cronin Uncanny X-Men #268, by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee, is a cool story mostly set in the past when a pre-Weapon X Logan teamed up with Captain America to protect a young Natasha Romanova (who would grow up to become the Black Widow - hey, folks, what is the explanation for her odd aging?). In prese...

By ron@ifanboy.com When I got into comics, it was at the beginning of an exciting time.  Image Comics didn't exist, and the guys who would go on to turning the comics world upside down were still working at Marvel.  Comics rock stars where emerging left and right.  MacFarlane on Spider-Man, Lee on Uncanny X-Men. S...

By Rokk Krinn(noreply@blogger.com) Pixie thinks how they broke her wings. They beat her up. That if she runs from them now that she will never stop running. Pixie then drops the cell phone onto the road and keeps driving. (Umm, couldn’t she have just hung up the cell phone?) We shift to Empath still racing around on his motorcycle. Suddenly, Cannonball busts onto the scene. Empath quickly disposes of Sam. Nightcrawler and Wolverine, in Wolvie’s Mustang, pull up near Empath. Nightcrawler teleports over top of Empath and pulls him off of the motorcycle. Empath then takes down Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler then contacts Wolverine and tells him that Empath uses his power by making eye contact.   [read the full post]

By geoff.klock@gmail.com (Geoff Klock) Published May through August of 1982, Claremont and Miller’s “Shogun”-inspired Wolverine miniseries ended with Logan announcing his engagement to Mariko Yashida. Eight months later, the continuity of the Uncanny series catches up, as we witness the X-Men arriving in Japan for the we...

By ComicList Uncanny X-Men #502 Marvel Comics Fraction, Brubaker & Land The X-Men fight the Hellfire Club. Along the way little floating bubbles show up above the various characters to give little introductions. This is a good thing to do in a comic. This sequence gives great interaction between Wolverine and Nightcrawler. They capture a Hellfire Club member. Uncanny X-Men #502 Marvel Comics Fraction, Brubaker & Land The X-Men fight the Hellfire Club. Along the way little floating bubbles show up above the various characters to give little introductions. This is a good thing to do in a comic. This sequence gives great interaction between Wolverine and Nightcrawler. They capture a Hellfire Club member.   [read the full post]

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By noreply@blogger.com (Rokk Krinn) Synopsis: We begin with Wolverine, Nightwing and Karma beating the crap out of the Hellfire thugs. To be sure we get plenty of cheesy dialogue during this fight that would fit in perfectly in a 1980’s Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Cyclops reminds Nightcrawler and Wolverine to bring back one of the thugs so they can question him. The last remaining Hellfire gang member left standing predictably pees his pants at the sight of Wolverine and Nightcrawler. (Oh, I have so never seen this in a comic book before. Top notch, Fraction.) Wolverine and Nightcrawler then capture the Hellfire thug. Wolverine attacks Empath. Empath quickly dispatches of Wolverine. Wolverine radios the other X-Men to tell them that Empath is with the Hellfire Club and that he...   [read the full post]

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) Given that the Marvel Comics iteration of Lady Mariko first appeared in Uncanny #118 as a potential love interest for Wolverine, it seems logical to assume that Claremont was flirting with the idea of using Clavell’s character as a model for Wolverine as far back as 1978. (Mariko is the fir...

By noreply@blogger.com (Geoff Klock) Claremont and Cockrum execute a sort of tonal segue into the Wolverine mini with Uncanny X-Men #162, a solo Wolverine story that utilizes the same first-person narrative captions, and also apes the miniseries’ use of Mariko Yashida as a touchstone for the deepening of Wolverine’s char...

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By pozzyfreak You are Comic Nerd, on your way home from what you laughingly call a job. You’re tired, body and soul, but you swing by the comic store and pull the latest issue of Uncanny X-Men from the shelves. More’s the pity, because Fraction and Brubaker—normally sober, serious writers—have chosen to...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) Curiously, the same flashback also implies that it was the Canadian Secret Service that gave Wolverine his adamantium claws and skeleton, and Wolverine knows it. Over time, this idea will be tacitly ret-conned, but here it is given as Wolverine’s main reason for abandoning the Secret Se...

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By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) As Peter Sanderson pointed out in his “Wolverine Saga,” this entire sequence puts to rest the Wolverine/Cyclops rivalry that had been a key part of both characters’ characterization since Claremont first began writing. Even the love-triangle tension with Jean is gone now that Wolveri...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) As is often the case with these climactic battle scenes in the Claremont/Byrne run, Claremont’s writing is the secondary attraction. It is Byrne and Terry Austin who really shine here, producing panel after panel of viscerally exciting images: Wolverine slicing right through Proteus...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) In the meantime, Shooter’s edict does result in one far-reaching addition to the series, as in this issue Byrne and Claremont introduce their co-creation Kitty Pryde. She is mainly a plot device here: a new mutant for the X-Men to seek out. But she will soon make X-Men history as the first new...

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