X-Men

By Chris Mautner – I enjoyed this LA Times piece on the legal battles surrounding the Watchmen film. – Buy a copy of Stan’s Soapbox and get it signed by John Romita Sr. – If you can read Polish, here’s an interview with Milo Manara where he talks about his X-Men project he’s working on with Chris Claremont.

By JK Parkin Over at the blog Comics Should Be Good, Greg Hatcher delves into the murky but warm waters of X-Men continuity by sharing a series of letters between himself and student, Rachel. She recently became a fan of the X-Men comics, and Greg spent the “last week or so” answering her questions about...

By Kevin Melrose Marvel has released what I believe is the third trailer for Wolverine and the X-Men, the animated series set to debut Jan. 23 on Nicktoons. It looks surprisingly good — good enough that those tired of seeing Wolverine everywhere may overlook his front-and-center role in the cartoon. Hey, ho...

This makes me think that the film will be more of a ‘Young X-Men’ influenced film, with the first class in the title referring to a team/house-club within the school… like the ‘Hellions’ et al names were used in the New X-Men comics to ...

By Kevin Melrose If I’m running a little late this week, blame it on the winter weather. Or, at the very least, the avalanche of comics based on movies, television shows and video games. Angel, Battlestar Galactica, Dead Space, Doctor Who, Halloween, Heroes, Star Trek, Star Wars, Street Fighter II, Transf...

By Jeff Trexler If we’ve learned anything from reading comics, nothing is dead unless we see a corpse–and even then, chances are the deceased will eventually come back to life. Law is much the same way. Since there has been so much confusion about the state of the bill over the past few days, here’s a brief exp...

By JK Parkin o Jim Cheung, artist of Young Avengers o Steve McNiven, artist of Wolverine and Civil War o Brandon Peterson, artist of Uncanny X-Men o Greg Land, artist of X-Men o And Chris Claremont, Marvel Comics’ legendary X-Men writer, who shepherded the title for over 20 years.

By Carla Hoffman And it is a good time to move; there are so many big events happening just down the road in the Marvel Universe and yet the X-Men tie-ins have seemed more like afterthoughts.  They’ve never really jibed well with their fellow hero brethren, that whole ‘world that fears and hates you’ losing a...

By Kevin Melrose For Marvel it’s all about collections: Mighty Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, Punisher: War Journal Classic, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane and X-Men: Divided We Stand, for starters. Air #1 BloodRayne: Tokyo Rogue #2 (of 3) Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes

By Kevin Melrose Comic Book Tattoo Angel: Revelations #3 (of 5) Kitty Pryde & Wolverine Premiere Hardcover Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #1 Kevin: Popular and sort-of popular Marvel movie characters Spider-Man, Iron Man and The Hulk team up in this new all-ages series. Uncanny X-Men #500

By Melissa Krause We first find each member of the Astonishing X-men spending some downtime in San Francisco, their new home city. I am pleased to see the roster we have here: Cyclops, Emma Frost, Beast, Wolverine, Armor, and Storm. Sad to see no Colossus but Ororo is a welcome addition, making this the truly “...

By Kevin Melrose Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi take the reins from Joss Whedon and John Cassaday on Marvel’s Astonishing X-Men, and DC pulls the plug on The All-New Atom while launching the certain-to-be-adorable Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! (by Herobear’s Mike Kunkel).

By Kevin Melrose In the cartoon, an attack on the mansion leads to the disappearance of Prof. Xavier and Jean Grey, and the disbanding of the X-Men. But after Emma Frost locates a comatose Xavier in the care of Magneto in Genosha, the professor telepathically orders Wolverine to reassemble the X-Men to save...

By Chris Mautner This Saturday, May 31st, The Factual Opinion’s Head Comics Writer will tackle the Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol 1, live-blogging his way through this Highly Esteemed! And Oh So Important! volume of comic book literature.  Published in 2006, the Omnibus contains Giant Size X-Men # 1, Uncann...

By Carla Hoffman I’m pretty sure, dear reader, that as you’re reading this, there’s some part of your brain reversing these decisions. “But the Hulk could totally beat Superman!” or even “Batman doesn’t stand a chance against Superman!”, there’s always another side to these arguments in the lives of our...

By JK Parkin I hope they use the same actors that the trailer did … Screenwriter Zak Penn talks about X-Men, Hulk ComicMix has an interview up with Zak Penn, who worked on Incredible Hulk and the X-Men films, about a variety of subjects, including the Avengers movie:

By Carla Hoffman Onslaught took care of it in true ’90s fashion, X-Men: Deadly Genesis ruined his reputation with his strongest supporter, he’s been a man out of place in both space and his own home and now we have villains trying to remake his brain and apparently constantly questioning how much he plays G...

By Carla Hoffman More on Marvel’s Merry Mutants? Not so fast! X-MEN: LEGACY #209, the retitled Ajectiveless X-Men still has its secrets, though you got me on what in the world they could be by now. What do you mean ‘CLASSIFIED UNTIL THE END OF MESSIAH COMPLEX’? The last couple descriptions of this ‘new’ book...