By rss@youtube.com (grandlan) Craig tackles the X-titles in this special episode! Reviews include X-Men Kingbreaker, Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, and X-Men Legacy. Author: grandlan Keywords: comic review x-men kingbreaker uncanny x-factor legacy marvel war of kings peter david Added: February 21, 2009

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...

In this episode, we've got Power Pack Day One #2 featuring ponies and rainbows! Then we check out Rick Remender's Fear Agent #20 and Uncanny X-Men #497.In the Speed Round we've got The Dresden Files #1, Robin #173, The Brave and the Bold #12, The Damned #1 and The Sword #7.In our viewer mail, Gl...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Thus, this issue and the next comprise an opening one-two punch in Claremont’s attempt to get his characters out of the pressure-cooker and let them live, and breathe. The villains (a parody of Ghostbusters, portrayed by writers of the Wild Cards series, to which Claremont contributed a...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Still, it contains some intriguing turns. Psylocke, for example, wonders whether “the changes [to the X-Men] wrought by ‘Inferno’ … were more than cosmetic.” This is a fascinating development that Claremont will kinda-sorta explore over the next few months before dropping it (perhaps...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Jason Powell continues his issue by issue look at Claremont's X-Men. An especially good entry here, in its look at Cyclops and Havok.] Dazzler: “Red’s in trouble.” Longshot: “Theirs or ours?” Dazzler: “Theirs. Could probably use a hand.” Longshot: “What’d she ever do for us?”

By Jim(noreply@blogger.com) Magneto has appeared over Utopia. Professor X asks him what he wants. Magneto does not want to speak to him, he is there to talk to Scott (Cyclops) Summers. As a sign that he is not looking for a fight, Magneto removes his helmet that protects him from psychic attacks. He gives his helmet to Scott. Professor X confronts him that it is a trap. Magneto refuses to fight. He says that Professor X and his time has passed. Professor launches a psychic attack. Magneto holds his ground but does not respond. The professor and Scott have an argument. Scott tells him to stand down. It is very understandable that Professor X would not trust Magneto. They have known each other for years and it always seems like Magneto has opposed him at every turn. No matter how many times he...   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (Jim) It is very understandable that Professor X would not trust Magneto. They have known each other for years and it always seems like Magneto has opposed him at every turn. No matter how many times he has reached out to Magneto, they end up fighting.

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Note: The full “secret origin” of Madelyne – her ties to Phoenix, etc. – is never given by Claremont. He leaves it to Louise Simonson to reveal in X-Factor #38. But we do get a lot of it here, and I still maintain that “Inferno” works perfectly well to explain the long-running mysteries, certain...

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By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) So begins “Inferno,” the 1988 X-Men fall crossover. This is the one everyone hates. To sum up the history at this point: 1986 was the year of the first X-over -- “Mutant Massacre,” a flawed but entertaining comics event built around a suitably momentous occurrence in the franchise’s histor...

A strong finish all around… Fraction seems to have mastered the art of the superhero smackdown." – Jesse Schedeen, IGN.com How will Osborn attempt to defeat the real X-Men? Find out in Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus Second Printing Variant!

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By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) As to the X-Men vignettes, the most notable among them is the practice session among Colossus, Psylocke and Rogue, a bit that accomplishes several dramatic goals within the span of only a few pages. First, it’s established that Rogue and Carol’s personalities now switch in and out regula...

By Rokk Krinn(LaRevolucion44@aol.com) 1. Wolverine: Giant-Sized Old Man Logan #1 6. Nova #29 This title continues to be a miss with me. This mini-series has failed to deliver what I was hoping. I really liked these characters when Morrison introduced them during Final Crisis. Unfortunately, Casey has done next to little with these characters in this mini-series. 12. Uncanny X-Men #515 None of the characters have much of a developed personality. Any type of personality that Fraction has been able to cultivate for certain characters has been based more on the stereotype perception of that character rather than actual character work. There is also a total lack of chemistry between the various characters.   [read the full post]

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Claremont followed that example for years. Here, in the conclusion to the four-part Genoshan story, the author spends a massive percentage of the available 22 pages dwelling on Madelyne Pryor’s development into something otherworldly – it’s all less to do with Genosha and more to do wit...

By Chad Nevett Random Thought! The first two pages of Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus #1 really annoyed me last week. They had nothing to do with the rest of the issue, acting only as a "Go buy Dark X-Men: The Confession when it comes out!" teaser. Of course, the scene WOULD have worked if it began the cro...

By Brian Cronin Read on for the six choices and the poll! Artist: Neal Adams Artist: John Buscema Artist: Gil Kane Artist: John Buscema Artist: Dave Cockrum Artist: John Romita, Jr. Which cover is most iconic?(opinion) 1 Comments At September 9, 2009, Chad Nevett wrote: I voted Uncanny X-Men #200.

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) David ends up aboard the “Mutie Train,” as do Logan and Carol. Serendipitously, the concept of a train on which the disenfranchised mutant population commute to and from their “Settlement Zone” has its parallel in South Africa’s system of grand apartheid, and in the history of X-Men cont...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Psylocke: “May you burn!” Psylocke: “And what have you shown, magistrate – you so-called upholder of the law – to the mutants you’ve enslaved and tortured and slain?!” Colossus: “Psylocke – stop – for pity’s sake – would you kill these men?”

By Brian Cronin Uncanny X-Men #168… Daredevil #232… 2 & #3 are great. I love Kitty ... Top 70 Most Iconic Marvel Panels, ... Never mind me, I'm obviously drunk today, and forgot the Marvel focus. Doug M. Another vote for #2. I'm with jjc on this one. Professor Xavier IS a jerk. He was all about the greater good, ...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) In service of this dual-minded approach, Claremont constructs each chapter of the “Welcome to Genosha” epic to contain at least one sequence of wrenching brutality and tragedy (always set in the titular African nation), juxtaposed against at least one containing straightforward su...

By Matthew Weinberger X-Men group editor Axel Alonso was joined by panelists include Matt Fraction (Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia), Craig Kyle and Chris Yost (X-Force), Marjorie Liu (Dark Wolverine), Daniel Way (Deadpool), Jason Aaron (Wolverine: Weapon X), and several special guests to share th...

By Graeme McMillan(noreply@blogger.com) More Claremont retrospective! This time, the first two years of the Byrne run, wherein everything comes together remarkably quickly, and I compare John Byrne to Joe Sinnott. Or something.Ignoring the fill-in in UNCANNY X-MEN #106 (Although: Chris Claremont and Bill Mantlo together! T...

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! Wolverine: “Strikes me, Ororo, your ‘Plan Omega’ may have worked after all. If everyone figures us dead ...”

His run on the X-Men has become something of an intersection of the weird, even including the hyper-obscure Doctor Nemesis. Doctor Nemesis is an oddity not only because he is in the X-Men series (while not being a mutant, as is the rest of the cast), ...

Recent events around the X-books have shown an increased interest in a possible Jean Grey/Phoenix return. There have been few confirmations that Marvel plans to raise the Phoenix – later rather than sooner – when current Uncanny X-Men scribe, ...

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 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 Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Containing an extraordinarily high incidence of thrilling moments in the space of only 23 pages, Uncanny X-Men #225 is a fantastic slice of superhero fiction. At this point, it seems certain that Claremont, Silvestri and Green can do no wrong.

By Graeme McMillan(noreply@blogger.com) The first couple of years of Chris Claremont's UNCANNY X-MEN (#94-105 - the book was bi-monthly back then) are really weird to look back on, knowing what came later: Len Wein had introduced the All-New, All-Different team in Giant Size X-Men without Claremont's involvement, and so the f...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) The “Fall of the Mutants” trilogy beginning next month will wrap up several threads at once, decisively enough that – as Patrick has pointed out here – it will almost feel like an ending for the entire Uncanny X-Men series. But Claremont decides to ease us into the narrative tour de force of i...

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jim) Lady Deathstrike has impaled Wolverine on her claws. Madelyne has Psylocke attack him next. Madelyne is notified that Empath has been taken out. She does not care. They have what they came for. Wolverine catches Psylocke but the rest escape.

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Claremont knows how to have fun. A case in point are the Marauders – an agglomeration of super-villains, no one of which has a particularly compelling personality or superpower, yet who collectively made such a delightfully chilling impression during the “Mutant Massacre” storyline. N...

Perhaps in an effort to mimic the chaotic nature of having so many mutants now centralized in one location, Matt Fraction's Uncanny X-Men has been something of a schizophrenic effort. It wasn't unusual for an issue to devote five or six pages to each ... Uncanny X-Men #510 Comic Book Resources

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Consider the crisp alliteration of “silver-slashed obsidian,” the tactile imagery of a voice “glazed into a rich contralto.” Claremont’s narrative voice has more in common with a classical poet than, say, Stan Lee, which is perhaps why superhero fans so often deride his talent as a word...

By noreply@blogger.com (Jim) This comic book has disappointed the Revolution. X-Men has traditionally been about the characters that we have read about for years. Claremont built up their personalities to the point that they seem like real people. Then when they are thrown into battles in the Savage Land, against gian...

By noreply@blogger.com (Jim) This comic book has disappointed the Revolution. X-Men has traditionally been about the characters that we have read about for years. Claremont built up their personalities to the point that they seem like real people. Then when they are thrown into battles in the Savage Land, against giant robots, and fight superteams from other countries(or worlds), we care what happens to them. Into all the traditional comic storylines, Claremont added some very serious issues. The Beast approaches Angel. He wants to know why Angel is keeping secrets from him. Angel says he can't tell him. Angel flies away. As the process begins, the machine explodes. The High Evolutionary cries "Erik". The man comes out of the wreckage and says "No. Magneto..."   [read the full post]

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) This is not quite using superheroes as metaphor, but there is definitely a unique energy in what Claremont accomplishes with the oblique sexuality of the Colossus/Shadowcat idea shown here. Like the asymmetry between Xavier’s mutant power and Magneto’s, which Geoff so cannily observ...

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 LaRevolucion44@aol.com (Rokk Krinn) The character work is practically non-existent. All the characters are one-dimensional. And some of the characters do not even act like their established personalities. In particular Cyclops and Colossus. Fraction continues to show a lack of understanding of Colossus' character. In ear...

Brandon Borzelli's Geek Goggle Reviews Uncanny X-Men #506 Marvel Comics Fraction, Dodson, Dodson & Ponsor This issue has three main threads, all of which are sort of in the middle stages making this issue just one piece to the bigger picture. As a result it has that building feeling and leaves you wanting more, which is a good thing, but it also doesn’t have much in the way of immediate concluding satisfaction. I’m curious to see where all of this is going but I felt I could have used a little more connecting of the dots in this issue. Read more »Original post blogged on ComicList.   [read the full post]

By Derek Your host David A Price talks about New York Comicon, Steve Raker talks about the Year In Review in 1970, Pat Loika brings the new releases, David then returns to review Mighty Avengers, The Uncanny X-Men Annual, Young X-Men and X-Men: Manifest Destiny. David also compares Dazzler to Bell...

By tfaw It’s that time of the week again–time to review this week’s Dark Reign comics! Josh and I are reading each issue as it comes out and “live blogging” as we go. This week includes some special issues, including Uncanny X-Men Annual #2 and Dark Avengers #1. Dark Avengers Assemble! Ummm . . . it is a scary time to be in the Marvel Universe. Too bad Peter Parker never had a conversation with the Gobby about great power coming with responsibility. I doubt he would have listened anyway. Uncanny X-Men Annual #2 focuses on Emma Frost, the White Queen, delving into her history with some of the major Dark Reign players–including Namor, Prince of Atlantis, and Tony Stark!   [read the full post]

In between all this we review Young XMen 8, Manifest Destiny 3, XFactor 37, Wolv Origins 29, Legacy 218, Wolverine 69, XForce 9, and Uncanny 504. And in Retro Reviews we discuss Uncanny X-Men Annual 8, Uncanny 194 and 195, and New Mutants 26 - 28.

By Dave Ferraro(pryde4747@yahoo.com) Patrick picked this up for me at the comic book store, and had I been there, I probably would have given it a once-over and put it back on the shelf with an "egh." I wasn't too fond of Ed Brubaker's stint on Uncanny X-Men where much of what's going down in this new four issue mini-series was set up i...

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By Mark Stoddard Now, this soap opera element is nothing new when it comes to the X-Men – indeed, the real golden age of these mutants under the direction of the legendary Chris Claremont was always hailed as a great success in fostering exactly this sort of atmosphere. But times have changed drastically in...

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...

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Uncanny X-Men #504 Marvel Comics Fraction, Dodson, Ponsor Colossus is upset about the loss of his love. He decides a tattoo is in order, but that doesn’t quite work with his steel body and all. After seeking some comfort from Nightcrawler, he is eventually sent on a sabbatical by Cyclops.

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By ComicList Uncanny X-Men #504 Marvel Comics Fraction, Dodson, Ponsor Colossus is upset about the loss of his love. He decides a tattoo is in order, but that doesn’t quite work with his steel body and all. After seeking some comfort from Nightcrawler, he is eventually sent on a sabbatical by Cyclops. Uncanny X-Men #504 Marvel Comics Fraction, Dodson, Ponsor Colossus is upset about the loss of his love. He decides a tattoo is in order, but that doesn’t quite work with his steel body and all. After seeking some comfort from Nightcrawler, he is eventually sent on a sabbatical by Cyclops. The issue includes some other moments with Colossus stumbling upon an old villain and Beast and Angel recruiting a potential X-Man, but that’s pretty much the whole issue.   [read the full post]

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By pozzyfreak The Story: This issue is all about setting up the new story arc, introducing multiple situations involving each character in the team.  While doing some soul searching, in an effort to get past the death of Kitty Pryde, Colossus is confronted with an old enemy. In addition, Emma Frost heads...

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By Rokk Krinn(noreply@blogger.com) The best aspect of Uncanny X-Men #504 is that Marvel is finally getting around to addressing the various dangling plotlines from the Messiah Complex. I was beginning to think that Marvel was never going to get around to addressing the fallout from the Messiah Complex here in the pages of Uncanny X-Men. I found it strange that Fraction would have Colossus regress back into a depressed and mopey state over Kitty’s death. I thought that the purpose of Brubaker having Nightcrawler, Wolverine and Colossus travelling to Europe together was to help Peter move past Kitty’s death. And I also got the impression that Brubaker had Colossus grieve and finally come to terms with Kitty’s death and ready to move on and rejoin his fellow X-Men.   [read the full post]

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) In almost any Claremont superhero comic, the extraordinary circumstances work metaphorically. Here, the very comic-booky premise – a reformed super-villain finds her psyche invaded by the mind of a superhero she once fought and beat – is simply a heightened version of the prosaic phen...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) The story’s epilogue also harkens to the past. Since Uncanny #181 is the first issue to be published in 1984, Claremont takes advantage of the date, deliberately alluding to the alternate history related by the adult Kate Pryde in “Days of Future Past” (Uncanny #141). In a panel from that st...

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By Bodog(noreply@blogger.com) Uncanny X-Men #502 Land's art is good, but page two is a tally of prominent X-Men seen in the issue (except Storm, again like she was thrown in as an after thought), and other than make-up, there's no clear difference between Emma and Dazzler in the face.

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Having apparently struck upon the idea months ago to end Colossus and Kitty’s relationship, Claremont made the odd decision to lay much of the emotional groundwork for the idea in issues of New Mutants rather than X-Men. New Mutants #’s 13 and 14 see Kitty palling around with a fellow teen c...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Claremont also confronts the X-Men (both the characters and the overall franchise’s premise) with their own hypocrisy here, several times. Callisto shames Kitty at having exploited the trust of Caliban (the Morlocks’ other tragic character besides Leech), and Kitty in turn chastise...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) A 22-page story, “Sanction” wastes a ridiculous 12 pages on a dismally unimaginative scene depicting Mystique in training against Arcade’s X-Men robots. Romita’s choreography is stiff, and Claremont strains, but ultimately fails, to give Mystique a compelling first-person narrat...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Thus, Claremont is deliberately flagging up problematic moments in the story of the X-Men – moments that Claremont himself is responsible for – in order to plant the first seeds of a new kind of X-Men. In the coming years, Claremont will upset the status quo in significant ways. Valerie Coop...

By Aaron Glazer Uncanny X-Men #503 - Aw man, what the hell! Sam Guthrie has aged 6 years since 1982. Cannonball is now 21. X-Force was now a bunch of teenagers… for that whole damn run! He, Karma, and Moonstar celebrate being able to be mutants in public while drinking. Grant Who? New X-Men What? Yeah, apparent...

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) A shrewd plotter, Claremont also smartly weaves in other ongoing arcs into this climactic issue: His use of the recently-added cast-member Rogue is quite clever, as is the fact that Storm’s newfound affinity for “violent weather” becomes a key to the team’s victory.

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) As per the title, this is an issue focused entirely on the romantic relationships among the X-Men cast: Cyclops/Madelyne, Wolverine/Mariko, Kitty/Colossus, Nightcrawler/Amanda, and Charles/Lilandra. Partly marking time so that the climax to the “From the Ashes” storyline can occ...

By Travis The Amazing Spider-Man 573, Astonishing X-Men 27, Guardians of the Galaxy 6, Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. 34, and Uncanny X Men 503 All of these comics were worthy of purchase this week. Has that ever even happened before in one review/ Astonishing X-Men 27 Uncanny X Men 503

Uncanny X-Men #503 Marvel Comics Fraction, Brubaker, Land and Ponsor Next the issue covers Empath and his rampage. While Scott and Emma play the dual role of tactician and communications center, Angel, Storm, Nightcrawler and Wolverine try to stop Empath. While this is going on Pixie has herself a breakout moment and some good interaction with Beast to boot. It’s a good issue. There is a decent sized cast and the issue moves fast enough so that none of them really eat up too much scenery. The banter between Nightcrawler and Wolverine is assuming while the dialogue between Cannonball, Karma and Mirage is meaningful. Empath proved to be an interesting villain, but wasn’t explored very much.   [read the full post]

By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) This and the previous issue make for one of Claremont’s best small-scale stories in the entire Uncanny X-Men canon, memorable enough that Bryan Singer even cannibalized it – specifically lifting the “Wolverine lets Rogue take his powers” dramatic beat – for the first X-Men film, made o...

By conor@ifanboy.com Believe it or not, I’ve been reading the X-Men books off and on in some form or another for practically my entire comic book reading life.  Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, X-Factor, New X-Men, X-Force, New Mutants, Astonishing X-Men, Cable, New X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, Wolverine, X-Statix – these a...

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By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) Storm’s angst seemed so gradual, and repetitious, it makes for a wrenching surprise when the actual turn is so violent and so fast. What Claremont has created is an inverse of the “Dark Phoenix” cliffhanger at the end of Uncanny X-Men #134 (exactly three years earlier), where the sudden ch...

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By Geoff Klock(geoff.klock@gmail.com) But how, then, to still satisfy genre requirements? How can Claremont still utilize recurring villains, for example, but fight free of the “riff” paradigm, wherein every creator of X-Men offers a new spin on the same old chords? We get a taste of the answer here, as Claremont begins to rec...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) Indeed, the scope of the characters’ ruminations and self-scrutiny is so broad that writer Mitch Montgomery, in his essay “X-traordinary People: Mary Tyler Moore and the Mutants Explore Pop Psychology,” was moved to suggest that what we are actually seeing in issue 168 is the X-Men dec...

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By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) Uncanny X-Men #167 is the transitional issue marking the paradigm shift in Claremont’s approach to writing the series. However, thanks to the vagaries of publishing schedules combined with the mysterious nature of comic-book chronologizing, a few blatantly superheroic epics fall i...

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. Pixie ponders running away and has some interaction with Wolverine. Wolverine obviously has thing for taking in young X-Men girls. So while this seems like a good idea it feels a little old due to his relationships with Kitty, Jubilee, X-23 and Armor. I’m not saying it’s not okay, but I am saying it felt too familiar.   [read the full post]

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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]

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 ComicList I passed on Manifest Destiny as this issue had two stories about characters I really have little interest in: Boom-Boom and Karma. As for the Iceman story, I thought the rollout of this particular villain was a little odd. I would think this character will start showing up in Uncanny fairly s...

By ComicList Here are this week’s comics ranked prior to reading them: 4. Uncanny X-Men #502 3. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic #33 2. Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods #2 of 4 1. Action Comics #869 4. Uncanny X-Men #502 Fraction, Brubaker & Land 1. Action Comics #869 Johns, Frank & Sibal

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) By his own account, Claremont’s invention of the New Mutants was something of a pre-emptive strike, to prevent a misconceived “West Coast X-Men” spin-off that would have turned the X-Men universe into something too corporate in tone for the author’s liking. Opting instead to re-emphas...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) Trivia: That the new X-Men’s superhero phase ends with #166 is a striking coincidence of numbering, given that the Silver Age X-Men were cancelled with #66. In a strange way, Uncanny #266 will mark a similar milestone as the first appearance of Gambit – the first Claremont X-character del...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) Wolverine makes the surprising admission that he once, as a soldier, tried prayer himself and that it was “a mistake.” Kurt’s response is to pity Logan his lack of spirituality and his loneliness, and Wolverine replies by embracing Nightcrawler, saying, “I ain’t alone, bub – I got you.” Th...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) Indeed, the seeds for the first arc of New Mutants are seen in issue 164, in a two-page sequence involving Xavier and Illyana. The latter makes some enigmatic references to her mutant power – to be revealed in the Magik miniseries that will in turn feed into the New Mutants title – while the fo...

2. UNCANNY X-MEN 07/03 Uncanny X-Men #428 - 93,546 07/04 Uncanny X-Men #446 - 96,961 07/05 Uncanny X-Men #462 - 91,125 07/06 Uncanny X-Men #476 - 88,775 ===== 07/07 Uncanny X-Men #488 - 86,747 ( +6.5%) 08/07 Uncanny X-Men #489 - 88,068 ( +1.5%) 09/07 Uncanny X-Men #490 - 87,592 ( -0.5%) 10/07 Unc...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) In the present issue, there are distinct shades of the middle act of the Dark Phoenix Saga, wherein Wolverine and Cyclops were the lynchpins of the X-Men’s escape from the Hellfire Club. Here, Wolverine is once again the catalyst for an escape, this time from the Brood (whom the X-Men all se...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) In the comments to Jason's post on Uncanny X-Men 160, Cove West wrote -- in three parts -- about the Lovecraft mythos as it appears in Marvel Comics. Comment pull quote? Comment pull essay.] Sound familiar? Claremont DID refer to both Magik and Phoenix as Darkchild.

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) 1982 was an important year for the X-franchise, with the release of the first spin-off series focusing on the solo adventures of a team member. (The ongoing Dazzler series had piggy-backed its launch off of Uncanny back in 1980, so was only a spin-off by technicality). Written by Chris Clar...

MARVEL COMICS MARVEL COMICS 09-24-08 Uncanny X-Men TPB Divided We Stand 09-24-08 Wolverine Origins #28 10-29-08 Wolverine Origins #29 10-29-08 X-Men TPB Messiah Complex 11-19-08 Secret Invasion #8 11-19-08 Secret Invasion: X-Men #4 11-26-08 Wolverine: Origins #30

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) Claremont gently segues readers into the meat of the issue – an extended flashback revealing how Xavier and Magneto first met. (When this issue was first published, that Xavier and Magneto had any history pre-Lee/Kirby’s X-Men #1 was a watershed revelation. But anyone reading this comic...

Uncanny X-Men #501 Marvel Comics Brubaker, Fraction & Land Then we have some bonding between Cyclops and Angel. This kind of dragged on a little too long, but I guess the character interaction was pretty decent all things considered. This is immediately followed up with more downtime between Cyclops, Beast and Wolverine. It got boring real fast. Uncanny X-Men #501 Another negative was the artwork. Overall, it was fine. However, I found that many of the scenes lacked a background. For example, Colossus, Wolverine and Nightcrawler interaction all appeared to take place in a prison cell or in a void. I just felt like the story could have been really enhanced by the artwork and it wasn’t.   [read the full post]

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By ComicList Uncanny X-Men #501 Marvel Comics Brubaker, Fraction & Land Then we have some bonding between Cyclops and Angel. This kind of dragged on a little too long, but I guess the character interaction was pretty decent all things considered. This is immediately followed up with more downtime between Cyclops, Beast and Wolverine. It got boring real fast. Uncanny X-Men #501 Another negative was the artwork. Overall, it was fine. However, I found that many of the scenes lacked a background. For example, Colossus, Wolverine and Nightcrawler interaction all appeared to take place in a prison cell or in a void. I just felt like the story could have been really enhanced by the artwork and it wasn’t.   [read the full post]

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...

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By Brian Cronin Apparently there is a leaked copy of the original script of Uncanny X-Men #501 making the rounds of the internet, and in it, the characters at the beginning of the story are referred to as either “queers” or “queer freaks,” I forget which one [EDITED TO ADD: A helpful editor at Marvel droppe...

By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) The best part of “Pursuit” is Professor X, whom Claremont and Cockrum seem to be suddenly on a mission to make cooler than ever before. His trashing of a Brood warrior with a fist to the face is the most satisfying moment of action in the issue, and the subsequent dialogue between Charles and S...

That’s right True Believers, in the latest edition of the Mighty Marvel Podcast, fan favorite host Jeff Suter chats with the brains behind the X-book that’s blazing a new mutant status quo. Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction provide an exclusive look behind-the-scenes to the hit Uncanny X-Men #500. The X-Men have moved to San Francisco. Want to know why? What do they have planned for everyone’s favorite mutants? Any special guests? Well you’ll just have to listen and find out! Not only do they answer Jeff’s questions, but they answer YOUR questions! Did you ask a question and want to know if it got answered? Be sure to jump on the Mighty Marvel Podcast train and enjoy! Listen to this latest Mighty Marvel Podcast right here:   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (Rokk Krinn) Suddenly, Magneto busts onto the scene and saves me from this mind numbing dialogue and incredibly boring story up to this point. Magneto kicks ass on Colossus and then brings the Sentinels to life. Magneto orders the Sentinels to attack all the mutants. The Sentinels attack the X-Men, but strangely leave Magneto alone. The X-Men quickly dispatch the Sentinels and then lock horns with Magneto. Magneto kicks ass on the X-Men. Suddenly, Cannonball rockets onto the scene and blasts into Magneto. Magneto gets up and we see that he is wearing a special outfit designed to mimic his lost mutant powers. Magneto is pissed that his priceless piece of technology that defied biology itself is ruined.   [read the full post]

By Brian Cronin The plot revolves around a controversial art exhibit involving Sentinels. While at the exhibit, Magneto shows up and turns the Sentinels on the X-Men. This all turns out to be a big diversion to distract from a plot Magneto has cooked up with the High Evolutionary where Magneto distracts th...

By lotrking After this quarrel, the X-Men send out a message to all mutants that San Francisco is now a safe haven for all their kind and their allies. While I’m guessing this is supposed to be some long-awaited positive experience for the X-Men, does anyone else think this new status quo just feels too h...

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By Geoff Klock(noreply@blogger.com) Claremont was superhero comics’ first feminist writer. He clearly had an affection for Storm -- the “new” X-Men’s only female member originally – right from the start. Indeed, it is Ororo who saves the day in Uncanny X-Men #96, the first X-Men issue that Claremont plotted. (Cockrum’s favor...

By Brian LeTendre Topics Covered In This Issue: Download Location of the Week: Warwick, RI What’s New at Secretidentitypodcast.com Reviews: Storming Paradise #1; Secret Invasion: Front Line #1; Hellboy: The crooked Man #1; Buffy #16; The Astounding Wolf-Man #6 Out of the Long Box: Uncanny X-Men #210 Li...

The first third of the comic deals with Wolverine, Colossus and Nightcrawler under attack by some giant robots while on a train ride through Russia. No, they aren’t THOSE robots, but they aren’t any less powerful. This scene makes more good use of these three classic characters and their interaction with each other. Wolverine fights but not in his berserker mode. It’s all good stuff. Did I mention they lose? The issue ends with the goddess aware the X-Men are on to her while in Russia, Wolverine, Colossus and Nightcrawler are captive and in deep trouble. They are faced with an interesting question: why were they among those that survived M-Day? Beyond the fact that they are cool characters and all that.   [read the full post]

By Charles LePage The first third of the comic deals with Wolverine, Colossus and Nightcrawler under attack by some giant robots while on a train ride through Russia. No, they aren’t THOSE robots, but they aren’t any less powerful. This scene makes more good use of these three classic characters and their interaction with each other. Wolverine fights but not in his berserker mode. It’s all good stuff. Did I mention they lose? The issue ends with the goddess aware the X-Men are on to her while in Russia, Wolverine, Colossus and Nightcrawler are captive and in deep trouble. They are faced with an interesting question: why were they among those that survived M-Day? Beyond the fact that they are cool characters and all that.   [read the full post]

X-Men First Class Vol. 2 #11 Review  CA - It is easy to make fun of comic book fans, and while a comic that playfully mocks those who religiously back the medium sounds like a good idea, ... Uncanny X-Men #497 Review IGN X-Force #3 Review IGN Wolverine: First Class #2 Review IGN

By Brian Cronin 90. Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr’s X-Men – 106 points (1 first place vote) Uncanny X-Men #175(partial), #176-197, 199-200, 202-203, 206-211 The Avengers #35-104 Stan Lee pronounces it "Boo-SEM-uh" in the How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way video, IIRC

Uncanny X-Men #496 Marvel Comics Brubaker, Choi & Oback Colossus visits a tombstone or two with Wolverine and Nightcrawler. Wolverine keeps the emotions grounded by helping them get out of mourning and into a bar. Wolverine helps to talk Colossus in some circles. Imagine a situation where Wolverine is the calming voice of reason to get over grief. Colossus has lost a lot and thanks to an editor falling asleep at the wheel, we know about another loss before it actually happened (for those of you waiting for Astonishing X-Men stay away from this issue). Wolverine helps to articulate that being an X-Men is wasn’t supposed to solve your own problems, but maybe solve them for future generations of mutants. It’s a solid scene.   [read the full post]

By cslepage X-Men Legacy #208 Marvel Comics Carey, Eaton & Romita Xavier was shot in the head at the conclusion of the Messiah Complex. Apparently, he was abducted in the fray. This has some continuity problems. For one, didn’t everyone mention how Beast was with him or tending to him? Also, in both X-Force and Wolverine, Cyclops dispatches Wolverine to take care of way lesser important matters than finding Xavier. Plus, in Uncanny X-Men there isn’t any mention of the missing Xavier while Cyclops and Emma vacation. I am guessing more will be revealed on this front, but I admit it baffled me a bit. 5 out of 5 geek goggles. X-Men Legacy #208   [read the full post]

The biggest X-Men crossover in years has reached its conclusion, and so this week, Blake and Chase talk about X-Men: Messiah Complex. The guys break down the crossover, talk about how it effected each of the four titles, and give their thoughts on the future of Uncanny X-Men, X-Men: Legacy...

Setting his grand plan for godhood into motion, Apocalypse dispatches his agents to capture the world's most powerful mutants, the fabled Twelve: Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Iceman, Sunfire, Polaris, Cable, Bishop, Mikhail Rasputin, the Living Monolith and Magneto. Having himself planted the seeds of the Twelve legend, Apocalypse hopes to siphon their power, granting him omnipotency. Desperate to stave off his ascension, the X-Men must strike a temporary truce with Magneto to battle the warlord's forces as the Twelve are assembled -- and one longtime member seemingly sacrifices his own life to end the threat of Apocalypse once and for all! Collecting Uncanny X-Men 376-377, Cable 73-76, X-Men 96-97, Wolverine 145-...   [read the full post]

By Brian Cronin Ed Brubaker wants her on Uncanny X-Men? Easy - “It didn’t work out.” Claremont has them say IN THE COMIC that they are unsure if it will work - so really, not a big deal, and certainly not Claremont trying to screw with other writers. If Claremont had some pattern of trying to hurt other writers,...

By Rokk Krinn We zip to Nightcrawler and Professor X in the Blackbird. Suddenly, a lightning storm appears and Professor X grabs his head. Professor X says that Storm’s mind suddenly went white and that he can’t get into her mind now. That all he hears is screaming. Beast and Bishop leave the dealer’s place. Beast is depressed that he has hit a total dead end. That he doesn’t know where to go from here. Bishop says he isn’t worried because in his future there are tons of mutants. Beast then comments that Bishop is from an alternate future like Marvel Girl and Cable. That Bishop’s very presence here makes it unlikely that it will ever…Beast pauses and then says “Wait. That could be it.” End of issue.   [read the full post]

In which, in between bad 69 jokes, we take on adult comics, One More Day, Incredible Hulk 110, Teen Titans 50, Outsiders - Five of a Kind and 50, She-Hulk & Dan Slott, Buffy, New Warriors 4, Captain America the Chosen, Uncanny X-Men 490, and we end with a discussion of Warpath (or is it Thu...

By Rokk Krinn We hop over to the jail cell where Darwin and Professor Xavier are being held. The Shi’ar soldiers enter and grab Professor X and drag him to the wedding ceremony. Nightcrawler teleports over to Professor X. However, Vulcan blasts Nighcrawler and then grabs Professor X. Vulcan then says that Professor X is going to get what he deserves. I’m going to guess that Darwin will sacrifice his own life in order to save Professor X. And I think there might be a good chance that Professor X’s exposure to the Crystal may give him his mutant powers back. After all, a powerless Professor X isn’t all that interesting.   [read the full post]

The last lost episode!  Material recorded in 2006 and not "aired."  I review then-new Captain America #20, Uncanny X-Men #477, Civil War: Frontline #4, Amazing Spider-man #534, New Avengers #22, 52 #10, 11, 12, 13, Fantastic Four #539, Agents of Atlas #1, and The Oz/Wonderland Chronicl...

A "lost episode" episode with unaired segments from last July, including then-new reviews of Uncanny X-Men #476, Civil War #3, X-Factor #9, Civil War: Frontline #3, Thunderbolts #104, She-Hulk #9, Eternals #2, Transformers: Infiltration #6, and Justice League of America #0.  Also...

By Johanna is a huge doorstop of a book, as it has to be to contain 38 issues of the Uncanny X-Men title, beginning with #94, as well as Giant-Size X-Men #1 and X-Men Annual #3. (That’s over 800 pages, the equivalent of the first four Masterworks.) This is the run written by Chris Claremont (with a prelimin...

subscription)Dave Cockrum's ‘X-Men,' ‘Legion' characters still remain ... subscription), OK - By Matthew Price. Dave Cockrum, "Uncanny X-Men" comic-book artist who co-created Storm, Nightcrawler and Colossus, died of complications from diabetes Sunday ...