In the grand tradition of The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t and KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, behold…the X-Men Halloween Special!
REVIEW: X-Men #3 – It’s Evolution, Baby
Terror falls from the sky in X-Men #3, but with the High Evolutionary involved, it’s not raining cats and dogs – it’s raining talking gorillas and cyborg elephants.
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Blow a Kiss, Fire a Gun: The Complete Kirby War & Romance
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon.
REVIEW: X-Men #2 – Annihilation Now!
With a title like “Catching the Wave,” X-Men #2 can only be one thing: a beach issue! Get ready for lots of sand, sun, and surf for our merry mutants. Cyclops in a Speedo! Jean’s mask giving her weird tan lines! Rogue ruining the volleyball game and spiking the ball straight to Bugtussle, Tennessee! Wolverine…
REVIEW: X-Men #1 – The Mutants Take Manhattan
“Remind me again why I said we needed to be in New York?”
REVIEW: Planet-Size X-Men #1 Teleports Us to Mars
Humans of the planet Earth. While you slept, another world changed.
REVIEW: X-Men #20 – Burning Hearts
The future looms as Nimrod awakens! Unfortunately for Orchis, Mystique has annihilation on her mind in the penultimate issue of Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men.
REVIEW: Army of the Dead – Face it, Zombie Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot
Invoking the late icon with sequined jumpsuits and sculpted waves of black hair, Elvis impersonators are already the walking dead—Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead only takes the extra step of turning them into flesh-eating zombies. Parachuting onto Netflix after a limited theatrical release, Snyder’s exhilarating return to the zombie genre turns the hedonistic joy…
REVIEW: X-Men #19 – Days of Future, Passed
The City inside the Vault is, at its core, a paradox. As the name suggests, its very existence is an enigma: simultaneously infinite and claustrophobic, it appears post-apocalyptically empty but hides a deadly enemy around every corner. The “genesis tomb” of the Children of the Vault, superpowered post-humans genetically designed for world domination, the City…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Wild, Weird Writing: Charlotte Brontë, Welcome to Die
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Brussels, 1892. In a second hand book stall, a professor finds the leather-bound manuscript of High Life in Verdopolis, a novella set in the fantastic kingdom of Glass Town imagined by…