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: Everything New is Old Again in Cable #12
Cable is dead, long live Cable. After 12 issues, Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto’s run on Cable has come to an end, bringing Old Man Cable back to the forefront while winding down Kid Cable’s time in the spotlight. Finales are always tricky, even when planned from the start, and the lingering question hangs over…
REVIEW: Storm Brings the Thunder in SWORD #7
Been a while since we checked in with SWORD, gang, I wonder if anything interesting happened in the last few issues. … … …They did WHAT to Mars???
REVIEW: X-Men #1 – The Mutants Take Manhattan
“Remind me again why I said we needed to be in New York?”
The Alchemy of Excalibur: Race, Magic, and the Mutant Metaphor
Earlier this year, in a piece for our Breaking In! series, I wrote, “The mutant metaphor means that the X-Men have the potential to represent people of marginalized genders and sexualities and people of color and especially people at the intersection of those identities. They didn’t under [Chris] Claremont, not fully, and I’m not sure…
REVIEW: Planet-Size X-Men #1 Teleports Us to Mars
Humans of the planet Earth. While you slept, another world changed.
REVIEW: The Morning After for Krakoa Arrives in Way of X #3
Way of X #3 made me angrier than any comic book I’ve ever read in my life. I normally like to start a review with something pithy or a summary of the lead-up to the story, but it is simply hard for me to feel anything other than blood boiling rage at this noxious issue….
REVIEW: Excalibur #21 – Mutant Magic Meets High Society
The Hellfire Gala is in full swing after kicking off at the beginning of June with Marauders, X-Force, and Hellions, and this week we see more of the event play out in X-Men and Excalibur #21.
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: Hellions #12 Crashes the Hellfire Gala
The Hellfire Gala has begun, and perhaps understandably, the only members of the Hellions that managed to snag an invite are Kwannon and Alex, along with their overseer Sinister. The cover to Hellions #12 gives us a glimpse as to the reason for that decision, as Segovia and Beredo deftly illustrate the chaos that this…