Here’s your first look at the action-packed All-New X-Men #20, from the creative team of Brian Michael Bendis, Brandon Peterson and Mahmud Asrar. There’s a new student at the New Xavier School – and she’s not too happy her new “campus” is housed inside a former Weapon X facility! X-23 wants answers – and she’s [...]
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Brian Tee, Hal Yamanouchi, Will Yun Lee, Famke Janssen | Written by Mark Bomback, Scott Frank | Directed by James Mangold In case you hadn’t noticed, there was another Wolverine film out this summer. Hugh Jackman took his cigar-smoking, brow-furrowing, claw-snikt-ing anti-hero to Japan [...]
30th October & 6th November Infinity (Jonathan Hickman, Jerome Opeña) reached its penultimate issue this fortnight, which sets the stage its the climax. It’s already been announced that Marvel are launching a new book about the Inhumans next month, so we have an idea of what players will emerge in what kind of world after [...]
Following on from the trailer last week, today 20th Century Fox have just released seven new images from X-Men: Days of Future Past, which is both a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: First Class, which is co-written, produced and directed by Bryan Singer and is based on the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline Days [...]
16th and 23rd October A double bill of comic talk this week kicks off with Image’s Rocket Girl #1 by Brandon Montclare with art by Amy Reeder. 15 year old Dayoung Johansson, a member of the New York Teen Police Department who travels back in time from a futuristic 2013 to 1986 to rectify ‘crimes [...]
20th Century Fox have just released the first trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, which is both a sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: First Class, which is co-written, produced and directed by Bryan Singer and is based on the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont and John [...]
9th October Scott Snyder delivers nothing less than a tour de force in Batman #24 (art by Greg Capullo, DC Comics), continuing the Zero Year arc. This is a double-sized issue and Snyder crams in tributes to Bat-history (including a wonderful tribute to the cover of Detective Comics #27), well-placed cultural references and brand new [...]
Here’s your first look at X-Men: Gold #1, featuring all-new stories by legendary creators from the 50 years of rich X-Men history. The first issue features an all-new, feature length story by the legendary Chris Claremont and classic X-Artist Bob McLeod – an untold, in-continuity story of the X-Men featuring Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Kitty [...]
11th and 18th September Jack here; I’ve bashed two weeks of my contributions to Mark’s stuff for the week of the 11th, because a) I’m behind on my writing and b) I’m not sure how to get caught up otherwise. Bit of a mishmash then, but I’m sure you can handle it, intelligent and tolerant [...]
This October, the X-Men event of the year heats up as Battle of the Atom rages on in Uncanny X-Men #13… Wolverine is down and bleeding out with no healing factor and the Jean Grey School is under attack from mysterious foes! Is that a Phoenix Quentin Quire and who is the blue man on [...]
Better late than never… 4th September I bought lots of comics this week because there were lots of comics that I thought looked interesting. After being pleasantly surprised by the first book in the new Infinity (Jonathan Hickman, Jerome Opeña, Dustin Weaver, Marvel Comics) series, I was looking forward to the second issue. However, where [...]
21st August X-Men #4, Brian Wood, David Lopez, Marvel Comics Artist David Lopez fills in on this one-shot issue that sees Logan driving Jubilee and her new baby Shogo on a nostalgic tour around her native Los Angeles while Storm and the rest of her team attempt to rescue a falling plane, finding some time to [...]
Oh my gosh, there are so many comics. I took a month off visiting the comic shop on a weekly basis due to time constraints and the desire to have a little bit more money in my account prior to the end of the month. But then I got a fat stack of comics that [...]
I’m sort of technically on holiday this week after moving house and starting a new job (y’know, one that doesn’t involve free comics and lets me buy luxuries like bread and loo roll) last week, which is why things have been a little behind with this column. My contribution’s a round-up session for the most [...]
