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Picks Of The Month

by Darren Burr
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Cable returns like we knew he would.

While preparations for the festive season no doubt eat into every spare moment, the opportunity to sit and read the weekly pull list becomes rather segmented. So this week, I thought I would review many of the titles being released this week, and maybe recommend some titles for those quiet moments once the festivities have died down and all that remains to do is digest the food. (Oh, and no doubt wash up, but that can wait.) The first of today’s shipping is Memoir #5. I have already written of how much I love this series, and now we are swiftly approaching the conclusion. It feels like it has been Read more »

X-Men Minimalist Posters

by Noemi Twigg
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Xmen Minimalist Posters

The X-Men may not be the main thing on your mind this Monday morning, but I am pretty sure that these X-Men minimalist posters will keep you busy for a while. We got a tip from the creator of the posters, and while we don’t post everything that is brought to our attention, I think that these X-Men minimalist posters are definitely worth taking a look at. Harshness, the guy who created the X-Men minimalist posters, is based in Portland, Oregon and describes these poster prints: This print was created using archival pigment inks, and is printed on archival, heavyweight, matte paper. Print is signed and ready for framing. COLORS: Read more »

The Future Is Coming

by Darren Burr
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Marvel Point One, and the Watcher has a home invasion

Having only finished my pile of comics from last week over breakfast this morning, I thought I would spend a moment with Marvel, or more specifically, Marvel Point One. Today we see the shipment of Avengers #19, one of the issues that Marvel Point One claims heralds the return of Ultron. Now I fail to see the connection between an Avengers membership drive (which seem to be occurring with an ever increasing regularity), and the return of Norman Osbourne and Ultron, although I would be the first to admit that the Green Goblin is crazy enough to utilise the genocidal bot. Or maybe it’s Tony Stark’s reparation of the Vision Read more »

Bold New Directions?

by Darren Burr
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Avengers Academy 21, New rules

I wonder if in years to come, we will look back at 2011 and consider it to be a great year for change within the comics industry? Or have we had quite enough changes already so far, thank you very much? The DC Universe rebooted itself (again), just the one Earth this time. I think.  Thor died, though he might have done that before, and he’s certainly not the only one. The Human Torch died (yeah, right) and the Richards started employing super-villains while becoming a children’s home. The Avengers were re-legalised, destroyed, rebuilt, destroyed, had another go at training youngsters, and the X-Men schismed into two factions. Sure, and Read more »

11 Superhero Movies That Never Escaped Development Hell

by Robin Parrish
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Concept art from Tim Burton's 'Superman Lives'

With all of the great superhero movies that there have been, there’ve been quite a few stinkers as well. And then there have been some that never made it before cameras — both promising sounding scripts and some that were so very, very bad. Here are 11 superhero films that might have been. Read more »

The 15 Weirdest X-Men Ever

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The 15 Weirdest X-Men Ever

I almost titled this article “15 X-Men You’ll Never See On the Big Screen,” but Hollywood being the strange, inexplicable place that it is, you never know. (And at least two of them appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand.) Marvel likes to boast that it has a roster of more than 5,000 characters, but did you know that over two thousand of them are mutants? Over the many decades of Marvel Comics, some pretty bizarre mutants have been created. Here’s my picks for the top 15 most outrageously weird X-Men ever. Read more »

Coolest Mashup You’ll See Today

by Noemi Twigg
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Coolest Mashup You’ll See Today

The Muppets and the X-Men. Who would have thought that they can come together in such an amazing piece of work? Jim Henson and Stan Lee would both be proud of what DeviantArtist ~Rahzzah has created, don’t you think? The artist actually published this drawing on the day that marked the 21st anniversary of Jim Henson’s death. I don’t know about you, but it’s a tribute that anyone would appreciate. Unfortunately, prints are not available as of now, as DeviantArt “won’t release this as a print for copyright issues.” If the artist were accepting requests for future mashups, which characters would you like to see? Read more »

Wolverine Vs. The Hand

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Wolverine Vs. The Hand

If you have found yourself whining about the quality of homemade videos in the recent months, here is something that might give you hope. Commercial/video director Gary Shore created his own X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2 trailer, and it certainly might be the best fan-made video for the movie out there. Granted, Shore does “this thing” for a living, but still his idea of creating his own story board is nothing but ace. The actual video – from the graphics to the haunting music to the putting together of all the elements – will captivate you. Even my 2-day-old nephew stopped his wailing when I put the video on! Wolverine Vs Read more »

A Summer Of What-If?

by Darren Burr
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A Summer Of What-If?

So now we have seen the first bookend of the Age Of X. This is a world without the X-Men? But I see most of the X-Men still sat all together anyway. Maybe it was a world without Xavier. No wait, that was the Age Of Apocalypse. Could mutant history have taken a better turn? Doesn’t look like it, and wasn’t that the House Of M? So mutantkind is being hunted. Just like the Days Of Futures Past? I can’t shake the feeling that I have seen all this before, and thus I find it difficult to get very enthusiastic about this latest X-Event. I wonder what ‘lasting consequences’ there Read more »

23 Cool Superhero Tattoos

by Noemi Twigg
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23 Cool Superhero Tattoos

We’ve always loved tattoos – just can’t seem to get enough of them!  Of course, when speaking of tatts, we cannot overlook those of superheroes.  After all, there is a plethora of them out there.  Not all of them are tasteful or nice, that is true, but here is the result of hours of scouring the web for some of the most interesting and eye catching superhero tattoos.  If I’ve missed one (or 10), feel free to share! Iron Man Tattoos You will never hear me deny my obsession for this character – and Robert Downey, Jr. Naturally, he is first up on the list. They say this tatt was Read more »