Few days late getting to my comics this week. Light week, with just two books on the stack. POWERS OF X #4 “Inferno.” The HOXPOX train keeps on running, smooth as a Swiss watch. This week’s entry returns us to the POX portion of the story and takes us to Bar Sinister, home to many…
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This Week in Comics – September 5, 2019
HOUSE OF X #4 “No more.” HOX #4 picks up right where things left off in last week’s HOX #3. Together, it’s an X-Men adventure for the ages. An Imaginary Story, perhaps? (aren’t they all, as Mr. Moore reminded us). Doesn’t really matter- it bleeds feeling and character and high-stakes sci-fi impossibilities on every page….
This Week in Comics – August 28, 2019
House of X #3 – “From Sticks to Bombs…” It’s the sixth part of the all new, all different X-Men, and it’s another perfect issue. I guess Hickman was pretty serious about this. Homeboy’s created a language, flowcharts, evolutionary cycles, multiple timelines- and that’s just the bonus material. In between this Tolkien-meets-Akira lore stuff is…
X-Men Days of Future Past Review
Marvel’s Mighty Mutants in Search of a New Now ####OBLIQUE SPOILERS AHEAD#### X-Men Days of Future Past is one of the better X-Men movies, but that doesn’t make it great. The film strives to serve two masters, simultaneously acting as both a sequel to 2011’s excellent X-Men First Class and as a consolidation / mea…
Chris Claremont tho
Chris Claremont wrote a crazy soap opera funnybook for just shy of 20 years. Reading it as a kid, it defined my worldview. This New York Magazine article from back in 2000 provides a nice crash course in the dynamic, exciting, and ever-melodramatic Marvel comic, the Uncanny X-Men. “X-Men,” says Claremont, “has always been about…