ALL-NEW X-MEN #1 Written by Dennis Hopeless Art by Mark Bagley, Andrew Hennessy, and Nolan Woodard Published by Marvel Comics Release Date: December 2, 2015 “We’ve been here a while now.” That’s the opening line of All-New X-Men #1 and to some readers, that feels like an understatement. But whether you feel like they’re overstaying…
TRADE WAITING: Week of July 15, 2015
It’s Monday, which means another look at some of the hottest trade paperbacks, collected editions, and graphic novels in this week’s “Trade Waiting” – your weekly spotlight of five noteworthy comic book collections that are being released to stores this Wednesday and why you should watch out for them! BATMAN HARLEY QUINN TP Written by…
TRADE WAITING: Week of May 6, 2015
Greetings and salutations comic fans! It’s another Monday and that means another look at some of the hottest trade paperbacks, collected editions, and graphic novels in this week’s “Trade Waiting” – your weekly spotlight of five noteworthy comic book collections that are being released to stores this Wednesday and why you should watch out for…
Crisis of Epic Proportion: I Got a Bisexual Iron Man
Something’s happening these days in comics. Can you feel it? There’s a real shift in the way audiences react — and how comic creators and companies react to audiences — to the idea of representation. It’s not enough to be able to project our stories onto Superman or Batman and be satisfied that they represent…
Review: ALL-NEW X-MEN #40
ALL-NEW X-MEN #40 Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Mahmud Asrar and Rain Beredo Published by Marvel Comics Release Date: April 22, 2015 As the All-New X-Men return to Earth without their teacher, change is certainly in the air. Angel has been transformed. Cyclops is back on terra firma. And Iceman… it’s time for…
Review: ALL-NEW X-MEN #36
ALL-NEW X-MEN #36 Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Mahmud Asrar, Marte Gracia Published by Marvel Comics Release Date: February 11, 2015 The Ultimate Universe arc comes to a close and multiverse shenanigans entertain and delight in the newest issue of All-New X-Men. Brian Michael Bendis has built quite a run with these displaced…
Review: ALL-NEW X-MEN #35
ALL-NEW X-MEN #35 Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Mahmud Asrar Published by Marvel Comics Release Date: January 21, 2015 The time displaced X-Men continue their adventures in the Ultimate Universe in All-New X-Men #35 and in this issue it really feels like Bendis and Asrar have settled into a nice groove… Bendis writes…
Review: ALL-NEW X-MEN #34
ALL-NEW X-MEN #34 Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Mahmud Asrar Published by Marvel Comics Release Date: December 17, 2014 This past year, All-New X-Men has been a blur to me and not a blur of non-stop wall-to-wall action and character revelations but a blur of directionless, meaningless, undifferentiated forced drama. Bendis continues the…
Review: ALL-NEW X-MEN #33
ALL-NEW X-MEN #33 Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Mahmud Asrar Published by Marvel Comics Release Date: October 29, 2014 The All-New X-Men continue their amusing adventure in the Ultimate Universe but the action comes to a halt in this middling chapter that further shuffles the character without really advancing the story. Bendis once…
Review: ALL-NEW X-MEN #32
ALL-NEW X-MEN #32 Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Mahmud Asrar Published by Marvel Comics Release Date: September 17, 2014 The time-displaced X-Men are pulled to a new universe as Brian Michael Bendis and Mahmud Asrar send the young X-Men from the 616 to the Ultimate Universe. Brian Michael Bendis does a great job…