Tag Archives: Uncanny X Men
Weekly Anticipation: T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Womaaaaaaaan!
(Cover by Andy Kubert, DC Comics)
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 1! IT’S BACK! Nick Spencer may be a Marvel exclusive but the publishing gods have thankfully allowed him to wrap up a few of his ideas from his original run in this 6-issue mini-series. Espionage, triple-crosses and super powers that kill are sure to be the highlights of the series and I can’t wait!
(Cover by Dario Brizuela, DC Comics)
Green Lantern: The Animated Series 0 is my first foray into the Johnny DC titles and I couldn’t be happier for this to be the one! I’m not sure how the print stories will relate to the new show but if they’re anything like the special/first episode that aired a week or two ago, I’ll be hooked! It’s going to be green vs. red on the frontier of Guardian space and plenty of ring-slinging action.
(Cover by Steve Morris, Darkhorse Comics)
Angel & Faith 4 means more creepy Wonder Twins and wonderful, perfect, well-researched characterization by Christos Gage! Seriously, this guy knows how Faith AND Angel feel and think and just how to test and grow them as characters. Both do so much better when they’re forced to live in moral grey and we’re right in the thick of it here. If you’ve ever liked Angel or Faith in the show, this is the series you should be reading.
(Ultimate Comics Ultimates 4 and Uncanny X-Men 2 are my only other two books this week! Uncanny, indeed.)
Weekly Anticipation: Red, Red In My Head
(Cover by Travel Foreman, DC Comics)
Animal Man 3 is going to rock every single casbah in the universe! Travel Foreman and Jeff Lemire are doing spooky, creepy, wonderful things and this is one book you will want to say you were reading from the beginning. Our intrepid duo are making their way into the Red and something wicked is preparing to lay some serious pain on the Bakers. Such a great comic here!
(Cover by Yanick Paquette, DC Comics)
Swamp Thing 3; replace Yanick Paquette and Scott Snyder, respectively, in my Animal Man entry and you have my opinion of Swamp Thing! This is terrifying, beautiful comics at their best. Sethe is revealed as the face of the third life force (Red & Green being the other two) and he’s got a mad on that only Swamp Thing (and Buddy Baker in AM) can defend against! A must-read.
(Cover by Dale Keown, Marvel Comics)
Uncanny X-Men 1 continues my “Try All the Regenesis Things!” campaign and I’m always excited to be reading a Kieron Gillen comic. Mister Sinister is doing his thing against Scott’s newly re-shuffled deck and I can’t wait to see the outcome! I love that Emma Frost and Magik feature so prominently on the Keown cover, I hope that means a focus on those two in the issues to come. Hooray for the X-Men!
(Action Comics 3, American Vampire 20, Avengers Academy 21, Detective Comics 3, Fear Itself 7.1, Green Arrow 3, JLI 3, New Mutants 33, O.M.A.C. 3, Stormwatch 3, Sweet Tooth 27 and X-Men 20 are my other titles this week)
Regenesis: Psylocke’d!
Hey Betsy you’re quite literally, literally playing mind games with us! What is the deal with being on both teams? Or are these covers not truly the new teams and artists and writers are making readers/viewers poo their pants for sales! Either way, I’m totally buying EVERYTHING!
Marvel.com
Marvel.com
Uncanny Tease!
Check out the first teaser image for Uncanny X-Men #1, with Emma Frost front and center. The blacked out part appears to be Magneto, Juggernaut, and Iceman, but I could be mistaken. With Marvel saying Cyclops won’t necessarily be leading this team, one of these people could possibly be the new leader of the uncanny team.
-Aaron M
Image by Carlos Pacheco
Regenesized!
Recently it was announced that Uncanny X-Men would end with issue #544 in November, due to the events of Schism. Today we learn the aftermath of Schism will be known as X-Men: Regenesis which will launch the long running title into two books. The first title of course is Uncanny X-Men #1 which will focus on Scott’s team, and the second title is Wolverine and the X-Men #1 which will focus on Wolverine’s team. Although I’m sad to see them restart Uncanny at #1, I’m glad to see them split up the team. With the team split hopefully some focus will go back to some of the characters we have not seen in a while. By the looks of the picture it seems like Scott wins Professor X’s nether regions. (wink)
-Aaron M
Image from Marvel.com
Weekly Anticipation: Hope on Pope
(Cover by Salvador Espin, Marvel Comics)
Generation Hope 8 features Teon peeing on the justice system! JUSTICE LIKE A WATERFALL!!! Anyways, the gang helps their resident primal-type character deal with charges levied against him and I don’t see how this could be anything but another great entry to the Generation Hope series. Kieron Gillen always brings innovative new twists to this book and as I’ve never regretted buying in. Grunts and justice hooooo!
(Cover by David Yardin, Marvel Comics)
X-Factor 221 leaves off from last month (or two weeks? This book ships a lot, y’all, and that’s a great thing!) with Feral back in town, Rahne feeling guilty for not being catholic enough and Shatterstar stabbing demons in the rain. The new story arc starts here and we can only ask that Peter David never stops writing this always excellent soap opera!
(Cover by Billy Tan, Marvel Comics)
There is almost nothing more bothersome to me in a solicit than blanked out or x-ed out names. The solicit for Avengers Academy 15 has plenty of that but since the series has been pure quality since its inception, I’m not even batting an eyelash about having no interest in Fear Itself (of which this heavily ties in, apparently) and still buying the issue. It’s the Academy kids and that means a purchase! Hank Pym something something rematch something something taste of war.
(Alpha Flight 1, Deadman & the Flying Graysons 1, Grodd of War, Wonder Woman and the Furies 1, Teen Titans 96, Uncanny X-Men 538, X-Men 13 and Prelude to Schism 3 round out my list for the week)
-windiebird
Uncanny X-Men – Schismed to the DEATH!
Ok, I woke up and was like…”internet internet internet.” And the internet was all, “Rueben, Uncanny X-Men is ending have a great day”. And I made one of those faces like, “WhHHHHHAAAaaaAAAT???”. It’s true ladies and gents, Uncanny X-Men will be ending with 544 [how odd] and truly the worst thing is that Greg Land did the cover and pencils. WTF Marvel. I do feel pretty reassured about the whole schism thing though. Two teams again. Ah the days of blue and gold! We’ll see what happens!
"Art" By Greg Land
Angel is pointing to the audiance as if to say “DUDE! BROSKEE! YOU are MY BRO BRO, BRO BRO”. Kill me now.
Weekly Anticipation: Arrows Are Greener
(Cover by Joe Prado, DC Comics)
Green Arrow 12 is (of course) my most anticipated title of the week! And not just because I always love to read about my favorite character but because this is going to be JT Krul’s first legitimately self-inspired take on the title. Well, mostly, he has to deal with the aftermath of Brightest Day (Galahad, the Demon and the Star City Forest) but where we head now in the series is largely up to him and his editor, not the Brightest Day event team. Here’s to an inspired future for the Emerald Archer, long live the Queen!
(Cover by Rafael Albuquerque, Vertigo Comics)
American Vampire 15 is sure to be another excellent entry in the WWII-era arc of this always top-notch series. We get more of the creepy new vamps attacking Henry’s troop, Skinner being a grade-A ass and Pearl determined to help her human mans out. It can never be said enough that if you even kind of enjoy the stories people can tell with vampires, you will love this series. It’s a fresh take on the well-worn vampiric mythos and I can’t recall a dull issue from the outset. Rafael Albuquerque and Scott Snyder OTP!
(Cover by Victor Ibañez, DC Comics)
JSA 51 is the Marc Guggenheim issue I’ve been waiting for since he took over the title. Not that I haven’t been feeling the Monument Point storyline more and more as the arc progresses but this little side adventure into the mystical realms with Doctor Fate and Lightning is the kind of comic I’m all about! I dug much of the old Doctor Fate series and he has always been my favorite JSA character. The mixture of the human and the arcane always flips mah switches and with Lightning’s very soul on the line, things are sure to be tense!
(My remaining pull list this week is: Green Lantern 66, Green Lantern Corps 60, Emerald Warriors 10, Venom 3, Uncanny X-Men 537, The Walking Dead 85, X-Men Legacy 249 & Xombi 3)
-windiebird
While My Wallet Gently Weeps
(Cover by David Finch, DC Comics)
Action Comics 900 has a huge order to fill, wrapping up Reign of Doomsday & the Luthor storyline in one 96-page mega-issue while paying homage to the Man of Steel and the villain…people-named-Lex.
(Cover by Simone Bianchi, Marvel Comics)
Age of X: Universe 2 is almost a What If? with the reveal from the previous chapters of Age of X but that doesn’t mean the story here can’t wrap up to be an interesting (if super-gritty) tale of a world gone mad!
(Cover by Rafael Albuquerque, Vertigo Comics)
American Vampire 14 continues the WWII-era arc from the chilling close of Skinner’s appearance last issue. Henry’s in trouble over there and Pearl’s got her hands full on the home front, a pretty excellent beginning so far to another year of American Vampire!
(Cover by David Finch, DC Comics)
Brightest Day 24 is Swamp Thing/one-pissed-off-planet vs. humanity/Alec Holland (or his body at least?)! Is it bad that I’m kind of rooting for Swamp Thing?
(Cover by Francis Manapul, DC Comics)
The Flash 11 has one fiiiine cover there! Flashpoint is coming and it’s bringing red spandex! Looks like all the speedsters are getting involved in the mixup and I’m hoping Liberty Belle (Jesse Quick, geez, let’s just ignore all that beautiful JSA characterization you wrote yourself, Geoff Johns!) shows up in this second-to-last issue.
(Cover by Tyler Kirkham & BATT, DC Comics)
Green Arrow 11 takes place before the finale in BD 24 so it looks like Oliver, Galahad and the forest are bringing this party to a fiery end! Final answers about the forest’s place in the White Lantern’s plan are promised and hopefully there’s some closure to this interesting and sometimes bumpy reboot to Green Arrow. Onwards and upwards to the next story arc!
(Cover by Felipe Massafera, DC Comics)
Issue 8 left us with Mogo blasting the newly-minted earth-born Lanterns haaaaaaard and Emerald Warriors 9 continues right where we left off! Is the yellow weakness restored with the impurity in the Green Lantern Battery? Hopefully so, since the learning curve on the new rings has been steep.
(Cover by Dustin Nguyen, DC Comics)
Generation Lost 24 – JLI vs. Maxwell Lord IV! The end is here and the OMACs are angry. I hope the ending is epic and the momentum continues into a new series for these one-of-a-kind heroes!
(Cover by Felipe Massafera, DC Comics)
JSA 50 is another anniversary issue this week and it’s going to be full even for an extra-sized issue! The Society joins with the Challengers of the Unknown to uncover the dark mysteries below Monument Point and more of Senator Eagin’s past is explored as well. Felipe Massaferra’s cover is (as always) worth the price alone.
(Cover by Mico Suayan, Marvel Comics)
New Mutants 24 is the end of the line for Age of X! All secrets revealed, all Moira entities defeated and all realities restored (we hope)!
(Cover by Terry Dodson, Marvel Comics)
Uncanny X-Men 536 begins the real story line about the asylum-seeking Breakworlders and it’s going to put Colossus through the wringer! Are they as innocuous as they appeared last issue or hiding more complex motivations? We’ll see starting today and what a curveball to start off with!
(Cover by Tony Moore, Marvel Comics)
Venom 2 is Flash Thompson’s second issue as Venom and I’m seriously digging the vibe so far. Military order and dedication meets the chaos of the symbiotes, now that’s a recipe for drama and action! Kraven fights Flash in the Savage Lands over some weaponized vibranium WMDs, hoo ah!
(Cover by Don Kramer & Jay Leisten, DC Comics)
Wonder Woman 610 couldn’t possibly give me any more (awesome) chills than last issue but if anyone could make it happen, Phil Hester could. You’re making a real Wondy fan out of me, P.H., and I couldn’t be happier about it!
(Cover by Terry Dodson, Marvel Comics)
X-Men 10 concludes “To Serve and Protect” with Emma Frost and Peter Parker the last hope of the X-Men as they fight the Lizardfolk of the NY sewage system! I’m back on board Marvel, so there!
(Cover by Frazer Irving, DC Comics)
Xombi 2 is sure to continue the sheer joy and insanity of the first issue of this re-boot. Nuns with guns, immortal caucAsians & psychic school girls; I’m so happy to be on this crazy train!
-windiebird
