Tag Archives: X-Men

STORM to the RESCUE!

by mutantaday

Below is a true account from Mattice Lowery a.k.a Sam with the Hair who was cosplaying as 70′s Storm this past weekend at the 2012 Dallas Comic Con! When I read it on her blog SAMwiththHair I just had to share it with everyone! Enjoy!

Photo: Jeremy Biggers

When I dressed up as Storm for Dallas Comic Con, I had no idea that I would end up being an actual hero. My hero moment occurred about 2 hours in to our Comic Con adventures. Jeremy and I had stopped in the exhibit hall checking out all the vendors and we eventually ended up at the homies LoyalKNG’s booth. We all talked for a bit, swapping stories about the cool stuff we had seen thus far and I got pulled aside for more photos a few times before getting a moment to just chill and look around.

It was during this lull when I noticed a little boy, light saber in hand weaving through the hoards of people too caught up to notice him, calling out for his daddy. I scanned the crowd, I didn’t see any frantic parents chasing after him but I could hear the panic in his voice and knew he was lost. In a split second decision I left Jeremy without a word and darted through the crowd after the little boy. I caught him an aisle over and stopped him. His name was Sage, he was 5 years old and he was lost in a sea of thousands of crazed comic book fans. So I took his hand and told him I’d help him find his daddy.

At this point I still didn’t see a panicked father in the crowds so I picked Sage up and walked through the throngs of people, talking to him the whole way trying to distract him and keep him calm. Iron Man was one of his favorite superheros and his cousin came with him to Comic Con dressed as Cyclops. Still no sign of dad though and after a few minutes I met up with Jeremy again and we found a volunteer, informing them that Sage was lost.

Sage managed to remember his dads name and a few radio relays later another volunteer approached us with a frantic father in tow. The man was understandably near tears at the sight of his son. “Who? Who’s the hero that found him?” (yes those were his actual words) The volunteers look to me with a simple “Storm.” Sage’s dad was so thankful. “Storm has always been one of my favorite characters. I’ll never forget this.”

Neither will I. By far the best memory from Dallas Comic Con.

-Mattice Lowery a.k.a SamwiththeHair

Ultimate Reviews: X-Men #9

by mutantaday

Being the X-whore that I am usually all it takes is that defiled letter to get me at least somewhat interested in a comic. And I would like to preface this review  by saying I have all of the previous Ultimate X-Men comics [and most of the trades].

With Karen Grant as Jean and Kitty Pryde running around like a crazy person with too many layers [less is more sometimes], my patience with this comic was running pretty thin/short. Even the ever-so-hunky Colossus gracing the cover like a super buff Finn [is it me or does he have Glee Finn Face going on?] I was about to tell Aaron M. it’s time to retire our purchasing of Ultimate Comics X-Men. But then, this happened!

Art by Paco Medina

I have just been waiting for Storm to cut a bitch. And now with the revelation that the x-gene was manufactured [alegedly] Ororo cut off her platinum locks and is ready for electrical revenge Goddess style!

A Legacy; Variant Covers!

by mutantaday
Variant covers of comic books don’t always appeal to everyone, not even to me ALL the time, however sometimes you come across one that you know for sure SOMEONE is going to love. The sensibility of this X-Men Legacy #261 Venom Variant calls out to the kid in us all. If the kid in all of us was a sociopath. I dunno what it is about this brilliantly scarey cover by Mirco Pierfederici, but it makes me want a cheese pizza really bad.

Image: Marvel.com Cover: Mirco Pierfederici

MAD Episode 32; We got a Facelift!

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Artist Watch! Evan Bryce

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Mutant A Day caught up with artist Evan Bryce at the Wizard World Austin Comic Con 2011! Check out some of his work below and check out his tumblr HERE and his deviantART page HERE to get more info about him, and his beautiful and unique work! He’s definitely one to watch out for!

X-Men by Evan Bryce

Batgirl by Evan Bryce

Weekly Anticipation: Red, Red In My Head

by windiebird

(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)

Weekly Anticipation: Batwomyn Unite!

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(Cover by J.H. Williams III, DC Comics)

Batwoman 2, if anything like the first issue (and the Detective run of the character before), will simply be must-read material. It’s been perfectly new-reader friendly from what I gather and – seriously – this art must be seen to be believed. J. H. Williams III, Amy Reeder & William H. Blackman seem to have an excellent formula for making this a title that should be on every fan’s list. Get in before it’s too late! The fun bus waits for no one!

(Cover by Chris Bachalo, Marvel Comics)

X-Men: Regenesis bridges the Schism event with the official Regenesis-branded relaunch of the X-books and I’m very excited about it, if slightly unsure about what this one-shot will provide us with. Clearly, it’s the issue where the line drawn in the meteorite by Wolverine & Cyclops (with their dicks, of course) will be spelled out for each of the mutants on Utopia and we’ll see who is on who’s side but will we see the status quo of each of the books set up? Will there be big bads introduced? Much mystery surrounds it but I have a feeling this will be more for fans who have follows so far and not necessarily for new fans looking to jump on to a title after the event hits.

(Cover by Kaare Andrews, Marvel Comics)

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 3 is going to be one hell of a comic! I say this with full confidence in a lead duo that have yet to fail us and I don’t see how they ever could. Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli are pure talent and pure creators. They’re telling Miles’ story with such empathy, humor and intrigue that I don’t see how this wasn’t number one in September! I say this every time about books I like but trust that this is well worth the price point. If you’ve ever been a teenager, you can connect with this young man struggling with a new experience and a dangerous world.

(The rest of my titles this week are American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest 5, Batgirl 2, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 2, Demon Knights 2, Dollhouse: Epitaphs 4, Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E., Generation Hope 12, Green Lantern 2, Mister Terrific 2, Shade 1, Suicide Squad 2, Superboy 2, Ultimate Comics X-Men 2 & Uncanny X-Force 16)

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Weekly Anticipation: Round Two!

by windiebird

Ack! I’m late for a very important date! These are this week’s comics and I can’t wait to read them!

(Cover by Travel Foreman, DC Comics)

If Animal Man 2 is more of the great, grotesque story that we had the first go ’round then I will be one super-happy animal! Buddy (plus one creepy-ass offspring) are dealing with a surge of something strange and deadly in The Red. As personal a problem as that sounds, I can’t wait to see for myself!

(Cover by Adam Kubert, Marvel Comics)

X-Men: Schism 5 is the end of the road for the dystopian Utopian society! No more mutant-islands, etc.! I’m very curious to see how this ends up for the two men schism-ing all over each other but even more so am I excited to see the Regenesis to follow. Jean Grey Institute, here I come!

(Cover by Guillem March, DC Comics)

Huntress 1 features Helena (Bertinelli, one may presume) kicking all kinds of criminal ass in Italy, art by Marcus To (and John Dell) AND it’s written by Paul Levitz, the original Helena Wayne creator himself. This is exactly the kind of book everyone should be reading! Check it out however you’re able!

(My remaining reads this week are Action Comics 2, Detective Comics 2, Green Arrow 2, iZombie 18, JLI 2, O.M.A.C. 2, Penguin: Pain & Prejudice 1, Stormwatch 2, Swamp Thing 2 and The Walking Dead 89)

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Weekly Anticipation: The Tortoise on Crusade

by windiebird

(Cover by Jim Cheung, Marvel Comics)

Children’s Crusade 7 is here and will it be perfect or too perfect? What’s more to say than that? This will be a fun, beautiful comic; no other outcome is possible. I am mighty curious to see how this fits into the Marvel continuity though, once it all shakes out. Must-buy for everyone!

(Art by Cliff Chiang, DC Comics)

Wonder Woman 1 kicks off the bizarre but promising pairing of Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang on a horror-themed Wondy book!(???) If the promise of a powerful, compassionate warrior goddess kicking ass and taking names isn’t enough to get you into this then PLEASE check out the preview art and get in line to buy it at your local shop! (Oh and the official cover has her in the bathing suit outfit but I prefer the pants in this one image.)

(Cover by Mike Choi, Marvel Comics)

Cloak & Dagger 2 continues the practically perfect (in every way except cover art, sorry Mike Choi!) series that pairs Nick Spencer and Emma Rios on a madcap adventure featuring the unnoticed duo of Cloak and Dagger! Danger abounds during the Spider-Island infection and these two are just trying to live through it. I won’t spoil issue 1 now because I need you to rush out (or online) and get it then this one. I’ll wait. Ignore the cover, love the book!

(My other reads this week are Generation Hope 11, Batman 1, Birds of Prey 1, Blue Beetle 1, Captain Atom 1, Catwoman 1, DCU Presents 1, Green Lantern Corps 1, Nightwing 1, Red Hood and the Outlaws 1, Supergirl 1, Ultimate Comics Hawkeye 2, Ultimate Comics X-Men 1, X-Factor 225 and X-Men: Schism 4)

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