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Orbiting Around Fast And Furious – The Comic Adaptation That Isn’t

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Rich Johnston

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Chris Thompson writes; Welcome to Episode 112 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we get Kot off guard by Suicide Squad #20, put the needle on the record with 12 Reasons to Die …

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Cammy’s Covers – Astonishing X-Men To Avengers Arena

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Cameron Hatheway writes; Astonishing X-Men #62 by Phil Noto You’re as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice your…looks? With all these younger versions of themselves bouncing around, it was only a matter of time before we started getting covers like …

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Astonishing X-Men To X-Club For 99 Cents From ComiXology Tomorrow

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Coming down the pipe… If you are enjoying Si Spurrier’s run on X-Men Legacy, then his five issue miniseries X-Club will be 99 cents an issue tomorrow on ComiXology. Along with the post-Joss Whedon Astonishing X-Men #25 to #51, better …

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Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – Wolverine & The X-Men, Axe Cop, X-Treme X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, Prophet, The Manhattan Projects, Eternity, Justice League Dark, Crossed, Comedian, Debris, X-Treme X-Men, Avengers, And Hit-Girl

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

  In Wolverine & X-Men, the artwork seems slightly off in places, Whilce Portacio anatomy put through a smoother filter, which doesn’t quite work – except for one aspect. In that it emphasises Colossus’ nature as a power mad nut …

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The All Women Superhero Marvel Team From Marjorie Liu That Never Was

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Louis Falcetti reporting from Bleeding Cool, lets us know that Astonishing X-Men writer Marjorie Liu pitched an all female superhero team starring X-23, The Black Widow, Elektra and Mystique. Mike Perkins was on board to draw it, it would have …

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Collectors Cornered #28 – Marvel X-Men Wedding Celebration And Gay Marriage

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Collectors Cornered is a weekly video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a different point of view and get instant feedback from real customers on New Comics Day, …

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Thursday Runaround – Life In Hell Freezes Over

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

HellWatch: Matt Groening brings Life In Hell, the strip that inspired The Simpsons to an end after thirty years. The last “Life in Hell,” Groening’s 1,669th strip, was released on Friday, June 15. For the next four weeks, editors will …

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Want To Get Married? Gay Or Straight, Head To Earthworld Comics In Albany Today…

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Wedding fever is clearly in the air… the celebrate the marriage of Northstar and Kyle in Astonishing X-Men #51 today, Earthworld Comics in Albany, New York has an officiant standing by ready (below) to perform nuptuals for anyone who turns …

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Twelve Thoughts About Twelve Comics – Mars Attacks, Wonder Woman, Snarked, Crossed Badlands, Daredevil, Before Watchmen: Comedian, Batwoman, Saga, Astonishing X-Men, Walking Dead, Daredevil And Elephantman

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

A look through a bunch of this week’s comics. There may be minor spoilers but I try to avoid anything too gratuitous, like saying that at the end of Walking Dead #99.. Sorry, too late. We’re off! The new Mars …

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Rafael Grampá Creates New Gay Superhero For Brazilian TV – The Gay Laxyus

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Rich Johnston

As we’ve noted, all current media seems obsessed with a gay Green Lantern or a Gay X-Man or usually both. None more than Brazilian TV programme Fantastico, which recently ran a piece on the companies’ news, mixing up Alan Scott …

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The Missing Spider-Wedding

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Here’s the cover to the Retailer customizable cover for Astonishing X-Men #51, which would allow a store to add their own wedding photo alongside the other Marvel wedding photos. But there seems to be a missing wedding. That of Mary …

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Eleven Thoughts About Eleven Comics – Fantastic Four, HERO, Batman Inc, Youngblood, Amazing Spider-Man, Aquaman, Dark Knight, Hawkman, All Star Western, Secret Avengers, Astonishing X-Men,

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Rich Johnston

As you read this, I am currently flying through the air to the Phoenix Comic Con. But before I hit the airport, I hit the comic shop. And these are a few of the things that caught my eye. There …

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It’s Official… Northstar To Wed Kyle

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Marvel have let retailers sell Astonishing X-Men #50 one day early. Featuring Northstar asking for his boyfriend’s hand in marriage. Not much of a surprise for many. But what happens next… may be. However it resolves, we know that somehow …

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Peter David To Adapt Joss Whedon’s X-Men As A Novel

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Peter David’s work has repeatedly been compared to that of Joss Whedon. A lightness of touch, a fine hand with witty, stylised dialogue, a tendency to slip contemporary reference, a repeated desire to play against type, and the commonality of …

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Astonishing X-Men Collection Of The Marriage Issues To Be Called ‘Northstar’

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Okay, we all know who is getting married in Astonishing X-Men #50 and #51. And why it will be such a big deal. Even if Marvel can’t say, for want of spoiling a media PR deal with a national newspaper. …

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Marvel To Release Astonishing X-Men #50 One Day Early

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Worried that Marvel’s big media release on Tuesday, May 22nd for Astonishing X-Men #50 and the marriage proposal therein will spoil your enjoyment… of the issue on sale the next day? In which either Northstar or Kyle proposes, and the …

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Marvel Still Isn’t Saying It’s Northstar And Kyle Getting Hitched Even When Astonishing X-Men #49 Makes It Blatant

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

In today’s Astonishing X-Men, Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins give us a big old fashioned superhero fight scene between these X-Men and the Marauders, both physical and mental. In which Kyle, Northstar’s boyfriend, find himself involved. Which leads to this …

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Last Week’s Comics In Seventeen Panels

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Before we get tomorrow’s comics, Dr Manolis Vamvounis looks back on last week; In ANGEL & FAITH #8, Faith goes mad ape-shit crazy slayer all over visiting Pa Lehane when his true motives for turning up in the UK are …

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