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Brett Booth
But it seems that Brett's contribution to the X-Office caught Hickman's eye. I understand it was X-Men showrunner Jonathan Hickman who chose Brett Booth as the new X-Men artist, alongside Mahmad Asrar and taking over from Leinil Yu – Yu and Booth used to draw X-Men comics as a creative partnership back in the day. But the[...]
X Of Swords Stasis #1 Review: East of West With Mutants
JUST … NO. X Of Swords: Stasis #1 By Jonathan Hickman, Tini Howard, Pepe Larraz X OF SWORDS, PART 11 A ritual A parliament A game begins. If there was ever any question, it's settled now: X Of Swords: Stasis #1's scattershot characterization, tone poetry approach to plotting and reliance on a theme over detail confirms that we[...]
Jim Jaspers And The Fury In Today's X Of Swords: Stasis
Did Marvel/Disney not do their usual duty by googling first? Or maybe they did but had SafeSearch still on? Still, it never did Iron Heart any harm. X OF SWORDS STASIS #1 MARVEL COMICS AUG200630 (W) Tini Howard, Jonathan Hickman (A) Mahmud Asrar (A/CA) Pepe Larraz X OF SWORDS, PART 11 A ritual A parliament[...]
Jim Jaspers And The Fury In Today's X Of Swords: Stasis
X Of Swords: Stasis #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Tini Howard, Pepe Larraz, Mahmud Asrar, Marte Gracia and Clayton Cowles And it begins with a tour of Otherworld, with an emissary of Saturnyne making her presence known to the Foul and Fair lands Including one of each that Bleeding Cool has been keeping a keen eye[...]
Brett Booth Returns To Marvel With Jonathan Hickman's X-Men #15
And X-Men showrunner Jonathan Hickman gets what – and who – he wants for the Dawn Of X comics Hickman has been drawing from all sorts of X-Men history for the current storyline, those that Brett Booth has worked on. And now, for 2021, Brett Booth will be returning to Marvel, taking over from Leinil Yu[...]
Seven Secrets #2 Review:
Credit: Marvel Comics Jonathan Hickman writes the script for Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1, and seeing the narrative continue from his and Rod Reis's Fantomex one-shot was thrilling That comic earned a perfect score for its enthralling artwork and captivating story, so it's a welcome surprise to see the tale continue focusing on Storm[...]
You Already Read A Chunk Of X Of Swords: Creation - But It Changed
Originally planned for Free Comic Book Day earlier this year, Marvel's X-Men comic ran an X Of Swords preview (if we but knew it) by Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz later in the summer For days of mutants yet to come, creatures summoning other creature, a visit to the Starlight Citadel and a tarot reading[...]
Bleeding Cool Has A New Cypher For The Krakoan Native Language
We only managed to get one word translated last year, "Confirmed", but today, thanks to a meeting of the Quiet Council, and an interjection by the island of Krakoa itself, we have a whole lot more data to work with. Art from X Of Swords: Creation #1. As in today's X Of Swords: Creation #1 by Jonathan[...]
So What Is X Of Swords About Exactly? (X-Men, Excalibur #12 Spoilers)
But why? X-Men #12 art by Leinil Francis Yu. Planning to send all of Kakoa into Otherworld? But first we get a tale that… you remember when Marvel wanted Inhumans to be their Game Of Thrones? Recreate the whole franchise with a long back history, different factions and world within worlds? Matt Fraction was initially hired and[...]
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I realize now I read quite a bit of Jonathan Hickman comics recently, but it was only in retrospect Here are my thoughts on some recent comics from, you guessed it, Jonathan Hickman and an array of collaborators. Decorum #4: Hickman and the team return to the series' A-plot, the conquering armies and invading cultures Mike Huddleston[...]
Funny Creek #3 Review:
Empyre: X-Men was an interesting experiment, with different writers currently on various titles within Marvel's mutant line-ups collaborating on each chapter. Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard launched the Empyre tie-in with the first issue; Gerry Duggan, Ben Percy, and Leah Williams took over for the second; and Vita Ayala, Zeb Wells, and Ed Brisson continued with the third[...]
X-Men: X Of Swords: Creation -  A Preview
Here's a look at all the X-Men: X Of Swords opening title, Creation, by Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz The dream team of superhero comic books Egyptians Externals Swords And we also have a few names for some of the previous figures seen as well The comic is out in a month's time but going[...]
Alan Moore, Max Brooks, Jonathan Hickman CGC 10.0s Up for Auction
Three species in mortal conflict. God is Dead is war of the gods with mankind caught in the middle, from Jonathan Hickman, Mike Costa, and Di Amorim Mankind has argued over the existence of gods since the dawn of time In modern eras it's been fashionable to mock religious believers with taunts of scientific testimony and[...]
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Tini Howard and Jonathan Hickman duoed the first issue, with writers Gerry Duggan, Ben Percy, and Leah Williams coming in with a trio on the second issue Now, Vita Ayala, Zeb Wells, and Ed Brisson are here for the third After a rambly second issue followed the stellar debut, can this team of writers get Empyre: X-Men back on track? Empyre:[...]
Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex #1 Review: Rod Reis's Art Stuns
A lot is happening in the Mutant corner of the Marvel universe under "Head of X" Jonathan Hickman's supervision As a team of writers, including Tini Howard and Vita Ayala and more, run their own X-titles and prepare for the X of Swords crossover, Hickman himself teamed up with artist Rod Reis and letterer VC's Ariana Maher for a[...]
Empyre: X-Men #2 Review: The Octogenarian Resistance
They were foils for the X-Men in the main Jonathan Hickman title, and now the Hordeculture, a team of foul-mouthed old ladies (and one who never swears), joins the Marvel mutants to fight back against the Cotati invasion happening as a result of the Empyre series The first issue of Empyre: X-Men was one of the best tie-ins[...]
Fantomex And The Marvel Universe
And we see it pass decade by decade, beginning with Jonathan Hickman and Rod Reis taking Sergeant Fury and the Howling Commandoes into The World. A decade later, mixing it up with the Hellfire Club for a similar sortie. A decade later, we introduce some new nineties-style heroes, the Humonganauts – this making their first appearance. And then[...]
Cable, Like Polyamorous Father, Like Polyamorous Son?
Rated T+In Shops: Jul 29, 2020 SRP: $3.99 X-MEN #10 EMP MARVEL COMICS FEB200789 (W) Jonathan Hickman (A/CA) Leinil Francis Yu EMPYRE TIE-IN! The Summers family has grown a Krakoan home on the moon Now some new neighbors have moved in Rated T+In Shops: Jul 29, 2020 SRP: $3.99 I bought mine from Piranha Comics in Kingston-Upon-Thames. Piranha Comics is a small south[...]
Second Printings For Decorum #2, Murder Hobo, It Eats What I Feeds
It appears that Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston's Decorum which just had its third issue published last week, will see its second issue return top the mill for a second printing While Scout Comics is sending another two back to the printers, the sensitively titles Murder Hobo: Beaten, Broken, Buggered by Joseph Schmalke and Jason[...]
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As well as a tease of Excalibur #11 and the return of the Externals, Marvel also released a preview of the upcoming X-Men #10, from Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu. And it looked rather familiar. X-Men #10 Preview Returns To Jonathan Hickman's FF #6 and #7 X-Men #10 Preview Returns To Jonathan Hickman's FF #6 and #7 We have[...]
"It Does Not End Well." The Future of X-Men Teased at SDCC
Jonathan Hickman has been leading the way for X-Men titles at Marvel Comics, but he isn't the only shepherd of the Mutants' future Writers Tini Howard and Gerry Duggan joined X-Men editor Jordan D White on today's Marvel SDCC panel for Comic-Con@Home to discuss the future of their titles like the upcoming mega-crossover X of Swords looms[...]
Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto #1 Review: An Elegantly Told Namor Team-Up
Continuing his landmark run on X-Men that has revamped the various Marvel mutant titles from the ground up, writer Jonathan Hickman turns his focus to a Magneto and Namor team-up story This new release, Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto #1, is made in collaboration with artist Ramón Pérez, colorist David Curiel, letterer VC's Clayton Cowles, and designer Tom Muller[...]
X-Men FCBD #1 Review:
For a very… unconventional Free Comic Book Day release in the wake of the lockdown, Marvel Comics assembled their X-Men team of Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard to craft a story that would set the stage for the upcoming slate of mutant stories The 10-page tale, plus a little extra something that we'll talk about art the end,[...]
Marvel Creators Reveal X Of Swords October Solicitations
Or who the creative team will be… though probably Jonathan Hickman as writer. Marvel Creators Reveal X Of Swords October Solicitations. Yesterday's Free Comic Book Summer comic book teased the X Of Swords event, pronounced Ten Of Swords, with a series of tarot cards Today the creative teams of X Of Swords revealed on social media[...]
X-Men Free Comic Book Day Suggests Sunset Of X to Follow Dawn Of X.
Last summer, they had a big relaunch with Jonathan Hickman as showrunner, reinventing everything under the Dawn Of X banner, tipping over the applecart, turning everything its head and showing a mutant race engaging in isolation, led by a newly revived Professor Xavier, in a world where every mutant can be brought back from the[...]
Jonathan Hickman Goes Giant-Sized
Writer Jonathan Hickman, best known for grids and graphs, has taken the superhero comics world by storm with his X-Men run The writer/must-have-some-expertise-in-math man took over the full line of Marvel's mutants with House of X and Powers of X, which garnered the attention of the hellish landscape known as Comic Book Twitter, finally making the X-Men a[...]
5 Thoughts on Image Comic's Decorum #1 and #2
Decorum #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Mike Huddleston, Rus Wooton, and Sasha E Head, reviewed here by Hannibal Tabu, came out in May, Decorum #2 came out in June, and I have some thoughts on the far-future science fiction series thus far. Decorum by Hickman and Huddleston 1 I bought the first issue on the name value alone[...]