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Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman took to Twitter Wednesday to try something he told himself he'd never do: explain his work In a series of tweets seemingly in response to calls for him to speak out about the wave of protests against racial injustice and police brutality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd[...]

In Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz and RB Silva's House Of X/Power Of X, Moira MacTaggert changed the face of the Marvel's Xbooks Revealed as a mutant all this time, her power is to restart reality on her death, reverting it back to the moment of her birth With Destiny telling her that she will be[...]

Heavy Metal Magazine will be publishing its three hundredth issue in August, as well as a number of launch series, including new work from Dan Fogler, Jonathan Hickman, Simon Bisley, Stephanie Phillips, Richard Corben, Ben Templesmith and many more Here's a quick look ahead… UPDATE: Heavy Metal gets in touch to say that Jonathan Hickman was[...]

While its June follow-up, Empyre X-Men #4 which was solicited as being written by Jonathan Hickman and TBA, well again TBA is out of luck and the comic will just be written by Jonathan Hickman in isolation The Fantastic Four #23 Empyre tie-in will now be drawn by Paco Medina, and not the previously solicited Sean[...]

Decorum, the new sci-fi comic by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston, was Image Comics biggest launch title of the year It only saw one issue published before the shutdown but in all the publicity, it was billed as an ongoing series. CBR reported that "Writer Jonathan Hickman (House of X) and artist Mike Huddleston (Middlewest) will[...]

Superstar comic book writer Jonathan Hickman is the mastermind behind 2019's relaunch of the X-Men at Marvel Hickman's House of X and Powers of X changed the trajectory of the X-books for the foreseeable future, bring the franchise back to prominence after years of neglect If you've ever read any of his tweets or interviews,[...]

This week saw Marvel publish The Road to Empyre, tying up Meet The Skrulls, Incoming and a munch of Kree/Skrull Avengers stories from the past few

In today's Excalibur #9. Pete Wisdom has a rather stereotypical view on life on Krakoa. Brian Braddock isn't a mutant, you see. Only his siblings and his

Once upon a time, Jonathan Hickman wrote the Fantastic Four A part of a long-running storyline that continued into his run on Avengers and into Secret Wars, that included this scene from FF #6, with Black Bolt. Which was rather mirrored in this week's X-Men #8 with Vulcan. Which is underlined with reports on Marvel history, with[...]

(Image Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Mike Huddleston, Rus Wooton) With enough supplementary material to make a good chunk of a series bible, this stylish and slick new series has clearly spent a lot of development time with worldbuilding, sussing out how things are to effect character interactions It's gorgeous looking, and has a super engaging[...]

(Marvel Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Mahmud Asrar, Sunny Gho, CLayton Cowles) This issue is messy and funny and splashy and stupid in the doofus-y way of modern cultural imperialism, recklessly risking lives for reasons not even worth discussing and creating chaos where it would have been easy to have peace The newfound sense of security[...]

Today sees the publication of Decorum #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston from Image Comics And the release of X-Men #8 by Jonathan Hickman and Mahmud Asrar And there's a connection No, not that Jonathan Hickman has created another cypher language for the comic Or the use of prose, text pages, diagrams, documents[...]

6.30pm. Happy birthday to… Photo by Kendall Whitehouse Jonathan Hickman, creator of the Nightly News, writer on HOXPOX, co-creator of East Of West,  Manhattan Projects, The Dying And The Dead Ryan Bodenheim, co-creator of The Dying And The Dead Erik Ko of Udon Studios Tony DiGerolamo, writer of Jersey Devil, The Travelers, Simpsons comics. Ciaran Flanagan, comcis festival organiser and writer of Free Bird's Wing Pete Renshaw, comic store owner and author[...]

X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman held court at the Marvel Fanfare panel at C2E2 last Friday, alongside Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B Cebulski and Immortal Hulk writer Al Ewing The trio discussed getting into comics and getting their first Marvel Comics Hickman, according to Newsarama's live blog, said he got his at a 7-11 as a kid, and[...]

So when Pierce approached X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman, of course he asked him point blank exactly how many dicks Wolverine has. Unfortunately, Hickman refused to answer, possibly because he is planning to reveal both of Wolverine's two-dicks in an upcoming "red issue" of X-Men Could we hear more about them at the X-Men panel later? Hickman[...]

(Marvel Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, Sunny Gho and Clayton Cowles) Chuck full of philosophical ponderings and ineffable questions, this issue is heavy on concept and light on actual happenings Imagine, if you will, that you took a message board discussion of the morality and theories behind mutant resurrection, a core element of[...]

Not too long ago, Bleeding Cool ran the story, What If… DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes and 5G Were Planning a Similar Story to House Of X? I wrote of X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman, Before he took the Marvel shilling (and I understand it was a sizeable shilling) I get the word that he proposed Legion Of[...]

Today, Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey & Emma Frost #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Russell Dauterman is published by Marvel Comics But it is possible you might get a feeling of deja vu But first, let's have a once-upon-a-time… A couple of decades ago, Marvel Comics publisher Bill Jemas decided that it would be a great idea[...]

Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman has been bucking tradition since he began his HoXPoX relaunch of the X-Men last Summer While many comic book creators, for example, believe that the story should be told in the form of actual comics, Hickman prefers to relay large chunks of key information in infographics or prose pages Hickman has[...]

In April, Marvel will publish Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler by Jonathan Hickman and Alan Davis, as revealed on the publisher's Pull List podcast The issue will feature Nightcrawler investigating a disturbance at the Graymalkin Habitat of Krakoa, which is located at the original site of Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters The cover gives us some[...]

As we enter the new year of 2020, and a new decade, it's time to look back on 2019 and celebrate the X-Men franchise with the Wolverine's Weiner X-Picks of the Year, a grilled-meat-themed unmatched in all of comicsdom. Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox owned their[...]

Stephenson is the bottleneck through which all comics are approved for publication or not, and he also seeks out new talent, keen for a diverse group of creators on the stage at Image Expo these days. Jonathan Hickman (New Entry) He took a brand that had all but died through excessive toxification and wastage, and overnight[...]

But in today's Incoming #1, from Jonathan Hickman and R.B Silva, we learn some of the compromises he made to join the team And the real plans he is hiding. In House Of X, as part of the ninth timeline, we learnt about chimera. Mister Sinister, a chimera created using the body of Thunderbird? In the House[...]

We mentioned Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston's new series Decorum on the front cover for Diamond Previews earlier as well as part of the full solicitations for Image Comics for March 2020 But here's a preview of the first issue, three months out…  DECORUM #1 WRITER: JONATHAN HICKMAN ARTIST / COVERS A & B: MIKE HUDDLESTON MARCH 11 /[...]

And on its front cover, a new comic book by Jonathan Hickman of East of West and House Of X and Mike Huddleston of Harley Quinn, The Strain and Butcher Baker described thus: There are many assassins in the known universe This is the story of the most well-mannered one "Manners are a sensitive awareness of[...]

They've been teasing it all week with a serious of silhouettes. But now they have let it all hang out for the latest Dawn of X title starting in March,

(Marvel Comics: creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, Gerry Alanguilan, Sunny Gho, Rain Beredo, Clayton Cowles) Three of the most powerful and accomplished mutants in the world fight four very unexpected and frankly embarrassing new characters and it does not go the way you expect at all The counter-cultural intentions of the casting for these[...]

And by "doing our best" of course we mean that we're reading Twitter and seeing what tweets can be spun off into an article with a sensational headline. Thankfully, X-meister Jonathan Hickman is always good for one of those, and today is no different, as Hickman has revealed that, despite enormous fan response to his relaunching[...]

But it seems that Jonathan Hickman has been drawn into the threesome Major spoilers for today's Venom #20 and Avengers #27 below, you have been warned. The Ultimate iteration of Venom was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley in Ultimate Spider-Man #33 In this version, Eddie Brock Jr is Peter Parker's childhood friend and[...]

Maybe March? Looks like whatever it is, New Mutants writer and Dawn Of X showrunner Jonathan Hickman seems to be setting it up, right here. New Mutants #2 is published by Marvel Comics today in all good comic shops I bought mine from Piranha Comics in Kingston-Upon-Thames Piranha Comics is a small south London comic store[...]