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Marvel still won't give Chris Claremont an ongoing series to write, despite paying him to be a Marvel exclusive writer, but they sure do love selling collections of his old work, don't they? Solicited in Marvel's February solictations today is Iron Fist: The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Complete Collection, collecting the work of Claremont,[...]

After teasing it since New York Comic, and revealing the creative teams earlier this week, Marvel has finally revealed all the juicy details about just what's going on during the Age of X-Man that springs out of the 10-part Uncanny X-Men: X-Men Disassembled storyline It seems that all the X-Men somehow end up in the[...]

Fans of the 2016 Drax series by Cullen Bunn, C.M. Punk, and Scott Hepburn (come on, there must be some out there!) will be pleased to know that the

Marvel's never-ending cycle of universe-rocking super-mega-crossover events is the bread and butter, or perhaps meat and potatoes, of Marvel's entire publishing strategy, and it has been for more than a decade now Marvel is already hyping readers up for 2019's War of the Realms, promoted as the biggest Marvel event of all time. But in February's[...]

Marvel first hit comic shops? Five years feels like forever in the 24/7 hype world of comic books, and yet, in Marvel's in-continuity time, we're pretty sure it constitutes about three actual days Whatever the case, February marks five years since the first issue of Ms Marvel, and the series is celebrating with a special[...]

Marvel, however, or at least the Dead Man Logan creative team of Ed Brisson and Mike Henderson, seem to believe they know everyone's least favorite X-Man is, even if it does seem baffling that Wolverine would need to make an appearance in Old Man Logan February's Dead Man Logan #4 promises a "special appearance by[...]

Back in the good ol' days, one of the things that made the Marvel Universe feel like a living, breathing place was the minor crossovers between books, where the events happening in, for example, Thor, during any given month might be referenced, for example, in that month's X-Men At the very least, some throwaway dialog[...]

Ah, that Ahab, always Exterminating, that's what people always say about him. Check out the solicit for X-Force #3 below, and see Marvel's full solicitations here. X-FORCE #3 ED BRISSON (W) • DYLAN BURNETT (A) Cover by PEPE LARRAZ SKRULLS VARIANT COVER BY Butch Guice • Ahab has returned to exterminate X-Force! • What twisted schemes is Ahab conducting that has attracted[...]

But then the solicit goes on to say, "You think you know where a story like this is going, but you DON'T. Because Taskmaster and Black Ant are on the scene, and they don't have a problem with collateral damage." So will May be the victim of a Marvel trademark shocking death? Or perhaps a critical injury[...]

With all this talk of War of the Realms and how it will be the biggest Marvel super-mega-crossover event of all time, one might be tempted to forget about other wars being fought in the Marvel Universe But as Marvel's February solicits have reminded us, War is everywhere, and one is coming to Avengers In[...]

Marvel's February solicitations have just come out, featuring the beginning of the Road to War of the Realms in Thor #10 by Jason Aaron and Mike Del Mundo Building for years as part of Aaron's various runs on various Thor books, Marvel finally made things official earlier this month, and they've gone all in, comparing the[...]

Has anyone noticed something's been a little off with Banshee since his return at the beginning of Matthew Rosenberg and Greg Land's lame duck Astonishing

Rejoice! The holiest of holidays for X-Men Fans, X-Men Monday, has come around again, and after two weeks of shirking his duties like some kind of heathen, Marvel X-Editor Jordan White has come through with looks at all 9 of the upcoming issues of Uncanny X-Men's X-Men Disassembled story arc! White, we take back almost[...]

A new Marvel-ous holiday tradition could be coming to your very living room this Christmas, because Avengers: Infinity War is hitting Netflix this Yule season. It would appear that the box office record-breaking 19th Marvel Studios feature film Avengers: Infinity War will arrive in the streaming service's catalog beginning Tuesday December 25th, which just happens to be Christmas Day[...]

Desecrating the sacred holiday of X-Men Monday, Uncanny X-Men writer Matthew Rosenberg hinted on Twitter that this week's final issue of Astonishing X-Men

Did you shell out 8 bucks for Uncanny X-Men #1 on paper? You fool! Clearly the digital version is the one you should have purchased, as according to a press release, just like Return of Wolverine #1 before it, any digital copies of Uncanny X-Men #1 purchased on the Marvel Comics App or Digital Comics[...]

As part of their "finally giving the X-Men the respect they deserve again" initiative, Marvel has announced a new series of trade paperback collections featuring the X-Men titled X-Men Milestones, the mission of which is to allow readers to "relive the X-Men's best and the biggest storylines as their adventures remind you why the X-Men[...]

Disgraced former NYPD police sergeant David Villanueva, who pled guilty to charges of accepting bribes while working at the NYPD License Division in a major New York City scandal, testified under oath that he scored a gun permit for Marvel Chairman Ike Perlmutter, according to a report from the New York Daily News. Villanueva didn't work[...]

This week, we lost Stan Lee, not only the man perhaps most synonymous with Marvel comics and comic books in general (though he irritatingly called them "comicbooks"), but also the co-creator of the subject of this column, our beloved X-Men. Lee's legacy is a complicated one, one which has been addressed at length in dozens of[...]

These days, with political tensions in America seemingly higher than they've been in centuries, it seems like liberals and conservatives might never find

Gosh, more politics in our Marvel previews! We're going to need a fainting couch if this continues much longer Remember back in the good old days of the 1980s when there were no politics in the comic book previews we read each week on the internet? In next week's issue of Immortal Hulk, Bruce Banner[...]

Move over, Apple! There's a hot new device in town that people are lining up around the block for, and it's not an iPad or an iPhone! Instead, it's Tony

Next week's penultimate issue of Infinity Wars: Sleepwalker sees "Dark Starhawk" Christopher Powell being interrogated inside the Soul Gem. After

Despite being a genetically-modified killing machine with the powers of both the Hulk and Wolverine, Weapon H is a good guy. Or is he? In next week's Weapon H #10, Morgan le Fay asks the titular hero to reevaluate his origin story… Tricks from the evil queen, or is there something more there? After all, in February,[...]

Marvel's previews are just chock full of political metaphors for hell this week, aren't they? Earlier, we saw hell compared to the American healthcare system in next week's issue of Weapon X Now, it's Web of Venom: Carnage Born which explains what hell is, at least for a young Cletus Kasady: being trapped in a[...]

Nevertheless, this hasn't stopped the inappropriate association between police and The Punisher, with some police departments even using Punisher skull decals on their police cars, a frankly terrifying thought. So it's uneasy when The Punisher and the police are connected, like in Marvel Knights 20th, where a mindwiped Frank Castle has become a cop, or in[...]

In Weapon X #25, Sabretooth is beheaded by the demon Azazel and sent to hell, where he wanted to go as part of Weapon X-Force's mission to take down the

Storm and Black Panther have shared a lifelong love that was finally realized in marriage back in Black Panther Vol. 4 #18, a tie-in to Civil War. Of

The recent Generation X series ended on an important moment for the normally selfish Quentin Quire, who gave up the spark of the Phoenix Force inside

The history of the gem, like much in Marvel Comics, is complicated There's been at least one similar gem, a "prototype" gem, which existed inside the actual Crimson Gem, way back in X-Men (the original series) #32 and #33 Another supplementary gem (or maybe the same one) appeared decades later in 1992's Doctor Strange: Sorcerer[...]