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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[...]

It's a concept so dumb, Marvel almost had no choice but to turn it into a mini-event inside a super-mega-crossover event The latest Infinity Warp to get a solo book is Ghost Panther, a mashup of Black Panther and Ghost Rider And a preview of next week's Ghost Panther #1 explains this amalgamation's origins Playing[...]

In next week's Mr. and Mrs. X #5, Gambit is still mourning the loss of a loved one. No, we're not talking about his wife, Rogue, who was disintegrated at

After all, nobody suggested his battle cry should be "sooieee! sooieee!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TUFZQZjf_UVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Right Where I Belong – The Muppets Take Manhattan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TUFZQZjf_U) Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse #1 hits stores next Wednesday. Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse #1 (W) Ralph Macchio (A) Flaviano (CA) Eduard Petrovich STEP INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE WITH A CADRE OF SPIDER-HEROES! •[...]

And it finally arrives in April, Marvel revealed Friday, from Aaron, Russell Dauterman, and Matthew Wilson, and promises an event of "unparalleled scale" where "no corner of the Marvel Universe will be untouched!", and likens it to Secret Wars But even bigger, we guess, because otherwise it would be "paralleled." The press release reads: This April, the[...]

In next week's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, a special holiday issue, Moon Girl will be called to the aid of one of the Marvel Universe's most powerful mutants! That's right, we're talking, of course, about the one and only Santa Claus What, you didn't know Santa Claus was a mutant? That's canon, dear readers. In[...]

The Beast. What a dick! Are we right? This guy even has Reed Richards beat! In next week's issue of Uncanny X-Men, chaos is erupting around the world. In

Sounds like visitors to Disneyland's California Adventures will have the chance to meet Captain Marvel starting sometime in 2019! According to the Disneyland Parks Blog: Early next year, Super Hero fans will flash back to the '90s when "Captain Marvel" opens in theaters on March 8, 2019, and for a limited time, Disneyland Resort guests will have[...]

Alex Ross is a name synonymous with the tip top of comics art. Comic book covers, incredible gallery presentations, just some of the things fans of Ross's

Fans already mourning the coming end of Sina Grace and Nathan Stockman's excellent Iceman mini-series will get a reprieve with one extra Iceman comic

Sony's (Venom) next cinematic adaptation based on Marvel's Spiderverse of characters tapped Daniel Espinosa (Safe House, Life) to direct, from a script by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama (Netflix's Lost in Space) Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Lucas Foster will produce, with Sony's Palak Patel overseeing production on behalf of the studio. Created by writer Roy Thomas and[...]

Marvel has released the cover for the book, featuring Cyclops (the best X-Man) and Wolverine (the worst X-Man) on the cover, and declaring these two to be the "last" X-Men, perhaps lending credence to the theory that the rest of the X-Men will be off in an alternate Age of X-Man universe for the duration[...]

A teaser just sent out by Marvel for Uncanny X-Men reveals some new details about where the X-Men will go after the initial 10-part weekly Uncanny X-Men Disassembled arc ends in January It looks like Uncanny X-Men #11 will ditch the ensemble creative team for a story by Matthew Rosenberg and Salvador Larroca We also[...]

To celebrate, Marvel has released a launch trailer, which you can watch below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZNycYW2aqAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: UNCANNY X-MEN #1 Launch Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZNycYW2aqA) Today, Uncanny X-Men returns with a new ongoing series, bringing together nearly every mutant left on earth in a story that threatens to destroy them[...]

Following in the footsteps of comics legends like Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Marvel will deconstruct the Hulkverine genre in February… literally! The publisher has announced a new comic called Hulkverines, spinning out of Weapon H (which stars the original Hulkverine), in which Wolverine and Hulk go after Weapon H for gimmick infringement. Greg Pak will[...]

What the Marvel universe is going to look like post-Avengers 4 is still very much up for grabs There are a couple of announced projects but the details of most of these projects are being kept under wraps One of the projects we know almost nothing about is the announced movie based on the Eternals[...]

This morning, Bleeding Cool posted a picture of Stan Lee with Roy Thomas, the Marvel EIC who succeeded him We didn't know this may have been the final photo taken of Stan, before he died today. Roy Thomas tells us, I'm sadder than I can say that Stan has died… even though I know, from my recent[...]

If you thought Marvel's favorite Mary Sue, Wolverine, was overpowered before, what would you say if he possessed the Infinity Gauntlet? In a press release on Marvel.com, Marvel revealed a new mini-series launching in February, Wolverine: Infinity Watch On the cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli, Wolverine's claws can be seen extruding from the titular gauntlet, implying[...]

For the second week in a row, Marvel X-Editor Jordan White has canceled the most important weekly comic book holiday, X-Men Monday The news comes exactly one week (as that's how often Mondays occur) after the celebration of all things X-Men was canceled, apparently due to the looming midterm elections. With no elections happening this week,[...]