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The Power Of Uncanny

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Jim Zub reports on the sales bump given to Skullkickers by renaming it Uncanny Skullkickers for one issue, in light of Uncanny Avengers and Uncanny X-Force joining Uncanny X-Men at Marvel. Something I’m sure Nicky Barrucci hopes will be repeated …

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Uncanny Skullkickers Changes To Savage Skullkickers In March

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

In February, Skullkickers changed its name to Uncanny Skullkickers, modelled itself after Marvel’s current three titles with Uncanny in the name and relaunched with a new issue one. Although really it was just issue eighteen with a grab for some …

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Kieron Gillen’s Uncanny X-Men And Jason Aaron’s X-Men: Schism Hit 99 Cents On ComiXology

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

I’ve made no secret that I really enjoyed Kieron Gillen‘s run on Uncanny X-Men, after not enjoying the book for some time before that, despite the best efforts of some of my favourite comic creators. F rom the Hope/Namor buddy …

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MarvelNOW! Uncanny X-Force Launches With Sam Humphries And Ron Garney

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This isn’t your Cable and X-Force. This is your proper Uncanny X-Force. By Sam Humphries and Ron Garney, as teased last week. A MarvelNOW! reboot, with details at Comics Alliance. This is the first time there have been two ongoing …

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More Uncanny Avengers Art – And How To Make It Pay

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Marvel have the Steve McNiven poster art for New York Comic Con, and it’s rather Avengersy, with Hulk in his fancy new armour and everyone in their Marvel Now costumes. And it’s just a start. Here’s a look at three …

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Entertainment Weekly Finally Makes Marvel NOW! Official

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

All today, websites have been putting up bits and bobs from Entertainment Weekly’s piece on Marvel NOW! relaunch. Bleeding Cool have had parts of them since February, of course, and a bunch last week but that’s the way things go. …

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Rumour Checklist For The Marvel Relaunch

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We’ve been running a number of stories over the last few weeks looking at rumoured new creative teams for existing books, and for new books. The word is that you’re going to see a bunch of them start again from …

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Will Marvel Now Give Us Uncanny Avengers?

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Bleeding Cool has already reported on a new rumoured series, Astonishing Avengers, by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena, replacing Secret Avengers on the Marvel roster, and part of what I’m increasingly hearing refereneces to a Marvel relaunch. More on that …

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Avengers Vs X-Men – From Ruby Quartz To Ruby Ridge

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Uncanny X-Men #10 and AVX: Versus #1 are both published today. And both books seem to have a similar take on, basically Avengers Vs X-Men #1 and #2. Marvel have promoted Versus as having no plot, simply expanding battles from …

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Apologies To H.M. Bateman

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

“The superhero who suggested that all this fighting was just silly and everyone should just kiss and make up.” Or the cover to Wolverine And The X-Men #9 from April, one of three Wolverine And The X-Men titles shipping that …

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Uncanny X-Force #18 Gets Second Print – And An Unboxing Video

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Rich Johnston

This week’s Uncanny X-Force #18 was bagged to avoid spoilers. You know what that means… an Unboxing Video, at Orbital Comics, amidst their Doctor Who display. The book was so popular it has gone to second print already with the …

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Top Five Favourite Panels From Uncanny X-Men #1

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Yesterday, Marvel published Uncanny X-Men #1, their very first issue of Uncanny X-Men to bear the #1 numerical, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s version, and al those #1 since have all been Uncannyless. And just as I did with Wolverine …

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Marvel Reveals Uncanny X-Men 1 Cover. Again.

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Rich Johnston

This is the third time Marvel have revealed the cover to Uncanny X-Men #1. Once with silhouettes and once without. This is the first time we’ve seen the bottom right corner though. Admidetedly this is the first time they’ve shown …

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Preview: The Final Issue Of Uncanny X-Men. Until Next Month.

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Rich Johnston

The last issue of Uncanny X-Men, number 544, is upon us. Written by Kieron Gillen and drawn by Greg Land, it will be published by Marvel in October. Of course, it will be relaunched shortly afterwards. And will probably go …

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Filling In The X-Men Blue Silhouettes

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Rich Johnston

So Marvel have started to fill in a few of the X-Men Blue quandriptych silhouettes… throwing in a Storm, Colossus and Magik… Of course, Bleeding Cool readers knew a couple of those already. Let’s do a quick cut and paste …

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Finally, Cyclops, On Uncanny X-Men #1 Cover

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Rich Johnston

They’ve been teasing and tweaking. Finally we get a shot of Cyclops in this whole X-Men Regenesis thing. Still a lot of silhouettes, of course. UNCANNY X-MEN #1 XREGB Written by KIERON GILLEN Cover and Pencils by CARLOS PACHECO Variant …

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Another Game Of Silhouettes With Kieron Gillen And Carlos Pacheco’s Uncanny X-Men #1

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Marvel do love a silhouette don’t they? They really do, playing a game of who’s-in-this-issue-who’s-not and we all play along like giddy schoolchildren. Well I know I do. That’s Magneto at the back, right?

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