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Wolverine & The X-Men #4 – Review

Posted on January 14, 2012 by jmiddle3

By: Jason Aaron (writer) Nick Bradshaw (artist) Justin Posner (colors) The Story: It always sucks to be the new kid. What’s Good: While I was sad to see Chris Bachalo leave this series, rest assured that the art is in good hands with Nick Bradshaw. His round, friendly lines make the Jean Grey School for [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #4 – Review

Posted on January 9, 2012 by paladinking

by Kieron Gillen (writing), Brandon Peterson (art), Justin Ponsor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The Phalanx returns and the X-Men race to stop its rapid consumption. The Review:  What a strange issue… I really don’t mean that in a bad way at all.  In fact, I wish more ongoing series did this.  Uncanny [...]

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X-Men: First to Last HC – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Chris Yost; Now: Penciled by Paco Media, inked by Juan Vlasco, and colored by Mrate Gracia; Then: Art by Dalabor Talajic, colored by Juan Vlasco. The Story: One of the apes who got the crap beaten out of him with a femur bone in 2001: A Space Odyssey has his own bone to [...]

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X-Men #16 – Review

Posted on August 25, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Jorge Molina (artist), Guru EFX (colors), Jordan D. White (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) The Story: A very old flame sends a distress signal to Cyclops and Magneto. It is delivered by FF, who are now sporting their new Dr. Doom look. What Good: I was a fan of the [...]

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X-Men: Schism #3 – Review

Posted on August 21, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Jason Aaron (writer), Daniel Acuña (artist), Jordan D. White (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) The Story: A trap is set for the X-Men at the Museum of Mutant History. We learn more (and are impressed by) the capabilities of the Hellfire Club’s junior division. Cyclops wears a jetpack and Wolverine steals a car. [...]

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X-Men #15.1 – Review

Posted on August 10, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Will Conrad (art), Brian Reber (color) The Story: The X-Men go to a small town in the southern US to help out a shaman who is going to get rid of some demons. Not all goes according to plan, but a curvier Ghost Rider than the last shows up for an [...]

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X-Men: Schism #2 – Review

Posted on July 27, 2011 by paladinking

by Jason Aaron (writer), Frank Cho (art), Jason Keith (colors), and Jared K. Fletcher (letters) The Story: The X-Men race to deal with the global rash of out-of-control sentinels, Cyclops and Wolverine butt heads over Quire, and Kade Kilgore makes plans. What’s Good: Like many kids who grew up in the late 80s to early [...]

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X-Men #15 – Review

Posted on July 22, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina and Dalibor Talajic (pencillers), Dalibor Talajic, Juan Vlasco (inkers), Marte Gracia (colorist) The Story: First To Last, Conclusion: The past and present encounters with the Evolutionaries converge on Cyclops and his choices, past and present. At stake… the survival of humanity. What’s Good: I continue to be delighted with [...]

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X-Men: Schism #1 – Review

Posted on July 13, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Jason Aaron (writer), Carlos Pacheco (penciller), Cam Smith (inker), Frank D’Armata (colorist) The Story: Cyclops, as leader of the world’s mutants, goes to an arms control conference, bringing Wolverine as his security. Midway through Cyclops’ speech advocating peace and disarmament (in this case, not for nukes, but for sentinels), a telepathic mutant comes in [...]

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X-Men #14 – Review

Posted on July 12, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina, Dalibor Talajic (pencillers), Dalibor Talajic, Juan Vlasco (inkers), Marte Gracia and Wil Quintana (colorists) The Story: “First to Last, Part 4″ opens up more of the past of the Evolutionaries (2.7M years ago) and of the original X-Men in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants era. And in the present, [...]

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X-Men #13 – Review

Posted on June 15, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Dalibor Talajic, Paco Medina (artists), Dalibor Talajic, Juan Vlasco (inkers), Marte Gracia, Wil Quintana (colors) The Story: First To Last, Part 3: The evolutionaries continue to attack and we see, through emerging memories, the origin of the evolutionaries. At the same time, their last visit is further illuminated, while their fight [...]

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X-Men #12 – Review

Posted on June 3, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina, Dalibor Talajic (pencillers), Juan Vlasco, Dalibor Talajic (inkers), Marte Gracia (colors) The Story: First to Last, Part 2: In three different times (2.7 million years ago, in the early issues of the original X-Men, and now) we learn about the evolutionaries. They are looking for the leader of mutantkind [...]

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X-Men Giant-Size #1 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina and Dalabor Talajic (pencillers), Juan Vlasco and Dalabor Talajic (inkers), Marte Gracia and Wil Quintana (colorists), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor), Axel Alonso and Nick Lowe (editors) The Story: First to Last, Part I: In this new arc, the Neos, another mutant offshoot of humanity (different from homo superior) is [...]

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Wolverine #8 – Review

Posted on April 21, 2011 by paladinking

By Jason Aaron (script), Daniel Acuna (art), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The girls get some much-needed back-up in the battle for Logan’s mind, as Dr. Nemesis and Cyclops get ready to pull the trigger. The Review:  Celebrate!  The interminable possessed Wolverine/hell/demon stuff is over!  That alone made me enthusiastic, as this story has [...]

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Uncanny X-Force #5.1 – Review

Posted on March 19, 2011 by paladinking

by Rick Remender (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: X-Force races to stop Lady Deathstrike and the Reavers from destroying Utopia. Review: Out of all the .1  issues thus far, Rick Remender’s Uncanny X-Force may very well have come the closest to accomplishing what the .1 initiative is [...]

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Wolverine #6 – Review

Posted on February 17, 2011 by paladinking

by Jason Aaron (writer), Daniel Acuna (art), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Faced with a rampaging Wolverine with Logan locked in a battle for his own mind, the X-Men are forced to choose whether or not to take their old friend down permanently. The Review: Wolverine #6 is one of those comics that reminds [...]

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X-Men Legacy #242 – Review

Posted on November 27, 2010 by joelopez101

by Mike Carey (writer), Paul Davidson (penciller) The Story: A small team of X-Men are chosen to aid the city of San Francisco in repairing the destruction left in the aftermath of Bastion’s attack on Utopia and the mutant community.  However, things don’t go as planned when underlying problems affecting both Hellion and Omega Sentinel [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #530 – Review

Posted on November 27, 2010 by joelopez101

by Matt Fraction (writer), Greg Land (penciller) The Story: A dangerous flu virus has begun to infect the population of Utopia, forcing Cyclops to issue a quarantine of the island base.  The remaining mutants that were off-island at the time have decided to form a de facto team of X-Men to protect San Francisco for [...]

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Generation Hope #1 – Review

Posted on November 3, 2010 by dfstell

By: Kieron Gillen (writer), Salvador Espin (art), Jim Charalampidis (colors) & Dave Sharpe (letters) The Story: Hope and her new entourage (a.k.a. the “Four Lights”) head to Tokyo to meet a budding mutant with a bad disposition who they hope will be the fifth light. What’s Good: Hope.  That is the only really good thing [...]

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X-Men #1 – Review

Posted on July 9, 2010 by joelopez101

by Victor Gischler (writer), Paco Medina (artist) The Story: Spinning out of last week’s The Death of Dracula one-shot, the vampires of the world unite and decide to send a suicide bomber to San Francisco, not to kill innocent people, but to infect them.  While the X-Men begin to gather their forces and intelligence to [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #525 – Review

Posted on June 10, 2010 by joelopez101

by Matt Fraction (writer), Terry Dodson (artist) The Story: Hope hates Cyke for maybe killing her dad.  Utopia starts exploding.  The X-Men battle Nimrods on the streets of San Francisco. X-Force arrives in the future and finds out, yep, it blows.  Then they decide, screw it, let’s just kill everybody.  The Avengers and the Fantastic [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #522 – Review

Posted on March 27, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Whilce Portacio (pencils), Ed Tadeo (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Magneto brings Kitty home as Nation X comes to a close. What’s Good: This is easily among the best issues of Matt Fraction’s run on Uncanny X-men, as the man who writes Invincible Iron Man shows up rather [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #520 – Review

Posted on January 23, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Greg Land (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Psylocke, Wolverine, and Colossus go Predator-hunting in NYC while Magneto tries to get Utopia’s population to trust him. What’s Good: Overall, I’ve been enjoying Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men quite a bit more after Utopia, and this [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #519 – Review

Posted on December 25, 2009 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Terry Dodson (pencils), Rachel Dodson (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Emma enters Scott’s mind while Magneto works to keep the island from sinking. What’s Good: Much like last issue, the Dodsons breathe so much life into Uncanny.  The characters all look significantly more individual and lovable [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #518 – Review

Posted on December 4, 2009 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Terry Dodson (pencils), Rachel Dodson (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Scott ventures into Emma’s mind in an attempt to seperate her from the void as tensions grow among Utopia’s residents. What’s Good:  X-Men fans will no doubt be absolutely thrilled to know that this month is [...]

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