Tag Archive | "X-Men"

Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men

Friday, November 18, 2011

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The team behind the critically-acclaimed documentaries Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods and Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a new project which is likely to appeal to a lot of comics fans since their subject is king of the X-Men writers, the great Chris Claremont. From the [...]

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It’s all gone a bit non-astonishing…..

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic By Warren Ellis and Phil Jiminez (with Andy Lanning – inks and finishes) Marvel Comics I read Exogenetic late one night/early one morning, deep into that time when I should really have been asleep in bed rather than drifting in and out of consciousness on the sofa. And that was why, when [...]

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X-Men Family Tree

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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You may have come across this if you ride the Twitterverse regularly on a virtual silver surfboard, but for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, check out Joe Stone’s brilliant graphic for his X-Men Family Tree: (X-Men Family Tree by Joe Stone, X-Men (c) Marvel)

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X-Men at the Thimble Theatre

Sunday, October 24, 2010

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Great comics mashup by Ben Towle of E.C. Seger’s Thimble Theatre characters and Claremont’s 80s X-Men. (Via CBR/Robot 6)

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Why hello, Kitty!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Aren’t these Hello Kitty modifications just brilliant? Cool and also still quite sweet but with added SF/comics appeal! Joseph Senior’s MySpace has numerous clever and very well done examples like this, go and enjoy them (via Robot 6 who got it in turn from The Design Scene Blog)

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S.W.O.R.D. – one volume will have to be enough.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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S.W.O.R.D. – volume 1 (of 1) – No Time To Breathe by Kieron Gillen and Steven Saunders (with Jamie McKelvie) Marvel Comics “My Spacegirl Friday. Fury Nick and Green-haired Nora. Joss Whedon writes Deep Space 9. West Wing in orbit (plus zap-guns). 24 with the neo-con-agenda swapped for gags. The fastest-paced comic Marvel puts out, I think. We [...]

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X-Futurama mashup

Monday, June 21, 2010

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Very nice indeed. Futurama meets the X-Men by Gottabecarl over on Deviant Art.

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Jane Goldman working with Matthew Vaughn on X-Men: First Class

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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The Geek Syndicate picks up on Jonathan Ross tweeting that his wife Jane Goldman is confirmed as writer for the fourth X-Men movie outing, X-Men: First Class: “Also, for those who need to know, my wife IS currently writing X men First Class. It’s just referred to as X men 4 around the house…” Jane [...]

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Kaare Andrews – another fetish moment….

Saturday, April 24, 2010

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Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #3. Cover by Kaare Andrews. I know the X-Men has always been a little edgy, but when did it become Skin Two? Every month Andrews just ups the ante. God knows what sort of thing we’ll be getting on the cover by the time it gets into double figures. Can you imagine what [...]

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Paul Smith – Kitty Pryde, X-Men classics and Leave It To Chance

Monday, April 5, 2010

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It’s one I missed when it was released a few years ago, but there’s a great review by Kelly Thompson at CBR of X-Men Kitty Pryde: Shadows And Flame. To be honest, the story doesn’t sound all that great – Kitty Pryde in Japan to investigate another Lockheed type dragon, and inevitably falling foul of [...]

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Marvellous covers…. and even more marvellous McCarthy

Saturday, April 3, 2010

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Mark Kardwell pointed out a slew of great looking comic covers from the Marvel solicitations, and he’s absolutely right, these are good. Kaare Andrews does a strange, strange look for Emma Frost, even without the baby sick. And Paul Pope doing Marvel covers is great. Actually Paul Pope doing anything is great. And it gets [...]

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Astonishing yet not confusing? Tough to get right….

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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Here’s the promo art for the forthcoming “Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis” by Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews….. Cyclops and Storm seem somewhere about 7ft tall, Storm appears to have forgotten most of her top and, from that waistline, hasn’t been eating properly either. And poor Emma Frost has suffered from some really bad plastic surgery that’s [...]

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Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes by Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi Marvel I enjoyed, and wrote about the first issue of this storyline when it came out here and this collection basically gives us more of the same, which is to say more of Ellis’ voice through the medium of Marvel’s mutant team. Everything you’d expect [...]

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Singer considering return to X-Men movies

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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According to The Hollywood Reporter director Bryan Singer is considering a return to Fox for another installment of the X-Men movies, which I’d imagine would be pretty much welcomed by fans. Singer, who made his name with the wonderfully convoluted noir-esque Usual Suspects, delivered the first two X-Men movies which proved successful with fans, critics [...]

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