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Astonishing X-Men by Warren Ellis: Series Review

07 Wednesday May 2014

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After 24 issues plus a Giant Size final issue, fan-favorites Joss Whedon and John Cassaday left some big shoes to fill on Marvel’s Astonishing X-men. This wasn’t the first time Marvel published an Astonishing X-men title, but it was much more artistically and critically successful than the one in 1995 or the one in 1999. To keep the momentum going after Whedon and Cassaday, Warren Ellis stepped up to bat, along with Simone Bianchi. Bianchi’s artwork on Wolverine’s solo title provided some glorious visual moments, including an eye-popping drama in Wakanda with the Black Panther, Storm, and Sabertooth. Ellis and Bianchi’s collaboration on X-men gives us some stunning wraparound covers and a convoluted but visually interesting story.

 
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In a move that made sense to perhaps no one outside the marketing department, the first storyline spins off right in the middle to a two-issue title called Ghost Boxes. These boxes play an important role in the main title, and if you only read the main title it feels like you missed part of the story. Basically, they take the X-men on some ‘alternate reality’ adventures which give Ellis a chance to tell “What If?” stories with the characters. Also, each vignette features a different artist, including a return to the X-men by Alan Davis. Despite the fumbling and fussing with a separate title, they do make for an engaging and sometimes chilling read.

Back in the main title, Bianchi keeps hitting home runs with creative layouts and gorgeous renditions of our favorite mutants.

 
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After the first storyline concludes, Phil Jimenez returns to the X-men. And wow, what a return it is! Jimenez worked with Grant Morrison for a while on the series simply titled “X-men,” when it was being published as “New X-men.” While we didn’t care for Morrison’s characterization of Magneto as a cruel, utterly immoral jerkwad, the Jimenez artwork is worth the price of admission. On Astonishing, Jimenez makes his previous work look like a simple warm-up. Just look at what he does with the Brood and the Sentinels, among other things.

 
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If these stories suffer anywhere, it’s in the rushed tone of the dialogue and plots. The X-men’s dialogue suffers as Ellis fills their mouths with uncharacteristically snappy patter. Their adventures, while admirably action-packed and fast-paced, also lose a little something, as if driven more by Ellis’ latest sci-fi concept than a gripping plot. In other words, they give the artist plenty of room to draw amazing things, but don’t give the reader much incentive to care. Having read about a million Ellis stories, this feels more like one of several limited series he pounded out in a hurry than it does an X-title. But hey, even an Ellis “popcorn movie” script makes for entertaining reading.

 
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A complete collection of this run will also include two free “sketchbooks” Marvel published – one for the Bianchi run and one for the Jimenez run. The interview with Jimenez and the black and white artwork are real treats, the latter calling attention to just how large a role the colorist played in creating the look of the second storyline. Color credits belong to the amazing Frank D’Armata, who also played a huge role in the splendor of Ed Brubaker’s Rise and Fall of the Shi’ar Empire, another one of our favorite recent X-epics.

 
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The final Ellis story takes place again outside the normal title, as Astonishing X-men: Xenogenesis. Kaare Andrews rocks this story out on the artistic front.

 
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All in all, it’s a good read combining action with moral tension and futuristic concepts. The entire opus could have been improved by giving Ellis time to simply write these stories for the regular title, instead of squeezing blood from a stone by putting out as many X-titles as possible each month. But that is not exactly a new problem at the House of Ideas, is it?

 
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Wolverine… Are You Okay?

23 Monday Dec 2013

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Dialogue by Warren Ellis; Art by Simone Bianchi.
– From Astonishing X-men: Ghost Box
(Astonishing X-Men #25-30 plus the 2-issue Ghost Boxes series)

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Dear Chuck… Lighten Up!

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

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X-men #30 from 1994 has a wrap-around cover featuring the wedding of Scott “Cyclops” Summers and Jean Grey (Marvel Girl, Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, Black Queen, etc.). We had it unfolded and framed until it seemed like a fun wedding present to drop in the mail. Before it left, we snapped a couple pics, including our favorite panels from the issue: Professor X feels a bit melancholy after the wedding, until he opens a letter from his old pal Logan… better known as Wolverine.

 
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Collector’s Guide:
– From X-Men #30; Marvel, 1994.

The wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in “The Ties That Bind.” Script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Andy Kubert, inks by Matt Ryan. Includes 3 Fleer Ultra cards celebrating the wedding of Scott and Jean (painted art by Bob Larkin). Kubert/Ryan wraparound cover. Cover price $1.95.

 
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magneto hologram

06 Sunday Oct 2013

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Magneto? Hell yes!
We shared all of these Fatal Attractions holograms before but this dang phone/camera hybrid of 21st century technology brought out some awesome greens and reds in low lighting.

 
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The Destruction of Genosha

09 Friday Aug 2013

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New X-Men - 115 - E is for Extinction 02 - 00 - FCThe destruction of the island of Genosha became a major continuity point in the X-men titles. So much of our favorite mutants’ history hangs on this heinous hinge. One can scarcely believe the dastardly deed took up only three little pages in a single issue of X-men. The subsequent issue picked up with scenes of X-men sifting through the tragic rubble, it’s true. But Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely make one of their most lasting contributions to the X-mythos in the final moments of X-Men #115.

Collector’s Guide:
– from “New” X-Men #115; Marvel, 2001.
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I Know Your Scent Too Well!

16 Tuesday Jul 2013

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Hiya, Chuck! You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t f%#$ with Wolverine’s sense of smell. He is the bullshit detector of the Marvel Universe, sniffing out aliens, robots, holograms, phantoms, fake costumes, and psychic projections. This is a Jim Lee panel we like so much that we cut it out and put it on the wall.

Collector’s Guide:
– from X-men #1; Marvel, 1991.

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The First Fastball Special!

15 Monday Jul 2013

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Uncanny X-men #100 ended a three-part saga culminating in the crashing of their spacecraft and the subsequent death of Jean “Marvel Girl” Grey. She would erupt from the wreckage as Phoenix and spawn decades of continuity in the process.

…Big fraggin’ deal. The truly historic moment of this issue was the execution of the now-legendary fastball special. That’s where Colossus grabs Wolverine and throws him at something far away that needs to be destroyed right the hell now.

Collector’s Guide:
– from Uncanny X-men #100; Marvel, 1976.
 
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Wolverine and Zealot Beat Up Demonic Alien Nazis in WWII!

03 Wednesday Apr 2013

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Travis Charest draws Wolverine and Zealot taking on the daemonites from the WildC.A.T.s series. Only here, the nasty aliens inhabit the bodies of Nazis in the 1940s. Aliens masterminding the Third Reich may not be the most original science fiction idea, but Charest and Scott Lobdell make it a solidly entertaining tale in the vein of Indiana Jones. Cool Jim Lee cover, too!

Image and Marvel made four WildC.A.T.s X-Men crossovers: Golden Age, Silver Age, Modern Age, and Dark Age, each with a different creative team. The first three also came in 3-D, and look pretty awesome.

In these pre-adamantium days, Wolverine doesn’t pop his claws. He opts for strapping some nasty hardware to his wrists, even though we’d seen four years earlier in Fatal Attractions that the claws were part of him. In these carefree days before Wolverine’s past became laid bare by Origins, he is also shown going by the name Logan in WW2 – not James Howlett. But don’t worry. You don’t need to be a continuity expert to kick back and enjoy this story! You can enjoy the first 1/3 in our gallery below.

Collector’s Guide:
– From WildC.A.T.s X-Men The Golden Age #1; Image/Marvel, 1997.

– Also available in 3-D
– Reprinted in Wildcats/X-Men TPB #1
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Ultimate What?

18 Monday Mar 2013

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Brian Michael Bendis saw into the future. We’ve recently seen one of the most ridiculous series titles in comics history: Ultimate Comics Ultimates. Marvel, come on! But Bendis predicted this branding insanity in a dialogue from Ultimate X-men in 2003.

Here, Bendis and artist David Finch parody Bendis’ own famous dialogue style by filling the page with 38 separate panels for a single conversation! And, in this snappy discussion between Black Widow and Wolverine, Bendis pokes fun at the name “The Ultimates.”

All kidding aside, this story – Blockbuster – may be our favorite Spider-man/Wolverine team-up since James C. Owsley (Priest) paired them in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Throw in Daredevil and the Black Widow, and you’ve got some seriously action-packed adventure!

Collector’s Guide:
– From Ultimate X-men #35; Marvel, 2003.
– Reprinted in Ultimate X-Men TPB #7, “Blockbuster.”

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First Appearance of Ultimate Nick Fury!

17 Sunday Mar 2013

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Casting Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in recent Marvel Movies was a no-brainer. Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch already figured that out in the first volume of The Ultimates. It’s stated outright in a conversation the group has about casting an Ultimates movie!

But the first appearance of Nick Fury in the “Ultimate Universe” depicts him a little differently. He plays a supporting role in Millar’s “Return to Weapon X” storyline for Ultimate X-men. Tom Raney, who did such great work on Stormwatch with Warren Ellis, doesn’t draw Fury as a Jackson lookalike. And, the trademark all-black threads Fury sported in The Ultimates are preceeded by this cool all-white suit.

Still, the image of Fury as a ultra high-tech super-spy remains intact – even if his amazing gizmos are much less conspicuous than Jack Kirby’s version. Enjoy “Ultimate” Fury’s first scene in our gallery below.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Ultimate X-men #10
– Reprinted in Ultimate X-Men TPB #2 “Return to Weapon X”
– Reprinted in Ultimate X-Men Ultimate Collection #1




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Should Have Known You’d Smell the Blood, Wolverine!

16 Saturday Mar 2013

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Welcome to the Wolverine Gallery! In this scene from Ultimate X-men, Wolverine busts out of a cage and unexpectedly meets a wounded Nick Fury. After SNIKTing his way through the usual mess of unsavory commandos, Wolvie carries Fury to safety. For his good deed, he gets his @$$ shot off – which happens about a dozen times in “Return to Weapon X!” This flashback scene sets up later developments between Logan and Fury.

Tomorrow we’ll take a look at the very first appearance of Nick Fury in the “Ultimate” titles.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Ultimate X-men #11
– Reprinted in Ultimate X-Men TPB #2 “Return to Weapon X”
– Reprinted in Ultimate X-Men Ultimate Collection #1




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X-Men 25: Magneto Rips out All of Wolverine’s Adamantium!

15 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Today we’ll look at the scene where Magneto finally got so fed-up with our favorite shaggy-haired mutant that he ripped all the adamantium out of Wolverine’s body. Damn, that had to hurt!

We’ve shared some scenes where Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton. If you want to see the cover, see our complete Fatal Attractions hologram wraparound covers for this whole series. Enjoy! And don’t be a bad mutant!

Collector’s Guide:
– From X-Men #25; Marvel, 1993: part of the Fatal Attractions epic.
Script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Andy Kubert, inks by Matthew Ryan.






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X-Men 7: The First Cerebro, and a Beatnik Shin-dig!

28 Friday Sep 2012

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Let’s dig a few pages from X-Men #7 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Here they introduced Cerebro, a mainstay of the X-mythos ever since. But while Cyclops and the Professor are having guy time with their geeky gadgets, Beast and Iceman are “enjoying a taste of the bohemian side of New York.” In just a few panels they become the stars of the beatnik bopper parade, and Hank gets his feet painted. Crazy, man, crazy!



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X-Men 10: Introducing Ka-Zar!

12 Wednesday Sep 2012

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The Coming of Ka-Zar! Here it is: the first silver age appearance of Ka-zar, lord of the savage land! And don’t forget Zabu!

Even though Ka-zar is not a mutant, Xavier allows the X-Men to travel to Antarctica and enter the Savage Land to investigate this noble savage. They end up having to save Jean and Warren from being sacrificed by the Swamp Men.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Uncanny X-Men #10; Marvel, 1964.
– Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks X-Men HC #1
– Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks New Edition X-Men HC #1
– Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks X-Men TPB #1

Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Chic Stone.

 








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Jack Kirby X-Men Portraits!

09 Sunday Sep 2012

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Dig these early X-Men portraits by Jack Kirby! The King had not yet morphed into his truly cosmic style in these days. Wouldn’t it have been cool if he re-visited the X-Men around the time he returned to Marvel in the 1970s? One can only imagine…

Collector’s Guide:
– From the first dozen-or-so issues of Uncanny X-Men; Marvel, 1963-1964.


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Our First Comic Book Subscription: Uncanny X-Men 193!

19 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Normally I forego lengthy exposition here on Mars. But every so often, the madness of a memoir overtakes me. Today is one of those days. So, if you’d like to skip all this nonsense and simply bask in the radiant glory of Uncanny X-men #193, then just scroll your way down, down, down…

Still here? Ok, then. In 1985, I was 12 years old. Early in the year, perhaps with a cash gift for my birthday, I filled out my first subscription form. In 1985, this meant cutting out a square of paper from a Marvel comic – an act of pointless desecration that pains me to recall. Given a time machine, my first stop would be in 1985 to give a young Martian a ride to the copy shop, where for 5 measly cents he could spare the life of a Marvel comic.

Marvel was always running a deal: 16 issues for the price of 12, for example. Considering that 65 cents got you a complete comic in those bygone days of the Reagan era, you could get a lot of comics for not too much money. And so, a few months went by until I received the first issue of my first subscription in the mailbox.

At the time, Marvel placed its comics inside a brown wrapper which resembled a paper grocery bag, only less sturdy. It was a good way to make absolutely certain your coveted book would be torn, bent, exposed to the elements, and otherwise degraded well below a NM- to a VF or worse. These days, if my retailer doesn’t put that book in a silver age bag with a board and tape it shut before shipping it in a fairly indestructible cardboard box with plenty of cushioned packing material, someone will be getting an unhappy customer on the phone!

But at age 12, I simply ran from the mailbox to the house as fast as I could to kick off my shoes, jump onto the couch, and dive into the world of superheroes! It would take two more years before I discovered the joys of real Comic Shops as opposed to the news racks at Walgreens and Magic Mart; two more years before I discovered weekend employment as a golf caddy and the subsequent joy of squandering my entire paycheck on bagged and boarded back issues.

And so, I slid the comic book out of the gnarly brown wrapper. It was Uncanny X-Men #193, a double-length adventure marking the 100-issue anniversary of the “New” X-men: Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and all the wonderful characters brought to us from the minds of Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum. An occasion for rapturous thrills? A Mighty Marvel Milestone? A senses-shattering slab of superhero supremacy?


Actually, I hated it. Now, John Romita, Jr. has since earned my respect and affection as an artist, and many of his books hold places of honor in my collection. But, when I first saw his work, I felt dismay. I’d been brought up on the classic Marvel house style: Romita, Sr., John Buscema, Jack Kirby, Herb Trimpe, Steve Ditko, John Byrne–all tight, clean lines with boldness powerfully pounding the panels. The younger Romita’s light, sketchy style seemed to have little to do with all that–at least, to my 12-year-old eyes.

I finished the story and sincerely hoped that next month a different art team would be on the book. But the next month, it was the same artists! And the month after that–the same artists! This may sound stupid to you, this hope for another art team, but I had a lot to learn back then. I’d never had a subscription before. All the comics I read came from different time periods. I’d have a book I bought four months ago, and then a book I had at age six, plus a collected edition with 4 or 5 art teams, and then random books from 20 years out of Gramma’s garage. I’d never actually been with a book for any consistent length of time, but instead absorbed decades of comics’ history a la carte.

Now, with my first X-men subscription, I learned that creative teams stuck with books for a while! But my dismay grew worse. Before the subscription ended, my tender young brain received the horrifying classic Uncanny X-men #198. Although Romita Jr. gave my system a shock, he ill-prepared me for the work of Barry Windsor-Smith. Storm on the verge of death in Africa? A scene of live birth followed by the death of an old man? Realistic anatomy and humanized despair? I can appreciate this issue now, but it really was not “kid stuff.” Claremont and Windsor-Smith’s Life-Death was too intense–too adult–for a 12-year-old still accustomed to Herb Trimpe’s Hulk punching out a guy in brightly colored tights for 20 pages! It wasn’t exactly over my head so much as it was like switching from Kool-Aid to Jack Daniels without any notice.

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Oh, but it got worse. Uncanny X-Men #205 showed up a few months later. What? This Windsor-Smith guy again? I don’t mind telling you that reading it gave me the most traumatic comic book experience of my entire life. It disturbed me. It unsettled me. It horrified me. Barry’s serpentine depictions of the terrifying bio-med transformation. The grotesque anatomy of Lady Deathstrike in her wires and fluids and weirdness. Do you know that feeling you get watching a really scary movie in the middle of the night with all the lights off during a storm? That’s nothing. I was ten times that troubled in the middle of a brightly-lit afternoon.

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It would be many years before I could read that book without a severe case of the willies. In fact, I read it now and find it absolutely stunning! Along with Windsor-Smith’s work on Wolverine’s adamantium procedure from Marvel Comics Presents, it sets a very high bar for incorporating horror, science fiction, and superheroes. It was just a little more than I could handle back then!

In some ways, it reminds me of beer. (Fitting, as Wolverine really likes beer.) My first taste of beer proceeded my teens by a few years. It was the grossest liquid I ever put in my mouths–except maybe Nyquil. These days, I like to order the highest alcohol content beer the bar will serve me! Things change as you age, and that includes your tastes, and also what you can appreciate.

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It also reminds me of calluses. When you first start playing the guitar, it hurts. Your fingers can’t take it for very long. But after time, you build up a protective layer of skin that keeps you from being so sensitive to pain. In time, it doesn’t bother you at all, and you can have loads of fun with it! Reading Uncanny X-men #205 at age 12 was like playing guitar with no calluses. I just had no protective barrier between my young mind and the pain Wolverine endured in that issue.

Shortly thereafter, my subscription to Uncanny X-men expired–and I did not renew it! But I learned a lot, and it shaped the future of my collecting. Understanding that creative teams stuck with books for a while made me much more attentive to who worked on a book, and when. I paid more attention to the artist and writer credits, and started to learn more about their work. I learned to identify what I liked, and find more of it. And while some people are loyal to characters or titles, I remain loyal to creative teams. Some readers may subscribe to X-men no matter who is producing the book, but I will always look for runs by creative teams who really “do it” for me. I also learned that just because I don’t “get” a book at first doesn’t mean it’s bad. Maybe I’m not just ready for it! The best stories age well with time, and the best of the best are almost timeless. So, don’t be too quick to dismiss something that doesn’t immediately grab you. You just might be overlooking a classic!

Now that you scrolled past all that reminiscing, enjoy the first comic book I ever got by subscription: Uncanny X-Men #193!

 















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The Birth of the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver!

05 Saturday May 2012

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Let’s take a look at the scene from the Avengers where the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are born. The tale of their birth comes to us in a flashback by Bova.

No, not sci-fi author Ben Bova! Bova is a humanoid cow created by the High Evolutionary. We don’t know if Bova is still single. But if she is, we’ll hook her up with a date with Hip Flask of the Elephantmen. They’d hit it right off!

Plot by Mark Gruenwald and Steven Grant. Script by David Michelinie. Pencils by John Byrne. Inks by Dan Green.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Avengers #186



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The Conception and Birth of Nightcrawler!

22 Sunday Jan 2012

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January 22. Today is our birthday, Martians. And there’s nothing more poignant than sharing the moment of birth – especially if what’s being born is a hideous mutant! Let’s have a look at the conception and birth scene of X-Men‘s Nightcrawler. Writer Chuck Austen reveals Mystique as Nightcrawler’s mom!

Sean Phillips rocks the artwork on Nightcrawler’s birth. This sets the stage for even more mind-blowing artwork by Phillip Tan in the Draco storyline, where we learn more about Nightcrawler’s demonic dad. Phillip Tan did the cover for this issue. Tan would stay on the book for too short a time. We really dig his style: distinctive, detailed, and over-the-top.

Let us defend Chuck Austen’s run on Uncanny X-Men (#410-443) and X-Men (#155-164) for a moment, because we’ve read too many negative reviews of this work. Austen made the X-men a great book again. He took the characters in interesting directions with a fresh perspective. We skipped a lot of X-books before and after, but read and re-read Austen’s run many times. We’d say it was the best writing X-Men had received in over a decade. It’s awesome!

Collector’s Guide:
– From Uncanny X-Men #428









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Wolverine Gallery 23: John Byrne

10 Saturday Dec 2011

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Welcome to the Wolverine Gallery! It’s an ongoing project, so just click Wolverine Gallery to see everything in this virtual exhibition!

Today’s Wolverine feature comes from a 1993 X-Men Portfolio by John Byrne. The original prints in the Portfolio were black and white. So if you find one for $250 on eBay, don’t expect color!



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Shiny Silver X-Men Covers: 30th Anniversary!

06 Thursday Oct 2011

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Who can resist mutants on shiny silver backgrounds? Here’s a pair of covers from the X-Men’s 30th Anniversary media blow-out in 1993. We reconstructed the full fold-out cover from Wizard for you.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Uncanny X-Men #300; Marvel, 1993.
– From Wizard X-Men 30th Anniversary Special #1; 1993.

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