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X-Men Movies 13 – Dark Phoenix

The Dark Phoenix Saga is widely considered the greatest X-Men story of all-time, and when you’ve got a franchise with the likes of Days of Future Past, God Loves Man Kills, E-For Extinction and Joss Whedon’s very entertaining Astonishing X-Men … Continue reading

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Uncanny X-Men 8 review

It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve found the time to write a full comic review, so let’s get back at it. Although this series has never been bad by any means, it started off with a vague main story … Continue reading

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Uncanny X-Men 5 review

Now that the major players in this series are established, the story is really moving forward. This issue opens up with a major fight between government forces and the population, fueled by the fact that Magneto (under X-Man’s influence) took … Continue reading

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X-Men Movies 10 – X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men Apocalypse. So this movie exists. 20th Century Fox announced X-Men Apocalypse in December of 2013, about half a year before Days of Future Past released. With a movie franchise this large that’s fairly normal these days, but back when … Continue reading

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Comics of August 23, plus next movie blogathon

It’s weird how even in a month where there are 5 Wednesdays, I’m picking up more comics on both week 4 and week 5 than I did week 1. I don’t know what’s going on with Marvel’s release schedule anymore. … Continue reading

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Extraordinary X-Men 12 review

From what I’ve heard, Uncanny X-Men’s Apocalypse Wars tie-in was pretty good. I know that All-New X-Men’s 3-issue arc did a great job exploring Apocalypse’s childhood in ways we haven’t seen before, while also giving Evan a lot to think … Continue reading

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All-New X-Men 11 review

With this issue out, the first of the Apocalypse Wars tie-ins (and ironically the last to begin) ends. Young Beast and Evan (Apocalypse’s heroic clone) are trapped in ancient Egypt. While Beast is captive by those working for Apocalypse’s father, … Continue reading

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Extraordinary X-Men 11 review

So there are three Apocalypse Wars tie-ins going on right now in the X-Men franchise. From what I’ve heard, Uncanny X-Men’s is really good, but I stopped reading it after issue 2 because Cullen Bunn’s writing wasn’t enough to offset … Continue reading

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X-Men movie rant

Well, I’m not in the greatest mood tonight. Long story short, I asked for this weekend off of work, and my boss forgot. This isn’t the first time he’s forgotten either. Also, I worked until 11 even though I’m not … Continue reading

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All-New X-Men 10 review

In the last issue, Young Beast’s time travel experiments ended up sending both himself and Evan back to Ancient Egypt. This is further proof that attempting time travel in the Marvel Universe is a bad idea, even if good stories … Continue reading

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