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X-Men Movies 3 – X2: X-Men United

Usually when I wrote these posts about Disney movies I’d seen before, I talked about my first time viewing it. Yet I didn’t do that with 2000’s X-Men. Why? Because I actually saw X2 first, and then watched X-Men after … Continue reading

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Avengers Academy retrospective

Part of my reading goal for the year is to read at least one major comic story arc or comic run every month, whether I’m writing fiction that month or not, and then write a blog post about it. This … Continue reading

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Avengers Academy 39 review

Avengers Academy has achieved what should have been impossible. It lasted 40 issues, even though it starred five completely original teenage characters ( Reptil was created for the Super Hero Squad TV show, but this was his first comic appearance … Continue reading

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Avengers Academy 35 review

This is probably the best comic I’ve read this week, and that includes my usual favourite Uncanny X-Force. This is part 2 of the Final Exam storyline, where Jeremy Briggs is threatening to depower all of Earth’s superheroes. The Academy … Continue reading

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Avengers Academy 34 review

Now that the Academy is closed and the direct AVX tie-ins are over, this series is again focusing on its core cast. Despite that this isn’t an AVX tie-in, Christos Gage makes several humerous jabs at the event anyway. After … Continue reading

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