https://youtu.be/LzvqI1MBMo8 Below you'll find the text-based review: The flagship title of the X-Men has dropped any pithy adjective. No more "Uncanny" for our mutant protagonists as they move away from protecting a world that fears them. That's a decidedly secondary objective now; with Jonathan Hickman's relaunch of the series, everything's changed. This first volume of... Continue Reading →
The first volume of Benjamin Percy's Wolverine has me more excited about the violent midget ninja than any X-Book has for close to a decade. Not Death of Wolverine, not Hunt of Wolverine or Return of Wolverine or Prom of Wolverine 2: Stabby Boogaloo. But enough jokes; at the heart of this first volume is... Continue Reading →
Hullo, everyone! It has been a while, hasn't it? Apologies for that, I have been busy with work and my master's in literature. The blog has had to take a backseat these past couple of months but after a lovely two-week break, I feel in just the right mood to create a MASTERPLAN for The... Continue Reading →
Time travel is the status quo when it comes to comic books, but the X-Men are on a whole other level. The team's roster is filled with mutants from past, alternate and future timelines; it's a hot mess of clones, identical-but-different individuals from identical-but-different worlds ruled by Apocalypse, or by Sentinels, and even occasionally by Magneto.... Continue Reading →
Sundays are for...taking the reins of the Dwarven faction in Warhammer: Total War, and breaking Orkish skulls with...well, warhammers. Obviously. Sundays are also for discussing the sinister, the apocalyptic, the downright vile villains of the X-Men comic books! Now that I've used my three-pun limit for the day, we can dispense with the pleasantries and get down... Continue Reading →
Sundays are for--What do you mean, they're not for poking fun at everyone's favorite team of mutant misfits, the X-Men? Of Course They Are! Today's focus is -- you guessed it! -- set on one of my most favorite X-Women, Kitty Pryde. Kitty Pryde, aka Spryte, aka Shadowcat, aka about fifty other code names: This one,... Continue Reading →
Sundays are for...struggling with the morality of questionable characters who occasionally take part in the X-Men roster! Bit of a stretch? Oh, well. Let's start it off with my most favorite character in comic books, drum roll, please... Max Eisenhardt aka Erik Magnus Lensherr aka MAGNETO, MASTER OF MAGNETISM: Absolute madman, whose POWERS OVER MAGNETISM™ can allow him... Continue Reading →
There are many whom the world dubs heroes. Men of courage and of passion, and of such strength as never would you imagine! But there are unsung heroes, men remembered by no one. These men? Hermits hidden in forests, gathering herbs, picking mushrooms! Look closer at the Forest of Whispers, now! Look and you will... Continue Reading →
Sundays are for...defining comic book characters in a single ridiculous sentence! It seems only right to start off this incredible, mind-blowing series with the original five X-Men! But what kind of a monster would I be if I didn't start off with the most overused and well- known Canadian runt in the entire multiverse?! James Howlett, aka... Continue Reading →
The Grimoire Reliquary 