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Bryan Hill Creates a Team of Wayward Mutant Souls in Fallen Angels #1

After the events of X-Force #1 (which will be seriously felt for some time, in all titles, it seems), Krakoa is on lockdown. But what happens when Kwannon—the mutant that Betsy Braddock once inhabited—has a […]

November 17, 2019
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New Mutants #1: Beautiful Art Sometimes Clashes with a Great Script from Hickman and Brisson

Well, we’re at book five of six of the Dawn of X era, and again we’re going back to a classic title. New Mutants was a runaway hit when Claremont started it back in the […]

November 17, 2019
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X-Force #1 is as Brutal as Benjamin Percy Promised—If You Read Closely. (Spoiler Review)

“Bad things happen in the book.” That’s how writer Benjamin Percy described X-Force during the Dawn of X panel in October’s New York Comic-Con. His gruff voice and declaration that this would be the harshest […]

November 13, 2019
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Tini Howard Brings Magic and Apocalypse to the Dawn of X in Excalibur #1

After Jonathan Hickman’s wonderful X-Men #1 kicked off the Dawn of X, we got a brilliant new series with Marauders #1, from Gerry Duggan. In week 3 of the new era of X-Men, we go […]

November 10, 2019
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Cloak And Dagger Canceled By Freeform After 2 Seasons

With so many new Disney+ Marvel shows, it surprises us when one ends without warning. Cloak and Dagger, the Freeform series based on Marvel Comics characters of the same name, has been canceled. The series […]

October 25, 2019
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Kitty Pryde creates a Pirate X-Men Team in Marauders #1 (SPOILERS)

Since July, Jonathan Hickman was the only person writing an X-Men title. But now that we’re in Dawn of X, we’re getting a first wave of six titles—and Hickman can’t write them all. Today, we […]

October 24, 2019
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Robert Pattinson’s Batman Voice Has a Very Unlikely Inspiration

In an interview with Access Hollywood, Robert Pattinson talked about one of the most important aspects of playing Batman: the voice. Michael Keaton based his Batman voice on Clint Eastwood and a grizzly bear. Bale […]

October 23, 2019
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Iron Man 2020 Will Launch a New Wave of Armored Comics

With the launch of Dan Slott’s Iron Man 2020 event in January, we’ll get some mini-series tie-ins. Some of these titles will feature new characters we already love, such as Rescue and Ironheart. But we’ll […]

October 23, 2019
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The Batman Finds Its Song with Marvel Composer Michael Giacchino

You may not know his name immediately, but you love Michael Giacchino. He’s scored some of your favorite movies, like Up (which he won an Oscar for), Super 8, the Star Trek reboot, Dawn of […]

October 20, 2019
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