A Pittsburgh man bought a Detective Comics #27 off a guy who found it in the attic. So basically, the guy is not only a nerd, but a rich nerd. So there’s that. But, like any story, good or bad, there’s some controversy around it. Another local comic store owner claims the same person tried…
You’ve probably seen this cover by now. And it’s coming … the X-Men are going to be disassembled! The very fabric of the mutant team will be shoved in another direction, with September 10 being the day we find out. Insert “never forget” joke. But this is literally nothing new. Marvel has disassembled the X-Men…
Warren Ellis seems like a decent enough guy. His WarrenEllis.com blog is really entertaining, and full of useless but awesome crap (random pictures, etc.). He’s got a niche fanbase that may not be the size of say, Grant Morrison or Neil Gaiman, but certainly warrants some golf applause. But here’s the thing. His writing is…
For months, Doom DeLuise has been trying to get me to post again. And again. Finally, after he had gone through the blog to correct some transfer troubles, he said to me tonight that I knew too much about X-Men not to post. And it’s true. After a break-up in 2003, I went through and…
For years, first X-Man Cyclops had been regarded as an orphan, entrusted to the care of Charles Xavier and never really having had a home. That is, until Uncanny X-Men #54 (then just called X-Men), where his long-lost brother Alex was revealed! And Alex was a mutant! We of course know him now as Havok,…
It’s been all over … well, basically Newsarama, but from there it’s disseminated into other message boards and outlets. Ed Brubaker, after X-Men: Deadly Genesis wraps up, will be jumping over to Uncanny X-Men. This is exciting news, considering his acclaimed run on Captain America and the fact that he isn’t Chuck Austen. Mike Carey,…
Many things agitate me. I’m just one of them types. But as far as my nerdery is concerned, nothing has irked me more than what I keep hearing about the Brett Ratner’s entry into the X-Men movie franchise. First it was the dismissal of Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler in favor of … Beast. The Kelsey…
There are certain things that should go unsaid. One of them is “I love Longshot.” But see below for an example of me violating this very protocol. But the other, more heinous, one is “somewhere I have the Nick Fury movie starring David Hasselhoff recorded off TV.” My skin crawls at the very thought that…
I’m tired of it all, kids. Amongst the multitudes of X-Men jibber-jabber and ballyhoo about Wolverine and Gambit (blech!), there’s always the characters that get pushed by the wayside. If I mention to anyone that Cyclops is my favorite X-Man, I get 1) blank stares (mostly from non-comic readers) or 2) guffaws (mostly from mouth-breathing…