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X-Men Panel: Generation Hope, Four Wolverine Titles and X-Men Team-ups Coming Soon

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:15:04 +0000

Over at Comic Alliance, new mutants are being touted.
Kieron Gillen is the writer on this series. November 2010, Gillen will be launching “Generation Hope,” a brand new series and the first showings of the new mutants.

Marvel’s X-Men panel also revealed that Wolverine is the new Deadpool. Four new Wolverine-related stories will be out this Autumn. Charlie Huston and Juan Rose Ryp are introducing new enemies into the mix with ”Wolverine: The Best There Is.” Wolverine will be up against a vicious enemy, so wait and see. The other three series are about Wolverine, his female clone, and his villainous son. Jason Aaron and Renato Guedes are also writing – Wolverine. Daniel Way will be writing on the Wolverine family in “Daken: Dark Wolverine” along with Giuseppe Camuncoli.

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Mutant Manifestation in X-Men: Legacy #238

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:59:08 +0000

Young X-Man Indra is called back to India by his family. Joined by Rogue and Magneto, the X-Men arrive to discover that not all is correct in Mumbai and not just due to the tensions with Indra’s parents. Earthquakes tear through the streets and energy flares cause planes to fall from the sky. Could this be a new mutant manifestation? Or is this something far more sinister?
The artwork looks fantastic, which is workth the buy in itself. Writer: Mike Carey. Art: Clay Mann, Jay Leisten, Brian Reber. Cover art: Leinil Francis Yu

Out July 21st 2010.

X men recommended reading.

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:46:58 +0000

The X men series has had its ups and downs over the years.
From 1963 to the mid 70’s with the X men multinational team to the opening of the door for comic movies in Hollywood on the plus side, while the 90’s saw readership drop mainly due to confusing time travel stories, but also most comics suffered in this era.

Over the noughties great storyline have been produced, mostly in the last few years.
The list is in no particular order, but if after reading, please dig into the back catalogue of the X-men.

Astonishing X-Men Volume 1: Gifted TPB
Wrote by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire) . John Cassiday (artwork).
A good way to catchup on the X-men and the aspects that have made the series great.

X-Men: Second Coming
A great story. Xmen die , Xmen leave the outfit. Basically, a great conclusion story and massive battle. If you buy just one, buy this one.

X-Men: Deadly Genesis TPB: 1 (X-Men (Marvel Paperback))
Professor X has a secret, a dark secret which comes back to haunt him and his student. Characters die, new characters are brought in and new villains rise, one shapes up to be one of the baddest in X-Men history.

House Of M TPB
The Avengers and the X-Men are faced with a common foe that becomes their greatest threat: Wanda Maximoff! The Scarlet Witch is out of control, and the fate of the entire world is in her hands. A great read.

X-Men: Messiah Complex TPB
The 1st part of one of the greatest X men tales.
‘Easily the best X-Men crossover in over a decade.’ – IGN.com In the aftermath of HOUSE OF M, DECIMATION and ENDANGERED SPECIES, the future of mutants has never been bleaker.

X-Force/Cable: Messiah War TPB
The sequel to 2007’s Messiah CompleX Cyclops has complete faith that his son, Cable, who will do everything he can to protect the mutant messiah who he believes will save mutantkind. But he also knows what havoc former X-Man Lucas Bishop has wreaked in the nightmarish future. Another bit of time travel, but this time the story can be followed!
A great read.

X-Men: Nation X HC (Uncanny X-Men: Nation X)
The X-men trying to build a home for themselves, Magneto returns, but is he friend or foe?

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Guinness Book Awards X-Men #1 Highest Selling Comic

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:09:11 +0000

At the 2010 Comic Con, The Guinness Book of Records awarded Marvel Comics X-Men #1 the award for the Highest Selling Single Comic Book.

The award was accepted by X-Men writer Chris Claremont and Marvel Publishing, Jim Sokolowski.

“This is a great achievement for Marvel. I’m very glad to have been a part of the creative team behind these beloved characters…” said Claremont.* Adding “…of course if you’d like to read how I would have actually finished that series you could go buy X-Men Forever... on sale now!”

One up for the quality X-men writing.

Seth Rogen: Green Hornet, speak of X men movie importance.

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:00:30 +0000

Seth Rogen, in an LA Times peice talks mainly about his uphill battle to get the Green Hornet into production.
(The Hornet was featured in movie serials in 1940 and 1941 but never really made much impact as a comic-book character. MOstly, featured on radio, not in print, according to the LA Times.)
He states how other superhero movies have flown off the shelves, but mainly the bit on his meeting with Fox and X men: First Class:

“I had a meeting with Fox the other day and they have all of the ‘X-Men: First Class’ stuff up on the wall,” Rogen said of the Marvel Comics adaptation, which didn’t even have a director until May but is now being fast-tracked for release next summer. “Look at the way that movie is happening. It could have the worst script in the world, the worst director in the world — not that it does, but it could have those things — and there’s no way the movie isn’t going to get made. Our movie was not like that.”

Comic-Con: via TVGuide.com

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:47:23 +0000

If you didn’t have the chance to pop down to the Comic Con convention, especially if you are UK based, tvguide.com can keep you up to date.
Please see the listings below or check out the main tvguide.com website for further details.
See if there is evidence of traces of xmen movies in the set.

THURSDAY:

1 p.m.: Burn Notice

2:15 p.m.: White Collar

3:30 p.m.: Psych; Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams

3:45 p.m.: Quantum Leap

4:45 p.m.: Showtime’s Anti-Heroes

6 p.m.: Dexter

FRIDAY:

10:15 a.m.: Hawaii Five-0

10:30 a.m.: Stargate Universe

11:30 a.m.: Caprica; The Walking Dead

12:45 p.m.: The Big Bang Theory

2 p.m.: Bones

2:15 p.m.: The Cape

3:15 p.m.: Spartacus: Blood and Sand

4:45 p.m.: Falling Skies

5:15 p.m.: True Blood

6:00 p.m.: Archer

6:30 p.m.: The 2010 Hotlist

SATURDAY:

10 a.m.: Chuck

11:15 a.m.: The Event

11:45 a.m.: The Cleveland Show

12:45 p.m.: Futurama

1 p.m.: Sanctuary

1:30 p.m.: The Simpsons

2:30 p.m.: V

3 p.m.: Community

3:15 p.m.: Fringe; No Ordinary Family

3:30 p.m.: Warehouse 13/Eureka

4:30 p.m.: The Vampire Diaries

5:15 p.m.: Nikita

SUNDAY:

10 a.m.: Smallville

10:30 a.m. Castle

1 p.m.: Unnatural History

1:30 p.m.: Glee

2:45 p.m.: Sons of Anarchy/It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Frank Tieri to write Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:31:12 +0000

According to siliconera.com, Frank Tieri has been announced to write the story for Marvel Vs. Capcom 3.
Not the most well known of writers, but he has had a large hand in writing for lots of Marvel characters along with Wolverine, so is a good fit to write on this project.

“For Marvel it’s Wolverine and Deadpool, without a doubt,” Tieri reveals. “Wolverine because he’s maybe my all time favourite character and he’ll always has a special place in my heart because he’s really the character that launched my career (plus I can probably write his dialogue in my sleep). And Deadpool because he’s just so damned fun to write for—I really think he’s going to be the game’s break out character.”

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Comic Con – First stop for the press?

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:17:52 +0000

Comic Con seems to be underway and from reports from avclub.com, a vital place to get public feedback on big releases. Avatar was first shown there, as was The first showings of Lost.
However, it doesn’t mean the event has degraded into a PR show. It seems from accounts that the event is as full as always of the wierd and wonderful from the comic universe!
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Jennifer Lawrence Talks X-Men: First Class

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:49:19 +0000

ON screenrant, Jennifer Lawrence talks about her intial thoughts on her casting as Mystique.

Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) says she was somewhat a ‘blank slate’ when it came to the character Mystique along the X-men as a whole.

Lawrence has proved her acting chops in recent indie film Winter’s Bone popular at Sundance Film Festival and looks like she is looking forward to X-men: First class.

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New Details About X-Men: First Class

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:37:02 +0000

From ‘The Playlist’ comes new information on X-Men: First Class movie. The information comes from an old draft of the movie, probably written by Jamie Moss. The script has been re-written a few times including a recent draft Jane Goldman.

The information so far:
- Magneto (Eric Lensherr played by Michael Fassbender) and Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) travel around saving mutant types. As mutant awareness grows in the public, the more the government tries to surpress mutants.
- The Xavier school is built.
- There is a love triangle between Eric, Charles and Emma Frost ( Alice Eve). Playlist don’t know exactly, but presume this is one of the factors that pulls Xavier and Lensherr apart.
- Xavier and Lensherr are also pulled apart due to their differnces in training mutants.
- We see the transformation of Hank McCoy, from the regular Beast (Nicholas Hoult) to the blue beast – (Kelsey Grammer)
- The script features Cyclops (some key mutants may be missing).
- Apparently some shooting has taken place, but it may just be test footage.

The film also stars Kevin Bacon as the film’s main villain, Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) as Mystique, Lucas Till as Havoc and Caleb Landry Jones (NBC’s “Friday Night Lights”) as Banshee. Cyclops, Angel, Ice-Man and Jean Grey haven’t been announced yet.

The film comes out on June 3, 2011

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