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IDW Publishing Announces Jim Lee’s X-Men Artist’s Edition
If you’ve never owned or even flipped through an IDW Artist’s Edition, let me tell you, there’s no better way to go deep into an artist’s creative work. It’s like holding their portfolios in your...
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From the Avengers To Spider-Man, Discover Marvel’s Family-Friendly Digital Reads
Looking for thrilling comic book adventures that the whole family can enjoy? The Marvel Digital Comics Shop has you covered with the MARVEL FAMILY READING SALE! Now through 4/26 11PM ET, get 67% off...
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Heroes & Villains: The Flash x 2, Marauders
This week has a rather robust comics release schedule when compared to the previous week and I, for one, am pretty stoked about it. My LCS is currently doing curbside service in addition to appointment...
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X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills Extended Cut #1 Adds New Content To A Classic Story
There were many new Marvel books that hit shelves this past week, but for me, the one that really feels of the moment we’re in is nearly forty years old. X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills Extended Cut #1...
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Heroes & Villains: Bad Mother, Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto + More
As I write this, there’s a man in my courtyard taking what can only be described as a “heroic pull” off of his 40 ounce beer. I do not begrudge this man for doing so for he is free. Also, given the...
View ArticleWatch The First Two Minutes Of The New Mutants
The New Mutants panel from Comic-Con @Home had an added bonus to go with appearances from the cast and director Josh Boone. Along with a pop-by from legendary New Mutants artist Bill Sienkiewicz, the...
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Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling + Empyre: X-Men Stand On Their Own
Things in the Marvel Universe are big right now, thanks to the the publishers massive Empyre blockbuster storyline putting the combined forces of the Avengers and Fantastic Four with the newly unified...
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Heroes & Villains: Dark Nights: Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights + More
It’s currently 64 degrees Fahrenheit where I live and there is a small but dedicated group of psychopaths using the community pool adjacent to where I live. In their defence, I suppose, Michiganders...
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Marauders #11 Reminds Us Why We Love Kitty Pryde
Here’s a confession: From the moment I met her in Uncanny X-Men #196, I’ve always had a crush on Kitty Pryde. At the time, I was probably 7 years old and she was just the coolest character. She could...
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Figure Friday: Bigger Is Better Can Make You Broke
After last Figure Friday’s action figure explosion, I managed to (mostly) keep it in my pants and NOT purchase anything new for “review purposes.” Also, I’m totally not trying to fill an unfillable...
View ArticleThe New Mutants Delivers Stellar Performances While Honouring Its Source...
The New Mutants is good. I liked it, a lot. That’s what you wanted to know, I’m guessing. If a movie that’s been in movie purgatory for a long time is actually any good; if it’s worth your hard-earned...
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Old Man Hawkeye: The Complete Collection Is A Welcome Return To An Old Man World
When Steve McNiven and Mark Millar wrote Old Man Logan starting way back in June 2008, I highly doubt they could have anticipated the impact the story would have. The story, detailing the life of a...
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Hellions #4 Asks Questions About What Makes A Goblin Queen
Do you remember how awesome the Inferno storyline was back in the late 80s? I sure do. I loved the demonic turn that X-Men, X-Factor, and the New Mutants took. As an 80s horror kid, it absolutely...
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Heroes & Villains – X of Swords: Creation #1 + Househunting
I assume that next to getting audited by the IRS or getting divorced, buying a house has to be one of the most stressful endeavors one can undertake as an adult. Since I’m either in my first (or...
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Figure Friday: Marvel Legends Wolverine, Beast Wars
It’s the first Figure Friday of October and had I been even vaguely aware of the passage of time I would have prepared something scary to mark the beginning of the season. The only thing remotely...
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In The X Of Swords Crossover, Marauder #13 Manages To Stand Out
The big event series of Fall 2020 for Marvel is the X-Men X of Swords crossover. Spearheaded be Head of X Jonathan Hickman, X of Swords veers into the fantastical as 10 champions from the island...
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Hellions, New Mutants, and Cable Put Character Development At Their Core
Last week I talked about the X of Swords crossover running through all the current X-Men books and my own hesitancy with the series as whole. It’s largely fantasy based (in my opinion, at least), and...
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X of Swords: Stasis #1 Is The Calm Before The Storm
I genuinely love it when I get my mind changed when it comes to pop culture. We all form our opinions about the books we read or the movies we watch, and it’s hard to love everything. That was the...
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Figure Friday: Transformers R.E.D., Exclusive Logan + More
I wish I could say I had a spooooky Figure Friday for you since it’s the 13th and all, but the only truly scary thing is my credit card statement after I had a ton of preorders come in. Preordering...
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‘X Of Swords’ Is A Worthy Entry Into The Massive Realm Of Epic X-Men Stories
The X-Men have always been made for high stakes drama. Since Chris Claremont and John Byrne delivered ‘The Dark Phoenix Saga’ back in the early ‘80s, the best X-stories have always been ones that run...
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Seeing Your Favourite Marvel Heroes At Home Makes Lockdown A Little Brighter
Unless you’re a front line worker (and if you’re reading this and you are one, thank you for doing what you do), you’ve probably been stuck at home. A lot. Like, 9 months now, for the most part. It’s...
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The Legacy Of ‘Avengers vs X-Men’ Finds Its Way Into Two Current Stories
Do you remember the Avengers vs X-Men crossover from way back in 2012? I sure do – I really, really enjoyed it. There’s something about putting those two teams at each others throats that often leads...
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Last Chance To Vote For A New Member Of The X-Men
As a longtime X-Men fan, and one who feels significantly invested in the current X-stories under the guidance of Jonathan Hickman, I absolutely LOVE that I have a chance to determine the final member...
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Zeb Wells Masterminds ‘Hellions #9’ + Finding The Fun In Dan Slott’s...
I spend a lot of time reading comics, but there’s just not enough time in the day/week/year to keep up with everything. I do my best though, and over the past week I read some great Marvel books....
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X-Force #17 Is A Case Of Quentin Quire
There are a lot of X-titles currently being published. I mean, A LOT. Some may argue that there may be too many and too much of a good thing. If you read my Marvel columns regularly, you won’t be...
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X-Men Legends #1 Takes Us To An Untold Past
While things continue to move on all the Jonathan Hickman-led X-books, this past week saw the House of Ideas look back with a new series, X-Men: Legends. This book, currently written by longtime...
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Figure Friday: Marvel Legends X-Men, NECA’s Batarang, Monstarz’s Ghost Mini...
Another fortnight has passed and it’s once again time for Figure Friday. For this installment I’ve got some brand NEW stuff that’s just hitting the pegs right now. Let’s take a look. Marvel Legends...
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Get Religion in Si Spurrier and Bob Quinn’s ‘Way Of X’
Religion and mainstream comics seem and have often been strange bedfellows. Do any publishers really want to rock the boat when it comes to high-falutin’ discussions about God and the Devil and the...
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Spend May The 4th With ‘Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith’ + A Look at ‘The...
Happy May the 4th! Today is a great day to read some Star Wars comic books, which is what I wound up doing over the course of the weekend. ComiXology is having a massive Star Wars sale, including deep...
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From The House of Ideas: ‘X-Men’ #20 is a Stellar Standalone Issue
It’s been a few months since I last espoused the virtue’s of Jonathan Hickman’s work on the main X-Men title, but after reading X-Men #20 it was time to remedy that. Let’s start by saying that what...
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From the House of Ideas: The Hellfire Gala Begins
I don’t know about you, but now that I’m all vaxed up (Moderna for the win), I wouldn’t mind getting out and going to a party, and I don’t even like parties. I mean, it would depend on who’s having...
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From the House of Ideas: X-Men #21 keeps the Hellfire Gala going
It was only a few weeks ago that I was writing about the outstanding X-Men #20 from Jonathan Hickman, which found Mystique trying to take down Orchis in space. It was an outstanding book, and usually...
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From the House of Ideas: X-Factor #10 Ends the Series on a High Note
Who doesn’t love a good who dun it? Except maybe the person that dun it, right? Of the course of its ten issue run, the new X-Factor has focused on solving mutant murders; before resurrection can take...
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From the House of Ideas: X-Men #1 and Extreme Carnage: Alpha #1
Last week saw the arrival of two #1s that both delivered solid storytelling, managing to stand out amongst the many books I read. First up was X-Men #1, written by Gerry Duggan and illustrated by Pepe...
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From the House of Ideas: ‘The Trial of Magneto #1’ Shows the Cracks in the...
Back at the beginning of July I wrote about the end of Leah Williams’ entertaining X-Factor series, which ran for a solid ten issues and didn’t overstay its welcome. Williams and her team weren’t gone...
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31 Days of Horror 2021 Presents From the House of Ideas: “X-Men #4” Brings...
Sometimes, we deal with real, living nightmares – bad government, road closures, traffic. I think we can all relate to those, right? But what happens when a nightmare takes over a city? That’s the...
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From the House of Ideas: “Inferno #4” Ends Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men Run &...
The last few years have been genuinely exciting ones for X-Men readers; or at least, for this X-Men reader, since there’s always those grumblers out there on the interweb who will find something to...
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From the House of Ideas: The World of the X-Men Continues to be Unlimited
Growing up as a ’90s teen, my love affair with comics ebbed and flowed, and I while I can’t say when my interest really ebbed, I know that it seriously flowed back in 1995 with the Age of Apocalypse...
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From the House of Ideas: “Fall of the Mutants” Omnibses Collects A Classic...
Ahh, the superhero mega-event. The crossover, as one calls it. It’s been a part of comicdom for what seems like forever, but it’s really only been since the mid-80s, at least in the world of Marvel...
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From the House of Ideas: Immortal X-Men #5, X-Men Red #5, Amazing Spider-Man...
There have been a ton of Marvel releases over the last few weeks that I’m catching up on, so in this instalment of From the House of Ideas, I thought I’d call out a few that definitely caught my eye...
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From the House of Ideas: Enroll in School With “Bishop: War College #1”
As Black History Month continues, the House of Ideas has released a new #1 featuring Bishop, one of Marvel’s most enduring and enigmatic characters of colour. Over the past 30, as part of X-Men lore,...
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From the House of Ideas: “Sins of Sinister: Dominion” Delivers a Satisfying...
A few months back I wrote about the first issue of the new crossover series, Sins of Sinister. I was a big fan, and for the most part I enjoyed the 11 issue series, which concluded this past week with...
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From the House of Ideas: When Reading Feels Like a Chore
If you’ve been reading From the House of Ideas for a long time, or if you’ve read any of my work at Biff Bam Pop! over our nearly fifteen years, you might know that I don’t really like to write...
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From the House of Ideas: ‘X-Men: Before The Fall – The Sinister Four’ Delves...
If last week’s column was a bit of a downer about the current state of X-books, this time out I’m happy to give the nod to a one-off in the line that worked for me. Like X-Men: Before The Fall –...
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From the House of Ideas: Taschen Delivers A Definitive X-Men Experience
Maybe I should change the name of this column to From the House of Xavier, since the last few weeks have been focused on the recent X-Men books coming out of Marvel. Well, I’m going to make it three...
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From the House of Ideas: This Year’s ‘Hellfire Gala’ is Bereft of Ideas
Over the last few years Marvel’s Hellfire Gala has been the annual event where a new team of X-Men is chosen and lots of drama ensues. In tv terms, it’s almost like the beginning of a new season....
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From the House of Ideas: ‘X-Men #25’ Sets the Fall of X on the Right Track
Boy, did I love reading X-Men #25 this past week! If you’re a regular reader of From the House of Ideas, you know I was really not loving the lead-up and execution of the recent Fall of X, which...
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Figure Friday: Marvel Legends Starts the Celebration of 50 Years of Wolverine
Winter has finally arrived in my little corner of REDACTED, Michigan. It’s been punishingly cold for the last week which means I’ve been staying inside and NOT out braving the elements to hunt for...
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Quench Your Superhero Horror Thirst With ‘Blood Hunt #1’ On The Wednesday Run
The cold weather and miserably long season of late and dreary winter is finally turning. That means more time outside on sun-bathed patios, hot dogs at the ballpark and hipster-neighbourhood window...
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Review: Rediscovering Fun in Marvel Movies with “Deadpool & Wolverine”
Remember when Marvel movies were fun? It wasn’t that long ago, really. I’d say five years, with the release of Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home soon afterwards. And while Spider-Man: No...
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