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X Deaths and X Lives of Wolverine Are Digging Into the Messy Aftermath of Inferno
The ending of Inferno — Jonathan Hickman’s farewell to direct writing involvement in the Krakoan age of X-Books — upended the secret status quo of the way the sovereign nation of Krakoa was governed by, well… making it not so secret. You might have thought the books might take a little break from all the…
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The X-Men’s Comics Lineup Just Got Even Cooler
Since House of X hit in 2019, Marvel’s mutants have had a real good run of comics, both long running and short-lived. Jonathan Hickman may now be out after the recent Inferno miniseries, but his Krakoa status quo is still very much in, and a new pair of comics are going to spin out of…
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Inferno Has Burned a Shocking Path to the X-Men’s New Destiny
Charles Xavier, Magneto, and Moira MacTaggert’s dream for mutant civilisation in this reborn era of ascendance has always been predicated on something of a lie — a hopeful lie, perhaps a naïve one, but a powerful lie nonetheless. It’s been a lie well maintained ever since Powers and House of X revealed it to the…
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We Are Exhausted, We Are the ’90s X-Men Cartoon’s Jean Grey
Beloved as Marvel’s animated X-Men cartoon from the 1990s continues to be, we’ve long since looked back on the classic series and recognised how, in the grand scheme of things, traditionally powerful characters like Storm, Rogue, and Jean Grey were done few favours in terms of depicting them at the top of their games. Jean,…