I’ll qualify this by saying that I own every X-men comic book from #129, the beginning of the Dark Phoenix Saga, to the present.  I like to think that i am an expert on the X-men.  I am geek-certified.  That being said, let’s get to it. I remember the good old days.  The days when there was a single team.  A coherent team.  Though the members changed over the years, the book always focused on a [...]

I’ll admit it.  I love Marvel’s cosmic Universe. The Infinity Gauntlet was one of the best comic book stories EVER.  I loved Annihilation, and I enjoyed Annihilation Conquest, and I enjoyed most of the limited series that accompanied these events. And I love the Inhumans.  The Inhuman Maxi-series from several years ago by Jenkins and Lee was as good as Infinity Gauntlet (though for different reasons) So there should be no surprise that I loved War [...]

I hate time travel.  I hate time travel stories, even the good ones (like the current X-factor story).  Thinking about the ramifications hurt my head, even when it is futuretime traveling.  There is just no need for it.  Unfortunately, the two characters most concerned with the last mutant born, Hope, are time hoppers: Cable and Bishop. Both chacaretrs were great when first introduced in the 90′s, and both should have been killed off long ago [...]

I was inspired earlier today by a Twitter post to explore Marvel’s latest “crossover”, Dark Reign. Now, this is not your ordinary crossover because it is not focused on a single event, as World War Hulk or Civil War or Secret Invasion.  While these events did have ramifications on the Marvel Universe, they were singel events set within the framework of the Marvel Universe. Dark Reign IS the Marvel Universe.  It is the status quo [...]

  I generally don’t like alternate reality stories or future stories because I enjoy continuity.  That’s one reason I never really enjoyed DC books- it seems like the editors there are blowing up and re-creating their universe every couple of years to undo damage they did. That being said, Old Man Logan is one of the best Wolverine stories I have read in a while (not including the Mystique story, which I enjoyed immensely).  The story [...]