Category Archives: Marvel

The Greatest Superhero Halloween Adventure of All Time!

Gather ’round, boys and ghouls, and let me tell you the tale of a spooky battle between good and evil that took place on a Halloween night, much like this one. No, it’s not Batman’s Long Halloween. It’s not even Hellboy vs. the Boogeyman. The greatest comic book Halloween adventure of all time is X-Men Unlimited #21 from the extra terrifying year 1998, when Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane and the Beast defeated an army of demons and saved a wedding with the help of a flaming toupee.

I kid you not. It is just as amazing as it sounds.

Any 90s era comic is pretty scary

For Halloween this year, I’m going to share with you my all-time favorite superhero Halloween story. You can keep your Batmen and Sandmen and Hellchildren, there isn’t anything better than a couple of B and C-list X-Men on a wacky adventure in a tertiary anthology comic! It’s got action, it’s got comedy, it’s got angst, and it’s got more nicknames for manly hairpieces than you can shake a witch’s broom at.

So join me after the jump – if you dare! Moohahahahaha!

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The X-Men Are Gonna Be Time-Traveling in Days of Future Past!

The first trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past has hit the web, and I’m…feeling kind of low key about it. It’s a rather somber affair, frankly.

I’m legitimately worried about Days of Future Past. It’s going to be stuffed to the gills with characters, many of them brand new, and it’s going to feature a complicated time travel plot. Neither one bodes well for a contained, uncomplicated film. But hey, it’s not like I’m no gonna see it. Also, Iceman is rocking a gnarly beard, so that’s something!

Pete Holmes is Going to Make a Habit of Firing X-Men

Fresh off the heels of firing Wolverine, comedian Pete Holmes is now firing Gambit!

This guy is good. I’m definitely going to have to give this The Pete Holmes Show a watch, if I can find it streaming online somewhere. And apparently there are more Ex-Men coming up! I hope he does Beast…or Iceman. Or Archangel!

Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 10/26/13

If you’re reading this, I’m probably neck-deep in Batman: Arkham Origins by this point. I’ll try to have a review and some lists up eventually, but right now, I’m knocking criminal heads together and hopefully kicking Penguin in the crotch! Fortunately, I still found the time to read some comics this week, and most of them are a hoot!

Both Battle of the Atom and Lights Out delivered solid issues this week, and a Justice League tie-in to Forever Evil was equally as strong. I’m pretty much enjoying all of these Big Event comics, though Battle of the Atom is still coming out on top. To try something new, I picked up Velvet #1 from the creative team of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting. I was…not impressed, but it’s still a fine comic from Image.

Winner of Comic Book of the Week, however, goes to Aquaman! Writer Geoff Johns delivers an origin for the Lost City of Atlantis, and it’s just as good as the rest of his Aquaman series. Go Aquaman!

Though if we’re talking Moment of the Week, that definitely goes to Jason Aaron’s latest chapter of Battle of the Atom. He’s almost as good as Bendis when it comes to writing these merry mutants.

Cyclops’ face is priceless!

Comic Reviews: Aquaman #24, FF #13, Justice League #24, Red Lanterns #24, Velvet #1 and Wolverine and the X-Men #37.

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Captain America, F*ck Yeah!

They did it with the first Captain America film, and now the Internet has done it with the second: clips from the new Cap 2 trailer set to the famous song ‘America, F*ck Yeah’ from Team America: World Police.

Things like this are why I love the collective, creative spirit of the Internet.