Category Archives: X-Men
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 8/29/20
Man, RIP Chadwick Boseman. That’s just…so tragic, so terrible. I’m no good at memorializing, so I guess let’s just get on with the comic book reviews…
This week, I read the likes of Hellions, X-Factor and Power Rangers! And the Comic Book of the Week: Legion of Super-Heroes #8. There were a lot of good comics this week, but the Legion issue had a fun art gimmick that makes it pretty special.
Meanwhile, I did not read Three Jokers. I don’t care about the Joker, and I think this retcon is dumb. Maybe when it’s all over, and I can read it all at once, I’ll check it out.
Comic Reviews: Hellions #3, Legion of Super-Heroes #8, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #53, X-Factor #2 and X-Men #11.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 8/22/20
Welcome to DC FanDome weekend! Or at least the first of them. I guess there’s a second one coming next month? We’ll see! At least we have some DC Comics this week…or at least one, Batman! We’ve also got more Power Rangers spin-offs and just a bit of Spider-Woman, maybe?
Comic Book of the Week goes to Thor #6, though I don’t really want to praise it as such. Still, it’s a big, momentous comic that looks gorgeous, so at least there’s that.
Meanwhile, I finished the novel Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis and it’s fine. I’m a huge Lindsay Ellis fan and love her work, but I don’t think her debut novel is anything special. It’s OK, with a fun, casual writing style. But nothing I can actively recommend unless you, like me, wanted to support her and needed something new to do in the pandemic.
Comic Reviews: Batman #97, Drakkon: New Dawn #1, Empyre: X-Men #4, Spider-Woman #3 and Thor #6.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 8/15/20
We’re back! Back again! More comic reviews! Because why not? It’s a mild day in the middle of August and we’ve only got a couple of comics to review this week, mostly X-Men books.
Comic Book of the Week goes to The Green Lantern: Season Two # 6 because it’s a fun comic and I wanted to shake things up a bit this week.
Meanwhile, I’ve decided to read the entirety of Robert Kirkman’s Invincible. The compendiums are at a price I can afford on Amazon and my birthday is coming up. So I’ll let you know how it all goes in a year or so!
Speaking of letting you know how things are, I also read the second volume of Green Lantern: Earth One this week and it was pretty fun! On par with the first volume. It’s a quality GL re-imagining.
Comic Reviews: Empyre: X-Men #3, The Green Lantern: Season Two #6 and Marauders #11.
Read the rest of this entryMultiple Man Exists to Be Slaughtered, Apparently
I consider myself the go-to spot on the internet for Multiple Man news. If there’s a better website, I haven’t seen it. I’m the go-to place to find out how Multiple Man is doing in the Dawn of X era of the X-Men franchise.
Turns out, he exists only to be slaughtered en masse.
I have been keeping a close eye on all of the Dawn of X comics in order to catch whenever and wherever Multiple Man shows up. Part of that is to try and solve the Multiple Man Mystery, as to whether or not this is the one true Jamie Madrox resurrected. The other part of that is he’s just my all-time favorite comic book character, and it’s nice to know he could show up and be in a story again. He was dead for a good, long while.
And now he just keeps getting killed again and again. Or at least his duplicates do. Of the few appearances Madrox has had in Dawn of X so far, he’s mostly had his duplicates slaughtered for one reason or another.
There was his first Dawn of X appearance in X-Force #4 where his dupes were killed.
And now this week has seen two appearances in two different comics! Multiple Man showed up in Empyre: X-Men #3, where it’s actually a story point that a bunch of his duplicates are killed.
And then a bunch more duplicates showed up in X-Force #11 to get gunned down.
Multiple Man just can’t catch a break. Thankfully, Madrox Prime has not been killed yet. He’s having his first starring role in Empyre: X-Men and all signs in that comic point to him being the real, true Madrox Prime. So that’s good. So I’m pretty pleased as a fan.
But who would have thought the cost of getting him back in comics would be watching his dupes hopelessly slaughtered over and over again?
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Avengers: Endgame Easter Egg Was Actually Pointing to this X-Men MCU Debut All Along!
You guys are not going to believe this! I’ve got here a scoop hot off my own brain that’s going to blow everybody’s minds! Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe pore over every tidbit and morsel to find some hint about what the future might hold — and I’ve discovered something that’s going to put every other fan theory and Easter Egg idea to shame! Because I am just that damn smart!
So OK, we all know that scene in Avengers: Endgame where Okoye mentions an “earthquake under the ocean” to Black Widow. Right? Everybody knows that scene!
Now, a lot of fools thought this was a hint towards Namor the Sub-Mariner. Because it’s underwater, obviously. But that’s nonsense. Namor can’t cause earthquakes. What were those people thinking?!
But I’ve figured it out! The greatest Easter Egg of all time! The first real, proper hint of the X-Men in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
Because who causes earthquakes? That’s right: Rictor!
Hello?! Isn’t it obvious? The first mutant ever mentioned in the MCU is going to be that random hanger-on from various X-Force and/or X-Factor comics! Because he causes earthquakes with his mutant powers! And They mentioned earthquakes!
So it must be Rictor! He’s probably going to be the first mutant to ever show up in an MCU movie. The fans are going to love him.
What else could cause that underwater earthquake that was so important it warranted a single line of dialogue in Avengers: Endgame? Are you going to try and tell me it was Avalanche instead of Rictor? Don’t be silly.
Clearly that single, innocuous line of dialogue was hinting towards Rictor and X-Force and mutants in the MCU. It’s so obvious.
There’s no way it was just a natural, undersea event meant to highlight Nat’s growing sense of uselessness. The only sensible meaning is Rictor.
Which obviously also means Shatterstar! You heard it here first folks: MCU Phase 5 will kick off with a Rictor and Shatterstar movie where they go on a journey under the sea!
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