New for Patrons: Classic X-Men #27!
Wolverine and Jean are attacked by a penis monster in a story dripping in innuendo.
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#ClassicXMen #Wolverine #JeanGrey #XMen #Xaminations
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One of the X-Men of the future pulls a Thunderbird! It's sort of not who you expect, largely because all the characters are still ciphers! But by the end, we've got our core cast! #XMen #XMen2099 #Xaminations
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Am I saying this story involving Rachel Summers in her "future priestess" mode & a random Trask sibling singlehandedly led to The Authority, Ultimates, "widescreen" comics & the MCU? No.
But I'm not NOT saying that...
#XMen #Xaminations
X-Men 2099 is out of the Patreon vault!
Check out my review of issue #2 - in which one character undergoes a secondary mutation before it was the cool thing to do - below & read reviews of the rest of the series now on Patreon! #XMen #Xaminations
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Over on my own website, I reviewed X-Men Unlimited #15, a Maverick-centric tale setting up his then-upcoming solo series.
Next up in X-aminations: Flashback Month begins with Uncanny X-Men #-1!
#XMen #Xaminations #UncannyXMen
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Then, I reviewed X-Men Unlimited #15 which, despite featuring an entirely different creative team, effectively functions like a 'soft open' to Maverick's later solo series.
I'm ready to not type "Maverick" for awhile. 😆
#XMen #Xaminations
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I fired off another X-aminations entry, reviewing X-Force and Cable '97 #1, a comic that is mostly Leo-pointing memes but which, grading on the curve of 1997 X-books, is a pleasant and enjoyable read. #XMen #Xaminations #XForce #Cable
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New X-aminations! Looking at Excalibur #110, in which Captain Britain quits again as the series continues to go through the motions of being a comic book which exists. #XMen #Excalibur #Xaminations #CaptainBritain
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ICYMI last week roundup!
I reviewed the 1997 X-Men annual as part of my #Xaminations series, featuring the return of Gamesmaster, some great Steve Epting art and a so-so story that is still one of the best Joseph stories. #XMen
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We all remember Gamesmaster, right? Well, he's back in X-Men Annual '97, which is also maybe the best Joseph story yet?
#Xaminations #xmen #XMenV2
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ICYMI weekly roundup!
Continuing my examination of every X-Men issue ever, I took a look at X-Force #67, the unofficial start of the book's celebrated "Road Trip" era. #XForce #Xaminations #XMen
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New X-amination! The Rob returns as Cable meets Shatterstar Captain America aka Prophet & Crypt aka Prophet's Stryfe! And a hard-nosed, gun-wielding Jack Kirby homage! Also, Kang is there!
It's Prophet/Cable #1-2! #XMen #Xaminations #Cable
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If you've never read it, here's my recap/review of it. #XMen #Xaminations #BizarreAdventures
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Cable meets his (psychically-resurrected by his horny alternate reality counterpart) mom for the first time in Cable #44, in the pleasantly low-key beginning of James Robinson's run on the book. #Xmen #Cable #Xaminations
Did you know: the Kree Supreme Intelligence returned after "Operation: Galactic Storm" in the Imperial Guard mini about the space bodyguards/Legion of Superhero-analogs trying to make it as superheroes on Earth?
Join me as the Miniseries Slog of 1997 continues! #Xmen #Xaminations
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Revisiting that time Lady Jaye showed up in Wolverine. 😉
#Xaminations #Xmen #Wolverine
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Pictured: how I felt reading the Sabretooth & Mystique limited series.
#XMen #XFactor #Sabretooth #Mystique #Xaminations
As plotlines plod along amidst another visually-exhausting issue, X-Factor #135 is the Platonic ideal of a Mackie/Matsuda issue of the series.
It's just not ideal by any other metric...
#XMen #XFactor #Xaminations
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Nate faces a difficult choice in X-Man #28, one made less captivating for readers because it involves Nate Grey and a D-list Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. #XMan #XMen #Xaminations
We did it y'all.
We reached the first appearance of Maggott.
#XMen #Xaminations #UncannyXMen #JoeMadueira
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The '97 fire hose of X-book content brings us Juggernaut #1, a visually-exhausting one-shot I can't imagine anyone was asking for and has no reason to exist, but exist it does! #Xmen #Xaminations
In a wild turn for what's been a Looney Tunes cartoon of a series, the central conflict in Deadpool #5 involves a quiet discussion of the morality of Deadpool's intended actions. Sadly, it's...not great. #Deadpool #Xaminations #XMen
New X-amination! Excalibur #109 is astonishing in the way it does everything it's supposed to do while actually doing so very little.
#Excalibur #XMen #Xaminations
Domino's inaugural miniseries introduces her sorta husband and her sorta real name; grading it on the curve of superfluous post-Onslaught #XMen miniseries, it's actually not bad! #Xaminations #Domino #XForce
Given the way this week's #UncannyXMen #9 is referencing it, it's worth a revisit of #NewMutants #2, an issue which, like the current one, is about introducing its young cast to the notion of anti-mutant sentiment in the form of fighting robots at the mall. #XMen #Xaminations
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X-Force chases Risque through Disney, uh, Wackyworld as Adam Pollina livens up a treading water story in X-Force #66! #XMen #XForce #Xaminations
In Generation X #27, Bastion tries to do a pseudo "Future Imperfect" on Jubilee and she tells him to shove it while Chris Bachalo draws some trips down memory lane. Featuring possibly the most egregiously incorrect footnote ever! #XMen #Xaminations
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Remember when Havok broke bad and formed his own Brotherhood of Evil Mutants? X-Man #27 really, really wants to convince you that he's absolutely a bad guy and will never, ever go back.😏
#XMen #Xaminations #NateGrey #Havok
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Which is larger: the number of X-Men who manage to defeat the Phalanx in Uncanny X-Men #344, or the number of inkers who worked on it?😛
#XMen #UncannyXMen #Xaminations
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