Ultimate Spider-Man #1 review

Peter Parker has a pretty good life Certainly the recent loss of his Aunt May in terror attack was a blow, but he does have… … Uncle Ben? At home, he’s loved by wife Mary Jane and kids Richard and May. At work, the Daily Bugle Old Guard is being forced out. Dark days are […]

G.O.D.S. #1 review

G.O.D.S. it’s long Oh, you want more? Well, the first issue of Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s new Marvel series is pretty entertaining, certainly more to my taste than most Hickman-led books. For one thing, the comic story isn’t constantly interrrupted by dull infographics. For two, we meet an engaging new lead character. Sure, he […]

New Mutants #1 review

The second generation of students from Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters are back. Anyone dead has been reborn, members who have been away are back with the ‘family’. Karma, Sunspot, Cypher, Wolfsbane, Mirage, Magick… they’re all on the new mutant ‘paradise’ of Krakoa and having a wonderful time. In fact, it’s not just the class […]

X-Men #1 review

Cyclops. Storm. Nightcrawler. Wolverine. Colossus. Children of the atom, students of Charles Xavier. MUTANTS – feared and hated by the world they have sworn to protect. They are the strangest heroes of all. So ran the legend that opened Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men back in the glory days of Claremont, Cockrum and Byrne. It’s time to […]

House of X #2 review

Wow. Things just got very interesting in the latest X-Men revamp. Last week’s Powers of X #1 featured a page Marvel have been calling ‘the most important scene in the history of the X-Men’. Big words, but you know what? Writer Jonathan Hickman really has given us a massive game-changer. While not the full ‘everything […]

Powers of X #1 review

Ten years ago, as his dream of a peaceful coexistence for mutants and humans is forming, Charles Xavier meets a young woman. Today, on the new mutant refuge of Genosha, Mystique bargains with Charles Xavier and Magneto over a memory stick. A hundred years from now, mutants and humans are at war. And after a […]

House of X #1 review

It’s the dawn of a new age for mutants. A new relationship with humankind is on the horizon. And at the centre of it, three new drugs Charles Xavier is offering the world. A drug that extends human life by five years, a super-antibiotic and a protection against dementia. And all that world leaders have […]