Credits: Written by Fabian Nicieza, pencilled by Andy Kubert, inked by Mark Pennington and edited by Bob Harras. Notes: In the infirmary at his home, Charles Xavier is dying and Dr Henry 'the Beast' McCoy and Dr Moira MacTaggart are struggling to be hopeful. Present with them are Val Cooper (X-Factor liaison to the US … Continue reading Part 3: X-Men 14 – The issue where everyone catches up on their messages.
Credits: Plotted by Howard Mackie, scripted by Todd DeZago, pencilled by Gil Kane, inked by Tom Palmer and edited by Bob Budiansky. Plot: Ben 'Scarlet Spider' Reilly starts the issue by dropping Seward at the hospital where it's determined that he's physically fine, but there almost no brain activity. Given the unusual circumstances the police … Continue reading Scarlet Spider 1: Well it was nice Gil Kane was still getting work
Credits: Written by Peter David, pencils by Jae Lee, inked by Al Milgrom and edited by Kelly Corvese. Plot: Charles Xavier has been shot and is being rushed into surgery, already at the hospital are the members of X-Factor (Havok, Polaris, Quicksilver, Wolfsbane and Multiple Man ) because of a Genoshan mutant who was beaten … Continue reading Part 2: X-Factor 84 – I don’t think these writers were talking to each other.
Credits: Story by Tom DeFalco, script by Mike Lackey, pencils by Mark Bagley, inks by Larry Mahlstedtand edited by Bob Budiansky. Plot: At a satellite base operated by Doctor Octopus II, men working for Jason Tso attack and are able to steal the VR visor, though Doc Ock II's men get it back. Far above … Continue reading Amazing Scarlet Spider 1 – Damn 90’s VR was savage.
Credits: Written by Scott Lobdell, pencilled by Brandon Peterson, inked by Terry Austin and edited by Bob Harras. Plot: Central Park is hosting a world harmony concert. As one of the guests Lila Cheney is able to invite Charles Xavier to speak to the crowd to help further his goals of human/mutant co-existence. Warren 'Archangel' … Continue reading Part 1 Uncanny X-Men 294: It’s a little suspect when the assassin name-checks himself isn’t it?
Credits: Plotted by Tom DeFalco, scripted by Todd DeZago, pencilled by Paris Karounos and edited by Eric Fein. Cast: Going to knock this on the head, it'll make sense later. Plot: After Ben Reilly (as the Scarlet Spider) breaks up a mugging, hearing a comparison to Spider-Man. After the bad gays are either stung, or … Continue reading Web of Scarlet Spider 1: I’ll be honest with you, this does not bode well.
When I started properly collecting X-Men comics, it was late 1991, just after Chris Claremont had been shown the door. It was a scant year before the Image exodus, so by the time I was heavily invested in this expanded X-line, X-Factor, X-Men, Uncanny X-Men and X-Force had lost their pencillers (it was the early … Continue reading Playing the opening bars: X-Cutioner’s Song prelude
The Age of Apocalypse ran from 27 December 1994's X-Men Alpha through to X-Men Omega released on 25 April 1995. The whole thing ran for 4 months, but in that time 40 comics were produced. For it's time it was a bold idea, cancelling, or at least pausing, 8 or 9 of your higher selling … Continue reading Age of Apocalypse: Well that went better than I expected
Credits: Written by Scott Lobdell with Fabian Nicieza, pencils by (Deep breath) Bryan Hitch, Jeff Matsuda, Gary Frank, Mike McKone, Terry Dodson, Ben Herrera and Paul Pelletier, inks by (deeper breath) Al Milgron, P Craig Russell, Cam Smith, Mark Farmer, Mark McKenna, Tom Palmer, Tim Townsend, Hecoor Collazao and edited By Bob Harras. Based on … Continue reading X-Men Prime: Maybe Bishop should be in therapy? Ever think of that?
The first phase of the clone saga went from Web of Spider-Man 117 to Spectacular Spider-Man 229 from 2 August 1994 to 21 September 1995. It covered dozens of issues and went across all the ongoing Spider-Man titles, with the exception of the Untold Tales title which started in 1995. I can in a way … Continue reading The Clone Saga – Part 1, how did we do?
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