Tag: X-Men (Marvel NOW)

Graphic Bits Reviews: Mighty Avengers #1, Avengers #19, Infinity: The Hunt #1 and X-Men #5

Mighty Avengers #1

Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (11 September 2013) at the House of Ideas, yet another Avengers title is launched in Mighty Avengers #1, “Infinity” gets tied-into with Avengers #19 …

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Best Comics of 2013…so far

Best of 2013 - Behind the Panels

With so many comics coming out every month, it’s hard to know what to choose. Some of them we read because we love the characters, others because they are essential to the canon. Then there’s those handful of titles that stand out as the best of the best. This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive …

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Review: X-Men #1

X-Men #1 (Marvel NOW) - Artist: Olivier Coipel

Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel confidently deliver their take on an all-female X-Men team that reminds us of how good it can get. In the concluding notes to this debut issue, Brian Wood sums up the hype leading up to the rebooted X-Men. “The female only cast,” he comments, “was an attention grabber”. Which it really …

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Marvel previews Wood and Coipel’s X-Men #1

X-Men #1 (Marvel NOW) - Olivier Coipel

There is a lot of buzz around Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel’s reboot of X-Men for Marvel NOW! has been pretty intense, especially given that this marks an all female team as one of Marvel’s flagship X-Titles. We feel fairly confident that this team will pass the Bechdel test. Marvel has sent over the cover and …

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