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  • The All Time Greatest One Shot Comics: X-Men #205!

    Over the years we all have enjoyed and sometimes hated the giant “epic” multi title crossovers and mini-series that are so damn popular these days. However some of my personal favorite comic book stories are short and sweet. They often times have nothing to do with the major story arc you’re currently reading in that…

  • Comic Cover of the Week: Bill & The New Mutants!

    Damn was The New Mutants was an awesome comic book of the 80’s and one of the things that adds immensely to it’s street cred were the amazing covers that Bill Sienkiewicz produced. Here picture is one of many stunning pieces of artwork that graced the series covers. Most of his artwork on The New…

  • Comic book Cover of the Week: Classic X-Men!!

    I was such a big X-men fanatic back in the 1980’s! Lets face it they were the most unique super team ever way back then. The only problem was that the comic book was so hot at the time that all of the classic issues featuring the second team were expensive as hell! So as…

  • Comic Book Cover of the Week: Back Before The X-Men Sold Out…

    There was a time back in the 1980’s that the X-men were the coolest thing in the entire world! They were like mutant misfit punk rockers and and growing up they were the unique team that you felt you were part of. Today the X-men are fuckin’ corporate whores with like a dozen different titles,…

  • The Death of Wolverine #4: Final Verdict!!

    Just got done reading the Death of Wolverine #4, the final nail in the coffin for Logan! Now we all know that Wolverine will only be “dead” for maybe a year or two tops. Same cookie cutter superhero death formula as always, a big comic book hubub, news stories, a bunch of comic books that…

  • X-men: Days of Future Past – The Best Comic Book Flick Ever?!

    I was beginning to lose hope this year for the summer blockbusters, after two big duds being The Amazing Spider-man 2 & Godzilla I was quite certain things weren’t going to shape up to much of anything memorable for the rest of the season. However, I was proven quite wrong as I’ve come to believe…

  • The Perfect Wolverine Movie……ALMOST!!!

    I just had to give my two cents worth on this weekend’s big hit “The Wolverine” since I totally trashed, heavily here, many times, the god damn awful X-men Origins: Wolverine any chance I could get in the past! So “The Wolverine” was something I was completely ready to hate, however before the movie started…

  • ‘The Wolverine’ Trailer: Did They Finally Get it Right?

    I won’t lie, I’ve been looking forward to finally seeing the trailer for ‘The Wolverine’ for quite some time now. The wait is over, we finally got to see a glimpse of what we’re in store for this summer. As you may know I loathed X-men Origins: Wolverine with a passion. I still have a…

  • Comic Book Cover of the Week! Don’t Leave Your Kids With Wolverine!

    Ahhhh the X-men of the 1980’s…..it just doesn’t get any better than that. Which brings me to my pick for comic book cover of the week X-men #195 drawn by Bill Seinkeiwicz. Just knowing Bill did this cover is a no brainer that’s it’s gonna totally rule. This issue features the X-men trying to save…

  • The Silver Samurai Cast for “The Wolverine”!

    I hope that my faith can be restored in Hugh Jackman’s next appearance in the upcoming Wolverine movie expected to be delivered next summer. I have serious doubts and I have even went as far to suggest that they completely reboot the Wolverine movie franchise. However it seems the wheels are turning quite quickly now…