X-Babies: Chabot Goes Chibi
When I first came across X-Babies I have to admit I was drawn in by the ever so cute covers by Skottie Young, but with X-Babies #3 I’m realizing that the best part of the book is actually the interior...
View ArticleX-Force Annual #1: Page Turning Power
Shunk! Blam! Whudd! Kroom! Fwump! Don’t tell me the story, show me the story is a truism that is given to film scriptwriters, but it also applies to comic books — and X-Force Annual #1 illustrates...
View ArticleDoes X-Men: First Class Have Any Class?
Having managed to run the most popular X-Men characters into the ground in a mere four films (“mere” given the sheer volume of characters to make use of), Fox’s X-Men: First Class is starting to look...
View ArticleX-Men: First Class Set Photos Give Me Hope
I really want to like X-Men: First Class, but past news about the film had me worried that it would meet even my lowest expectations. A badly-photoshopped and unauthorized pic of the film’s cast in...
View ArticleX-Men: First Class Trailer is Magnetic
Finally, the first trailer for X-Men: First Class has been released. Apparently filming is still ongoing, or was up until recently, even though the film has a release date of just four months from...
View ArticleX-Men Anime Gets a Teaser Trailer
Seems like we’re seeing lots more anime adaptations of quintessentially American IPs, like Supernatural, coming out of Japan these days, and a lot of them are through the animation studio Madhouse....
View ArticleWas X-Men the Animated Series Really That Bad?
Like many of you, I had some fond memories of the X-Men animated series which aired on Fox during the mid-’90s. It wasn’t nearly as good as Batman: the Animated Series, but at the time there really...
View ArticleX-Men: First Class Getting Good Grades
There were several reasons to worry about the latest entry into the X-Men film franchise, X-Men: First Class. You could worry about the film being fast-tracked and barely having its filming done in...
View ArticleX-Men First Class: Better Than Expected
I’m going to give you a rough review of X-Men: First Class, but before I do that I’m going to give you the highlights: 1. It’s better than it looks. 2. That’s mostly not due to special effects. 3....
View ArticleBatman Deliverance: Not What It Sounds Like
No, no– it’s not about Batman raping hicks. Or hicks raping Batman. It’s a French fan-made film about a Batman getting on in his years but still suiting up for one last fight…against Wolverine. Yeah....
View ArticleMagneto Sings to His Own ‘Little Monsters’
Ever since I saw Lady Gaga’s “horns” — an addition she made for the release of her single “Born This Way” — I’ve thought that she would make for a pretty good character in X-Men. The question is just...
View ArticleTreks and X Now on Flix
If you’re a Star Trek fan, then chances are good that you’ve been waiting for this day for what seems like an eternity. But the moment is here: just in time for the long holiday weekend, you can catch...
View ArticleMichael Fassbender is: Dragneto
I saw and thoroughly enjoyed Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class this summer, with James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender as Xavier and Magneto (respectively) proving highlights of the experience. But,...
View ArticleThese Fashions Have a Little Something X-tra
Project Rooftop is a blog dedicated to superhero fashion, but it’s usually more about costumes than couture. In this case, though, artist Kevin Wada has taken several X-Gals and converted their...
View ArticlePatrick Stewart Will Once Again Play Professor X
It’s been a while since Patrick Stewart played Charles Xavier, a.k.a. Professor X, in the X-Men films. X-Men: The Last Stand was his last take, with subsequent films focusing on Wolverine and then...
View ArticleX-Men 1992 Cartoon Intro – in Stop-Motion
Have some nostalgia for the original X-Men cartoon? The delightfully 90s original opening has a certain charm to it, like so many older cartoons. Perhaps it’s just because we grew up with them, but no...
View ArticleX-Man: Days of Future Past Gains Some Old Friends
The latest film in the X-Men saga, Days of Future Past, has started gaining steam with director Bryan Singer announcing some new casting. Well, actually, it’s an old cast, coming back: Anna Paquin,...
View ArticleFirst Trailer For The Wolverine Takes Us To Japan
I feel like this movie has been in production forever, but here it finally is, the first trailer for The Wolverine, the new Logan-centric X-Men movie that will hopefully make people forget about X-Men...
View ArticleRumor Party: Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in Avengers 2?
Here’s a messy story floating around the internet right now: recently Joss Whedon teased that a certain brother/sister duo would show up in Avengers 2. Everyone jumped up in excitement at the idea...
View ArticleHow Bright Does A Franchise’s Star Burn? Movie Grosses Ranked
With the recent release of Star Trek Into Darkness and the constant buzz surrounding 2015′s Star Wars: Episode VII, the franchises continue to be big in the public eye. But if these two franchises...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....