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11 Superhero Costumes That Deserve To Be Seen In Live-Action
3We’re inundated with comic book movies and TV shows these days. But for a decade now, we’ve been in the age of the “practical” hero look. And that was fine in the beginning, when everyone was worried about getting regular people to take this genre seriously. But we are far past that point now, and…
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X-Men: Grand Design Will Try To Turn 30 Years Of Comics Into A Single Story
Have you ever tried to explain the X-Men comics to a friend who doesn’t really read comic books? I mean, like, all of their various adventures and plotlines and alternate timelines and deaths and resurrections? Of course not, that would be virtually impossible — and that’s exactly what Hip-Hop Family Tree creator Ed Piskor and…
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Iceman’s First Solo Series Is A Great Look At The Mess That Is Bobby Drake’s Private Life
The duality of superheroes is nothing new. Stories about the tangled web of public and private personas have driven superheroes for decades. But in the first issue of Iceman — Bobby Drake’s first ever ongoing series — we get a bit of a twist to that duality: Presenting Bobby’s life as a fascinating mix of…
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Marvel To Discipline X-Men Gold Artist For Controversial References To Indonesian Politics
Image: Marvel Comics. X-Men Gold #1 art by Ardian Syaf, Jay Leisten, and Frank Martin. Marvel has announced that it will remove some artwork from X-Men Gold #1, as well as take unspecified disciplinary action against artist Ardian Syaf, after it was discovered that he included coded references to an ongoing religious and political conflict…