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Review: Uncanny X-Force #25 – Final Execution Begins!

Uncanny X-Force #25 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Mike McKone, Dean White [Color Art] The latest Uncanny X-Men story arc, “Final Execution,” kicks off with the team in a state of upheaval. Psylocke, having processed the toll being on a mutant kill squad is taking on her psyche, is leaving the team after “satisfying her curiosity”
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Review: Deadpool #54 – Deadpool is Dead, Long Live Deadpool

Deadpool #54 Writer: Daniel Way Art: Ale Garza [Penciler], Sean Parsons [Inker], Dommo Sanchez Amara [Colorist] Deadpool finally gets what he wanted, but does he still want it and is it too late to go back? After setting off a massive goose chase for a serum that could allegedly negate mutant powers, Deadpool is finally
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Uncanny X-Force #24 – Meltdown!

Uncanny X-Force #24 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Phil Noto, Dean White [Colors] During last year’s “Dark Angel Saga,” the Age of Apocalypse’s evil version of Iceman escaped into Earth-616 (i.e. the mainstream Marvel Universe). This was the primary reason for that reality’s Nightcrawler joining X-Force. In Uncanny X-Force #24, he finally gets his revenge on
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Review: Deadpool #53 – Marked For Death

Deadpool #53 Writer: Daniel Way Art: Ale Garza [Penciler], Sean Parsons [Inker], Dommo Sanchez Amara [Colorist] After setting in motion a plan that involved his X-Force teammates, HYDRA Bob, Kingpin, Daken, and Tombstone before quickly spiraling out of control, Deadpool has finally been injected with a serum that can make him killable. Having been seemingly
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Review: Uncanny X-Force #23 – Someone gets their head skinned…

Uncanny X-Force #23 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Greg Tocchini, with color art by Dean White and Greg Tocchini X-Force’s Otherworld adventure concludes with a bit of a twist in this week’s Uncanny X-Force #23. As you may recall, Captain Britain (Psylocke’s brother) and the Captain Britain Corps abducted Fantomex and Psylocke, taking them back to the
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Review: Deadpool #52 – Still trying to die…

Deadpool #52 Writer: Daniel Way Art: Ale Garza [Penciler], Sean Parsons [Inker], Dommo Sanchez Amara [Colorist] In his ongoing efforts to die permanently by flushing out the holder of a serum that can negate his healing factor, Deadpool staged a fake turf war between the Kingpin and Tombstone. In the process, he’s brought Hydra Bob,
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“A Comic Show” 3.07.2012 – Age of Apocalypse #1

This week has TONS of great starts! Hell Yeah, Fairest, Supurbia, and Hickman’s Manhattan Projects: Experience Creativity! Also, DC has my favorite combo of Animal Man and Swamp Thing as well as Action 7! Age of Apocalypse #1 is basically the Boys in the AOA universe, and the Boys volume 10 is out too! Come
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Review: Uncanny X-Force #22 – Who is Weapon III?

Uncanny X-Force #22 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Greg Tocchini and Dean White [Color Art] The pace picks back up in the third part of Rick Remender’s Otherworld odyssey as Psylocke continues her efforts to help Fantomex escape from her brothers in the Captain Britain Corps and Nightcrawler convinces Wolverine that X-Force should help the people
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Review: Deadpool #51 – A “Make-Believe” Gang War

Deadpool #51 Writer: Daniel Way Art: Ale Garza, Sean Parsons [Inker], Dommo Sanchez Amara [Colorist] Deadpool’s elaborate game of chess–a game he doesn’t really know how to play–keeps getting weirder and more out of control as his quest for death continues. You see, Wade found out that there was a serum capable of negating his
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De La Torre brings grit to Age of Apocalypse #1 5-page preview

Marvel Comics Tuesday morning released a five-page preview of Age of Apocalypse #1 written by Dave Lapham with art by Roberto De La Torre. The gritty artwork by De La Torre is amazing! Age of Apocalypse #1 will be in your local comic book store on March 7th, 2012. Your First Look At AGE OF
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Review: Uncanny X-Force #21 – Fantomex erased from existence!

Uncanny X-Force #21 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Greg Tocchini and Dean White [color art] X-Force’s adventure in Otherworld continues this month following Fantomex’s sentencing to erasure from existence in issue #20. As the issue opens, Fantomex has needles lowering into his skull. Around the time they reach his third brain (yeah…he has a few), Psylocke
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Review: “X-Men Legacy #261″ When an Exodus comes a knockin’

X-Men Legacy #261 Writer: Christopher Gage Artist: David Baldeon and Jordi Tarragona Rogue, Gambit and Frenzy have arrived at the Jean Grey Institute and they barely have time to unpack their bags before something big and bad comes knockin’ upon their door. In this case, as the cover depicts, the big bad is ex-Acolyte leader
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Review: Uncanny X-Force #20, Fantomex stands trial

Uncanny X-Force #20 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Greg Tocchini and Dean White [Colors] The Captain Britain Corps have abducted Fantomex and Psylocke in the middle of the night, taking them to the dimension-outside-of-dimensions of Otherworld. The Corps, who are led by Psylocke’s brothers, intend to convince Psylocke to rejoin them and to make Fantomex stand
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Review: Uncanny X-Force #19.1, Enter the Age of Apocalypse (Again…)

Uncanny X-Force #19.1 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Billy Tan and Jose Villarrubia [colors] Spinning out of Rick Remender’s recent “Dark Angel Saga” in Uncanny X-Force is the new ongoing Age of Apocalypse series, and Uncanny X-Force #19.1 is essentially a prologue designed to draw in readers for that series. Essentially, this is the second prologue
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Review: Magneto Not a Hero “And the clone returns…”

Magneto: Not a Hero Writer: Scottie Young Artist: Clay Mann & David Curiel (present) Gabriel Walta & Rachelle Rosenberg (past) Once upon a time, in the mid 90′s, Magneto had a clone named Joseph. Joseph was “created” by Astra, one of the founding members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Joseph, fallen under amnesia from
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Review: Uncanny X-Force #18, OR Apocalypse Wow!

Uncanny X-Force #18 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Jerome Opeña with Esad Ribic After several months, Rick Remender’s epic “Dark Angel Saga” concludes in Uncanny X-Force #18. Over the course of its eight chapters, the story saw the transformation of Archangel into the new Apocalypse and took readers on to the Age of Apocalypse timeline and
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Review: Uncanny X-Force #17

Uncanny X-Force #17 Writer: Rick Remender Art: Jerome Opeña Color Art: Dean White with Jose Villarubia and Chris Sotomayor After taking a backseat to the action for the majority of the last issue, Wolverine finds himself front and center in Uncanny X-Force #17. Not that he can help it, though. Last issue, Deadpool was frozen
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Review: Uncanny X-Force #16

Uncanny X-Force #16 Writer: Rick Remender Artist: Jerome Opeña Quick recap: The Dark Angel Saga is in full swing. Wolverine and Warren Worthington III (AKA Angel) have been operating a covert strike team called X-Force, also consisting of Psylocke, Deadpool and Fantomex. Ever since the previous X-Force title, Angel has been fighting to suppress his
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Review: X-Men Schism #5

X-Men: Schism #5 Writer: Jason Aaron Artist: Adam Kubert The end has finally arrived! Jason Aaron you have successfully, hands down and without a doubt written a brawl between Scott and Logan that’s never been recorded in history. Was the merit of the fight a bit childish? Sure! But, did it make for a
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