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Cyclops Has Always Been This Good
When X-Men ‘97 hit Disney+ last week, enrapt viewers all shouted one thing—other than “To me, my X-men!”—as they saw Marvel’s mutants back in action: “Where has this Cyclops been?” The comics. He’s been in the comics. X-Men ‘97 has already proven to be a smash hit for Marvel, throwing audiences back to the heady…
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Captain Marvel, Reborn: How Carol Danvers Became Marvel Comics’ Flagship Hero
Captain Marvel was dead, to begin with. More than one Captain Marvel, if we want to be perfectly accurate about it. By 2012, the Marvel Comics hero that bore the company name had been relaunched in no fewer than six different series, and seen a total of three separate characters take on the name. More…
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The Original X-Men Are Coming Back, but Only One Is Staying
The X-Men turn 60 this year, and Marvel is celebrating in style by killing a bunch of them in a horrifying terrorist attack, kickstarting the downfall of an age of Mutant progress, and now by returning to an idea they first did a decade ago. Sounds about right for the heroes forever fighting for a…
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Your Guide to the Illuminati, Marvel’s Secret Jerks Club
The latest Marvel movie, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, promises a lot of, well, madness — but some in particular that has had fans heating up with possibilities ever since the first trailer is the arrival of the Illuminati to the MCU, one of the 21st century’s most fascinating comics supergroups. Here’s what…