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Tom Palmer, 1941-2022

One of the last survivors of the classic ‘Marvel Bullpen’ of the 1960s, inker Tom Palmer, died on 18 August at the age of 81.

The New Mutants

New Mutants for Old: The wonder of it is how they took so long applying finishing touches—and still managed to make it look like it was banged out over a weekend by film students at university!

O’Neil created or co-created Ra’s Al Ghul, Talia, the League of Assassins, John Stewart, Leslie Thompkins and Azrael, among myriad other enduring characters, while reinventing the Joker and Two-Face as contemporary Batman adversaries.

Logan

What happens when superheroes grow old? Logan addresses that question.

X-Men: Apocalypse

“The third film is always the worst.” Does X-Men: Apocalypse buck that trend?

Deadpool

Deadpool is funny, but sprinkles a meta-narrative veneer over a remarkably conservative superhero plotline.

The She-Hulk Diaries, and Rogue Touch

Marvel’s ongoing quest to expand their franchise has inspired them to issue prose novels starring two of their most popular heroines, in an attempt to crack the chick-lit market.

Avengers vs. X-Men

The comic reader’s sense of entitlement makes me laugh. If you want to read something that congratulates you for buying another thing that rewards Marvel for their treatment of comic creators, you’re in the wrong place, True Believer.

NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. AGAIN.

Since 1985’s Crisis On Infinite Earths,, the “Summermegacrossover” has become a tradition at the Big Two, an action-packed, highly-lucrative “event” in which some unprecedented calamity calls for all of DC’s or Marvel’s biggest guns to band together to avert the destruction of the Universe/the Earth/East Grinstead in a series of increasingly-contrived battle extravaganzas.

Uncanny X-Men 534.1

Another week, another .1 issue to review. Thankfully this is one of the best of them that I’ve read. The current team is reasonably compact and all really famous (the line-up is all on the cover), so it’s not much effort, but Gillen gives them all a moment anyway. More importantly, he zooms straight in on the point of greatest interest: why is Magneto now an X-Man, and how will this be accepted by the world?

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