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We've been enjoying the heck out of Kevin Wada and Max Wittert's X-Men clothing line (previously: 1, 2) — these drawings transform Marvel Comics' strangest superteam into a collective of blasé performance artists who blow Xavier's endowment on smart drinks imported from the farthest reaches of the Shi'ar Empire. More »
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Sailors have navigated by the light of Polaris for centuries, but all is not well with the North Star. There's something wrong with its light, and the best explanation might be that it's losing the equivalent of Earth's mass every year. More »
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Now that we know that Fox has brought Gossip Girl and Chuck creator Josh Schwartz on board to write a new X-Men movie, the obvious next question is, which X-Men should the movie feature? The writers of both the Young X-Men and X-Men: First Class comics have weighed in on the subject, but we've got our own ideas, as well... More »
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One of Marvel Comics' most successful new creations on recent years has been Allen Heinberg's Young Avengers, a series that resonated with fans, critics, and those happy to see new gay superheroes in the forms of Hulking and Wiccan, two of the series' most popular characters. But Hulking wasn't exactly originally intended to be gay, according to author Perry Moore. More »
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