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Welcome to another mid-week Mini Christmas, also called by it's lesser known title, Comic Book Wednesday. Today we'll be reviewing UNcanny X-Men #14. Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Chris Bachalo                   I think I have a new favorite gay comic book character. For the first time in a long time, I've found a character who just HAPPENS to be gay. It's not his entire identity. They didn't make a big fanfare about it. In fact, even in the book, the response to the character's declarative over his sexuality is "I don't care. What does this have to do with this?" Emma Frost , I love you all over again. Mr. Benjamin Deeds , I adore you as well, sir. I am excited to learn more about this guy, I am excited to see more from him, and I love this book. Bendis handled this BEAUTIFULLY. Bendis handled this the way the vast majority of gay characters SHOULD be handled. THANK YOU, SIR.          ...

Hello, geeks and geekettes! It's that time again! Mid-Week Mini Christmas, also known as Comic Book Wednesday! This week we're doing All-New X-Men #18 and Thor God of Thunder #15 on the Marvel side. Speaking of Thor, check the facebook page at facebook.com/geekinpodcast for our first issue of the Geekin' Podcast and Retinax5's and I's review of Thor: The Dark World! Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Stuart Immonen I must be a bigger Bendis fan than I thought. I notoriously love Guardians of the Galaxy, and I'm just as much in love with this book. I thought the art worked very well for the story, and the over-all book was exactly what I want from my X-Men books. This book addressed things that I'd been wondering about for several issues now - the Jean/Hank kiss. The fact that Magick and Kitty used to be so close. The future of the young original X-Men. The original X-Men are trapped in our time - they can't go back. At all. People have tried. Something...

Amazing X-Men #1 - The Quest for Nightcrawler Writer: Jason Aaron Artist: Ed McGuinness Nightcrawler has always been one of my favorite characters since I was a child. I was saddened when he died, but anyone who's ever read more than 6 issues of X-Men, we knew he'd be back eventually. And Amazing X-Men #1 is where that happens. Nightcrawler is in Heaven, but it's just short of paradise for Kurt. He was a flirtatious swashbuckler, a man of faith and belief, and now he sits in Heaven twiddling his thumbs. He's not ready for eternal rest. He has more to do, so he feels. What he really feels, is bored. Until Dad shows up for a visit. One of Marvel's most interesting and underused villains, Azazel, attacks Heaven. Meanwhile, on the mortal coil, Angelica Jones, Firestar, shows up at the Jean Grey School as their new teacher. Nervous, anxious, and unsure of what to expect, Angelica's met with the usual chaos and disorder that follows Wolverine's X-Men where ever th...

Happy Mid-Week-Mini-Christmas, Geeks and Geekettes! Today we'll be touching on the two big events in the Marvel camp. Of all the Infinity Tie Ins, I felt Avengers #19 seemed the most important, the one that moved the story forward the most, so that's what we'll be focusing on. [caption id="attachment_284" align="aligncenter" width="240"] Ex Nihila needs to take a sensitivity seminar and attend a workshop on sexual harassment in the workplace![/caption] As Carol Danvers is interrogated by the Builders (and their pet Ex Nihila, who I feel gets a little handsy with Carol - was that just me? Some of those scenes seemed to have a mite-bit of inappropriate touching going on on Ex Nihila's part. But Carol seems to ignore it.) Captain America and Thor approaches the Galactic War Council (which includes The Skrull, The Shi'ar, The Kree, The Negative Zone, The Brood, and the Spartoi) in an effort to pool resources and find a way to stop the Buil...

Just like with the DC reviews earlier, this week I'll be reviewing two Marvel comics. These focus one the two big events going on in Marvel right now; X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1 and Infinity #2. I love nothing but good things to say about Battle of the Atom. It had some moments that made me grin and made me realize how much I'm ready for all this crap to be over with and for the family to patch things up again. Kitty takes the original X-Kiddos out on a routine new-mutant sighting. Things don't go exactly as planned and Scott and his X-Men show up just in time to back up Kitty's group. I loved it. Kitty and Scott don't picker. They don't make snotty comments. They just get shit under control. It was actually pretty heart warming. As a converted Cyclops fan, this issue made my heart stop for a moment. But over all sets us up for a pretty cool little event. Though it does leave me wondering how the hell they're going to explain it. Seems ALL the X-Men are do...