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Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, Marvel Comics, X-Men | Tagged: Destiny, May 2024, mystique, pride, weddingMystique and Destiny are an old married couple. But we never saw their marriage. But Pride Month, we finally will, courtesy of the X-Men.Article Summary Marvel celebrates Pride with Mystique & Destiny's wedding in 'X-Men: The Wedding Special'. Iconic X-Men couple's nuptials penned by Kieron Gillen among other top writers. The history-making comic features Marvel's first…

X-Men ‘97's love-letter continuation of the original X-Men animated series is not just a chance to revisit the world left behind by this particular take on Marvel mutantdom, but incorporate more ideas and interpretations of the metaphor mutantkind has provided across decades of comics. This is, of course, already getting the series flung into the meat grinder of the culture war.Who Should Be The New Wolverine? io9 PicksAfter yesterday brought with it the first look at X-Men ‘97 in action we also got to learn a bit more…

Screenshot: Marvel AnimationThe scene with Callisto and Leech is quickly covered up by a passing issue of the Daily Bugle blowing across the screen, and it’s jam-packed with details. The biggest is the cover story highlighting a mutant fashion show—including a few intriguing mutants from the comics: Dust, introduced in the early aughts during New X-Men; Stacy X; Maggot; and Banshee. In a small pop-out bubble, two more young mutants are included in the form of Nature Girl and Loa, suggesting X-Men ‘97 is going to pull from…

Kurt Wagner’s relationship with Mystique and Destiny has long been a messy, divisive one–but as the current era of X-Men comics is more explicit about their queer family, this week it righted the wrongs of the past to bring Kurt and his upbringing into a bold new light.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedA lot’s happening with the X-Men right now, and mutantkind in general, as Marvel Comics heralds the final months of the “Krakoan Age”—the ascendant period of comics ushered in back in 2019 under the…

Nightcrawler, created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, has been tied to Mystique for decades. In their first encounter in "Uncanny X-Men" #142 (by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Terry Austin, Glynis Wein, and Tom Orzechowsk), the shapeshifter told him that while they looked similar, he should ask his adoptive mother about the real truth. Several years later, Claremont planned on revealing that truth — but the story never came to pass. The relationship was finally clarified in "X-Men Unlimited" #4 (by Scott…

Image: Leonard Kirk/Marvel ComicsThe creators: Ed Brisson (Predator) & Scott Godlewski (Batman vs. Robin)The pitch: Alpha Flight has previously worked with the X-Men in the past, but more recently, they’ve been operating as an extension of the spacefaring group SWORD in books such as Captain Marvel. The new mini returns them to their Canadian roots, and have them sponsored by the government as they “de-escalate the mutant conflict by any means necessary.” Heading up that team is Puck, Snowbird, Guardian, and Shaman,…

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST - Official Trailer (2014)When giant, mutant-killing robots called Sentinels have nearly annihilated mutantkind (and all those that help them), Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and Kitty Pryde (Elliot Page) cobble together a plan to send Wolverine’s (Hugh Jackman) mind back in time to prevent Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from assassinating the Sentinels’ creator, Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), in 1973. It works, and per their older selves’ instructions, Logan finds the younger versions of Xavier…

Jennifer Lawrence Has Played Mystique In 3 X-Men Films (Pic Credit: Instagram, Movie Still) Kevin Feige is doing anything he can to make The Marvel Cinematic Universe one of the top movie franchises. In the last year we have seen the craze going from wild to wildest and the fact that the phenomenon has now brought almost the entire Hollywood under its umbrella is quite fascinating. While these castings have been making headlines with some getting confirmed and some ending in the rumour hell, the latest one says…

| Mystique has had almost as much pre-MCU debut heat as anyone these last few months, as things like Secret Invasion and the impending debut of the mutants send speculation into the stratosphere. Her debut, which really spans Ms. Marvel #'s 16-18, have had a ton of action on them, and it would kind of be neat to see her be the first X-related character in the MCU. One of those big debut issues, #17 is taking bids at Heritage Auctions today, and for a CGC 9.8 copy at that. Currently sitting at $310, it ends today. Take a…

Samuel L Jackson has criticised this year’s Oscars ceremony for its handling of the death of pioneering actor Sidney Poitier, as well as their attempts to reach a wider demographic by expanding the pool of presenters.Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Jackson said he was “still a little ticked that the greatest actor we had in Hollywood died and they gave him, what, 10 fucking seconds. No. It should have been a whole Sidney Poitier section.”Jackson was referring to this year’s in memoriam section of the show, which began…