UndercoverFanBoy.com – Comic Book News, Rants & More!

Reviews of Blackest Night #6, X-Men Legacy #231, Fantastic Four #574 & HALO Bloodlines #1

FANTASTIC FOUR #574 - It’s Franklin’s birthday and much too Johnny’s dismay, the kid’s only request was that Spider-Man be there. Artie and Leech (formerly mutant friends of Franklin’s from waaaay back…) and three of the Power Pack kids also attend. The FF also seem to have adopted one of the Wizard’s clones they found still alive in his HQ. Roughly the same age as Franklin they have named him Bentley (The Wizard’s real name…) although he insists on being called thirty-two. After everyone has en...

Reviews of Batgirl #5, Uncanny X-Men #519 & God Complex #1

UNCANNY X-MEN #519 - So it’s not a big surprise that Beast decides to take an indefinite leave of absence from the X-Men for awhile. Seems he’s still a little peeved at Scott for letting him languish in Osborn’s prison during Utopia until it suited Scott’s purposes to free him. Hank has graciously put together the X-Club to act as the X-Men’s brain trust in his absence. Fine. Done. Good-bye Cowardly Lion. Go hang out in S.W.O.R.D. with your green-haired girlfriend. This issue is once again stole...

Reviews of Thor #604, Iron Man #20 & 21 and Fall of the Hulks Alpha and Gamma

THOR #604 - We finally get to see Thor kicking some major villain booty! The Lady Kelda (last seen in Thor Giant Sized Finale…) means to avenge the death of her love, William, by the hands of Dr. Doom’s Asgardian cyborg minions. When she confronts Doom, he quickly and easily dispatches her by ripping out her heart to use in his continued experiments. Loki wisely throws himself at Baldar’s mercy as he prepares to confront Doom with the rest of the Asgardian warriors. Doom sends his new creations ...

Reviews of Uncanny X-Men #518, Thor #604, Strange #2 & X-Force Annual #1

Rating System: 0 to 1.5 stars = save your money unless you are just mindlessly collecting the title. 2 to 3.5 = worth a shot if you are up to trying something new or wanting to get back into a title. 4 to 5 = a must buy for any comic reader. UNCANNY X-MEN #518 - Cyclops wants the piece of the Void that Emma absorbed out of her so she can change from her diamond form and use her telepathy. Gathering Charles and Psylocke, Scott plans to use Charles as a guide as he goes in to perform “psychic s...

Reviews of Blackest Night #5, Uncanny X-Men #517, Thor Giant-Sized, Secret Warriors #10, Black Knight, New Avengers #59

Rating System: 0 to 1.5 stars = save your money unless you are just mindlessly collecting the title. 2 to 3.5 = worth a shot if you are up to trying something new or wanting to get back into a title. 4 to 5 = a must buy for any comic reader. UNCANNY X-MEN #517 - You will all bow before the best writer at Marvel: Matt Fraction. Sure, I’m a tad biased towards anything with an X on it, but the way Fraction is crafting this new era of the X-Men; I’m beginning to think he’s secretly Chris Claremon...

Hope & Cable Return To The Present In X-Men: Second Coming

Winding through X-Men Legacy, Uncanny X-Men, X-Force and New Mutants; X-Men: Second Coming will be the third chapter in the Messiah CompleX storyline started back in 2007 and continued in the disappointing Messiah War this past summer. The first mutant child born since M-Day, Hope is now in her teens, having spent most of her life with Cable on the run from Bishop in the future (hopefully, this means the end of the awful Cable series…). When she and Cable return to the present, Cyclops and the r...

ComicCenter Reviews Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus

 Watch ComicCenter as Griz and I review the final chapter of the Utopia storyline. What did you think of the story?

Matt Fraction is Bringing Magneto Back in Uncanny X-Men #515!

Via Marvel.com, Uncanny X-Men writer Matt Fraction revealed the return of Magneto with issue #515 of the series. As the Dark Avengers/X-Men Utopia storyline winds down, the return of Magneto heralds big changes for Marvel’s Merry Mutants (I always wanted to say that. thanks Stan…). The team seems to be splintering out of Cyclops’ control, but is Magneto going to be friend or foe? "Magneto thinks mutants are humanity's vestigial tail," remarks Fraction. "But why? How did he come to this?" Fractio...