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Homage Covers: X-Men #138 (Cover date October 1980)

The original cover, by John Byrne and Terry Austin, is cover-dated to october 1980.

 

 

In chronological order by cover date, these are covers that I know of that I consider to be clear enough homages.  Thanks to the Grand Comics Database for the images

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X-Men Questions AKA I Was Wondering #11

During a brief slow moment at work, I started jotting down some questions about Marvel's Merry Mutants, the Original X-Men and came up with these:

• I'm positive that the first team of X-Men were indeed the first class at Xavier's School for Gifted Yo

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The X-Men ask you to "Save the Date"

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Woverine & The X-Men: Some Thoughts

Having just read Wolverine & The X-Men #1, without finishing X-Men: Schism it should be noted, I was a bit surprised that I enjoyed so much. I was put off slightly by the opening scene, supposedly between Logan and Professor X because they sure weren

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Jennifer Lawrence is Katniss Everdeen

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1660152/jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games.jhtml Holly and Ana are big Hunger Games fans and I'm currently enjoying the first book...so, here ya go. Oscar nominee Lawrence (Winter's Bone) is Mystique first in X-Men: Firs

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First photo of the X-Men: First Class cast

 

 

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Green Lantern, Captain America, Thor, X-Men: First Class

Which 2011 superhero film has you most on pins and needles...in a good way?

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Realization...

So today I found myself reading two of Geoff Johns' recent mini-epics: Flash Rebirth and Legion of 3 Worlds. And with both of them, when I put them down, I just felt this feeling of fatigue from trying to keep up with the almost overwhelming amount o

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Ultimate Reading Project

In the wake of Ultimatum, I've decided it might be interesting and/or fun to go back in time and read/re-read the Ultimate Marvel universe starting at the beginning, and I've decided to bring y'all along for the ride.

My plan is to more or less read

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In defense of the X-Men Australia years

http://www.comicswaitingroom.com/claremont.html My friend, Marc, writes a nice article about why he really likes this run of Claremont comics...even though it's not the fave of most fans.

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Bryan Singer returning to the X-Men

From comicbookresources.com today: At the Avatar premiere, director Bryan Singer told various people he has signed to direct the film. He just hasn't told any of the usual suspects. Collider points to Flickchart's Twitter page, but the post is witho

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Uncanny X-Men...issue by issue

http://geoffklock.blogspot.com/search/label/Jason%20Powell Good heavens...if you're an X-Men or Claremont fan...or both...do yourself a favor and check out this issue-by-issue analysis. It's pretty amazing...

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