Could be anything in here, anything at all.
Updates Mondays... and now some Thursdays! Reflecting on the entire sordid, endearingly bizarre history of the Uncanny X-Men from the very beginning. Follow on Bluesky @uncannyxcerpts.bsky.social
Monday, October 23, 2017
Monday, October 16, 2017
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #40: The Mark of the Monster!
The X-Men meet frickin' Frankenstein's monster, that's what happens.
Monday, October 2, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #39: The Fateful Finale!
The X-Men must finally confront the Mutant Master and Factor Three, and get a change of wardrobe!
Monday, September 25, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #37-38: We, the Jury... / One Minute to Doomsday!
The X-Men are reunited with some old pals when they're put on trial for crimes against mutantkind!
Monday, September 18, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #36: Mekano Lives!
The X-Men need to scrounge up some plane fare for their trip to Europe!
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Monday, September 4, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #34: War -- In a World of Darkness!
The X-Men get the Subterranean Homesick Blues when they are drafted into a war between the Mole Man and Tyrannus.
Monday, August 28, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #33: Into the Crimson Cosmos!
The X-Men pay a call on Dr. Strange to learn how to stop an Unstoppable foe!
Monday, August 21, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #32: Beware the Juggernaut, My Son!
The Juggernaut returns for a family reunion that is roughly as much fun as any other family reunion that has ever happened!
Monday, August 14, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #31: We Must Destroy... The Cobalt Man!
The X-Men are not Cobalt Man's first choice of opponent.
Monday, August 7, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #30: The Warlock Wakes!
The X-Men must do battle with Merlin - yes, that Merlin, but he doesn't really go by Merlin anymore.
Monday, July 31, 2017
THE MIMIC SHOW #29: When Titans Clash!
Monday, July 24, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #28: The Wail of the Banshee!
Banshee's loud, Ogre has jet boots, and Mimic is still around. Saved you a click. Wait, this is my site, please click!
Monday, July 17, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #27: Re-enter the Mimic!
The Mimic joins the X-Men and things go bad, like, immediately.
Monday, July 10, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #25-26: The Power and the Pendant! / Holocaust!
The X-Men do battle with a gem-thief, a Mayan Serpent God, and their own drama!
Monday, July 3, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #24: The Plague of... the Locust!
The X-Men thwart the mutant insects of a disgraced university professor with delusions of grandeur!
Monday, June 26, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #23: To Save a City!
Will the X-Men accept Count Nefaria's offer to help ransom the city of Washington D.C.?
Monday, June 19, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #22: Divided -- We Fall!
The X-Men fall (dividedly) to five hired villains in the service of the dapper Count Nefaria!
Monday, June 12, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #21: From Whence Comes... Dominus?
The X-Men must defeat Lucifer and his world-conquering somethingorother!
Monday, June 5, 2017
Monday, May 29, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #19: Lo! Now shall appear... The Mimic!
...And in this corner, hailing from New York City, featuring the combined power of all six X-Men... "The Mimic," Caaaaaaaalvin Rankiiiiiiiiiiin!!!
Monday, May 22, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #18: If Iceman Should Fail--!
Iceman must stand alone against the might of a returning Magneto, who will stop at nothing to birth his own race of mutant superslaves!
Monday, May 15, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #17: ...And None Shall Survive!
Still reeling from their battle with the Sentinels, the X-Men face a mysterious enemy who fells them one by one in their own home!
Monday, May 8, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #16: The Supreme Sacrifice!
The X-Men must discover a way to defeat the deadly Sentinels, or else mutantkind is doomed... and so is humankind. Basically it would be bad news for everybody.
Monday, May 1, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #15: Prisoners of the Mysterious Master Mold!
The X-Men infiltrate the base of the Sentinels, who yearn to hear more of this thing you call... flashbacks.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #14: Among Us Stalk... The Sentinels!
The X-Men must do battle with a legion of robots bent on the destruction of mutantkind! It's not a great day.
Monday, April 24, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #13: Where Walks the Juggernaut!
The X-Men need the help of a special guest star to defeat the Professor's evil step brother. Who could it be?
Thursday, April 20, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #12: The Origin of Professor X!
Under the ominous threat of the Juggernaut, Professor X decides now is an appropriate time to share his life story.
Monday, April 17, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #11: The Triumph of Magneto!
Magneto most certainly does not triumph in the X-Men's first adventure worthy of Camus.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #10: The Coming Of... KA-ZAR!
The X-Men discover a prehistoric world, and you'd better believe one of them fights a T-Rex!
Monday, April 10, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #9: Enter, the Avengers!
The X-Men encounter the Avengers while on the trail of the Professor's oldest foe!
Thursday, April 6, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #8: Unus, the Untouchable!
The X-Men do battle with a foe they can't even touch! (Stop! Unus time!)
Monday, April 3, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #7: The Return of the Blob
Everyone's favourite plus-sized mutant is back as Magneto continues his campaign to Win Friends and Influence (Mutant) People!
Thursday, March 30, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #6: Sub-Mariner! Joins the Evil Mutants
It wouldn't be the first year of a 1960's Marvel Comic without Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner here to f. up all your s.!
Monday, March 27, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #5: Trapped: One X-Man!
Magneto manages to trap ONE (1) X-Man in a wonderfully circuitous plan that could only come to you via the Silver Age of Comic books!
Thursday, March 23, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #4: The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!
The X-Men do battle against their greatest foes yet! (and Toad.)
Monday, March 20, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #3: Beware the Blob!
The X-Men go up against one PHAT* villain in their third adventure, and Marvel Girl learns the meaning of "telekinesis."
*Pretty Hefty and Terrifying
Thursday, March 16, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #2: No One Can Stop The Vanisher!
In their second-ever adventure, the X-Men stop the Vanisher! In a story that basically breaks the entire franchise before it's even gotten started!
Monday, March 13, 2017
UNCANNY X-MEN #1: "X-Men"
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In the X-Men's very first mission, they do battle with their greatest foe of all, and welcome a new member to their ranks: a (*gasp*) girl!
An Uncanny Introduction
There are mutants among us! They could be anyone, from the hairy Canadian next door to the beefy Russian art student your daughter is dating, to a famous disco queen. Perhaps even that wheelchair-bound headmaster of a private school with the prominent eyebrows and cheekbones. Anybody could be a mutant, a person born with strange powers!
I love the X-Men. I happen to think they have the best premise in all of comics. The idea that anyone could be a mutant, with any random power, and choose to use that power for good, evil or other, has led to one of the strongest franchises in all of entertainment, one that endlessly replenishes and revitalizes itself. It doesn't hurt that it carries with it a cogent metaphor for prejudice and alienation that has only gotten more durable and relevant as time has gone by.
That would seem to be enough for a blockbuster property, but it's only halfway there when you figure in the X-Men's frequent - some would say constant - excursions into intergalactic civil wars, becoming host bodies for cosmic deities, traveling wantonly through time and alternate realities while exploring their own shadowy past and meeting long lost relatives every other week. Seemingly more than any other comic book property, perhaps because of its sprawling cast and wide-open premise, the X-Men have been grafted onto more genres and tropes than probably any other group of characters, even amongst their comic book brethren, all with a shocking degree of success. It all amounts to a fascinatingly weird, lumpy, storytelling mishmash that represents the best and most excessive of what comic books have to offer.
I want to take all of that glorious, unabashed weirdness in and live there. It is therefore my pleasure to announce the commencement of this blog, where I will be reading the entire run of the Uncanny X-Men*, or as far a I can get, and related titles, offering commentary along the way..
If you have a Marvel Unlimited or ComiXology membership, you might find it easy or fun to read along, but even if not, hopefully I can provide enough clarity and entertainment to keep you coming back. But without further ado...
Welcome to Uncanny X-Cerpts.
*A note on nomenclature: Although the series was not renamed as such until well into its existence, we will be using this title almost exclusively when referring to the original X-Men series, to distinguish from later entires.
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