By now you’ve probably heard: X-Men ’97 is phenomenal. This little cartoon show is one of the biggest, loudest, most colorful, most ambitious, most heartbreaking projects Marvel has ever done. Originally advertised as a nostalgic revival of the original X-Men: The Animated Series, X-Men ’97 is the complete opposite, becoming one of the most aggressively progressive comic book adaptations ever made. With
Read MoreWelcome from the present to the future to the past to the… (Hang on, I need my notes). Anyways, this is the Cable comics reading guide! The child of Madelyne Pryor and Scott Summers, Nathan Christopher Charles Summers was sent to the far-flung future as a toddler. Raised in a brutal apocalyptic world, he returned to the present a grown-up, hard-edged
Read MoreThe Avengers vs X-Men storyline is a comic event that Marvel Comics ran in 2012. It pitted two of Earth’s mightiest teams against each other in a confrontation that forever changed the core of the comic 616 continuity. In the comic run, the Phoenix Force was fast approaching Earth, seemingly headed for Hope Summers, the adoptive daughter of Cable and, therefore,
Read MoreIf you’ve been following along here at The Cosmic Circus, you know that reporter and insider Alex Perez occasionally has news to share about Marvel Studios projects. He’s made time for a Q&A with our Discord members a few times already, and this time we’re trying a new format for that. Recently, we asked for more questions from our Discord members,
Read MoreThe X-Men are back! I’ve waited so long to say those words and mean them, and boy, I mean them with every bit of my soul. A double episode premiere of X-Men ‘97 has landed on Disney+ and surely transported everyone back to the Saturday morning feeling of gathering around the television to see what happened “Previously on X-Men!” I couldn’t
Read MoreTO ME, MY X-MEN! Welcome to the X-Men: The Animated Series guide! With mutants finally entering the MCU and X-Men ‘97 just around the corner, now is the perfect time to catch up with the classic X-Men cartoon from the ‘90s. In this guide, we’ll cover the main characters of the show, break down the episodic story arcs, and explore the
Read MoreHey everyone and welcome to the Deadpool comics reading guide! This is our second reading guide for Deadpool & Wolverine, after our sniktastic Wolverine reading guide a few weeks ago. Deadpool has an infamous reputation for being an excruciating, insufferable motormouth with a poor sense of humor. But deep down, Wade Wilson is a real sweetheart. A fighter who beat cancer with
Read MoreSNIKT! Hey bub, welcome to the Wolverine comics reading guide! Before Logan, before X-Men: Evolution, and even before X-Men: The Animated Series, the character Wolverine was created for the comics in 1974 by Len Wein & John Romita Sr. in Incredible Hulk #180-181. He was originally designed as a one-off character, but Wein & Dave Cockrum brought him back in Giant-Size
Read MoreOn October 31st, 1992, X-Men: The Animated Series premiered its first episode on national television. The show gained popularity and became one of the most popular superhero animated shows in history. The show became the pilot project for what would eventually become a new era of Marvel animated projects in the 90s, producing multiple animated projects like Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and Iron Man. X-Men:
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