By Aaron Nash

Mystique has always been a fan favourite from the X-Men universe and rightfully so. Her mutant abilities allow her to shapeshift into another human shape while also changing her vocal tones. She’s like the T-1000’s cooler grandmother who just happens to moonlight as an expert assassin.  In the X-Men comics she’s generally seen as this morally grey character who, despite siding with Magneto more often than not, has her own agenda.   As she is such a fascinating character with so much potential it was only natural for her to spawn her own solo series, which was started by Brian K. Vaughan and later finished by Sean McKeever.

By Aaron Nash

Good eve to you, with all festive cheer,

We shall look at a book decidedly queer,

It is not unlike the stories of old,

Except for the fact its inhabitants are cold.

Not with a chill that one may have come to expect,

More with a death, and a craving to dissect.

For what we have here is a tale retold,

Of old Mr Scrooge and a time of old,

But here you’ll find, little festive delight,

For his little world is riddled with blight.

A zombie curse, I guess you could say,

Making the Christmas we know a far less joyful day.

By Aaron Nash

This is a review that I should have written a long time ago, as this is the book that got me back into reading Marvel after many years reading Image, Top Cow and 2000 AD publications.  Maybe it was the idea of a strong female character that has flaws and a dark side that appealed to me so much, as the character of X-23 was slightly reminiscent of the lead females in the Top Cow publications Witchblade and Aphrodite IX, which I had been reading at the time. Whatever it was that drew me to the story, I am so happy I gave it a read as none of the magic has diminished over the years.

By Aaron Nash

I’ve always been massively interested in the character of Lady Death. She has a great dark backstory and some awesome character design, which rivals some of the very best on the market. As such I was really interested in reading her humble beginnings again, and what better way than reading Lady Death: The Reckoning (revised) which contains the first 3 issue series from 1994 as well as the ½ issue and a few other extras.

So what’s it all about?

By Aaron Nash

We’ve come a long way since Deadpool first embarked on his quest to wipe out the Marvel universe. He’s fought through legions of legendary superheroes, British detectives, and even whales to get here, and now only one thing stands in his way…himself.  That’s right, as the title suggests Deadpool is in fact now on a quest to destroy every version of himself in every multiverse and he’s going to bring us along for every brilliantly violent moment of it.

by Aaron Nash

So, after the events of the rather enjoyable ‘Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe’ we once again get escorted on yet another weird and wacky adventure with everyone’s favourite merc with a mouth.

Having realized that there are endless multiverses and his task of killing is far greater then he first imagined, Deadpool embarks on massacre through classical literature to kill the inspiration for each classic marvel superhero, thus wiping out all versions of them in each and every multiverse in one fell sweep.

By Aaron Nash

Elektra, the assassin in red, is different from other so called ‘comic heroes’ in the fact that she isn’t really a good guy. But, then again, she isn’t fundamentally bad either, even if her morals are.

Beginning life as a Daredevil villain during the 80s, Elektra quickly became an incredibly popular character, so popular in fact that, after her death in issue 181 of Daredevil, Marvel decided to resurrect her, much to the disappointment of her creator, Frank Miller. 

For a while this run was the only Elektra that I had read.  Sure, she played a big part in a few of the large Marvel events over the years, most notably Secret Invasion, but none of this really grabbed me or made me want to read a stand-alone story with her in it. I liked the idea of the character, but for some reason just never paid much attention to her.

By Aaron Nash

Storm has always been a staple of the X-Men from the time I started reading in the 90s, and for me she is a crucial part of why I enjoyed their adventures growing up. She’s gone through many different looks over the years, from the classic costume to the more punk-like look in the 80s, and her character has developed as she’s gotten older. But how much do we know about her youth before her powers manifested?