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Showing posts with label The Week That Was. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Week That Was. Show all posts

Monday, June 30, 2025

The Week That Was 06302025: Uncanny Experience Trading Card & RIP Jim Shooter

We're less than two weeks out from the Uncanny Experience, and last week I got the art for the super cool, super exclusive trading cards I'll be giving away at the event. 


Art and design by my buddy and ComicsXF colleague Adam Reck. If you'd like one, make sure to find me at the Uncanny Experience!

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The Week That Was 06102025: May's Best Covers, RIP Marvel Masterworks, and More!

With another month somehow already behind us, I thought it would be fun to look back at the covers I posted as part of my ongoing celebration on social media of the 50th Anniversary of the All New, All Different X-Men. Without further ado, here are my favorite covers, one per week, for the month of May! 

Week 1: Uncanny X-Men #444 (May 5 2004)


Monday, June 2, 2025

The Week That Was 06022025: Uncanny Experience and Review Roundup

 Well, a combination of day job travel, the punishing (for critics) three-a-week release schedule of the second season of Andor, and my laptop completely and utterly dying a couple weeks ago threw me off my regular schedule. 

But, things are starting to settle a bit, and I'm hoping to get back into my regular posting groove again, including this column. My plan is to abandon some of the strict formatting I'd been using, to make something more like a typical newsletter in favor of getting it out more regularly. 

The Uncanny Experience

My other big news of late is that I was selected to present at the Uncanny Experience, the annual X-Men fan convention here in Minneapolis. My panel is called "Fight The Power: The X-Men as Outlaws", and will focus on the way Claremont repositioned the X-Men from traditional superheroes fighting to preserve the status quo to anti-establishment figures trying to upend it. The full description is as follows: 

Monday, March 3, 2025

The Week That Was 030225: The 97th Oscars!

The Oscars

Hey, the Oscars were Sunday! 

This was a weird year for movies (in Oscars-terms) as the industry as a whole is still recovering from the twin blows of the pandemic and the strikes, while continuing to wage an unending battle against the encroachment of streamers (more on that below). The show itself, however, was mostly typical and mostly entertaining.


Tuesday, November 22, 2022

The Week That Was 112222

First of all, happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US/celebrating. May the day be what you want/need it to be! 

Secondly, what's this, then?

mea culpa, something new (that's a little old), and shameless plugs.