Kurt Simonson rated Nyx #4 Nov 1, 2024
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Genius. Student. New Mutant. Young Avenger. X-Man. As PRODIGY, David Alleyne has been all these things and more - but now he faces his most difficult challenge yet. Facing down his past and looking his present in the eye, Prodigy must fight to understand what mutant culture really means to those left behind by Krakoa... ...and how far he'll go to p...
Kurt Simonson rated Exceptional X-Men #2 Oct 17, 2024
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Kate Pryde's continued attempts at living a normal, non-mutant life go laughably wrong as she finds herself in the middle of a brawl started by a couple of headstrong teens with remarkable abilities - which, of course, they're terrible at controlling. She's sworn off being anybody's teacher, mentor, professor, sensei or anything that reminds her of...
Kurt Simonson rated Uncanny X-Men #4 Oct 17, 2024
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With one X-Man down and hell coming for the rest, ROGUE finds herself alone against a power of darkness she is completely unprepared for. No backup, no lifeline and NO WAY OUT. And as she fights alone, a secret of the new recruits is revealed - is one of them the ENDLING that will destroy all mutantkind?
Rated T+
Kurt Simonson rated X-Men #5 Oct 11, 2024
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While the X-Men engage the social-media sociopath Upstarts, Kid Omega and Psylocke dive deep into the mind of a troubled mutant. Silence: Psychic Rescue in Progress! But Quentin Quire has never been good at keeping his mouth shut...
Rated T+
Kurt Simonson rated Phoenix #3 Sep 26, 2024
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DEATH FROM ABOVE...AND BELOW?!
Saving a planet full of kidnapping victims who've disappeared from the gaudy whirlwind of Gameworld - seems like just another day in space for JEAN GREY! Though...she did get the tip-off from her less-than-forthright father-in-law, legendary pirate CORSAIR of the STARJAMMERS crew...and the kidnappers are non...
Kurt Simonson rated Uncanny X-Men #3 Sep 26, 2024
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CATCH THE ELF!
When new, lethally powerful and completely untrained young mutants show up on Rogue's doorstep with no knowledge of how they got there, a grieving Rogue seeks to take Xavier's place in guiding them to the light... ...while darkness from the past returns to destroy the X-Men, one at a time!
Rated T+
Kurt Simonson rated Nyx #3 Sep 26, 2024
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To Anole - Last night, a mutant was killed in Greenpoint. His name was Shay, but he could have been any of us. I hope you'll come to the memorial. We have to show up for each other - or it's gonna be guys like the Truthseekers who decide what happens to mutants in New York City. I know it's different for you. How much you risk just leaving the hous...
Kurt Simonson rated Power Girl #13 Sep 26, 2024
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OMEN'S TELEPETHY GONE AWRY! Can Power Girl trust her suitor Axel? Only one person can tell her that answer for sure--her best friend Omen. But when Omen's telepathy is threatened by a chance encounter with a new hero, Paige must focus on saving her from herself--along with the rest of Metropolis!
Kurt Simonson rated X-Men #4 Sep 20, 2024
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THEY KILL FOR KICKS & THEY KILL FOR CLICKS!
"Hello, internet - it's your boy, Trevor Fitzroy! That's right, Trevor Fitzroy and the Upstarts, out there delivering the content you crave: livestreamed, bespoke, mutant murder in high-def! And best of all, you, the viewers, are the ones rating the kills! So smash that like button, hit subscrib...
Kurt Simonson rated X-Factor #2 Sep 18, 2024
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POLARIS VS. X-FACTOR!
There's a new mutant rebellion, and Polaris is at the forefront of it all! But how do they know so much about X-Factor's classified missions? Havok must seek out a traitor on the team...but how can he if it's him?!
Rated T+
Kurt Simonson rated Dazzler #1 Sep 18, 2024
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SO BRIGHT THIS STAR!
DAZZLER, Marvel's glittering mutant songstress, has been in and out of the limelight over the years - but now the time has finally come for her to take center stage! Dazzler embarks on a new world tour, the culmination and celebration of her entire musical career! And along for the ride is her new road crew: Domino, S...
Kurt Simonson rated Uncanny X-Men #2 Sep 11, 2024
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WHO ARE THE OUTLIERS?
FROM THE ASHES continues as ROGUE, GAMBIT and WOLVERINE welcome a friend back, just in time to face four UNCONTROLLABLE and WILD mutants in the swamps of Louisiana! But with the mutant community disheartened and fractured, will even the UNCANNY X-MEN be enough to stop them? Something HUGE is starting, and it begins R...
Kurt Simonson rated Wolverine #1 Sep 11, 2024
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THE LEGEND BEGINS ANEW IN THE ADAMANTIUM-TOUGH NEW ONGOING SERIES! There's a killer in the woods - and as WOLVERINE's attempt at piece is shattered, an OLD ENEMY will re-emerge as a NEW VILLAIN rises who will bring LOGAN to the brink of his berserker rage. But NIGHTCRAWLER knows his old friend is capable of doing what's right, and before long, Loga...
Kurt Simonson rated Exceptional X-Men #1 Sep 6, 2024
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KATE PRYDE LEADS A TEAM OF ALL-NEW X-MEN! After the fall of Krakoa, Kate Pryde is trying to get as far away from all things X as she possibly can. She's just a regular-degular bartender now. Definitely NOT getting ready to head up an ALL-NEW TEAM of wayward young mutants while avoiding the watchful gaze of Emma Frost. Nothing in this title but work...
Kurt Simonson rated Nyx #2 Aug 30, 2024
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FROM THE SHADOWS COMES WOLVERINE!
Every day, mutants are being stolen off the streets of Manhattan - unprotected and forgotten by the human world. Now a war-worn WOLVERINE will descend into NYC's criminal underworld to bring them back into the light. Who is the mysterious mutant fixer known only as LOCAL? Can Laura stand alone against the dang...
Kurt Simonson rated X-Men #3 Aug 30, 2024
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SCOTT SUMMERS VS. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
How did the X-Men come to possess their HQ, the Factory, and how difficult a position does that put them in? As Cyclops meets the implacable Agent Lundqvist, the X-Men come to find that their new home may not be as secure as they had thought...
Rated T+
Kurt Simonson rated X-Men #2 Aug 14, 2024
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INVASION!
The X-Men fly to the rescue of a mutant in crisis in San Francisco. The problem? Alien invaders seem to have a similar idea. Six X-Men vs. an invading alien fleet? Sounds about right. PLUS: THE CONCLUSION OF DEADPOOL/WOLVERINE: WEAPON X-TRACTION!
Rated T+
Kurt Simonson rated X-Factor #1 Aug 14, 2024
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FAME, FORTUNE, MUTANTS!
From the ashes of Krakoa, a new mutant arms race sweeps the globe! International governments are building their own mutant armies. But only America's X-Factor has the most powerful, most patriotic, most marketable mutant heroes to stem the tide and make the world safe for democracy! Join Angel, Havok, Frenzy, Feral, Pyr...
Kurt Simonson rated Nyx #1 Jul 24, 2024
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THIS IS NYX!
This isn't a book about X-Men. This is a book about mutants living past the end of their world and into a new beginning. This is MS. MARVEL embracing her mutant life in the neon streets of the Lower East Side. This is ANOLE trying to keep his head above water. This is WOLVERINE in the shadows of Bushwick, protecting her own. This ...
Kurt Simonson reviewed Phoenix #1 Jul 20, 2024
Wow, a lot of people created accounts to give this rather dull book a 10. Jean grey is perfect and can do anything. The end. That was the book. A pass.
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LIFE! FIRE! POWER! POSSIBILITY! PHOENIX!
She is JEAN GREY. She is PHOENIX. She saves the world. She brings death. One woman, alone in space, who not only must do what no one else can: she yearns to. A desperate S.O.S. from NOVA brings the Phoenix to the edge of a black hole, where hundreds of lives hang in the balance...and whatever Jean does ...
Kurt Simonson rated Savage Red Sonja #1 Nov 4, 2023
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Prepare yourself for the savagery that can only Red Sonja can deliver in this brand-new series that harkens back to the classic era of Robert E. Howard's original pulp tales of swords and sorcery!
Tasked with retrieving a long-hidden gem from a crumbled, ancient kingdom, the She-Devil With a Sword is traveling alone through a dangerous was...
Kurt Simonson rated Red Sonja #4 Oct 22, 2023
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"In Part Four of "His Master's Voice," the battle is met - and it is fierce and bloody! No stranger to the carnage of war, Red Sonja stands with the defenders at the battlements as Thord Varg presses his forces to destroy the She-Devil With a Sword - and every living soul around her. But cruel as he is, Varg's malevolence pales in comparison to the...
Kurt Simonson rated Wonder Woman #792 Oct 14, 2022
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Cheetah's gone wild! After serving as the test subject for an immoral corporation's latest product, Barbara Minerva has all but lost her humanity and it's up to Wonder Woman to remind her who she really is. Will their former friendship be the key to survival? Or are our hero and the helpless villain doomed to become extinct? Plus, in our backup sto...
Kurt Simonson rated Wonder Woman #791 Sep 14, 2022
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After almost losing her friends in a vicious battle with the newly formed Villainy Inc., Wonder Woman is going solo! Defeated, Diana must find her way again in a world that seems to have moved on from her and her quest for peace. What could possibly make our hero feel like herself again? Enter Cheetah, and she's got her claws sharpened for a good o...
Kurt Simonson rated X-Men #12 Jun 22, 2022
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THE GRAND CLIMAX!
On the eve of the Hellfire Gala, threats have closed in on the X-Men from all sides. The secret machinations of Doctor Stasis, the terror of Gameworld, even the threat of the X-Men's own secrets getting out...it's all led to this!
RATED T+
Kurt Simonson reviewed X-Men #10 Apr 13, 2022
With X-Men Red and Immortal being as good as they are, this series just feels like it's in the way. Hopefully they'll give Duggan a small irrelevant corner of the X-Men universe to play in and not interfere with the better series.
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DEATH STRIKES SWIFTLY!
The X-Men's troubles just keep piling one on top of the other and now an old enemy steps forward to cut in on the dance!
RATED T+
Kurt Simonson rated Sensational Wonder Woman: Special #1 Mar 30, 2022
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Wonder Woman stars in three sensational stories that will push her to her limits. Will the Amazon Princess come out on top after battling the likes of Circe, Blue Snowman, and the Threnn of Doom? Join us in this celebration of all things Wonder Woman for International Women's Day!
Kurt Simonson rated Inferno #4 Jan 5, 2022
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TO EMBERS!
Jonathan Hickman's time on X-Men ends with the dramatic conclusion of one of the first and best mysteries he brought to the line. Valerio Schiti returns on art to help bring down one of the foundations of the era.
RATED T+
Kurt Simonson rated X-Men #6 Jan 5, 2022
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CAPTAIN KRAKOA?
There's a new hero on the X-Men. Who is he? Why is here? And why does Cyclops not want him on the team?
RATED T+
Kurt Simonson rated X-Men #5 Nov 26, 2021
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ENTER: DOCTOR STASIS! The X-Men’s new nemesis finally makes himself known to them, bringing his creations to bear. Mutants may have conquered death, but their foes are all too living…
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