Marvel’s revealed the covers to Uncanny X-Men #1 and #2, both by Carlos Pacheco. They’re pretty crap. I mean seriously  what the fuck is Cyclops doing in that first cover.

Hit the jump to check them out. You tell me.

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Well, despite trying to stay away from set photos, even Comics Alliance is now dropping them in front of (as opposed to behind) Read More tags. So they’ve been seen by mine eyes, and well I might as well pass them along to the curious now.

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I don’t read none of them Avengers books. Don’t like them. Don’t care about them. Marvel knows this, and they aren’t playing fair. They’re adding  Daniel Acuña to Avengers proper starting with issue #18, and his artwork is enough to get me to buy the rag.

Hit the jump for a preview of his premiere issue. It’s sexy.

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I love George R. R. Martin. He brought me one of my favorite artistic wankeries in years, in the form of both the Game of Thrones books and television shows. So I respect the man. Yet it’s a bit off. He praises Marvel for killing off important characters, while failing to notice and important comic book trope that undercuts everything.

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JGL continues to keep hope alive for me. I want me a Robin in Dark Knight Rises. Listen man, I’m not talking about some circus motherfucker. I’m talking about a Nolanized version of the character. Simply put: someone who can don the cowl and continue the symbolism that Wayne created in the first movie.

JGL was asked about Robin, and boy did he play a fun game of equivocation.

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USA Today has some artwork from this week’s Supergirl #1, along with an interview with the comic’s co-writers. They have an interesting bent on the Supergirl character. A character that I’ve never really been interested in, but after reading them talk about her?

I’m buyin’ at least the first issue.
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Batman Incorporated is returning this December. This has me very  excited, since I love my Morrison draped in a cowl these days. Upon its return it’s promising to kick-off a storyline that is the culmination of six years of Morrison’s work. G’damn.

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Marvel’s dropped a new teaser for the awkward, awfully named Fear Itself: The Fearless. Like, really? Clunky a-go-go. Brakes! I’m pumping them. It’s also written by Matt Fraction, and it has Valkyrie wanting to cut down the FF to save the world.

Hit the jump for the teaser.

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Well here’s an arms race I’m okay with. Just after Marvel added a multiethnic Spider-Man to their (Ultimate) universe, DC is adding  Miguel Jose Barragan to the relaunched Teen Titans. Barragan is openly gay, and according to his creators is much more comfortable with his sexuality than the other gay and lesbian characters of the DCU.

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[Caffeine Note: Friend of the Brothers Omega Budrickton is a scholar, gentleman, and frequenter of conventions. He wanted a venue to share his thoughts and but of course we obliged. Hug him and give him a mug of your freshest mead.]

The young nerd’s life is often an unforgiving enterprise. Their trading-card-trading, Pokémon-playing, perpetually chunky and uncoordinated elementary years are just the beginning of a number of roads, many of which run off the edge of a cliff, socially speaking.

These rocky starts for my brethren are usually followed up with a high school life of true class; basement-dwelling, Han-shot-first, ‘virgin-forever’ years function as a training ground for learning how to work an innate and exuberant nerdiness into daily life, and possibly, actually interact with ordinary people!

There’s hope in these years; nerds either abandon their ways in pursuit of socializing, underage drinking, and the holy grail:  losing your virginity before age 18. Or, they go full throttle, and become what they were always destined to be at the place where all nerds unite:

The Con.

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