Author: Mark Perigard

Writer. Editor. Survivor. Half-man, half-metal.

The ‘All-New, All-Different’ X-Men Battle Magneto for the First Time – and Lose

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Magneto Vs. the New X-Men: With an ending no one expected.
Magneto Vs. the New X-Men: With an ending no one expected.

It had to happen.

In their first year, the new X-Men had fought Sentinels and Juggernaut and even killer robot duplicates of the original team.

They were bound to face their most hated, hateful foe – Magneto.

But nobody expected it would be such a resounding rout for the Master of Magnetism.

In “X-Men” No. 104, “The Gentleman’s Name is Magneto,” cover date April 1977, the new recruits are attacked on Muir Island and just barely escape with their lives.

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Archie’s ‘Jughead’ Goes Where No Comic Has Gone Before

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I'm really glad 'Jughead' isn't a 3-D comic.
I’m really glad ‘Jughead’ isn’t a 3-D comic.

“Jughead” No. 3 is all about the No. 2.

The latest issue of the revamped Archie Comics book about Archie’s best pal, released Dec. 30, goes where no mainstream comic has gone before.

Right into the crapper.

It takes a dump.

OK, it shows a dump.

Jughead is at war with the new Riverdale High principal, who has suspended him. When the tyrant thinks he’s caught Jughead on school property, Jughead is quick to correct him.

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Sweet Christmas! Can Luke Cage Save Us from Jingle Bombs?

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Maybe there really is a war on Christmas!
Maybe there really is a war on Christmas!

Slay bells ring – are you listening?

Remakes of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” are more common than mutants this time of year. Even “Sanford and Son” and “The Jetsons” retold the tale.

But few have told the tale focusing on Scrooge’s damned business partner Jacob Marley.

Luke Cage, hero for hire, finds himself trapped in a Dickensian nightmare right on Christmas Eve – can he convince a madman not to blow up the world?

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Ten Years Later, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Just Won’t Quit

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A decade later, 'Brokeback Mountain's' power has not dimmed.
A decade later, ‘Brokeback Mountain’s’ power has not dimmed.

Ten years ago this month, “Brokeback Mountain” was released into movie theaters.

By all conventional box-office wisdom, the movie should have dropped like a stone, closed within a week and would have been but a footnote in film history.

What happened was far different.

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