Trick Or Treat – The Further Adventures Of Team Logan: Review Of Wolverine And The X-Men #1

Wolverine And The X-Men #1 by Jason Aaaron, with art by Chris Bachalo, brings us the first day of classes at the newly formed Jean Grey School For Higher Learning. Headmaster Logan and Headmistress Pryde have their work cut out for them as they try to balance first day jitters with a visit from the New York Board Of Education. But, they’ve fought the likes of Magneto and Apocalypse in the past, so this new challenge should be a piece of cake, right?

Not so much.

Turns out Wolverine and company might have been better off putting up with Cyclops and staying on Utopia after all.

Spoilers and teenage angst after the jump!

Dracula Can Has Cheezburger? Crisis On Infinite Midlives Halloween Theater

It’s Halloween, and that means one thing: blasting your enemies with shaving cream. Or, if you’re from my family and your Mom responds to your request for shaving cream for Halloween shenanigans with a can of Edge gel, dribbling blue-green gack down your forearm while the other kids hose you down with Foamy. My childhood was fucked. But I digress.

Actually, Halloween means horror flicks. And, since this is a comics related Web site, we’ve got a doozy for you, in its glorious entirety: a Toei Animation anime adaptation of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan’s classic 1970s horror comic The Tomb of Dracula!

You know, provided Marv and Gene had ready access to some primo Afghan hash.

This movie has it all: Dracula! Satan! Aggressive and detailed stonemasonry work! An airport in Boston with parking spaces! And the line that will chill your bones: “Hail Dolores, Pride of Satan!”, which I will be shouting whenever I have an orgasm from here until the end of time.

And, best of all: Dracula eating a cheeseburger.

Walking Into View, or: Boom! Headshot!

Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead comic book, has stepped up in the world. At our first SDCC in 2006, when Kirkman also hosted his first Spotlight panel, he told us in the crowd that he’d brought a deck of cards to play Solitaire in case no one showed up. I may also have seen a copy of Hustler and a sock stuck under the table, but that was a long time ago and it’s safe to say I was hung over at the time. Because God knows I’m hung over now.

Anyway, that was five and a half years ago. Now, Kirkman’s the writer and Executive Producer of The Walking Dead TV show – the biggest hit in the history of cable TV – with all the perks that entails. Big house? Sure… although the poor fucker lives in Kentucky, where you can live like a coke dealing hip hop star for about $12.75 American. Bling? Yeah, if he wanted it, but I’m guessing the poor man gets enough attention from Bear… enthusiasts as it is. Bitches? Well… kinda.

I say “kinda” because Kirkman’s gonna be a guest on The View later this morning.