Bryan Singer Leads X-Men: Apocalypse for 2016

Bryan Singer tweeted a juicy tidbit for the X-Men movie-verse with 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse.

Here's the incriminating evidence:

#Xmen #Apocalypse 2016!
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) December 5, 2013

Funny they forgot to mention this back then. Still it's a pretty nice addition to the already growing 20th Century Fox X-Men centric movies. I also heard some new developments for the X-Force movie courtesy of Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld.

A release date of May 27, 2016 joining other Marvel related movies like that untitled Marvel Studios project and Amazing Spider-Man 3. It's so far away so I guess we still should wait for X-Men: Days of Future Past to be released. 

Marvel's Next Event Book will Focus on Apocalypse and Archangel

Bleedingcool reports that what's coming next year for Marvel Comics for their event book will revolve around the Celestials, Archangel, Apocalypse and more importantly, Magneto.

Obviously the writers for this project will be Jason Aaron (Wolverine and the X-Men) and Rick Remender (who did a lot for these characters back in the first volume of Uncanny X-Force; including "The Dark Angel Saga").

So it's probably time to start re-reading Remender's Uncanny run as well as the earlier issues of WATXM (you know, the one where Warren's gone off his rocker and believes that he's a real angel). Oh and the rumor site cited current Captain America and Kick-Ass artist John Romita Jr. as the book's main art guy.

Uncanny Avengers # 6 SPOILERS

Daniel Acuña brought me back this month thanks to his awesome lines and art for Uncanny Avengers # 8 which is also written by Rick Remender.

In this issue, it's basically a one-shot featuring a fight between a young Thor and Apocalypse.

The spoilers are seen after the cut.

Daniel Acuña Onboard Uncanny Avengers's Second Arc

Marvel Comics has announced over at CBR that artist Daniel Acuña will be stepping in as the regular penciller for Uncanny Avengers. 

Artist John Cassaday will still be working on the book albeit as the cover artist (which isn't a bad thing all things considered).

Kind of weird though because if you read the interview during the Uncanny Avengers roster expansion, you'd notice that they were stating that Cassaday was in it for the long haul. Maybe its come to a point that they really need to have a fall back for the former Astonishing X-Men artist.

Still, Acuña is a pretty good pick. He's got this solid lines and art style mixed with a good dose of great facial expressions for his characters. Check out some of the unlettered pages for Uncanny Avengers # 6 which will be hitting stores March,2013.

Mind the cut though...

Kid Apocalypse aka Genesis and his Superman Allusions

Wolverine and the X-Men # 10 had a lot of book changing moments [do check out my Wolverine and the X-Men # 10 Spoilers] but there was certainly something on that comic book that I felt needed to be discussed on a separate blog post.

This has got to do with Kid Apocalypse aka Genesis who is now a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.

In issue # 10 we get to see the burgeonign relationship of Evan and Archangel who is still convinced that he is an angel and not a mutant. This issue also yet again showed allusions to Superman thanks to the Evan's rescue of Warren.

Oh Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo must have had a good time doing this particular page. Rick Remender might have been even laughing at this segment. Still, its a particularly great looking imagery. Hopefully Marvel doesn't misuse or abuse this character. He'll make a lot of interesting stories in the future if the House of Ideas plays their cards right.

More images after the cut...