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FractalMatter’s own Francis Davis takes a look at Countdown.

A quick look at trailers for November featuring, Southlandtales, I am Legend and Across the Universe

Sabrina Peyton chats with Lisa Wood and Tamsin Isles about the new Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds, comic books and art.

And so it begins…or rather it rewinds. The start of Marvel’s epic 13 chapter X-over is here. With echoes of classic crossovers like X-tinction Agenda and X-cutioner’s Song dancing on the wind and with Marc Silvestri on pencils, it’s like the 90s all over again, but is a reversion to it’s heyday enough to pull the ailing X-franchise out of the mire of mediocrity it finds itself in.

The arc sees the X-Men trying to help Rogue after the battle with the Hecatomb, whilst Cable deals with the devastated island of Providence.

Following the funeral of a mutant Hank McCoy obsesses over the nature of the decimation of the mutants, he decides he will find the means to reverse the process, no matter what – even if it means selling his soul.

Rick McCallum on the future for Lucasfilm Part 2.

Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks with George Khoury.