Link: http://beta.news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-marvels-uncanny-x-men-ending-oct-070621654.html

Uncanny X-Men will end with issue #544 in October. That's it, that's all she wrote, no more Uncanny X-Men. WTF?!

This is all because of the fall out from Jason Aaron's Schism event, which has been described widely by Marvel folk and others as the X-Men's Civil War. Civil War was an event that ran in all the Marvel comics which split the universe straight down the middle based upon the inherent philosophical differences between Tony Stark (Iron Man)and Steve Rogers (Captain America) on how to deal/regulate with Superhumans and Superheroics. This Schism event seems to be based on a difference in opinion between Cyclops and Wolverine on how to move forward with Mutantkind, much like the Magneto/Xavier divide that came before this. What to do with a problem like Mutants eh?

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Link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/X-Men-First-Class/150354778334078?ref=ts&sk=info#!/xmenmovies

I was just bobbling around the internet thinking about X-Men: First Class as I often do on a Monday morning when I thought I'd take a look at the X-Men Movies Facebook page when I came across these fantastic fan made posters. Clearly they're fan made but they still easily outshine the actual X-Men: First Class posters, examples of which, let's call the first one exhibit A, can be found here and the second one exhibit B can be found here.

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It's becoming a global media event and we're a global media outlet - what did you expect? Also, the holiday weekend last weekend and the holiday weekend this weekend mean that I'm a bit strapped for time so there you have it!

As Prince William and Kate Middleton prepare to tie the knot at Westminster Abbey, we here at the Sidekick Blog make our way to a secluded corner of the garden party, take off our shoes and socks, losen our dickie bows, dip our feet in the water feature, order some more cocktails and reminisce about great weddings of yore.

That involved comic book characters. And perhaps didn't attract quite somuch world wide attention.

They're not really in order of preference, lavishnes or anything like that, they're just weddings. So grab your confetti, dust off your morning suit and grab a box of tissues. For drying your eyes, dirty!!

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Link: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=170700836293714&aid=47103

Bring me the head of FOX marketing so I can slap them in the face, just what were they thinking with these new X-Men: First Class posters? I'm not even sure if these 'new' posters are official, they appeared on the X-Men Facebook page last night so we have to assume that they are genuine but they sure don't look it.

Magneto poster after the jump...

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