Welcome to a world of blood and violence, this week’s reviews and info sheet are all about the man who has been cleaning up the Marvel universe for over 30 years, yup this week we are looking at Francis Castiglione otherwise known as Frank Castle: The Punisher.

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Fear Itself descends upon Wolverine's X-Force in a most Uncanny way, it's Uncanny X-Force vs a group of murderous zealots...so what else is new?! Well, this limited series is brought to you by Sidekick favourite, Rob Williams, he's Welsh and he did our live Secrets and Lies, of course he's our favourite, and on art, Simone Bianchi, who Sidekickcast co-host Dan has been quite rude about in the past but I like his style. Not just that but I think you'll recognise the guy X-Force have got strapped down and look like they'r about to torture, abrother in arms! Any excuse to see a little more of this dynamic and quite frankly kick-ass team, and I'm sold, so bring it on, I can't wait for 6th July and neither should you! Carry onto the next page for the rest of the preview and don't forget, keep 'em peeled Sidekicks.

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Hey Sidekicks, long time no see. I trust you're all well and enjoyed the outstanding job @Neon_Lynx did editing the blog whilst I was getting a True Brit tan in sunny Spain? I'd like to extend my eternal thanks to him and the rest of the Sidekicks for a sterling effort in keeping the good ship Sidekick firmly on course whilst I indulged myself in the finer things in life.

Now I'm back and it's straight down to business with a preview for Uncanny X-Force #11 which begins The Dark Angel Saga, a story we here at Sidekick Central are very much looking forward to especially as it heralds the return to the Age of Apocalypse.

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It started off as a joke, then it became self-referential, then it became the target of fan ire and now it's on the verge of eating itself... Just how many comics is Wolverine in?

From the way people go on about it (including us!), you may be surprised at the answer. Or I may just be being a little naive... I've only counted regular titles and not one-shots and/or guest appearances but click through for the answer and some cool artwork!

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Thanks to Marvel we've got a first look at Venom #2, from the red hot creative team of writer Rick Remender and artist Tony Moore. This blog is fast becoming the Rick Remender Appreciation Society, with his awesome work on Fear Agent, then The Punisher, Uncanny X-Force and now the reboot of Venom.

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Link: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31280

The book I've been having my most recent love affair with is Uncanny X-Force, I've always been a fan of Rick Remender's writing and now that he's adding his crazy but stylish touches to the X-Men universe, I couldn't be happier.

What does this picture represent? I do not know, will it be awesome, most likely. In Uncanny X-Force and it's adjectiveless predecessor, they've been skirting around the issue of Archangel's double personna and his possible slip into darkness for some time now, clearly The Dark Angel Saga will address this, role on number ten.

When he's not writing dark and depraved comic books, torturing puppy dogs for fun or working on the arsom ECBT2000AD, Rich McAuliffe likes to taunt us with reviews of books he would usually hate:
Last time they were right.
I'd listened to the Sidekick guys spout off about how cool Daredevil was.. well up until Shadowlands anyway, so I thought I'd test it and pick up the monster omnibus of Bendis' Daredevil run. And like I said, they were bang on the money. Totally loved it.

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2011 (MMXI) is The Year of The X-Men, it's no secret, Marvel have been filling our inboxes with press releases telling us so. So what exactly makes this year belong to the X-Men? There does seem to be some major movement within Marvel's merry band of mutants across the myriad of mediums available to us. To make sure you're all covered for X-Men news we have put together a mammoth round up of all the latest X-Men news.

First of all we have two new posters for X-Men: First Class, one of James McAvoy's Xavier and the other Michael Fassbender's Magneto. Most importantly each of these posters not only makes reference to each character's future incarnation but also the difference in their philosophical beliefs with Xavier's picture all dreamy and picturesque whilst Magneto's is all angsty and dark.

CLICK ON ANY OF THE IMAGES TO EMBIGGEN

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I am not a Venom fan, I am not even a Spider-Man fan but damn I may have to pick up both Amazing Spider-Man #654.1 and Venom #1. The reason for this is simple, Rick Remender and Tony Moore are the new creators on Venom, with his introduction in the aforementioned ASM. I mean I would follow Remender into the mists of avalon, the very least I can do is follow him onto Venom.

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Came home drunk from the pub last week and so eager was I to get into Uncanny X-Force #1 I intoxicato-read it and loved it. Still haven't gone back sober just in case it's not as good as I remember, may try to do the whole series drunk, it's the future I tells ya!

Anyway, enough of my drunken antics check out this preview of Uncanny X-Force #2:

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