Check out these intense 2001 #MarvelComics ads from Wizard issue 120.

A double page ad for Shadow Reavers from Black Bull comics as featured in Wizard 120.

Wonder if anybody out there ever got a copy of Wildstorm's Ninja Boy graded 🤔

A couple of #dccomics ads from Wizard 120.

Check out the "Exclusive Guests" attending Wizard World Chicago 2001, plus the Wizard Fans Awards hosted by @jimmypalmiotti.bsky.social and Nelson (not the blonde twin rockers 😉)

Here's a few @topcowofficial.bsky.social ads from Wizard 120. Anybody out there give Fallen Angel, The Damned, Necromancer or Inferno a read?

CrossGen was hoping to bring in readers with the art of exciting new talents, Greg Land and Steve McNiven, both of whom were profiled in issues of Wizard to help raise their name recognition with the fans.

Here's the behind the scenes look at @alexrossart.bsky.social creating a cover for an issue of Universe X, using Wizard staffer, Christopher Lawrence as a model. Plus, learn which characters Ross refused to paint in 2001.

Here's the report from Wizard 120 about the set decoration for Peter Parker's room in the first Sam Raimi #spiderman film.

Wizard 120 featured a report from the set of @thatkevinsmith.bsky.social film, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back written by @mclauchlin.bsky.social , who also had a cameo in the movie.

A geeky holiday greeting for all you #XMen fans out there!

Merry Christmas, Geeks! Here’s hoping your festivities are as fun as this Wizard trading card by Joe Quesada and @jimmypalmiotti.bsky.social that’s chock full o’ holiday fun!

Wizard 120 featured an offer for readers to order back "landmark" back issues of The Guide To Comics. Which of these would YOU have selected?

Here's the piece from Wizard 120 taking a look inside the sketchbook of Joseph Michael Linsner. Most of the art was concepts of #marvelcomics characters for projects that never came to fruition, but of course there were some DAWN illustrations included for good measure.

Wizard 120 featured a mail-away offer for a The Incredible Hulk 181 ACE Edition comic with a cover by Sean Chen and Jimmy Palmiotti containing the first appearance of #Wolverine, plus some other fun extras.

Check out Bill Roseman from Marvel offering up his own ideas for what "saucy" tales the House of Ideas could offer up to readers now that Joe Quesada was ditching the Comics Code Authority. As per usual, the Wizard commentary takes it "too far" 🤭

As discussed on our recent episode, here's Wizard's helpful list of new names for comic book characters with monikers that are "too intense" for more sensitive readers. Which one gives you a chuckle?

Here's the article from Wizard 120 providing a behind the scenes look at how the #MarvelComics crew went about creating the Origin of #Wolverine including commentary from the writers who turned down the project.

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Here's the Wizard news story about a contest winning, fan-made character from 1973 who was supposed to appear in #marvelcomics , but never did until getting a 2-issue arc in Thunderbolts in 2001. Also, look at the famous artists who entered, but didn't win the contest in '73!

Please join us in wishing our friend and co-host, @williambwest.bsky.social a very Happy Birthday! He's a man among Geeks!

Here's the report from Wizard 120 gathering reactions from the industry about #marvelcomics decision to publish without the Comics Code Authority seal in 2001.

Wizard 120 came packed with a Paradise X sketchbook.

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The ESSENTIAL #xmen feature in the 2001 Wizard special celebrating Marvel's mighty mutants closes out by giving the spotlight to important character moments for heavy-hitters Storm and Wolverine.

More ESSENTIAL #xmen character moments highlighted by Wizard for Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Rogue and Professor X. Plus Chris Claremont reveals details about a few story ideas that never made it to the page.

Here are what Wizard (in 2001) deemed the ESSENTIAL storylines for founding #xmen Beast, Cyclops and Iceman, plus the lovable mutant mainstay, Colossus. Do you agree with their selections?

The 2001 Wizard #xmen Special highlighted the essential stories of the major mutant heroes, starting with Warren Worthington III's saga of becoming Archangel, escaping from Apocalypse and returning to the X-Mansion. Keep watching our feed throughout the day for more.

OK, all you #xmen fanatics, time to X-plain something to us: WHY does Rogue have Wolverine claws in Chris Claremont's X-Treme X-Men? WHEN/HOW did this happen?

The Wizard #xmen Special from 2001 opened with a letter from #Marvel EIC, Joe Quesada about why he and Bill Jemas decided to overhaul the X-books for the 21st century to give the fans something fresh and new.

This week on the podcast we're bringing you our coverage of Wizard issue 120. Stay Tuned, Geeks!

This #spiderman ad from 2001 is pretty epic.

Check out these #MarvelComics ads from the 2001 Wizard X-Men Special, showing what was going on outside of the major overhaul on the mutant side of Marvel.

Here's the article from the 2001 Wizard #xmen special giving the spotlight to the "Multimedia Mutants" appearing in #Marvel film, animation and the not quite officially connected, Mutant X TV series.

Here's the "Last Mutant Standing" style battle where the Wizard staff pit #xmen teams from various eras against each other to determine which was the most powerful.

Though mostly a straightforward hype magazine, the 2001 Wizard #xmen special featured a silly mock curriculum for Xavier's school (with some hilarious course names) and the staff cited some of the strangest moments in X-Men history.

The Wizard #xmen Special from 2001 included this poster by Alex Ross, featuring the artist's new costume concepts for Marvel's mutant heroes.

Check out these rejected @alexrossart.bsky.social designs for the #xmen as presented in the Wizard X-Men Special from 2001. Which of these is your favorite?

Raise your hand if EXILES is your favorite #xmen spin-off book. If not, does it at least make your Top 3?

How did you feel about Chris Claremont and Salvador Larocca's X-Treme #xmen in 2001?

Wizard compares 3 different #Wolverine costumes (surprisingly absent is the Quitely/Churchill redesign) and asks readers to pick their favorite. Where do you fall: Classic, Movie or Ultimate?

Here's a "great idea", when promoting the #wolverine solo comic book you're writing, insult the iconic costume of the character that helped make him an icon for 25+ years and by association the fandom that buys superhero books filled will spandex wearing protagonists. Dum-Dum.

How excited were you for the revamp of X-Force by Peter Milligan and @allredmd.bsky.social in 2001?

The mysterious Writer X, the mind behind The Brotherhood reveals their rebellious attitude towards telling the story of a mutant revolution that is in no way related to Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, in this interview form the 2001 Wizard #xmen special.

Here's the interview with writer, David Tischman about his plans to strip away everything X-Men about Cable and make him a generic international adventurer handling real world issues. Fun...🙄

Here's the interview with Mark Millar sharing his anXiety in being tasked with revamping the #xmen for the #Marvel Ultimate line. The remembrance of his reaction was quite "descriptive" 😄

Here's the interview w/ the #xmen creative teams of Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely and Joe Casey/Ian Churchill talking about the new direction of the X-universe and pushing the evolution of the comic book format in the process, as presented in the Wizard X-Men Special from 2001.

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