Director James Mangold was on stage at San Diego Comic-Con to talk about The Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman as the title character. The director described the film as a tough guy movie that deals with where Logan comes from and where he’s going to. He said that they have amped up the action in the sequel, while finding a way to explore his personality.

They then showed an extended clip of the movie that featured some of the most brutal scenes that have ever featured Wolverine. Wolverine was shown getting shot, stabbed, poisoned, and dishing out as much as he takes. Much of the footage had already been shown in the official trailer, but there was plenty of new stuff in this R-rated footage. Then they showed the footage again for good measure.

Saturday at San Diego Comic Con was a day for the big sci-fi movies and 20th Century Fox had a huge presence, giving fans a surprise first look at the next film in the X-Men franchise, X-Men: Days of Future Past. Director Bryan Singer, writer/producer Simon Kidberg, producer Lauren Shuller-Donner, and producer Todd Hallowell, along with actors Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Ian McKellan, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Omar Sy, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin, Peter Dinklage, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, and Hugh Jackman were all on stage to show off the new movie.

Singer was the first to come out on stage to introduce the cast. The film is still in production in Vancouver, with about a month left to go. However, they showed a solid chunk of footage from the film. It started off with the older Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in the future sending Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) into the past with a mission to meet the younger version of the Professor (James McAvoy). He also needs to find the younger Magneto (Michael Fassbender), who the older mutant (Ian McKellen) explains took a darker path. There were then shots of Wolverine interacting with the 70’s version of the X-Men team, and plenty of action thrown in for good measure. The footage got the whole crowd excited and it made me personally feel a lot more confident for the upcoming film. Even the brief footage helped to set up the plot and explained why both the new and old set of characters are in the same movie.

While 20th Century Fox has a panel scheduled at San Diego Comic-Con this Saturday, the studio has yet to reveal what they’ll be promoting that day in the convention center’s main auditorium, Hall H. But if you’re in the area of the convention center near the Hard Rock Hotel, you’ll see that Fox has an exhibit set up outside that features some viral marketing for their upcoming X-Men sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past.

The exhibit is a booth for Trask Industries, creator of The Sentinels, the massive robotic mutant hunters and deadly foes of the X-Men. On display was Bolivar Trask’s “crowning achievement,” the original Sentinel Mark I production model. Around the booth were propaganda posters decrying that mutants as the enemy and showing off the Sentinel army as the way to fight the “mutant threat.”

You can see photos of the Sentinel head, along with the posters as well as the Trask Industries flyer given out at the exhibit.

Each and every week, I, “I work for Sphinx now” Henchman21, and “Sphinx!” Empress Eve read a lot of comics. Seriously you guys, a lot of comics. Maybe too many comics. I mean, it is possible”¦ theoretically. Naturally, we look forward to some more than others. I mean, who doesn’t? So, let’s take a look into the depths of our pull lists, grab some comics, and we’ll let YOU know what the top books to look forward to are for the week of June 5, 2013. Single issues and trades, they’re all here.

It’s been a couple of huge weeks, and we’re catching up from some time off last week with an extra-sized list this week. There are two books you need to buy this week, which I will list below. Sure, I suppose you can buy other books, but these are pretty much required reading for any comic book fan. We can’t just ignore the other books out this week, so we’ve got a fine collection of titles for you, including a couple of new series from last week and my favorite series. So let’s not waste a second more because it’s time once again for The GoD List!

Director Bryan Singer tweeted a pair of new photos from the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past featuring a shaggy-looking Professor X (James McAvoy), a de-Beast-ified Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult), and – of course – Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) being the laconic badass as usual.

You can check them out here below.