I don’t know the exact date, but I must have settled on the name Comic Book Herald sometime around August 2010 (that’s when my Twitter handle debuted!), a few months into my first real world job, and around a year before I’d get married. It’s strange to consider, but I’ve had nearly a full decade with Comic Book Herald now, although any site traffic data doesn’t begin in earnest until 2012. [Read more…] about Previously On #96: The Decade in Comic Book Herald
Marvel Year Eighteen: 1979 Pt. 2
Marvel comics of 1979. Iron Man in Demon in a Bottle! Scott Lang debuts as the new Ant-Man!
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[Read more…] about Marvel Year Eighteen: 1979 Pt. 2Is 2020 The Year You Get Into Marvel Comics? Check Out the MMY Reading Club!
My Marvelous Year is a reading club and podcast specifically designed to take you through the history of Marvel Comics, from origins to today. We read through one publication year of Marvel at a time, curating the 10 most essential storylines from the era.
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The Cates of Hel #1: Thor #1 Review – The Song of Galactus & Thor
When comics writer Donny Cates gets a chance at a Marvel series, he takes big shots, and aims for at least one clear, major hook to get readers on board. What if Thanos… won? What if Loki was the Sorcerer Supreme? What if Peter Parker could talk to Spiders?
Ok that last one’s like half a joke (but seriously, it happened), but the idea is Cates excels as these balls-to-wall no-cards-left-on-the-table “WHAT IF” style narratives seen through to completion. It’s this approach that has generated an extremely compelling body of work, across a wide variety of Marvel titles, from Thanos to Venom and now to Thor. This body of work has also increasingly set up Cates as the godhead of Marvel Cosmic, a role that looks to continue in Thor.
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Krakin’ Krakoa #27: X-Men #4 Is Hickman’s Best In The Run To Date!
While 2019’s Dawn of X ended on a middling, muddled note, 2020 is off to an improved start, beginning with the energizing X-Men #4 by Jonathan Hickman and Lionel Francis Yu.
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