This week on “Previously On,” I analyze the “right” number of series for the X-Men’s “Dawn of X,” and celebrate the peaceful euthanasia of the shockingly great HBO Watchmen.
Best Comics Ever: The Road to Empyre – Marvel’s 2020 Cosmic Event!
Beginning with Marvel Comics #1000, and more directly with the 2019 Incoming #1, Marvel Comics began building to a cosmic war event, with Empyre #1 launching in April 2020. The event promises to bring the Avengers and Fantastic Four together against a cosmic Kree and Skrull threat that connects back heavily to Marvel Cosmic stories told since the publisher’s earliest days.
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Marvel comics of 1980. Dark Phoenix Saga! The worst idea in Avengers history!
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The “Dark Phoenix Saga” is among the most pivotal stories in Marvel Comics history, and without question one of the X-Men’s most iconic moments. The resurgence of Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne and collaborators all builds to a five-years-in-the-making trial by fire of both Jean Grey and Marvel’s merry mutants.
As the My Marvelous Year reading club reads through these essentials in Marvel, I’ll be re-exploring some of the fringe comics and stories that expand the traditional read, both to establish a reading order and to determine how much value is added branching outside the core comics issues.
Previously On #97: A Dad at Disneyworld – Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge Review!
I spent the past week at Disneyworld with two very young children (including myself, my wife had to manage three!), and while I have some general dad tips, the big new adventure is the Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge land in Hollywood Studios. While Galaxy’s Edge opened in California’s Disneyland first, Florida’s Disneyworld is the first to offer the Rise of the Resistance ride, which brings some very unique changes to the Disney experience.
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