After viewing a tweet recently wondering who the best writer in comics was this year, I realized I didn’t necessarily have a definitive answer, in part because it’s early in the year, and in part because comics have been on a virus-impacted hiatus for nearly two months. My stock-in-trade response has unquestionably been Jonathan Hickman since House of X
Krakin’ Krakoa #58: Excalibur’s Alternate Realities & Incursions! | Excalibur #10 Review
Exaclibur has grown into the series I always wanted it to be. Across issues 9 and 10, Tini Howard, Marcus To and the creative unit have built up a saga of multiverses, alternate realities, and an all-new Captain Britain Corps that both fits into the legacy of Marvel’s Exaclibur dating back to the late 80’s, and provides our first serious glimpse into alternate realities in Dawn of X.
Today I’ll answer:
- How do all the pieces of Excalibur build to this moment in Excalibur #10
- Who’s causing the alternate realities in the Dawn of X?
- What does the re-emergence of Hickman’s Secret Wars era Incursions mean for the X-Men?
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Creannotators #3: “Fearscape” Deep Dive with writer Ryan O’Sullivan!
This week on Creannotators, I talked with writer Ryan O’Sullivan about Fearscape and the upcoming not-sequel A Dark Interlude!
On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio/visual annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!
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[Read more…] about Creannotators #3: “Fearscape” Deep Dive with writer Ryan O’Sullivan!Marvel Year Twenty-Three: 1984 Pt. 5
Marvel comics of 1984. Demon Bear Saga! Magick! West Coast Avengers, I guess?!
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[Read more…] about Marvel Year Twenty-Three: 1984 Pt. 5Krakin’ Krakoa #57: Is Hickman’s X-Men An Alternate Reality?
Since the launch of House of X and the Hickman era of X-Men, and certainly throughout my Krakin’ Krakoa exploration of X-Comics, the possibility of Krakoa as an alternate reality is a popular and potentially exciting theory. The ambition and vision of Professor X, Magneto, Moira MacTaggert and mutantkind is grand enough that it begs the question whether all this change is really happening in Marvel’s core Earth-616 timeline.
Today I’ll answer:
- Is the Krakoa Era an Alternate Reality?
- Who are the Omega Level mutants most likely to play a role in a Hickman era alt universe?
- If there is an alternate reality in play, what should it look like?
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