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Shadow and Weight: Mike Mignola Comics Profile & Chronology

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There is something magical about watching someone become who they are. Not so much an evolution, but a refinement, a growing clarity in which their influences and experiences blend together into something that looks like nothing else. This is an especially wonderful thing in comics, because it leads to telling not many stories, but one story — their own story.

And that’s exactly what we get with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola (pronounced Meen-YO-la) as he went from staff artist to, well, himself. [Read more…] about Shadow and Weight: Mike Mignola Comics Profile & Chronology

What’s Up With Thanos in 2019?

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A eugooglizer. One who speaks at funerals. Or did you think I’d be too stupid to know what a eugoogly was? — Derek Zoolander

For all the talkof the Marvel Cinematic Universe being the tail now wagging Marvel Comics, the publisher is still capable of zigging just when you think they’ll zag into the corporate synergy. Case in point: Thanos is dead. Long live Thanos.

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Best Comics To Read Before Avengers: Endgame

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Avengers: Endgame is wholly unique in superhero movies, promising an unheralded level of revelation for the mysteries left in the wake of Avengers: Infinity War. There are so many varied directions Endgame might go, meaning related reads are part recommendation, part Nostradamus pontificating.

In trying to come up with relevant and potentially predictive Marvel Comics that will connect to the next installment in the Avengers movie franchise, it occurs to me how few Marvel books reflect quite the same notes. While we know this isn’t the final Avengers movie, there’s a permanence and finality to the post Infinity War MCU that the never-ending story of comics rarely embraces. [Read more…] about Best Comics To Read Before Avengers: Endgame

Godzilla’s Comic Smash Hits

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Godzilla has been an icon of pop culture for so long it really is the embodiment of that Lt. Ripley Aliens line of not knowing where you begin and the beast ends. Godzilla in comics, though- now that’s a kaiju of a whole different color.

As a licensed property of the Toho film and distribution company, the Big G has passed through a lot of publishing houses in the past sixty-something years. Older fans surely hold dear with rose-colored esteem Marvel’s Bronze Age volume, complete with guest appearances by the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as the highly-regarded years that Dark Horse held the rights to the franchise in the 80s and 90s. [Read more…] about Godzilla’s Comic Smash Hits