A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
[Chris Bachalo Darkhold Omega cover]
Do you feel like you’ve waited for decades for the Scarlet Witch to finally get her due, exacting a price against her erstwhile manipulator Doctor Doom (hello, Wanda’s curse and The Children’s Crusade) and Chthon too (Nights of Wundagore)? Then this book, or rather just one(!) of its issues, delivers.
With Moon Knight arriving in Disney+ in a few weeks, another aspect of the Fist of Khonshu is coming with him: Mr. Knight! It’s even a big part of the show’s marketing! This shouldn’t surprise anybody familiar with the character (though I admit I was pleasantly surprised myself): despite it being quite a recent creation, Marc Spector’s “Mr. Knight” guise has become so deeply ingrained in the Moon Knight mythos that it’d be difficult to imagine a Moon Knight story without it anymore. Interestingly enough, those recent runs of Moon Knight comics are the ones we’re dealing with in today’s Omnibussin’ (synergy!), as—despite their definitive reinvention of the character and obvious influence on the adaptation—none of them have been turned into Marvel omnibuses. [Read more…] about Omnibussin: Moon Knight, Meet Mr. Knight!
Hello and welcome to Comic Book Herald’s Hickmania, a series running through 2022 where we’ll be reading and analyzing the creator-owned works of writer Jonathan Hickman, from his debut The Nightly News through to his most recent output. We’ll be reading one creator-owned work a month through 2022, and each month I’ll release a new analysis with a new guest discussing the comic!
Today we’re talking Hickman’s Ultimates
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[Read more…] about Hickmania #3: Hickman’s Ultimates (Marvel My Ultimate Year Crossover!)
[all covers by Ario Anindito and Pierluigi Casolino]
Renowned literary horror novelist Victor LaValle’s second comic series out from BOOM! Studios isn’t just a perfect follow-up to Destroyer as another classic SF story twisted about, turned on its head, and updated to the present moment—the five-issue Eve, an 11-year-old girl’s quest across a US devastated by climate change and a super-plague, is even more rewarding than Destroyer’s dark beauty and hope-beyond-despair.
Like Destroyer, Eve centers on a young person and their complicated familial bonds, through the lens of humanity’s conflicted relationship to modern science, tech, and capital. But unlike the undead Akai’s story, Eve’s journey unfolds across a broader landscape and a stranger temporality, so her relationships are more varied and complex, for all that many are, poignantly, cut short too soon—the story’s scope and brevity effectively deepening its bittersweet notes throughout.
[Read more…] about Tell Me the Truth: “Eve” by Victor LaValle, Jo Mi-Gyeong & Brittany Peer, Review!
Dave, Charlotte and Zack talk about whether they’re seeing The Batman, what’s up with Comixology, My Marvelous March Madness, and Dave reads more Manga with Death Note
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[Read more…] about 1994 Variant Cover C: Marvel What If Madness, The Batman, & Dave Note!
