A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
2021 was a fresh start for DC Comics. With a new soft reboot, DC made choices that led to CNN interviews and stories of fans returning to comics after decades away. This year has been full of great moments and the ire of Fox News, but what about DC as a whole? [Read more…] about DC’s 2021 Review Part 1: The Overview
Marvel comics of 1994: Dave, Zack and Charlotte talk about the return of the DEANE’S LIST. Will Zack’s once-a-decade picks for comics to read this year impress or disappoint?!
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All Set-Up and… A Fun Side Romp in Someone Else’s Big Event–
With Hickman having once again upped the cosmic ante for Krakoa in 2020’s X-Men #8-11, hopefully readers won’t have to wait for his eventual return to the X line for the resolution to these alien mysteries—more to the point, let’s see these story elements get some development in 2022. The world’s looking at you, Mr. Ewing!! Aliens, aliens, so many aliens, oh my!!!
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[Read more…] about (Re)Read Hickman’s X-Men: X-Men #8-11 & Empyre: X-Men #1-4
“Rest in peace, Batman!”
The story of Batman ended about ten years ago with Christopher Nolan and Grant Morrison.
That’s the sort of thesis statement you either spend an entire thinkpiece dancing around to set up or you frontload, looking like a maniac completely divorced from cultural and commercial reality and having to explain yourself to whoever’s left reading at the end of the article. But I stand by that statement: What we’ve been watching and reading for the past decade has been the (extremely lucrative) post-flatline flailings of a corpse whose brain hasn’t stopped firing neurons yet. Victory did, in fact, defeat him. [Read more…] about Batman Swallowing His Own Cape: The Modern Caped Crusader’s Narrative Autocannibalism
On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below:
* Spoilers Follow *
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[Read more…] about Casual Krakoa: X Deaths of Wolverine, X-Men #7, Marauders Annual & Black Panther #3!