A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
A diva is born! Paprika is an instant girl-boss icon of the demonic and erotic! Those cat-eye glasses! That toothy smile and long forked tongue! Those pepper-red legs and the free curve of her beautiful bra-less breasts! Comic fans are going to treasure this fiery-colored babe for the future of comic history, forever. So, what’s her story?
‘Sweet Paprika
In August 2021, the landscape of comics distribution shifted slightly, as two of America’s most popular and acclaimed comic book writers, James Tynion IV (Batman
Other creators accompanied the news, or followed later, including notable talents like Molly Knox Ostertag, Saladin Ahmed, Chip Zdarsky, Sophie Campbell, ND Stevenson, Kelly Thompson, Scott Snyder, Jeff Lemire and Donny Cates & Ryan Stegman. On January 31, 2022, a day declared “Comics Day on Substack,” the roster swelled to include Tom King & Elsa Charretier, Brian K Vaughan & Niko Henrichon, Khary Randolph & Joanne Starer, Rodney Barnes, Jen Bartel, oh, and GRANT MORRISON. [Read more…] about The Guide to Comics on Substack
2021 featured three big picture moments. The year opened with Future State, a two-month event that gave readers a sneak peek into the future. Then DC began their soft reboot with Infinite Frontier #0, which spun out into various series and the event mini-series Infinite Frontier by Joshua Williamson. At the end of the year, the Batman family came together for a big story combining the past year’s Gotham plot threads from Fear State. Each of these 2021 events had positives and negatives, but overall they reminded fans of what the DC universe can be. [Read more…] about DC’s 2021 Review Part 2: Future State, Infinite Frontier, & Fear State
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:
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Marc Spector is a troubled man. In the opening pages of Moon Knight #1 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Alex Maleev, we see the origins of these troubles – betrayed and gravely wounded by his partner Bushman, a brown-haired mercenary collapses at the foot of a statue of the Egyptian god Khonshu and apparently dies. However, it turns out that we are not witnessing the 616 origins of Marc Spector, Moon Knight, after all. We are watching the cliffhanger ending of the first episode of “Legend of the Khonshu”, a television show Spector is producing in his new stomping grounds of Hollywood. Here we have an in-story fictionalization of events whose truth has been questioned over decades of publication history – was Marc Spector truly saved from the brink of death by an ancient Egyptian god, or is psychological trauma contributing to a dangerous delusion? [Read more…] about Moon Knight By Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev Review!