A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
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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Spin-offs can be a tricky business. Is it too much? Is it diluting what was in the original material? Is it lesser than said material? Was it worth it? A lot of questions immediately pop up. That’s twice as true when you’re dealing with a spin-off built around resurrecting a dead character. And very specifically, a character whose death was central and pivotal to the original material in question. So there’s a number of questions, but also, ultimately, just one:
Does it work?
I’m happy to report that, at least for my money, Peacemaker absolutely does.
But before we dig into that, let’s consider what all brought us here a moment. [Read more…] about Peacemaker Premiere Review: A Hell Of A Debut!
Ladies and gentle web-heads, we are currently in the throes of a Spider-Man golden era.
If you somehow haven’t noticed, Spider-Man is everywhere these days, even more so than he usually is. The webbed hero is in critically acclaimed high budget games like Spider-Man PS4/Miles Morales; Into the Spider-Verse saw the popularity of character Miles Morales leap to new heights as it became the definitive Miles Morales story and won an Academy Award(!); Marvel Studios is bringing the beginnings of MCU Spider-Man to Disney+ with their animated entry titled Spider-Man: Freshman Year; and how could we forget about the staying power of the live-action MCU Spider-Man portrayed by Tom Holland? No Way Home is the perfect embodiment of what it means to be a Spider-Man fan right now. What’s that? What about the comics, you ask? Well, they’re…ok.
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As part of Krakoa’s “the Five” and Immortal X-Men coming to X-Men fans in 2022, I felt more people would want to learn who Hope Summers is. Known as the Mutant Messiah, the character created by Mike Carey and Chris Bachalo was the first mutant born after M-day, aka Marvel’s “Decimation” of mutantkind.
As soon as she was born, the girl was targeted by groups like the Purifiers and the Marauders. Fortunately, Cable protected baby Hope and escaped through the timestream with her. Hope soon learned warfare tactics and self-defense. Later, she manifested her power and established herself as one of the most powerful mutants on earth. [Read more…] about Hope Summers Reading Order!
Dave and Zack talk about wives, HBO Peacemaker, Fullmetal Alchemist, and even what’s up with the comics publishing landscape in 1994!
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