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The Many Lives of Natasha Romanov in Kelly Thompson’s Black Widow

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Black Widow Issue #3
Kelly Thompson, Elena Casagrande, Jordie Bellaire

Natasha Romanoff gets a new perspective in Kelly Thompson, Elena Casagrande and team’s Black Widow and it’s not what you might have expected. Black Widow is given an entirely new life – complete with a newfound family and, of course, more than her share of villains who are amped to destroy her at any point. In Thompson’s take, Natasha delves deep into a life that is extremely domesticated, but her dark past comes in on schedule in order to shake things up. [Read more…] about The Many Lives of Natasha Romanov in Kelly Thompson’s Black Widow

Empyre Full Event (Omnibus) Review!

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Empyre is a comic book event. Is it a good event? Well, answering that question would require me to state definitively whether or not there is such a thing as a good event. Now, I am perhaps the least qualified person to do that, so let’s just call it what it is and say that it’s an event. It has ups, it has a few downs, but all in all, it is definitely a comic book event.

Empyre is the culmination of decades’ worth of comic story lines dating back to the Kree-Skull War and Celestial Madonna story lines of the 1970s, as well as 2019’s Meet The Skrulls. At the same time as Empyre continues these three story lines, it also continues Hulking’s story dating all the way back to Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung’s Young Avengers (2005). Empyre isn’t just a conclusion, however: it’s also both a status quo change and the beginning of a new story. [Read more…] about Empyre Full Event (Omnibus) Review!

How to (Re)Read the Hickman Era of X-Men: Powers of X #4, Pt. 3

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III. Year 10, Doug’s Meet-Cute with Krakoa (pgs11-19)

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A. Doug Meets Krakoa—Ambivalently at first; then, with eerie enthusiasm

This is the first we’ve seen of the six-month gap after Rosenberg’s Uncanny X-Men and before HOX/POX, though it raises more questions than it answers! This scene certainly isn’t here to reveal that Doug communes with Krakoa. Their relationship and his creation of a Krakoan language in distinction from Krakoa’s own have all already been functionally established.

No, this scene is meant to be another layered puzzle piece! Though it might mostly be misdirection with just a kernel of something vastly important hidden in plain sight. Who. Knows.

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Hickman X-Men Reading Order

Krakin’ Krakoa!

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Creannotators #46: “Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books” with author Ken Quattro

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This week on Creannotators, I talk with Ken Quattro about his book Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books. We discuss the history of black comic book artists in the Golden Age, Ken’s research into these missing histories, and what comes next in the ongoing project.

On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!

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Best 10 Thor Comics Of All Time!

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Mighty Thor Vol 2 #700, cover by Russell Dauterman and Matthew Wilson, 2017The least earthbound of Earth’s Mightiest, the God of Thunder has for most of his Marvel comics history been very difficult to write. After all, how do you make an ageless god interesting? Give him a hammer and a big burly target? That’s proven at least an acceptable baseline for fans across the decades. But if I really wanted to convince a modern reader on the fence to love Thor, I’d have to look to those stories where the hammer blows and lightning strikes are balanced by something like character development. [Read more…] about Best 10 Thor Comics Of All Time!