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Krakin’ Krakoa #133: X-Men Inferno Event Legacy!

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In late 1988 and 1989, Marvel’s X-Men line built to a decade in the making universe-wide crossover event, Inferno! The world outside your window became infested with a demonic takeover, literalizing Hell on Earth, and arguably the first and largest all-hands-on-deck Marvel Comics invasion, in what has now become an event staple, from Secret Invasion to Empyre to King in Black. While conceptually this may sounds simple, Inferno is anything but, with years of X-Men storylines and continuity woven into the saga that in so many ways marks the end of both the Chris Claremont and Louis Simonson corners of the X-Men Universe that dominate Marvel’s 1980s.

Today I’ll answer:

  • What is Inferno and what’s it’s legacy in X-comics today?
  • What happens in Mister Sinister’s true debut and his obsession with the Summers/Grey bloodline?
  • Is Inferno satisfying as the unofficial END of Chris Claremont’s time of X-Men? It all builds to this – does it work?
  • A theory for how Inferno connects to Sinister’s secrets from House and Powers of X
  • Much, much more

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The End is in the Beginning & Yet You Go On | New Mutants Omnibus Review

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Legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont has a real knack for murdering heroes. From The Phoenix Saga to Muir Island, he knows how to time and execute major cataclysms only to use the resulting vacuum as a space for new characters to step in. And that’s exactly how the New Mutants team begins. It’s right there in the title: “The X-Men have seemingly been killed by The Brood, so here are some New Mutants.“

But anyone can just wipe out characters. What makes Claremont so special is that he never replaced anything. Again, it’s in the title: this isn’t just “more X-Men.” And in so many ways, this series truly was/is something new… even as it says “goodbye.” [Read more…] about The End is in the Beginning & Yet You Go On | New Mutants Omnibus Review

The Greatest Aquaman Stories of All Time!

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Aquaman is great. Well, okay, he actually kind of sucks, but that is why he is great. In a universe full of noble heroes, tortured vigilantes, and paragons of justice, Arthur Curry is an angry dude with a crown. He’s a hero, of course, and does the best he can, but the King of Atlantis is, at his heart, a man thrust between two worlds he will never fully belong to and can barely keep it together most of the time. Lord of the Seven Seas, off-and-on monarch over 70% of the world’s surface, and hopeless romantic. Arthur Curry ain’t a normal, charming superheroic lead, and that has led to a lot of confusion over who the hell Aquaman is and why you should care. That’s where I come in. So, here’s the 10 Best Aquaman Stories of All Time to clear things up!

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