A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
We interview longtime Marvel editor and writer of titles like Uncanny X-Men and Daredevil Ann Nocenti! Ann talks to us about her time at Marvel in the 80’s, what it was like editing Chris Claremont on X-Men, the tricky things about memory, as well as her recent comics work like The Seeds
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[Read more…] about My Marvelous Year: Episode #100 – An Interview W/ Ann Nocenti!Despite three chapters in X-Men X of Swords as the all hands on deck event hurls towards a conclusion, the biggest X-Men news this week likely came in the pages of Fantastic Four, over the course of only a few panels featuring Franklin Richards and Professor X.
Today I’ll answer:
+ Why would Marvel make it so Franklin Richards is no longer a mutant?
+ Is this development real or is it a fakeout? + Why accusing Franklin of *faking* his mutant nature is a much bigger deal than some think?
+ Should creators outside Hickman’s X-Office be playing with mutants?
+ Theories and predictions for what’s to come in X-Men!
Spoilers for discussed comics may follow!
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[Read more…] about Krakin’ Krakoa #121: Omega Level Retcon: Dan Slott’s Franklin Richards Isn’t a Mutant?
This omnibus
Do we need more of this? I wondered as I lifted the cinderblock of a book. Are there no lawyers left in the world?
But on the other hand, if you cleaned up Conan, what would be left? What if gratuity is all that made it fun? The truth is, we’ll never know these answers, because “cleaning up” was not their approach here. And neither was making the thing I remembered. [Read more…] about “I live, I burn with life” | Reviewing Conan the Barbarian by Kurt Busiek & Cary Nord Omnibus
Editor’s Note: Tarot Readings are a major thematic and stylistic component of the 2020 X-Men comics event, X of Swords. Since it’s not a field I know, I’m excited to bring in a specialist to provide unique readings based in the Tarot connections of the story. We’ll be running these Tarot examinations following each of the event’s 22 parts. Enjoy!
The Journey of the Fool is concluding in major arcana number 21, The World, an so is X of Swords in Destruction #1
Editor’s Note: Tarot Readings are a major thematic and stylistic component of the 2020 X-Men comics event, X of Swords. Since it’s not a field I know, I’m excited to bring in a specialist to provide unique readings based in the Tarot connections of the story. We’ll be running these Tarot examinations following each of the event’s 22 parts. Enjoy!
Truth and revelations arise like the dead from their tombs, in both Excalibur #15