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Episodes #74 to #76 or Krakin’ Krakoa X-Men review, analysis and theories are now live, as I review new issues released this week including Cable #3, Empyre X-Men #4, and Excalibur #11.
Potential spoilers for discussed comics may follow! [Read more…] about New Krakin’ Krakoa Reviews: Cable #3, Excalibur #11, Empyre X-Men #4!
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Conceptually, I don’t actually *like* Injustice. The premise for this entire comics universe stems first from the 1 on 1 fighting video game, and the brief story of that video game is far from extraordinary.
The story of Injustice begins when Joker and Harley Quinn steal a nuke, launch it at Metropolis, and trick Superman from preventing the tragedy by tricking him into fighting an illusion of Doomsday that turns out to be his wife, Lois Lane. Enraged, Superman finally crosses the “no kill” line, murders Joker, and creeps deeper and deeper into an ironfisted tyrant of the world. As the face of DC’s “Kill No Man” campaign, Batman leads a rebellion against Superman. [Read more…] about Injustice Reading Order (DC Comics Universe)!
This week on Creannotators, I talked with artist Joshua Cassara about X-Force in Marvel’s Dawn of X, creating Krakoa’s Green Lagoon Tiki Bar, and what’s to come in X of Swords!
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/visual annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!
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[Read more…] about Creannotators #13: X-FORCE Interview With Artist Joshua Cassara!Zack & Dave cover your questions, poll results, and recap the Marvel Comics of 1986 parts 1 & 2!
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[Read more…] about Marvel Year Twenty-Five: 1986 Variant Cover AThe word retcon gets thrown around – sometimes wildly, sometimes recklessly – a lot in comic book circles to describe an act of rewriting a character’s history, changing seemingly fundamental details long thought to be that character’s truth. Spelled out, it’s “retro continuity,” or a sort of revisionist history that upends a status quo. For me it effectively boils down to one question: Does this irrevocably change the way we read the character’s previous appearances in comics?
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