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The Best DC Comics Since Crisis: #1 to #10!
For the next 10 weeks, we’ll be posting 10 selections from the upcoming CBH guide to the best 100 DC Comics since Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985). Once released, all 100 will be published together for one mega guide in general chronological order! [Read more…] about The Best DC Comics Since Crisis: #1 to #10!
Previously On #110: X-Men Milestones!
This week on “Previously On,” I explore Marvel’s “X-Men Milestones” collections, considering the selected events and whether they provide an adequate exploration of X-Men comics history. The inspiration for the column is inspired by the following question.
Joshua asks via the X-Men reading order:
This guide is incredible, thank you for putting it together! i’m interested in reading the messiah complex storylines and subsequent related arcs; do you think the three new milestones trades (messiah complex, messiah war, and second coming) do a good job of covering the necessary material? and should i also read the necrosha milestones trade in the middle of there somewhere?
BATMAN by Grant Morrison: In The Grip of The Black Glove
There is a hole at the center of everything. A mystery that can never truly be solved, even by the world’s greatest detective. And within that hole lies a trap waiting to be sprung.
Grant Morrison’s seven-year run on Batman
While this long-unraveling story of The Dark Knight being broken down physically and mentally may seem like deconstruction, Morrison’s Batman is the story of one man rising to defeat evil again and again until he becomes something unchained by time and space. [Read more…] about BATMAN by Grant Morrison: In The Grip of The Black Glove
Crackin’ Crisis: DC’s 1st Anti-Crisis Event — Death Metal #1 Review!
Dark Nights: Death Metal is the sequel to 2017-2018’s Dark Nights Metal, one of my three favorite comic book events of all time, bringing back the creative superteam of Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, and collaborators, amplifying everything that made the original a success to 11. Death Metal’s ambitions are impossibly grand, seeking to unify the history of DC’s Crisis events and the particularly discordant recent years into one epic saga.
Today I’ll answer:
- How does Death Metal fit into the legacy of DC Crisis events?
- What makes this an Anti-Crisis?
- What are the Watchmen Connections to Death Metal?
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