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Sink Your Teeth into the Best Vampire Comics of All Time

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Every culture on Earth seems to have its own vampire myth:

  • The Lilitu of Ancient Mesopotamia
  • The Mandurug of the Philippine Islands
  • The Cihuateteo of the Aztecs
  • The Asanbosam of the Ashanti people of Africa
  • The Strega of Italy

Heck, the most recent creation of a vampire myth comes as late as post-Civil War America! In 1892, Mercy Brown was blamed posthumously for the outbreak of “consumption” in Rhode Island. The family exhumed her body. A doctor examined her lack of decay. And then her heart was removed and burnt to ash on church grounds.

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Krakin’ Krakoa #12: The Unspoken History of Hickman’s X-Men

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In Krakin’ Krakoa #12, my analysis of House of X / Powers of X, I’m investigating Moira X’s journal entries and mapping them to the entire history of X-Men comics!

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Lobo Reading Order – Our Favorite Bastich!

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Lobo. The Last Czarnian. The Main Man.

The Lobo we all know began life as a satirization of Marvel’s edgy 80’s anti-heroes. He’s hairy, surly, and damn near unkillable just like Wolverine. He’s got Ghost Rider’s chain, bike, and fashion sense. He has the pre-requisite “”healing factor”” which was all the rage at the time, only his is so ridiculous that it allows him to regenerate from a single drop of blood.

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Deep Dives #3: House of X/Powers of X – What Makes an X-Men Reinvention Successful?

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This month John & Dave tackle House of X and Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman, RB Silva, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia and collaborators.

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SUPERPOWERS REVIEWED: Telepathy (and Professor X)

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This Installment: Telepathy

“We are inclined to suppose…this knowledge has transferred from him to her…through unknown ways and with exclusion of the communication methods that everybody knows. Therefore, our conclusion should be that thought transmission exists.”— Sigmund Freud

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