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Marvel Year Fifteen: 1976 Pt. 1

October 21, 2019 by Dave Leave a Comment

Marvel comics of 1976. Phoenix! King Kirby’s Eternals! Luke Cage Joins the FF!

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Sink Your Teeth into the Best Vampire Comics of All Time

October 19, 2019 by John Galati Leave a Comment

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.

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

October 18, 2019 by Dave 3 Comments

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!

October 17, 2019 by Dave 1 Comment

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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