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Krakin Krakoa #13: What Does Jean Grey’s Costume Tell Us About Phoenix in Dawn of X?

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In Krakin’ Krakoa #13, my analysis of House of X / Powers of X, I’m considering why Jean Grey is wearing her Marvel Girl costume, and what it means for the Phoenix Force and the X-Men!

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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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