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Essential DC Comics Elseworlds & Alternate Realities!

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The Elseworlds were DC’s test kitchen, providing a place for authors and artists to tweak, remix, or utterly break and rebuild certain characters. The stories were meant to deliver stories that were impossible in normal continuity, or to allow characters to break from their normal constraints and… say… fight Lovecraftian monsters or level whole cities.

Below are just a few of the notable works, helpfully sorted into categories for easy perusing. [Read more…] about Essential DC Comics Elseworlds & Alternate Realities!

PREVIOUSLY ON… #59: DC’s Young Animal Era In Review, New Comics Publisher Hype, and How Heralds Influence CBH!

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This week I celebrate DC’s home of Rebirth-era Doom Patrol, aka Young Animal, meet the arrival of TKO Comics with some skepticism, and love feedback from readers! [Read more…] about PREVIOUSLY ON… #59: DC’s Young Animal Era In Review, New Comics Publisher Hype, and How Heralds Influence CBH!

Kelly Sue Deconnick’s Captain Marvel in Review!

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Ask any comic book fan worth their weight in longboxes about “definitive runs” and you will undoubtedly get a list of heavy-hitting collections that they can rattle off in their sleep. It’s sure to include such obvious gold standards as Chris Claremont’s marathon work on X-Men, Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing, and the solo writer-artist breakouts of Frank Miller (Daredevil) and Walt Simonson (Thor).

Essentially, it’s a pretty tight club and it doesn’t seem like they take a lot of new members. To be fair, it’s not everyday you get to see that sort of endeavor. However, Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Captain Marvel makes a very strong case to be recognized as a worthy modern day addition. [Read more…] about Kelly Sue Deconnick’s Captain Marvel in Review!

Glob Herman (X-Men) Reading Order!

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Since his creation in 2001, Robert “Glob” Herman has become an unlikely fan-favorite member of the young mutants debuting throughout the 2000’s. Created as part of Grant Morrison’s time writing New X-Men (with art by Ethan Van Sciver), Glob even has the cinematic credit of a cameo in X-Men: The Last Stand to his name. [Read more…] about Glob Herman (X-Men) Reading Order!