This week I share my thoughts on Daredevil’s final season (and where the series fits in the overall MCU), make some predictions for comics in 2019, and rank my favorite albums of the year!
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The Best Aquaman Comics To Read With The 2018 Movie!
Few DC heroes have an identity crisis (but not that Identity Crisis
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Review!
We’ve all had enough of origin stories. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse course corrects with the perfect reinvention of origins, looping recurring beginnings through a multiversal processor until the residual DNA is part of a broader narrative. Miles Morales’ own origin is streamlined and merged with Marvel’s 2014 Spider-Verse event, somehow defining the character more clearly and more engagingly with an additional cast of Spider-Man origins on the side.
[Read more…] about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Review!The Best Comics of 2018!
In my book, 2018 is a generally good year for comics, with Marvel’s Fresh Start actually semi-righting a shaky ship, DC maintaining quality at the top of its lineup, and a whole “new” slew of publishers like Black Mask, Vault, and Aftershock joining non-Big 2 regulars like Image, Dark Horse & Boom Comics among my 20 favorites.
[Read more…] about The Best Comics of 2018!Spider-Gwen Reading Order
Spider-Gwen is one of the most successful “new” Marvel universe characters created in the 2010s. We put “new” in quotation marks because Spider-Gwen is more of a character-remix, one that completely reimagines and reinterprets the original Gwen Stacy into an exciting and fresh new character.
Spider-Gwen’s popularity has far and away transcended the panels and pages of the Marvel comic book universe, becoming a cosplay icon and, most notably, featuring heavily in the jaw-droppingly gorgeous Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse animated film.