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2001 Pt. 2: X-Force, Exiles & Xtreme Claremont!

January 9, 2023 by Comic Book Herald Staff Leave a Comment

Dave and Zack talk the debut of Exiles, the relaunch of X-Force, and Chris Claremont’s return to X-Treme X-Men! A classic, a fun ride, and a slog… but which is which?!

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Hear The Doomsayers: Superman, X-Men, Asimov & The Climate Disaster

January 7, 2023 by Dave Leave a Comment

“It’s suicide. No, it’s worse. It’s genocide!” ~ Jor-El (Superman 1978)

“It isn’t that they question your data. The facts are undeniable. It’s your conclusions *we find unsupportable*” Vond-Ah (Superman 1978)

The history of superhero comics, and so much of pop culture as we know it today, is defined by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster’s Action Comics #1. Although it’s retroactively baked into that debut (Krypton is named in Action Comics #1, but Kal-El’s home planet would take a decade to become what we know), the origins of Superman are some of the most well known in all of modern myth. Indeed, Superman’s origins are so ingrained, that it took Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely all of 4 panels and 8 words to summarize on the first page of All-Star Superman #1.

[Some spoilers for X-Men comics since 2019 follow]
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X-Men Red #10 & X-Force #36 | Comic Book Herald Live!

January 7, 2023 by Comic Book Herald Staff Leave a Comment

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below:

This week we’re talking new comics!

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The Nice House on the Lake Review!

January 6, 2023 by Ben Johnson Leave a Comment

There is nothing worse than feeling like you’re not in control of your own life. Hell, there’s an entire pop psychology industry dedicated to teaching us how to retake our agency when we feel ourselves at the whim of external forces. We make plans, we self-analyze, we set routines for ourselves, all in an effort to feel like we have a say in the paths our lives take.

These attempts at control can of course come in many forms, impacting our lives in big or small ways. Take me and my comics consumption, for instance. One way I like to exert a modicum of control on this small sector of my life is to wait until a series has been fully published before I start reading it. This is not to say I don’t enjoy dropping into a good ongoing book, but even then, I like to hold off until a creator’s run or a major arc is done. I tend to be a completionist, which means I find it a little overwhelming to start something when there’s no resolution in sight. For me, it’s more manageable to commit to a book once I know its entire story has been told. It’s not always the most fun approach – I deal with a lot of FOMO while a highly-regarded work is still ongoing, which leads to delayed gratification while I wait for said series or run to wrap up – but I find myself doing it again and again.

But I broke my “rule” last year when I reviewed the first collected volume of James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martinez Bueno, and Jordie Bellaire’s masterful horror series The Nice House on the Lake for this very website. But knowing Tynion and company were set to wrap the whole thing up after twelve issues, I told myself I’d read the first half, then wait for the conclusion to come out before reading the rest. Well, I tore through the first six issues in about an hour, and have thought about the series frequently ever since.

And now The Nice House on the Lake #12 is finally out, and despite my best efforts, I’ve come to see that I haven’t been in control of this experience for a second. Much like the group of hand-picked survivors at the center of this story, I have only been a party to selectively revealed information and half-truths. But unlike them, I could not be more thrilled by the structure the architect of this story has created and where it leaves us at the end. Some spoilers to follow!

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Tatsuki Fujimoto Manga Reading Guide!

January 5, 2023 by Gabriel Rodrigues Leave a Comment

If you know at least a little bit about anime, you probably know Chainsaw Man and his creator Tatsuki Fujimoto; after all, everyone is talking about it right now. He has many other works of note, mainly his newest one-shots. If you haven’t read anything by him, I really recommend you start with Goodbye, Eri, or Look Back. You will easily understand his style of art, storytelling, and character creation (not to mention I actually think Look Back is better than Chainsaw Man, sorry).

Fujimoto loves films with all his heart, to the point that he feels more inspired by movies than manga and anime. That makes his stories have a different feeling than many others out there, not to mention that a lot of them revolve around themes related to cinema and the making of films, mainly in Fire Punch and Goodbye, Eri.

Besides his love of films, I’ll constantly talk about his comedy and characters. He can make you cry on one page and then burst out laughing right next through smart paneling and dialogue. It’s incredible. And most of it is thanks to his characters. It’s a weird compliment, but they are all so human; Fujimoto says he tries to think of people he already met or feels like he knows, and it definitely shows. More than the story or the messages, his characters keep drawing my attention to his works.

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