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Krakin’ Krakoa #37: Giant-Size Jean Grey / Emma Frost Review!

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Few power players in the world of X-Men are as essential to Krakoa with as much baggage between them as Jean Grey and Emma Frost, two of the world’s most powerful telepaths and members of Krakoa’s quiet council. ​

Today I’ll answer:​

+ What does this Giant-Size special mean for Jean and Emma in the Krakoa era?​

+ What’s the big picture role of the 5 Hickman written Giant-Size specials in Dawn of X?​

+ What do you need to know about the history between Jean and Emma?​

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Krakin’ Krakoa #35: Wolverine #1 Review – Where Does Wolverine Fit In The Dawn of X?

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An all new Wolverine comic series launches today for the first time in six years!

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+ Where’s Wolverine been in the Marvel Universe, and why hasn’t he had a comic series since 2014?

+ Where the new Wolverine series fits in the X-Men: Dawn of X!

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The Cates of Hel #3: Thor #3 Review – The History of Beta Ray Bill!

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Thor #3 follows the cliffhanger appearance of Beta Ray Bill, cosmic powerhouse, frequent player in the Donny Cates cosmic Marvel universe, and oath-brother to Thor. The story by Donny Cates, Nic Klein, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino is an all out action issue fixating on a brawl between Bill and Thor. Beta Ray Bill views Thor’s work with Galactus as an absolute breach of his worthiness to hold Mjolnir, and initially seeks to attack the devourer in order to free Thor from what Bill assumes is some sort of mind control or bewitching.

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Krakin’ Krakoa #33: X-Men #6 Review – Mystique’s House of X Secrets

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X-Men #6 by Jonathan Hickman, Matteo Buffagni, Sunny Gho, and Clayton Cowles is a much-needed flashback to Mystique’s role in the House of X event, offering present day insights into the apparent strong return of Orchis, those sentinel obsessed humans the X-Men gave their lives to stop. The issue’s effective at connecting back to the celebrated event that birthed the Krakoa era, while also suggesting the victory was not nearly as certain as mutantkind previously thought.

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The Cates of Hel #1: Thor #1 Review – The Song of Galactus & Thor

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When comics writer Donny Cates gets a chance at a Marvel series, he takes big shots, and aims for at least one clear, major hook to get readers on board. What if Thanos… won? What if Loki was the Sorcerer Supreme? What if Peter Parker could talk to Spiders?

Ok that last one’s like half a joke (but seriously, it happened), but the idea is Cates excels as these balls-to-wall no-cards-left-on-the-table “WHAT IF” style narratives seen through to completion. It’s this approach that has generated an extremely compelling body of work, across a wide variety of Marvel titles, from Thanos to Venom and now to Thor. This body of work has also increasingly set up Cates as the godhead of Marvel Cosmic, a role that looks to continue in Thor.

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