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Guardians Week #1: Origins & 70’s Original Guardians of the Galaxy Team-Ups

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is perhaps the most hotly anticipated Marvel movie of the decade, with the highest franchise approval rating of any of Marvel’s immensely popular properties.

To celebrate, I’ll be taking a look at every era of Guardians of the Galaxy comics, highlighting the great moments, and which series will appeal to different types of fans.

When all is said and done, I’ll also be ranking the greatest Guardians of the Galaxy comics of all time! [Read more…] about Guardians Week #1: Origins & 70’s Original Guardians of the Galaxy Team-Ups

X-Men: Apocalypse Review! – The Unique Aging of A Comic Book Franchise

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The most amazing facet of X-Men: Apocalypse, a middle-of-the-road X-Men movie, is the fact that it marks 16 years of X-Men movies. While 2008’s Iron Man gets all the glamour for kicking off Marvel’s MCU, it was 2000’s X-Men that launched Marvel proper, and 2003’s X2 that solidified a lifelong love of the X-Men for me.

Yet here we are 16 years later, and the X-Men franchise has found a way to navigate 6 X-Men films, 2 Wolverine offshoots, and the technically connected goodwill of Deadpool. [Read more…] about X-Men: Apocalypse Review! – The Unique Aging of A Comic Book Franchise

The New Thanos Infinity Trilogy Review!

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In the great pantheon of Marvel villains, you could make a case that Thanos reigns supreme. You’d be wrong of course (All hail Doom!), but whether you’re talking sheer cosmic might, sheer number of times he genuinely ended all life, or sheer Marvel Cinematic Universe Big Bad Q Rating, Thanos is an all-time great. [Read more…] about The New Thanos Infinity Trilogy Review!

Obi-Wan and Anakin Review! Marvel’s Newest Star Wars Book

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Marvel’s latest miniseries expanding Star Wars canon offers us a rare look at a time period we’ve seen little, if any, of. Obi-Wan and Anakin takes place three years after Episode I – The Phantom Menace and follows the early days of Anakin’s apprenticeship under Obi-Wan. We’re only two issues into the five issue series, written by the incredibly talented Charles Soule, but already we’re seeing development that any hardcore fan should find terribly exciting! [Read more…] about Obi-Wan and Anakin Review! Marvel’s Newest Star Wars Book

SECRET WARS #9 Review: “All. The. Marbles.”

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Anticipation! Dread! An overriding desire to just see it finally over and done! It’s not so much that the long-awaited conclusion to Marvel’s 2015 mega-event succeeds in pressing the obvious buttons (it does) but where it truly excels is in its Fantastic propensity for the inventively subtle and delightfully unexpected. Capital “F” for a reason. [Read more…] about SECRET WARS #9 Review: “All. The. Marbles.”