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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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Krakin’ Krakoa #27: X-Men #4 Is Hickman’s Best In The Run To Date!

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While 2019’s Dawn of X ended on a middling, muddled note, 2020 is off to an improved start, beginning with the energizing X-Men #4 by Jonathan Hickman and Lionel Francis Yu.

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Previously On #95: Marvel Incoming! #1 Review – What’s to Come in 2020

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Incoming is Marvel’s 2019 year-end spectacular, simultaneously summarizing much of the publisher’s 2019 while building suspense for storylines and comics to come in 2020.  [Read more…] about Previously On #95: Marvel Incoming! #1 Review – What’s to Come in 2020

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Krakin’ Krakoa #26: My Favorite 2019 X-Men Dawn of X Comic!

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I definitely would not have predicted Gerry Duggan and Matteo Lolli’s Marauders would be my favorite “Dawn of X” X-Men comic in 2019 – particularly ahead of two Jonathan Hickman written series with X-Men and New Mutants, but it very much has held steady as the comic most clearly filled with purpose, humor, and vision. Marauders feels like a book that knows where it wants to go, and how it wants to utilize the new status quo of Krakoa and House of X for a successful long run.

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+ What the last two issues tell us about Marauders vision

+ Who the heck is Shinobi Shaw

+ Who the heck are those kids claiming to be ex Hellfire Club!

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A Look Back At 2019’s War of the Realms!

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It’s been an excellent year for Thor. Besides appearing in what is now the highest grossing film of all time as well as being on the roster in the first AAA Avengers video game, Thor was the headliner of the year’s biggest comic book event book, War of the Realms. Like any good comic book event, War of the Realms follows a bombastic battle for the fate of Earth as all of the other Nine Realms of the Asgardian mythos fight against the machinations of Malekith the Accursed.

On top of that however it also pulls double-duty as the finale to writer Jason Aaron’s acclaimed 7 year run on the Thor books starting with 2012’s Thor: God of Thunder through to Jane Foster’s tenure as Thor all while the war slowly built to its crescendo. As the year winds down and Jason Aaron closes off his time with a future-set epilogue over in the pages of King Thor, it’s time now for us to take a look back at War of the Realms and see how it all came together. [Read more…] about A Look Back At 2019’s War of the Realms!