Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
Editor’s Note: Tarot Readings are a major thematic and stylistic component of the 2020 X-Men comics event, X of Swords. Since it’s not a field I know, I’m excited to bring in a specialist to provide unique readings based in the Tarot connections of the story. We’ll be running these Tarot examinations following each of the event’s 22 parts. Enjoy!
Marauders #13
Winter Soldier is more than it appears at first glance. The first solo series for the revitalized Bucky Barnes, spinning out of his short-lived stint as Steve Rogers’ successor in Captain America, upon release, it seemed like another entry in the strangely growing mini-line of Captain America titles in the wake of the success of his MCU movie debut. However, nearly a decade later, and the newly re-released complete Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker
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Editor’s Note: Tarot Readings are a major thematic and stylistic component of the 2020 X-Men comics event, X of Swords. Since it’s not a field I know, I’m excited to bring in a specialist to provide unique readings based in the Tarot connections of the story. We’ll be running these Tarot examinations following each of the event’s 22 parts. Enjoy!
If you have been following my Tarot reading on each X of Swords chapter, by now you should know that each instance relates to a Major Arcana card from Tarot. The next part in this story is X-Force #13
Editor’s Note: Tarot Readings are a major thematic and stylistic component of the 2020 X-Men comics event, X of Swords. Since it’s not a field I know, I’m excited to bring in a specialist to provide unique readings based in the Tarot connections of the story. We’ll be running these Tarot examinations following each of the event’s 22 parts. Enjoy!
There’s 22 Major Arcana cards in a tarot deck, and 22 chapters in X of Swords. I previously read into the connections between the first two chapters in the X-Men crossover and the cards number 0, The Fool, and number 1, The Magician. Now the next step on the journey is card number 2, The High Priestess. [Read more…] about Tarot Reading of X-Men: X of Swords Chapter 3 – Wolverine #6!
Turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
(…) She said, ‘There is no reason’
And the truth is plain to see
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be”
—Procol Harum, Whiter Shade of Pale
Ed Brubaker has made some of the finest comic books of the last twenty years. From his creator-owned titles like Sleeper and Fatale, to groundbreaking work on Big-Two titles like Captain America and Catwoman.
With a portfolio so big and identifiable, it’s easy to forget that some of his best work was done early in his career, during his short run with Detective Comics.
Brubaker’s noir-fueled style with its clipped dialog and tense, focused plotting was a perfect tonal match for the series. But it was Brubaker’s love of mysteries and his economy of thinking that made the books shine.
Unfortunately, those same strengths could also bite him. This collected edition of The Man Who Laughs is an interesting match of both. But we’re going to take a look at the other books before we get to that.
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