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

February 12, 2020 by Dave 1 Comment

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

January 3, 2020 by Dave Leave a Comment

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!

January 2, 2020 by Dave Leave a Comment

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

December 31, 2019 by Dave Leave a Comment

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!

December 20, 2019 by Dave Leave a Comment

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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