It’s a weird thing to try to apply a “Marvel Legacy” to characters that have been around for approximately one hot minute. Spider-Gwen isn’t the most recent addition to the Marvel Lineup, but she’s certainly a modern development, extending from the success of her alternate reality creation in Spider-Verse. [Read more…] about I Can Legacy Clearly Now #15 – Spider-Gwen #25: The Legacy of Memes
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I Can Legacy Clearly Now #14 – Venom #155: Comic Book Dinosaurs
One of the biggest problems with revering “Legacy” is the potential interpretation that comics were only good in the past. While there are of course some truths to the adage “They don’t make ’em like they used to,” there are also many instances of comics that *couldn’t* have been made decades ago. [Read more…] about I Can Legacy Clearly Now #14 – Venom #155: Comic Book Dinosaurs
I Can Legacy Clearly Now #13 – Luke Cage #166: Circus of Life
Luke Cage #166, by David F. Walker and Guillermo Sanna, is one of the strongest Marvel Legacy opening chapters yet.
In addition to tackling seemingly impossible real-world injustices – in a way Walker proved uniquely skilled on Nighthawk
I Can Legacy Clearly Now #12 – Mighty Thor #700: The Victory Lap
Jason Aaron has been writing Thor since 2012’s Thor: God of Thunder, now with a legacy that covers close to 75 issues.
I wrote recently that Brian Michael Bendis has built a deceptively lengthy Iron Man run over this same time period, but apart from Dan Slott’s stranglehold on Amazing Spider-Man, Aaron’s ties to Thor are one of the longest running arcs in Marvel Comics. [Read more…] about I Can Legacy Clearly Now #12 – Mighty Thor #700: The Victory Lap
I Can Legacy Clearly Now #11: Invincible Iron Man #593 – Ironborn
Saying Brian Michael Bendis has a prolific Marvel Comics career is a bit like saying Cal Ripken Jr. played a handful of baseball games. Bendis has been a driving force at Marvel since 2000, crafting everything from Alias
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