A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
Hot on the heels of Black Widow, Loki’s first season concludes with a riveting sixth episode, as the MCU’s Phase 4 truly heats up and sets the stage for the next several years. Much like our review of Loki episode one, I’m joined by Loki expert Reagan Anick to talk about the season as a whole and where we go from here!
This review of Loki will include spoilers, and assumes you’ve watched the full series! [Read more…] about LOKI Season One Disney Plus Full Review!
A simple, yet elegant ethos greets the reader on the first page of Marvel’s The Ultimates
“Start with the impossible and work up.”
Promising at once a cerebral parascientific adventure and a modern framework for the nuts-and-bolts workings of the Marvel universe, The Ultimates is certainly bold in its artistic vision. Does it stand under its own weight? Maybe you’ve been recommended The Ultimates as just such a sci-fi adventure. Maybe you’ve seen characters such as Monica Rambeau and America Chavez making their way to the big screen, and you’ve found this weird little book with them in the main cast. Just what have you gotten yourself into? (Spoiler: It’s really good!)
[Read more…] about The Complete Ultimates by Al Ewing Review!
I’d never thought of Aquaman as anything less than cool.
Hell, I remember the first time I encountered the idea that he was boring and uncool (it was in high school) and being baffled.
What?
How was this guy anything except the most slick superhero?! I was truly, properly, confused by the notion. [Read more…] about The Old 52: On Jeff Parker/Paul Pelletier’s Aquaman
Throughout Wolverine’s long history, Larry Hama, having done more to develop the character than any writer aside from Chris Claremont. Blood and Claws, the third Epic Collection volume for Wolverine’s solo series, features the beginning of Hama’s storied run and showcases how the author put his stamp on the character right from the beginning. working alongside artist Marc Silvestri (who was also new to the series and became Hama’s chief partner on it) to transform the series as a whole from its history as a largely self-contained action/adventure book into a series with more overt comic book trappings and stronger ties to X-Men continuity, transforming Wolverine himself into a character that could support big story ideas and complex character development.
With that in mind, let’s break Blood and Claws down into its composite parts and look more closely at the stories collected in this volume. [Read more…] about Wolverine Epic Collection: Blood and Claws Review
They say if you want to bore someone, tell them about your dreams.
But for Neil Gaiman, the world of dreams was everything to his hugely popular comic The Sandman
The Sandman follows Morpheus, the lord of dreams and one of the 7 members of The Endless – an eternal family who each embody an aspect of life and have existed since the universe began. They are, alliteratively, Dream, Death, Destiny, Despair, Desire, Delirium, and Destruction. The story begins with Morpheus escaping from a 70-year imprisonment and quickly trying to rebuild his kingdom of The Dreaming, that amorphous realm of the subconscious from which all our dreams come from, which has fallen into disrepair in his absence. [Read more…] about Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman: The Stories Within Us