A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
It’s a new dawn for the DC Universe. Following the events of Dark Crisis, the DC Universe has been rebooted. While the continuity hasn’t been restarted unlike post-Crisis on Infinite Earths, the multiverse has and alongside it big changes for the future of the DCU. Dawn of the DCU is the name for the next era of DC Comics following New 52, Rebirth, and the recent Infinite Frontier.
The unthinkable had happened.
Bendis had moved to DC. He’d done everything except the one thing people expected him to DC- Justice League.
And then he did Justice League. But it was not anything anybody was expecting.
So what on earth was it? Let’s continue to dig in, picking up where we left off…
[Read more…] about Bendis’ Justice League & The Hierarchy Of Power In DC- Part II
Remember how Scott Snyder (emerging into the height of his popularity) and Jim Lee (in his final longform comics project) launched a new Superman ongoing
Get on your pleather pants and floral print tops, losers, we’re going back to 1996. Mainstream comics were undergoing a strange, tumultuous time in the aftermath of the creator-owned explosion of Image Comics. Trying to stay on top of the sales charts had led to some pretty cringeworthy stunts, and frankly, what’s one more among friends? The X-Men’s long-building threat, Onslaught, had just seen most of the publisher’s non-mutant hero populace transported to a pocket dimension created by Franklin, the occasionally terrifying child of Sue and Reed Richards. In this world, many stories that had once taken years to build and deliver were smooshed into a much smaller number of issues. After a quick introduction, plots were completely derailed, and within about a year, we were back to the 616 with a general “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” attitude about the whole event.
Heroes Reborn: Avengers undergoes at least three major creative lineup changes in twelve issues, which may give you a decent idea of how disjointed and weird this series is, even when completely divorced from the greater Heroes Reborn context. It might also go without saying that this series, which barely manages to eek out a single coherent plotline over the course of a year, doesn’t age great, but it still somehow isn’t the worst thing printed in 1996 (here’s looking at you, Amalgam Universe). [Read more…] about Heroes Reborn: Avengers (1996) Retrospective!
The 90s were a tough decade for Marvel. They started off great – In 1990, Todd McFarlane’s Spider-Man #1 sold 2.5 million copies and a year later Rob Liefeld’s X-Force #1 sold 5 million copies and Jim Lee’s X-Men #1 sold 8 million copies. Then in 1992 all three of these artists and a handful of others left Marvel to form Image. Then in 1996, Marvel was forced to file for bankruptcy. Between these two events, we got Heroes Reborn