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Empyre Full Event (Omnibus) Review!

May 6, 2021 by Reagan Anick Leave a Comment

Empyre is a comic book event. Is it a good event? Well, answering that question would require me to state definitively whether or not there is such a thing as a good event. Now, I am perhaps the least qualified person to do that, so let’s just call it what it is and say that it’s an event. It has ups, it has a few downs, but all in all, it is definitely a comic book event.

Empyre is the culmination of decades’ worth of comic story lines dating back to the Kree-Skull War and Celestial Madonna story lines of the 1970s, as well as 2019’s Meet The Skrulls. At the same time as Empyre continues these three story lines, it also continues Hulking’s story dating all the way back to Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung’s Young Avengers (2005). Empyre isn’t just a conclusion, however: it’s also both a status quo change and the beginning of a new story. [Read more…] about Empyre Full Event (Omnibus) Review!

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Krakin’ Krakoa #42: 3 Cosmic Prophecies in Marvel Comics- How Ewing, Hickman & the Celestial Messiah Intersect

March 17, 2020 by Dave 1 Comment

Marvel’s Celestial Madonna and Celestial Messiah concepts are some of the most confounding in Avengers and Marvel cosmic history, mysteries wrapped inside enigmas made of questions.

Today I’ll answer:

  • + What or Who the heck is Marvel’s Celestial Messiah?
  • + Why does the Messiah matter in 2020?
  • + What does this have to do with Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men?
  • + How Marvel’s cosmic prophesies are on a collision course!

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