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Krakin’ Krakoa #45: Giant-Size Nightcrawler #1 Review – Hickman’s Haunted X-Mansion!

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Giant-Size Nightcrawler by Jonathan Hickman and Alan Davis, with Carlos Lopez colors, & Clayton Cowles letters, is the second entry in the 5 issue Giant-Size X-Men series, and finds Kurt leading a team of mutants through a Krakoan gate into the deserted & seemingly haunted X-Mansion.

Today I’ll answer:

  • + What’s the secret of the haunted X-Mansion?
  • + How does Giant-Size Nightcrawler connect to the themes of Hickman’s “Giant-Size” series so far?
  • + What X-Men characters and concepts are introduced and what do they mean for the Dawn of X?

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Krakin’ Krakoa #44: Death of Death – How Vulcan Connects Hickman’s X-Men, Immortal Hulk, War of Kings & Avengers!

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While he’s been laughably drunk and bombastic throughout the Krakoa era of X-Men, Gabriel Summers, aka Vulcan’s return to the world of X-Men brings with a huge mystery that extends from Hickman’s X-Men to Immortal Hulk to cosmic fallout from the 2009 event War of Kings.

Today I’ll answer:

  • + What is the mystery of Vulcan and why does it matter for X-Men?
  • + What does this have to do with “The Death of Death” and War of Kings
  • + How might this mystery connect to everything from “Sinister Secrets” to the Phoenix to the promised December X-Men event in 2020

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Krakin’ Krakoa #43: Excalibur #9 Review – Multiversal March to X of Swords!

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Tini Howard and Marcus To’s Excalibur #9 is moving closer to the Multiversal Mayhem I’ve always wanted, and teasing a March towards the upcoming X of Swords event.

Today I’ll answer:

  • + Who is Saturnyne and what’s her role in the Marvel Multiverse?
  • + What happened to the Captain Britain Corps?
  • + How is Apocalypse confirming my X of Swords theories?

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

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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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The Essential Brood Comics Reading Order!

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Since their introduction in 1982, the Brood have been one of the most fearsome X-Men villains, an alien race that can infect mutants (and humans alike!) and transform them into a part of the Brood hive. The buglike swarms are also deceptively intelligent, exhibiting a merciless cunning that makes them terrifying to the X-Men, and an intergalactic presence. [Read more…] about The Essential Brood Comics Reading Order!