On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: Marvel’s Ultimate Invasions promises to bring back the Ultimate Universe! Let’s talk about it! [Powerpress]   This Week’s Comics Ultimate Invasion #1 X-Men Red #12 Wolverine #34 X-Force #41 The post Hickman’s Ultimate Invasion #1! | Comic Book Herald Live! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: Marvel’s Ultimate Invasions promises to bring back the Ultimate Universe! Let’s talk about it! [Powerpress] This Week’s Comics Ultimate Invasion #1 X-Men Red #12 Wolverine #34 X-Force #41 The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/hickmans-ultimate-invasion-1-comic-book-herald-live/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hickman’s Ultimate Invasion #1! | Comic Book Herald Live!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Hickman’s Ultimate Invasion #1! | Comic Book Herald Live!

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: X-Men comics are slowly but surely building to the big Orchis showdown in this year’s Hellfire Gala setting up the Fall of X.   This Week’s Comics X-Men #23 Immortal X-Men #12 Before the Fall – Mutant First Strike Bishop War College #5 Invincible Iron Man #7 The post Road to the X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 | Comic Book Herald Live! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: X-Men comics are slowly but surely building to the big Orchis showdown in this year’s Hellfire Gala setting up the Fall of X. This Week’s Comics X-Men #23 Immortal X-Men #12 Before the Fall – Mutant First Strike Bishop War College #5 Invincible Iron Man #7 The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/road-to-the-x-men-hellfire-gala-2023-comic-book-herald-live/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Road to the X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 | Comic Book Herald Live!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Road to the X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 | Comic Book Herald Live!

Dave is joined by the creative pair of Ollie Hicks and Emma Oosterhous to talk about their new graphic novel, Grand Slam Romance. We talk about magical softball, queer comedy, sports manga and more! On Comic Book Herald’s Interviews I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. CBH Interviews is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!   Grand Slam Romance Writer: Ollie Hicks Artist: Emma Oosterhous Publisher: Abrams ComicArts–Surely About the Authors: Ollie Hicks is a Black British comics creator with a PhD in comics studies and works with their wife, cartoonist and illustrator Emma Oosterhous, on fun gay stories. Grand Slam is their debut graphic novel. Link to Emma’s website! Link to Ollie’s website! ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post “Grand Slam Romance” w/ Ollie Hicks &amp; Emma Oosterhous | CBH Interviews #112 appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

Dave is joined by the creative pair of Ollie Hicks and Emma Oosterhous to talk about their new graphic novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1419758012/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=2ede5e2ce0623513c2e17108d9773d46&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Grand Slam Romance</a>. We talk about magical softball, queer comedy, sports manga and more! On Comic Book Herald’s Interviews I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. CBH Interviews is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics! <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Slam-Romance-Book/dp/1419758012/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2U5GP4FXY7FBI&amp;keywords=grand+slam+romance&amp;qid=1683565702&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=grand+slam+romance%2Cstripbooks%2C254&amp;sr=1-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grand Slam Romance</a> Writer: Ollie Hicks Artist: Emma Oosterhous Publisher: Abrams ComicArts–Surely About the Authors: Ollie Hicks is a Black British comics creator with a PhD in comics studies and works with their wife, cartoonist and illustrator Emma Oosterhous, on fun gay stories. Grand Slam is their debut graphic novel. <a href="https://www.emmaoosterhous.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Emma’s website!</a> <a href="https://www.hickscomics.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Ollie’s website!</a> ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/grand-slam-romance-w-ollie-hicks-emma-oosterhous-cbh-interviews-112/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Grand Slam Romance” w/ Ollie Hicks &amp; Emma Oosterhous | CBH Interviews #112</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

“Grand Slam Romance” w/ Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous | CBH Interviews #112

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: You better believe we’re talking Amazing Spider-Man #26 announcements about the Death of (Surely you’ve heard by now, haven’t you?). Then we’ll catch up on the day’s interesting comics.   This Weeks’ Comics X-Men #22 X-Force #40 Fantastic Four #7 Amazing Spider-Man #26 The post Spider-Man Killed Who?! | Comic Book Herald Live appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: You better believe we’re talking Amazing Spider-Man #26 announcements about the Death of (Surely you’ve heard by now, haven’t you?). Then we’ll catch up on the day’s interesting comics. This Weeks’ Comics X-Men #22 X-Force #40 Fantastic Four #7 Amazing Spider-Man #26 The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/spider-man-killed-who-comic-book-herald-live/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spider-Man Killed Who?! | Comic Book Herald Live</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Spider-Man Killed Who?! | Comic Book Herald Live

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: Catching up on two weeks worth of X-Men books, including the Free Comic Book Day set-up for X-Men Fall of X!   This Week’s Comics Immortal X-Men #11 Before the Fall — Sons of X X-Men Red #11 Wolverine #33 Amazing Spider-Man #25 And more! The post The Road to Fall of X: Week of 5.10.23! | Comic Book Herald Live! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: Catching up on two weeks worth of X-Men books, including the Free Comic Book Day set-up for X-Men Fall of X! This Week’s Comics Immortal X-Men #11 Before the Fall — Sons of X X-Men Red #11 Wolverine #33 Amazing Spider-Man #25 And more! The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-road-to-fall-of-x-week-of-5-10-23-comic-book-herald-live/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Road to Fall of X: Week of 5.10.23! | Comic Book Herald Live!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

The Road to Fall of X: Week of 5.10.23! | Comic Book Herald Live!

Jesse Lonergan

Jesse Lonergan joins to talk about the upcoming Mignola-verse comic Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea, as well as their sci-fi graphic novel Arca. Dave and Jesse talk about the success of Hedra’s innovative layouts, working with Mike Mignola, designing pages to slow down readers, how Droma/Prime might be Jesse’s “magnum opus” and much more! On Comic Book Herald’s Interviews I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. CBH Interviews is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!   Arca Writer: Van Jensen Artist: Jesse Lonergan Publisher: IDW Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea Creators: Mike Mignola, Jesse Lonergan Publisher: Dark Horse About the Author: Jesse Lonergan is a comic writer and artist whose most recent claim to fame is his Eisner-Nominated comic Hedra (2020), but also created works such as Planet Paradise. Link to his website! ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post “Arca” &amp; the Mignola-verse w/ Jesse Lonergan | CBH Interviews #111 appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

Jesse Lonergan joins to talk about the upcoming Mignola-verse comic Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea, as well as their sci-fi graphic novel Arca. Dave and Jesse talk about the success of Hedra’s innovative layouts, working with Mike Mignola, designing pages to slow down readers, how Droma/Prime might be Jesse’s “magnum opus” and much more! On Comic Book Herald’s Interviews I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. CBH Interviews is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics! <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Arca-Van-Jensen-ebook/dp/B0C3F5GJ4H/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3BKCBRGEQPELD&amp;keywords=jesse+lonergan&amp;qid=1683058276&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=jesse+lonergan%2Cstripbooks%2C170&amp;sr=1-2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arca</a> Writer: Van Jensen Artist: Jesse Lonergan Publisher: IDW <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1506738176/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=21968619acc231784bc33effabd9134e&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea</a> Creators: Mike Mignola, Jesse Lonergan Publisher: Dark Horse About the Author: Jesse Lonergan is a comic writer and artist whose most recent claim to fame is his Eisner-Nominated comic Hedra (2020), but also created works such as Planet Paradise. <a href="https://www.jesselonergan.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to his website!</a> ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/arca-the-mignola-verse-w-jesse-lonergan-cbh-interviews-111/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Arca” &amp; the Mignola-verse w/ Jesse Lonergan | CBH Interviews #111</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

“Arca” & the Mignola-verse w/ Jesse Lonergan | CBH Interviews #111

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: Sins of Sinister: Dominion ends the crossover event! How was it, and what does it mean for X-Men comics and the Fall of X? Then, we dig into today’s new releases and everything else good.   This Week’s Comics Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1 The post Sins of Sinister: Event Review Post-Game (w/ Blerd Without Fear!) | Comic Book Herald Live! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: Sins of Sinister: Dominion ends the crossover event! How was it, and what does it mean for X-Men comics and the Fall of X? Then, we dig into today’s new releases and everything else good. This Week’s Comics Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1 The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/sins-of-sinister-event-review-post-game-w-blerd-without-fear-comic-book-herald-live/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sins of Sinister: Event Review Post-Game (w/ Blerd Without Fear!) | Comic Book Herald Live!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Sins of Sinister: Event Review Post-Game (w/ Blerd Without Fear!) | Comic Book Herald Live!

I’m joined by writer, artist and animator Stephan Franck to talk his new graphic novel Palomino, a neo-noir meets LA country bars graphic novel being Kickstarted right now! We talk country, Kirby, visual storytelling tricks, and animating Marvel’s What If…! On Comic Book Herald’s Interviews I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. CBH Interviews is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!   Palomino Writer: Stephan Franck Publisher: Dark Planet Comics Kickstarter: link About the Author: Stephan Franck is an accomplished animator, writer, and director who has worked on iconic stories like The Iron Giant and Marvel Studio’s What If…? animated series. He founded his own publishing company, Dark Planet Comics, and has released fantastic graphic novel stories such as Silver, Rosalynd, and Romance in the Age of the Space God. Link to website! ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post “Palomino” w/ Stephan Franck | CBH Interviews #110 appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

I’m joined by writer, artist and animator Stephan Franck to talk his new graphic novel Palomino, a neo-noir meets LA country bars graphic novel being Kickstarted right now! We talk country, Kirby, visual storytelling tricks, and animating Marvel’s What If…! On Comic Book Herald’s Interviews I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. CBH Interviews is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics! Palomino Writer: Stephan Franck Publisher: Dark Planet Comics Kickstarter: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darkplanetcomics/stephan-francks-palomino-volumes-2-and-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link</a> <h4>About the Author:</h4> Stephan Franck is an accomplished animator, writer, and director who has worked on iconic stories like The Iron Giant and Marvel Studio’s What If…? animated series. He founded his own publishing company, Dark Planet Comics, and has released fantastic graphic novel stories such as Silver, Rosalynd, and Romance in the Age of the Space God. <a href="https://www.stephanfranck.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to website!</a> ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/palomino-w-stephan-franck-cbh-interviews-110/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Palomino” w/ Stephan Franck | CBH Interviews #110</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

“Palomino” w/ Stephan Franck | CBH Interviews #110

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: Marvel announced the next Fall of X titles and creative teams including Uncanny Spider-Man, Alpha Flight and Children of the Vault. Then, we dig into today’s new releases including Sins of Sinister and everything else good.   This Week’s Comics Sins of Sinister: Nightcrawlers #3 X-Force #39 New Mutants: Lethal Legion #2 Bishop: War College #3 The post Which Sins of Sinister Tie-Ins Are Worth It? | Comic Book Herald Live! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

On my weekly livestream, Casual Krakoa Live, I review the week’s X-Men comics, and answer big questions about what’s going on with Marvel’s merry mutants! You can listen or watch below: Marvel announced the next Fall of X titles and creative teams including Uncanny Spider-Man, Alpha Flight and Children of the Vault. Then, we dig into today’s new releases including Sins of Sinister and everything else good. This Week’s Comics Sins of Sinister: Nightcrawlers #3 X-Force #39 New Mutants: Lethal Legion #2 Bishop: War College #3 The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/which-sins-of-sinister-tie-ins-are-worth-it-comic-book-herald-live/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Which Sins of Sinister Tie-Ins Are Worth It? | Comic Book Herald Live!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Which Sins of Sinister Tie-Ins Are Worth It? | Comic Book Herald Live!

Victoria Ying

This week I’m talking to Victoria Ying about her new graphic novel Hungry Ghost, out from First Second books. We talk about memoir vs. fiction, writing honestly, manga influences, the upcoming Shang-Chi graphic novel, and much more! On Comic Book Herald’s Interviews I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. CBH Interviews is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!   Hungry Ghost Writer: Victoria Ying  Shang-Chi and The Quest for Immortality Writer/Illustrator: Victoria Ying Publisher: Marvel   About the Author: Victoria Ying is an accomplished author and artist with credits ranging from big box Disney movies to DC and Marvel Comics! She also boasts a collection of original graphic novels, such as City of Secrets. ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post “Hungry Ghost” with Victoria Ying | CBH Interviews #109 appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

This week I’m talking to Victoria Ying about her new graphic novel Hungry Ghost, out from First Second books. We talk about memoir vs. fiction, writing honestly, manga influences, the upcoming Shang-Chi graphic novel, and much more! On Comic Book Herald’s Interviews I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. CBH Interviews is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics! <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Ghost-Victoria-Ying/dp/1250767008/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1N1EOXSI40PYM&amp;keywords=hungry+ghost&amp;qid=1681151310&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=hungry+ghost%2Cstripbooks%2C135&amp;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hungry Ghost</a> Writer: Victoria Ying <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shang-Chi-Immortality-Original-Marvel-Graphic/dp/1338833723" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shang-Chi and The Quest for Immortality</a> Writer/Illustrator: Victoria Ying Publisher: Marvel About the Author: Victoria Ying is an accomplished author and artist with credits ranging from big box Disney movies to DC and Marvel Comics! She also boasts a collection of original graphic novels, such as City of Secrets. ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/hungry-ghost-with-victoria-ying-cbh-interviews-109/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Hungry Ghost” with Victoria Ying | CBH Interviews #109</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

“Hungry Ghost” with Victoria Ying | CBH Interviews #109

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I explore the references to Marvel history throughout the Jonathan Hickman written series House of X and Powers of X.  For more, check out the full write-up on Comic Book Herald: Krakin’ Krakoa: Secrets of House of X!  Comics discussed include:  House of X #1 &amp; #2 Powers of X #1 New X-Men New Avengers  Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Best Comics Ever #47: Secrets of House of X! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

I explore the references to Marvel history throughout the Jonathan Hickman written series House of X and Powers of X. For more, check out the full write-up on Comic Book Herald: <blockquote><a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/krakin-krakoa-secrets-of-house-of-x/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Krakin’ Krakoa: Secrets of House of X!</a></blockquote> Comics discussed include: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/House-2019-Directors-Jonathan-Hickman-ebook/dp/B07QPVZCXW/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=41dada5ce7c9aa0ce185f9c632f8f043&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">House of X #1</a> &amp; #2</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Powers-X-2019-1-6-ebook/dp/B07QMNWLJK/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=286eaa3ad20b59a4c368e424a1a1db62&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Powers of X #1</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-X-Men-Omnibus-Printing/dp/1302901966/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=bf155bdb45e62da992743ff99d74665a&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New X-Men</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Avengers-Everything-Dies-Marvel/dp/0785166610/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=0dffe09a1a1d4f37b093e25a4ca22160&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Avengers</a></li> </ul> Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/best-comics-ever-47-secrets-of-house-of-x/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best Comics Ever #47: Secrets of House of X!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Best Comics Ever #47: Secrets of House of X!

Thor #3 follows the cliffhanger appearance of Beta Ray Bill, cosmic powerhouse, frequent player in the Donny Cates cosmic Marvel universe, and oath-brother to Thor. The story by Donny Cates, Nic Klein, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino is an all out action issue fixating on a brawl between Bill and Thor. Beta Ray Bill views Thor’s work with Galactus as an absolute breach of his worthiness to hold Mjolnir, and initially seeks to attack the devourer in order to free Thor from what Bill assumes is some sort of mind control or bewitching.  Today I’ll answer: + Who is Beta Ray Bill and what’s his history with Thor and Galactus? + Where are we at in the Donny Cates and Nic Klein Thor story through three issues, and where is the series heading?  For related reading orders on Comic Book Herald: Donny Cates’ Marvel Comics!  Thor reading order! Beta Ray Bill reading order! Beta Ray Bill is even more enraged when he learns that Thor is working with Galactus of his own free will, and despite Thor’s clear advantages as the combination Lord of Asgard / Herald of Galactus, fights Thor until Stormbreaker, Bill’s enchanted hammer, is literally smashed to pieces. Beta Ray Bill is even more enraged when he learns that Thor is working with Galactus of his own free will, and despite Thor’s clear advantages as the combination Lord of Asgard / Herald of Galactus, fights Thor until Stormbreaker, Bill’s enchanted hammer, is literally smashed to pieces. To help explain why Beta Ray Bill is so enraged by the trajectory of Thor’s course with Galactus, it helps to look at the character’s history in the Marvel Universe. In my favorite Beta Ray Bill story of the 2000’s, and the one with the most relevance for the Cates and Klein run to date, the three issue Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter by Kieron Gillen and Kano follows Bill as he seeks revenge on Galactus. Thor questions the wisdom of Bill’s vendetta against the world devourer, and actually denies him aid. Bill’s plan is to starve Galactus, choosing to employ strategy over pure brawn in a way that highlights why Beta Ray Bill is a cosmic powerhouse. The story is also a nice inversion of the usual conclusion Marvel heroes come to about Galactus operating as a monstrous but necessary force in the galactic balance. Famously, in the pages of the John Byrne era of Fantastic Four, Reed Richards even makes a case for Galactus during a space trial, which is frankly a lot like making a case for a serial killer in front of the aggrieved family. Bill wants nothing to do with this philosophy or science, though. In the words of every review of stories involving Thor and Beta Ray Bill ever: It’s hammertime. Bill comes very close to succeeding too, taking on the likes of the Silver Surfer as he seeks an end to the World Devourer. His position as Galactus’ status as necessary force of nature is clear too, at one point telling the Surfer: “You serve Galactus. Thurs your hands are bloody red. What do we have to talk about?” Nonetheless, Bill’s obsession with revenge and his methods of planetary annihilation to murder Galactus result in him becoming unworthy of Stormbreaker. It’s only after he halts his bloodthirsty quest that he’s able to wield the enchanted weapon again. With all that in mind, it’s hardly surprising that Beta Ray Bill would bumrush the show in Thor #3, however foolhardy that proves. Although he has to learn a lesson by the end of Godhunter, I don’t think there’s any reason to believe Beta Ray doesn’t still hate Galactus with a raging fury. After Thor’s well and truly beaten Beta Ray Bill, the issue concludes with the former love interest of both Beta Ray Bill and Thor, Lady Sif, now Sif the all-seeing following the events of King Thor. Presumably issue #4 will kick off with a brouhaha between Thor and Sif, although I hope Cates &amp; Klein are more clever than that.  Because Thor #3 is so action-heavy – and again, so one-sided – there’s a lightness to this issue that leaves little to grasp onto. It’s perhaps important to show how far beyond his normal status quo King Thor has risen – he makes Bill look like a featherweight – but doing so a second time against an ally would feel beyond repetitive. The most interesting thing this “Herald of Thunder” storyline is doing is asking how complicit Thor is, or should feel about his newfound role aiding Galactus’ planet consumption. There’s a crucial moment in issue #3 where Galactus seeks to control Thor’s power cosmic, and Thor tells him “Nay!!! I took your power.” instead of the other way around. The scene reminds me a lot of my toddler when I tell him I’m going to play with the best dinosaur action figure, but nonetheless it reveals a clear distinction Thor is making that he is, in fact, in control of his actions and working with Galactus because it needs to be done. I think Cates and Klein are interested in asking questions about Thor’s humanity as King, even calling him the new “God of Genocide” in issue #2, but that angle is falling very flat for me. Firstly, the question was explored so thoroughly in Jonathan Hickman’s New Avengers that clearing the bar is a tall order, and this does not yet come close to measuring up. Second, there’s a very good reason Thor is working with Galactus, and it’s a threat to all universes! I’m yet to in any way think Thor has lost his sense of what’s right, although perhaps as the book progresses and more planets are endangered, we may see that trend. In Thor #4, I’m looking forward to Thor and Sif putting down hammer and sword, and discussing a plan to use the Bifrost to fully save future planets like they tried to do with Clypse on the fly. We’re three issues into the first story of this era of King Thor, and he’s yet to do much by way of governing. It’s time to put the fists down and see what Thor is thinking, lest this series devolve into nothing but shattered hammers. ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com   The post The Cates of Hel #3: Thor #3 Review – The History of Beta Ray Bill! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

Thor #3 follows the cliffhanger appearance of Beta Ray Bill, cosmic powerhouse, frequent player in the Donny Cates cosmic Marvel universe, and oath-brother to Thor. The story by Donny Cates, Nic Klein, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino is an all out action issue fixating on a brawl between Bill and Thor. Beta Ray Bill views Thor’s work with Galactus as an absolute breach of his worthiness to hold Mjolnir, and initially seeks to attack the devourer in order to free Thor from what Bill assumes is some sort of mind control or bewitching. Today I’ll answer: + Who is Beta Ray Bill and what’s his history with Thor and Galactus? + Where are we at in the Donny Cates and Nic Klein Thor story through three issues, and where is the series heading? For related reading orders on Comic Book Herald: <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/donny-cates-marvel-universe-reading-order-2017/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Donny Cates’ Marvel Comics! </a> <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/thor-reading-order/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thor reading order!</a> <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/beta-ray-bill-reading-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Beta Ray Bill reading order!</a> Beta Ray Bill is even more enraged when he learns that Thor is working with Galactus of his own free will, and despite Thor’s clear advantages as the combination Lord of Asgard / Herald of Galactus, fights Thor until Stormbreaker, Bill’s enchanted hammer, is literally smashed to pieces. Beta Ray Bill is even more enraged when he learns that Thor is working with Galactus of his own free will, and despite Thor’s clear advantages as the combination Lord of Asgard / Herald of Galactus, fights Thor until Stormbreaker, Bill’s enchanted hammer, is literally smashed to pieces. To help explain why Beta Ray Bill is so enraged by the trajectory of Thor’s course with Galactus, it helps to look at the character’s history in the Marvel Universe. In my favorite Beta Ray Bill story of the 2000’s, and the one with the most relevance for the Cates and Klein run to date, the three issue Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter by Kieron Gillen and Kano follows Bill as he seeks revenge on Galactus. Thor questions the wisdom of Bill’s vendetta against the world devourer, and actually denies him aid. Bill’s plan is to starve Galactus, choosing to employ strategy over pure brawn in a way that highlights why Beta Ray Bill is a cosmic powerhouse. The story is also a nice inversion of the usual conclusion Marvel heroes come to about Galactus operating as a monstrous but necessary force in the galactic balance. Famously, in the pages of the John Byrne era of Fantastic Four, Reed Richards even makes a case for Galactus during a space trial, which is frankly a lot like making a case for a serial killer in front of the aggrieved family. Bill wants nothing to do with this philosophy or science, though. In the words of every review of stories involving Thor and Beta Ray Bill ever: It’s hammertime. Bill comes very close to succeeding too, taking on the likes of the Silver Surfer as he seeks an end to the World Devourer. His position as Galactus’ status as necessary force of nature is clear too, at one point telling the Surfer: “You serve Galactus. Thurs your hands are bloody red. What do we have to talk about?” Nonetheless, Bill’s obsession with revenge and his methods of planetary annihilation to murder Galactus result in him becoming unworthy of Stormbreaker. It’s only after he halts his bloodthirsty quest that he’s able to wield the enchanted weapon again. With all that in mind, it’s hardly surprising that Beta Ray Bill would bumrush the show in Thor #3, however foolhardy that proves. Although he has to learn a lesson by the end of Godhunter, I don’t think there’s any reason to believe Beta Ray doesn’t still hate Galactus with a raging fury. After Thor’s well and truly beaten Beta Ray Bill, the issue concludes with the former love interest of both Beta Ray Bill and Thor, Lady Sif, now Sif the all-seeing following the events of King Thor. Presumably issue #4 will kick off with a brouhaha between Thor and Sif, although I hope Cates &amp; Klein are more clever than that. <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/thor3-stormbreaker-shatters.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Because Thor #3 is so action-heavy – and again, so one-sided – there’s a lightness to this issue that leaves little to grasp onto. It’s perhaps important to show how far beyond his normal status quo King Thor has risen – he makes Bill look like a featherweight – but doing so a second time against an ally would feel beyond repetitive. The most interesting thing this “Herald of Thunder” storyline is doing is asking how complicit Thor is, or should feel about his newfound role aiding Galactus’ planet consumption. There’s a crucial moment in issue #3 where Galactus seeks to control Thor’s power cosmic, and Thor tells him “Nay!!! I took your power.” instead of the other way around. The scene reminds me a lot of my toddler when I tell him I’m going to play with the best dinosaur action figure, but nonetheless it reveals a clear distinction Thor is making that he is, in fact, in control of his actions and working with Galactus because it needs to be done. I think Cates and Klein are interested in asking questions about Thor’s humanity as King, even calling him the new “God of Genocide” in issue #2, but that angle is falling very flat for me. Firstly, the question was explored so thoroughly in Jonathan Hickman’s New Avengers that clearing the bar is a tall order, and this does not yet come close to measuring up. Second, there’s a very good reason Thor is working with Galactus, and it’s a threat to all universes! I’m yet to in any way think Thor has lost his sense of what’s right, although perhaps as the book progresses and more planets are endangered, we may see that trend. In Thor #4, I’m looking forward to Thor and Sif putting down hammer and sword, and discussing a plan to use the Bifrost to fully save future planets like they tried to do with Clypse on the fly. We’re three issues into the first story of this era of King Thor, and he’s yet to do much by way of governing. It’s time to put the fists down and see what Thor is thinking, lest this series devolve into nothing but shattered hammers. ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-cates-of-hel-3-thor-3-review-the-history-of-beta-ray-bill/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Cates of Hel #3: Thor #3 Review – The History of Beta Ray Bill!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

The Cates of Hel #3: Thor #3 Review – The History of Beta Ray Bill!

This month John &amp; Dave tackle Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank in relation to HBO’s Watchmen and the original limited series by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins.  For previous Deep Dives: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUTT7Ae14QtLOVCncxprvXqsL9vOF_TK For more, check out the full guides on Comic Book Herald: Watchmen Doomsday Clock I also recommend checking out HBO Watchmen’s Peteypedia! Comics discussed include:  Watchmen Doomsday Clock Before Watchmen  Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Deep Dives #4: World of Watchmen – How Doomsday Clock &amp; HBO Watchmen Approach Sequels appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

This month John &amp; Dave tackle Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank in relation to HBO’s Watchmen and the original limited series by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins. For previous Deep Dives: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUTT7Ae14QtLOVCncxprvXqsL9vOF_TK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUTT7Ae14QtLOVCncxprvXqsL9vOF_TK</a> For more, check out the full guides on Comic Book Herald: <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/reading-dc-comics/watchmen-reading-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Watchmen</a> <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/reading-dc-comics/dc-rebirth-reading-order/doomsday-clock/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Doomsday Clock</a> I also recommend checking out HBO Watchmen’s <a href="https://www.hbo.com/peteypedia" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Peteypedia</a>! Comics discussed include: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-2019-Alan-Moore/dp/1779501129/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=8dc3ca24198b27b25ebf1b84f516d313&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Watchmen</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Clock-Part-Geoff-Johns/dp/177950120X/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=8d50db427ef0332886b889d90bbdd260&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Doomsday Clock</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Before-Watchmen-Omnibus-Brian-Azzarello/dp/1401285511/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=30da29f95e4f4a6b7cb3c24817b158e2&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Before Watchmen</a></li> </ul> Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/deep-dives-4-world-of-watchmen-how-doomsday-clock-hbo-watchmen-approach-sequels/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deep Dives #4: World of Watchmen – How Doomsday Clock &amp; HBO Watchmen Approach Sequels</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Deep Dives #4: World of Watchmen – How Doomsday Clock & HBO Watchmen Approach Sequels

This month John &amp; Dave tackle House of X and Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman, RB Silva, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia and collaborators.  For previous Deep Dives: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUTT7Ae14QtLOVCncxprvXqsL9vOF_TK For more, check out the full guides on Comic Book Herald: Hickman’s X-Men John’s review of telepathy Comics discussed include: House of X / Powers of X Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Deep Dives #3: House of X/Powers of X – What Makes an X-Men Reinvention Successful? appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

This month John &amp; Dave tackle House of X and Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman, RB Silva, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia and collaborators. For previous Deep Dives: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUTT7Ae14QtLOVCncxprvXqsL9vOF_TK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUTT7Ae14QtLOVCncxprvXqsL9vOF_TK</a> For more, check out the full guides on Comic Book Herald: <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/jonathan-hickman-x-men-reading-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Hickman’s X-Men</a> <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/superpowers-reviewed-telepathy-and-professor-x/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">John’s review of telepathy</a> Comics discussed include: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/House-X-Powers-Jonathan-Hickman/dp/1302915703/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=148ee837653af877695a875de37e807e&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">House of X / Powers of X</a> Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/deep-dives-3-house-of-x-powers-of-x-what-makes-an-x-men-reinvention-successful/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deep Dives #3: House of X/Powers of X – What Makes an X-Men Reinvention Successful?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Deep Dives #3: House of X/Powers of X – What Makes an X-Men Reinvention Successful?

Moira MacTaggert

Krakin Krakoa

The history of Moira MacTaggert, a major player in the pages of House of X!  For more, check out the full write-up on Comic Book Herald: Moira MacTaggert (X-Men) Reading Order!  Comics discussed include: + Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne, and more. + New Mutants by Claremont and Sienkiewicz + Excalibur written by Warren Ellis, + X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred! Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Best Comics Ever #49: Krakin Krakoa #3 – The Uncanny History of Moira MacTaggert! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

The history of Moira MacTaggert, a major player in the pages of House of X! For more, check out the full write-up on Comic Book Herald: <blockquote><a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/moira-mactaggert-x-men-reading-order/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moira MacTaggert (X-Men) Reading Order!</a></blockquote> Comics discussed include: + Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne, and more. + New Mutants by Claremont and Sienkiewicz + Excalibur written by Warren Ellis, + X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred! Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/best-comics-ever-49-krakin-krakoa-3-the-uncanny-history-of-moira-mactaggert/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best Comics Ever #49: Krakin Krakoa #3 – The Uncanny History of Moira MacTaggert!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Best Comics Ever #49: Krakin Krakoa #3 – The Uncanny History of Moira MacTaggert!

Dive into current Marvel Comics for the first time ever, or first time in a while, with this fast track guide on where to start!  For the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGo_ZwF1QI For the full reading order: Marvel Fresh Start Marvel Fresh Start Fast Track! Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Best Comics Ever #56: Where to Start With Marvel Comics (Fresh Start Era)! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

Dive into current Marvel Comics for the first time ever, or first time in a while, with this fast track guide on where to start! For the video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGo_ZwF1QI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGo_ZwF1QI</a> For the full reading order: <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/marvel-fresh-start-reading-order/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marvel Fresh Start</a> <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/marvel-fresh-start-fast-track-guide-2018-present/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Marvel Fresh Start Fast Track!</a> Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/best-comics-ever-56-where-to-start-with-marvel-comics-fresh-start-era/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best Comics Ever #56: Where to Start With Marvel Comics (Fresh Start Era)!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Best Comics Ever #56: Where to Start With Marvel Comics (Fresh Start Era)!

This week I rank enough stories on the best comics of all time list to get us to 500 total stories!  Comics discussed include:  Captain America Epic Collection Iron Man Epic Collection Bitter Root Thor (2018)  Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Best Comics Ever #32: 500 stories ranked! Ranking Classic Iron Man, Cap, &amp; 2018 Thor! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

This week I rank enough stories on the <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-best-comics-of-all-time/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">best comics of all time list</a> to get us to 500 total stories! Comics discussed include: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Captain-America-Epic-Collection-Lives/dp/0785188363/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=59b59b8878914469e16f0951afd92fa1&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Captain America Epic Collection</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Man-Epic-Collection-Invincible/dp/0785188630/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=1f4516cdd588de92528979175b798ea2&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Iron Man Epic Collection</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Root-1-Family-Business/dp/1534312129/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=6ae769b69f51e40a159f280ec3cbf74c&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bitter Root</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thor-Vol-Thunder-Reborn-2018-ebook/dp/B07JHZHZN9/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=06a539fd80fdd3f8dcbe21e4ffd58389&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thor (2018)</a></li> </ul> Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/best-comics-ever-32-500-stories-ranked-ranking-classic-iron-man-cap-2018-thor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best Comics Ever #32: 500 stories ranked! Ranking Classic Iron Man, Cap, &amp; 2018 Thor!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Best Comics Ever #32: 500 stories ranked! Ranking Classic Iron Man, Cap, & 2018 Thor!

I definitely would not have predicted Gerry Duggan and Matteo Lolli’s Marauders would be my favorite “Dawn of X” X-Men comic in 2019 – particularly ahead of two Jonathan Hickman written series with X-Men and New Mutants, but it very much has held steady as the comic most clearly filled with purpose, humor, and vision. Marauders feels like a book that knows where it wants to go, and how it wants to utilize the new status quo of Krakoa and House of X for a successful long run. Today I’ll answer: + What the last two issues tell us about Marauders vision + Who the heck is Shinobi Shaw + Who the heck are those kids claiming to be ex Hellfire Club!   My Notes From the Review! The clearest direction for Marauders so far is that Duggan, Lolli and company are most interested in the Hellfire Club politics and power dynamics than the ostensibly teased hook of a mutant pirate vessel led by Kate Pryde. The pirating is very much in play, but it’s secondary to the machinations of wealthy, powerful, scheming former villains, and that’s actually fascinating! As a result, the pirate crew is given short spurts of focus over the past few issues, allowing displays of power (in the case of Storm) and displays of idiot humor (Pyro offering beer to refugee kids). Whereas issue #3 is all about Sebastian Shaw’s power schemes – more on those in a moment – Marauders #4 blends Kate and Bishop solving eastern mysteries with unexpected Hellfire twists and turns. Even during their investigation into the “disappearance” of an individual being used to foster anti-mutant hostility Kate remains on Bishop’s case about accepting her offer to join her Hellfire squad as her – very on the repeatedly broken nose – Red Bishop. So yes, there’s action and exploration of the world outside Krakoa – such as kate and Bishop’s discovery of the “Lady Deathstrike maid service” – but the real hook here is the Krakoan power struggles and what it means for the status of the X-nation. Who the heck is Shinobi Shaw Marauders #3 dives into these power plays with Sebastian Shaw’s efforts to resurrect his son Shinobi Shaw – dead by his own hand prior to House of X – as his Black Bishop. As the Hellfire power players put together their loyal supporters, it’s interesting to note that both Emma and Sebastian have chosen family with their first announced picks. Neither are particularly known for their deep familial ties, although this is doubly true in Sebastian’s case, where his relationship with his son is rooted firmly in a neverending quest to subjugate and kill the other! Since he’s a lesser known X-character I’ll also take a moment to talk about Shinobi Shaw. Shinobi debuts in X-Factor #67 and right out of the gates is seen draining his father’s wealth, trying to use his mutant ability to control his own density (think Vision but only the body-density bits) to give his dad a heart attack, and then blowing up the Shaw estate. Happy Father’s Day! Shinobi has played at Black King of the Hellfire Club although more often than not his clearest rival is in fact the return of his father. There’s a particularly strange family dynamic between the two where they simultaneously want to kill the other, but are also proud of the strength in their family name that they would be able to succeed. With dad’s like this who needs enemies? The big issue ending is Sebastian’s attempts to manipulate Shinobi for his own ends. This feels destined to blow up in Sebastian’s face, especially considering we’ve already seen Shinobi is beholden to some mysterious outside entity, but for the time being he’s trying to use Shinobi’s anger against Emma and Kate Pryde. Who the heck are those kids claiming to be ex Hellfire Club! Marauders #4 ends with an even more surprising entry into the Hellfire legacy sweepstakes, with the reemergence of Kade Kilgore and the Homines Verendi (which from what I can tell translates to something like “The Feared Ones”). During Jason Aaron’s run writing Wolverine and the X-Men, he introduced a new youthful Hellfire Club led by Kade Kilgore. Kilgore and this new Hellfire Club is part of Marvel’s comics tradition of making genius intellect pre-teens, like Valeria Richards, although of course in this case they are pure evil. The other members seen here are Maximillion Frankenstein, Manuel Enduque, and Wilhelmina Kensington. Each member represents powerful wealthy bloodlines, in a new even more bloodthirsty model. Importantly they’re also all human and either hate mutants, or enjoy profiting off anti-mutant weapons manufacturing. The difference seems negligible. Why is this all so compelling? At the heart of these storytelling choices, there’s a throughline connecting Krakoa and the Worlldd of X to money power and shaping the globe. It’s in the way Jonathan Hickman writes Sebastian Shaw speechifying like a character out of Black Monday Murders, in the way X-Force #4 includes a data page with the shell corporations of Professor Charles Xavier, and of course in the way the main players in Marauders see the world. One of the aspects I find most interesting about Marauders is this is very much not how Kate Pryde sees the world. She’s been dragged into these games of finance and backstabbing because she ran into a Krakoan brick wall. I’m very curious to see how shrewdly she’ll be able to play in these spaces that Sebastian and Emma have lived in. The post Krakin’ Krakoa #26: My Favorite 2019 X-Men Dawn of X Comic! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

I definitely would not have predicted Gerry Duggan and Matteo Lolli’s Marauders would be my favorite “Dawn of X” X-Men comic in 2019 – particularly ahead of two Jonathan Hickman written series with X-Men and New Mutants, but it very much has held steady as the comic most clearly filled with purpose, humor, and vision. Marauders feels like a book that knows where it wants to go, and how it wants to utilize the new status quo of Krakoa and House of X for a successful long run. Today I’ll answer: + What the last two issues tell us about Marauders vision + Who the heck is Shinobi Shaw + Who the heck are those kids claiming to be ex Hellfire Club! <h3>My Notes From the Review!</h3> The clearest direction for Marauders so far is that Duggan, Lolli and company are most interested in the Hellfire Club politics and power dynamics than the ostensibly teased hook of a mutant pirate vessel led by Kate Pryde. The pirating is very much in play, but it’s secondary to the machinations of wealthy, powerful, scheming former villains, and that’s actually fascinating! As a result, the pirate crew is given short spurts of focus over the past few issues, allowing displays of power (in the case of Storm) and displays of idiot humor (Pyro offering beer to refugee kids). Whereas issue #3 is all about Sebastian Shaw’s power schemes – more on those in a moment – Marauders #4 blends Kate and Bishop solving eastern mysteries with unexpected Hellfire twists and turns. Even during their investigation into the “disappearance” of an individual being used to foster anti-mutant hostility Kate remains on Bishop’s case about accepting her offer to join her Hellfire squad as her – very on the repeatedly broken nose – Red Bishop. So yes, there’s action and exploration of the world outside Krakoa – such as kate and Bishop’s discovery of the “Lady Deathstrike maid service” – but the real hook here is the Krakoan power struggles and what it means for the status of the X-nation. Who the heck is Shinobi Shaw Marauders #3 dives into these power plays with Sebastian Shaw’s efforts to resurrect his son Shinobi Shaw – dead by his own hand prior to House of X – as his Black Bishop. As the Hellfire power players put together their loyal supporters, it’s interesting to note that both Emma and Sebastian have chosen family with their first announced picks. Neither are particularly known for their deep familial ties, although this is doubly true in Sebastian’s case, where his relationship with his son is rooted firmly in a neverending quest to subjugate and kill the other! Since he’s a lesser known X-character I’ll also take a moment to talk about Shinobi Shaw. Shinobi debuts in X-Factor #67 and right out of the gates is seen draining his father’s wealth, trying to use his mutant ability to control his own density (think Vision but only the body-density bits) to give his dad a heart attack, and then blowing up the Shaw estate. Happy Father’s Day! Shinobi has played at Black King of the Hellfire Club although more often than not his clearest rival is in fact the return of his father. There’s a particularly strange family dynamic between the two where they simultaneously want to kill the other, but are also proud of the strength in their family name that they would be able to succeed. With dad’s like this who needs enemies? The big issue ending is Sebastian’s attempts to manipulate Shinobi for his own ends. This feels destined to blow up in Sebastian’s face, especially considering we’ve already seen Shinobi is beholden to some mysterious outside entity, but for the time being he’s trying to use Shinobi’s anger against Emma and Kate Pryde. Who the heck are those kids claiming to be ex Hellfire Club! Marauders #4 ends with an even more surprising entry into the Hellfire legacy sweepstakes, with the reemergence of Kade Kilgore and the Homines Verendi (which from what I can tell translates to something like “The Feared Ones”). During Jason Aaron’s run writing Wolverine and the X-Men, he introduced a new youthful Hellfire Club led by Kade Kilgore. Kilgore and this new Hellfire Club is part of Marvel’s comics tradition of making genius intellect pre-teens, like Valeria Richards, although of course in this case they are pure evil. The other members seen here are Maximillion Frankenstein, Manuel Enduque, and Wilhelmina Kensington. Each member represents powerful wealthy bloodlines, in a new even more bloodthirsty model. Importantly they’re also all human and either hate mutants, or enjoy profiting off anti-mutant weapons manufacturing. The difference seems negligible. Why is this all so compelling? At the heart of these storytelling choices, there’s a throughline connecting Krakoa and the Worlldd of X to money power and shaping the globe. It’s in the way Jonathan Hickman writes Sebastian Shaw speechifying like a character out of Black Monday Murders, in the way X-Force #4 includes a data page with the shell corporations of Professor Charles Xavier, and of course in the way the main players in Marauders see the world. One of the aspects I find most interesting about Marauders is this is very much not how Kate Pryde sees the world. She’s been dragged into these games of finance and backstabbing because she ran into a Krakoan brick wall. I’m very curious to see how shrewdly she’ll be able to play in these spaces that Sebastian and Emma have lived in. The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/krakin-krakoa-26-my-favorite-2019-x-men-dawn-of-x-comic/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Krakin’ Krakoa #26: My Favorite 2019 X-Men Dawn of X Comic!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Krakin’ Krakoa #26: My Favorite 2019 X-Men Dawn of X Comic!

Absolute Carnage wrapped up this week: I’ll review the full event, complete with tie-ins, and discuss what it means for the Marvel Universe! Spoilers for Absolute Carnage follow!  For the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Y-v_nDeyw For the full Absolute Carnage reading order: Comics Discussed Include: + Absolute Carnage + Venom + Tie-Ins! Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Best Comics Ever #60: Absolute Carnage – Post-Game Report – Full Review! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

Absolute Carnage wrapped up this week: I’ll review the full event, complete with tie-ins, and discuss what it means for the Marvel Universe! Spoilers for Absolute Carnage follow! For the video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Y-v_nDeyw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Y-v_nDeyw</a> For the full <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/absolute-carnage-reading-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Absolute Carnage reading order</a>: Comics Discussed Include: + <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Carnage-Ryan-Stegman/dp/1302919083/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=dae46fb8d1e62c54bd74986d3b522beb&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Absolute Carnage</a> + <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Venom-Donny-Cates-Vol-Rex/dp/1302913069/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=bdd1157f51c0bb2d0824b0d68dc30cad&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Venom</a> + Tie-Ins! Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/best-comics-ever-60-absolute-carnage-post-game-report-full-review/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best Comics Ever #60: Absolute Carnage – Post-Game Report – Full Review!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Best Comics Ever #60: Absolute Carnage – Post-Game Report – Full Review!

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!   Spoilers for discussed comics may follow!  The history of the Celestial Messiah begins with the story of the Celestial Madonna, as told in the pages of Steve Englehart written Marvel comics, beginning in Avengers and extending through the likes of Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, and eventually an early 2000’s eight issue series called Avengers: Celestial Quest. The quick version is that while with the Avengers, the Vietnamese Mantis, Mistress of the Martial Arts, learned of her prophesied role as the universe’s Celestial Madonna. Although it was unknown to even Mantis until a ways into the saga, she had been trained by the Priests of Pama, Kree pacifists loyal to the Cotati – a plant-based alien race – in ways of telepathic empathy making her the perfect human half of a Cotati / Human pregnancy. That’s right: All this builds to Mantis marrying and sleeping with a tree!  So yes, it’s important right off the bat to accept that the basis for basically everything I’ll be talking about today is tree-sex. You have to be pine with that. Fine with that. Just leaf your preconceived notions of mating at the door. Oak-K moving on. The original Celestial Madonna saga runs through eight issues of the core Avengers series, plus three “Giant-Size” specials from about 1974 through 1975. The Celestial Madonna saga reading order:  Avengers #128 Avengers #129 Giant-Size Avengers #2 Avengers #130 Avengers #131 Avengers #132 Giant-Size Avengers #3 Avengers #133 Avengers #134 Avengers #135 Giant-Size Avengers #4  Again, essentially, Giant-Size Avengers #4 concludes with Mantis consummating a marriage with the elder Cotati, in the recreated form of the just dead Swordsman, in order to give birth to the Celestial Messiah. Before we get to this Messiah, though, it’s really important to understand the Cotati, in terms of where they come from and what their relevance is for the Marvel Cosmic landscape. In Marvel’s late 2019 Incoming teaser, building towards the 2020 Empyre event, it was revealed both the Kree and Skrull were sending a message that said “Beware the Trees.” For readers of the Celestial Madonna saga, this is a clear allusion to the Cotati, long since confirmed (particularly with Empyre tie-ins like Lords of Empyre: Celestial Messiah announced). Why might the Kree (and Skrulls for that matter) find themselves running scared of the returned Cotati? And what has changed in the Cotati that they appear to be stealthily assassinating Kree and Skrull agents on Earth? During Engelhardt’s “Celestial Madonna” saga there’s an ancient galactic history lesson that tells us one million years ago the Skrulls traveled to Hala, the emerging Kree homeworld, and challenged both the co-existing Kree and Cotati to prove who was the superior galactic partner on Earth’s moon. Long story short, when the Kree think the Cotati are about to win, they effectively commit genocide, and only a small amount of Cotati survive. The Kree’s actions – not only decimating the Cotati but killing the Skrulls who witnessed their atrocity – sparked the Kree- Skrull war that has more or less been an ongoing feud for all of Marvel history. It makes a lot of sense that the Cotati might have some grievances to air out with both the Kree and the Skrull, resulting in a massive war in Earth’s atmosphere in the pages of Empyre. In the aftermath of the Celestial Madonna saga, Mantis does in fact give birth a baby boy she names Sequoia, Quoi for short, the half human, half Cotati baby prophesied to become the Celestial Messiah. I’ll note here again, this prophesy stems from the Priests of Pama and the Cotati. It’s also a prophesy that we see the likes of Kang the Conqueror and Thanos very fully buying into in the pages of Englehart’s Avengers and “Celestial Quest.” Nonetheless, I can’t emphasize this enough, taking prophesy as absolute truth is time and time again proven complicated, whether we’re talking the fictional worlds of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, or any number of sacred religious texts, or even the works of someone like Nostradamus. Plus, the Celestial Messiah prophecy is deliberately vague – it promises a “perfect child” who is destined to change the universe. But that can mean plenty of things! Over the course of “Celestial Quest,” Sequoia begins as an extremely surly teen who resents his mother for bailing on him after 1 year of raising him – fair! – before growing into his energy absorption powerset and universe-saving messiah role. Naturally, this includes swinging a giant ax into Thanos with an all-time least cool hero line “You lack an ax in your tummy.” To be fair, he was raised by plants. You could make the argument that Sequoia preventing the equally confounding universal threat that resulted from Death and Thanos’ consummation (I don’t want to dip into these waters really at all but there’s a whole lot of problems with consent here, actually from Thanos) means he has fulfilled his destiny as Celestial Messiah… but for my money that feels kind of inadequate. Obviously the language is meant to invoke religious figures like Jesus, and to mix metaphors, “bring balance to the force.” Sequoia’s actions in Marvel history haven’t really gotten there. In many ways, I’m still looking for the answer to what it means to be the Celestial Messiah.  Remarkably, since “Celestial Quest,” Marvel readers haven’t seen hide-nor-hair of this Celestial Messiah! But – and this is where things get really interesting – there have been similar, intertwined cosmic prophecies arising in his wake. And this is where the notion of the Celestial Messiah and Kree cosmic prophesy becomes particularly relevant in 2020. As recently as X-Men #8 by Jonathan Hickman and Mahmud Asrar, the Inhuman King Black Bolt has been referred to as both the Midnight King and the Celestial Messiah! This language dates back to Hickman’s time on Fantastic Four and begins a trend this decade of Marvel creators – namely Hickman and Al Ewing – mixing their own cosmic prophecy into the Marvel mix. In the pages of Hickman’s Fantastic Four and more specifically FF (in a sequence that bounces from amazing work by Greg Tochinni to amazing work by Steve Epting), it’s revealed that not only did Black Bolt survive his apparent death in War of Kings, but also that he’s destined to fulfill a Kree / Supreme Intelligence prophecy to one day destroy the Kree Empire. The Supreme Intelligence takes a very Herod like approach to this revelation, calling for the deaths of all the Kree-created Inhumans across the galaxy, with only 5 civilizations escaping – these would go on to be known as the Universal Inhumans. Whereas the prophecy of the Celestial Messiah is covered in faith and hope, the Kree’s Black Bolt prophecy is awash in fear and destruction. Despite this, Black Bolt does ultimately sue for peace with the Kree, sacrificing the love of Crystal and Ronan the Accuser in order to break the chain of fate and forge his own path. Admittedly, Hickman’s use of “Celestial Messiah” to describe Black Bolt – which I’ve noted as early as New Avengers #2 in 2013 – is an oddly specific choice. Hickman’s very good at concise cool sounding nicknames – see also Midnight King and King of the Dead – but the repetition of Black Bolt’s role as Celestial Messiah – and doubling down in X-Men #8 with “the will of a celestial messiah cannot be denied” – feels very intentional. I wouldn’t have believed it prior to X-Men #8, but I don’t think Hickman’s quite done with Black Bolt. I also think the phrasing of “a celestial messiah” suggests a more interesting take on the original Celestial Madonna saga. You have the Priests of Pama fortelling their messiah, you have the Supreme Intelligence / Kree Empire foretelling their own, and then you’ll have the third we’re about to look into. Varying visions of messianic salvation in the Marvel Cosmic landscape are way more interesting than lying in wait for Sequoia to get super interesting! As far as where we stand with Black Bolt, last readers saw of him was in Death of the Inhumans by Donny Cates and Ariel Olivetti, when Blackagar extended the true meaning of this prophecy to mean Kree and Inhumans alike must ultimately succumb to his final death scream. Well, kinda – the Royal family of the Inhumans does seem to escape with their lives, although what they’re up to is a mystery awaiting the right moment – perhaps that moment will be in the pages of Empyre.  As teased, the third major cosmic prophecy comes from Al Ewing’s time writing New Avengers, and clearly sets the stage for 2020’s mega Marvel Empyre event. Ewing created a collective of Kree / Skrull hybrid peoples known as the Knights of the Infinite who are working to fulfill the prophecy that one day the heir / reincarnation of the first Kree / Skrull combo platter – Dorek Supreme – will bring the ultimate alliance to the galaxy. According to the Knights of the Infinite, this individual is the longtime Young Avenger Teddy Altman, aka Hulkling. The seeds for Teddy’s ascension atop the throne date back to some of his earliest appearances in Young Avengers (issues #8 through #10 I believe), when both the Supre Skrull and Kree warriors showed up to claim Teddy as one of their own, given his Skrull mother and Kree – in fact, Captain Mar-Vell – father. It’s a lineage Hulkling has been aware of for plenty of time now, and although he’s not quite ready to take on the role in New Avengers, by the time the Knights of the Infinite call again in 2019’s Incoming Hulkling packs up his Star-Sword and hits the road to kick off Empyre. For my money, Teddy’s prophesied place in the cosmic scheme makes the most sense, as his Arthurian narrative is designed to unify the strongest Kree Skrull alliance the galaxy has known. I’ll admit, though, Marvel’s pre-Empyre hype has me trying to figure some of Teddy’s motives. There’s a lot of talk of holding Earth accountable for the atrocities they’ve committed against the Kree and Skrulls (things like turning Skrull agents into cows, or any number of various ways you can blame humans for Galactus eating the Skrull’s throneworld and Hala getting destroyed in the Black Vortex Saga). But Teddy’s from earth, and not only that, his romantic partner, Billy, is an Earthling too! If the stated prophecy is for Hulkling to bring love to the universe, an imperial armada sailing toward Earth is a very curious move. As we approach Empyre in May 2020, we have two of the known Celestial Messiah figures definitely included in the event, and my prediction is we’re in a for a surprise inclusion of the third, Black Bolt, in the Empyre X-Men tie-in series (especially since we’re talking comics talking place in the Blue Area of the Moon, long time home of the Inhumans!). It will be fascinating to see how these mythologies collide and unfold over the next several months, and to see how years, often decades in the making seeds can pay off in the hands of Al Ewing, Dan Slott and Valerio Schitti, among others. For one final wild theory, all of this talk of Celestial Messiahs does not outwardly appear to have direct connections to Marvel’s known Celestials, as created by Jack Kirby. It’s very literal wordplay, but I’d love to see the concept actually work in these Celestials, which both Hickman and Ewing have played with in their various Marvel cosmic stories. I especially like the idea that true Celestial Messiah should be capable of saving all life from the coming of the Celestial’s judgment, as promised in the year 2026! Mostly I’m just pulling here for some art of Black Bolt or Teddy straight roundhousing some Celestials, but this is Marvel Comics, stranger things have happened! ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Krakin’ Krakoa #42: 3 Cosmic Prophecies in Marvel Comics- How Ewing, Hickman &amp; the Celestial Messiah Intersect appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

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: <ul> <li>+ What or Who the heck is Marvel’s Celestial Messiah?</li> <li>+ Why does the Messiah matter in 2020?</li> <li>+ What does this have to do with Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men?</li> <li>+ How Marvel’s cosmic prophesies are on a collision course!</li> </ul> Spoilers for discussed comics may follow! The history of the Celestial Messiah begins with the story of the Celestial Madonna, as told in the pages of Steve Englehart written Marvel comics, beginning in Avengers and extending through the likes of Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, and eventually an early 2000’s eight issue series called Avengers: Celestial Quest. The quick version is that while with the Avengers, the Vietnamese Mantis, Mistress of the Martial Arts, learned of her prophesied role as the universe’s Celestial Madonna. Although it was unknown to even Mantis until a ways into the saga, she had been trained by the Priests of Pama, Kree pacifists loyal to the Cotati – a plant-based alien race – in ways of telepathic empathy making her the perfect human half of a Cotati / Human pregnancy. That’s right: All this builds to Mantis marrying and sleeping with a tree! <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/giant-size-avengers-4-mantis-marry-tree.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> So yes, it’s important right off the bat to accept that the basis for basically everything I’ll be talking about today is tree-sex. You have to be pine with that. Fine with that. Just leaf your preconceived notions of mating at the door. Oak-K moving on. The original Celestial Madonna saga runs through eight issues of the core Avengers series, plus three “Giant-Size” specials from about 1974 through 1975. The Celestial Madonna saga reading order: <ul> <li>Avengers #128</li> <li>Avengers #129</li> <li>Giant-Size Avengers #2</li> <li>Avengers #130</li> <li>Avengers #131</li> <li>Avengers #132</li> <li>Giant-Size Avengers #3</li> <li>Avengers #133</li> <li>Avengers #134</li> <li>Avengers #135</li> <li>Giant-Size Avengers #4</li> </ul> Again, essentially, Giant-Size Avengers #4 concludes with Mantis consummating a marriage with the elder Cotati, in the recreated form of the just dead Swordsman, in order to give birth to the Celestial Messiah. Before we get to this Messiah, though, it’s really important to understand the Cotati, in terms of where they come from and what their relevance is for the Marvel Cosmic landscape. In Marvel’s late 2019 Incoming teaser, building towards the 2020 Empyre event, it was revealed both the Kree and Skrull were sending a message that said “Beware the Trees.” For readers of the Celestial Madonna saga, this is a clear allusion to the Cotati, long since confirmed (particularly with Empyre tie-ins like Lords of Empyre: Celestial Messiah announced). Why might the Kree (and Skrulls for that matter) find themselves running scared of the returned Cotati? And what has changed in the Cotati that they appear to be stealthily assassinating Kree and Skrull agents on Earth? During Engelhardt’s “Celestial Madonna” saga there’s an ancient galactic history lesson that tells us one million years ago the Skrulls traveled to Hala, the emerging Kree homeworld, and challenged both the co-existing Kree and Cotati to prove who was the superior galactic partner on Earth’s moon. Long story short, when the Kree think the Cotati are about to win, they effectively commit genocide, and only a small amount of Cotati survive. The Kree’s actions – not only decimating the Cotati but killing the Skrulls who witnessed their atrocity – sparked the Kree- Skrull war that has more or less been an ongoing feud for all of Marvel history. It makes a lot of sense that the Cotati might have some grievances to air out with both the Kree and the Skrull, resulting in a massive war in Earth’s atmosphere in the pages of Empyre. In the aftermath of the Celestial Madonna saga, Mantis does in fact give birth a baby boy she names Sequoia, Quoi for short, the half human, half Cotati baby prophesied to become the Celestial Messiah. I’ll note here again, this prophesy stems from the Priests of Pama and the Cotati. It’s also a prophesy that we see the likes of Kang the Conqueror and Thanos very fully buying into in the pages of Englehart’s Avengers and “Celestial Quest.” Nonetheless, I can’t emphasize this enough, taking prophesy as absolute truth is time and time again proven complicated, whether we’re talking the fictional worlds of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, or any number of sacred religious texts, or even the works of someone like Nostradamus. Plus, the Celestial Messiah prophecy is deliberately vague – it promises a “perfect child” who is destined to change the universe. But that can mean plenty of things! Over the course of “Celestial Quest,” Sequoia begins as an extremely surly teen who resents his mother for bailing on him after 1 year of raising him – fair! – before growing into his energy absorption powerset and universe-saving messiah role. Naturally, this includes swinging a giant ax into Thanos with an all-time least cool hero line “You lack an ax in your tummy.” To be fair, he was raised by plants. You could make the argument that Sequoia preventing the equally confounding universal threat that resulted from Death and Thanos’ consummation (I don’t want to dip into these waters really at all but there’s a whole lot of problems with consent here, actually from Thanos) means he has fulfilled his destiny as Celestial Messiah… but for my money that feels kind of inadequate. Obviously the language is meant to invoke religious figures like Jesus, and to mix metaphors, “bring balance to the force.” Sequoia’s actions in Marvel history haven’t really gotten there. In many ways, I’m still looking for the answer to what it means to be the Celestial Messiah. <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/xmen8-shiar-battle-record-update.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Remarkably, since “Celestial Quest,” Marvel readers haven’t seen hide-nor-hair of this Celestial Messiah! But – and this is where things get really interesting – there have been similar, intertwined cosmic prophecies arising in his wake. And this is where the notion of the Celestial Messiah and Kree cosmic prophesy becomes particularly relevant in 2020. As recently as X-Men #8 by Jonathan Hickman and Mahmud Asrar, the Inhuman King Black Bolt has been referred to as both the Midnight King and the Celestial Messiah! This language dates back to Hickman’s time on Fantastic Four and begins a trend this decade of Marvel creators – namely Hickman and Al Ewing – mixing their own cosmic prophecy into the Marvel mix. In the pages of Hickman’s Fantastic Four and more specifically FF (in a sequence that bounces from amazing work by Greg Tochinni to amazing work by Steve Epting), it’s revealed that not only did Black Bolt survive his apparent death in War of Kings, but also that he’s destined to fulfill a Kree / Supreme Intelligence prophecy to one day destroy the Kree Empire. The Supreme Intelligence takes a very Herod like approach to this revelation, calling for the deaths of all the Kree-created Inhumans across the galaxy, with only 5 civilizations escaping – these would go on to be known as the Universal Inhumans. Whereas the prophecy of the Celestial Messiah is covered in faith and hope, the Kree’s Black Bolt prophecy is awash in fear and destruction. Despite this, Black Bolt does ultimately sue for peace with the Kree, sacrificing the love of Crystal and Ronan the Accuser in order to break the chain of fate and forge his own path. Admittedly, Hickman’s use of “Celestial Messiah” to describe Black Bolt – which I’ve noted as early as New Avengers #2 in 2013 – is an oddly specific choice. Hickman’s very good at concise cool sounding nicknames – see also Midnight King and King of the Dead – but the repetition of Black Bolt’s role as Celestial Messiah – and doubling down in X-Men #8 with “the will of a celestial messiah cannot be denied” – feels very intentional. I wouldn’t have believed it prior to X-Men #8, but I don’t think Hickman’s quite done with Black Bolt. I also think the phrasing of “a celestial messiah” suggests a more interesting take on the original Celestial Madonna saga. You have the Priests of Pama fortelling their messiah, you have the Supreme Intelligence / Kree Empire foretelling their own, and then you’ll have the third we’re about to look into. Varying visions of messianic salvation in the Marvel Cosmic landscape are way more interesting than lying in wait for Sequoia to get super interesting! As far as where we stand with Black Bolt, last readers saw of him was in Death of the Inhumans by Donny Cates and Ariel Olivetti, when Blackagar extended the true meaning of this prophecy to mean Kree and Inhumans alike must ultimately succumb to his final death scream. Well, kinda – the Royal family of the Inhumans does seem to escape with their lives, although what they’re up to is a mystery awaiting the right moment – perhaps that moment will be in the pages of Empyre. <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/empyre-hulkling-teaser.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> As teased, the third major cosmic prophecy comes from Al Ewing’s time writing New Avengers, and clearly sets the stage for 2020’s mega Marvel Empyre event. Ewing created a collective of Kree / Skrull hybrid peoples known as the Knights of the Infinite who are working to fulfill the prophecy that one day the heir / reincarnation of the first Kree / Skrull combo platter – Dorek Supreme – will bring the ultimate alliance to the galaxy. According to the Knights of the Infinite, this individual is the longtime Young Avenger Teddy Altman, aka Hulkling. The seeds for Teddy’s ascension atop the throne date back to some of his earliest appearances in Young Avengers (issues #8 through #10 I believe), when both the Supre Skrull and Kree warriors showed up to claim Teddy as one of their own, given his Skrull mother and Kree – in fact, Captain Mar-Vell – father. It’s a lineage Hulkling has been aware of for plenty of time now, and although he’s not quite ready to take on the role in New Avengers, by the time the Knights of the Infinite call again in 2019’s Incoming Hulkling packs up his Star-Sword and hits the road to kick off Empyre. For my money, Teddy’s prophesied place in the cosmic scheme makes the most sense, as his Arthurian narrative is designed to unify the strongest Kree Skrull alliance the galaxy has known. I’ll admit, though, Marvel’s pre-Empyre hype has me trying to figure some of Teddy’s motives. There’s a lot of talk of holding Earth accountable for the atrocities they’ve committed against the Kree and Skrulls (things like turning Skrull agents into cows, or any number of various ways you can blame humans for Galactus eating the Skrull’s throneworld and Hala getting destroyed in the Black Vortex Saga). But Teddy’s from earth, and not only that, his romantic partner, Billy, is an Earthling too! If the stated prophecy is for Hulkling to bring love to the universe, an imperial armada sailing toward Earth is a very curious move. As we approach Empyre in May 2020, we have two of the known Celestial Messiah figures definitely included in the event, and my prediction is we’re in a for a surprise inclusion of the third, Black Bolt, in the Empyre X-Men tie-in series (especially since we’re talking comics talking place in the Blue Area of the Moon, long time home of the Inhumans!). It will be fascinating to see how these mythologies collide and unfold over the next several months, and to see how years, often decades in the making seeds can pay off in the hands of Al Ewing, Dan Slott and Valerio Schitti, among others. For one final wild theory, all of this talk of Celestial Messiahs does not outwardly appear to have direct connections to Marvel’s known Celestials, as created by Jack Kirby. It’s very literal wordplay, but I’d love to see the concept actually work in these Celestials, which both Hickman and Ewing have played with in their various Marvel cosmic stories. I especially like the idea that true Celestial Messiah should be capable of saving all life from the coming of the Celestial’s judgment, as promised in the year 2026! Mostly I’m just pulling here for some art of Black Bolt or Teddy straight roundhousing some Celestials, but this is Marvel Comics, stranger things have happened! ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. 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Krakin’ Krakoa #42: 3 Cosmic Prophecies in Marvel Comics- How Ewing, Hickman & the Celestial Messiah Intersect

I provide background and recommended reading to set you up for Marvel’s all-new series by Jonathan Hickman, House of X and Powers of X. You can watch it all via my Road to Hickman’s X-Men video!  Comics discussed include: New X-Men Age of X-Man Uncanny X-Men House of X Powers of X Related reading: The Marvel Universe by Jonathan Hickman X-Men Comics to read before Hickman’s X-Men Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post The Road to Hickman’s X-Men! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

I provide background and recommended reading to set you up for Marvel’s all-new series by Jonathan Hickman, House of X and Powers of X. You can watch it all via my <a href="https://youtu.be/dZHhxJIitsk" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Road to Hickman’s X-Men video</a>! Comics discussed include: <a href="http://amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=New%20X-Men&amp;tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=4a821feaf9e7576c2767e1438a464ede&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New X-Men</a> <a href="http://amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=Age%20of%20X-Man&amp;tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=8ca51a542f3711b8a1f2dde80c21fce1&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Age of X-Man</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Uncanny-X-Men-Disassembled-Marvel-Comics/dp/1302914863/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=73b39dc29c729a51674d82fe69e83e44&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Uncanny X-Men</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/House-X-HOUSE/dp/B00NE62550/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=89278446d6192fbcd74418369969ac1c&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">House of X</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Powers-X-Jonathan-Hickman/dp/1302915703/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=combooher05-20&amp;linkId=6a60e43337a1c6801a7cd08002bddebf&amp;linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Powers of X</a> Related reading: <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/jonathan-hickman-marvel-universe-reading-order-2008-to-2016/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Marvel Universe by Jonathan Hickman</a> <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/jonathan-hickman-x-men-reading-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">X-Men Comics to read before Hickman’s X-Men</a> Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-road-to-hickmans-x-men/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Road to Hickman’s X-Men!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

The Road to Hickman’s X-Men!

Beginning with Marvel Comics #1000, and more directly with the 2019 Incoming #1, Marvel Comics began building to a cosmic war event, with Empyre #1 launching in April 2020. The event promises to bring the Avengers and Fantastic Four together against a cosmic Kree and Skrull threat that connects back heavily to Marvel Cosmic stories told since the publisher’s earliest days.  Today I’ll answer: + What comics set the stage for understanding this event? + Why Marvel’s promotional strategy for Empyre is so refreshing + Expectations and theories for the event Please note spoilers for discussed background reading may follow. Before digging into the comics and stories that set up Empyre, it’s worth calling out a few big differences between Empyre and Marvel’s last few years of big events. Whereas the likes of War of the Realms and Absolute Carnage were both very clearly built on the backs of specific creator visions (Jason Aaron on Thor, and Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman on Venom), Empyre is more indebted to Marvel’s history of Kree/Skrull storylines. I’ve thought about it, and the approach of a major universe-wide event that doesn’t deliberately build out of a particular ongoing series is not a confidence-infusing background. The two least organic event builds of the past decade are 2013’s Age of Ultron and 2016’s Civil War II, and at my most charitable the best I can say about the events is that I liked parts of Age of Ultron. I talked about this a fair amount with War of the Realms, but it really helps to have the goodwill, strategy, and creative vision of a successful series driving to a universe-wide all-caps comic book EVENT. Empyre is – at least on the surface – forsaking that approach, but with a caveat. On one hand, the creative team of Al Ewing, Dan Slott, and Valerio Schitti, do not have an ongoing series between them, and although Slott’s near 20 issues on Fantastic Four will begin to tie-in to Empyre in 2020, Ewing’s most high-profile work – the Immortal Hulk – is simply not a part of this event pitch. So by traditional measures, Empyre is kind of out of the blue. That said, Marvel is quickly attempting to ground the event two ways. The first is through Ewing’s work writing potentially related teases in the pages of Marvel Comics #1000, and then Ewing and Slott’s work writing the teaser material in Incoming #1 (more on this in a moment). More clear even, is Marvel’s promotional effort to tie Empyre to some of their Kree vs Skrull greatest hits. Honestly, I love this approach and find it greatly refreshing. Marvel is leaning in to their vast continuity, calling back to storylines from 1971, the mid to late 1970s, 1984, 2005, and 2019! For Marvel fans who can’t help but dig into the entire decades long shared universe, it’s a suggestion that all that history is building to a payoff (As a writer, Al Ewing has shown a particular knack for weaving deep lore into modern stories as well). While this can be intimidating for newer readers, I actually agree with the instinct that more often than not, passionate new readers will simply seek out explanations for the history they don’t know, rather than away frightened! So without further ado, let’s address the history that we know will set the stage for Empyre, no matter how tangentially it may do so. You can check out the full guide on Comic Book Herald’s Empyre reading order! The post Best Comics Ever: The Road to Empyre – Marvel’s 2020 Cosmic Event! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

Beginning with Marvel Comics #1000, and more directly with the 2019 Incoming #1, Marvel Comics began building to a cosmic war event, with Empyre #1 launching in April 2020. The event promises to bring the Avengers and Fantastic Four together against a cosmic Kree and Skrull threat that connects back heavily to Marvel Cosmic stories told since the publisher’s earliest days. Today I’ll answer: + What comics set the stage for understanding this event? + Why Marvel’s promotional strategy for Empyre is so refreshing + Expectations and theories for the event Please note spoilers for discussed background reading may follow. Before digging into the comics and stories that set up Empyre, it’s worth calling out a few big differences between Empyre and Marvel’s last few years of big events. Whereas the likes of War of the Realms and Absolute Carnage were both very clearly built on the backs of specific creator visions (Jason Aaron on Thor, and Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman on Venom), Empyre is more indebted to Marvel’s history of Kree/Skrull storylines. I’ve thought about it, and the approach of a major universe-wide event that doesn’t deliberately build out of a particular ongoing series is not a confidence-infusing background. The two least organic event builds of the past decade are 2013’s Age of Ultron and 2016’s Civil War II, and at my most charitable the best I can say about the events is that I liked parts of Age of Ultron. I talked about this a fair amount with War of the Realms, but it really helps to have the goodwill, strategy, and creative vision of a successful series driving to a universe-wide all-caps comic book EVENT. Empyre is – at least on the surface – forsaking that approach, but with a caveat. On one hand, the creative team of Al Ewing, Dan Slott, and Valerio Schitti, do not have an ongoing series between them, and although Slott’s near 20 issues on Fantastic Four will begin to tie-in to Empyre in 2020, Ewing’s most high-profile work – the Immortal Hulk – is simply not a part of this event pitch. So by traditional measures, Empyre is kind of out of the blue. That said, Marvel is quickly attempting to ground the event two ways. The first is through Ewing’s work writing potentially related teases in the pages of Marvel Comics #1000, and then Ewing and Slott’s work writing the teaser material in Incoming #1 (more on this in a moment). More clear even, is Marvel’s promotional effort to tie Empyre to some of their Kree vs Skrull greatest hits. Honestly, I love this approach and find it greatly refreshing. Marvel is leaning in to their vast continuity, calling back to storylines from 1971, the mid to late 1970s, 1984, 2005, and 2019! For Marvel fans who can’t help but dig into the entire decades long shared universe, it’s a suggestion that all that history is building to a payoff (As a writer, Al Ewing has shown a particular knack for weaving deep lore into modern stories as well). While this can be intimidating for newer readers, I actually agree with the instinct that more often than not, passionate new readers will simply seek out explanations for the history they don’t know, rather than away frightened! So without further ado, let’s address the history that we know will set the stage for Empyre, no matter how tangentially it may do so. You can check out the full guide on Comic Book Herald’s <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/empyre-reading-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Empyre reading order!</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/best-comics-ever-the-road-to-empyre-marvels-2020-cosmic-event/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best Comics Ever: The Road to Empyre – Marvel’s 2020 Cosmic Event!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

Best Comics Ever: The Road to Empyre – Marvel’s 2020 Cosmic Event!

Multiversal March

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?   Spoilers for discussed comics may follow! Full Dawn of X Reading Order All Krakin’ Krakoa X-Men Videos  In Excalibur #9 we’re quickly tossed into a history lesson about The Starlight Citadel, Captain Britain Corps, and Omniversal Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnyne. If you’re unfamiliar with the history of these concepts in the pages of Captain Britain or Excalibur, this history can feel particularly byzantine, but here are the essential details I’d pay attention to at this point: 1)The Captain Britain Corps have been destroyed. I’ll go into more detail about the hows, but this means the Omniversal (see also: alternate reality) collection of Captain Britains across universes does not exist (as we knew it at least). The Omniversal Corps is where we get Earth designations like “Earth-616,” which as far as we know may know be the only catalogued Earth with a Captain Britain! 2)The Citadel is currently inhabited by Saturnyne, who has been teased as the “White Witch,” a detail I called way back in my review of Excalibur #1. Although it’s located in Otherworld, the Citadel currently hidden from view to outsiders. 3)Following the destruction of the Corps, Saturnyne has been promoted to role of Omniversal Guardian, which was previously held by Merlyn. Why does this matter? Well, in regards to the destruction of the Captain Britain Corps, this enhances Betsy’s own import as one of – if not the last – Captain Britain in the Omniverse, and suggests fascinating future storylines like reassembling the omniversal corps. Plus, it means that for the time being, the protectors of the Omniverse are missing, leaving the collected realities of Marvel Comics without their known Defenders. Betsy and Excalibur need to use the Warwolf skulls they assembled the previous two issues to track their way to the hidden Citadel and learn why the Omniversal protectors are in hiding. What happened to the Captain Britain Corps? Well, in the build to 2015’s Secret Wars, Brian Braddock escaped Otherworld to report the builders led an assault on the Starlight Citadel, and decimated the Corps. It’s a very short depiction of events (and apparently an even shorter battle), but it also reads like Saturnyne’s defensive tactics failed and contributed to the destruction – not that there was likely much she could do given the encroaching reality that “Everything dies.”  Although the Corps are gone, it would appear that Saturnyne escaped their fate, and remains as the Omniversal Guardian with a new gathering of Priestesses of the Starlight Citadel. Following the removal of Morgan Le Fay from the throne of Otherworld, Saturnyne observes a new threat in the form of Apocalypse and his merry band of mutants we know as Excalibur. She sets her priestesses on the hunt to prevent Excalibur from making their way to the Citadel. Who is Saturnyne? The character was created by Dave Thorpe and Alan Davis for Marvel UK, although my first exposure was in Marvel Superheroes by Alan Moore and Alan Davis. In that underrated 80s series, Saturnyne is established as an ally to Earth-616 Brian Braddock and a major part of the Ominversal court ruled by Merlyn and Roma. It’s Roma in particular, as the daughter of Merlyn, who would go on to have the most direct relationship guarding the Omniverse with Saturnyne at her side. Essentially, Saturnyne can in many ways be credited with the – perhaps intentional – formation of the original Excalibur, after sending Technet to capture Rachel Summers, at the time the Phoenix, in Excalibur Special Edition #1. In more recent years, omniversal threats like Spider-Verse and Secret Wars severaly challenged Saturnyne’s responsibilities, and given the end result of Secret Wars (2015), there can be little arguing that Saturnyne is coming off her greatest failure. The Captain Britain Corps’ response to Hickman’s grand Secret Wars remains one of the storylines with the most to fill in (the entire affair is covered in something like 2 pages), so I’ll be curious to see if we learn more about what Saturnyne’s been up to since that time, or what she views as her new role in a post Corps world. On a final note, much like the omniverse full of Captain Britains, there’s an omniverse full of Saturnyne’s, with the only one from Earth-9 standing tall as Omniversal Guardian. These variations range from Brian Braddock’s romantic partner, Courtney Ross, to the villainous Sat-Yr-9. both a tyrannical nazi, and one of my favorite LCD Soundsystem songs. Of course, Apocalypse is fueling Saturnyne’s worry with a deliberate lack of subtlety creepin’ on the Citadel. This is where Howard and To really begin planting the seeds for X of Swords, with Apocalypse’s clear interest in the tools of the Omniversal protectors, and the dimensional realms they may allow access to for mutantkind and his own plans. In the opening pages of Excalibur #9, Apocalypse laments the need to separate Krakoa and Arrakko, and particularly to send his first horsemen to an eternal fight against the demonic forces of another realm. This all quite firmly cements my X of Swords theory that the upcoming crossover event will heavily tie into Apocalypse’s quest for his first horsemen, and the use of both Otherworld magic and the Twilight sword to get there. This is the second allusion in as many weeks towards this “Reddest Hell” that traps the horsemen, and increasingly looks like the demonic realms of Limbo that seem prepared to set off an Inferno part 2. I may need to explore this in more depth as the story progresses, but I will note here that the allusions to the hellish Limbo of X-Men comics – not to be confused with the Time-Travel Limbo hub typically presided over by Immortus – requires more complications. After all, if Apocalypse’s horsemen are staving off a demonic invasion from Limbo, why couldn’t the Big A just use the abilities of longtime ruler of Limbo Illyana Rasputin to access this realm? For all this magic to be necessary, and for Otherworld and the Starlight Citadel to be factors, there has to be significantly more at play. Big picture, Excalibur #9 is the most invested I’ve been in any issue since the Dawn of X series launch, and Howard and To are finding firm footing among tantalizing mysteries and a build towards an exciting summer crossover. Remaining Questions:  Where are Merlyn and Roma? Are Saturnyne’s bag full of Exaclibur Corps members from another reality, or part of a future plan? Are all the Captain Britain protectors except Earth-616 truly gone? If memory serves, there’s a Spider variation from Web Warriors, and I’d love to see some of those characters play a role.  ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Krakin’ Krakoa #43: Excalibur #9 Review – Multiversal March to X of Swords! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

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: <ul> <li>+ Who is Saturnyne and what’s her role in the Marvel Multiverse?</li> <li>+ What happened to the Captain Britain Corps?</li> <li>+ How is Apocalypse confirming my X of Swords theories?</li> </ul> Spoilers for discussed comics may follow! <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/jonathan-hickman-x-men-reading-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Full Dawn of X Reading Order</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1Af6tptTc&amp;list=PLbUTT7Ae14QsfMq3Uz8bNnnzpiUwXHgJ-" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">All Krakin’ Krakoa X-Men Videos</a> In Excalibur #9 we’re quickly tossed into a history lesson about The Starlight Citadel, Captain Britain Corps, and Omniversal Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnyne. If you’re unfamiliar with the history of these concepts in the pages of Captain Britain or Excalibur, this history can feel particularly byzantine, but here are the essential details I’d pay attention to at this point: 1)The Captain Britain Corps have been destroyed. I’ll go into more detail about the hows, but this means the Omniversal (see also: alternate reality) collection of Captain Britains across universes does not exist (as we knew it at least). The Omniversal Corps is where we get Earth designations like “Earth-616,” which as far as we know may know be the only catalogued Earth with a Captain Britain! 2)The Citadel is currently inhabited by Saturnyne, who has been teased as the “White Witch,” a detail I called way back in my review of Excalibur #1. Although it’s located in Otherworld, the Citadel currently hidden from view to outsiders. 3)Following the destruction of the Corps, Saturnyne has been promoted to role of Omniversal Guardian, which was previously held by Merlyn. Why does this matter? Well, in regards to the destruction of the Captain Britain Corps, this enhances Betsy’s own import as one of – if not the last – Captain Britain in the Omniverse, and suggests fascinating future storylines like reassembling the omniversal corps. Plus, it means that for the time being, the protectors of the Omniverse are missing, leaving the collected realities of Marvel Comics without their known Defenders. Betsy and Excalibur need to use the Warwolf skulls they assembled the previous two issues to track their way to the hidden Citadel and learn why the Omniversal protectors are in hiding. What happened to the Captain Britain Corps? Well, in the build to 2015’s Secret Wars, Brian Braddock escaped Otherworld to report the builders led an assault on the Starlight Citadel, and decimated the Corps. It’s a very short depiction of events (and apparently an even shorter battle), but it also reads like Saturnyne’s defensive tactics failed and contributed to the destruction – not that there was likely much she could do given the encroaching reality that “Everything dies.” <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/excalibur9-saturnyne-hunt-apocalypse.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Although the Corps are gone, it would appear that Saturnyne escaped their fate, and remains as the Omniversal Guardian with a new gathering of Priestesses of the Starlight Citadel. Following the removal of Morgan Le Fay from the throne of Otherworld, Saturnyne observes a new threat in the form of Apocalypse and his merry band of mutants we know as Excalibur. She sets her priestesses on the hunt to prevent Excalibur from making their way to the Citadel. Who is Saturnyne? The character was created by Dave Thorpe and Alan Davis for Marvel UK, although my first exposure was in Marvel Superheroes by Alan Moore and Alan Davis. In that underrated 80s series, Saturnyne is established as an ally to Earth-616 Brian Braddock and a major part of the Ominversal court ruled by Merlyn and Roma. It’s Roma in particular, as the daughter of Merlyn, who would go on to have the most direct relationship guarding the Omniverse with Saturnyne at her side. Essentially, Saturnyne can in many ways be credited with the – perhaps intentional – formation of the original Excalibur, after sending Technet to capture Rachel Summers, at the time the Phoenix, in Excalibur Special Edition #1. In more recent years, omniversal threats like Spider-Verse and Secret Wars severaly challenged Saturnyne’s responsibilities, and given the end result of Secret Wars (2015), there can be little arguing that Saturnyne is coming off her greatest failure. The Captain Britain Corps’ response to Hickman’s grand Secret Wars remains one of the storylines with the most to fill in (the entire affair is covered in something like 2 pages), so I’ll be curious to see if we learn more about what Saturnyne’s been up to since that time, or what she views as her new role in a post Corps world. On a final note, much like the omniverse full of Captain Britains, there’s an omniverse full of Saturnyne’s, with the only one from Earth-9 standing tall as Omniversal Guardian. These variations range from Brian Braddock’s romantic partner, Courtney Ross, to the villainous Sat-Yr-9. both a tyrannical nazi, and one of my favorite LCD Soundsystem songs. Of course, Apocalypse is fueling Saturnyne’s worry with a deliberate lack of subtlety creepin’ on the Citadel. This is where Howard and To really begin planting the seeds for X of Swords, with Apocalypse’s clear interest in the tools of the Omniversal protectors, and the dimensional realms they may allow access to for mutantkind and his own plans. In the opening pages of Excalibur #9, Apocalypse laments the need to separate Krakoa and Arrakko, and particularly to send his first horsemen to an eternal fight against the demonic forces of another realm. This all quite firmly cements my X of Swords theory that the upcoming crossover event will heavily tie into Apocalypse’s quest for his first horsemen, and the use of both Otherworld magic and the Twilight sword to get there. This is the second allusion in as many weeks towards this “Reddest Hell” that traps the horsemen, and increasingly looks like the demonic realms of Limbo that seem prepared to set off an Inferno part 2. I may need to explore this in more depth as the story progresses, but I will note here that the allusions to the hellish Limbo of X-Men comics – not to be confused with the Time-Travel Limbo hub typically presided over by Immortus – requires more complications. After all, if Apocalypse’s horsemen are staving off a demonic invasion from Limbo, why couldn’t the Big A just use the abilities of longtime ruler of Limbo Illyana Rasputin to access this realm? For all this magic to be necessary, and for Otherworld and the Starlight Citadel to be factors, there has to be significantly more at play. Big picture, Excalibur #9 is the most invested I’ve been in any issue since the Dawn of X series launch, and Howard and To are finding firm footing among tantalizing mysteries and a build towards an exciting summer crossover. Remaining Questions: <ol> <li>Where are Merlyn and Roma?</li> <li>Are Saturnyne’s bag full of Exaclibur Corps members from another reality, or part of a future plan?</li> <li>Are all the Captain Britain protectors except Earth-616 truly gone? If memory serves, there’s a Spider variation from Web Warriors, and I’d love to see some of those characters play a role.</li> </ol> ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. 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Krakin’ Krakoa #43: Excalibur #9 Review – Multiversal March to X of Swords!

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    Spoilers for discussed comics may follow! Full Dawn of X Reading Order All Krakin’ Krakoa X-Men Video In X-Men #8 (2020), Gabriel Summers, aka Vulcan, is shown having restless dreams/nightmares about his time floating through space in the Fault, in the wake of his battle to the “near death” with Black Bolt in the cosmic event War of Kings. His hard partying lifestyle would seem be a coping mechanism. At the same time, Shi’ar Battle records from this issue let us know that while presumed dead, Vulcan in fact *never* died, implying he was not resurrected on Krakoa but instead somehow found his way from War of Kings to House of X. This clear and present mystery got me thinking about *why* Jonathan Hickman would want to call back to War of Kings, and pretty soon I was falling down an endless theory rabbit hole pertaining to 1) Black Bolt’s role as one of the Celestial Messiahs as seen in my video connecting Hickman’s FF to the upcoming Empyre and 2) How Hickman’s X-Men and so much of Marvel right now is on a cosmic crash course with “The Death of Death,” with the third Summers brother perhaps at the center of it all. If stating Vulcan never died wasn’t enough, Hickman and artist Mahmud Asrar hammer home the point by mirroring the exact same panel layout used in FF prior to showing Black Bolt’s escape from the Fault (shouts to @AbyssalOdin on Twitter for being the first I’ve seen to identify these layouts are exactly the same!). Before digging into what this means, a quick refresher on War of Kings is useful to understand why Vulcan and Black Bolt are simultaneously drifting in the vacuum of a tear in space and time. We get there because Vulcan, having ascended to Emperor of the Shi’ar following the “Rise and Fall of the Shi’ar Empire” storyline written by Ed Brubaker in Uncanny X-Men, is at war with the Kree Imperium, at the time ruled by Black Bolt and the Inhumans. Very very notably, the Vulcan of this era is a mad king, warped by power and bloodlust after an admittedly traumatic sequence of events detailed in the pages of X-Men Deadly Genesis. In “Deadly Genesis,” we learn that Vulcan is the long lost third Summers brother, a secret part of Professor X’s history as the group of young mutants originally sent to rescue the OG X-Men from Krakoa, before Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975. With the aid of Darwin, Vulcan does not die, but is instead launched into space on a piece of Krakoa (my head is buzzing from the House / Powers connections here), until his return to the living after the the post House of M Scarlet Witch’s M-Day. So again, this all sets Vulcan on a violent collision course with Marvel Cosmic, culminating in a fist fight with Black Bolt. Despite his love of explosions, it’s actually Black Bolt’s planned Terrigen-Bombs (an idea Hickman would gravitate to again during New Avengers and Infinity) that creates the Fault in space, and seemingly leads to the death of the two Kings.  Of course, we now know the Kings did not die. Before detailing his genetic prophecy as the Midnight King and Celestial Messiah, Hickman and artist Greg Tochinni deliver a few pages of Black Bolt’s escape, although the specifics are few. My biggest takeaway is that it looks like Black Bolt is fighting a many-angled one, the Cthulu like entities that dominate the Cancerverse. Again, though, the escape effectively boils down to “Black Bolt’s destined to fulfill prophecy and his powersets dope, so sure he can escape.” It should not come as a shock that there could be more to it. The cancerverse is the realm that lies at the end of this Fault, as discovered by Quasar in Realm of Kings, and most thoroughly explored in The Thanos Imperative. It’s an alternate dimension that follows the trajectory of our known Earth-616 until The Death of Captain Marvel story (Marvel’s first original graphic novel by Jim Starlin) is reversed. It’s a truly deathless universe, with undead parallel universe “Revengers” and these Many Angled Ones seeking growth into the Marvel U’s known reality. Speaking of the Cancerverse – and this is where I really start to run off the tracks – the concept is very relevant to the current state of X-Men, Immortal Hulk, and others. In Valkyrie #7, written by Jason Aaron and Al Ewing with art by Cafu, we’re introduced to “The Death of Death.” As Jane Foster tells us the entity is “the living judgment of death as a function of the universe,” literally determining whether or not Thanos’ longtime paramour Lady Death can die. As part of the evaluation, The Death of Death notes that in the Immortal Hulk “A green door swings open, and death is irrelevant” and that in X-Men “A pod grows new life, and death is without meaning.” It’s a wise observation that the recent trend in the best Marvel Comics is to literally take death off the table, whether it’s through Ewing and Joe Bennet’s cosmically perpetual Hulk, or the resurrection protocols on Krakoa detailed in House of X. There’s also a meta observation here that superhero comics have so heartily exploited killing and reviving characters that the affair has lost meaning, which is a big part of why I like Immortal Hulk and X-Men’s approach to death as a narrative device. It also sets up Jane Foster, Valkyrie, to make the case for death. In doing so, Jane determines “A universe of living cells that didn’t die but still reproduced. I’d call that a cancerverse. And I don’t think I’d want to live there.” I’m confident that’s not an accidental turn of phrase, especially given Ewing’s love of Marvel Cosmic, and it sets up the idea that current trajectory of Immortal Marvel has the makings of a well-intentioned cancerverse. There are perhaps concerning similarities when you remove death from the circle of life. So bringing the Cancerverse into the cosmic portion of X-Men makes a strong amount of thematic sense, and no one in the world of mutants has closer ties to the Cancerverse than Vulcan. Given that Black Bolt escaped a Many Angled One, it’s not inconceivable to me that Vulcan might have actually been brought to the Cancerverse himself, instead of instantly escaping (assuming that is what Black Bolt actually did!). I could see this resulting in anything from repressed memories of his time there to actually working as a stealth agent of the Cancerverse himself (in Realm of Kings Quasar is infected by the Cancerverse and operates undetected for some time as well). This is pure theory, but I’ll also note that the Cancerverse has returned to Marvel very recently in the pages of the rushed Annihilation: Scourge mini-event. After being led by an exiled Sentry, the Cancerverse fault now resides under the watchful of a seemingly less evil Sentry in the Negative Zone. (speaking of the Negative Zone and the death of death that’s also where Hickman sent Johnny Storm to die before revealing he was endlessly resurrected by Annihilus, but I digress) Another possibility for Vulcan’s return is the use of the Phoenix in the aftermath of Avengers vs. X-Men, Marvel’s 2012 event. The Phoenix Force is fragmented into 5 mutants during this time, the Phoenix Five, before ultimately being consolidated into Vulcan’s brother, Scott Summers. When Scott turns Dark Phoenix, the Phoenix force is then taken by Hope Summers, who disperses the energy after re-establishing the mutant population on Earth. That’s a whole lot of Phoenix Summers combos, and would mark some clean synergy with M-Day reviving Vulcan the first time, and the opposite effects of M-Day reviving him a second time. It’s a stretch, but this would also connect to Vulcan’s newfound obsession with bombastic sayings about the fire inside him. Plus in Jason Aaron and Ed McGuiness’s Avengers #32, we’ve just seen the return of the Phoenix!  A personal favorite alternate route relates to the original “Sinister Secrets” from Powers of X. While initially taken to mean the existence of more Summers brothers (my Gawd is that Adam X the X-Treme’s music!), I’m known theorizing this could mean an array of Gabriel Summers. As I’ve gone back into his origins, this actually begins to make more and more sense. In his origin, the Summers family parents are pregnant with Gabriel when they’re captured by the Shi’ar and Emperor D’ken. Although D’ken kills Scott, Alex and Gabe’s mom to punish Corsair for an escape attempt, he saves the baby and has him aged up to adolescence. Given this Shi’ar technology, and the fact that we know they have cloning tech readily available (it’s used on Professor X at the end of the Brood Saga for example), there could easily be a variety of Gabriel Summers clones running around. This could also explain why Gabriel Summer’s personality is so different in the pages of Hickman’s X-Men (You know, aside from the creator simply wanting to make him fun to write). The other way you could work in a narrative of multiple Vulcans is simply through the nature of the Fault, where timelines and realities bleed together. Likewise, the inclusion of “countless realities” opens all kinds of doors, from Apocalypse trying to get to his first horsemen in the upcoming X of Swords, to the lifelines of Moira X! On a final note, I fully expect the Shi’ar to want a word with Vulcan. Xandra Neramani has to account with Vulcan killing her mother, Lilandra (and not to mention trying to kill her genetic father, Charles Xavier by throwing him into the M’Kraan Crystal in ‘Rise and Fall of the Shi’ar Empire’). Plus you’ve got Deathbird as a former love interest… If the Shi’ar are going to make a point of demanding a mutant for trial (a la Jean Grey in the Dark Phoenix Saga, Gabriel Summers would likely be first on the list). Obviously there’s a lot to unpack here, and probably we’ll get some good answers as soon as X-Men #9. Plus, I have to admit the likelihood that Hickman’s plans for this thread are unpredictably brand new are super high! Nonetheless, there’s a lot of connective tissue here that has been very fun to explore, and whether any of it bears fruit in future Marvel Comics, hopefully you now have some more fun stories and Marvel history in your back pocket. ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com The post Krakin’ Krakoa #44: Death of Death – How Vulcan Connects Hickman’s X-Men, Immortal Hulk, War of Kings &amp; Avengers! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

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: <ul> <li>+ What is the mystery of Vulcan and why does it matter for X-Men?</li> <li>+ What does this have to do with “The Death of Death” and War of Kings</li> <li>+ How might this mystery connect to everything from “Sinister Secrets” to the Phoenix to the promised December X-Men event in 2020</li> </ul> Spoilers for discussed comics may follow! <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/jonathan-hickman-x-men-reading-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Full Dawn of X Reading Order</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1Af6tptTc&amp;list=PLbUTT7Ae14QsfMq3Uz8bNnnzpiUwXHgJ-" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">All Krakin’ Krakoa X-Men Video</a> In X-Men #8 (2020), Gabriel Summers, aka Vulcan, is shown having restless dreams/nightmares about his time floating through space in the Fault, in the wake of his battle to the “near death” with Black Bolt in the cosmic event War of Kings. His hard partying lifestyle would seem be a coping mechanism. At the same time, Shi’ar Battle records from this issue let us know that while presumed dead, Vulcan in fact *never* died, implying he was not resurrected on Krakoa but instead somehow found his way from War of Kings to House of X. This clear and present mystery got me thinking about *why* Jonathan Hickman would want to call back to War of Kings, and pretty soon I was falling down an endless theory rabbit hole pertaining to 1) Black Bolt’s role as one of the Celestial Messiahs as seen in my video connecting Hickman’s FF to the upcoming Empyre and 2) How Hickman’s X-Men and so much of Marvel right now is on a cosmic crash course with “The Death of Death,” with the third Summers brother perhaps at the center of it all. If stating Vulcan never died wasn’t enough, Hickman and artist Mahmud Asrar hammer home the point by mirroring the exact same panel layout used in FF prior to showing Black Bolt’s escape from the Fault (shouts to @AbyssalOdin on Twitter for being the first I’ve seen to identify these layouts are exactly the same!). Before digging into what this means, a quick refresher on War of Kings is useful to understand why Vulcan and Black Bolt are simultaneously drifting in the vacuum of a tear in space and time. We get there because Vulcan, having ascended to Emperor of the Shi’ar following the “Rise and Fall of the Shi’ar Empire” storyline written by Ed Brubaker in Uncanny X-Men, is at war with the Kree Imperium, at the time ruled by Black Bolt and the Inhumans. Very very notably, the Vulcan of this era is a mad king, warped by power and bloodlust after an admittedly traumatic sequence of events detailed in the pages of X-Men Deadly Genesis. In “Deadly Genesis,” we learn that Vulcan is the long lost third Summers brother, a secret part of Professor X’s history as the group of young mutants originally sent to rescue the OG X-Men from Krakoa, before Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975. With the aid of Darwin, Vulcan does not die, but is instead launched into space on a piece of Krakoa (my head is buzzing from the House / Powers connections here), until his return to the living after the the post House of M Scarlet Witch’s M-Day. So again, this all sets Vulcan on a violent collision course with Marvel Cosmic, culminating in a fist fight with Black Bolt. Despite his love of explosions, it’s actually Black Bolt’s planned Terrigen-Bombs (an idea Hickman would gravitate to again during New Avengers and Infinity) that creates the Fault in space, and seemingly leads to the death of the two Kings. <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ff-war-of-kings-black-bolt-escapes-fault.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Of course, we now know the Kings did not die. Before detailing his genetic prophecy as the Midnight King and Celestial Messiah, Hickman and artist Greg Tochinni deliver a few pages of Black Bolt’s escape, although the specifics are few. My biggest takeaway is that it looks like Black Bolt is fighting a many-angled one, the Cthulu like entities that dominate the Cancerverse. Again, though, the escape effectively boils down to “Black Bolt’s destined to fulfill prophecy and his powersets dope, so sure he can escape.” It should not come as a shock that there could be more to it. The cancerverse is the realm that lies at the end of this Fault, as discovered by Quasar in Realm of Kings, and most thoroughly explored in The Thanos Imperative. It’s an alternate dimension that follows the trajectory of our known Earth-616 until The Death of Captain Marvel story (Marvel’s first original graphic novel by Jim Starlin) is reversed. It’s a truly deathless universe, with undead parallel universe “Revengers” and these Many Angled Ones seeking growth into the Marvel U’s known reality. Speaking of the Cancerverse – and this is where I really start to run off the tracks – the concept is very relevant to the current state of X-Men, Immortal Hulk, and others. In Valkyrie #7, written by Jason Aaron and Al Ewing with art by Cafu, we’re introduced to “The Death of Death.” As Jane Foster tells us the entity is “the living judgment of death as a function of the universe,” literally determining whether or not Thanos’ longtime paramour Lady Death can die. As part of the evaluation, The Death of Death notes that in the Immortal Hulk “A green door swings open, and death is irrelevant” and that in X-Men “A pod grows new life, and death is without meaning.” It’s a wise observation that the recent trend in the best Marvel Comics is to literally take death off the table, whether it’s through Ewing and Joe Bennet’s cosmically perpetual Hulk, or the resurrection protocols on Krakoa detailed in House of X. There’s also a meta observation here that superhero comics have so heartily exploited killing and reviving characters that the affair has lost meaning, which is a big part of why I like Immortal Hulk and X-Men’s approach to death as a narrative device. It also sets up Jane Foster, Valkyrie, to make the case for death. In doing so, Jane determines “A universe of living cells that didn’t die but still reproduced. I’d call that a cancerverse. And I don’t think I’d want to live there.” I’m confident that’s not an accidental turn of phrase, especially given Ewing’s love of Marvel Cosmic, and it sets up the idea that current trajectory of Immortal Marvel has the makings of a well-intentioned cancerverse. There are perhaps concerning similarities when you remove death from the circle of life. So bringing the Cancerverse into the cosmic portion of X-Men makes a strong amount of thematic sense, and no one in the world of mutants has closer ties to the Cancerverse than Vulcan. Given that Black Bolt escaped a Many Angled One, it’s not inconceivable to me that Vulcan might have actually been brought to the Cancerverse himself, instead of instantly escaping (assuming that is what Black Bolt actually did!). I could see this resulting in anything from repressed memories of his time there to actually working as a stealth agent of the Cancerverse himself (in Realm of Kings Quasar is infected by the Cancerverse and operates undetected for some time as well). This is pure theory, but I’ll also note that the Cancerverse has returned to Marvel very recently in the pages of the rushed Annihilation: Scourge mini-event. After being led by an exiled Sentry, the Cancerverse fault now resides under the watchful of a seemingly less evil Sentry in the Negative Zone. (speaking of the Negative Zone and the death of death that’s also where Hickman sent Johnny Storm to die before revealing he was endlessly resurrected by Annihilus, but I digress) Another possibility for Vulcan’s return is the use of the Phoenix in the aftermath of Avengers vs. X-Men, Marvel’s 2012 event. The Phoenix Force is fragmented into 5 mutants during this time, the Phoenix Five, before ultimately being consolidated into Vulcan’s brother, Scott Summers. When Scott turns Dark Phoenix, the Phoenix force is then taken by Hope Summers, who disperses the energy after re-establishing the mutant population on Earth. That’s a whole lot of Phoenix Summers combos, and would mark some clean synergy with M-Day reviving Vulcan the first time, and the opposite effects of M-Day reviving him a second time. It’s a stretch, but this would also connect to Vulcan’s newfound obsession with bombastic sayings about the fire inside him. Plus in Jason Aaron and Ed McGuiness’s Avengers #32, we’ve just seen the return of the Phoenix! <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/vulcan-sinister-secrets-scaled.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> A personal favorite alternate route relates to the original “Sinister Secrets” from Powers of X. While initially taken to mean the existence of more Summers brothers (my Gawd is that Adam X the X-Treme’s music!), I’m known theorizing this could mean an array of Gabriel Summers. As I’ve gone back into his origins, this actually begins to make more and more sense. In his origin, the Summers family parents are pregnant with Gabriel when they’re captured by the Shi’ar and Emperor D’ken. Although D’ken kills Scott, Alex and Gabe’s mom to punish Corsair for an escape attempt, he saves the baby and has him aged up to adolescence. Given this Shi’ar technology, and the fact that we know they have cloning tech readily available (it’s used on Professor X at the end of the Brood Saga for example), there could easily be a variety of Gabriel Summers clones running around. This could also explain why Gabriel Summer’s personality is so different in the pages of Hickman’s X-Men (You know, aside from the creator simply wanting to make him fun to write). The other way you could work in a narrative of multiple Vulcans is simply through the nature of the Fault, where timelines and realities bleed together. Likewise, the inclusion of “countless realities” opens all kinds of doors, from Apocalypse trying to get to his first horsemen in the upcoming X of Swords, to the lifelines of Moira X! On a final note, I fully expect the Shi’ar to want a word with Vulcan. Xandra Neramani has to account with Vulcan killing her mother, Lilandra (and not to mention trying to kill her genetic father, Charles Xavier by throwing him into the M’Kraan Crystal in ‘Rise and Fall of the Shi’ar Empire’). Plus you’ve got Deathbird as a former love interest… If the Shi’ar are going to make a point of demanding a mutant for trial (a la Jean Grey in the Dark Phoenix Saga, Gabriel Summers would likely be first on the list). Obviously there’s a lot to unpack here, and probably we’ll get some good answers as soon as X-Men #9. Plus, I have to admit the likelihood that Hickman’s plans for this thread are unpredictably brand new are super high! Nonetheless, there’s a lot of connective tissue here that has been very fun to explore, and whether any of it bears fruit in future Marvel Comics, hopefully you now have some more fun stories and Marvel history in your back pocket. ——————————————————————————————————- Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/krakin-krakoa-44-death-of-death-how-vulcan-connects-hickmans-x-men-immortal-hulk-war-of-kings-avengers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Krakin’ Krakoa #44: Death of Death – How Vulcan Connects Hickman’s X-Men, Immortal Hulk, War of Kings &amp; Avengers!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

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

In House of X #6 we get our first glimpse of Krakoa’s mutant leaders, the Quiet Council of Krakoa. On today’s Krakin Krakoa X-Men exploration, I’m going to explore questions like: Who’s the redacted Red King of the Hellfire Club? What 10 mutants are missing from this assemblage of 18 mutant leaders? Who the flip is Exodus?!  For the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agbGVBJOCwM For the full reading order: Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Android To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com   The post Krakin’ Krakoa #10: Who’s the Missing Red King in House of X? appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

In House of X #6 we get our first glimpse of Krakoa’s mutant leaders, the Quiet Council of Krakoa. On today’s Krakin Krakoa X-Men exploration, I’m going to explore questions like: Who’s the redacted Red King of the Hellfire Club? What 10 mutants are missing from this assemblage of 18 mutant leaders? Who the flip is Exodus?! For the video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agbGVBJOCwM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agbGVBJOCwM</a> For the full reading order: <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/the-complete-marvel-reading-order-guide/jonathan-hickman-x-men-reading-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men</a> Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at <a href="http://anthonyweis.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">anthonyweis.com</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-comics-ever/id1366035075?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on iTunes</a> <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Iesdrffp5e27zqplvphy6vj4s3m?t%3DComic_Book_Herald%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe on Android</a> To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald</a> For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out <a href="http://mymarvelousyear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mymarvelousyear.com</a> The post <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com/krakin-krakoa-10-whos-the-missing-red-king-in-house-of-x/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Krakin’ Krakoa #10: Who’s the Missing Red King in House of X?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.comicbookherald.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comic Book Herald</a>.

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