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Haul Around The World: Mignola-Verse, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Kelly Thompson, & more!

March 28, 2018 by krisis

The first “season” of my YouTube comics show is over, but it’s not like my monthly hauls of new collection editions are going to cease just because I’m simmering up some new content!

Welcome to “Haul Around The World,” where I unveil my most-recent package of collected comics shipped to Wellington from the shores of America (at least, I think they come via boat – that’s the only way to explain how long it takes them to get here).

Want to watch a full season of comic book unpacking? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Crushing Comics, Haul Around The World, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Kelly Thompson

Batwoman Book Club, Week 4 of 4: Detective Comics #934-940 & 948-948 + Batwoman (2017) Rebirth & #1-6

March 27, 2018 by krisis

Welcome to the final week of Batwoman Book Club!

Today we discuss the newest appearances of Batwoman – her run in DC Rebirth’s Detective Comics and the subsequent second volume of her solo series. This embed is the first of two parts of our Week 4 discussion – each video ends with a link to the next part.

Want to catch up with the reading assignments? Here’s our full schedule for the month – visit the Guide to Batwoman to learn how to collect these issues.

  • Tuesday, March 6: Detective Comics (1937) #854-863
  • Tuesday, March 13: Batwoman (2010) #0 & (2011) #1-11
  • Tuesday, March 20: Batwoman (2011) #12-24 & 0
  • Tuesday, March 27: Detective Comics (2016) #934-940 & 948-949 + Batwoman (2017) Rebirth & #1-6

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Batwoman, Batwoman Book Club, Crushing Comics

Crushing Comics: The Unwrapping – End Credits

March 22, 2018 by krisis

My five-month collected editions unwrapping odyssey (which is really part of a larger eight-month packing to move around the world odyssey) has finally come to a close!

To celebrate the end of this first Crushing Comics video series, I present to you my final bookshelf – or, at least, the process of getting there. Plus, I get to do something I’ve wanted to do my entire life – create a set of scrolling end credits (complete with a soundtrack thanks to Arcati Crisis) to thank everyone who supported me as I created this series!

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Arcati Crisis, Collected Editions, Crushing Comics

Crushing Comics S01E085 – Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon, John Cassaday, & Laura Martin

March 21, 2018 by krisis

In today’s episode I unwrap my final omnibus, which (as many of you have likely surmised through a process of elimination) is Astonishing X-Men. I use this famously self-contained, blockbuster run as an opportunity to muse on getting back into comics and the surprisingly limited scope of the comic book market.

Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.

Episode 85 features the Astonishing X-Men Omnibus, covered in the Guide to Astonishing & Amazing X-Men.

(Yes, I skipped posting Episode 84 – it was just a episode prompting folks to guess the final omnibus.)

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Astonishing X-Men, Collected Editions, Crushing Comics, John Cassaday, Joss Whedon, Kitty Pryde, Laura Martin, Marvel Comics, Omnibus, X-Men

The Epic X-Men (Re-)Read: X-Men (1991) #1-3 (Ep001)

March 19, 2018 by krisis

After nearly a decade of collecting and planning, it’s finally here: I’m tackling my entire 50-year collection of X-Men comics with the intent of reading every single issue, and you’re invited along for the ride!

Rather than start from The Silver Age and trundle forward through a lot of very wordy classic comics, we’re taking inspiration from Marvel’s Epic Collections and jumping around from era to era and title to title.

I don’t know how I could start anywhere but with the arc that brought me to comic collecting, which marks the end of the truly classic period of X-Men – Chris Claremont and Jim Lee’s X-Men (1991) #1-3 (found in the Guide to X-Men, Vol. 2). This story arc is the platonic ideal of a major faceoff against Magneto with a cast of a dozen X-Men, many of them in the Jim Lee uniforms that would follow them to X-Men: The Animated Series a year later.

Do these comics still hold up today? And, does Claremont leave the series doing right by his cast of indomitable-willed woman? Watch this mega-sized episode and find out!

Want to keep up with the next six weeks of (re-)reading? Here’s our schedule: [Read more…] about The Epic X-Men (Re-)Read: X-Men (1991) #1-3 (Ep001)

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Chris Claremont, Crushing Comics, Epic X-Men Re-Read, Jim Lee, Magneto, X-Men

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