Dracula

New For Patrons: Guides to Blade, Dracula, & Elsa Bloodstone

March 24, 2019 by krisis

Today’s new guides for Patrons of Crushing Krisis started as December’s Patrons’ Choice Guide of one of Marvel’s biggest non-MCU film stars, but I realized I needed a second guide to make the first one work, and then a third guide to fill in a gap in the second one…

Blade, the Daywalker – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide

Marvel’s Dracula – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide

Ulysses & Elsa Bloodstone – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide

Marvel’s Dracula – Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order

Crushing Comics S01E042 – My Macabre Childhood Favs + X-Force Omnibus by Rob Liefeld

December 19, 2017 by krisis

In this episode my Clue t-shirt sends me on a brief trip down memory lane about all the macabre stuff I liked as a kid. What was your totally peculiar interest as a child?

Afterwards I unwrap one of the most mainstream comics of my childhood: the initial run of Rob Liefeld’s X-Force! It’s at once the perfect metaphor from mutants moving on from an eternal high school and a bit of a let down when it comes to the big ideas behind the guns and pouches.

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

Episode 42 features the X-Force Omnibus, Vol. 1. For more information, head to the Guide to X-Force.

X-Men Hardcover & Trade Paperback Review, Late September Edition

November 8, 2011 by krisis

Back after a while in mothballs, it’s my X-collections recap!

Marvel hardly lets a single comic book issue go uncollected in book form, which means every week brings new hardcovers and trade paperbacks packed with their most major heroes – including The X-Men.

Read on for capsule reviews of the X-books out in the second half of September, which were unusually focused on past stories. Plus, get the skinny on all of Marvel’s other new collected editions from the latter half of the month.

If you’re looking for more X-info, head over to my Definitive Guide to Collecting X-Men Graphic Novels. Or, for a more basic approach, my Intro to X-Men (on a budget). New to the X-Men? Try my Where to Start Reading X-Men to pick a place to jump in.

X-Men Collection of the (latter half of the) Month:
New Mutants: Fall of the New Mutants TPB

CK Says: Buy it! When I first picked up the hardcover version of this collection earlier this year it was out of habit, but I quickly discovered the book was impossible to put down. Writer Zeb Wells capitalizes on a dangling plot thread from 80s blockbuster Inferno anda year of slow-boil character development to deliver a complex saga worthy of the X-Men’s rich dramatic history.

It’s hard to imagine a story more harrowing or epic than what the team had just endured in Second Coming, but Well’s pulls it off with art from Leonard Kirk, an efficient, unflashy penciler I’ve grown to love. I don’t want to spoil the story – if you enjoy this team of characters you’ll love it, particularly developments for Cannonball, Moonstar, Karma, and Magik.