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Haul Around The World: Why no EPICs for New Warriors? Plus: Daredevil, Gambit, & more!

October 28, 2019 by krisis

Your eyes do not deceive you – this video is a Classic Collection, since it was shot before my big move!

That’s because I’ve got a whole year of haul videos to catch up on, because this was my order from January 1, 2019. In this order I go deep on Marvel’s peculiar new strategy of following up ancient classic collections with new trades, plus talk up my Gambit binding projects, love of Moon Knights and Lumberjanes, and more!

In this haul:

  • from Marvel Comics
    • Marvel Knights Daredevil: Unusual Suspects – Visit the Daredevil Guide
    • Moon Knight Epic Collection: Final Rest (Epic Vol. 3) – Visit the Moon Knight Guide
    • New Warriors: Darkness & Light – Visit the New Warriors Guide
    • Punisher Epic Collection: Circle of Blood (Epic Vol. 2) – Visit the Punisher Guide
    • Quasar: Cosmos In Collision (AKA Classic Vol. 2)
    • X-Men – Gambit Complete Collection, Vol 2 – Visit the X-Men Ongoings Guide
  • from Image and indie publishers:
    • Image / Top Cow: Aphrodite V, Vol 01
    • Dark Horse: BPRD: Hell On Earth, Vol 04
    • Boom: Lumberjanes, Vol 10

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Aphrodite V, BPRD, Daredevil, Gambit, Haul Around The World, Hellboy, Lumberjanes, Moon Knight, New Warriors, Punisher, Quasar

This Week In X: Iceman #11, Rogue & Gambit #3, Venom #163, X-Men Gold #23, & X-Men Red #2

March 9, 2018 by krisis

It’s the tenth week of new comics in 2018, and This Week in X is packed with X-Men titles, including all three of the current X-Men teams … but I wasn’t too thrilled with the selection!

This week, I cover:

  • Iceman (2017) #11 is a pleasing summation to this series, rather than just a conclusion.
  • Rogue & Gambit (2018) #3 trades heavily on a continuity-obsessed love of the couple.
  • Venom (2017) #163 starring X-Men Blue is the final issue of the Poison X arc.
  • X-Men: Gold (2017) #23 has an interesting premise in need of defined character voices.
  • X-Men: Red (2018) #2 somewhat squanders the good will of the first issue.

Learn more about how each of those series reached their current issues and hear which ones I’d recommend picking up.

Filed Under: comic books, reviews Tagged With: Gambit, Iceman, This Week In X, Venom, X-Men Blue, X-Men Gold, X-Men Red

The Pull List: Justice League, Mech Cadet Yu, Batman, Giant Days, X-Men Red, & more!

February 9, 2018 by krisis

My pull list just keeps getting bigger and better! This week, The Pull List is twenty-six issues long with seven new number ones, four issues with Batman, and an average rating of 3.17.

What did I pull this week? Well, I’m still not caught up on my Superman, but I’ve got a pretty big cross-section of DC and Marvel on my list, plus a handful of smaller publisher titles!

  • Aftershock Comics
    • Monstro Mechanica (2017) #3
  • Boom! Studios
    • Giant Days (2015) #35
    • Mech Cadet Yu (2017) #6
  • Dark Horse
    • Incognegro – Renaissance (2018) #1
  •  DC Comics
    • Batman (2016) #40
    • Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles (2018)#2
    • Justice League (2016) #38
    • Milk Wars: Mother Panic / Batman Special (2018)
    • Swamp Thing Winter Special (2018) #1
    • Young Monsters In Love (2018) #1
  • Image Comics
    • Paper Girls (2015) #20
    • Twisted Romance (2018) #1
    • VS (2018) #1
    • Witchblade (2017) #3
  • Marvel Comics
    • Avengers (2017) #679
    • Black Bolt (2017) #10
    • Black Panther – Sound And Fury (2018) #1
    • Hawkeye (2017) #15
    • Iceman (2017) #10
    • Infinity Countdown (2018) – Adam Warlock One-Shot
    • Rise of the Black Panther (2018) #2
    • Rogue & Gambit (2018) #2
    • Runaways (2017) #6
    • Spider-Man (2016) #237
    • X-Men: Gold (2017) #21
    • X-Men: Red (2018) #1

Marvel/DC Issue of the Week: Justice League (2016) #38, DC Comics

4.5 starsJustice League is finally back to being amongst DC’s most exciting books every month with Christopher Priest at the helm for the first time since Darkseid War in the latter part of New 52 in 2015.

Marco Santucci’s pencils on this are brilliant right out of the gate! Flash’s one-man reenactment of Sandra Bullock in Gravity is riveting and an absolutely amazing blend of real science and comics magic. It plays out over a League realizing just how reliant they’ve become on technology, both to back them up and to tell them what to do and where to be.

What makes the story unusual is that Batman is the physical representation of that weakness – not Cyborg. As a brilliant tactician who is just a regular man, Batman uses technology to enhance his detective skills and the breadth of his knowledge. Yet, that can easily be used as his own Kryptonite when there’s a situation he cannot strategize his way out of.

Just as Flash keeps emphasizing “I’m only a scientist, not an engineer” as he tries to arrest his free float through space, Cyborg is an engineer first and a tactician second. He’s not Batman. He “doesn’t want to be the boss.”

What happens when Cyborg has to take charge of the League in a way that’s greater than just Boom Tubing them from place to place? Can he fake being a leader with engineering in the same way Flash fakes being an engineer with science?

I don’t know, but I am transfixed by this Christopher Priest arc!

Small Publisher Issue of the Week: Mech Cadet Yu (2017) #6, Boom! Studios

4.5 starsWith the way this book has been going, it’s going to be really hard for anything to excite me more in a week that it’s on the stands.

If you haven’t seen my breathless catch-up on this Greg Pak/Takeshi Miyazawa series in this week’s Back Issue Review, here’s the skinny: years ago a giant semi-organic robot crashed to Earth and bonded with a pilot, and ever since then four mechs descend into our atmosphere each year.

To find the four pilots that will bond, the US maintains a Hogwarts-esque Mech Academy to train the best and the brightest. We need them, because a race giant Kaiju monsters named Shargs are constantly creeping into our orbit and can only be repelled by the mechs.

We’re in the middle of the second arc of this book now after it was extended past a mini-series, presumably for just being unbelievably excellent (and also selling a few copies). I cannot tell you the last time I got this nervous about characters in a comic book being in peril.

This series continues to perfectly toe the line between Pacific Rim and Harry Potter, and I just want there to be 20x as much of it so I can keep reading more! [Read more…] about The Pull List: Justice League, Mech Cadet Yu, Batman, Giant Days, X-Men Red, & more!

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Adam Warlock, Aftershock Comics, Avengers, Batman, Black Panther, Boom Studios, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Frankenstein, Gambit, Giant Days, Hawkeye, I Vampire, Iceman, Incognegro - Renaissance, Infinity Countdown, Marvel Comics, Mech Cadet Yu, Miles Morales, Milk Wars, Monstro Mechanica, Mother Panic, Paper Girls, Rogue, Rogue & Gambit, Runaways, Spider-Man, Swamp Thing, The Pull List, Twisted Romance, Witchblade, X-Men Gold, X-Men Red

Oversize X-Men: A map of every existing omnibus, plus what’s missing (Part 4: 2008 to 2015)

April 27, 2017 by krisis

This is the end, my friends! The last in a series of four posts covering how Marvel could cover every X-Men comic book in omnibus volumes.

This post covers every X-Men series from Messiah Complex to the end of Marvel Now in an effort to give you maximum ideas for the The Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus Secret Ballot, where you vote for the comic runs you’d most like to see in an oversized format. Monday I covered all of X-Men from 1963 to 1991, Tuesday I reviewed 1991 to 2001, and yesterday I broke down 2001 to 2008.

  • X-Men: From Messiah Complex to AvX
    • Uncanny X-Men (1963) #487 – 544 & (2011) #1-20
    • Age of Apocalypse
    • Astonishing X-Men (2004) #25-68 & Annual 1
    • Cable, X-Force, & Uncanny X-Force
    • Captain Britain & MI:13
    • Magneto (2014)
    • Namor, The First Mutant (2010)
    • New Mutants (2009)
    • Wolverine (various)
    • X-23 (2010)
    • X-Factor by Peter David
    • X-Men, Vol. 3 (2010)
    • X-Men Legacy by Mike Carey (& Christos Gage)
    • X-Treme X-Men
  • X-Men in Marvel Now

With 21 more omnibuses from Messiah Complex to AvX and another 10 from Marvel Now, this edition brings our grand total of potential X-Men volumes to 113 possible omnibuses – which begs the question: How many of these could we possibly see in our lifetimes before books become completely obsolete and comics are downloaded directly into our brains?

At Marvel’s current rate of only a handful of X-Men omnibuses a year, it’s never going to happen.

Yet, with most Marvel omnibuses selling between 1,000 and 2,500 units in their first week, it makes me wonder how many of these books we could see if Marvel abandoned the outdated Direct Market model for determining their pre-order volume and sell-through.

Picture this – in October 2017 Marvel partners with Kickstarter plus one of the big online comic book sellers as a distributor to introduce the new “X-Men Omnibus Club: Year 1.” [Read more…] about Oversize X-Men: A map of every existing omnibus, plus what’s missing (Part 4: 2008 to 2015)

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Amazing X-Men, Cable, Collected Edition Mapping, Collected Editions, Gambit, Kieron Gillen, Marvel Comics, Marvel Now, Matt Fraction, Mike Carey, Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus, Namor, Nightcrawler, Peter David, Rogue, Schism, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine, X-Factor, X-Force, X-Men, X-Men Legacy, X-Treme X-Men

Oversize X-Men: A map of every existing omnibus, plus what’s missing (Part 3: 2001 to 2008)

April 26, 2017 by krisis

I’m back with a third installment of the ultimate X-Men omnibus mapping, finding a way to squeeze just about every issue of X-titles into a cohesive bookshelf of handy omnibus volumes.

Okay, they’re not actually all that handy. Most of them could probably be wielded as a deadly weapon.

Today’s era begins with Grant Morrison’s run on New X-Men starting on #114 in 2001 and ends with the final issue of Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men, which is the last thing that happens to any X-Men prior to Messiah Complex. Of course, there are a lot of other series contained in that material – you’ll immediately note that neither of those historic runs address a single issue of Uncanny X-Men!

Every one of those issues is covered in this post. Why? To give you ideas for the The Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus Secret Ballot, where you vote for the comic runs you’d most like to see in an oversized format. Monday I covered all of X-Men from 1963 to 1991, and yesterday I covered 1991 to 2001.

There are 25 potential omnibus volumes in this material! Many of their contents are high debatable, but that’s part of the fun – collected edition mapping is a contentious pastime. Heck, I don’t even agree with how Marvel does things half of the time! If you have a correction or disagreement don’t hold back – sound off in the comments below.

Now, prepare to be fully educated in the seedy underbelly of this period of all-star X-Men writers, including some books I am sure you never knew existed unless you are a superfreak of a walking Encyclopedia-X like I am.

  • Flagship X-Men Teams
    • 2001 – 2004: New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and X-Treme X-Men
    • 2004 – 2008: Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and X-Men (1991)
  • Cable & X-Force
  • Excalibur (2004) & New Excalibur (2006)
  • Exiles (2001)
  • Weapon X (2002)
  • Wolverine (1988 & 2003) and Wolverine Origins (2006)
  • X-Factor (2006) #1-23
  • X-Men-in-Training: New Mutants (2003), New X-Men: Academy X (2003), and Young X-Men
  • Miscellaneous Solo X-Men

[Read more…] about Oversize X-Men: A map of every existing omnibus, plus what’s missing (Part 3: 2001 to 2008)

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Academy X, Bishop, Brotherhood, Cable, Collected Edition Mapping, Collected Editions, Colossus, Decimation, Emma Frost, Excalibur, Exiles, Gambit, Hellfire Club, Kitty Pryde, Marvel Comics, Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus, Mystique, New Excalibur, New X-Men, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine, X-Factor, X-Force, X-Men, X-Men Unlimited

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