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New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Marvel Comics – May 7 2025

May 1, 2025 by krisis Leave a Comment

Fantastic Four Fanfare (2025) #3, a Marvel Comics May 7 2025 new releaseNext week is the 19th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Marvel Comics May 7 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics April 30 2025 new releases.

This week in Marvel Comics: a Fantastic anthology, all-new revelations for Venom, an Annihilation reprint, the disoriented Spider-Man, Psylocke & The X-Women, digital Jeff in print, the best Deadpool Epic, Sam Wilson ends, a new Star Wars, and more!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: This is an easy pick – Alan Davis writing or drawing anything is an instant appointment for me, so him being the launch creator for the new anthology series Fantastic Four Fanfare (2025) #1 means it’s immediately my pick of the week! However, I’m also interested to see how things develop in All-New Venom (2024) #6.

This post includes every comic out from Marvel Comics May 7 2025, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats.

This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and review every series with a new issue out this week. Plus, for every new release, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!

There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

And now, onto Marvel Comics May 7 2025 new releases! [Read more…] about New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Marvel Comics – May 7 2025

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Ahsoka, Alan Davis, Alex Segura, Alyssa Wong, Amadeus Cho, Annihilations, Avengers, Carmen Carnero, Christopher Condon, Cody Ziglar, Cullen Bunn, Dalibor Talajić, Darth Maul, Deadpool, Epic Collections, Evan Narcisse, Eve Ewing, Exceptional X-Men, Fantastic Four, Farid Karami, Gerry Duggan, Greg Pak, Jed MacKay, Jeff, Joe Kelly, Laura Allred, Mark Waid, Marvel Comics, Marvel Masterworks, Marvel New Releases, Marvel Ultimate, Mary Jane, Moon Knight, Murewa Ayodele, New Releases, Nolan Woodard, Pepe Larraz, Phil Noto, Psylocke, Sam Wilson, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Stephanie Phillips, Storm, Ultimate Wolverine, Venom, Vincenzo Carratú, West Coast Avengers, X-Men

New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Marvel Comics – April 30 2025

April 24, 2025 by krisis Leave a Comment

Doom's Division (2025) #2 (of 5), a Marvel Comics April 30 2025 new releaseNext week is the 18th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Marvel Comics April 30 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics April 23 2025 new releases.

This week in Marvel Comics: Ultimate Mysterio’s mystery revealed, Doom’s Division hits Japan, Earth X recollected, our biggest Jeff collection yet, TVA concludes, NYX ends, Fantastic Four counts down, a Spider-Man Modern Era Epic, and more!

Marvel has 15 comics for sale this week (not counting FCBD and giveaways) and only 3 of them are ongoing titles. If that’s not a state of emergency indicating how much trouble Marvel’s line is in, I don’t know what is!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: An easy pick for me this week, since I loved the first issue of this series so much – Doom’s Division (2025) #2! I’m happy to say that issue #1 turned out to be a favorite of the week of mine last month not just because the competition was slim (and it was) but because I loved the easy way Yoon Ha Lee communicated so much information about a new set of characters and an unfamiliar culture. I’m looking forward to more.

This post includes every comic out from Marvel Comics April 30 2025, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats.

This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and review every series with a new issue out this week. Plus, for every new release, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!

There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

And now, onto Marvel Comics April 30 2025 new releases! [Read more…] about New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Marvel Comics – April 30 2025

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Chris Claremont, Earth X, Epic Collections, Fantastic Four, Free Comic Book Day, Galactus, Ghost Rider, Godzilla, Human Torch, Jeff Loeb, Marvel Comics, Marvel New Releases, Marvel Ultimate, New Releases, NYX, One World Under Doom, Red Hulk, Rogue, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Strange Academy, Thunderbolts, TVA, Ultimate Spider-Man, Winter Soldier, Wolverine, Zulema Scotto Lavina

Guide to Daken AKA Akihiro (New For Patrons!)

April 2, 2025 by krisis Leave a Comment

Today I get to debut a new X-Men character reading order for Patrons of CK! I’ve wanted to dig into making a guide for this character for years, because I’ve already read every issue he’s appeared in and I love them all! When I realized his newest fiery series is an ongoing rather than a limited series, I knew I couldn’t let another week of my Marvel New Releases posts go by without him having a full guide of his own. That’s right, it’s time for a page devoted to everyone’s favorite pansexual murder son – Guide to Daken – Akihiro, Son of Wolverine!

Guide to Daken – Akihiro, Son of Wolverine

Guide to Daken - Akihiro, Son of Wolverine

As a new X-Men guide, this page is available exclusively to all levels of Patreon supporters! Thank you for helping me keep this site alive.

Daken on the cover of Wolverine: Origins (2006) #13First, let’s clear something up about this character’s name.

This character’s given name is “Akihiro.” His code name “Daken” is an anglicization of “駄犬,” a slur about the character’s mixed-race parentage which means “mongrel” or “cur” – a dog of no clear breed. While the slur was assigned to him by others in his youth, he later took it on as his codename of his own accord – and it certainly mirrors his father’s noble-sounding codename of “Wolverine.”

(In a way, the fictional Akihiro’s choice to adopt a taunt as his chosen name is mirrored by how real life drag queen Trixie Mattel reclaimed “Trixie” from being a homophobic slur aimed at her in her youth).

As the character gained wider exposure and began to develop a familial relationship with his half-sister Laura Kinney, fans took exception with his name being a Japanese slur coined by a team of white writers. Increasingly, writers began to refer to him simply by his given name of Akihiro – although he has sometimes taken on other short-lived codenames such as “Fang.”

That said, to many fans this character is still known as Daken, which was how he was introduced and the title of his second ongoing series in 2010. To the best of my knowledge, the term “駄犬” is not a slur that’s an offensive word to simply speak or write – it’s only offensive used in the context of a person.

Furthermore, it is disingenuous to treat a fictional character’s previous name as if it is a real life “deadname” that can cause stress and even dysphoria to a person. Ultimately, people have always searched for “Daken” over “Akihiro,” so in the service of helping people find information about this character I will continue to refer to him by both of his names. [Read more…] about Guide to Daken AKA Akihiro (New For Patrons!)

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Akihiro, Daken, Daniel Way, Ed Brisson, Leah Williams, Marjorie Liu, Marvel Comics, New Comic Book Guide, Rick Remender, Rob Williams, Wolverine, X-Men

Akihiro AKA Daken, Son of Wolverine – Reading Order & Collecting Guide

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Magik, Illyana Rasputin – Reading Order & Collecting Guide

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