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Ant-Man & Giant-Man – Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order

patreon-wideReaders who support Crushing Krisis on Patreon have exclusive access to this page. Chip in as little as $1 a month to help cover the costs of hosting CK and to make awesome new content like this possible – and, gain early access to new guides for the cost of a single comic a month!

Currently available exclusively to Patrons: Alpha Flight, Batman Ongoings, DC Events, The Flash, Legends of the Dark Knight, and Robin(s)

Guides launched with the support of Patrons and now available to all readers:

New For Patrons: The Definitive Guide to DC’s Catwoman, Selina Kyle

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Today’s new guide for Patrons of Crushing Krisis covers a DC character who went nearly 50 years without her own title before becoming a regular anchor of DC’s monthly lineup…

Catwoman, Selina Kyle – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide

Putting this Catwoman guide together should have been super easy. She’s had one mini-series and four ongoings since 1989 plus Gotham City Sirens (already covered in the Guide to Gotham).

That, like, two hours of work tops, right?

Well, you know me: my motto is “make it harder.” It wasn’t enough to just knock together a list of collected editions for those series. I also had to list all of Catwoman’s many guest-starring turns, plus explain her continuity a bit.

How did she go from Batman’s ally and lover before Crisis back to a vigilante loner for two decades and then back to ally and lover again in Rebirth?! [Read more…] about New For Patrons: The Definitive Guide to DC’s Catwoman, Selina Kyle

Catwoman, Selina Kyle – The Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order

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Currently available exclusively to Patrons: Alpha Flight, Batman Ongoings, DC Events, The Flash, Legends of the Dark Knight, and Robin(s)

Guides launched with the support of Patrons and now available to all readers:

New For Patrons: The Definitive Guide to Marvel’s Legion, David Haller – The Son of Xavier!

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I’m back with a brief guide for Patrons of Crushing Krisis that covers an obscure character – yet, he’s one who has been getting an outsized amount of attention thanks to having his own television show…

Legion, David Haller – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide

David Haller is a son that Professor Charles Xavier never knew he had until his introduction in New Mutants #26-28 – and neither did we!

Haller is the product of Xavier’s brief (and somewhat unethical) affair with his patient and eventual colleague Gabrielle Haller, a noted attorney (and, later, an ambassador). When the Haller family becomes the target of terrorism, David unconsciously defends himself with his prodigious mutant powers.

David’s survival comes with a steep cost – his psyche becomes fractured by a post-traumatic dissociative disorder and his nascent powers are shattered along with it. [Read more…] about New For Patrons: The Definitive Guide to Marvel’s Legion, David Haller – The Son of Xavier!

Legion, David Haller – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide

patreon-wideReaders who support Crushing Krisis on Patreon have exclusive access to this page. Chip in as little as $1 a month to help cover the costs of hosting CK and to make awesome new content like this possible – and, gain early access to new guides for the cost of a single comic a month!

Currently available exclusively to Patrons: Alpha Flight, Batman Ongoings, DC Events, The Flash, Legends of the Dark Knight, and Robin(s)

Guides launched with the support of Patrons and now available to all readers:

New For Patrons: The Definitive Guide to DC’s Nightwing, Dick Grayson

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Today’s new guide for Patrons of Crushing Krisis fills in one of the major gaps in my DC coverage and brings my collection of Bat-Family guides a little bit closer to being complete:

Nightwing, Dick Grayson – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide

Dick Grayson occupies a distinct spot in both DC and Marvel history as a rare hero who had a long-standing, in-continuity early identity to which he will likely never be reverted.

That’s because Grayson was the original Robin to Bruce Wayne’s Batman in the Golden and Silver Ages – but, he’s spent the entire Post-Crisis modern age of comics as Nightwing (except for those few years he was Batman).

As a reader of primarily Marvel Comics, the first time I encountered Dick Grayson was during his time as Batman in Grant Morrison’s epic run with the caped crusader. I really didn’t know a thing about him other than that he was the first Robin, which made him seem pretty boring to me – like a character DC kept publishing just out of habit. It seemed like a dull gimmick to turn him into Batman.

I couldn’t have been more wrong. Grayson was new to wearing the cowl, but not to being a hero. He wasn’t as foolproof as Bruce as Batman, but he was more emotionally complex and pragmatic. [Read more…] about New For Patrons: The Definitive Guide to DC’s Nightwing, Dick Grayson