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New For Patrons: The Definitive Guides to Swamp Thing and DC’s Houses & Horrors
Today’s new guides for Patrons of Crushing Krisis fill in another of the six original pillars of Vertigo Comics, plus add some context to the foundations of the Sandman Universe…
Swamp Thing – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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The Houses & Horrors of DC:
House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Horror Anthologies, and more!
Working on these guides emphasized the counter-intuitive fact that some well-known DC characters have appeared in far fewer comics than their lesser-known Marvel counter-parts.
Swamp Thing has a pretty obvious Marvel analog in Man-Thing, who not only shares a similar design and concept, but a creator in Len Wein.
Swamp Thing is the better-known character of the two by an order of magnitude, partially due to his pair of campy 1980s horror flicks. I assumed he would have a rich history of appearances throughout the DC Universe, especially since Man-Thing appears all over the place as a silent team member, a teleportation gimmick, and a random guest-star.
That’s just not the case. [Read more…] about New For Patrons: The Definitive Guides to Swamp Thing and DC’s Houses & Horrors
The Houses & Horrors of DC – House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Horror Anthologies, and more!
Swamp Thing – The Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order
New For Patrons: The Definitive Guides to Sabretooth and Weapon X
Today’s new guides for Patrons of Crushing Krisis covers an X-Men character (and often-villain) with long and sometimes convoluted history, as well as the program he’s frequently associated with…
Sabretooth, Victor Creed – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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Weapon X & Weapon Plus – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
When I started filling in the gaps in my X-Men collection in 2010, I realized that there was a lot of Sabretooth comics and a lot I didn’t know about Victor Creed.
I fondly recalled his X-Men debut in Mutant Massacre, I was around for his brief rehabilitation before Onslaught, and I was reading him in a modern team-up with the X-Men at the start of Mike Carey’s run, but I was missing a lot of connective tissue in between. [Read more…] about New For Patrons: The Definitive Guides to Sabretooth and Weapon X