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Doctor Who: Fifteenth Doctor Guide – now available to the public!

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There are just 10 more days until the debut of the first Doctor Who Series starring Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor – and, what better way to prepare than with a Doctor Who – Fifteenth Doctor Guide.

The Guide to Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor is now available to all readers thanks to the support of Patrons of CK. This guide was curated by my personal Doctor Who expert, AdjectiveNoun. It contains literally every possible piece of media related to the Fifteenth Doctor to make it easy for you to jump in whether you are a new Whovian or a long-time viewer. It includes links to episodes, novels, comics, and more!

Plus, if you want to see the regeneration (or, should we say, bi-generation) of The Fifteenth Doctor, you need you watch the finale of the trio of 6oth Anniversary Episodes starring The Fourteenth Doctor – the return of David Tennant! Our Guide to The Fourteenth Doctor is also now available to all readers.

Guide to The Fifteenth Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa

Doctor Who Fifteenth Doctor Guide - Ncuti Gatwa

Guide to The Fourteenth Doctor Who, David Tennant (again!)

Doctor Who - Fourteenth Doctor, David-Tennant

These guides not only cover comic books, but episodes, novels, short stories, audio dramas, and magazines! How? Why?! Because I recruited my Down Under friend AdjectiveNoun, a major Whovian who got me hooked on the new 60th Anniversary episodes that debuted this past December.

We combined AdjectiveNoun’s Who knowledge and my established Guide infrastructure & style to create a set of Doctor Who Guides that are organized differently than any other guides we could find online.

Guides to the remaining 12 Doctors will launch over the course of the next 12 months, including a new guide next week! Become a Patron of CK to gain immediate access to that guide once it arrives, plus our exclusive Guide to Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston.

Free Comic Book Day: Marvel Comics FCBD 2024, May 4 2024 – Every Issue Explained!

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Free Comic Book Day LogoThis Saturday, May 4, is Free Comic Book Day 2024! That means you get an extra and extra-special new releases post for Marvel Comics. This post covers Marvel Comics FCBD 2024 releases – explaining the contents and background of every issue. Missed this week’s regular releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics May 1 2024 new releases – which will all be available in shops on FCBD 2024!

This year from Marvel Comics FCBD 2024: the first drips of Blood Hunt from Jed MacKay, a preview of Gail Simone’s X-Men, all-new Spider-Man India by Nikesh Shukla, Star Wars & Darth Vader by Soule & Pak, the return of Ultimate Marvel Ultimates by Deniz Camp, and a hint of the final phase of Zeb Wells’s run on Amazing Spider-Man!

This list includes every comic and digital comic out from Marvel this week, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats. I recap and review every new single issue. Plus, for every new release, I’ll point you to the right guide within my Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel Comics to find out how to collect each character in full – and, if a guide is linked from this post, that means it is updated through the present day!

Marvel Comics FCBD 2024 Titles

Saturday May 4 2024 is Free Comic Book Day 2024! Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is a special promotional event for local comic shops that falls on the first Saturday of May. Publishers big and small release promotional comics at low or no cost to stores, which they can give away for free. That draws in a huge crowd of both established fans and curious newbies. It gives stores the chance to throw special events, sell tons of stock, and establish new customers.

Marvel Comics FCBD issues tend to include 2-3 stories each. That usually includes least one unique story that will be excerpted in a collection within the next year. Sometimes books are a pair of unique stories, but they can also include recent reprints or teases of upcoming comics.

Here’s the line-up of Marvel Comics FCBD 2024 issues:

  • Free Comic Book Day 2024: Blood Hunt / X-Men #1
  • Free Comic Book Day 2024: Marvel Voices #1 [featuring Spider-Man India]
  • Free Comic Book Day 2024: Spidey and His Amazing Friends #1
  • Free Comic Book Day 2024: Star Wars/Darth Vader #1
  • Free Comic Book Day 2024: Ultimate Universe / Spider-Man #1

If there’s a big surprise here for me, it’s the lack of a Deadpool / Wolverine issue! With Deadpool & Wolverine as the only major MCU entry coming in 2024 it seems wild not to capitalize on that excitement. At least for X-Men ’97 there’s a Jubilee story in the Blood Hunt / X-Men issue.

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Guide to Superman, 1987 – Present (New for Patrons!)

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s one of my biggest single-character guide pages of all time exclusively for Pledgeonaut Patrons of CK. That’s right, folks, it’s my second super week in a row, because today I bring to you my Guide to Superman (Post-Crisis, 1987 – Present), including a full issue-by-issue reading order for the Triangle Era!

Guide to Superman (Post-Crisis, 1987 – Present)

Guide to Superman Wide Social Share

For the past seven years this Guide to Superman has existed somewhere between being my white whale and my albatross. I knew I had to tackle Superman at some point. But, he is the Justice League hero who I knew the least about. Plus, I could never make heads or tails of his publishing history – with how his titles traded names in 1987 only to swap back in 2006.

Oh, plus, there was the little matter of THE TRIANGLE ERA. From 1991 to 2001, every Superman comic was coordinated in perfect reading order by a brain trust of editors and authors, with their covers clearly labeled with their absolute placement within each year of continuity.

That meant I had to make a guide that was even better at explaining The Triangle Era than the hundreds of comic book covers from the actual Triangle Era.

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