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Haul Around the World: X-Ceptional Baking, Kot’s New World, Uncanny Masterworks, and more!

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It’s another Classic Collection version of Haul Around the World, shot before my big move!

This was my order from mid-January 2019, but I opened it after my February haul (as you can see from the Ms. Marvel omnibus on the shelf).

Before digging into the official IST Haul, I take a look at the newly-arrived Guide to X-Ceptional Baking, a fan-made Kickstarter project filled with love and delicious recipes. (You can get a copy here.)

Then, I unwrap a trio of novels for my 5YO voracious reader, a pair of Epics, a pair Masterworks, and one of my favorite recent indie series!

In this haul:

Haul Around the World: Captain Marvel: Ms. Marvel – A Hero is Born Omnibus

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It’s another Classic Collection version of Haul Around the World, shot BEFORE my big move!

This book was part of my order from mid-February 2019. This might be my most-anticipated omnibus of the decade! Finally, an oversize collection of the gorgeous artwork on Ms. Marvel’s 1977 debut, mostly scripted by Chris Claremont.

Most modern readers are completely unaware of the pedigree of this material or the full history of Carol Danver’s character. Even though Marvel has released this in two other color formats in the past two years, I still gladly picked it up.

In this haul:

The HiX-Men Report: House of X (2019) #5

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HiX-Men Report is back with House of X (2019) #5, which is the issue that reveals everything about Xavier’s master plan in the present day.

This was a tough episode for me – and not only because we just moved into our new house 24 hours ago! I had a lot of problems with how this issue was constructed.

As it turns out, it’s also a controversial issue in the X-Men fan community due to the near-religious fervor shown by our beloved mutants. We spend some time digging into what’s so unsettling about new mutant rituals.

20 X-Men Questions with an X-Pert & a New Mutant – Part 1

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As a complement to our weekly HiX-Men Report, Fangirl and I assembled on our own to tackle 20 big questions about the X-Men.

Part of what makes the Report so unique is that Fangirl is a relatively new X-Men reader, despite being a voracious consumer of thousands of comics each year. She comes to every issue of Hickman’s X-Men with fresh eyes, but we don’t get to tackle every one of her X-questions in our panel format. Also, as someone who has been making guides aimed at new X-Men fans for almost a decade, I also had some questions for Fangirl’s fresh eyes!

In this first of four episodes, we talk Magneto’s helmet, the Phoenix Force, the best leader of mutantkind, and more!

Updated: X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #2: Second Genesis (The Phoenix Era)

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This is available to everyone, but it was made possible via the support of Patrons of Crushing Krisis:

The Revised & Expanded X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #2: Second Genesis

This era covers every X-Men story starting with Giant Size X-Men #1 in 1975 through “Days of Future Past” in Uncanny X-Men #141-142 in 1981. That includes every back-up from Classic X-Men.

The guide allows you to read every X-Men story from the period perfect continuity order, but also presents a simplified version of that order so you can enjoy bigger chunks of the most important stories without inserting every minor guest appearance.

This was a fun reading order to revise for a few different reasons. [Read more…] about Updated: X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #2: Second Genesis (The Phoenix Era)