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it’s weird to be seen

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Krisis Selfie for the Tigereyes 14th Annual Marvel Most Wanted Omnibus poll launchAfter taking a few months of enforced downtime from appearing on camera, it was wild to launch the Tigereyes poll on Near Mint Condition and hear that people missed me.

Missed. Me. My face as expertly framed and curated by the hair & makeup team who wake up at 5:45am New Zealand time to get me ready for these streams.

Even in the world of just comic book influencers I am a micro, micro, micro influencer with a tiny amount of name and face recognition. But, it’s still recognition. Perception. Being seen.

And, I have to tell you, that is deeply, deeply strange in ways you don’t think about when you are praying for it as a teenager.

In the first year after I launched CK I was still a teenager and I used money from my first full-time job to buy my own webcam. You have to consider, this was in the beforetimes, when cell phones didn’t even have cameras. The ability to broadcast the inside of my apartment to the internet in real time was groundbreaking technology.

There was no hair and makeup team. At points there was no wardrobe… I made many unplanned appearances in the nude on the internet. And some planned ones. I was totally unfiltered.

Alas, there was no OnlyFans at the time to monetize my hot twink bod. But I digress.

(hear me reading this post)

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Not Dead (yet!)

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It is Krisis, fresh from several months of real-life crises to give you a brief proof-of-life post!

After my burst of activity in November, life conspired to throw some fabulous all-new, all-different obstacles in my way to keep me from doing much on Crushing Krisis (or anywhere else). Broken body parts! Computer meltdowns! Visitors from abroad! All-new professional hurdles! My entire house being surrounded by scaffolding for a month! Having to move every single short box of comics out of and back into my garage (while still convalescing from those broken body parts)!

And, of course, all of the terrors being unleashed across this modern world on a daily basis.

Now I’m back with some all-new technology (because it was getting very hard to edit my largest guides), an all-different arm (that’s a very long story), and about to launch this year’s Tigereyes poll!

Please excuse the mess as I catch up on updating a backlog of posts and guides that were meant to publish over the course of the past month to get us back to normalcy (such as it is).

Guide to Energon Universe – GI Joe & Transformers (New for Patrons!)

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After a few months packed with catching up on reading new releases from Marvel, DC, and Image for my weekly YouTube show “The Pull List,” I’m excited to get back to launching new comic guides to Patrons of CK! And, I’m especially excited about this first new guide, because it breaks ground on covering a comics property that is incredibly close to my heart. Fire up your 80s nostalgia, grab your favorite action figures, and get ready to shout “YO JOE” and “AUTOBOTS ROLL OUT” because it’s time for a Guide to the Energon Universe – GI Joe & Transformers!

Guide to the Energon Universe – GI Joe & Transformers

Guide to the Energon Universe - GI Joe & Transformers

This guide is available exclusively to Patrons and will be available to the public in June 2025 with the release of the first trade of the new G.I. Joe (2024) ongoing series!

As I’ve been catching up on my Energon Universe reading I’ve looked around the web to see what collecting guides and reading orders exist. Some of my colleagues have put together handy quick guides to each series, but from my perspective they were all missing something. [Read more…] about Guide to Energon Universe – GI Joe & Transformers (New for Patrons!)

Guide to Kraven The Hunter (New For Patrons!)

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Happy New Year, comic fans! I’m kicking off the year with a new Marvel Comics reading order for Patrons of CK. Sometimes I make a reading order because I love a character. Other times I launch a guide because a character has so many series and appearances. And, occasionally, I make a guide just because a character will be starring in a movie with a hunky actor, not realizing that film will be one of the biggest super-flops of all time! Of course, that means today I am sharing a Guide to Kraven the Hunter!

Guide to Kraven the Hunter

Kraven the Hunter Reading Order & Collecting Guide, excerpted from the cover of Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #19 ComicXposure Exclusive Variant

I knew virtually nothing about Kraven The Hunter before working on this guide. I mean, yeah, I knew had a penchant for animal prints, but that also describes Michelle Visage. I was often puzzled by his appearances in the past six years of Spider-Man comics, where he was himself, but also undead, but also his own son, but also a clone?

Well, now I finally get it, and so can you.

Kraven began his life as one of Spider-Man’s signature villains in Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #14. However, the thing I quickly realized about the original Sergei Kravinoff and all of the subsequent Kravens is they really aren’t typical Marvel villains, except for some recreational poaching and coming from a family of Russian oligarchs.

No. Kraven would have been perfectly content to continue his endless safari in the plains of Serengeti if it wasn’t for the emergence of American superheroes – especially animal-themed heroes. After all, Kraven is a hunter, and what is more dangerous game than man with a superhero costume themed after a beast? [Read more…] about Guide to Kraven The Hunter (New For Patrons!)