This week Marvel released the first issue of Jonathan Hickman’s epic X-Men relaunch. What was it about? Was it any good? Join me, frequent conspirator FanGirl, and my newly-found fellow dupe from an unknown Madrox Zach as we dig into House of X (2019) #1
Haul Around The World: Completing my shelf of oversize Uncanny X-Men with my least-favorite story…
When I was packing for my move from Philadelphia to Wellington there was one last book missing from my complete oversize Uncanny X-Men shelf, but I couldn’t bring myself to purchase it … because it already made me quit comics once before.
Haul Around The World: Wedding of Cyclops & Phoenix Oversized Hardcover
I unwrap the newest addition to my oversize hardcover X-Men collection – a copy of The Wedding of Cyclops & Phoenix! I make the case for why this book has the wrong title, talk about Sabretooth’s arc in the early 90s X-Men, and explain why this might be the best oversize collection for fans of X-Men: The Animated Series.
New For Patrons: Guides to Blade, Dracula, & Elsa Bloodstone
Today’s new guides for Patrons of Crushing Krisis started as December’s Patrons’ Choice Guide of one of Marvel’s biggest non-MCU film stars, but I realized I needed a second guide to make the first one work, and then a third guide to fill in a gap in the second one…
Blade, the Daywalker – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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Marvel’s Dracula – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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Ulysses & Elsa Bloodstone – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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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.
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