Chris Claremont

Crushing Comics S01E054 – X-Men Inferno & Operation: Zero Tolerance (+ the vicarious thrill of natural disasters)

January 4, 2018 by krisis

As I unwrap I talk about the combined thrill and terror of living through natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. I always said that Philly was relatively immune to such apocalyptic events, but now I live right on a fault line (and right on the water).

Then, I open what might be the most sought-after X-Men hardcover today – Inferno! Is the story worth all of the hype and high prices? I walk you through how it came to be, including a brief history of Madelyne Pryor, and speculate if it was Chris Claremont’s way of “fixing” his master plan after the debut of X-Factor. (I have much less to say about Operation Zero Tolerance.)

Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.

Episode 54 features X-Men: Inferno and X-Men: Operation Zero Tolerance, which are covered in the guides to Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont and X-Men (1991), respectively.

Crushing Comics S01E049 – “The Illusion of Profit” + Early-90s X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda, Bishop’s Crossing, & X-Cutioner’s Song

December 28, 2017 by krisis

My new Dazzler T-Shirt must be lucky, because today I unwrap a haul of four books from my prime era of X-Men collecting – the early 90s! First, I talk about how we convince ourself that some of our habits in life are profitable when really they’re costing us more than we realize.

Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.

Episode 49 features X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda, X-Men: Bishop’s Crossing, and X-Men: X-Cutioner’s Song – see the guides for X-Men by Chris Claremont and X-Men: The Crossover Era for more!

Crushing Comics S01E29 – A deep dive into the Giant-Size X-Men 40th Anniversary Hardcover

November 29, 2017 by krisis

It’s part two of my X-Men-shirt-wearing extravaganza as I take the time to dig super-deep into the somewhat unusual contents of Marvel’s Giant-Size X-Men 40th Anniversary hardcover, which includes explaining why the next two giant-size issues were from three decades later than the first, discussing X-Men Classic, talking about Deadly Genesis and the X-Men-centric War of Kings.

Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.

Episode 29 focuses on the Giant-Size X-Men 40th Anniversary hardcover (Amazon). For more on War of Kings, see the Guide to Marvel Events.

Crushing Comics S01E28 – “Why I love X-Men,” X-Men Origins, Asgardian Wars, & Mutant Massacre

November 28, 2017 by krisis

It’s no secret that that my comic book collection is overwhelmingly filled with X-Men comics, but I feel like there are so many more X-Men comic bundles to unwrap as I work my way through my oversize shelf.

In this episode I work my X-Men t-shirt on for good luck in plucking some X-books from the wall, and it worked! While I’m unpacking, I share a little insight on why I love the X-Men. Then, I dig into their origins and two of their earliest classic oversize hardcovers – Mutant Massacre and Asgardian Wars.

Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.

Episode 28 features X-Men Origins (Amazon) & Origins II (Amazon), X-Men: Asgardian Wars (Amazon), and X-Men: Mutant Massacre (Amazon). Find out where the latter two collections fit in with my Guide to Claremont-era X-Men.

Crushing Comics S01E18 – The classic Wolverine Omnibus, Vol. 1

November 18, 2017 by krisis

I begin this episode by reminiscing about my earliest exposure to comics unaware of how prescient a choice in topics I have made, I am about to unwrap my first ever Marvel Omnibus – which has grown to be a major whale!!

Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.