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Crushing Comics S01E048 – The nature of memory + The Best and Worst of Avengers: Kree/Skrull War vs The Crossing!

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After musing on the nature of how we remember things I unwrap a special packet – one that has both the apex and the nadir of pre-Bendis Avengers! It’s “one of the 90s most-notorious narratives” versus a cosmic conflict that was actually quite Earth-bound.

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

Episode 48 features Avengers: The Origin, Avengers: The Crossing, and Avengers: Kree/Skrull War. See Guide to The Avengers (1963) for more.

Crushing Comics S01E047 – Having a “beginner’s mind” + Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 Library Editions Vol. 3 & 4

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Today I start out musing on the concept of a “beginner’s mind,” and how for as much as we see the trope in fiction we have a trouble replicating it in our every day lives. Then, I unwrap the latter half of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 and discuss how the unlimited budget of the comic page subtly changed Buffy into something less personal than the TV show we remember.

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

Crushing Comics S01E046 – November Collected Edition Haul! Kids’ comics, Deadpool & X-Force Omnibus, WildStorm, & more!

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Today is a true unboxing, as I unpack the contents of my November comics order from the states!

The order starts with a big hunk of books to read with my daughter – The Return of Zita The Space Girl, Coady & The Creepies, and Gotham Academy!

Then, we get to the superheroes – a Hulk Epic Collection, Fantastic Four Marvel Masterworks, the new Deadpool & X-Force omnibus, and DC’s WildStorm 25 Anniversary hardcover!

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

Crushing Comics S01E045 – Bendis’s New Avengers & Mighty Avengers, Secret Invasion, + the pre-internet joy of comic shops)

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Do you remember how thrilling it used to be to spot a new comic shop out in the wild, back before there was internet shopping and endless databases of physical and digital back issues?

Then you, too, are old. No matter your age, join me for a few minutes of reminiscing before I open my final package of Bendis New Avengers and Mighty Avengers and dig in to why these books don’t stand alone well without Secret Invasion.

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

Episode 45 features New Avengers Vol. 5, Vol 6, & Vol 7, Mighty Avengers: Assemble (Vol. 1), and Mighty Avengers: Secret Invasion (Vol. 2). See the guides to New Avengers and Mighty Avengers for more information.

Crushing Comics S01E044 – X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Omnibus (and harrowing tales of left-side driving)

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Have you ever driven on the opposite side of the road? I open this episode with tales of my challenges navigating Wellington’s left-side driving, then open one of the best self-contained X-Men epics of all time (and one of my most re-read stories of all-time) – Age of Apocalypse!

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

Episode 44 features the X-Men: Age of Apocalypse omnibus. Learn more in the Marvel Events Guide.