Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
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In today’s episode I finally open one of my all-time favorite modern X-Men runs – but, first, I talk about my intended musical experiment on my own offspring and how it was derailed by our mutual love of Michael Jackson.
Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 78 features the Uncanny X-Force omnibus, covered in my Guide to X-Force.
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I get back to talking about Clue and how I don’t believe in guilty pleasures and then open a pair of 1980s Marvel events that many fans might label as guilty pleasures. Not me. I unabashedly love these all-annuals crossovers.
Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 76 features Evolutionary War Omnibus and Atlantis Omnibus, both of which are covered in my Guide to Marvel Universe Events.
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In this second part of my unboxing of new comics from my December order, I dig deeply into the X-Men Classic omnibus. What is it and why were X-Men fans so shocked and excited to hear about its release?
Find out more, including how the book is laid out, in this video. Then visit my issue-by-issue guide to how Classic X-Men back-up stories fit into continuity.
Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 75 features The X-Men Classic Omnibus.
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Can you smell that? It’s the sweet, sweet American air (and packing peanuts) unleashed by this massive haul of new comics from my December order.
The unboxing starts with a new volume of our beloved Lumberjanes, includes a pair of classic Venom collections, a pair of new Marvel Epic Collections, the penultimate TPB of Letter 44, new Injection, old Cable, new Youngblood, and…
…something I’ll be digging into in the next episode of Crushing Comics!
Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
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I’m back with the second half of my “big brick of X-Men” cliffhanger from Monday’s episode – and this half has one of my all-time favorite X-Men stories! Hear why Messiah Complex both resolves threads of House of M and makes the best jumping-on point for reading about Cyclops as a revolutionary.
Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 73 features X-Men: Endangered Species and X-Men: Messiah Complex (covered in the Guide to Uncanny X-Men by Brubaker, Fraction, & Gillen) and X-Men: Age of X (covered in the Guide to X-Men Legacy).