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
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Avengers by Jonathan Hickman Book Club: Introduction & Syllabus
It’s a new month, and FanGirl and I are bringing you another comic book reading club! This month, we’re diving right into the heart of the Marvel Universe with Jonathan Hickman’s 2013-2015 run on Avengers and New Avengers. Some of the elements of this run are reflected in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War film, including Thanos’s Black Order.
Learn more about our book club, including the material and schedule, in our video syllabus.
The Schedule
- 3 April: Avengers #1-13 & New Avengers #1-6
- 10 April: “Infinity” – Infinity #1-6, Avengers #14-23, New Avengers #7-12
- 17 April: Avengers #24-34 & New Avengers #13-23
- 24 April: “Time Runs Out” – Avengers #35-44 & New Avengers #24-33
- 1 May: Secret Wars #0-9
Visit The Guide to Avengers Flagships, 2010 -Present for collection information for this run.
Crushing Comics S01E062 – Jonathan Hickman’s Infinity + brushes with the supernatural
I open this episode by discussing my abridged history of brushes with the supernatural, including memorable stories CK posts like the blue hair dream and the graveyard ghosts. Then, I unwrap a pair of books that were the anchor to the early part of Jonathan Hickman’s run on Avengers and New Avengers – Infinity and Infinity Companion.
Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 62 features Jonathan Hickman’s Infinity and the Infinity Companion hardcover. See my Guide to Marvel Events for more information.
Crushing Comics S01E14 – Wolverine: Enemy of the State, Wolverine/Elektra: Redeemer, & SHIELD: Architects of Forever (plus, the Jonathan Hickman indie library)
It’s part two of talking through the massive brick of comic books I pulled off the shelf last episode, including a Wolverine blockbuster, and apocryphal tale of Elektra, and the one Jonathan Hickman book I just hate – plus, a quick overview of Jonathan Hickman’s indie bibliography.
Want to start from the beginning? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 14 features Wolverine: Enemy of the State (Amazon / eBay), which was also in the Wolverine by Mark Millar Omnibus (Amazon / eBay) along with Old Man Logan; Wolverine/Elektra: The Redeemer by Greg Rucka (Amazon / eBay); and SHIELD: Architects of Forever (Amazon / eBay). Both Wolverine books are covered in the Guide to Wolverine.
Avengers by Jonathan Hickman, Vol. 2 – The #38 Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus of 2017
No, your eyes do not deceive you and it is not a typo – we’ve got a tie for the #38 most-wanted omnibus, and that tie brings us the newest of all the runs in the survey results.
Avengers by Jonathan Hickman, Vol. 2 is the #38 Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus of 2017 on Tigereyes’s Secret Ballot. Visit the Marvel Masterworks Message Board to view the original posting of results by Tigereyes.
Past Ranking: This is a 2017 debut; Volume 1 debuted at #10 with a bullet in 2016.
Probable Contents: It’s complicated. I cover it in full at the bottom of the post.
Creators: Written by Jonathan Hickman.
The co-writers and other artists vary wildly depending on what gets collected, but the core issues that we’ll see no matter what were drawn by Salvador Larroca and Leinil Francis Yu (Avengers) and Simone Bianchi, Rags Morales, Valerio Schiti, Kev Walker, and Larroca (New Avengers).
Can you read it right now? Yes! This Avengers and New Avengers portions of this run have now been collected in three formats, all still readily available. Avengers World is around in TPB only. It’s all covered on the Guide to Avengers Flagships.
Plus, all three series are available in full on Marvel Unlimited – Avengers, New Avengers, and Avengers World.
The Details:
The first Avengers by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus will be in our hands in a matter of weeks, and it collects exactly what fans were hoping for (and exactly what I predicted last year) – an integrated run of Avengers and New Avengers that incorporates Infinity, ending with Avengers (2013) #23 and New Avengers (2013) #12.
There is much debate over what a second volume of Hickman Avengers will contain, and I’ll cover that in detail below. What’s in common between the three possibilities is that it will surely cover both Avengers and New Avengers through the start of the “Eight Months Later / Time Runs Out” period, which begins in Avengers #35 and New Avengers #24.
The issues leading up to that point are very different across the two titles. [Read more…] about Avengers by Jonathan Hickman, Vol. 2 – The #38 Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus of 2017