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Marvel Comics
Crushing Comics S01E085 – Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon, John Cassaday, & Laura Martin
In today’s episode I unwrap my final omnibus, which (as many of you have likely surmised through a process of elimination) is Astonishing X-Men. I use this famously self-contained, blockbuster run as an opportunity to muse on getting back into comics and the surprisingly limited scope of the comic book market.
Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 85 features the Astonishing X-Men Omnibus, covered in the Guide to Astonishing & Amazing X-Men.
(Yes, I skipped posting Episode 84 – it was just a episode prompting folks to guess the final omnibus.)
This Week in X: All-New Wolverine #32, Astonishing X-Men #9, New Mutants – Dead Souls #1, Old Man Logan #36, Weapon X #15, & X-Men Blue #23
It’s the eleventh week of new comics in 2018, and This Week in X has six new titles to review – so many that I mistakenly omitted one the first time I edited this video. I’ve never had to count as high as six before!
This week, I cover:
- All-New Wolverine #32, a pleasant (if pandering) one-shot epilogue to “Orphans of X”
- Astonishing X-Men #9, a dull middle chapter that does a lot of telling rather than showing
- New Mutants – Dead Souls #1, a solid hit for lovers of every era of New Mutants
- Old Man Logan #36, which flirts with some heavy themes before turning into a MacGuffin hunt
- Weapon X #15, a surprisingly satisfying (and unsurprisingly bloody) tussle
- X-Men Blue #23, far and away the best issue of this series and a return to form for Cullen Bunn
Learn more about how each of those series reached their current issues and hear which ones I’d recommend picking up.
Crushing Comics S01E083 – X-Statix emerges from X-Force (+ X-Men, Diversity, & Acceptance)
I’m down to just two books left to unwrap. I know exactly what they are, but not which one is which, so I’m 50% surprised to unwrap the massive X-Statix omnibus.
X-Statix is an indie-style, deconstructionist take on mutantdom that features ongoing themes of addiction, teenage pregnancy, promiscuity, and racial identity/discrimination. I talk a little bit about X-Statix’s story, but spend a lot of the episode discussing diversity and comics. If you reject a (great) comic for having a same sex relationship, then have you been paying attention to the X-Men in the first place?
(You might recall this story from when I originally told it on CK over half a decade ago; it is still one of my favorite posts of all time.)
Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 83 features the X-Statix Omnibus, which is covered in the Guide to X-Force.
Crushing Comics S01E081 – How X-Men: Second Coming brought me back to comics
In the second of three episodes focused on unwrapping a massive brick of oversized X-Men comics, I reminisce about Second Coming – the storyline that tempted me back to reading comics in general and modern X-Men in specific (as discussed back in 2010).
Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 81 features X-Men: Second Coming and X-Men: Second Coming – Revelations, both covered in my Guide to Uncanny X-Men by Brubaker, Fraction, & Gillen.