New Comic Book Guide

Guide to Doctor Who – The Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee (New for Patrons!)

May 6, 2024 by krisis Leave a Comment

Welcome to another wibbly wobbly, timey wimey month of new comic book guides! As we look forward to the proper series debut of Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor Who later this week, we also have another Doctor Who Guide curated by CK Contributor AdjectiveNoun for Pledgeonaut Patrons of Crushing Krisis. It’s time to travel back to the 70s for our Guide to The Third Doctor Who, Jon Pertwee.

This guide is exclusively available to Patrons of Crushing Krisis until next month.

Guide to The Third Doctor Who, Jon Pertwee

Our Doctor Who guides not only cover comic books, but episodes, novels, short stories, audio dramas, and magazines! How? Why?! Because I recruited my Down Under friend AdjectiveNoun, a major Whovian who got me hooked on the new 60th Anniversary episodes that debuted this past December.

We combined AdjectiveNoun’s Who knowledge and my established Guide infrastructure & style to create a set of Doctor Who Guides that are organized differently than any other guides we could find online.

Want to get started right now? The Guide to the 14th Doctor Who – David Tennant and Guide to the 15th Doctor Who – Ncuti Gatwa are now live for all readers.

Guides to the remaining 12 Doctors will launch over the course of the next year.

Doctor Who: Fifteenth Doctor Guide – now available to the public!

May 1, 2024 by krisis Leave a Comment

There are just 10 more days until the debut of the first Doctor Who Series starring Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor – and, what better way to prepare than with a Doctor Who – Fifteenth Doctor Guide.

The Guide to Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor is now available to all readers thanks to the support of Patrons of CK. This guide was curated by my personal Doctor Who expert, AdjectiveNoun. It contains literally every possible piece of media related to the Fifteenth Doctor to make it easy for you to jump in whether you are a new Whovian or a long-time viewer. It includes links to episodes, novels, comics, and more!

Plus, if you want to see the regeneration (or, should we say, bi-generation) of The Fifteenth Doctor, you need you watch the finale of the trio of 6oth Anniversary Episodes starring The Fourteenth Doctor – the return of David Tennant! Our Guide to The Fourteenth Doctor is also now available to all readers.

Guide to The Fifteenth Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa

Guide to The Fourteenth Doctor Who, David Tennant (again!)

These guides not only cover comic books, but episodes, novels, short stories, audio dramas, and magazines! How? Why?! Because I recruited my Down Under friend AdjectiveNoun, a major Whovian who got me hooked on the new 60th Anniversary episodes that debuted this past December.

Guides to the remaining 12 Doctors will launch over the course of the next 12 months, including a new guide next week! Become a Patron of CK to gain immediate access to that guide once it arrives, plus our exclusive Guide to Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston.

Guide to Superman, 1987 – Present (New for Patrons!)

April 29, 2024 by krisis Leave a Comment

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s one of my biggest single-character guide pages of all time exclusively for Pledgeonaut Patrons of CK. That’s right, folks, it’s my second super week in a row, because today I bring to you my Guide to Superman (Post-Crisis, 1987 – Present), including a full issue-by-issue reading order for the Triangle Era!

Guide to Superman (Post-Crisis, 1987 – Present)

For the past seven years this Guide to Superman has existed somewhere between being my white whale and my albatross. I knew I had to tackle Superman at some point. But, he is the Justice League hero who I knew the least about. Plus, I could never make heads or tails of his publishing history – with how his titles traded names in 1987 only to swap back in 2006.

Oh, plus, there was the little matter of THE TRIANGLE ERA. From 1991 to 2001, every Superman comic was coordinated in perfect reading order by a brain trust of editors and authors, with their covers clearly labeled with their absolute placement within each year of continuity.

That meant I had to make a guide that was even better at explaining The Triangle Era than the hundreds of comic book covers from the actual Triangle Era.

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Guide to Carnage – Cletus Kasaday (New for Patrons!)

April 8, 2024 by krisis Leave a Comment

I’m back with another new comic guide from the very creepy spooky ooky Patrons of CK, who picked this serial-killing symbiote in a tie for their most-wanted Marvel Guide in their last Patrons’ Choice poll. That’s right, after many weeks of promises in my Marvel New Releases posts as I review his series, I’m finally done my Guide to Carnage!

Guide to Carnage

This guide covers every Cletus Kasaday appearance from his debut to last week, plus all of the major mischief that the Carnage symbiote has gotten up to without its psychopath host. It’s all in perfect reading order, complete with suggestions on where to start, a “greatest hits” list of only the best and most-relevant stories, an easy reference for building a uniform bookshelf of Omnibuses or Epic Collections, and links read every series on Marvel Unlimited!

That means I just did a lot of Carnage reading. So, having just seen his every page and word balloon, what’s the true story of Marvel’s cruelest symbiote?

Guide to Doctor Who – 9th, 14th, & 15th Doctors (New for Patrons!)

April 1, 2024 by krisis Leave a Comment

Today is April Fool’s day, but this is not a joke! It’s a not a hoax or a dream! It’s not some wibbly wobbly, timey wimey nonsense… unless you count the untold hours we’ve spent readying these guides for launch! That’s right, it’s really the debut of a Guide to Doctor Who presented by Crushing Comics and edited by AdjectiveNoun.

We are launching the new Guide to Doctor Who with guides to three doctors – the 9th Doctor, who kicked off the modern era in 2005, and the 14th & 15th Doctors, who anchored the recent 60th Anniversary episodes. Plus, what would a new section of Crushing Comics be without a guide to the linewide events of the universe?! For Doctor Who, that means a Guide to Multiple Doctors Who, covering every media and anthology that includes multiple incarnations of The Doctor.

These new Doctor Who Guides are exclusively available to Pledgeonaut Patrons of Crushing Krisis until the debut of the new Doctor Who season in May on the BBC and Disney+.

Guide to The Ninth Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston