Luke Skywalker gets back to Jedi business in Star Wars #19, written by Charles Soule, drawn by Marcos Castiello, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In terms of Luke Skywalker, the big hook to any of his stories set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi is the question…
The first arc of Donny Cates and Ryan Ottley’s Hulk reaches its climax as Bruce Banner’s control over Starship Hulk slips … and something much worse takes the wheel in Hulk #6, written by Cates, drawn by Ottley, inked by Cliff Rathburn, colored by Frank Martin and lettered by Cory Petit. When I wrote on…
Flash back to a time when Psylocke was reborn into the ultimate killing machine. What sacrifice did Betsy Braddock make to save the X-Men?
We’ve done it. We’ve become a podcast about ship wars. Get out of here you Jarbs with your Jott agenda. Emmor stans? To the side. This is all about Scemma 4 eva! Nothing will ever make me think this is not a perfect ship and if writers do not appreciate it in the same way…
If you asked me about my fandom loves, it depends on the day. I might say it’s X-Men, and tell you about my love for Cyclops and Rogue. I might talk about Star Wars, and how Han Solo and Luke Skywalker’s hero’s journeys resonate with me. I might even talk about the pulp adventure of…
Woah! Is Daredevil really turning himself in? And here we thought everything came to a head in the last issue. Stellar creative team Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Mattia Iacono, and VC’s Clayton Cowles bring us a whole new bombastic arc in their Matt Murdock saga. Vishal Gullapalli: Wait, what’s this? A new column? I’ve been…
Since the 1970s and the boom of martial arts media, the martial arts master has become a standard trope in comics. Ninjas, samurai, karate fighters and kung-fu masters have been present in comics from a myriad of companies. In many cases, they are portrayed through the lens of a white creator and with a problematic…
I love the Marvel Handbooks. Really, any sort of reference guide to fictional universes is my jam, as they combine my affection for big, sprawling, narrative mythologies, history books, and pedantry. Back in the Olden Times, the first iteration of the Marvel Handbooks (specifically, the second, deluxe, edition) was my guide to a Marvel Universe…
GOLD SILVER BRONZE After being bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker went from fairly ordinary high school student to having the proportionate abilities of an arachnid. This includes not only super-human strength, speed, and durability, but the ability to climb walls and a ‘spider-sense’ capable of detecting impending danger. Soon after, a personal tragedy…
The Doctor. The Last of the Time Lords. The Oncoming Storm. And now…Conqueror of DEATH ITSELF?! At least that’s what Time Lord Victorious, a huge multiplatform crossover event, supposes. Now, the event, which brings together the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors (and maybe some surprises) comes to Titan Comics in the form of Doctor Who:…
Gambit is dead. “But” you say “mutants can’t die right?” Well, my child, that isn’t fully true in Otherworld where even a mutant can die and the resurrection protocols can only return a version of them that isn’t quite right. In the last issue of Tini Howard and Bob Quinn’s Knights Of X. Gambit lived…
The Avengers catch the Eternals digging in their Celestial cookie jar as Thanos creates a cataclysmic distraction far away in Eternals #11, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, colored by Matthew Wilson, and lettering/design by Clayton Cowles. Mark Turetsky: They say there are three basic stories: Hero vs. Hero, Days of Future Past…
Building a wrestling promotion around being cute is not. The ‘Rasslin’ Report A wrestling promotion — like many other fallible human enterprises, really — is a lot like a sandcastle. It can be intricate. It can be sloppy. It can be impressive. It can be the product of hours of hard work, or it can…
We’ve met a lot of new kids during the Age of Revelation. Omega Kids. Elbecca the Chorister. Temper and Ransom’s baby. Kids who theoretically weren’t even born in the present of the X-books. But the fact of the matter is, we’re still getting to know the kids we met during “From the Ashes,” which was…
At the end of the 20th century, superheroes, geniuses, madmen and activists rush toward World War III. A Soviet “iron” hero, a superpowered American president, an insane cyborg soldier, an Afghan woman hellbent on building a better life for her people; these strange yet familiar beings collide in a story that mixes history, politics and…