Remember Knull, the god of the symbiotes, whom Donnie Cates and Ryan Stegman rammed down our throats and into our hearts so well he got his own linewide crossover a few years back and just appeared in the third Venom movie? Well, he’s back, and he’s here to harass the All-New Venom, Mary Jane Watson….
Ever since she discovered she was a mutant, Kamala Khan has been balancing her previous life as Ms. Marvel with her role as a leader in the new community, but her conflicted identity has come at a deep personal cost. Now, pulled into the distant past by an unhinged villain with deep ties to mutant…
The Asgardian gods live in cycles. They live, they fight, they die, they do a Ragnarok, they come back. Such is the POWER OF STORIES(TM). So it should come as no surprise that, even if Al Ewing’s Immortal Thor ends with the Odinson dying, the subsequent volume, already announced, starts with the hero’s return. The…
Welcome back to Talking AbsoluteâŚ, where we focus on the storylines, controversies and themes that have captured our imaginations in the Absolute DC titles each month. Today, weâll be covering the first half of May and three new issues. Guest artists, surprising alternate origin stories, villains in starring roles: Absolute DC has sprung some surprises…
Two self-contained Batman stories in one big issue. In his first Batman story, Al Ewing tells a tale of murder and math. And in the backup, one of Batmanâs youngest fans teams up with the Dark Knight to investigate something going very wrong in his school. Detective Comics Annual 2025 has a main story written…
Jake Murray: Let me start off with the coldest take since Dr. Victor Fries took up his nom de guerre: The first wave of titles in DCâs Absolute line have been pretty damn successful (thatâs Absolute Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman for the dozen or so uninitiated). Let me stun you with another ice-cold blast…
Welcome, freaks and freakettes, to our inaugural coverage of Al Ewing and Steve Lieberâs Metamorpho: The Element Man. Weâre picking up with last weekâs issue #3, in which Simon Staggâs caveman consigliere Java embarks on a globetrotting espionage mission with the shape-shifting Urania Blackwell, aka Element Girl. Will Metamorpho, the Freak of 1,001 Changes, take…
This is a New York Comic Con super special featuring Pepe Larraz, Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing, Declan Shalvey, Spencer Ackerman, Jackson Lanzing, David Marquez, Josh Cassara, Gerry Duggan, Chris Condon, and Justin Mason!
Immortal Thor #14 (LGY #775 – mazel tov!) ended with the Odinson absorbing the power of Zeus in combat, leaving the latter a smoking husk of a god. Does that make Thor Hercules’ dad now? Is that how that works? Because I would read a comic about Thor becoming Hercules’ stepdad, parking his Camaro in…
Goddammit, Al Ewing. It’s a phrase I’ve found myself saying so many times. Not because he did something to anger me, but because he is such a brilliant wizard who understands that comics is an inherently silly medium that also is inherently capable of doing powerful things. Like having a team of zombies play a…
Whoâs afraid of a little trans history? Maybe you should be: comicsâ trans elder flowers, posthumously, in one of DCâs Pride specials, while the other looks to younger readers with stories about queer teens. DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack, writing by Rachel Pollack and Joe Corallo, line art by Scott Eaton, Tom Sutton,…
All good things must come to an end, and as good of a thing as the Krakoan era has been for mutantkind, its time has come at last. The tragedy and triumph of FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X, the madness and mystery of RISE OF THE POWERS OF X, they have all come to…
From the company that brought you Roxxon Body Gelâ˘, and the immersive Roxxspexxâ˘, comes a brand new adventure starring their very own mascot, the Mighty Thor! Watch as he fights Loki and his lies of global pollution and the idea that corporations are not to be trusted! But is there something more sinister going on…
âI will try again. It is all I can do.â In 2019âs X-Men #1, the first comic post HoX/PoX, perhaps Magneto, floating above the fray while ripping the roof off of the (then, supposedly) last Orchis facility on Earth, adorned in glowing white, his power easily overwhelming his opponents…perhaps he was a new god. Those…
Marvel is a subsidiary of a global megacorporation. Al Ewing is a wizard who knows what his readers want to see: a superhero sticking it to the richos who own megacorporations. And because there is not currently a fifth Thor movie in the planning stages, Disney will let Marvel let Al Ewing do what he…