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EXCLUSIVE: Check out Dike Ruan’s variant cover to Marvel’s Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1

Dan Grote7 months ago7 months ago02 mins

This Dike Ruan variant cover to February’s Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1 reminds us of a wonderful essay Jude Jones wrote last year about the importance of Ororo’s natural hair texture. “Storm may not be a queen anymore, but she still wears a crown upon her head,” Jude wrote at the time in response to…

Cap Intrudes in Shang-Chi #2: A Spoiler-Free Review

Zachary Jenkins5 years ago5 years ago04 mins

In their first series of Shang-Chi, Gene Luen Yang and Dike Ruan reexamined the character, ahead of his feature film debut. It was no small task. Shang-Chi was created as a spin-off of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, a character that was considered offensively racist back in the 1930s. But Yang was largely successful in recontextualizing…