Maddie's reading summariesSlideshow 1: Inferno 1988 and OnSlideshow 2: Dawn of X, Moira, Destiny, and MystiqueSlideshow 3: Clones on KrakoaImage 4:Final Images:Above: the 1988 Inferno ad and the 2021 Silva homage to it! Click "continue Reading" to see this special edition episode's podcast notes!
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I'm pulling the same number of releases this week as last, with eighteen total books. I'm happy to say I'm trying out five new indie titles, to go along with five from DC, two other indies, three for the X of Swords event, and two other Marvel comics. All in all, a hefty week, but a very exciting one.
Since there are three Marvel comics that fit in to the X of Swords X-Men event, I've made them their own section so the discussions can all be together, in reading order of the issues. Hopefully this will make following along with the event a bit easier, or as I said last week, you can always pick up the collected edition towards the end of January, 2021. The five new indie titles are all experimental, coming from Dynamite, Aftershock, Vault, Oni Press, and Dark Horse Comics. The only one with a creative team I'm familiar with is Gerard Way's Killjoys original series follow-up, National Anthem. Out of the rest, I definitely imagine a few of them sticking around. Due to life complications, I'm only doing one spotlight this week, on female comic artist Carmen Carnero! She's made quite the name for her in the past few years, and I'm excited to tell you more! Continue Reading for all the best info on comic coming out this week!
I was really trying to avoid this, this week, but life has required me to stop and catch up with non-SSG things, so I didn't have time to do the pull list and spotlights the way i normally would. Instead, I'll do a VERY brief overview of what I'm reading, what I'm excited for, and who the spotlights were going to be on. Next week, however, already has me excited about writing the week's pull blurbs, so I have no doubt I'll get those done, no problem.
Here's the very brief, non-pretty rundown of this week in comics: fifteen comics seven indie 3 dawn of x 1 other marvel 2 DC Again, I'm not doing blurbs for this week's pulls, just some very quick-and-dirty chat about select comics from my list. Continue reading for the most basic pull list I've ever done!
This week, we have a rare thing in comics: a short pull list! Admittedly, four of the ten issues are Dawn of X books, one Marvel Annual, two are DC and three are from Image. A little skewed, as far as publishers go, but all quality comics nonetheless. And, I have to admit, it is a lot less pressure having fewer comics to write about every week.
This week I'm particularly proud of the representation spotlights. I talk about writer/artists Johnnie Christmas and Mirka Andolfo in the sections on creators of color and women in comics, respectively. Both creators have strong styles of and sectors of the comics world they thrive in, with impressive work under their belts already. Then, in the spotlight on LGBTQ+ topics in comics, I talk about Northstar and Daken--two queer male comics characters as two very different examples of queer male portrayal. Continue Reading for all this and more!
Welcome to my comic picks of the week!
As opposed to my weekly pull lists, the pick list is made of my favorite weekly comics after having read them. Sometimes things are marketed to be one thing, and end up another, so these are the confirmed goodies! This week for my top 5, I picked Batgirl #47, Daredevil #23, Hellions #2, Wolverine #3, and the Free Comic Book Day of Horizon Zero Dawn #0! I didn't even know that last one was coming out this week, so it was a great surprise that turned out to be an even better read! As this is one of my first weeks doing pick list blog posts, I have yet to land on a format that I know will work, so please bear with me! Other than that, Continue Reading to find out more about the top picks of this comic week! (Spoilers abound!)
Folks, this has week has been a bit of a bummer--even aside from things that hit the national news.
In the comics world, DC announced the cancellation of 3 formerly ongoing series': Batgirl, Batman & the Outsiders, and Justice League: Odyssey. You may note right away that none of these were included in my last pull lists, and you'd be correct. I'm about 3 issues behind on JLO, and to be honest, only recently learned author Cecil Castellucci (of one of my all-time favorite mini-series, Female Furies) was writing Batgirl. But I only just started B&tO in volume form with the hopes to catch up, and love how Brian Edward Hill used a Batman series to promote some often forgotten but ultimately very meaningful characters. While weak excuses were offered as to the cancellation reasons, I (and more than a few comics blog sites) find them all to be just that: excuses. Additionally, Marvel announced the abrupt cancellation of one of my top-5 current ongoing books, Strikeforce. I wrote just last week that Strikeforce is one of the best books at Marvel, and after reading last week's Empyre and Avengers, I can easily say it's the best team they have. The excuse offered by Marvel was basically some fudged timing, which has been worked around in the past for other books. In the light of these cancellations, I will be adding the last of these 3 series' to my pull lists, regardless if I catch up in time. They each represented a marginalized sector of the comics industry, if not multiple, and their cancellations feel like major leaps backwards in comics progression. What #ComicsPledge? Anyway, there are still comics to read, so Continue Reading to see what IS coming out this week! |
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