Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- July/August 2023 Claremont’s X-Men takes shape as being the story of Storm.
tradd moore Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise by Tradd Moore and Heather Moore Tradd Moore has synthesized the vocabulary of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko with Mike Mignola and Jim Woodring’s sense of time, space, and movement..
Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- May/June 2023 Chris Claremont starts setting up for the X-Men’s future, starting by removing links to their past.
Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- March/April 2023 This period around 1982/1983 marked a shift in the X-Men characters themselves, turning them from superheroes into characters who are often wrestling with themselves as much as they are the bad guys.
Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- February 2023 Days of Future Past establishes the story that Claremont told in Uncanny X-Men but it takes him a few years to realize that.
tradd moore "Go home, traveler"- thoughts on Tradd Moore's Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #1 (and maybe a few words on Ronin Book II #1) Tradd Moore’s artwork is strange and fantastic, inspired by pop art as much as it is by comics. He’s telling a story about magic and his art is imbued with a different kind of magic.
Neil Gaiman An Introduction To the World in Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's Miracleman: The Silver Age #1 Young Miracleman wasn’t resurrected because of who or what he was but because one old man with too much power felt alone and rudderless in the world that he has made.
Neil Gaiman From the Archive- Miracleman: The Golden Age Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham reveal this post-superhero world through the stories and lives of normal but unsettled men and women.
alan moore Welcome the Mighty Marvel Age of Miracleman Miracleman #0 feels less like a celebration and more like a warning of what can happen to the character once Gaiman and Buckingham are finally done with him once and for all.
barry windsor-smith "A Dream of Dying" in Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X Maybe no one told Barry Windsor-Smith that he was telling a Wolverine story because Weapon X certainly doesn't read like one.
jim rugg Some Nice Design in Jim Rugg's Hulk Grand Design Monster There are just these clips and memories of old comics. This is not a Hulk comic but a comic about Hulk comics, a snake eating its tail.
George Perez What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and George Perez’s JLA/Avengers? An appreciation of George Pérez's stellar work on the JLA/Avengers crossover.
Jim Starlin From The Archives-- The Strange Life and Death of Adam Warlock If Lee/Kirby and Thomas/Kane were telling tales about an innocent childhood of the character, Jim Starlin was dealing with the moody teenage version of Adam Warlock.
2021 Featured From Cover to Cover's Favorite Comics of 2021 Here are our favorites from 2021, a year that saw a lot of great books.Please know this post serves to celebrate our favorites, and while we read a bunch, we certainly don't read everything. Really, there's just too much out there.
Screenshot Reviews #Screenshot Reviews-- Newburn #1, Primordial #2, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1 Capsule reviews of Newburn #1, Primordial #1, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1.
Marvel Comics From the Archives- Matt Fraction and David Aja's HAWKGUY (2012-2015) Fraction’s Hawkeye is a bit of a loser, a man who may know everything to do during the working hours but when he punches out for the day, he’s kind of lost and bumbling. But that doesn’t mean that he still can’t find trouble to get in when he’s just trying to hang around his apartment.
Kieron Gillen Eternals Gotta Eternal in Kieron Gillen, Esad Ribic, and Matthew Wilson’s Eternals: Only Death Is Eternal As Gillen writes them, The Eternals fall somewhere between the worshipped and the worshippers. They’ve been abandoned by their gods who they vowed to protect; the Celestials recognize the rise of human superbeings as taking over the functions of the Eternals.