Marvel
The House of Ideas dominates pop culture today from the pages of their books to the big and small screens. Generations of children grew up loving their characters, and they show no signs of ever stopping.
The Dawn of X is halfway here, and things start heating up in House of X #3. Literally—the X-Men go to the sun to destroy the Mother Mold. Cyclops puts a team together consisting of […]
We were here just a couple of weeks ago. Marvel decided not to run an essay from living comic legend Art Spiegelman because it criticized President Trump (Note—you don’t get ART SPIEGELMAN to write an […]
A few days ago, I said it seemed that Powers of X would focus on four time periods: year zero, ten, one hundred, and one thousand. So, I was wrong. Powers of X #3 focuses […]
While House of X focuses on singular stories, such as establishing their own nation in #1 and exploring the many lives of Moira MacTaggart in #2, Powers of X treads a thousand years of the […]
So, there’s no way to review Hickman and Larraz’s House of X #2 without spoiling it. It’s a brilliant comic that works as a one-shot and that builds on what happened in House of X […]
One criticism people have against Jonathan Hickman is that he focuses more on plot than character development. For House of X #1, he certainly focused a lot more on plot, but that’s only because he […]
Movies are complicated. During production, directors film more than they need and then have to decide what to cut for time or pacing later. Sometimes they lead to extended editions, like The Lord of the […]
We just experienced the hottest heatwave in American history, but the summer of 2019 is only half over and we still have August, the hottest month, to get through. You know what that means. It’s […]
Out of all of the comic industry’s writers in the past twenty years, no one has come close to the planning and depth of detail than Jonathan Hickman. His Fantastic Four plan melted into his […]
