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[ If you wish to avoid spoilers about Terminal #2, 7, and 10, you may not want to read this piece. ] I’ve been waiting on this comic for a long time. In the spring of 2023, I got an email from Joe Casey asking if I would be up for jumping on a Skype call with him at some point. I’ve been writing about Joe Casey’s comics work for pretty much the entire time I’ve been online writing about comics…
I’ve mostly been focused on the release schedule and the way it impacts Queen in Black so far. With the first issue delayed by four weeks, pretty much every release for the event’s first month was rescheduled, producing a different impression. Last week, I speculated that the delay may have actually benefited how Queen in Black reads as its various comics come out given how strong the two weeks…
Last week, I wondered if you should read Queen in Black #2 or Queen in Black: Venom Unchained #1 first given that, in the original release schedule, Venom Unchained was meant to come out several weeks earlier. So, that’s how I read these two issues. Turns out, it didn’t matter, which is nice, I suppose. If it seems weird that I’ve devoted so much attention to the release schedule, I don’t think…
“What if Captain America wasn’t revived until 2099?” by Marc Guggenheim, Ron Lim, Andrew Dalhouse, and Clayton Cowles This fucking pap... What If...? Captain America #1 has Captain America revived in the year 2099 with familiar 2099 characters surrounding him somehow. It’s a future ruled by corporations, including one actually occupying the presidency. Captain America is recruited to help…
“What if Kraven survived his ‘last hunt’?” by JM DeMatteis, Yildiray Çinar, Alex Sinclair, and Joe Caramagna What If...? Spider-Man #1 is a bit of an anomaly in this year’s crop of What If...? issues in that the writer of it is the writer of the story it’s jumping off from. JM DeMatteis wrote the famous “Kraven’s Last Hunt” story and, here, returns to present an alternate version where, instead of…
It’s probably not a great sign when your next big event starts four weeks late. You probably don’t want that to be the first thing that people talk about either. You want people to talk about the spectacle and how cool it is and how fantastic the writing is and the amazing art – or Hel, in this case, the blind bag promotion for the first issue. (If you’re curious, I did grab a blind bag since the…
“What if Jessica Jones was bitten by the radioactive spider?” by Justina Ireland, David Messina, Brian Reber, and Joe Sabino Ah fuck, whatever, man. Look, there are some strong bits in this issue, pretty much any of the flashbacks to the time right after Jessica Jones got bitten by the radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker. And I do admire the central conceit being that Peter Parker is a…
“What if the Ultimate Universe survived the Secret Wars?” by Alex Paknadel, Cafu, David Curiel, and Ariana Maher Three in and only now finding its way, this latest revival of What If...? I don’t know, it’s my instinct to nitpick and that’s where my mind goes immediately despite this being an improvement over the first two issues. What we have here is pretty much a Proper What If...? comic that…
I’ll be honest, I never really know what exactly to do with art books. If you’ve followed my writing about comics for any length of time, it’s easy to tell that I’m very writer-focused. While I’ve tried many times to overcome this flaw in my approach, it never quite sticks. I’d loved to lay it on my interest in looking at broad bodies of work by writers or big runs focused on a character where…
“What if Thor got Spider-Man’s Symbiote suit?” by Torunn Grønbekk, Sergio Dávila, Aure Jimenez, Bryan Valenza, and Joe Sabino Like the first of this year’s crop of What If...? issues, the second has some problems for this ol’ friend of Uatu. Unlike the first, it tells a coherent single story rather than a series of montages punctuated by truncated scenes. The premise is very simple: instead of…
