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The Road to Spider-Geddon
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10/11/18 • 12 min
New episode walking through the essential background and context for Marvel’s 2018 Spider-Geddon event series.
You can find the full list of relevant tie-in issues and collected editions in Comic Book Herald’s Spider-Geddon reading order.
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Best Comics Ever #18: Best Comics of All Time List Updates – Abominable Charles Christopher, Hawkeye (2016), Black Orchid & More!
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10/05/18 • 24 min
September reads have pushed Comic Book Herald’s best comics of all time rankings up to 441 total comics, from Watchmen to Wanted. I discuss and rank the latest additions on this pod!
Check out the full ranked list at Comic Book Herald’s best comics of all time.
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The Road to Heroes in Crisis
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09/27/18 • 22 min
Comic Book Herald’s guide on background to Heroes in Crisis, the comics that got us to the 2018 to 2019 DC Comics event, and an overview of Heroes in Crisis #1.
Check out the following link for the full reading order for Heroes in Crisis.
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Creannotators #54: “Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts” with Dr. Rebecca Hall
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07/06/21 • 49 min
This week on Creannotators, I talk Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts with writer and historian Dr. Rebecca Hall. We talk about what it means to live in the wake of slavery, the process of converting historical research to a graphic novel, and much more.
On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!
Learn more at: https://rebhallphd.org/
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Is:
Writer: Dr. Rebecca Hall
Artist: Hugo Martinez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Selected portions of our conversation follow, and have been edited for clarity.
CBH: Early in Wake, there’s a visual of you in in present day New York mirrored against the colonial years essentially, in the puddles in the streets. As your first time scripting a comic, or graphic novel of this length, you know, can you talk about how you collaborated on visuals and depicting these scenes with illustrator Hugo Martinez, what was that process?
Dr. Rebecca Hall: You know, I had only ever written and published in academia before. So I’m, even though I read graphic novels and love the medium, writing for a visual medium was not something I’ve ever done before. And when I tried to find resources that could teach me how to do it, you know, like, that’s kind of my approach, like find 20 books and read them. There really is very little out there on writing for this medium if you’re not the artist as well, so the process of collaborating with an artist, we ended up having to wing it really. And it was also, you know, Hugo’s first big project. I mean, I think he had done some web comics before. So it was really kind of a learning curve for all of us.
I got an appreciation for how much work each page was, you know, each page had multiple storyboards, multiple pencils. You know, some are harder than others. It’s not like a normal thing to turn your dissertation into a graphic novel. And so some of these concepts were pretty hard to figure out how to convey visually. So some were harder than others, but all of it was a lot of work.
CBH: How did you know then that comics were the right medium for this story?
Dr. Rebecca Hall: I’ve always been a fan of the genre and how powerful it can be. You know, particularly for me, two books that really resonate with me art is Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and then the graphic novel Persepolis as well. Because the documents, the primary sources on this topic were so fragmentary, it’s a little hard to just sort of, you know, kind of write it as a book. There needed to be a way to juxtapose the past and the present in order to tell the story.
CBH: That makes a lot of sense. No, it definitely works as a graphic novel. I was curious, because I think we don’t often see historical excavation, I think in comics, and this is a very personal story in many ways. When did you know, you wanted to incorporate as much of yourself in the work sort of illustrating the historical process?
Dr. Rebecca Hall: So the research that I’m describing, that research process that’s described in Wake, occurred almost 18 years ago, when I was doing my dissertation, and then I published a couple, like, scholarly articles on the topic. So the historical research had been complete, long before I thought to create a graphic novel. I had no idea that my story was going to be, but when I sat down to create the graphic novel, I didn’t realize that my story was going to be as prominent as it was. It became clear right away that I needed myself as a narrator in order to deal with sort of the fragmentary nature of the primary sources. And as I was writing that, I realized the people needed to understand what my investment in this was. What’s the heart of the story? What like, drew me to this work? And also, I wanted people to understand what the historical research process was like, and the obstacles that I faced. But you know, it’s kind of one of those things where you plan to write run one thing, and then you end up writing something, maybe completely, not what you were expecting, right?
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03/18/20 • 10 min
Tini Howard and Marcus To’s Excalibur #9 is moving closer to the Multiversal Mayhem I’ve always wanted, and teasing a March towards the upcoming X of Swords event.
Today I’ll answer:
- + Who is Saturnyne and what’s her role in the Marvel Multiverse?
- + What happened to the Captain Britain Corps?
- + How is Apocalypse confirming my X of Swords theories?
Spoilers for discussed comics may follow!
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In Excalibur #9 we’re quickly tossed into a history lesson about The Starlight Citadel, Captain Britain Corps, and Omniversal Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnyne. If you’re unfamiliar with the history of these concepts in the pages of Captain Britain or Excalibur, this history can feel particularly byzantine, but here are the essential details I’d pay attention to at this point:
1)The Captain Britain Corps have been destroyed. I’ll go into more detail about the hows, but this means the Omniversal (see also: alternate reality) collection of Captain Britains across universes does not exist (as we knew it at least). The Omniversal Corps is where we get Earth designations like “Earth-616,” which as far as we know may know be the only catalogued Earth with a Captain Britain!
2)The Citadel is currently inhabited by Saturnyne, who has been teased as the “White Witch,” a detail I called way back in my review of Excalibur #1. Although it’s located in Otherworld, the Citadel currently hidden from view to outsiders.
3)Following the destruction of the Corps, Saturnyne has been promoted to role of Omniversal Guardian, which was previously held by Merlyn.
Why does this matter? Well, in regards to the destruction of the Captain Britain Corps, this enhances Betsy’s own import as one of – if not the last – Captain Britain in the Omniverse, and suggests fascinating future storylines like reassembling the omniversal corps. Plus, it means that for the time being, the protectors of the Omniverse are missing, leaving the collected realities of Marvel Comics without their known Defenders. Betsy and Excalibur need to use the Warwolf skulls they assembled the previous two issues to track their way to the hidden Citadel and learn why the Omniversal protectors are in hiding.
What happened to the Captain Britain Corps? Well, in the build to 2015’s Secret Wars, Brian Braddock escaped Otherworld to report the builders led an assault on the Starlight Citadel, and decimated the Corps. It’s a very short depiction of events (and apparently an even shorter battle), but it also reads like Saturnyne’s defensive tactics failed and contributed to the destruction – not that there was likely much she could do given the encroaching reality that “Everything dies.”
Although the Corps are gone, it would appear that Saturnyne escaped their fate, and remains as the Omniversal Guardian with a new gathering of Priestesses of the Starlight Citadel. Following the removal of Morgan Le Fay from the throne of Otherworld, Saturnyne observes a new threat in the form of Apocalypse and his merry band of mutants we know as Excalibur. She sets her priestesses on the hunt to prevent Excalibur from making their way to the Citadel.
Who is Saturnyne? The character was created by Dave Thorpe and Alan Davis for Marvel UK, although my first exposure was in Marvel Superheroes by Alan Moore and Alan Davis. In that underrated 80s series, Saturnyne is established as an ally to Earth-616 Brian Braddock and a major part of the Ominversal court ruled by Merlyn and Roma. It’s Roma in particular, as the daughter of Merlyn, who would go on to have the most direct relationship guarding the Omniverse with Saturnyne at her side.
Essentially, Saturnyne can in many ways be credited with the – perhaps intentional – formation of the original Excalibur, after sending Technet to capture Rachel Summers, at the time the Phoenix, in Excalibur Special Edition #1.
In more recent years, omniversal threats like Spider-Verse and Secret Wars severaly challenged Saturnyne’s responsibilities, and given the end result of Secret Wars (2015), there can be little arguing that Saturnyne is coming off her greatest failure. The Captain Britain Corps’ response to Hickman’s grand Secret Wars remains one of the storylines with the mo...
Krakin’ Krakoa #42: 3 Cosmic Prophecies in Marvel Comics- How Ewing, Hickman & the Celestial Messiah Intersect
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03/17/20 • 12 min
Marvel’s Celestial Madonna and Celestial Messiah concepts are some of the most confounding in Avengers and Marvel cosmic history, mysteries wrapped inside enigmas made of questions.
Today I’ll answer:
- + What or Who the heck is Marvel’s Celestial Messiah?
- + Why does the Messiah matter in 2020?
- + What does this have to do with Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men?
- + How Marvel’s cosmic prophesies are on a collision course!
Spoilers for discussed comics may follow!
The history of the Celestial Messiah begins with the story of the Celestial Madonna, as told in the pages of Steve Englehart written Marvel comics, beginning in Avengers and extending through the likes of Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, and eventually an early 2000’s eight issue series called Avengers: Celestial Quest.
The quick version is that while with the Avengers, the Vietnamese Mantis, Mistress of the Martial Arts, learned of her prophesied role as the universe’s Celestial Madonna. Although it was unknown to even Mantis until a ways into the saga, she had been trained by the Priests of Pama, Kree pacifists loyal to the Cotati – a plant-based alien race – in ways of telepathic empathy making her the perfect human half of a Cotati / Human pregnancy.
That’s right: All this builds to Mantis marrying and sleeping with a tree!
So yes, it’s important right off the bat to accept that the basis for basically everything I’ll be talking about today is tree-sex. You have to be pine with that. Fine with that. Just leaf your preconceived notions of mating at the door. Oak-K moving on.
The original Celestial Madonna saga runs through eight issues of the core Avengers series, plus three “Giant-Size” specials from about 1974 through 1975. The Celestial Madonna saga reading order:
- Avengers #128
- Avengers #129
- Giant-Size Avengers #2
- Avengers #130
- Avengers #131
- Avengers #132
- Giant-Size Avengers #3
- Avengers #133
- Avengers #134
- Avengers #135
- Giant-Size Avengers #4
Again, essentially, Giant-Size Avengers #4 concludes with Mantis consummating a marriage with the elder Cotati, in the recreated form of the just dead Swordsman, in order to give birth to the Celestial Messiah.
Before we get to this Messiah, though, it’s really important to understand the Cotati, in terms of where they come from and what their relevance is for the Marvel Cosmic landscape.
In Marvel’s late 2019 Incoming teaser, building towards the 2020 Empyre event, it was revealed both the Kree and Skrull were sending a message that said “Beware the Trees.” For readers of the Celestial Madonna saga, this is a clear allusion to the Cotati, long since confirmed (particularly with Empyre tie-ins like Lords of Empyre: Celestial Messiah announced). Why might the Kree (and Skrulls for that matter) find themselves running scared of the returned Cotati? And what has changed in the Cotati that they appear to be stealthily assassinating Kree and Skrull agents on Earth?
During Engelhardt’s “Celestial Madonna” saga there’s an ancient galactic history lesson that tells us one million years ago the Skrulls traveled to Hala, the emerging Kree homeworld, and challenged both the co-existing Kree and Cotati to prove who was the superior galactic partner on Earth’s moon. Long story short, when the Kree think the Cotati are about to win, they effectively commit genocide, and only a small amount of Cotati survive.
The Kree’s actions – not only decimating the Cotati but killing the Skrulls who witnessed their atrocity – sparked the Kree- Skrull war that has more or less been an ongoing feud for all of Marvel history.
It makes a lot of sense that the Cotati might have some grievances to air out with both the Kree and the Skrull, resulting in a massive war in Earth’s atmosphere in the pages of Empyre.
In the aftermath of the Celestial Madonna saga, Mantis does in fact give birth a baby boy she names Sequoia, Quoi for short, the half human, half Cotati baby prophesied to become the Celestial Messiah. I’ll note here again, this prophesy stems from the Priests of Pama and the Cotati. It’s also a prophesy that we see the likes of Kang the Conqueror and Thanos very fully buying into in the pages of Englehart’s Avengers and “Celestial Quest.”
Nonetheless, I can’t emphasize this enough, taking prophesy as absolute truth is time and time again proven complicated, whether we’re talking the fictional worlds of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, or any number of sacred religious texts, or even the works of someone lik...
03/12/20 • 10 min
The parasitic alien Brood are back threatening the X-Men and unveiling more of Jonathan Hickman’s major cosmic plans for mutantkind.
Today I’ll answer:
- + Who are the Brood and what’s their relationship with the X-Men?
- + How has Hickman been building towards these cosmic developments in the pages of New Mutants, and as far back as his post-War of Kings Fantastic Four?
- + How is Hickman using X-Men to integrate his own cosmic plans with Marvel’s upcoming Empyre event?
Spoilers for discussed comics may follow!
In X-Men #8, writer Jonathan Hickman and fill-in artist Mahmud Asrar return to the swirling hard science fiction of Powers of X, full of Shi’ar graveyards, intergalactic bleed space (evoking Warren Ellis’ argonaut poetry in The Authority), and rivers of dark matter inhabited by alien Brood.
As we’ve known since New Mutants #1 written by Hickman with art by Rod Reis, Hickman’s been planting seeds of Brood narratives deep in our unconscious with the creation of the King Egg. And now, with the OG New Mutants squad returning from their Hickman written adventure among the Shi’ar and the Starjammers, they of course bring the menace of the Brood back with them.
Hickman’s been quite locked into a Devil-May-Care attitude for all of the New Mutants, leading Rahne Sinclair here to declare the King Egg naught more than her “Space Booty.” This is the point in time where that carefree spirit comes back to haunt Krakoa.
Because Rahne Sinclair brought the King Egg back to Krakoa, the ever expanding Brood empire is set for a full scale invasion. Although they’ve been decimated over the course of the previous decades, Hickman writes here that the Brood are exponentially expanding, up to trillions of drones, thousands of conquered worlds, and 1,000 Queen Brood.
For the less familiar, the Brood are a menacing alien race the X-Men first encounter in earnest during a Brood Saga that runs from approximately Uncanny X-Men #160 through #167, with writing by Chris Claremont and art primarily by Paul Smith. In addition to vicious physical capabilities, and a deceptively intelligent, merciless cunning, the nastiest thing about the Brood is that they can infect their adversaries with Brood eggs that will turn anyone into a part of the shared Brood collective.
In their first encounter with the X-Men, this is what the Brood due to the team, putting the likes of Cyclops, Storm, Kitty Pryde, and Colossus on borrowed time, until some last second saving from the likes of Wolverine’s healing factor, Carol Danvers newfound Binary powers (a result of Brood experimentation) and that time Storm became a baby space whale for a little while!
Adding insult to injury, when the Uncanny X-Men return from their near-death experiences at the hands of the Brood, they return to find Professor X – who had recently taken responsibility for the New Mutants at the X-Mansion – succumbing to full Brood Queen takeover. The Professor literally begs for death before the full transformation, but is instead casually cloned into a new walking body via Shi’ar technology by Moira MacTaggert and Lilandra. I’ve been talking about this particular development since early House / Powers because of the ways it might connect back to big picture Moira and Charles storylines, so pay careful attention here!
In retrospect, the single most fascinating Brood moment of the 2000’s occurred in the Warren Ellis written Astonishing X-Men, a follow-up to the Joss Whedon and John Cassaday run that never lived up to its predecessor, but did introduce a Brood-infected clone of Krakoa.
This is something that’s actually kind of hard to fathom given Krakoa’s role in the post House of X landscape, but could a Brood still infect Krakoa? And what would that look like when all of mutantkind is living there!
Like basically all of the known Marvel cosmic players (shouts to my Kree / Skrull listeners and the upcoming Empyre event), the Brood are nearly wiped out during the events of Annihilation and Annihilation Conquest. Abigail Brand, director of SWORD, actually makes a case for the Brood’s role in the universe as parasitic predators, although it’s worth pointing out that she was half-infected by Brood at the time. Nonetheless, I find this argument interesting, the Brood as cosmic necessity ala Galactus rather than straight up evil aliens.
Historically, there have also been evolving, dare I say mutant Brood, with a sense of compassion setting them apart from all of Brood-kind. One of these is a member of Hulk’s warbound from Planet Hulk and World War Hulk, but the best of all of these is of course Broo, who was introduced in the pages of the Jason Aaron written Wolverine and...
The Road to DC’s Death Metal – 2020 Anti-Crisis Event!
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03/09/20 • 15 min
I’ll tell anyone who will listen that DC’s Dark Nights: Metal is one of my favorite comic book events of all time, and creators Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo are back for round two in 2020 with Dark Nights: Death Metal.
On today’s Road to DC Death Metal I’ll investigate:
- How did we get here and what comics should you understand prior to the event?
- My theories, predictions, and hopes for Death Metal
- And whether Death Metal can save DC Comics from its current malaise!
The opening issue of the event releases May 13, 2020, and will feature two 3-month chunks of “event issues” throughout 2020, as well as “Metalverse” tie-ins.
In March, Scott Snyder made a surprise Chicago Comic Con (C2E2) appearance to share a ton of tremendously exciting teases.
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Krakin’ Krakoa #37: Giant-Size Jean Grey / Emma Frost Review!
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02/27/20 • 10 min
Few power players in the world of X-Men are as essential to Krakoa with as much baggage between them as Jean Grey and Emma Frost, two of the world’s most powerful telepaths and members of Krakoa’s quiet council.
Today I’ll answer:
+ What does this Giant-Size special mean for Jean and Emma in the Krakoa era?
+ What’s the big picture role of the 5 Hickman written Giant-Size specials in Dawn of X?
+ What do you need to know about the history between Jean and Emma?
In our first of five Giant-Size issues written by Jonathan Hickman, with alternating artistic showcases, we get Russell Dauterman and Matt Wilson – the powerhouse duo that made the Jane Foster era of Thor and War of the Realms so incredible – taking on a Jean Grey and Emma Frost combo adventure.
Get your Krakoan translators ready because Giant-Size Jean and Emma is a nearly silent issue, with Krakoan language gates offering some of the only text in the issue. For those of you who don’t feel like playing cryptographer, the opening text reads: “Silence, Psychic Rescue in Progress!” Jean and Emma’s psychic rescue is required after Storm is found badly wounded and comatose on Krakoa.
Related Reading:
X-Men: Dawn of X reading order
Review Notes – Spoilers May Follow!
Why Jean and Emma?
In addition to a long-running, frequently nasty history that dates back to the early 80’s “Dark Phoenix Saga,” Jean Grey and Emma Frost also stand out as the female leads of the Grant Morrison written, Frank Quitely designed New X-Men. It makes a lot of sense that Hickman – whose passion for New X-Men is well publicized and clearly influence all things X-Men – Dauterman, and Wilson would take to New X-Men #121 in particular, a “silent” issue in which Jean and Emma venture inside the psychic swamp of Cassandra Nova to save Professor X.
With art by Frank Quitely, New X-Men #121 is a psychedelic explosion of ideas in which we learn Professor X tried to kill his twin sister – Cassandra Nova – in utero.
Notably, Jean is easily the most successful of the adventuring telepaths, as she points out to Emma at issue’s end. Frankly, if you read nothing else prior to the Giant-Size special, you should consider New X-Men #121 for inspiration and reference points, of which there are several fun ones.
Venturing into Storm’s psychic landscape, we get a nice callback to the character’s shared histories. Whereas Storm’s psychic defenses recognize Jean Grey as a friend, they also recognize Emma Frost is a long-time enemy. Indeed, back in Uncanny X-Men #151 to #152, Emma took control of Storm’s body in order to use her to trick and manipulate the X-Men, among plenty of other misdeeds.
It’s a reminder that Emma’s history with the X-Men is ripe with baggage, much of which makes Jean and Emma working together an unlikely scenario to begin with. Jean and Emma Frost first meet in the pages of Uncanny X-Men during the “Dark Phoenix Saga” – which more or less spans issues #129 to #138, but arguably has been building since Giant-Size X-Men #1!.
This is during Emma’s black-and-white – well, mostly white – straight up super villain days, without all of the nuance and complexity that Claremont, Lobdell/Bachalo in the pages of Generation X, Morrison, and countless other creators would add to her character in the decades to come. As a result, her and Phoenix era Jean quickly throw down, as Jean unleashes the full might of the Phoenix on Emma’s not inconsequential psychic powers.
In a sense, Emma would have the last laugh, working with Jason Wyngarde – aka Mastermind – to manipulate Jean into becoming the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club.
Through all that history, by the time House of X and Powers of X culminate in a new Krakoan nation state for mutantkind, Jean and Emma are amicable enough and together enough in their cause to share a beer and celebrate.
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10/18/18 • 26 min
Talking about the embarrassment of riches added to the Marvel Unlimited catalog this month, including new complete Thanos, Black Panther, and Daredevil story arcs!
Comics discussed include:
Week of 10.1.18
Black Panther #166 to #171
Daredevil #595 to #600
Jessica Jones #13 to #18
Moon Knight #188 to #193
Week of 10.8.18
Black Bolt #1 to #12
Thanos The Infinity Siblings OGN
Week of 10.15.18
Thanos #13 to #18
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