The Multiversity: Pax Americana (opens in new tab) is another installment of Grant Morrison’s multiverse-spanning epic – this time leaning on some auspicious source material. In this one-shot, we check in with the Charlton Comics heroes of Earth-4, a group probably most known for being the direct inspiration for Alan …
Read More »Ironheart steps up for Marvel Black History Month covers
Marvel Comics will celebrate Black History Month in 2022 with a series of six variant covers across its main comic book titles in February. Like its 2021 Black History Month variant covers, Marvel’s 2022 Black History Month variant covers are all illustrated by one person – Joshua ‘Sway’ Swaby. Joshua …
Read More »Kang saves the Marvel Universe and sets up a host of 2022 stories in Timeless #1
December 29’s Timeless #1 (opens in new tab) from writer Jed MacKay, artists Kev Walker, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Mark Bagley, Andrew Hennessey, Marte Gracia, and letterer Ariana Maher lays out a series of teases for future Marvel Comics stories coming in 2022, including some concepts that have been previously …
Read More »Marvel March 2022 solicitations
In the real world, the northern hemisphere just marked the Winter Solstice, but in the Marvel Universe, it’s almost spring – at least in terms of the publisher’s full advance solicitations for March 2022, which offer up a glimpse of what’s to come as the so-called ‘world outside your window’ …
Read More »Return to Asgard in Assassins Creed Valhalla prequel comic book series
Return to the world of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla in early 2022 with not just the new DLC Dawn of Ragnarök, but also in a prequel story called Forgotten Myths, appearing only in comic books. Both the new DLC and comic book are set in the Asgardian dreamworld from Assassin’s Creed …
Read More »Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch: the comic book history of her powers
Marvel’s Wanda Maximoff (AKA the Scarlet Witch) is… complicated. Her evolution in the MCU is nothing compared to her complicated heritage in comics, but above even that is her superpowers – sometimes referred as her ‘hex’ powers. Examining how the comic book Wanda Maximoff got from “hexing” or cursing her …
Read More »The original Captain Marvel returns for cosmic team-up in Silver Surfer – Rebirth #1 preview
Silver Surfer returns in 2022 for a new limited series that’ll give the Marvel cosmic character a ‘rebirth’. That’s a loaded term in superhero comics lore, and the publisher has recruited arguably the character’s most memorable creative team to make it happen: writer Ron Marz and artist Ron Lim. Check …
Read More »A childs stick figure drawing runs wild in Clear #3 preview
The real trauma at the heart of the creator-owned series Clear begins to be exposed in a preview of December 21’s Clear #3 (opens in new tab). Clear #3 cover (Image credit: Francis Manapul/Andworld Design (Best Jackett PRess/comiXology)) (opens in new tab) In previous issues, we were introduced to World …
Read More »Magneto to spill some mutant tea on the Quiet Council in Immortal X-Men
Update: Marvel Comics has revealed new information about the plot of Immortal X-Men, one of the upcoming flagship titles of the ‘Destiny of X’ X-Men era, in which the entire X-line will be revamped and relaunched. (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab) While the creative team and concept …
Read More »Theres a super-surprising Supergirl in DCs Dark Knights of Steel #2
Writer Tom Taylor and Yasmine Putri’s Dark Knights of Steel is a fun alternate world romp (what DC likes to call “Elseworlds”) featuring one of today’s most popular story devices – twists on iconic superheroes, characters, and plotlines. And in December 7’s Dark Knights of Steel #2 (opens in new …
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