Earlier this year I accidentally read the fourth Ms. Marvel graphic novel before the third, Ms.Marvel: Crushed. Instead of immediately going back and reading number three I went on to read other things. When I was ready to pick it up, I couldn’t find it, the house seemed to have eaten it. About two weeks ago it resurfaced and I decided to save it to complete my cannonball. Sosuke is not as thrilled as I am, since his nap was disturbed to take this photo. […]
More Human Than Human
I’ve been on a late oughts X-Force kick, lately. That run has been my comic book introduction to X-23, aka Laura. (If you’ve seen the movie Logan, Laura is the lil’ Wolverine. That was my first encounter with the character.) The Laura character is terrifying and hilarious in X-Force. She’s so efficiently brutal that you always wonder whether she’s a judgment call away from hacking into pieces a character you like. Kind of weird vibe for a teammate. She’s funny in the way Guardians of […]
I feel a little lost here, but I still like it
Living in a pretty small, remote town, we make certain to take the kids (yeah…the kids) to a comic book store whenever we are in a bigger city. I walked in to one this winter, and all packaged up just like they knew I was coming, there were the six issues in the limited run World of Wakanda comic series. It hit all the right buttons: Black Panther, so hot right now! Roxane Gay and Yona Harvey, interesting feminist thinker and poet, first two black […]
Lunella! No!
My comic book reading is pretty scattershot. I have read zero of the Secret War series. I heard about it when Captain America was revealed to be a Hydra agent. I have no idea what’s going on in the main series. I did stumble across Secret Warriors, and thought I’d read it since it has a couple of my favorites, Ms. Marvel and Lunella and Devil Dinosaur. Joining them are other Inhumans – Daisy, also known as Quake, Inferno, and Karnak. Secret Empire bounces around in […]