Comics Journalist Chloe Maveal recommends ZENITH: PHASE 01

May 08, 2020 by Coronavirus Reading List in Coronavirus Reading List

If there's any emotion we can all relate to right now it’s feeling disillusioned and jaded with the people whom we’re meant to view as heroes, and ZENITH: PHASE 01 (and the subsequent three "phases" that follow that follow it) by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell are here to cradle those feelings in a warm blanket made of Generation X powered apathy. Zenith manages to act as the perfect follow-up to a post-Alan Moore era of comics where heroes are not all they’re chalked up to be and evolves from being a parody of celebrity culture to a full-on parody of American superhero culture. I

Writer/Editor Stuart Moore recommends DOOM PATROL #53 / AVENGERS #178

May 01, 2020 by Coronavirus Reading List in Coronavirus Reading List

ONE comic for a quarantine of this magnitude? I say thee NAY! A single title be not enough for this Ragnarok which doth engulf us…and so lo, I must pick TWO! Both of my choices are inspired—in very different ways—by the original Marvel titles created and pioneered by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and refined by Roy Thomas and his many collaborators, in the early to mid 1960s.