By Zack Quaintance — February was a solid month for comics, albeit one where many of the highlights were stories that had gained momentum through the end of last year and were paying off bigger pieces of their narrative puzzles this month. I’m thinking specifically here of X-Men #7 and Black Stars Above #4, which I’ll elaborate on more below.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — Forgive me if I’m a bit hazy this morning (because I’m sure you can tell), but I was up late last night watching the NBA All-Star Game. What I found most interesting about it was that after many years of the game being sort of a throwaway contest, the league tweaked the rules this year, putting prize money for charity at stake and adding a wrinkle where the fourth quarter is played to a set total, rather than to a time limit.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — More best of lists! This time it’s the Best New Comics Series of 2019. There was a lot to pick from here (thanks Vault!), and, yes, I’ve really stretched the definition of a Top 10 here, including two entires that have secondary lists of books buried within them. But you know what? This is my non-profit site and there are no shareholders, so rule-bending is rampant.
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