Lords of Empyre: Swordsman - REVIEW

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By Zach Rabiroff — Dads of messiahs have never had it easy. Poor Joseph famously has a grand total of zero lines of dialogue in the New Testament, while his wife and son walk off with starring roles and Michelangelo sculptures. What kind of resentment must it breed to stand on the fringes of prophecy, watching your offspring achieve what you never could? And how much worse must it have been for Joseph if he were a career supervillain on the mend?

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REVIEW: Road to Empyre - The Kree/Skrull War #1

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By Zack Quaintance — The first thing that jumped out at me right away about Road to Empyre - The Kree/Skrull War #1 — which as the name suggests is paving a road to Marvel’s forthcoming major event, Empyre — is that it’s well-built to orient new readers. Now, I don’t think that anyone off the street (even those who have a cursory knowledge of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) could just jump in here, but it’s friendly to those of who who have read around some of the titles that seeded what’s going on here.

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