Comic of the Week: The Question - The Deaths of Vic Sage #1

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By d. emerson eddy — Hrrm. Influence, homage, legacy, lineage, and parody in comics can be quite an interesting thing. When you've got long-running recurring serial characters, it's inevitable that there will be cycles and returns as creators who were once fans of original stories and characters borrow from them in their own stories. We see it time and again, and we see it here in The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage #1, from Jeff Lemire, Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Chris Sotomayor, and Willie Schubert, in a very unique way. The Question started out as a Randian exploration from Steve Ditko.

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Comic of the Week: The New Mutants - War Children #1, two legendary talents bring their A games

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By d. emerson eddy — Marvel's celebration of its 80th anniversary has been a bit strange. There have been a number of resurrected titles as one shot anthologies along a theme, other specials featuring reunited creative teams from luminary runs, the Avengers: No Road Home arc, etc. Also, both the Invaders and Marvel Comics Presents series could be seen as a celebration of history, and then there was the chronicling of Marvel's history outright in The History of the Marvel Universe, and, of course, the Marvel Comics #1000 special. It's all added up to a very...eclectic year with some interesting material. Without it, however, we never would have seen a reunion of two creators who crafted one of the publisher’s best remembered and most cherished stories in the New Mutant's Demon Bear Saga — Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz.

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