Best Comics of 2022 (So Far): Marvel Comics
Featuring (as the headline implies) a rolling list of the best comics of 2022 from Marvel Comics, so don’t forget to bookmark this page.
Read MoreBest Comics of 2021 - #6 to #15 - Zack's Picks
This post includes Zack’s picks for the best comics of 2021, #16 to #15, an eclectic group that includes comics like That Texas Blood, Hellions, Superman and the Authority, and more.
Read MoreBest Comics of 2021 - Comics Bookcase Staff Picks
Check out our Best Comics of 2021, as chosen by the good folks who have written for Comics Bookcase over the past 12 months. We have a whopping 52 selections this year!
Read MoreHey, let's read Grant Morrison's Marvel Comics
We’ve done Doom Patrol, we’ve done The Invisibles, and we’ve done JLA. This brings us to the era in which Grant Morrison wrote for Marvel Comics, which while brief was nonetheless formative for the characters they touched…
Read MoreBest Comics of 2021 (So Far): Marvel Comics
This list looks at the best comics of 2021 so far from Marvel, including the entire X-Men line, Iron Man, Daredevil, the best recent trade paperback collections, and more.
Read MoreComics Anatomy: Shifting Contexts in House of X
In this anniversary installment of Comics Anatomy, features editor Harry Kassen digs into House of X and takes a look at the ways in which Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz contextualize and recontextualize X-Men history and elements from their own series to create new stories and meanings.
Read MoreBest Comics of 2020 - #1 to #5 - Zack's Picks
The whole year has been leading to this — the Best Comics of 2020, #1 to #5. This post features my annual picks for the best five comics of the past year. Enjoy!
Read MoreBest Comics of 2020 (So Far): Marvel Comics
By Zack Quaintance — Now that we’re roughly a quarter of the way into 2020, we thought it’d be fun to start taking a look at the best comics of 2020 so far, starting with far and away the most prolific comics publisher — Marvel Comics. To that end, below you will find a list of the best comics of 2020 from Marvel so far, with extra attention given to whether a series is easy for new or lapsed readers to hop onto, pick-up, or just generally understand.
Read MoreTop Comics to Buy for December 4, 2019: Deathstroke #50, Everything #4, and more!
By Zack Quaintance — I am always caught by surprise by holidays, which consistently leaving me feeling more worn out than they do rejuvenated for reasons I struggle to understand. Anyway, point is I’m here, a little worse for the Thanksgiving ware. I am, however, totally ready to let you know about the books that our committee (of one) has selected as the Top Comics to Buy for December 4, 2019.
Read MoreTop Comics to Buy for November 13, 2019: Far Sector, Usagi Yojimbo, X-Men, and more!
By Zack Quaintance — The holiday is really setting in now, which means our committee (of one) is extra grateful for weeks like this in which there are less notable books...but the books we are getting through the direct market are largely stellar. This is a week in which a few key things dawned on me. I mean, I’m always talking about how good comics are right now, but maybe that’s always a little bit true when you’re reading a lot and keeping really engaged with the medium (the same can be said of movies, TV, music, etc.).
Read MoreREVIEW: X-Force #1 is the dark heart of the Dawn of X
By Zack Quaintance — I knew when they got Benjamin Percy to write X-Force that this comic would be the dark heart of the new X-Books. Now that X-Force #1 has arrived, I’ve seen just how dark things in this series are about to get. See, Percy’s time in comics is maybe not an accurate reflection of his writerly interest, with the bulk of his work in the medium coming on the DC title, Green Arrow.
Read MoreThirsty Thursdays October 2019: Mutants-only FOREVER
By Allison Senecal — Happy Halloween, you all, and welcome back to Thirsty Thursdays, which I think it’s safe to say is among the top monthly looks at thirsty comic book art anywhere on the Internet. Now, you may be wondering…is this column still mutants-only? YES (mostly). But now it’s also a sex and resurrection cult.
Read MoreREVIEW: Excalibur #1 is very much its own thing, for better or worse
By Zack Quaintance — This week’s Excalibur #1 brings us right to the edge of the halfway point of Dawn of X, which is the new wave of six X-Men titles springing out of the recently-concluded House of X / Powers of X reconceptualization of Marvel’s X-Men franchise. Next week, a double-punch of New Mutants and X-Force will hurdle us over that halfway point, but for now, here we are. So, about this comic...Excalibur #1 is the first title of the new X-Men era that I, quite frankly, don’t really know what to make of.
Read MoreREVIEW: X-Men #1 has some fun in the House of X that Hickman built
By Zack Quaintance — Since Jonathan Hickman launched a new era of X-Men comics back in late July with House of X #1, there have been quite a few surprises in store for fans of Marvel’s mutants. Chief among these surprises is the entire concept of the new era, wherein guided by the lessons learned through Moira McTaggert’s reincarnations (she too is a mutant), Professor X, Magneto, Apocalypse and everyone else (pretty much) have unified, creating a separate mutant state on the living island of Krakoa, where they have also figured out how to revive any mutants that are killed….there is some tension between the newly-empowered mutants and humanity, however, and it is played out through the ongoing development of AI and robots. Phew.
Read MoreTop Comics to Buy for October 16, 2019: Superman Smashes the Klan, X-Men, and more!
By Zack Quaintance — This is somewhat of a lighter week for my individual tastes, although if I look to the New #1s and One Shots section of our Top Comics to Buy for October 16, 2019, I do find some capital B Big books dropping. In fact, while this column generally doesn’t put #1s in our Top 5, there were so many strong debuts this week that we had to make some exceptions.
Read MoreThirsty Thursday July 2019: A NO HUMANS Thirst Zone
By Allison Senecal — This is a “NO HUMANS” thirst zone this month (and possibly forever, let’s be real). All HOUSE OF X and POWERS OF X, as well as some sweet sweet covers from the announced Dawn of X titles. A mutants-only VIP list, if you will.
Read MoreREVIEW: Powers of X #1 casts an intriguing shadow upon House of X
By Zack Quaintance — I absolutely loved House of X #1 last week, giving it a perfect 10 out of 10 score and describing it as ‘a landmark comic.’ Keep that in mind as I tell you now that this week’s companion comic, Powers of X #1, makes House of X #1 look safe by comparison. I don’t mean this as praise or criticism. In a story as dense and assured as the big one being told now in the X-Men comics by Jonathan Hickman, good or bad doesn’t quite factor in. It’s all good, it’s all fascinating and ambitious. Still, Powers of X #1 is the almost-objectively more experimental and less predictable of the two books.
Read MoreREVIEW: House of X #1 is a landmark comic
By Zack Quaintance — Last July at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski announced the company was bringing back its beloved Uncanny X-Men title. The news was vague, with just a glimpse of a familiar Uncanny X-Men logo on a projector screen (eliciting ravenous howls). Cebulski, however, was announcing more than just a comic revival. To me, what happened in that room was an announcement that after roughly a decade-plus of corporate isolation, the company was bringing the X-Men back into the creative fold.
Read MoreGetting Ready for the Hickman X-Era: A Roundtable Discussion
Jonathan Hickman’s multi-year three-segment plan to return the X-Men to the top of prominence at Marvel Comics starts today with House of X #1. For the next 12 weeks, House of X and Powers of X will alternate chapters, leading to the re-launch of the entire X-Line in October…
Read MoreGET HYPED: Jonathan Hickman’s House of X & Powers of X
By Allison Senecal — Jonathan Hickman is making his return to Marvel Comics this July, and when he arrives, he will be taking over the—gasp—X-Men. This news hit a few months back, and yes, when it did, I was a Hickman doubter…
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