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Best Comic of the Week: SWORD #5 – In the aftermath of the King in Black event, it’s time to resurrect the people who died fighting Knull on Krakoa.  Magneto has requested that Fabian Cortez be bumped up the queue, but largely, it seems, in order to humiliate him in front of the Quiet Council.  Cortez has never been an interesting or likeable character until Al Ewing got his hands on him, so I enjoyed this issue.  I also like the way Ewing is building on events that have happened in his ...

AMAZING FANTASY #1 (OF 5) KAARE ANDREWS (W) • KAARE ANDREWS (A/C) VARIANT COVER BY ALEX HORLEY VARIANT COVER BY KAARE ANDREWS HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY SIMONE BIANCHI EXPERIENCE THESE HEROES LIKE NEVER BEFORE! Red Room Black Widow, teenage Spider-Man, World War II Captain America — the most iconic versions of your favorite Marvel characters from across time and space all wake up on an island of intrigue, darkness and…Amazing Fantasy. Are they dead? Are they dreaming? Or have they truly ...

We Only Find Bigger TPB Orders Than Something Is Killing The Children Posted on Something Is Killing The Children by James Tynion IV and Werther DellEdara returns in May, but thats not the only Must Read series returning from the publisher that month. Al Ewing and Simone Di Meos We Only Find Them When Theyre Dead also returns to store shelves and it looks like, just like Something Is Killing the Children, the audience for the series is only growing. Which prompts the question: is We Onl...

, SYFY WIREs weekly comics column that gets at the pulse of whats going on in comics right now. Weve got what you need to know about huge crossovers, real-life issues facing the industry, cool first looks, the weeks hot new comics, and everything in-between. Though hes perhaps best known among more casual superhero fans right now for his work on stuff like Immortal Hulk, writer Al Ewing has also spent the last few years building out his resume as a Marvel cosmic writer, taking the  Guardians...

There are many great joys of reading superhero comic books. Absurd situations, operatic conclusions, and soap opera stylings are the bread and butter of the genre. Superheroes can be highbrow, certainly. But they are also simple pleasures. Sometimes you just want to see Batman punch a ghost. With the special gloves he has. For punching ghosts. What else is happening in the pages of our favorite comics? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our ...

Marvel Announces Guardians of the Galaxy, SWORD Crossover The Last Annihilation ✖ The new Guardians of the Galaxy will meet the new SWORD in the upcoming Marvel Comics crossover "The Last Annihilation." The series is the culmination of everything Al Ewing, writer of both Guardians of the Galaxy and SWORD, has been building towards since co-writing last years Avengers and Fantastic Four crossover, Empyre, and launching both new versions of these teams into Marvels new space age. The event k...

Guardians of the Galaxy #13 Review: Establishing a Brand New Cosmos Al Ewings been writing the Guardians of the Galaxy for a year now, and the title is due for a seismic shift. That much was teased for the past few months as a reset coming in Guardians of the Galaxy #13, a reset for the title that serves as a platform should any new readers want to join the party. A platform this issue ends up providing as it quickly establishes a new status quo for Marvels primary cosmic heroes. The biggest ...

This ended up having to be a double column and a bit late because I spent the last two weeks in self-isolation after a Covid exposure. Now I’m back in the world (more or less – I’m under a stay at home order) and I got to catch up on two week’s worth of comics! Best Comics of the Fortnight: Beta Ray Bill #1 – I’ve loved Beta Ray Bill since I first saw him in Walter Simonson’s Thor comics, and have long felt like he’s criminally underused in the Marvel Universe.  I was really h...

Schitts Creek and Trans Doc Disclosure Win at GLAAD Media Awards Haley Bosselman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail For the second year in a row, “Schitt’s Creek” won for outstanding comedy series at the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Writer-star-executive producer Dan Levy accepted the prize on behalf of the series. “When we set out to make ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ we simply wanted to tell funny and hopefully meaningful stories about personal growth, love, empowerment and bebe crows,�...

Kevin Nowlan Draws The Immortal Hulk in May Posted on Al Ewing, Alex Paknadel, and David Vaughan. And as being drawn by Juan Ferreyra & more. We now know that "more" is the legendary Kevin Nowlan, who will be drawing David Vaughans story. Kevin Nowlan first came to the industrys attention in the early 1980s via illustrations in the fan press, most notably The Comics Journal and Amazing Heroes, His first published work for Marvel was Doctor Strange #57 in 1983 and has worked for most ever...