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Decorum #1 Review
Decorum #1 is really two different issues: one of them fascinating, the other actually good. To tackle the fascinating first, it’s probably helpful to think about Jonathan Hickman’s broader opus. When he first arrived on the scene with works like Nightly News and Pax Romana, he did comics like we’d never seen before. Marrying his graphic design […]
Empyre: Avengers #0 and Empyre: Fantastic Four #0 Review; or, How Marvel Remembers Itself
Empyre: Avengers #0 and Empyre: Fantastic Four #0 Spoilers Below Comics continuity is intoxicating. It was arguably one of the biggest factors in Marvel’s original popularity in the Sixties, attracting geeks with the promise of total immersion, the promise that this fictional world was real and that it mattered. For all of the storytelling possibilities […]