Hello, and welcome to the July issue of the Monthly Marvel Muster, I’m here with updates on Marvel’s May and June comics, as well as some of the fresh news from SDCC.
House of X: A Question of the Damage Done
I’m trying to think about how to tackle this. House of X is X-Men, right? It’s…different. There’s that idea that after a definitive run on a book, usually by that book’s creators, everything else is just well-financed fan fiction. I have…some issues with that concept, but it’s hard to deny the idea that a lot…
The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 7: Dion Fortune’s Demon Lover
Born Violet Mary Firth in 1890, the British writer Dion Fortune is one of the most influential figures in Western occultism. She penned a sizeable number of books – both fiction and non-fiction – prior to her death in 1946, including a sequence of occult novels. The first of these, a 1927 book entitled The…
Last Week’s Episode: Ser BriEmmy of Tarth
This past weekend was San Diego Comic Con, which had quite the contingent of WWAC folks in attendance, but not me! So here’s a mix of the stuff I found most interesting and, of course, non-SDCC news, as though the world continued outside of the convention center.
StarCraft: Survivors #1 Review: There Are Strings on Me
StarCraft: Survivors #1 Michael Atiyeh (Colours), Steve Dutro (Letters), Jody Houser (Writer), Gabriel Guzman (Artist) Dark Horse Comics 24 July, 2019 Following the loss of his crew, Caleb, a Terran engineer and scavenger, finds himself working at an ammunition’s factory in the Umojan Protectorate. There he befriends a young family, but tries to keep to…
Not with a Shabang but a Whimper: Ms. Marvel Annual #1
Ms. Marvel Annual #1 Joe Caramagna (lettering), Stefano Caselli and Andres Mossa (cover), Jon Lam (artist), Msassyk (colorist), Magdalene Visaggio (writer) Marvel Comics July 3, 2019 “We’re living like refugees on a planet we barely know!” Super-Skrull shouts this at Ms. Marvel as she embiggens, meeting violence with violence despite just pages before asking for a…
Stan Lee’s Alliances is a Brave New Universe You May or May Not Have Heard Before
Stan Lee’s legacy lives on in Marvel comics and movies, but, thanks to Audible, fans are being introduced to a whole new universe through Stan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of Light, the first story in what promises to be an incredible new adventure that Lee invites fans to become architects in this immersive experience. The…
The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Invisible Woman #1
Invisible Woman #1 Joe Caramagna (letterer), Adam Hughes (cover artist), Mattia de Iulis (artist), Mark Waid (writer) Marvel Comics July 10th, 2019 Mark Waid’s run on Fantastic Four with Mike Weiringo was the first I ever read, and it’s still my sentimental favorite. After making the First Family of Comics persona non grata for years,…
Insta Made Me Read It: Cursed Princess Club & True Beauty
Having been spending a lot more time on Instagram, I’ve been seeing a lot of Instagram ads. Some—my favourite—are for excessively dishy dating sim games. Some—the most perplexing—are for bizarre and sexual-looking contraptions selling for minus four dollars on Wish. And some—the ones that have actually caused me to click through and sample that tasty…
A Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup July ’19
After an impromptu vacation borne of a combo work-home move and needing to finalize ordering for my own Kickstarter fulfillment, we’re back! Look no further for the chance to fund exciting issue #1s, snag some fancy webcomic collections, and keep comics institutions in print and publishing. Junior Scientist Power Hour Volume 2 Abby Howard Ends…
Baaaad Muthaz Is Bill Campbell’s Funk-filled Space Romp Dream Come True
James Brown, alligator people, Prince as a deer, and a band of five funky women and a shrp makes for one crazy dream, but that’s where we are with Bill Campbell’s Baaaad Muthaz from Rosarium Publishing. The raunchy, ridiculous, cosmic space adventure follows these pirates-slash-James Brown cover band on an epic romp across the galaxy…
Previously On Comics: Oops! All Quick Hits!
The week before SDCC is always a strange sort of dead space. Too early for big announcements, too late to start anything new, and too busy to cause any high level trouble. But now its been and gone and I know you all are eager for those tasty SDCC exclusives. Unfortunately, I do not have…
