Our TOPPODCAST Picks 
Stay ConnectedThe official podcast of Comic Book Herald.
- Home
- Top Charts
- Top Networks
- Top Apps
- Top Independents
- Top Podfluencers
- Top Picks
- Top Business Podcasts
- Top True Crime Podcasts
- Top Finance Podcasts
- Top Comedy Podcasts
- Top Music Podcasts
- Top Womens Podcasts
- Top Kids Podcasts
- Top Sports Podcasts
- Top News Podcasts
- Top Tech Podcasts
- Top Crypto Podcasts
- Top Entrepreneurial Podcasts
- Top Fantasy Sports Podcasts
- Top Political Podcasts
- Top Science Podcasts
- Top Self Help Podcasts
- Top Sports Betting Podcasts
- Top Stocks Podcasts
- Podcast News
- About Us
- Podcast Advertising
- Contact
. We talk about comics for all ages, challenges promoting comics these days, working through personal trauma in art, and much more!
. We talk about magical softball, queer comedy, sports manga and more!
, 
, and 
.
, 
, and the recently announced Night Fever. We talk about creator-owned comics with Sean Phillips, the developing Batman: Caped Crusader animated series, writing for comics vs Hollywood, and a lot more!
, and many, many more!
! We discuss the keys to a good crossover event, Kieron’s plans for the X-Men, the upcoming Sins of Sinister, and a lot more!
. We discuss how they are adapting the Great Gatsby and their implementation of science fiction, plus their take on Mantis’s story for Marvel Voices.
, 
, 
, and much more!
and 
. We discuss his writing process, his favorite past works, and his thoughts on the impact comic have had in his life.
t.
and I’m joined by Harry Kassen! We’ll analyze the work in depth, so expect spoilers! In its incredibly inventive 8 issues, The Black Monday Murders is a remarkable (to be completed!) tale of magic, murder, mystery, money and the secret history of wealth!
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
and 
as part of his new Stories That Change the World. You can hear our full conversation Comic Book Herald’s “Creannotators,” on the podcast.
and creator of 
. We discuss storytelling for YA, a design-first creation process, and what’s next in the trilogy.
with co-writer Caleb Goellner. We talk manga influences, connecting with co-writer and artist Nick Dragotta, and San Diego Comic Con.
with creator James Spooner! We talk punk rock scenes, Afropunk, creating his first graphic novel, and much more.
with writer Eric Palicki! We talk werewolf monster lore, working in black-and-white, Black’s Myth season two, and Eric’s Krakoa X-Men hot takes!
Is:
, Dead Beats, and more.
and I’m joined by 
and Flux House comics with comics creator Matt Kindt! We talk Matt’s new Dark Horse comics imprint, the return of Mind MGMT, the Mind MGMT board game, and how to create comics inspired by the Fluxus art movement.
with writer Chris Condon! We talk Texas, working in the noir-shadow of Brubaker/Phillips, and what’s coming next on one of the best new Image comics of the past couple years!
and I’m joined by 
with writer Cecil Castellucci! We talk integrating climate change into fiction, writing Shade, The Changing Girl for DC’s Young Animal, revisiting the Plain Janes with artist Jim Rugg, the challenges of a feminist Female Furies, and much more!
Is:
, 
, Batgirl and Female Furies.
, Leviathan, and now Ax-Wielder Jon.
and 
with living legend Jeff Smith! We talk remixing Jeff’s current project Tuki, exploring human pre-history, the cancellation of Netflix Bone, and what’s next in Boneville.
, and writer/artist of 
.
, one of 
, 
, and many great 
and I’m joined by 
, and his love of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
and Alter Ego, and has edited Thor: The Mighty Avenger, World War Hulk and Spider-Man loves Mary-Jane.
, Assassins Creed: Assassins, 
, 
, and writes for Insider.
and 
with writer Tim Seeley. We talk about sexy sex comics, parenting in a pandemic, the fan pressure of writing DC’s Robins, and Seeley’s vast creator catalog!
and 
Is:
, 
, 
, 
, and many more comics from his creative studio, Best Jackett Press.
and 
with creator Marjorie Liu. We chat about the inspiration behind her upcoming all ages graphic novel, her use of themes and the variations of those themes in her work, her run on Astonishing X-Men and comic shops in Appleton, Wisconsin.
with creator Elsa Charretier. We talk the strategy of marketing yourself as a comics creator, launching Love Everlasting #1 for free on Substack, challenges of working on November, Elsa’s Youtube comics breakdowns, and much more!
, 
, 
and more!
with writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. We talk about being a part of Mike Mignola’s Mignolaverse, balancing humor and drama with vampire hunters, and favorite old monster movies!
, 
, 
and more!
X Lives of Wolverine #1
, and I’m joined by 
with writer James F. Wright. We talk crafting mythology in a graphic novel, whether or not James and Josh Eckert would return to the world of Contact High, and James absolutely punks me while talking about his self-published Foxglove!
, 
with writer Michael Moreci. We talk the importance of voice in genre (and for drunk bloodthirsty axes), finding inspiration in Hellboy, writing the Revealer horror movie with comics writer Tim Seely, the importance of taking creative risks, and much more!
, 
, 
, and much more.
with writer/artist Victoria Grace Elliott. We talk graphic novel histories, the best baking legends, and how the history of dessert relates to the darker elements of our world’s history. And much more!
with writer Terry Blas. We talk about fandom obsessions, LatinX representation, dinosaurs, and Darla Deering vs Dazzler as Marvel’s pop icons. Plus much more!
, 
, Stephen Universe, Rick and Morty and more!
– you can either provide a path to moving forward from within or from without. And in the era of “The Great Pretender,” and a whole mutant culture built around demonizing her, acceptance from others is simply out of the question. Wanda can not earn this. It is impossible.
. Despite the warnings of Dr. Strange, Wanda takes it upon herself to magically undo the extinction of Genosha at the hands of Cassandra Nova’s sentinels. The process goes horribly wrong, resurrecting Genoshan mutants as zombies, which all kind of gets conveniently covered up due to the Cotati invasion during Empyre and their landing on Genosha. Truth be told, I’m not entirely sure mutantkind is even aware Wanda tried and failed in this attempt, since her and Strange work to cover it up by Empyre: X-Men’s end.
brought to tears by it There are no good guys and bad guys in Krakoa, so long as you’re mutant.
with writer and artist J.H. Williams III. We talk about the horizontal landscape format of the comic, artists that inspire J.H., watching the rise of Batwoman, and highlights from J.H.’s incredible career! Plus a bunch more!
, 
, 
, and 
.
with Humanoids Publisher and Editor, Mark Waid. We talk about the cultural prevalence of sci-fi in 2021, what makes 
a special work as Taika Waititi adapts the graphic novel, and Mark finally answers what’s up with the Tony Stark / Emma Frost wedding teaser from The History of the Marvel Universe!
, 
, 
, JLA, 
, Fantastic Four, 
, and many many more. He’s the publisher of Humanoids.
with artist Doc Shaner. We talk about his feelings towards DC’s Adam Strange, the unique approach of sharing pages with artist Mitch Gerads, and Doc’s love of Aquaman: King of Atlantis. Plus a bunch more!
, 
, and many of your favorite DC covers!
, 
, 
, 
, 
, 
, 
, 
and many more!
with creator Cliff Chiang. We talk why this version of Gotham City, the storytelling potential of Catwoman, making a DC Black Label book, and the upcoming Paper Girls series on Amazon. Plus a bunch more!
with Brian Azarello and 
with Brian K. Vaughan.
with creator Olivia Stephens. We talk defining culture for black werewolves, writing for a YA audience, lessons from a first graphic novel, and much more!
with writer Pornsak Pichetshote. We talk American history in the book, crime noir influences, and the differences between writing for comics, the TV Arrowverse, and DC feature films. And much more!
with cartoonist Josh Hicks. We talk wrestling inspirations, bringing the years-in-the-making graphic novel together in one cohesive story, and what it’s like to make a music video for the Foo Fighters. And much more!
, Gotham Academy, Isola and morewith creator Karl Kerschl. We talk what inspires the longrunning Eisner winning Abominable Charles Christopher, the philosophy behind Karl’s 
as a whole?
(the Dune planet of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic – A Hickman favorite – is literally called Arakkis) – has so much world to fill in, and fantasy to explore. Time spent rehashing known details to the degree these issues do is time away from getting to know the White Sword, or the legacy of Annihilation, and I would have preferred more of that.
with writer Si Surrier. We talk about writing X-Men characters like Nightcrawler and Legion, what to expect from the X-Office after Jonathan Hickman’s departure, and Spurrier’s long comics career including Hellblazer.
with co-writer Ryan Estrada. We talk about the production of Banned Book Club, the increase in American-awareness of Korean comics, and Ryan’s comics career.
with writer Mike Barry. We talk about self-publishing Action Tank in Australia, the print launch with Scout’s Scoot imprint, and writing for younger comics readers, and much more!
, one of my 
with writer and historian Dr. Rebecca Hall. We talk about what it means to live in the wake of slavery, the process of converting historical research to a graphic novel, and much more.
creative team about one of our favorite comics of 2021! We talk monster design, writing deeply personal horror metaphors, Sally & Dearbhla’s upcoming horror work with Peter Milligan, and much more!
writer and artist Sophie Campbell! We talk all things “Turtles Reborn,” how long Sophie’s planning to stay in the Turtle-verse, the debut of Tokka and Rahzar in the IDW Ninja Turtles comics, and creator-owned works like Shadoweyes!
, which was great.
. She turns into, like, kind of an alien superhero sort of thing. What are you most interested in about, like the setup of mutant town in this era of turtles in what it allows you to do? In story and in this kind of societal commentary that you’ve integrated into your works, you know, through the years?
artist Rod Reis on a special Creannotators/Krakin’ Krakoa crossover! We talk all things Krakoa, differences working with writers like Jonathan Hickman and Vita Ayala, and what’s to come from the Shadow King!
, an all-new graphic novel from Ominous Press. We talk about the team’s approach to relaunching the Dreadstar universe, why Starlin continues to escalate cosmic stakes in work on Thanos and now Dreadstar, and whether Marvel Studios has appropriately compensated Starlin for his many Marvel Cosmic creations, including Thanos, Drax, Gamora, & Shang-Chi (among many more!).
Dreadstar #9 to #24
and beyond?
. Wolverine observes Nightcrawler praying – in Latin no less – and is surprised. It’s a really beautiful moment of developing friendship, as Logan and Kurt briefly examine their diametrically opposed views on finding comfort in religion, with Kurt lamenting how alone Wolverine must feel, and Wolvy saying “I ain’t alone, bub, I got you.”
, and opened with a revelation: Kurt has become a priest! Now, if you’re thinking when in the wide world of Young Popes did Nightcrawler become a priest, don’t worry, it’s a frequently overlooked period that didn’t last too long! I’ll admit this one vexed me for a long time, too, because Claremont opens with Crawler’s priesthood as if that had been alluded to in previous comics, but as far as I’m aware it’s a sudden Claremont-verse development that begins here, as part of a Hickman-esque 6 months later mysterious time gap!
” (when Austen tells us Nightcrawler’s father is literally the demon Azrael), you know this run is notoriously considered some of the worst Nightcrawler storytelling of all time.
story “The Quest for Nightcrawler.” Which to me sure feels like one of those “take the doubt out of the equation” kind of developments. Nonetheless, because Nightcrawler ultimately sacrifices his place in heaven to keep Azrael trapped, and Kurt returns to Earth (more or less fulfilling his own mutant death and resurrection well before Krakoa), the sequence puts him on a path to what we see in the Hickman era of X-Men. If the Catholic journey was always faith rewarded with a heavenly afterlife, what happens when that afterlife is actually just a part of the journey?
from TKO Studios! We talk about the West African folklore’s influence, inspiration from Samurai Jack to Disney’s Atlantis to Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, and themes of hidden or omitted national histories, among much more.
and 
, and we talk about what it’s like to be an editor-in-chief of a comics publisher in 2021!
. We discuss the history of black comic book artists in the Golden Age, Ken’s research into these missing histories, and what comes next in the ongoing project.
and 
, as well as his long and varied career in comics, plus his upcoming novel, Suburban Dicks!
. We talk about creating graphic novels vs. single issue comics, creating Thirsty Mermaids right after the release of Snapdragon, and much more!
. We talk Steve’s varied comics career, writing erotica, working on a horror anthology with James Tynion IV, and much more!
(one of my 
, one of my 
, a new graphic novel inspired by “The Count of Monte Cristo” from publisher Humanoids. We talk Ibrahim’s artistic process, Monte Cristo, the modern relevance of “revenge fantasy,” Ibrahim’s hobby customizing miniatures, and much more.
, and his vast comics library! They talk about all things Warhammer, the intersections between hobby gaming and comics, and Kieron’s creative approach.
from IDW. We talk about creating modern mythologies, the challenges of all ages comics, and what’s next in the saga of Canto!
and her Marvel Universe comics. We talk all things Natasha, writing a comic with a huge upcoming MCU film, & whether she’d return to Krakoa (among many other things)!
an incredible comics adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut classic novel. We talk Vonnegut, Squirrel Girl, Power Pack, and a whole lot more!
, and a whole bunch more. We dig into the religious themes of Afterlift, Chip’s upcoming work on Marvel What If works like Spider-Man: Spider’s Shadow, and the challenge of writing in the shadow of Daredevil’s legacy!
, an excellent five issue graphic novel from Vault Comics. We talk about the message of Queen of Bad Dreams, writing James Bond, writing a Captain America King in Black tie-in, and more!
, one of the best Marvel comics since launch in 2019! We talk about Felicia Hardy, heists across the Marvel Universe, and what it’s like launching a new #1 comic into the 
, the first graphic novel from the Jennings curated Megascope line of comics, adapted from a short story written by Nnedi Okorafor! We talk about adapting prose into comics, Jennings approach to curating Megascope around Black speculative fiction, and what it was like adapting Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred.
, a history of the game and the global, societal, and political forces that have shaped it. We talk basketball, shaping non-fiction comics, and Fred’s various superhero comics like 
and 
.
, the impending 9th and final book, and some teases and revelations about what’s next!
is a logical and common comparison point (augmented by Smith’s endorsing quote on the cover of many Amulet books!), and Amulet is destined for a similarly long shelf life in the comics canon.
by Derf Backderf:
, Laura Kinney, Wolverine, and Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel, were tricked into giving up the location of the Muramasa blade, which was then turned into Wolverine killing bullets by the Orphans of X. The bullets are used to shoot through Daken in a wound that won’t heal, but surgeons can cut around the wound to let his healing factor take effect for a larger wound (comics science!). To combat this threat, Laura visits Muramasa himself, and had a new Muramasa armor forged from soul fragments of Logan, Daken, and herself.
aka my favorite Captain Britain series on Marvel Unlimited. In this series by Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk, Excalibur and The Sword of Might are clearly referenced as separate entities, with separate properties applied to each. In this instance, the Sword of Might is used by the invading Skrull army to merge with other magical items into an all powerful Skrull chain.
.
one-shot from 1996 (in a story that manages to cover Dane Whitman, Apocalypse, Exodus, and Sersi of the Eternals!), there’s a mutant acolyte of Apocalypse named Scarab. While this Scarab does have strong enough skin to break Exodus’s sword, the idea of the X-Office reaching back to reference this Scarab feels about as likely as a Liefeld Major X tie-in suddenly getting added to the event.
is worth revisiting because it involves tracking down evil Xaviers across reality, which of course mirrors many readers interpretations of Charles Xavier’s actions in House of X.
horsemen.
, include the following:
. Still, I think it’s crucial to acknowledge Marvel’s playing catch-up after decades of failure to represent queer communities. And there’s still plenty of work to be done.
, by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson. In “God Loves, Man Kills” Christian evangelical preacher William Stryker launches a massive religious movement centered around his absolute hatred of mutants. The combination of religion-fueled intolerance, and a congregation full of protesting humans with signs like “Go Home Mutie!” makes for a distinct, all too familiar connection to real-world bigotry. X-Men comics have varied in their approach to tackling these issues since, but the modernization of X-Men as a metaphor for oppressed minority is firmly cemented in the Marvel canon.
.” Kitty would go on to become a central POV character in the X-Men’s Claremont-verse, bridging the gaps between X-Men, New Mutants, and Excalibur more than any other character in the world. Kitty’s journey – again starting as a fourteen year-old mutant coming to terms with her powers – is very much about finding her place, and understanding the Jewish mutant woman she’s becoming.
, the graphic novel’s incredible colors, studying the game of basketball, and her sci fi Image series Prism Stalker.
, her creator-owned work like Shutter and Afar, and the process of working on a DC graphic novel compared to monthly ongoing comics.
, as we learn about Krakoa’s resurrection capabilities, it’s Storm who introduces the resurrected X-Men team to the island of mutants. This to me signifies her “harmonious lifting of voices,” literally leading the island in a chant of “Mutant!” with each new lineup introduction. We’ll know more for sure following Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1, but the “mocking echo” potentially signifies the Children of the Vault corruption of Storm taking place across the “Giant-Size” specials.
, since mutants can just be resurrected. Aside from the flippant, it still probably sucks to die, I think the bigger problem here is that Storm is threatened with a kind of infective transformation *like* death, but not equal to it. It’s conceivable to me that the Vault’s infection could take root, and Storm could be transformed into an “enemy,” which given her commitment to the X-Men and mutantkind throughout her life, would be a kind of waking death.
in 1985, during a saga that found Magik and Mirage, aka Dani Moonstar, transported approximately 5,000 years into the past in Ancient Egypt (unrelated to this theory, but the issues through around #34 are pretty interesting for my renewed interest in Shadow King!).
. This is where things *really* get compelling, in a flashback story written by Louise Simonson, set during the events of the aforementioned New Mutants #32.
explores the full-fledged adventure Magik and Ashake experience in the past in an untold tale.
four issue miniseries.
, the establishing of Krakoa as a sovereign mutant nation, and now one year into the 
to Jean’s place on the Quiet Council in the Dawn of X.
, and it’s focused on telling the history of this team in the Marvel Comics universe. We also talk Scioli’s new Jack Kirby gio. I read 
in a single sitting. I think it’s a fantastic work, and will definitely be among my favorites on my 2020 best of lists.
, by Jim Shooter and primarily Mike Zeck, bringing a huge collection of Marvel heroes and villains together to fight on the mysterious, alien Battleworld.
, the sequel event launching later in 1985 and running through early 1986, written again by Jim Shooter this time with art by Al Milgrom. As a whole, I dislike Secret Wars II almost exactly as much as I love the original Secret Wars, which is to say Secret Wars II currently sits among my 10 least favorite comics of all time (but no, it could not unseat Marville for the worst ever).
, just contemplating what Xavier knows is at stake for the future of mutantkind and Moira’s lives, and then still needing to put up with like random student-run minors in lecturer murder. All of it kinda continues to put the question in my head: Why aren’t they on Krakoa yet? What was actually the hold up there?
, Fearscape’s self-aware ability to undercut potential criticism is extraordinary.
in which Scarlet Witch (at the urging of brother Quicksilver) created an alternate reality in which Magneto ruled the world, mutantkind was generally dominant, and Wanda tried to give literally everybody what they wanted (for example, Peter Parker is happily married to Gwen Stacy, and Uncle Ben’s doing great). Likewise, Hickman makes considerable callbacks to Wanda’s famous “No More Mutants,” which led to the Decimation of mutants, and Wanda’s newfound status as “The Great Pretender.”
during the Marvel NOW! Era, but again, I think it’s more likely that Moira just, in her words, broke him.
, his work on Lazarus, and the upcoming Dead Dog’s Bite!
, Marvel’s mutants (nearly all of them!) now inhabit the independent, sovereign nation of Krakoa. While there have been plenty of threats to the nation including the infiltration and assassination of Professor X, and a full-scale Brood invasion, Krakoa and mutantkind still stand tall.
.
style everyone’s-a-mutant world. We’ve already seen in X-Men #7 the idea of mutants asking to be resurrected with Magneto’s omega level powerset. What if this comes to fruition? What does that make of the true Master of Magnetism?
, Charles Xavier’s psychic essence was imprisoned in the Astral Plane by longtime nemesis the Shadow King. In a wild twist of Krakoa era X-relevance, Proteus was also under the thumb of the Shadow King on the astral plane during this time.
is one of my favorite comics of all time. It’s just outside my top 50 right now, and I could easily see it moving up. I also find Rosenbergs previous X-line work compelling, if middling.
is very much about the power of empathy in a world of hate and division, with Jean stating “No humans and mutants. No us and them. Just ‘us’” It’s a beautiful sentiment, and one that’s hard to reconcile with that same strong person turning around shortly thereafter and joining an all-mutant island. Forget whether or not the aims of Krakoa are right for mutants, and consider only whether they map to the motivations Jean had only recently expressed. You could make a strong case that they do not, and wonder whether Jean was backed up to a pre-Phoenix version of herself more susceptible to the Krakoan council’s manipulations.
, the surviving New Mutants enter the run with Warlock spreading out his transmode virus across their team. Dark Beast “cures” them all of this, leaving some questions about the actual end state of Warlock.
, Wells own vision for New Mutants is notably interrupted during Second Coming, when the title simply functions as the next chapter in that (quite good) mega crossover event. Wells has an easier time making the Necrosha tie-in issues his own, employing some truly exciting interpretations of the resurrected Doug Ramsey’s powerset, such as Doug’s ability to interpret body language to reveal his former teammate’s true meaning in a conversation with Professor X, or his developing battle prowess as he learns the “language of violence.”
— New
– Holdover
– New
– Holdover
– Holdover
– New
– Holdover
– Holdover
– New
– New
and 
(among plenty of other work), Carey took on adjectiveless X-Men in 2006 with issue #188. The title takes place post 
title it would evolve into is very much integrated into the X-Men continuity of the time, progressing from “Decimation” to “Messiah CompleX” to “Dark Reign” to Necrosha to Second Coming to Age of X to “Regenesis.” Considering only one of those event is Mike Carey’s own event, it’s an impressive feat collaborating and rolling with broader storylines and shifts in status quo for mutantkind.
), and the absence of a central, go-to story highlight that stands out individually (the “Age of X” event was likely the greatest opportunity here, and although it’s fascinating for our purposes, I wouldn’t call it a great, highly recommended read for all X-Fans).
.
and 
, amidst the confrontation of some his greatest failures and ethical compromises.
is all a part of the larger crossover, Carey uses the aftermath to explore the impact on Karima Shapandar, the Omega Sentinel, and a character House of X fans will recognize from project Orchis. The fallout means that Karima’s “Nimrod CPU” was attacked by a virus Cypher created to stop time-traveling Nimrods, and that Karima more or less devolves into the out of control Omega Sentinel.
crossover never quite won me over. The sudden alternate reality – spread across some event issues, Legacy, and New Mutants issues also written by Carey – features a world without X-Men, just mutants hunkered down in a fortress defending wave after wave of humanity’s hate. There are some memorable alt-reality interpretations of known characters – Carey and Gabriel Hernandez Walta’s origin for ‘Basilisk,’ the psychologically decimated soldier version of Scott Summers is a stand out – but I’d actually argue the aftermath of the Age (in which character’s retain their memories of the alternate universe and have to decide whether or not to keep them) is the best part.
of 2011.
, and it’s characteristically full of really cool seed ideas (what if humans disappeared over night?), and beyond smooth adaptation to the shared universe throughlines (Dude’s out here even weaving in Battle of the Atom like it’s nothing!).
by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, appearing as the most powerful mutant Cerebro had yet detected on the island known as Krakoa in the South Pacific. The original X-Men unit of Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Angel, Havok, and Polaris flew to investigate, and their subsequent disappearance leads Professor X to assemble the All-New All-Different lineup of mutants Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird, Sunfire, Banshee, and Colossus.
by Ed Brubaker and Trevor Hairsine. In this six issue miniseries, it’s revealed that the All-New All-Different X-Men weren’t the first team of mutants Charles sent to Krakoa, and that there was another failed squad – led by the third Summers brother, Gabriel Summers, aka Vulcan – that marched to their deaths (well, some of them) at the behest of Charlie X.
, the journey through space was not the end of the island, although from here it’s comic history is way muddier.
#31, an issue I read as part of a Nightcrawler binge (thinking he would, you know, be a big part of Giant-Size Nightcrawler #1 by Hickman and Alan Davis!), and was all too thrilled to discover contained the Son of Krakoa! It’s an extremely fun one-and-done story, with Nightcrawler at his quippiest and most swashbuckling, but it also sets the stage for the possibility of Krakoan offspring lingering around planet Earth.
, in which Krakoan ties to the team’s “Ecological bio-sphere” are sprinkled throughout the run. In Generation X #47, Forge visits the campus and posits that the bio-sphere – which up and disappeared in Generation X #44 – leaves the X-campus in order to make the original Krakoa whole, as Forge puts it “for some unknown and possibly dire purpose.” Again, this leaves a lot of wiggle room for future creators to play with if the ‘lost years’ or Krakoa are to be explored.
, introduced as a weapon of the new Hellfire Club by Jason Aaron and Chirs Bachalo. The new Hellfire Club, led by Kade Kilgore who’s been seen in the Dawn of X in the pages of Marauders, launch their Krakoa as a weapon against the new Jean Grey School for mutants (with headmaster Wolverine), only to have Quentin Quire eventually befriend Krakoa, and convince him to stay with the school as a living breathing school landscape.
written by Christina Strain, when Krakoa goes looking for his pal Quentin Quire. This is puppy-dog Krakoa, as the island unleashes all kind of (accidental) damage – including the near impaling of Jubilee – as it trudges through Manhattan to get to Quentin.
, where artist Daniel Acuna delivers a vision of Castle Sinister atop the back of Sinister’s cloned Krakoa. The Sinister heavy X-Men run is set during the events of Avengers vs. X-Men at this point in time (issues #14 to #17), and Krakoa is more or less included purely to escalate the action, but it’s worth noting in both these instances that Krakoa can be cloned and infected.
#1 introduces readers to Adam Strange, man of two worlds, Earth-born hero of Rann, and his alien wife Alanna. To convey the dichotomy of Adam Strange’s duel lives – the costumed adventurer defending the near utopian Rann, and the archaeologist and now published memoirist of Earth – Evan Shaner and Mitch Gerads split art duties, sometimes on the same page.
story written by Moore, in issues #57 and #58.
, though, with both his Batman run and especially Heroes in Crisis disappointing and outright enraging fans.
”).
(A Hickman favorite). The World is used to run evolutionary experiments in rapid time, creating a space where an entirely contained reality can play out while only moments of time on Earth actually pass.
in order to raise En-Sabah Nur like he’s Clark Kent (for real! But we don’t need to dig into that right now).
, Laura Kinney grew into the role of the Marvel Universe All-New Wolverine until about 2018. In this series written by Tom Taylor, Laura Kinney, the one-time X-23, truly became one of Marvel’s best legacy characters, impossibly well suited for the role she was filling. Since that time, though, Marvel’s overarching editorial vision has clearly focused on returning Laura to the X-23 “up and comer” role, in order to make room for the original Logan as Wolverine.
and ended in 2019 with 
(both drawn by Esad Ribic.) Aaron’s is a truly worthy run in the Marvel pantheon, undeniably one of the top three Thor runs of all time, and arguably 2nd best (Walt Simonson’s 80’s work is still, quite unimpeachably the GOAT). The highest degree of difficulty in the run is likely the middle stretch, where Aaron, Russel Dautermann, and colorist Matt Wilson turned Jane Foster into the goddess of thunder and were wildly successful in doing so.
, as well as the ethos of financial influence so elegantly explored in 
. Honestly, in many ways X-Men #4 would have made a very sensible first issue, and I’m curious to explore why that is.
or 
) and small (Tini Howard continuing her story of Billy and Teddy’s romance from Death’s Head four issue mini). 
” (Uncanny #137 to be specific) and later during another John Byrne story in Fantastic Four Annual #18.
