Comics – Jack Phoenix

Art Spiegelman is right and the Folio Society are cowards (and maybe Marvel, too)

August 19, 2019August 20, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

Let’s be clear about something; when Art Spiegelman agrees to write for you, you do not censor him, especially when he is speaking truth. He is legendary comics creator Art Spiegelman, and you are not.[…]

I am still not okay from last week’s mind-blowing House of X #2, send help

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

This morning before work, I picked up today’s copy of Powers of X #2. The comic shop had no copies available to anyone who didn’t reserve it beforehand; each and every copy was reserved by[…]

One more X-related post; I got my “Krakoa seeds,” did you?

August 2, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

It’s a bit late in the summer to be planting seeds, but this is a cool marketing idea. Not since the release of Ferngully: The Last Rainforest have I gotten seeds as a media tie-in[…]

Powers of X, and I shall smugly remind you that it’s pronounced “Powers of Ten,” you filthy casuals

August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

Okay, so directly following last week’s House of X #1 was Powers of X #1, released yesterday. Oh boy. It is so. dang. weird. Last time I stated that Jonathan Hickman’s writing isn’t really for[…]

So, House of X #1…huh.

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

The mutant event of the decade is finally upon us, and the only thing that could make me happier is if Jonathan Hickman’s style were really my thing. Unfortunately, it is not. But just because[…]

I cannot remember the last time I was this excited for an X-Men comic.

July 18, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

Despite the fact that this review of the first issue of Jonathan Hickman’s run on X-Men, which drops next week, incorrectly refers to his New Avengers title as Secret Avengers, it has me in a[…]

Horror legend John Carpenter takes on the Clown Prince of Crime

July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

I have to be honest. I’m bored with the Joker. Seriously, Batman has, hands down, the best rogues gallery in all of comicdom, but the Joker is still overused. It’s funny how the Joker is[…]

It’s a Mad, Mad World…or it was.

July 5, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

It’s been a big week in the comics world with announcements of the ends of two influential works. Okay, so Mad Magazine isn’t technically ceasing publication, and it’s not nearly as much of a shock[…]

Is The Walking Dead just hobbling now?

July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 Jack PhoenixComics

Well, I did not see this coming. No one did. Admittedly, I am behind (like years behind) on The Walking Dead comic, but, oddly, this gives me motivation to read the whole damn thing now,[…]