Writer: J. Michael Straczynski Artist: Jesus Saiz Marvel Comics, November 2023 For non-American readers, buying an issue of Captain America can be akin to taking a sip from a stranger’s teacup. Will it be jingoistic in a way which is mostly alien to the foreign audience? The red-white-and-blue clad superhero was a means by which … Read more
Writer: Louise Simonson Art: Bernard Chang Marvel Comics, 2023 Jean Grey is dead, again, and she is not particularly surprised about it. The long-standing character, a charter member of Marvel Comics’ headline mutant title Uncanny X-Men and its numerous spawn, is probably the record holder for death and revival even within the eulogy-friendly genre of … Read more
Writer: Jonathan Hickman Penciller: Bryan Hitch Marvel Comics, August 2023 Warren Ellis watched it unfold, back in 2000. In Come in Alone, a collection of his essays on the American comic book industry, Mr Ellis railed against myopic superhero fans who did not want the impenetrable continuity of Marvel Comics to be replaced by something … Read more
Writer: Neil Gaiman Art: Mark Buckingham Marvel Comics, December 2022 English author Aldrous Huxley wrote the acclaimed dystopian novel Brave New World in 1931. Brave New World is a grim of all visions of the future. Social engineering, eugenics, sexless procreation, and state-sponsored drug-induced bliss are all indicia of the global society of the year … Read more