Could you explain more how it will ruffle conservatives readers
Gabe Hernandez reviews are so weird
A VERY MERRY SPIDER-CHRISTMAS?
• Season's greetings from the Parker family! But why is Peter acting so strangely during the most wonderful time of the year? And what's got
Gwen so concerned? Don't miss the thrilling conclusion of the second arc - and the first year - of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN!
RATED T+
Yeah, conservative comic readers won't like this.
Commander Star's dialogue in particular is going to rile some (owl) feathers.
Chip keeps taking shots at the right. Although I generally agree with his commentary, this will (continue to) work against his run - as it already has.
After the shocking events of the last issue, Batman is reeling! But the investigation isn't over just yet! The Court of Owls is intent on destroying Bruce Wayne's life, while Commander Star continues to stoke the flames of civil unrest in Gotham City! It all heats up in the unforgettable new chapter of "The Dying City"!
The problem is that art is inherently political. Comics, especially so. There will never *be* an apolitical comic. There was never a time where comics have been apolitical. Superman was a champion of the oppressed, Captain America punched Hitler. Superhero comics specifically could easily turn into strongman, fascist propaganda in an attempt to keep things "apolitical". I'd rather not have that.
The fact that it took the chuds that long to figure out that they were the ones being satirized speaks to their media literacy and overall shouldn't welcome their ideas when most of them just want sexy women, no POC or LGBTQ characters so they can feel comfortable. They don't contribute to the comics medium. Most of them don't even buy or read the comics they rail against. They have people on YouTube or Reddit tell them how to feel. Alienating the people trying to alienating others isn't bad.
Yeah I didn't hate this as much as other people seem to have. While there are irksome things, like Peter being a bit stupid - handing over a broken record instead of just saying he didn't get it (although maybe you could argue he wanted to show Shay that he put in the effort but circumstance failed him) - but I don't think the first half of this book is really that bad. I don't think it's even abnmore
THE 8 DEATHS OF SPIDER-MAN BEGIN!
The world has changed, Dcotor Doom is Sorcerer Supreme, but he has no plans to spend his time like his predecessor... Each year, Doctor Strange would use every ounce of his power and experience to save the world from an evil god and his scions. This year, Doom is delegating this task to... SPIDER-MAN?! Th...
Because I was a little lukewarm about the first issue of this series, now that the opening arc is closed I would like to acknowledge that this comic has absolutely won my heart. Simone & Marquez are both doing incredible work here and this is by far and away the best comic of the From the Ashes era.
(Also, I greatly appreciate the rejection of Kurt's sudden, unexplained turn to casual h more
The brutal conclusion to the RED WAVE storyline is here! The Uncanny X-MEN face an unstoppable force of evil and death who reveals a shocking secret...but they may not survive long enough to face it! Will the next generation of young mutants stand by Rogue and her team or join the other side?
Rated T+
"No other skull can make this claim."
I sometimes take weeks to read an issue of this comic because I want to read it in the perfect moment. I don't just want to flip through and enjoy the story, I want to *marinate* in it. No other modern FF run can make this claim.
The World's Smartest Man (Reed Richards, universally acknowledged) and the World's Hottest Man (Johnny Storm, self-proclaimed) are home alone. Their only job is to make sure nothing untoward happens to the farmhouse while everyone else is away. But when Reed develops a magic detector that goes haywire when pointed at a specific spot in their baseme...
"But the world doesn't wait for us to ask before it inflicts horrors upon us. All we can do is spite it by surviving or die. What will it be, Cyclops?"
Sure did pick a day to drop that line.
MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE VARIANT COVER BY ROGÊ ANT NIO The Iron Night!
What does the town of Merle, Alaska owe the X-Men? Where did the defunct Sentinel looming over the town come from? And more importantly, what was it after?
Rated T+
Certainly the best thing about Wells's finale is the same thing as what was best about his run: the small character moments, like Tombstone's chat with Peter outside the courthouse that emphasizes the weaknesses of being a good man in a bad world. But the worst thing is what was worst about his run: the general lack of direction. The scenes with May are touching and well-wrought and could be a gremore
SPECIAL OVERSIZED FINALE!
Zeb Wells says goodbye to the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN in style with his collaborators JOHN ROMITA JR., ED McGUINNESS and some other special surprise guests. When one era ends though, another begins as THE EIGHT DEATHS OF SPIDER-MAN gets a special prelude by JOE KELLY!
Rated T
Oh, and it hasn't been announced anywhere yet, but I've heard through the grapevine that Buckingham will be picking up with Kelly post-8 Deaths.Maybe they'll have figured out the coloring by then.
Oof, I had misread it and thought the ending was her putting the pieces together and realizing he's Spider-Man. Now that I see that it doesn't even give us that, that takes my opinion down considerably. And I hope that's true! I am definitely excited for Kelly/Buckingham
This issue bothers me.
I don't hate this run. I don't fundamentally dislike the plot points, either. I just wanted something more from this conclusion. The scene where Tombstone talks to Peter is great by itself. How quickly the entire plotline wrapped up is so odd to me. We just got two issues of a giant fight. Where is the editor?? I read Wells' letter in the back, and he claims that more
SPECIAL OVERSIZED FINALE!
Zeb Wells says goodbye to the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN in style with his collaborators JOHN ROMITA JR., ED McGUINNESS and some other special surprise guests. When one era ends though, another begins as THE EIGHT DEATHS OF SPIDER-MAN gets a special prelude by JOE KELLY!
Rated T
Absolute Wonder Woman does what I've been begging the main book to do. The problem with the main book is that Wonder Woman is treated as basically an alien. She doesn't really understand our world despite living in it for.... decades. She speaks weird and she's very, very incongruent in her actions. It's like Tom King has not yet threaded the needle on consistent characterization. He has these mommore
EISNER WINNER KELLY THOMPSON AND BREAKOUT ARTIST HAYDEN SHERMAN REINVENT WONDER WOMAN FROM THE GROUND UP! Without the island paradise...without the sisterhood that shaped her...without a mission of peace...what's left is the Absolute Amazon!
Wasn't sure how I'd feel about a darker Wonder Woman (the phrase puts me in mind of the retconned and forgotten dreck of the New 52) but Kelly Thompson & Hayden Sherman were too good a team for me to pass by and let me tell you, they did not disappoint. Full of beauty and tenderness and defiant wisdom, this issue is a wonderful story about love making Hell into a home and I cannot wait for the nexmore
EISNER WINNER KELLY THOMPSON AND BREAKOUT ARTIST HAYDEN SHERMAN REINVENT WONDER WOMAN FROM THE GROUND UP! Without the island paradise...without the sisterhood that shaped her...without a mission of peace...what's left is the Absolute Amazon!
Hey Dan, can you fix the Immortal Thor annual? It's part of the Infinity Watch annual event, but it's currently listed as "The Crew: Immortal Thor #1" and I could only find it by going to that week's releases.
Thanks for letting me know. Not sure why it ended up in The Crew, but its in the Infinity Watch Annual series now.
The ending really was a whimper.
The survivors of Apocalypse's deadly trials confront the final test as their past, present and future converge. When the dust settles, only one will remain to safeguard mutantkind's destiny by any means possible. Only one will become...the HEIR OF APOCALYPSE.
Rated T+
Warren Worthington III long ago - and at great cost - made peace with the seed of Death that Apocalypse planted within him. But as the contest to choose an heir rages on, ARCHANGEL takes the fight to Apocalypse himself, to make sure no one else suffers at the hands of En Sabah Nur!
Rated T+
Cable, Exodus, Mirage, Wolverine, and more - Apocalypse saw great potential in twelve hand-picked mutants. But when a thirteenth contender crashes the tournament, endangering the lives of thousands in the process, will any survive to carry on in Apocalypse's footsteps? Not if MISTER SINISTER has anything to say about it!
Rated T+
THE BLOODIEST RESCUE MISSION YET!
The vampires will stop at nothing in their bid for supremacy, including capturing mutants for hellacious experiments to boost their own power. But not on LAURA KINNEY's watch! The WOLVERINE slices a swath through the vamps, but when she encounters the TRUTH behind their machinations, will an UNLIKELY ALLY prov...
NINJA VS. VAMPIRE!
After serving on the frontlines in the war against Orchis, KWANNON is enjoying some much-deserved downtime with her new lover Greycrow. But when darkness falls across Japan, PSYLOCKE will wield her psionic blade against bloodsucking creatures of legend and faces a foe unlike any she's ever seen. An all-new villain emerges in...
After the Fall of the House of X, Illyana Rasputina has returned to her homeland to search her soul and steel it for what comes next. But how will she protect her first home when a vampire army descends on Russia, seeking to turn it into a living hell? She may have been forged in the fires of Limbo, but has it prepared her for the Blood Hunt?
R...
I don't think this is a bad issue, but I'm plagued with the knowledge that every creator involved here is capable of something better.
FROM THE ASHES!
Krakoa is gone, ORCHIS has fallen...but the X-Men remain, always. Cyclops leads, because that is what he does. Beast builds, because that is what he does. And from their new home in Alaska, the X-Men raise a flag of defiance. Mutant business is their business. Join CYCLOPS, BEAST, MAGNETO, PSYLOCKE, KID OMEGA, TEMPER, MAGIK and...
I don't hate this issue, clearly. I'm giving it a 7. But it's irksome. I could be *really* uncharitable and mean, and make my review one sentence: "Oh, look at Diana, so caught up in her lusty womanly wiles that she can't help her friends escape prison." It's irksome. I'm trying to be nice though.
Gamorra found! Wonder Woman and Robin have finally located Amanda Waller’s super jail holding the powerless heroes they once fought alongside. Can the new dynamic duo break them out before they become trapped themselves? An undercover ally may hold the key to everything!
Thankfully, the Dickens bot is gone and we get a much more enjoyable story this time around. I still think Diana is written... well, wrong. She's written like one of those poorly aged 90s "foreigners" that the Americans have to teach the ways of the west, most often seen in poorly aged 90s sitcoms. How does she not know what a steak is? Or hell, what a blooming onion is? She's lived in DC for how more
Meet the new dynamic duo! Wonder Woman teams up with the unlikeliest of allies, Robin, on a top secret mission to save their fellow heroes. Will Damian and Diana’s quest to break into Waller’s Gamorra supermax prison be a successful one? Or is it all part of a more elaborate trap for Wonder Woman and her new sidekick?
LOGAN VS. THE MARAUDERS!
WOLVERINE got the scent from SABRETOOTH's attack last issue, and it's led him back to some old enemies: THE MARAUDERS! But if LOGAN can survive against RIPTIDE, VERTIGO, SCRAMBLER, BLOCKBUSTER, PRISM and the rest, he will have to face a darker SECRET that will cut them all to the bone! At last - Chris Claremont reveals...
OUT OF THE OUTBACK ON A LIFE-AND-DEATH MISSION!
At last - LOGAN's secret adventure revealed! Featuring a sinister revelation and claw-to-claw confrontations with SABRETOOTH, this is a must-have WOLVERINE story for new and long-standing fans alike that simply cannot be missed! Back in UNCANNY X-MEN #246, Logan set off from the Australian outbac...
WOLVERINE: LORD OF THE VAMPIRES?!
BETRAYAL lands WOLVERINE in a precarious spot - under the vampiric thrall of his enemies! With his healing factor stunted and the apex of the renegade vampire scheme at hand, ALYSSA takes her place as QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES - with LOGAN as her king! The shocking finale to WOLVERINE: BLOOD HUNT...might just be t...
IN TOO DEEP!
WOLVERINE and NIGHTGUARD have made it to the heart of the vampire base. But if they can fight through the aquatic AQUEOS VAMPIRES, what untold horrors await in the caverns above?! Tom Waltz's debut Marvel series continues as he and Juan José Ryp bring LOGAN on his long journey into darkness...against OLD FRIENDS and NEW ENEMIES!<...
INTO THE HEART OF MADRIPOOR'S DARKNESS - FOR THE LAST TIME!
THE HAND has finally enacted their decades-long plan for NATASHA ROMANOFF! With the BLACK WIDOW meeting her destiny (as teased in UNCANNY X-MEN #268!!!), will WOLVERINE and CAPTAIN AMERICA be able to save her or succumb to dark forces as this trio team up for the LAST TIME? Chris Clare...
This series is the best thing coming out of this universe, and unlike tradition, it's not because the rest of the Ultimate line is trash. Deniz Camp is fucking killing it.
THE FATE OF THE ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR!
Doom's years of torture at the hands of the Maker finally catch up to him in this secret history of the real Reed Richards! And tensions rise among the Ultimates when Doom might be more fixated on re-creating the life he should have had than the life he's got...
Rated T+
INTRODUCING...THE SHE-HULK!
The Ultimates search for a means of destroying the Maker's most powerful pawn, the Hulk! And in the process they uncover an army of Hulks hidden away from the world... ...with She-Hulk at the helm!
Rated T+
SHOCKING SECRETS OF THE ULTIMATE UNIVERSE REVEALED!
Captain America reckons with the Maker's dismantling of nations...by visiting the White House! Leading to a massive brawl between MIDAS and this young band of freedom fighters... ...but Midas has been holding a superhuman hostage as a power source! PLUS: The dark history of what used to be th...
THE ACTION-PACKED FINALE OF THE FIRST ARC!
Armor, Maystorm and the rest of the team hunt down the mysterious shadow! But is this group of scrappy teens prepared to face true darkness? And don't miss the reveal of the final member of the group on the last page!
Rated T+
THE NEW MUTANTS FACE THEIR FIRST ENEMY!
Maystorm isn't the only mutant with electric powers - and Noriko Ashida is here to make sure she knows it! A fun summer festival turns haunted and dangerous as spirits and surges collide! PLUS: The shadow who has been haunting Armor finally reveals his true face!
Rated T+
this is the first time I've really commented on it! I joke around and call him "Sus Gabe" and on a podcast we do i have a "Sus Gabe's Sus Take of the Week" but when 99.9% of comic reviewers give high scores with little to no reasoning everyone is ok with it - there is even a site that obviously has used AI to write their reviews for months now - and nobody says a word, but because Gabe's score's are lower, he is the guy people crap on.
most people would look at all this as a good thing (like a clickbaity way to drive more traffic to the site) but i never cared about clicks or views, i just like letting people review comics. To be honest, though, the past year or so since Gabe started reviewing stuff, the traffic has gone through the roof so somebody is interested