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The Best Free Comics of This Year’s Free Comic Book Day

A guide to every great issue you won't need to spend your money on this Saturday.

Judgment Day Brings the X-Men Kicking and Screaming Back Into Marvel Events

After a few years getting their own House (of X) sorted, the X-Men are thrust back into Marvel Comics' wider shenanigans.

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The Creative and Inspiring People We Lost in 2021

io9 takes a look back at some of the notable creatives and creators we lost in 2021.

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The X-Men’s Quiet Council Will Finally Get Their Own Comic Book

" West Wing and House of Cards , but with X-Men" sure sounds like a pitch.

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Your 2021 Hugo Award Finalists Include The Mandalorian, The Good Place, N.K. Jemisin, Susanna Clarke, and More

Last year’s Hugo Awards ceremony certainly had its issues, but getting nominated for a Hugo Award is still a big deal, especially when there’s such an impressive—and diverse—set of finalists. Book-wise, N.K. Jemisin could get her fourth Best Novel award if she defeats the third novel by Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell’s Susanna Clarke. The…

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The Best Thing About Marvel’s Very Loud Warhammer 40K Comic Is the Quietest Detail

Games Workshop’s dystopian Warhammer 40,000 setting is comically, ear-splittingly loud. Its grimdark sendup of over the top excess means everything is slammed so far beyond 11 that 11 is a mere dot to the denizens of the 41st millennium: violence, aesthetic, characters, scale. Marvel’s new Warhammer comic gets this, but it nails a far quieter…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The Superstar Artist of The Wicked + The Divine Soars into Deep Space With The Killing Horizon

Jamie McKelvie is one of those guys. Your favorite comics artist’s favorite comics artist, a status cemented by the just-ended five-year marathon spent as the draftsman on award-winning pop music super-drama The Wicked + The Divine. For his next trick, he’s going full cartoonist, writing and drawing an all-new sci-fi series and he told io9…

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Kieron Gillen Opens Up About Once & Future’s Mythical Exploration of British Identity

Just a few pages into the second issue of Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora’s Once & Future, there’s a fascinating twist on multiple elements of different King Arthur legends that illustrate some of the bigger, more complicated ideas about British identity that the comic is grappling with. Here, Arthur isn’t just a mythologized historical figure,…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Wicked & The Divine’s Creators Look Back at 5 Years of Excellence and Exhaustion

One of the best comics series in the last decade came to an end last week. As you’d expect, writer Kieron Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie have a lot of thoughts about saying goodbye to The Wicked & The Divine. Way back in January 2014, hot off a well-regarded Young Avengers run, Gillen and McKelvie…

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This Week’s Best New Comics Are Veritable Orgies of Monsters and Mayhem

The funny thing about being an adult who’s into comics is how you become accustomed to reading stories that graze up against things like sex and real-world politics just slightly enough to convey that while the creative wants you to think about them, the publisher might not exactly be comfortably proclaiming it out loud. So,…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Perfect Time to Catch Up on Die Is Literally Right This Instant

This week, Image will release Die #6, the first issue of a new arc in Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ subversive fantasy adventure that has been on hiatus since April. So right now is the perfect time if, like me, you had missed out on the series so far—because if you’re also like me and…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Kieron Gillen’s Star Wars Run Put a Fascinating Spotlight on One of Rogue One‘s Most Interesting Legacies

When Darth Vader writer Kieron Gillen joined Marvel’s main Star Wars title, many perhaps would’ve expected a continuation of the themes he had explored there. But over the course of his run alongside artists Salvador Larroca and Angel Unzueta—which concluded with last week’s Star Wars #67—a far more interesting exploration emerged of an altogether different…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Saving the World Is a Job, Not a Calling, in This Week’s Best New Comics

You have to be a truly special kind of person to live your life fully as a superhero. Not just the whole business of having a secret identity, but to really be a superhero from top to bottom in an existential sense. You have to find deep, meaningful fulfillment in being of service to others,…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Creators of The Wicked + The Divine Talk About Making Beautiful Magic Together

The comics that Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie have done as a tandem have featured characters channeling a love for creativity, blasting away orthodoxies, and evolving into frighteningly powerful personas. When they talk about their working relationship, it sounds—no surprise—just like being in a band. The most fascinating thing about comics creation happens when different…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse

Image’s New Series DIE Has the First Comic Book Trailer That’s Actually Good

In this year of our Lord 2018, trailers for comic books are a thing that publishers desperately want to become a Thing™—despite the fact that trailers aren’t how comics have traditionally been advertised, and nobody seems to really like them all that much. The biggest issue with “comic book trailers” is that, like trailers for…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Thank the Maker, Kieron Gillen Is Going to Write a New Ongoing Star Wars Comic

We were saddened by the news that Marvel’s excellent Darth Vader comic was ending after 25 issues. Mainly because we love good comics, especially ones featuring sick burns, but also because it’d mean no more Star Wars writing from Kieron Gillen. Thankfully, it turns out that’s not going to be the case. https://gizmodo.com/darth-vaders-best-burns-not-counting-the-ones-covering-1770848358 Marvel’s December…

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Ask Kieron Gillen Why Now Is the Right Time for a Comic About Super-Nazis Invading America

Uber is a comic-book where enhanced metahumans have made World War II bloodier and more vicious than it already was. The ubermenschen in the series have hollowed out gore-filled craters through Europe and the Soviet Union, leaving Paris and London smoking ruins. Now they’re coming for the United States. No wonder Alan Moore likes this…

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Someone Actually Outbadassed Darth Vader in Marvel’s Star Wars Crossover

Marvel’s new Star Wars crossover event, Vader Down, is pretty much all about reminding us that Darth Vader is not a Sith Lord to be trifled with. And while Vader does get some nifty moments in the event’s second part, the best moment comes thanks to a member of the comic’s amazing supporting cast. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-star-wars-crossover-comic-rejuvenates-darth-vad-1743233786…

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The New Star Wars Crossover Comic Rejuvenates Darth Vader’s Terrifying Reputation

Darth Vader should be an immensely intimidating figure. Emphasis on the should, because over the years, his appearances in increasingly silly scenarios as part of Star Wars’ place in pop culture have blunted his reputation. But Vader Down’s first issue is a fantastic reminder that we should never underestimate the power of the Dark Side.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Phonogram, our fave comic about magicians channeling Madonna records, is coming back

In artist Jamie McKelvie and author Kieron Gillen’s Image Comics series Phonogram, a group of British magicians draw their supernatural powers from pop music LPs ranging from Pulp to Robyn to Dexys Midnight Runners. It’s a sleek and clever comic with two volumes — Rue Britannia and The Singles Club — and has also been…

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The Best Free Comics of This Year’s Free Comic Book Day

Judgment Day Brings the X-Men Kicking and Screaming Back Into Marvel Events

The Creative and Inspiring People We Lost in 2021

The X-Men’s Quiet Council Will Finally Get Their Own Comic Book

Your 2021 Hugo Award Finalists Include The Mandalorian, The Good Place, N.K. Jemisin, Susanna Clarke, and More

The Best Thing About Marvel’s Very Loud Warhammer 40K Comic Is the Quietest Detail

The Superstar Artist of The Wicked + The Divine Soars into Deep Space With The Killing Horizon

Kieron Gillen Opens Up About Once & Future’s Mythical Exploration of British Identity

The Wicked & The Divine’s Creators Look Back at 5 Years of Excellence and Exhaustion

This Week’s Best New Comics Are Veritable Orgies of Monsters and Mayhem

The Perfect Time to Catch Up on Die Is Literally Right This Instant

Kieron Gillen’s Star Wars Run Put a Fascinating Spotlight on One of Rogue One‘s Most Interesting Legacies

Saving the World Is a Job, Not a Calling, in This Week’s Best New Comics

The Creators of The Wicked + The Divine Talk About Making Beautiful Magic Together

Image’s New Series DIE Has the First Comic Book Trailer That’s Actually Good

Thank the Maker, Kieron Gillen Is Going to Write a New Ongoing Star Wars Comic

Ask Kieron Gillen Why Now Is the Right Time for a Comic About Super-Nazis Invading America

Someone Actually Outbadassed Darth Vader in Marvel’s Star Wars Crossover

The New Star Wars Crossover Comic Rejuvenates Darth Vader’s Terrifying Reputation

Phonogram, our fave comic about magicians channeling Madonna records, is coming back

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Kash Patel’s Email Account Hacked, Iran-Linked Group Takes Credit

Repair Workers Accidentally Stumble Upon Lost Remains of Legendary ‘Fourth Musketeer’

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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