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Marvel’s Iceman Series Is Everything I Love And Hate About Coming Out Stories
It’s been interesting to watch Bobby Drake unsteadily make his way through life as a newly-out gay man in Sina Grace’s Iceman series. He’s very much the same Iceman who’s been cracking wise with the X-Men since the ’60s, and yet he’s also a vastly different Bobby who’s grappling with a new sort of emotional…
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This Doomsday Clock Cover Is Almost Certainly Alan Moore’s Worst Nightmare
Alan Moore’s distaste for DC’s ownership of his and Dave Gibbons’ work on Watchmen is widely known at this point — and considering the fact that neither Moore or Gibbons were contacted for the characters’ use in Rebirth, that distaste is still very real today. This new comic cover is unlikely to help smooth things…
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For Some Reason, Marvel Pretty Much Just Gave Away How Secret Empire Ends
It feels like it’s been years since we first saw Steve Rogers shove Jack Flagg out of a jet before uttering “hail Hydra” and announcing to the world that he was, essentially, a newly-minted supervillain. But ahead of Secret Empire‘s conclusion this week, Marvel kinda spoiled how the event’s gonna end.
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In Black Mask’s America’s Sweetheart, The Strongest Person In The World Is A Brave Black Girl
Black Mask Studios’ BLACK imagines a world in which black people and only black people begin to suddenly manifest super abilities, setting off a series of events that forces its characters and readers to reflect on the real-world anti-black racism that’s alive and well in the US.