Powers of X #5 - "For the Children"

[laughing_tree]

We should not be taking our creative cues from the direction they’re taking things in the movies. That kind of defeats the point. They have a billion dollars to play with, and we don’t. You can’t compete in that matter, and you shouldn’t. My argument has been I should always be way out in front of that stuff. All of that stuff is being drawn from source material. It goes back to, are you being destructive or are you being additive? If you’re being additive and you’re on the big books, it’s inevitable that some of that stuff is going to get used. When Marvel films gets around to the X-Men and we’ve done interesting stuff and they want to use it, that’s awesome. If they don’t, then they don’t. One makes your job expendable, the other one makes you priceless. I like having value to my work. -- Jonathan Hickman

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The Joker: Year of the Villain #1

[cyberghostface]

"The Joker is, I think, the greatest villain there is in comics. He’s also a kind of all-purpose villain in that you can make of him anything you want. He can be crazy, he can be wickedly smart, he can be all these different things. He’s a villain for the ages. And I love that." -- John Carpenter

"The Joker is always the guy who wants to be the epitome of chaos and go against whatever the rest of society is doing. So what the hell does he do when the society is gone? As crazy as he is, he wouldn’t be happy to be doing what everyone else is doing; he’d see that as being super boring. So maybe he’ll go the other direction and we get to see what his version of being a superhero vigilante is like." -- Anthony Burch

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Doctor Doom #1

[cyberghostface]

"Getting a real in-depth human look at Doom has been fascinating. The first thing I did was to go back and read all of the best Doom stories I could find, stretching all the way back to the Kirby days. I was kind of blown away by the entire 'Zorba' arc, too…to see Doom overthrown by a 'rightful' heir, then to see that heir completely screw up the country, and turn into a worse despot than Doom. It was amazing to read a story where the Fantastic Four help reinstall Doom as the Latverian ruler. It was this strange argument for totalitarianism that was much more complex than you’d think at first glance. Not that I support totalitarianism, it just gave tremendous insight into the guy behind the mask. It’s this storyline that shows Doom receiving flowers from a young Latverian girl, one of the earliest glimpses of his love for his people." -- Christopher Cantwell

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Secrets of Sinister House #1

[cyberghostface]

 

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The Batman's Grave #1

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Superman #16

[lordultimus]

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All Hallows

[cyberghostface]

For those who have the Shudder streaming service there's a new anthology series based off 'Creepshow'. Tomorrow's episode is an adaptation of the following comic. A small clip is available here.

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Harley & Ivy #1

[lordultimus]

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