#hickman

[studyofx]

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[roughridingrednecks]

Hickman

[comicpop]

Looking back on Marvel's GREATEST event-- Secret Wars!

[generatorrexy]

The Black Monday Murders

I finished reading the two available volumes of The Black Monday Murders that collect the first 8 issues (4 issues each), and it was an incredible experience. I totally recommend to pick them up, or... Maybe wait until the third volume is released, which is the last one, so you can have a full story.

Okay, this tells the story of a group of families that control the wealth of the world with black magic which is provided by the god Mamon, and like any Jonathan Hickman work, it was a lot of incredibly intelligent world building.

When I say dark magic you imagine a certain thing, big spells and sacrifices, and while there are sacrifices and big spells, they are used sparely because most of the story is about the systems. Money is the primary source of power, said to be the physical manifestation of power in the world, and that is how these people really control the world.

In this context, we have two points of view, Theodore Dumas, a detective that enters this world by investigating a murder, and Grigoria Rothschild, who joins the board after being exiled because of the murder of his brother. These two points of view are also accompanied by the now standard Hickman Data Page™ that expand this world a lot more.

With this, the reader is not really following a character but a world, which makes you start thinking more than what you read, and you start connecting the dots as you go. This is one of the best aspects of the comic, you get the feeling this is all bigger than everyone, it's incredibly well thought out.

Some people say that Hickman is not a character writer, he's more of a plot writer and a world builder, but I don't totally agree. It's true that you never see the characters in their day-to-day life, the small moments you see only serve to tell the story... But, the characters in here are charming, you get their motivations and that is because of how great of a writer Hickman is, he knows what fragments of their life to show to make you get everything about them.

And my god, Tomm Coker's art is FANTASTIC. All the faces of the characters look like real people, if I had to describe the style, I would say that It's like a sketched photograph. The work with the panes and shots is also incredible, for a book that is mostly people talking it's very dynamic and makes this read itself, because these are double sized issues of 40 pages but I read them faster than I do normal issues.

All this is very well accompanied by Michael Garland's fantastic colors, that bring these drawings even more to life, using a very good palette for this story that gets the dark noir tone of this book. And ofc, the thing you get the most in the data pages, Rus Wooton's letters are very well done, because as any good letterer, you don't see his work because of how well it's integrated in the work.

So yeah, I totally recommend this work, and I can't keep talking about it because I will spoil all the fantastic reveals. Just go, read it, and maybe if you want you can DM me and we can talk about this because I loved it!

[jackalsiii]

Magik in Ultimate Invasion

Magik was the best part of Ultimate Invasion 2— John Klein III (@jackalsiii.bsky.social) 2024-11-19T16:23:56.511Z Magik being the best parts of #UltimateInvasion 3— John Klein III (@jackalsiii.bsky.social) 2024-11-19T16:31:21.272Z I love Magik being part of the new Ultimate World Council, and proposing splitting up America now that it has its own super beings. #UltimateInvasion 4— John Klein…

[thunderoussupremephoneixtornado]

After the last issue is out, this'll still be me

[amigodegandalf]

Curiosidades de los personajes de Crónicas de Dragonlance 🐉🧙🏼‍♂️🔥

(Vídeo completo en el canal de Youtube: Amigo de Gandalf)

#dragonlance #d&d #dragonlancechronicles #cronicasdedragonlance #raistlin #tika #caramon #flint #flintfireforge #margaretweis #hickman #elretornodelosdragones #curiosidadesliterarias

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[studyofx]

Want to know what the original X-Men vote looked like? Want to see the choices? If you go there now it's been updated for future votes, but the Wayback Machine has us covered and can take us back to 2021 Also here's news anchor Glob with our halfway point

https://web.archive.org/web/20210127220402/https://www.marvel.com/characters/x-men-vote

[roughridingrednecks]

Hickman

[thehauntedrocket]

Darth Vader vs Luke Skywalker

Art by Daniel Warren Johnson

Colors by Morgan Hickman

[jackalsiii]

Empyre : X-Men

a fun three part series that I was extremely late to #Empyre X-Men 1Magik shows up to a meeting Angel & Monet were about to have, and insults themAngel confronts Xavier, but overhears a conversation about a broken gate from Black TomThey investigate it with MadroxPlants vs ZombiesHordeculture shows up to deal with the plants pic.twitter.com/zWYG7ffvb4— John Klein III (@JackalsIII) July 29,…

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[victusinveritas]

Art by Stephen Hickman from The Vang: Military Form.

[spiderdeli]

ULTIMATE PETER IS HERE AAAAAAAAA

[oldschoolfrp]

"The master of Castle Ravenloft is having guests for dinner. You are invited . . ." (Dana Knutson cover for AD&D 2e Ravenloft adventure RM4: House of Strahd, TSR, 1993) Tracy and Laura Hickman's classic Strahd adventure was expanded and updated for AD&D 2e by Bruce Nesmith. New variable goals for Strahd make the adventure more unpredictable, and optional updated statistics make Strahd a more powerful genius-level undead opponent.