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Category: Top of the Pile

The X-men step through an otherworldly portal.

Top of the Pile: X-Men Resurgence

January 31, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

The X-Men are back. After years of being sidelined in the Marvel comic book universe, the X-Men have returned to their rightful prominence. Heralded by the twin six-issue series House of X and Powers of X, the X-Pantheon is back with a[…]

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Top of the Pile: X-Men Blue, Superior Spider-man, Immortal Hulk

May 23, 2019 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

I’m as close to current with my comic book pull list as I’m likely to get in the modern era, having just finished X-men Blue and getting ready for the Age of X-Men alternative universe titles. Truth be told, I’d be caught up if[…]

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A close up shot of several different Spider-men.

Top of the Pile: Uncanny X-Men, Spider-Verse, Darth Vader

January 30, 2019 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

My comic book pile is almost — almost — current. After a summer and fall of reading comic books almost every day I’ve caught up on everything except for X-Men Blue, a few issues of Uncanny Avengers, and the limited series X-Men Black. I credit[…]

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A close-up of Kate Bishop, the other Hawkeye. She's wearing purple sunglasses and the fins of her signature arrows appear to her left.

Top of the Pile: Cable, Kate Bishop, Renew Your Vows

October 10, 2018 Ken Newquist Books & Print, Top of the Pile

When I started my bullet journal, one of my habit tracking goals to read a comic book a day. Over the summer I stuck to that goal, reading a comic book almost every day. I made steady progress on my pile[…]

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Two teams of costumed superheroes confront each other, Inhumans on the left, X-men on the right.

Top of the Pile: Inhumans vs. X-Men

December 27, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

Inhumans vs. X-Men, the fight brewing since Marvel’s two main timelines collapsed into one during 2015’s Secret Wars, finally happened. The story lacks the high-stakes punch of Avengers vs. X-Men but this gives it the flexibility to tell a better story. The catalyst[…]

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The Avengers team stands ready for their next assignment.

Top of the Pile: An Uncanny Holiday

December 1, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

My pile of unread comic books is huge. So huge that I spent the last two Thanksgiving breaks whittling it down to a reasonable size. Those efforts are working; after spending a good chunk of the long Thanksgiving weekend reading[…]

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Covers of graphic novels from the B.P.R.D. and Hellboy series.

Top of the Pile: Summer 2017

September 9, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

My Summer Reading List for 2017 included eight graphic novels drawn from the Hellboy universe. Hellboy and his friends have featured prominently in my summer reading list for the last decade, and I expect that to continue to be the case going forward.[…]

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Myriad superheroes battle in space.

Top of the Pile: Battleworld!

September 21, 2016 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

The Marvel comic book multiverse collapsed in upon itself in Summer 2015. As the various worlds ended, a new one was forged by its all-powerful god, Doctor Doom. This new world — Battleworld — drove a summer’s worth of of[…]

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A page capture from the all-new Guardians of the Galaxy, featuring Kitty Pryde as Star-Lord.

Top of the Pile: All-New, All-Different (but mostly the same)

September 15, 2015 Ken Newquist Books & Print, Top of the Pile

It’s been largely a comic-book-free summer in Easton, Pa. thanks to Marvel’s Secret Wars. The publisher canceled all of their existing comic book titles in favor of new crossover Secret Wars books that revisited classic storylines (Civil War, Inferno, etc.)[…]

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A line-up of super villains.

Top of the Pile: Axis, Saga, Captain Marvel

December 26, 2014 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

The comic book pile has grown large over the last few weeks, partly because I was busy with family and work, partly because I knew I’d have time to catch up during Christmas week. Topping it is Marvel’s crossover event Axis, in which the Red Skull (augmented by Charles Xavier’s brain … I kid you not) tries to take over the world.

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