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do you know why the run of the 2013 young avengers series was so short? i really liked it and am kinda bummed that they're not continuing it
{Lou crashes through the screen like the Kool-Aid man] DID SOMEONE SAY YOUNG AVENGERS?
This is one of my favorite Marvel books so I definitely feel you, but as far as I know, Gillen and McKelvie had only planned to do a “season” of YA, to make a statement and then move on rather than have it be a long, ongoing series. In a Tumblr post around the time the ending was announced, Gillen wrote, “I’d always rather be a firework rather than a low-watt bulb.”
That YA run is a pretty amazing firework.
I know it isn’t quite the same thing as having more YA, but I think of it as the second of a three-part series, starting with Gillen’s Journey Into Mystery and running through Al Ewing and Lee Garbett’s Loki: Agent of Asgard.
New this week! THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #23, by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, and Matt Wilson, featuring art by Kevin Wada
NEW STORY ARC: “IMPERIAL PHASE I,” Part One Welcome to the November 2014 issue of Pantheon Monthly. Exclusive interviews with all your favorite gods. Plus! The first photographs of the Morrigan ever!
New this week! AMERICAN VAMPIRE: ANTHOLOGY #2
This special features nine amazing stories set in the world of AMERICAN VAMPIRE, with lost tales, new characters, and old favorites. Series creators Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque will be joined by other amazing creators such as Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + Divine), Steve Orlando (MIDNIGHTER), Marguerite Bennett (DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS), Elliot Kalan (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer), Clay McLeod Chapman (Storage Space), and many more!
A comiXologist recommends… [redacted for spoilers]
As far as conclusions go, this Darth Vader finale is pretty conclusive. Vader has been tortured and tossed about by the Empire’s greatest internal threats, fought enemies at the proverbial gate, and come to terms with missing out on being a dad. Gillen and Larroca’s run on this series has put a nice spin on Vader and what keeps him locked into the Dark Side of the Force.
This late into the series it is damned near impossible not to spoil anything so this review is mostly going to be about gushing with love for the whole shebang, but I’ll sum up the obvious direction things are headed. Vader becomes the commander of the Executor and the Imperial Fleet so as to be ready for The Empire Strikes Back, but it is implied that Vader also seeks to connect with his son.
For those of us who haven’t touched pop culture at all until this very moment, Vader’s son is Luke Skywalker [editor’s note: Um. Spoilers, Matt!] and each has spent the last (estimated) two decades believing the other was dead. Sorry to break it to you before The Empire Strikes Back. That’s a pretty big reveal in that film.
All jokes aside, this series has created a nice internal struggle for Vader. It sets up some solid motivation for fans of the Star Wars mythos to get behind the twisted Anakin Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker is Vader’s real name, by the way. Sorry to ruin that too. [editor’s note: Matthew we talked about this.]
Anakin’s choices led to some logical but less than considered consequences at the end of the Clone Wars, leading him to become the black armored Imperial enforcer. After all was said and done he had no wife, no children, and nothing outside his mission. Therefore, he had no reason not to be Darth Vader.
With the end of this series he still has his mission, but he now also has Luke to find.
Matthew Burbridge is a Digital Editor at ComiXology and is just burning with anticipation for Rogue One. He even bought a Death Trooper helmet.
UM. SPOILER ALERT.
Pre-order STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA, written by Kieron Gillen with art by Kev Walker, and get issue #1 when it’s released on December 7th without even having to leave your airlock…
Thank the Maker, Kieron Gillen Is Going to Write a New Ongoing Star Wars Comic →
So, this went out last night. The other Marvel book.
Out in December.
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Darth Vader Vol. 3: The Shu-Torun War by Kieron Gillen @kierongillen, Salvador Larroca and Leinil Francis Yu @leinilyu
The Mighty Thor by Matt Fraction @mattfractionblog, Pepe Larraz, Kieron Gillen @kierongillen and Alan Davis is on sale now!
Darth Vader #24 is pretty heavy and it’s by Kieron Gillen @kierongillen and Salvador Larroca and it’s new today from Marvel!
Check out today’s comiXology happenings at SDCC:
Sunday, 7/24/16
11:00am-12:00pm – Guide to Illustrating Comics – Room: 24ABC
Speakers: Derf Backderf (Trashed, My Friend Dahmer), Megan Levens (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10), Denis Kitchen (Cartoonist/Publisher/Agent, The Best of Comix Book), Cara McGee (Over the Garden Wall), Shannon Wheeler (The New Yorker, Too Much Coffee Man).
Moderated by: Tia Vasiliou and Matt Kolowski (The comiXologist Podcast Crew)
12:30-1:30pm – Katie Cook signing Comic Book All Stars SDCC Exclusive Trading Card giveaway at comiXology booth #2547
2:00pm-3:00pm – ComiXology Ask Me Anything Special Sunday Edition! – Room: 29AB
Speakers: David Steinberger (comiXology CEO and co-founder), Chip Mosher (comiXology Senior Director Communications)
Moderated by: Tia Vasiliou and Matt Kolowski (The comiXologist Podcast Crew)
3:30-4:30pm – Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie signing Comic Book All Stars SDCC Exclusive Trading Card giveaway at comiXology booth #2547
Tomorrow’s comiXology signings/card giveaways at SDCC:
Sunday, 7/24/16
12:30-1:30pm – Katie Cook signing Comic Book All Stars SDCC Exclusive Trading Card giveaway at comiXology booth #2547
3:30-4:30pm – Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie signing Comic Book All Stars SDCC Exclusive Trading Card giveaway at comiXology booth #2547
Check out today’s comiXology events at SDCC:
Thursday, 7/21/16
11:30-12:30pm – Marguerite Bennett signing Comic Book All Stars SDCC Exclusive Trading Card giveaway at comiXology booth #2547
12:00pm-1:00pm – The ComiXologist Traveling Podcast Party – Room: Neil Morgan Auditorium, San Diego Central Public Library
Speakers: Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Young Avengers), and Hope Nicholson (Publisher Bedside Press)
Moderated by: Tia Vasiliou and Matt Kolowski (The comiXologist Podcast Crew)
1:00-2:00pm – Tsutomu Nihei signing Comic Book All Stars SDCC Exclusive Trading Card giveaway at comiXology booth #2547
2:30pm-3:30pm – ComiXology Ask Me Anything – Room: 8
Speakers: David Steinberger (comiXology co-founder and CEO), Chip Mosher (comiXology Senior Director Communications)
Moderated by: Tia Vasiliou and Matt Kolowski (The comiXologist Podcast Crew)
4:00pm-5:00pm – Essential Deserted Island Comics – Room: 28DE
Speakers: Chris Roberson (co-creator iZombie, writer Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953), Jamal Igle (Molly Danger, Supergirl), Frank J. Barbiere (Avengers World, The Revisionist), and Deb Aoki (Publishers Weekly, Manga Comics Manga)
Moderated by: Tia Vasiliou and Matt Kolowski (The comiXologist Podcast Crew)
6:30pm-7:30pm – Comics PR & Marketing 101 – Room: 8
Speakers: David Hyde (Founder Superfan Promotions), Hunter Gorinson (Valiant Director of Marketing, Communications & Digital Media) and Hope Nicholson (Publisher Bedside Press)
Moderated by: Chip Mosher (comiXology Senior Director Communications)
8:00pm-11:00pm – ComiXology Co-Sponsors the Comic Book
Legal Defense Fund’s Comic-Con Welcome Party
Location: The Westgate Hotel, 1055 Second Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101