Diving Into Marvel Comics

In this episode, we’re meeting more mutants in the group X-Treme X-Men. We’ll meet Beast, Storm, Rogue, Thunderbird, Psylocke, Sage, and Bishop. They’re working on finding the diaries of Destiny, a mutant who has precognitive abilities.

Credits:

Writer - Chris Claremont 

Penciler - Salvador Larroca 

Inker - Salvador Larroca 

Colorist - Liquid! 

Letterer - Tom Orzechowski

Editor - Matt Hicks

This week, we’re getting our first taste of the Uncanny X-Men in “Playing God.” Here, we meet a few iconic characters, including Cyclops, Wolverine, Jean Grey (who is going by Phoenix now) and Archangel.

Credits:

Writer — Joe Casey

Penciler — Ian Churchill

Inkers — Mark Morales and Ian Churchill

Colorist — Avalon Studios

Letterer — Comicraft

Editor — Mark Powers

This week, we dive into Marvel Boy (2000) #1–6, as we work through the Planet X chapter of the Modern Continuity guide. This run introduces Noh-Varr: a reality-hopping Kree soldier stranded in a world he sees as broken beyond repair. After the Midas Foundation destroys his ship and tries to turn him into a weapon, Noh-Varr escapes with a very different plan: war.

Credits: 

Writer - Grant Morrison

Penciler - J.G. Jones

Inker - J.G. Jones

Colorists - Avalon Studios, Matt Milla

Letterers - Richard Starkings, Wes Abbott

This week we’re diving into our first Punisher comic. Join me as I cover Welcome Back, Frank from the Modern Era Continuity Guide. Widely considered one of the character’s defining stories, this comic reintroduced Frank Castle to Marvel readers with a perfect blend of action, violence, and dark humor.

After returning to the streets of New York, the Punisher quickly finds himself at war with a brutal crime family. Along the way, he’s pursued by two determined detectives, plagued by eccentric neighbors, and forced to deal with a trio of would-be vigilantes inspired by his crusade. If you’ve ever wondered why the Punisher became such an enduring Marvel character, this is the story that helped cement his legacy.

Credits:

Writer - Garth Ennis


Penciler - Steve Dillon


Inker - Jimmy Palmiotti


Colorist - Chris Sotomayor

This week, we return to Daredevil in Parts of a Hole by David Mack as we continue through the Modern Continuity Guide. These issues introduce Echo in a fascinating way. Maya Lopez, also known as Echo, is a talented young woman with an extraordinary ability to perfectly mimic anything she sees. As Matt and Maya get to know each other, her ties to the infamous Kingpin begin to surface, and Matt is in for a wild ride.

Join me as I break down this story and explore themes of identity, trust, and manipulation, and how they shape one of the most unique Daredevil stories of the modern era.

Credits:

Writer – David Mack

Penciler – Joe Quesada

Inker – Jimmy Palmiotti

Colorist – Richard Isanove

Black Widow's Itsy Bitsy Spider and Breakdown continue our journey through the Modern Era Continuity Guide. These stories follow Natasha Romanoff as she confronts Yelena Belova, a younger Black Widow trained to surpass and ultimately replace her. These espionage-focused stories explore identity, manipulation, and the lingering consequences of Natasha's past as a Soviet assassin.

Itsy Bitsy Spider written by Devin Grayson and art done by J.G. Jones

Breakdown written by Devin Grayson and Greg Rucka, art done by Scott Hampton

I do my best to keep things relatively family friendly; however, some comics may cover sensitive or explicit material.

Planet X is the first chapter of the Modern Era Continuity Guide, covering the period where Marvel began transitioning into what many readers consider the modern age of comics. While the chapter gets its name from a later X-Men storyline, we begin our journey here with Daredevil's Guardian Devil. This series was started in 1998, written by Kevin Smith and pencilled by Joe Quesada. Here is the link to Marvel Unlimited to start the arc, and the link to the Planet X Chapter of the Continuity Guide.

I do my best to keep things relatively family friendly, however, some comics do cover sensitive and explicit material.

Welcome to the very first official episode of Diving Into Marvel Comics! This episode covers The Sentry (2000) #1-5, Sentry/Fantastic Four (2001) #1, Sentry/Hulk (2001) #1, Sentry/Spider-Man (2001) #1, Sentry/X-Men (2001) #1, and Sentry vs. The Void (2001) #1.

All the comics were written by Paul Jenkins.

For The Sentry #1-5 and Sentry vs The Void, the pencil and ink done by Jae Lee with the color done by José Villarrubia.

In the Sentry/Fantastic Four, the artists include Phil Winslade as the penciller and inking done by Tom Palmer with the color added in by Tom Chu.

For the Sentry/Hulk, the penciling and inking were both done by Bill Sienkiewicz with the coloring done by José Villarrubia.

We have Rick Leonardi as the penciler, Terry Austin as the inker, and Jeromy Cox as the colorist for Sentry/Spider-Man

Finally, for the Sentry/X-Men, Mark Texeira did both penciling and inking, and José Villarrubia once again does the coloring.

Prologue link: https://www.continuityguide.net/prologue

Here's a kind of summed up timeline of events to know before we head into "The Sentry"

If you want to check out the reading list, please visit https://www.continuityguide.net/

Thank you for listening, and catch you next time!

A brief intro to what this podcast is about.

Check out https://www.continuityguide.net/ for the reading list!