Today's new guides for patrons started as December's Patrons' Choice Guide of one of Marvel's biggest non-MCU film stars, but I realized I needed a second guide to make the first one work, and then a third guide to fill in a gap in the second one...
Today's new guides fill in another of the six original pillars of Vertigo Comics, plus add some context to the foundations of the Sandman Universe...
Swamp Thing - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
The Houses & Horrors of DC - House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Horror Anthologies, and m...
2019-02-16 14:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to an update on what I pay for with the support of this Patreon campaign. Be warned, there is no comic book content in this post! It's all about budgeting and transparency.
The Short Story: What do Patrons pay for?
As of this writing, every cent pledged to this campaign is directly spent on service or equipment for Crushing Krisis after Patreon takes their fees. That includes the following list of pledge goals:
Today's new guides for all Patrons covers an X-Men character (and often-villain) with long and sometimes convoluted history, as well as the program he's frequently associated with...
Sabretooth, Victor Creed - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
Weapon X & Weapon Plus - Th...
2019-02-05 20:44:21 +0000 UTC View PostHi, all!
Due to a current bug with Patreon I can see when I get a new pledge, but I don't have the ability to look-up new Patrons, send messages, or see Patron email addresses - all of which are required to get you guide access!
Please comment here if you just pledged and are thinking, "Hey, how do I get my login?!" We'll figure something out together ;)
For everyone else: New guide incoming in the next 24hrs ;)
2019-02-04 17:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostHello, good Patrons of Crushing Krisis!
We're long overdue for a Patron's Choice Poll, and this is the perfect time for one. I am finally through the solo heroes who really needed a guide to reflect Marvels recent publishing eras, which means we can have some fun focusing on more obscure characters. Plus, I have less time to craft new guides, so I could use your help in focusing on one.
Your options are Blade, Daimon Hellstorm, Hellcat AKA Patsy Walker, Howard the Duck,...
2018-12-01 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Black Friday, y'all!
I'm posting to let you know that all of Crushing Krisis's Marvel collecting guides and reading orders are now COMPLETELY UP TO DATE* through July 2019 releases based on the newest solicits from Hachette Book Group, their bookstore distributor.
(* Except for about a dozen books I'm still trying to figure out the best way to list on the...
2018-11-23 23:04:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This updated guide is available to everyone, but it was made possible via your support:
The Revised & Expanded X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #4: X-Factor
This era covers every X-Men story from Uncanny X-Men #143 in January 1988 and ending with Uncanny X-Men #243 in April 1989 & X-Factor #40 in May 1989.
That includes the time period...
2018-11-13 04:59:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's new guide for Patrons covers a massively popular character with one of the most unique histories in all of the Big Two...
Harley Quinn - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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2018-11-11 00:02:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's new guide for Patrons covers an unusual X-Men character, a copy of another character who went one to helm one of the longest-running X-Men solo series before disappearing into the aether (literally) for nearly a decade...
X-Man, Nate Grey - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
Today's new guide for Patrons is actually three guides (or maybe four, by the time you read this), which seems like overkill for what is essentially a single title with an obvious ten-volume paperback line. But, it's really so much more than that...
This updated guide is available to everyone, but it was made possible via your support:
The Revised & Expanded X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #3: The New Mutants
This era covers every X-Men story from Uncanny X-Men #143 in March 1981 and ending with Uncanny X-Men #200 in December 1985.
That includes the significant broadening of the world of X-Men - Kitty Pryde adventur...
2018-10-27 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's new guide for patrons is for a character who has gone in and out of vogue for nearly five decades, but who is having perhaps his highest-profile year of all time in 2018...
Mister Miracle - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
Today's new guide for patrons is for a character who has only 12 solo comic issues to his name, but a rich 50-year history as a hero both on the worldwide stage and in his own Harlem community...
Falcon, Sam Wilson - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
Today's guide gets me one step closer to covering DC's pantheon of most well-established heroes, although this hero in particular has suffered many indignities over the years both in comics and in the court of public opinion...
This is available to everyone, but it was made possible via your support:
The Revised & Expanded X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #2: Second Genesis
This era covers every X-Men story starting with Giant Size X-Men #1 in 1975 through "Days of Future Past" in Uncanny X-Men #141-142 in 1981. That includes every back-up from Classic X-Men.
The gu...
2018-10-12 23:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's guide seemed like it would be a straight-forward team guide, but I wasn't accounting for how unique each iteration of this death-defying squadron tends to be...
Suicide Squad - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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Today's new guide started as a quick'n'dirty way to cover a new X-Men title but turned into one of the most thorough single character guides I've created...
Domino - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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2018-10-05 23:35:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Revised & Expanded X-Men Reading Order Guide – Era #1: Original X-Men
One of the biggest factors in CK's popularity exploding in the early 2010's was the X-Men Reading Order I debuted back in 2012.
It emerged from a moment of frustration, as all of my best projects tend t...
2018-09-27 13:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's new guide is long overdue - 17 months overdue, to be precise, since it was the last guide you all voted for in a Patrons' Choice Poll just a few weeks before my entire life got flipped turned upside down...
Today's new guide was actually the guide that caused me to start the avalanche of smaller guides to fill in the gaps in my Marvel Legacy era page! It's for a group of characters who have always been curiously X-Men adjacent, despite definitely not being mutants...
Power Pack - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
Today's new guide is for one Marvel's first Silver Age superheroes who was among the last to get his own ongoing series - and that series featured the third iteration of this hero...
Ant-Man & Giant-Man - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide...
2018-09-15 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's new guide covers a DC character who went nearly 50 years without her own title before becoming a regular anchor of DC's monthly lineup...
Catwoman, Selina Kyle - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
I'm back with a brief guide for an obscure character - yet, he's one who has been getting an outsized amount of attention thanks to having his own television show...
Legion, David Haller - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
Today's new guide fills in one of the major gaps in my DC coverage and brings my collection of Bat-Family guides a little bit closer to being complete:
Nightwing, Dick Grayson - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
Sometimes creating a new guide turns into a getting-to-know you process about a hero or team I've never read before. That was definitely the case with today's new guide, about a team of heroes who existed entirely outside of my comics knowledge...
The Outsiders - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
2018-06-07 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's be honest - while I have the excuse of creating this guide to fill in one more missing link on the Fresh Start era page (for her new one-shot, out today!), we all knew I did it just because I love...
Here's part two of my one-two punch of Marvel Era guides, and oh my goodness was this one a lot more complicated than the first!
Marvel Legacy Era (2017 - 2018) - The Definitive Guide
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2018-06-03 12:15:17 +0000 UTC View Post
What started as a quickie guide to a character with just 26 issues to their name turned into a massive research project, which yielded...
The Sentry – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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2018-06-01 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes it takes a long time for a plan to come to fruition.
Case and point: tonight's guide, which is less of a guide than a directory page ... and which has been in the works for well over a year!
Marvel Fresh Start Era (2018 - Present) - The Definitive Guide