Book Club Kick-Off: Marvel Rivals Favs and Superman Lore Deep Dives

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Welcome, readers! X-Ray Vision has been a comic book, sci-fi, fantasy-loving space forever, but now we're making it official with a monthly book club. We're kicking off with our recommendation list to catch up on Superman before James Gunn's first DC feature drops AND our favorite stories from our favorite Marvel Rivals characters. Then, we'll give you a list of books to read to prep for Daredevil: Born Again. We'll be back in February to go over those books in detail. You can send us questions and comments on the reading material at [email protected].

Superman Reading Recs:

Superman

All-Star Superman By: Grant Morrison & Frank Quietly (2005)

Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? By: Alan Moore and Curt Swan (1986)

Superman For All Seasons By Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale (1998)

Lex Luthor

Forever Evil By Geoff Johns and David Finch (2013)

Superman: Red Son By Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, Andrew Robinson, Walden Wong and Killian Plunkett

Marvel Rivals Reading Recs:

Jeff the Landshark

First appeared in West Coast Avengers vol. 3 #6 By Kelley Thompson and Daniele Di Nicuolo (2018)

Infinity Comic - It's Jeff! by Kelly Thompson / Gurihiru (2021)

Luna Snow

First appeared in the video game Marvel Future Fight (2018)

Comic book debut in War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas #1

Atlantis Attacks (2020)

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