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Behind The Scenes at the Big Show

I wrote, for work — I won’t link it here because separation of church and state, and I don’t want them to check referral traffic, not that anyone does that anymore — about the kid going to PAX West this year and having what could, honestly, be described as something close to a religious experience. What I didn’t write about for work was the reaction of those I was working with to his experience.

The short version of what you need to know about his visit: it was his second convention ever, and his first video game convention. That last part’s very important, because he’s a gamer and it’s something that I worry sets him aside from a lot of people in his day-to-day life. Sure, there are people he can game with online (and he does), but I don’t get the feeling that many of his peers are into the same things he is in the same way he is, and I think sometimes it can be a little lonely for him that not everyone gets (or cares about) his favorite games, references, whatever. Within minutes of being at PAX and walking out onto the expo floor — with its massive booths promoting specific games, or tech, or merch, all of which he’s familiar with ot at least understands the architecture of — he turned to me and said, entirely seriously, “I have found my people.”

The rest of his visit just reinforced that: all the vendors he spoke to got what he was about and talked to him as an equal (ignoring me in the process, wonderfully). He got to wander around and try new tech and, in the strangest way, find new parts of his gamer identity and therefore who he is, and it just felt like this really intense, wonderful experience for him.

By the time he left (asking if he could do it again next year, asking if he could do more than one day), I was pretty emotional; I felt like I’d been able to help him have this amazing experience, and I went back to the show office feeling all kinds of verklempt. A handful of friends who were responsible for organizing the show clearly saw that I was feeling stuff, and asked what had happened and how the kid’s visit was, and I relayed a longer version of what I just wrote, feeling the sting of maybe I’m about to cry during the whole thing. I just felt full of feeling.

Cut to the next day, and one of the friends in the show office pulled me aside to say that she’d shared how much my kid loved the show to co-workers at dinner the night before, and they’d started crying. “This is actually why we do the show,” she said, “so that people can feel like he did.” Another told me, without any sarcasm, that even if I wasn’t working the show next year, they’d make sure the kid got passes to the entire thing.

I think part of what made me feel so emotional about the whole thing was realizing that the kid was having an experience like I had when I got to my first comic show — the excitement of these people get it and also feeling less isolated for liking shit that no-one around me seemed to be able to more than tolerate on my behalf. But, honestly, part of it also became how genuinely touched the people behind the scenes were that a stranger had been so thrilled and excited and fulfilled by something they’d been partially responsible for. I really like PAX West; it feels like such a kind and welcoming space, even to me as a non-gamer. After this year and all of this, that feeling only got so much bigger.

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The Story of My Life

Upon discovering my current favorite “new” podcast First Thirst — in which guests talk about their first celebrity crushes, and what if anything that says about who they are today — I found myself thinking back to the various media figures kid me had a crush on, and wondering if there was a through line. (Spoilers: there’s not, I don’t think.)

What was more surprising than anything, I think, was trying to think back to childhood celebrity crushes and struggling to think of any before when I was, say, 12 or so. I can think of precisely one — Marmalade Atkins as played by Charlotte Coleman, whom I just found out died astonishingly young at age 33, which I find surprisingly sad for someone I hadn’t given any thought to in literally decades. I daren’t look back at any video of the old Marmalade Atkins TV shows for fear of utter embarrassment and shame at whatever was going on in my 7- and 8-year-old brain at the time.

At least Marmalade was flesh-and-blood, as opposed to so many of my latter “celebrity” crushes, the majority of whom weren’t just fictional, but comic book characters: I’m enough of a cliche that of course I fell for the charms of the X-Men’s Rogue, all faux Southern accent and a bashful personality matched with bombastic body and unrealistic hair that demanded the eye’s attention whenever she appeared on the page. (I was shy too, and wished I had someone like that was real, and would notice me! Ah, the embarrassing mindset of the pubescent mess I was.) My crush on Lois Lane probably started around here, too, and that one has persisted on and off for decades; those who know why, know.

I picked up my first issue of Deadline in 1989, aged 14, and almost immediately had a crush on Pippa from Wired World, a fact that Chloe — who not only looks like Pippa but holds her up as an inspiration in multiple ways — finds endlessly amusing to this day.

In amongst all of this, though, were the non-celebrity crushes, the people I ran into in real life and pined for silently. Far more than any fictional or televisual crush, these were the figures that shaped me and my desires entirely unknowing, because I never ever came out and told them how much I liked them. To do so was to risk rejection and embarrassment, as I was all too aware of at the time. (Especially as I was far from the most charming or attractive child on the playground; some things never change.) Perhaps I should have paid more attention to all the unreal crush potential in my world at the time. They would never have rejected me; they didn’t even know I existed, after all.

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Cooked, etc.

I’ve been thinking about this essay since I read it last week, and turning over and over in my head quite why it feels so dystopian. It’s not that the overall subject matter isn’t dystopian by itself — my first reaction to hearing that Charlie Kirk had been shot, even before it emerged that he’d been killed, was a sense of dread that basically went along the lines of, oh fuck, no matter who is responsible, the Administration and all its supporters are definitely going to blame this on trans folk, and oh fucking look I was right. (One of the few things I like about that NY Post link I just posted is that it misspells “Biden” in the URL.)

(I wasn’t psychic, by the way, when I thought that they were going to blame the trans community; I was just thinking about the fact that, just a week before, the Trump administration was reportedly looking at how to take guns away from trans people and this felt like too obvious of a set up, in multiple senses of the term.) (That attempt to take guns away from people led to the unexpected moment where the NRA accidentally ended up on the right side of history for once.)

That essay, though. For those who don’t have the stomach to read it, the takeaway is that all signs point to the fact that Charlie Kirk’s shooter wasn’t necessarily politically motivated as much as they were… internet troll motivated…? “As easy as it is to point to these costumes as proof that Robinson was a far-right extremist radicalized online by 4chan posts, it’s just as likely that he was a teenage boy dressing up as memes he saw online. This kind of content is basically the water young people swim in now,” it reads at one point. “It’s also possible Robinson genuinely believes in antifascist principles. But his alleged use of random internet brainrot is notable.”

It ends, “We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and glory. Another consequence of how thoroughly the internet has flattened pop culture, politics, and real life violence. All of it now is just another meme you can participate in to go viral. Made even more confusing by a new nihilistic accelerationist movement that delights in muddying the waters for older people who still adhere to a traditional political spectrum. Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy.”

The reason it sticks in my head is… I can’t find a counterargument that I really believe in. I think this is the nihilistic worldview that kids (a holdall term I’ll use to include, honestly, anyone through their mid-20s if not their 30s) are immersed in and using as a primary lens through which to look at the world. I joke, at times, about how frustrated I find the “roast” and “troll” cultures to be in general online, but the truth is, it’s not “online” anymore; it’s everywhere. The last election proved it, and this last week proved it even more.

I’m not sure I know where we go from here, even beyond surviving the fascistic reign of the next few years. (Do you remember that Trump only took office again less than a year ago?) There are times I’m not sure I necessarily want to know, either.

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Get Lost

The thought occurred to me, as I was walking to the hotel in Seattle the other day, that I might have forgotten what it’s like to actually visit a city, as opposed to work in it.

This isn’t a new thought by any means; I had a similar feeling when I was in San Francisco earlier this summer, my first non-work-related, non-family-related trip in a decade or so, for one thing, and I’ve repeatedly thought as I head into a work trip what it would be like to go somewhere and not have to rush to a hotel and immediately to work. This Seattle situation felt different, however, simply because of how I’d ended up there.

Traditionally, when I’ve arrived in the city, I’ve jumped in a cab from the train station and gone straight to the hotel; this time around, there was such a line for cabs and such a traffic jam surrounding the area, I thought, fuck it, I’ll walk. It’s not that far. In retrospect, this was a bad idea because I didn’t realize (a) it was all uphill, (b) it was about 30 minutes walk, and (c) I really didn’t know the neighborhood as well as I believed. That last part ended up being a plus, however; it meant that I walked through neighborhoods I haven’t seen in Seattle in more than a decade, and remembered that, hey, I actually like this city a bunch.

The problem had become, I realized, that I go to Seattle at least a couple of times each year now, and it’s always for work and it’s always staying in the same hotel in the same area as the convention center, so Seattle had shrunk down to a five block radius and a car ride to and from the train station. It was as if the rest of the city didn’t even exist, with the exception of the pizza place I always make a point of hitting up when I’m there — I love their potato pizza, what can I say? — and the Work Seattle that I’d created was… well, somewhere that was just filled with work and the related stress. I’d started to dislike Seattle because I couldn’t relax there.

The same is true of New York, where I go every October just for New York Comic Con — a city as amazing as New York shrinking to the area between the hotel and the convention center — and San Diego, too, although in my defense, I’ve always thought that San Diego was a pretty shitty city.

The year I spent a bunch of time in the UK between conventions, I gave myself a day to explore London for the first time in close to 20 years without any agenda or destination. It was a lovely day, and one that reminded me why I really do like that place after all. Maybe I need to start adding buffers to go explore aimlessly into every work trip, before my world gets so small I forget that I like it, deep down and after all.

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Next Gen

I’ve been thinking about generations more lately, inspired both by Jeff Lester talking about how Generation X is only ever going to have one U.S. President it produced — Barack Obama, because everyone that followed was from the Boomer generation, and once they’re gone, the next wave will likely be Millennials — and reading a piece about Millennials and their lack of cultural footprint in the grand scheme of things.

I remember reading Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Copeland when I was in my first year of art school. At the time, even back then, it felt as if I was catching up on some big cultural touchstone that wasn’t about me and mine, but instead a historical document about That Which Had Come Before. That was back in 1993, when the book was just two years old, but the fact remains: Generation X, as a concept, felt like something that was for people older than me.

I’ve struggled with that in the years since. I get that I’m officially Generation X — I was born in 1974, and according to the internet, Generation X encompasses people born between 1965 and 1980 — but I’ve always secretly believed that I was part of some secret mid-generation that came of age in the mid-1990s and belongs between Gen X and Millennials. Is this because I’m British and Britpop ruined my cultural sensibilities to that heavy a degree? Potentially; Copeland’s Generation X feels such a particularly American book that the entire name feels like it belongs to Americans who listened to Nirvana and Pavement and not gangly, awkward British folk who liked Pulp and Blur and owned a Northern Uproar single or two. (A depressing aside: if there was that secret mid-generation for British folk my age, we’d almost certainly be called the Oasis Generation or something like that. Insert a heavy sigh here.)

I feel as if, despite talk of Gen X and Boomers, it wasn’t until Millennials started having a cultural voice that the idea of generational shift became mainstream — all of which makes it more ironic to see the argument that Millennials are the first generation to lack a cultural identity that’s unique to them, or to create music or literature or art that is wholly original and not a remix of what came before. The piece I was reading about this argued that American Millennials’ most memorable aesthetic should be described as “Lumberjackcore,” which feels at once fitting — the mustaches! The obsession with authenticity as an attainable concept that can be adopted! — and the most cruel put-down.

Generation X, by contrast, gave the world techno and raves and… is that it? Perhaps when you look at everything in this manner, it’s the finest perspective to have to fight off the common wisdom: everyone might think the Boomers were squares who ruined it for everyone else, but they were the hippies and the punks. You don’t get hip-hop if it wasn’t for the Boomers, either. Food for thought, perhaps.

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The Movies of August 2025

August proved to be an odd month, moviewise: I started the month exhausted after San Diego Comic-Con and ended it planning for (and then attending!) PAX West, and in between, it was more rewatching — or a lot of television, this past month — than that many new movies this time around.

Of note: I rewatched Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame because I was curious how they’d play out years later, and… ehhhh? Infinity War starts far stronger than I remember, but its back half lags so badly, while Endgame is just a slog from start to finish. (And has genuinely terrible pacing issues.) Meanwhile, The Last Showgirl was absolutely fucking beautiful and made me cry, Netflix’s DEVO documentary was enjoyable if weirdly purposefully limited, and, I have to admit, I really did enjoy The Babysitter and its sequel more than I should confess.

Nonetheless, here’s what I watched this last month!

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The Comics of August 2025

It’s an odd thing to find myself revisiting comic book runs that didn’t impress me the first time around, only to appreciate them significantly more a decade or so after the fact, but look at what I read throughout August: 2010s Marvel Comics all over, and I found myself having a lot more fun than I expected. Marvel Now, you tell me? Turns out, Marvel Then makes a lot more sense, even if I find myself somewhat exhausted when the big crossovers of the moment kick in.

Also appreciated in August: Howard Chaykin’s Black Kiss — I’m not entirely sure “appreciated” is the appropriate word, even now — and, far less on the fence, Rob Williams and RM Guera’s absolutely fucking wild Judge Dredd collaborations. Hell, I even re-read Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s Zenith Phases 1, 3 and 4. (I didn’t skip Phase 2 intentionally, I simply ended up re-reading 3 and 4 by accident and got sucked in…)

  1. Fear Itself #s 2-3
  2. Defenders (2011) #9
  3. AVX: Consequences #1
  4. Uncanny Avengers (2012) #1
  5. Marvel NOW! Point One #1
  6. AVX: Consequences #2
  7. Defenders (2011) #10
  8. Fear Itself #4
  9. Royals #9
  10. All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #146
  11. History of the Marvel Universe #1
  12. Batman and Robin: Year One #10
  13. Superman Unlimited #4
  14. Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #42
  15. Detective Comics #1100
  16. Justice League Red #1
  17. Defenders (2011) #s 11-12
  18. Royals #10
  19. All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #s 147-150
  20. Fear Itself #s 5-7
  21. Incredible Hulk (2011) #1
  22. Avengers: The Veracity Trap OGN
  23. AVX: Consequences #s 3-4
  24. Iron Man (2012) #s 1-3
  25. Fear Itself #s 7.1-7.3
  26. Infinity (2013) #1
  27. Age of Ultron #1
  28. AVX: Consequences #5
  29. Uncanny Avengers (2012) #2
  30. Age of Ultron #2
  31. Deadline (1989) #23
  32. Age of Ultron #s 3-10, 10.AI
  33. Infinity (2013) #s 2-6
  34. Inhumanity #s 1-2
  35. Infinity Countdown: Adam Warlock #1
  36. Infinity Countdown Prime #1
  37. Infinity Countdown #1
  38. Royals #s 11-12
  39. Inhumans: Judgment Day #1
  40. All-New Venom #9
  41. The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #7
  42. Captain America (2025) #2
  43. One World Under Doom #6
  44. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #19
  45. Iron Man (2012) #s 4-5
  46. Guardians of the Galaxy (2019) #s 2-6
  47. Iron Man (2012) #6
  48. Guardians of the Galaxy (2019) #s 7-12
  49. Action Comics #s 1088-1089
  50. Titans (2023) #26
  51. Cobra Commander #5
  52. Destro #s 1-2
  53. Transformers UK: Target 2006
  54. Absolute Superman #2
  55. Guardians of the Galaxy (2020) #2
  56. Iron Man (2012) #7
  57. History of the Marvel Universe #2
  58. Defenders: Beyond #1
  59. Loki: Agent of Asgard #1
  60. Iron Man (2012) #8
  61. Loki: Agent of Asgard #2
  62. Iron Man (2012) #9
  63. History of the Marvel Universe #3
  64. Guardians of the Galaxy (2020) #3
  65. The Ultimates (2016) #1
  66. Marvel Super-Heroes: Contest of Champions #1
  67. Absolute Superman #s 2-3
  68. Justice League: The Nail #1
  69. Justice League of America (1960) #1
  70. Loki: Agent of Asgard #3
  71. Iron Man (2012) #10
  72. Judge Dredd: Tunnels eps. 1-7
  73. Captain Planet and the Planeteers #1
  74. Guardians of the Galaxy (2020) #4
  75. Marvel Boy (2000) #s 1-2
  76. Iron Man (2012) #11
  77. Loki: Agent of Asgard #4
  78. The Ultimates (2016) #2
  79. Black Kiss #s 1-3
  80. Marvel Super-Heroes: Contest of Champions #2
  81. The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #s 222-224
  82. Loki: Agent of Asgard #5
  83. Original Sin #0
  84. Original Sin: Thor & Loki – The Tenth Realm #s 1-3
  85. Black Kiss #s 4-7
  86. Marvel Boy (2000) #3
  87. History of the Marvel Universe #4
  88. Destro #3
  89. Black Kiss #s 8-12
  90. Absolute Superman #5
  91. History of the Marvel Universe #5
  92. Original Sin: Thor & Loki – The Tenth Realm #s 4-5
  93. Loki: Agent of Asgard #s 6-8
  94. Iron Man (2012) #12
  95. Marvel Boy (2000) #4
  96. Judge Dredd: Rend and Tear with Tooth and Claw
  97. Marvel Boy (2000) #5
  98. X-Men (2024) #20
  99. Giant-Size X-Men (2025) #2
  100. History of the Marvel Universe #6
  101. Fantastic Four (2025) #2
  102. Predator vs. the Marvel Universe #1
  103. Loki: Agent of Asgard #9
  104. Marvel Boy (2000) #6
  105. Iron Man (2012) #13
  106. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 500-503
  107. Iron Man (2012) #14
  108. Loki: Agent of Asgard #10
  109. The Ultimates (2016) #3
  110. Mighty Avengers (2013) #1
  111. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 504-505
  112. DC All In Special #1
  113. Loki: Agent of Asgard #s 11-13
  114. Iron Man (2012) #s 15-16
  115. Mighty Avengers (2013) #2
  116. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #0.1
  117. Avengers Assemble (2012) #1
  118. Iron Man (2012) #17
  119. Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Infinity Comic #1
  120. Avengers Assemble (2012) #s 2-3
  121. Black Kiss 2 #1
  122. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 506-507
  123. Loki: Agent of Asgard #14
  124. Avengers Assemble (2012) #s 4-5
  125. Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Infinity Comic #2
  126. Loki: Agent of Asgard #s 15-17
  127. Thor (2020) #24 (Loki story only)
  128. Defenders: Beyond #2
  129. Fantastic Four (1961) #319
  130. Avengers Assemble (2012) #s 6-7
  131. Defenders: Beyond #3
  132. Absolute Superman #s 6-7
  133. Avengers Assemble (2012) #8
  134. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #1
  135. Absolute Superman #8
  136. Superman (2023) #29
  137. Justice League Unlimited (2024) #10
  138. JSA (2024) #11
  139. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #508
  140. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #2
  141. The Last Defenders #1
  142. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #s 3-5
  143. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 509-510
  144. The Last Defenders #2
  145. Defenders Beyond #4
  146. Mighty Avengers (2013) #3
  147. The Immortal Thor #1
  148. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #6
  149. Defenders Beyond #5
  150. Loki (2019) #1
  151. Valkyrie: Jane Foster #s 1-2
  152. Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #2
  153. Absolute Green Lantern #6
  154. The Last Defenders #3
  155. Avengers: Ultron Forever #1
  156. The New Avengers: Ultron Forever #1
  157. Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever #1
  158. Avengers Assemble (2012) #15
  159. Valkyrie: Jane Foster #3
  160. Mighty Avengers (2013) #4
  161. The Last Defenders #4
  162. Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Infinity Comic #3
  163. The Flash (2023) #s 14-15
  164. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #7
  165. The Immortal Thor #2
  166. Mighty Avengers (2013) #5
  167. The Immortal Thor #3
  168. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #511
  169. The Last Defenders #5
  170. Mighty Avengers (2013) #6
  171. The Immortal Iron Fist (2006) #1
  172. Mighty Avengers (2013) #s 7-9
  173. The Last Defenders #6
  174. Vengeance #1
  175. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 512-514
  176. Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1
  177. Dark Avengers (2009) #s 7-8
  178. Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus #1
  179. Dark Reign: X-Men – The List #1
  180. Punisher: War Journal (2006) #1
  181. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #515
  182. Adventure Comics (1938) #210
  183. The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #10
  184. Black Cat (2025) #1
  185. Imperial #3
  186. Marvel All-on-One: The Thing vs. The Marvel Universe #1
  187. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 516-517
  188. The Immortal Iron Fist (2006) #2
  189. The Immortal Thor #4
  190. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #8
  191. Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Infinity Comic #4
  192. Mighty Avengers (2013) #10
  193. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 518-519
  194. Valkyrie: Jane Foster #4
  195. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 520-521
  196. Hawkeye (2012) #s 1-2
  197. Absolute Superman #9
  198. Wonder Woman (2023) #s 22-24
  199. X-Men: Second Coming #1
  200. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 522-524
  201. Nightwing (2016) #78
  202. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #525
  203. X-Men: Second Coming #2
  204. Uncanny X-Men: The Heroic Age #1
  205. Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Infinity Comic #s 5-6
  206. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #9
  207. Hawkeye (2012) #3
  208. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #526
  209. Mighty Avengers (2013) #11
  210. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #10
  211. Alien (2021) #1
  212. New Gods (1971) #1
  213. Justice League Dark (2018) #1
  214. DC Sneak Peak: Justice League United #1
  215. Justice League United #11
  216. Justice League Adventures #1
  217. JLA: Incarnations #1
  218. Nightwing (2016) #79
  219. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #527
  220. Mighty Avengers (2013) #12
  221. JLA: Incarnations #2
  222. New Gods (1971) #2
  223. Absolute Martian Manhunter #s 1-6
  224. The New Gods (2024) #s 1-9
  225. JLA: Incarnations #3
  226. Mighty Avengers (2013) #s 13-14
  227. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #528
  228. The Order (2007) #1
  229. Black Kiss 2 #2
  230. Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way OGN
  231. Transformers (2023) #23
  232. G.I. Joe (2024) #10
  233. Exquisite Corpses #s 3-4
  234. Black Kiss 2 #s 3-6
  235. The Order (2007) #2
  236. Zenith: Phase One
  237. The Order (2007) #s 3-4
  238. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #529
  239. The Immortal Hulk #s 1-2
  240. Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #s 1-2
  241. The Order (2007) #5
  242. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 530-534
  243. The Order (2007) #6
  244. Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Infinity Comic #s 7-8
  245. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #s 11-13
  246. Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #3
  247. Iron Man: Fatal Frontier Infinity Comic #s 9-13
  248. Iron Man (2012) #s 18-19
  249. JLA: Incarnations #4
  250. New Gods (1971) #3
  251. Mr. Terrific: Year One #s 1-4
  252. The Immortal Hulk #3
  253. !Gag! (1987) #1
  254. Sinister Romance (1988) #1
  255. Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #4
  256. Iron Man (2012) #20
  257. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #534.1
  258. The Order (2007) #7
  259. Avengers (2023) #29
  260. The Mortal Thor #1
  261. West Coast Avengers (2024) #10
  262. The Order (2007) #8
  263. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #535
  264. Iron Man (2012) #21
  265. Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #5
  266. The Order (2007) #s 9-10
  267. Invincible Iron Man (2008) #1
  268. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #536
  269. Iron Man (2012) #22
  270. Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #6
  271. The Immortal Hulk #4
  272. Hawkeye (2012) #s 4-5
  273. Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #s 6-7
  274. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #537
  275. The Immortal Hulk #5
  276. Iron Man (2012) #23
  277. Invincible Iron Man (2008) #2
  278. Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #1
  279. Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #s 8-9
  280. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #538
  281. The Immortal Hulk #s 6-7
  282. Death of the Silver Surfer #3
  283. Fantastic Four Fanfare #4
  284. X-Men (2024) #21
  285. Zenith: Phase Three
  286. Zenith: Phase Four
  287. Bring on the Bad Guys: Abomination #1
  288. Predator: Black, White & Blood #1
  289. Imperial War: Black Panther #1
  290. Imperial War: Planet She-Hulk #1
  291. The Immortal Hulk #8
  292. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #539
  293. Iron Man (2012) #24
  294. Invincible Iron Man (2008) #3
  295. Hawkeye (2012) #6
  296. Contest of Champions (2015) #1
  297. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #540
  298. Invincible Iron Man (2008) #4
  299. Hawkeye (2012) #7
  300. The Immortal Hulk #9
  301. JLA: Incarnations #5
  302. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #541
  303. Invincible Iron Man (2008) #s 5-6
  304. The Immortal Hulk #10
  305. The Immortal Hulk: The Best Defense #1
  306. Namor: The Best Defense #1
  307. Doctor Strange: The Best Defense #1
  308. Silver Surfer: The Best Defense #1
  309. The Defenders: The Best Defense #1
  310. The Immortal Hulk #11
  311. JLA: Incarnations #6
  312. Uncanny X-Men (1963) #s 542-544
  313. Generation Hope #s 1-2
  314. X-Men: Schism #s 1-4
  315. X-Men: Regenesis #1
  316. Uncanny X-Men (2011) #1
  317. Wolverine & the X-Men (2011) #1
  318. The Immortal Hulk #12