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On this day in 2015 'Ms. Marvel #17' hit comic-shops, featuring the team up between Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel for the first time, written by G. Willow Wilson with interiors and inks by Adrian Alphona and a hilarious cover by Kris Anka. This issue holds an 8.6 critic score from 10 reviews and an 8.3 reader score on Comic Book RoundUp. Critics especially praised Kamala Khan’s long-awaited meeting with Carol Danvers and the emotional balance of the story. Price Charting currently lists near mint issues at $30.

Even as Pollack transitions the title from Morrison’s hands to her own, the focal shift is evident. Far more page space is dedicated to characters’ social interactions, their emotions, and their interpersonal conflicts, than to fleshing out grand metaphysical concepts. That isn’t to say that Pollack abandoned the absurdity of Morrison’s run. If anything, many of Pollack’s stories push the envelope further than Morrison ever did, but she never feels like she’s in a hurry.

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I don’t mean to suggest that there was any animosity between the two writers. Pollack’s work on Doom Patrol challenges the constraints and weaknesses of Morrison’s run, pushing it towards greater emotional vulnerability and depth. If the silver age antics of the original Doom Patrol set a precedent for the truly weird in DC comics that Morrison could build upon, so too did Morrison’s incredible experiments in the absurd set Pollack up to ground the absurd in weighty emotional realism.

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Where Morrison pioneered the comics writer’s freedom to experiment with character and concept, Pollack paved the way for contemporary comics to be both formally experimental and emotionally nuanced. What sets Pollack’s run of Doom Patrol apart from Morrison’s is the tenderness with which she treats her characters, suffusing her stories with empathy just as Dorothy does her imaginary friends.

This may be the most extravagant edition of 'A Game of Thrones' ever created. To celebrate the novel’s 30th anniversary, The Folio Society is releasing an enormous new limited edition of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy classic—and they are only making 1,000 copies. The original 'A Game of Thrones' was first published in 1996, launching the series that would eventually sell more than 90 million books and inspire one of the biggest television shows ever made. This new edition collects the entire 872-page novel in one massive volume, complete with all of Jonathan Burton’s original illustrations and an introduction by fantasy author Joe Abercrombie. But the presentation is where things get ridiculous. The book is bound in what The Folio Society calls dragon-skin leather, with gilded edges, handmade endpapers, leather head and tailbands, and illustrations mounted inside decorative borders. Every copy is also personally signed by George R.R. Martin on a limitation label stamped in real gold. The book comes inside a specially designed clamshell box featuring gold and silver detailing, a suedelux interior, and even a hidden compartment containing a rolled linen map. Folio Society editor James Rose said the finished volume looks like something taken directly from the library of the Citadel, calling it an edition worthy of the Iron Throne. Of course, owning something worthy of the Iron Throne is not going to be cheap. The limited edition is priced at £1,500, or $2,200 U.S., and went on sale exclusively through The Folio Society last month. So, is this the ultimate collector’s edition—or would you rather spend that money buying an actual sword?

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10/10 Here you go...

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