Harry Styles' Marvel character explodes into the Marvel Comics universe

Eros, also known as Starfox, is played by Harry Styles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but in Marvel Comics he is currently played by writer Kieron Gillen and artist Valerio Schiti. On the last page of the last week AX: Judgment day At #3, the team revealed that the alien superhero could be the key to unraveling the web of consequences that the Avengers, X-Men and Eternals have tangled themselves in in Marvel Comics’ summer crossover.

This is a pretty typical final page reveal of an event comic. Oooooh, this obscure character might have ultimate relevance! Subscribe next month to find out what’s next! But here’s why I’m fascinated by it: The idea that Eros and Thanos (inspired by the Freudian concept of Eros and Thanatos) are in some way real counterparts, except that their common ancestry never really flew with me. Sure, Thanos’ presence in the Marvel Universe would be difficult for any character to fulfill, but Eros is practically a gag character. It always seemed that “the power of love” was less interesting and more difficult to conceptualize for comic book writers than “the power of death”.

But that’s not a comic writer’s idea of Eros. This is Kieron Gillen who is everything around inventive reinventions of godlike mortals in a fast-paced story where the Avengers, X-Men and Eternals seem to have less than 24 hours to choose humanity’s good over bad before an unstoppable space god destroys the earth.

What else is happening on the pages of our favorite comics? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of books our comics editor has enjoyed over the past week. It’s part society pages about the lives of superheroes, part recommended reading, and part look at this cool art. There may be some spoilers. There may not be enough context. But there will be great comics. (And if you missed the last issue, read this.)

Three panels depict three normal people living through the events of the Judgment Day crossover, a gig delivery man who keeps working despite the danger, a woman who watches the news and is skeptical of superheroes, and a boy trying to get out of his homework to come out because the world ends in AX: Judgment Day #3 (2022).

Gillen and Schiti are actually making a book called AX: Judgment day something I want to read as soon as each issue comes out. Each issue follows the lives of six ordinary people around the world and how they are responding to/affected by the cosmic crisis. This should be cheesy or boring or feel weightless and forgotten, but it is is not

. The probability of all these characters dying randomly is very highgiven certain plot points of the series, and I’ll be sad when it happens.

Batman converses with D'ayl, a squirrel-like alien Green Lantern, in the Batcave. They discuss Gotham's best pizza place, the alien threat to Earth, and D'ayl sips a mug in Batman: Fortress #4 (2022).

I forgot who I’m following who tweeted something with the effect: Is Batman: Fortress actually restrained great? And I was thinking the same thing as I read this issue. The tone was hard to pin, but writer Gary Whitta is getting used to a sort of Silver Age Batman, one who’s just as moody and driven but cracking a dry joke here and there and doesn’t find it odd to be on a first-name basis with a space squirrel.

A woman in a brightly colored wrestling singlet hangs impossibly above the ring in the middle of a moon somersault, her opponent, a crouching orangutan in a wrestling singlet, crouches in her shadow. Her partner, a masked wrestler, watches warily. The crowd behind them roars

Are you reading Make a power bomb by Daniel Warren Johnson? Why don’t you read all of them? Make a power bomb? Look at this art! I’m not even in the wrestling fandom! I don’t even know what a moonsault is is!

Nature Girl, Egg, Pyro and Cypher discover a dead sea turtle on Krakoa Beach with a plastic bag in its mouth in X-Men: Unlimited: X-Men Green #1 (2022).

The challenge of translating endless-scroll comics created for mobile into print comics is an ongoing task for services like webtoon, but an important one for readers looking to put their favorite series on a real shelf. I just want to applaud the team behind it X-Men Green; If I hadn’t known that the series first ran as an endless scrolling story on Marvel Unlimited, I would never have thought of this edition.

The last edition of Chip Zdarsky and Carmine Di Giandomenico Batman: The Knight possesses a certain bravery. Only a very confident creative team would attempt to write the definitive story of Bruce Wayne learning to be Batman. Only a more confident team would ditch nostalgia games and fill the book almost entirely with original characters. Just one straight more The confident team waits until issue #8 of a 10-issue series to reveal that the comic’s final boss is someone very familiar indeed.

And so one actually surprises a reader with the idea that Ra’s al Ghul will appear in a Batman story.

Three children talk about the mysterious new horseman in their stable. Norrie is humorously suspicious of each of Waverly Stable's

It came out a while ago, but I finally got around to reading Faith Erin Hicks drive up and I don’t know if there’s an object better suited to my affections: a comic book about kids who love horseback riding but aren’t really brought together until they discover a mutual interest in Star Trek.