In a perfect world, X-Force wouldn’t be necessary. As Beast says himself, he’d “Prefer to avoid trouble altogether.” Unfortunately, trouble always finds its way into Krakoa and in X-Force #6, The team is in full force trying to stop the plant monsters. How well do they work together? Do we get to see more of…
In the not-so-distant future, Carol Danvers receives a call from friends she thought once dead, compelling her to return to Earth to be its guardian once more in this story from Kelly Thompson, Carmen Carnero, and David Curiel. Christina Eddleman: The concept of ‘The End’ leaves me morbidly curious. Five stories about the deaths of…
In which Thor performs some knee surgery on Galactus, courtesy of Donny Cates, Nic Klein, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino. Things get worse in Asgard. Galactus levels up. Vishal Gullapalli: Thor is the Herald of Galactus! The Black Winter is coming! In just one issue Donny Cates has breathed new life into an already-alive series,…
In the dark, damp, parts of this world. Behind the creeping shadows, there are weapons you would not believe. In Weapon Plus: World War IV, Benjamin Percy and Georges Jeanty show us the depths one of these weapons, Man-Slaughter, will go for his freedom. Then, Ryan Cady and David Baldeón recruit Brute Force to take…
The Hulk and his allies fight kaiju sized monsters in the city of Phoenix Arizona. Said monsters were sent by Roxxon CEO Dario Agger, and clearly he has a deeper, more sinister scheme in this tale by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, and company. Zach Rabiroff: Welcome back to another installment of Time Immortal, the internet’s…
The finale is here. Psylocke gets a brand new power. X-23 and the rest of the squad take on Apoth and his children, who will prevail? As Bryan Hill, Szymon Kudranski, and Frank D’Armata return once more to close out this series. Tony Thornley: This issue picks up en media res. The team is mid-battle…
We return to our other New Mutants, captured by a drug cartel on a Nebraska farm. Boom Boom helps them escape and the Bohusk family relocates to Krakoa, but at great cost. Beak’s parents are killed in the fighting, not that anyone would remember. Manon and Maxime rewrite the memories of Angel, Beak, and their…
Readers we have a special presentation this week as actual college professors/authors Stephanie Burt and Rachel Gold cover the one-shot, Doctor Strange: The End by Leah Williams, Filipe Andrade, and Chris O’Halloran. Can the good Doctor thrive, or even survive in a world of dwindling magic in the increasingly technological Holocene era? Stephanie Burt: Background…
Cyclops assembles a crack team of Darwin, Synch, and Wolverine (not to be confused with Logan, the boy Wolverine). To track down Serifina and enter The Vault. In the same way, this issue assembles a crack team of Jonathan Hickman, RB Silva, and Marte Gracia to deliver a tragic, and engaging tale. Chris Eddleman: Rob…
Alex Goldman from the show Reply All and I had a chance meeting on Twitter where we bonded over that good goo boy, Glob Herman. We decided to do a podcast about it. Ranked this episode: Spider-Man & The X-Men #4-5 X-Men Black: Mojo #1 Age Of X-Man: NextGen
All hail the rulers of Otherworld! The queen is dead, long live the king! After a duel of champions, Betsy freed her brother from his curse, freed Otherworld from Morgan Le Fay, and freed Excalibur to move on to their next adventure. Tini Howard, Marcus To and Erik Arciniega finish their quest and give us…
Hey friends and readers! Welcome to Captain C’s, the Marvel Files monthly look at Captain Marvel! Cat Purcell and Christina Eddleman are going to take you through the ins and outs of Thompson et al’s run on our favorite Captain. Carol continues with her precarious plan to thwart the aims of Vox Supreme, with the…
Friends and readers it is time for our inaugural look at the newest run of Guardians of the Galaxy in our issue-by-issue look— Gimme Some Space. Allison Senecal and Charlie Davis have all the analysis you need on Marvel’s Cosmic Side. The team of Al Ewing, Juann Cabal, and Federico Blee bring us the reunion…
Friends and readers, we have a brand-new week of comics, and with that comes Marvel Minutiae—the column where our Marvel Files writers bring you some bite-sized thoughts on some of this week’s Marvel Releases. This week Tony Thornley talks Spider-Man and clickbait while Zack Jenkins is here with some discussion of symbiote boys! Amazing Spider-Man…
We knew we couldn’t trust him, but no one expected such a blatant betrayal so soon. Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Mario del Pennino, Erick Arciniega, and Frederico Blee reveled the extent of Sebastian Shaw’s malice in Marauders #6. The Marauders battle Homines Verendi as the Black King executes his gambit. Christi Eddleman: Going into this…