In September of 1998, millions of kids were racked with a decision. Pokemon Red or Pokemon Blue. The difference was 11 exclusive monsters to each version. You could still catch 139 unique little buggers, but those last few were lost to you. Cleverly, the marketing folks sold the game with a call to action for…
X-Office Editor Chris Robinson shows up to talk about his job, the X-Books, and a Man-Thing with a machine gun. Please send Chris Robinson your Alcremie’s.
Update 8 Months Later It’s coming in January 2021 now. Stupid pandemic. Original post As announced this morning on a podcast that apparently a lot of people who aren’t in comics journalism listen it, we can confirm that Vita Ayala & Bernard Chang are the creative team on the upcoming Children Of The Atom. Here…
Marvel sent an email out to those good press folks with a Tom Muller logo, RB Silva cover, and a team of Gambit, Angel, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, and Marvel Girl. It said: Coming in April… Children Of The Atom! That’s all we know but that’s not enough information to fill an article. There are many books…
Friends and readers, welcome to Threefer Madness! This week we’ve got a combination of a new #1, the end of one writer’s tenure, and some heckin’ space adventures. Join writers Vishal Gullapalli and Tony Thornley as we delve into this comics in our traditional conversation Marvel Files Fashion! Iron Man 2020 #1 Arno Stark is…
Spinning out of Absolute Carnage, which, itself, was spun out of Venom, Frank Tieri, Angel Unzueta, Guillermo Sanna, and Rachelle Rosenberg bring us a horrific tale about the secrets of Arkham Ravencroft. Zachary Jenkins: So there are no Dawn of X books this week, however this is this one-shot ostensibly about Sabretooth from aspiring street…
Marvel gave a webinar about its’ upcoming books today. It was very funny for all of us who have had to suffer through webinar’s. It was good though, because we now know more about Giant Size X-Men: Nightcrawler #1, and boy did they get a good artist for this. Alan Davis will team up with…
As announced on Polygon (by former HoxPoxTox editor Susana Polo), there is a new X-Factor book coming from Leah Williams and David Baldeón. Here’s the pretty cover from Ivan Shavrin. As you can tell, the X-Men portion of Twitter is losing their dang minds. As are we here at Xavier Files. It’s Leah, she is…
Zack and events boy Chris Eddleman talk about the big event, that’s right Onslaught! Ranked This Episode: Onslaught Onslaught (Cable) Onslaught (X-Force/X-Man)
Friends and readers, we have another great week of comics coverage for you here at Marvel Files— the premiere home of conversational Marvel Comics coverage. This week we have the debut of a surprising choice for solo title in Star #1. We also chat continuations of the eclectically cast team title Strikeforce, and the Hollywood…
Friends, welcome to the first installment of Times Immortal! Robert Secundus and Zach Rabiroff are bringing you the finest and most in-depth coverage of Ewing and Bennett’s Immortal Hulk, and we start off with a doozy as Dario Agger tries to draw out the Hulk for a stupendous Kaiju Battle as Jackie McGee gets chewed…
Fallen Angels #5 is here and it’s time to squad up. Bryan Edward Hill, Szymon Kudranski, and Frank D’Armata return in the penultimate issue. Husk and Bling! join Psylocke and company on their mission to stave off Apoth and his children! Then – Cable turns on X-23?!? Andrea Ayers: And we’re back, back again. A…
Tini Howard, Marcus To, and Erik Arciniega complete the ritual in Excalibur #5. Rogue reveals the secrets behind the invasion into Otherworld as the rest of the team battles for their lives. Charlie Davis: Ya know…every time I open one of these bad boys up, I think, I’m not sure how I could love Excalibur…
In a perfect world, X-Force wouldn’t be necessary. But mutants keep dying so this world is far from perfect. In X-Force #5 by Ben Percy, Josh Cassara, Dean White, and Rachelle Rosenberg, Kid Omega and Wolverine are in pieces after rushing to stop a break in at one of Professor Xavier’s facilities. Now with two…
In Jonathan Hickman and Rod Reis latest New Mutants tale, our heroes find themselves enjoying space until Shi’ar politics ruin their fun. Zach Rabiroff: Huh. That was weird. Feels like we’ve been sitting very quietly in space for, like, a month for some reason. Wonder what that was all about. Well, anyway, we’re back with…