Each week, XavierFiles staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays.
DCeased: Dead Planet #1: Once more unto the zom-breach. An all-grown-up Jon Kent, Damian Wayne and Cassie Sandsmark headline the latest helping of DC’s zombie-apocalypse franchise, written by Tom Taylor (“X-Men Red”) and drawn by Trevor Hairsine. ($4.99)
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills Extended Cut #1: REEEMIIIIIX: One of the greatest X-Men tales of all time is remastered with a new framing story by original creative team Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson. ($4.99)
ARI’S PULL: Justice League #48: Writer Si Spurrier (“Alienated”) gets a turn at DC’s varsity squad in a three-part story running up to issue #50. Drawn by Aaron Lopresti. ($3.99) MORE FROM ARI HERE
MATT’S PULL: Lois Lane #12: DC’s most powerful human (fight me) wraps her investigations to end writer Greg Rucka and artist Mike Perkins’ maxiseries. ($3.99) MORE FROM MATT HERE
ZACK’S PULL: No One’s Rose #3: The cracks in utopia become more evident in the continuation of this Vault series by writers Zac Thompson (“Age of X-Man”) and Emily Horn and artist Alberto Alburquerque. ($3.99) MORE FROM ZACK HERE
DAN’S PULL: Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics: Learn about the life and times of one of comics’ giants, told in graphic novel form by Kirby devotee Tom Scioli (“Fantastic Four Grand Design”). From Ten Speed Press. ($28.99) MORE FROM DAN HERE
WILL’S PULL: Old Haunts #2: AWA’s series about three made men being confronted by the ghosts of their past continues. Written by Ollie Masters and Rob Williams and drawn by Laurence Campbell. ($3.99) MORE FROM WILL HERE
ROBERT’S PULL: Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #310: In a new story, Archie and Jughead go fishing, fall asleep on their boat and find themselves adrift at sea. Then their rum ham falls overboard and they end up getting rescued by a party boat full of Italian American stereotypes. No, wait, I’m confusing Archie and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” again. Honest mistake. ($7.99) MORE FROM ROBERT HERE
Dan Grote is the editor-in-chief of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Winston Wisdom.
