Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays.
CORI’S PICK (BUT REALLY EVERYONE’S, BUT MOSTLY CORI’S BECAUSE SHE’S REVIEWING IT THIS WEEK, BUT MAN, WE ARE ALL VERY EXCITED): X-Factor #1: After a tantric, monthslong wait, Leah Williams and David Baldeon’s series about a team of mutants who investigate mutant deaths for The Five is finally here. Krakoa provides! ($4.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM CORI
MATT’S PICK: Pulp: Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips‘ latest graphic novel centers on a writer in 1930s New York sucked into worlds not unlike those of the dime-store paperbacks he churns out. ($16.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM MATT
ANDREA’S PICK: Hedra: A lone astronaut leaves a world ravaged by nuclear war in search of life in a one-off comic for Image by Jesse Lonergan. ($5.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM ANDREA
CHRIS’ PICK: DC Cybernetic Summer #1: DC’s summer anthology celebrates the joys of the machines who will one day rise up against us, as if we didn’t have enough problems right now. Featuring stories by Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko, Andrew Constant, Nicola Scott, Stephanie Phillips, Leila Del Duca, Heath Corson, Scott Koblish, Joshua Williamson, David Lafuente, Liz Erickson, Nik Virella, Steve Orlando, Paul Pelletier, Che Grayson, Marguerite Sauvage, Max Bemis, Greg Smallwood, Stuart Moore and Cully Hamner. ($9.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM CHRIS
WILL’S PICK: Lost Soldiers #1: Three Vietnam veterans tied by the war they left behind find themselves on a collision course with a new one in an Image miniseries by writer Ales Kot and artist Luca Casalanguida. ($3.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM WILL
ARI’S PICK: Kill Lock #6: Four cannot. When the Artisan, the Kid, the Wraith and the Laborer reach the end of their journey, doom seems certain, unless… Livio Ramondelli finishes his IDW series about mutually assured robot destruction. ($3.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM ARI
VISHAL’S PICK: Black Magick #12: Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott’s Image series about witch/police officer Rowan Black returns for a new arc. ($3.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM VISHAL
RITESH’S PICK: Black Stars Above TP: Lonnie Nadler and Jenna Cha’s tale of cosmic survival horror in the Canadian wilderness is collected in trade by Vault Comics. ($17.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM RITESH. Also check out Part I of our two-part interview with Nadler, by Robert Secundus.
ZACK’S PICK: Giant Days Vol. 13 TP: In what should be the penultimate collection of John Allison and Max Sarin’s BOOM Studios series, the girls learn to play cricket, and a member of the cast deals with the death of a parent. ($14.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM ZACK
ROB’S PICK: Archie Showcase Digest #1: Archie continues its 80th anniversary celebration with this new series of old stories, starting with a spotlight on the publisher’s reason for the season, Archie Andrews. ($7.99) CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM ROB
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.
