Winter may have just started but Spring will soon have sprung. We found 10 things in the Marvel Solicits for March 2021 that we can’t wait to thaw out and enjoy! King In Black Comes To A Close We’ve had feelings about King In Black. Some folks have not liked those feelings. But all of…
Betsy Braddock scattered across the multiverse. With the war between Krakoa and Arakko quelled, and Apocalypse gone, Excalibur has been left changed. Tini Howard, Marcus To, Erick Arciniega and Ariana Maher shift through the ashes in Excalibur #16. Charlie Davis: Oh! Dan! Youāre here! Man itās so good to see you. After Nola left to…
Unexpected reunions dominate Doctor Who Comics #2. Written by Jody Houser, penciled by Roberta Ingranata, colored by Enrica Eren Angiolini and Shari Chankhamma, and lettered by Richard Starkings and Sarah Hedrick, the issue finds several familiar faces popping back up. Faces like the Skithra Queen, who joins forces with the Thirteenth Doctor and her fam,…
Like mutantkind in the age of Krakoa, X-Twitter has never flourished more than in the era of comics from HOXPOX onward. From hot takes and #xspoilers, to thoughtful dialogues and good natured roasts, X-Fans have been able to come together to celebrate the incredible characters and stories that have inspired them for decades. Artists on…
Miskatonicās Magical Misery Tour continues with a trip to Arkham in AfterShock Comicsā Miskatonic #2. Written by Mark Sable, penciled by Giorgio Pontrelli, colored by Pippa Bowland and lettered by Thomas Mauer, Miskatonic #2 finds our intrepid investigators on the run from the Dagon cultists, aiming toward deeper, darker corners of Lovecraft Country. We open…
Dan Grote Ā· WMQ&A Episode 139: Comics and Prose with Darcie Little Badger Dan and Matt are joined by writer Darcie Little Badger, who contributed a Dani Moonstar story to the recent Marvel Voices: Indigenous Voices anthology, published her debut novel, Elatsoe, this year and once had the high honor of having a short story…
If you listen to WMQ&A, you know that I am a cat person. My wife and I have a cat, Bess, who pretty much controls every aspect of our lives. But what I talk about less, because we currently donāt have one around the house, is that we are also bunny people. And so when…
āPeople donāt believe in God,ā says Jesus Christ in Second Coming #1, āso much as they hope for a witness to their suffering.ā Thus began a series from writer Mark Russell and artist Richard Pace that surprised readers and critics alike. Far from the blasphemous screed the Fox News crowd assumed it would be before…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick Excalibur #16: So Betsy is a sneering stained-glass mosaic, Saturnyne is keeping Jubilee’s son as her dragon pet that can melt reality and the Captain Britain Corps is back with a thicc-ass…
Merry Chrises-Mas to all and to all a good episode of podcast talking about different X-Men stories from around the holidays with our good friends, Chris & Christi Eddleman from over at Chrises On Infinite Earths. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine #49 Merry X-Men Holiday Special Power Pack #20
Peach Momoko has done fantastic work on covers and now she is bringing her work to interiors. Demon Days is a Japanese inspired story featuring Marvel characters reimagined as samuri, oni, yojimbos, and YÅkai. Starting with Demon Days: X-Men, Peach will be writing and drawing a 5 issue tale of a sword quest mixing Japanese…
What if reality was only as real as people believed it was? What if it could change depending on popular support? And what if the real breakout Image comic of 2020 was not a thing that purportedly had something to say about superheroes but actually had something to offer about the way in which conspiracy…
Welcome back to Bat Chat with Matt (and Will!). This week weāre back to just one book with the conclusion of the Ghost-Maker story, as Batman faces off with his foe and Harley has a heart-to-heart with Clownhunter in Batman #105 by James Tynion IV, Carlo Pagulayan & Danny Miki, Alvaro Martinez & Christian Duce…
In their stunning first issue, Al Ewing and Valerio Schiti promised that S.W.O.R.D. was the future. They just didn’t say how long that future will last. As Knull, the King in Black, covers the world in darkness, the immortal mutants will learn the most fundamental truth of the universe. Everything dies. Al Ewing has already…
As we close out the year that was, the staff at Xavier Files wanted to take a moment to highlight our favorite comics from throughout the year. There were so many great books that we couldn’t list them all, but we wanted to give our team the chance to highlight an issue, an arc, a…