I have experimented with different columns and different formats over the five or so years Iāve been writing about comics, but you, Loyal Content Consumer, donāt necessarily care about that; no, you care about the comics, and I want to care about the comics with you. When Iām curled up in my big ratty office…
Ikaris is the last Eternal to come back to a now-meaningless life, expected to carry on with business as usual. So begins an ambitious relaunch courtesy of writer Kieron Gillen, artist Esad RibiÄ, colors by Matt Wilson, and Clayton Cowles handling the lettering and design! Zoe Tunnell: It is here!!! After a two-month delay and…
Zoe Tunnell: Hi there! I’m Zoe Tunnell, and I think the Eternals are pretty neat. I’ve got a weird history with the team as they somehow were one of my first forays into the Marvel Universe! After getting into comics via the Ultimate Universe as a teen in the mid-2000s, I started scouring my local…
X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman has a passion for graphic design. His love of charts has become nearly as memetic as his pithy interviews. Since we at ComicsXF are evolving our graphic design with the relaunch, we figured it was the perfect time to invite Jon over to talk about charts. Zachary Jenkins: Design elements have…
Christi and Chris get weird in this patron-requested Weird War III episode! What’s the deal with Excalibur and Nazis? How brutal is Kitty Pryde? Why does Lockheed routinely vanish mid-issue? All this and more in this episode! Patreon Kofii Album Art by Kate Foray Music Credits: āEvening Melodramaā Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By…
It wasnāt supposed to end like this. Xavier Files started at my dining room table over a plate of bacon and eggs. It was a Tumblr blog where I took bits and pieces of my favorite comics podcasts and foolheartedly assumed my opinion on comics would be exactly what the internet needed. I wrote about…