The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #2: Different Views of Death and Sky
Will the avatar of Death find the child who holds the key to immortality? We inch closer to finding out in The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #2.
May 2021
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Time Travel Throws Our Heroes for a Loop in Runaways #36
The Runaways keep trying to lead normal lives, and maybe they’ve finally got it right. It’s like Party of Five, if you remember the 1990s. But who remembers the 1990s? Time travelers, that’s who. It’s a trip back from the future in Runaways #36. Written by Rainbow Rowell, line art by Andrés Genolet, colored by Dee…
A Trip to The Swinging 60s in Fantastic Four: Life Story #1
Marvel’s First Family celebrates their 60th anniversary with a step back in time in Fantastic Four: Life Story #1. A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Spider-Man: Life Story, this new miniseries finds the Richards family’s history warping and changing slightly with a fluidic resonance throughout America’s Atomic Age. Written by Mark Russell, drawn by Sean…
Witness the Gamma of Prehistory in The Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters #1
Tonight’s Double Feature in Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters. First— “Time of Monsters”, a tale of the first Hulk, a tragedy of unyielding philosophy written by Al Ewing and Alex Paknadel, art by Juan Ferreyra, and letters by Cory Petit. Second, a trip to the cinema with the sinister Scarecrow in “A Little Fire” written…
Nightcrawler Crosses A Line In Way Of X #2
He is many, but not The Patchwork Man. Legion guides our crew as Si Spurrier, Bob Quinn, Java Tartaglia, and Clayton Cowles chart a new path in The Way of X #2. Jude Jones: This? This is good. This is very good. This is “let me dispense with the pleasantries and introduce some real meat…
Scouting While Female: Scout’s Honor and My Time in the BSA
It’s 1998. It’s sweltering in the summer sun on the archery range. Pre-teen archers pull their arms back, ready to lose their arrows at the styrofoam targets across the overgrown grass at Camp Drake. I am 11 years old. But I am not sweltering in the few weeks left of August before school starts. I’m…
WMQ&A Episode 160: Going Rogue with Alisa Kwitney
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 160: Going Rogue with Alisa Kwitney Alisa Kwitney joins the show to talk about her new Marvel prose novel Rogue: Untouched, her upcoming Sandman podcast, her dog and more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move Tuesday mornings. You…
The Fantastic Four Get Old, the Hulk Goes Prehistoric and More Staff Picks for 5/19
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick: Fantastic Four Life Story #1: Marvel attempts to replicate the formula behind 2019’s Spider-Man Life Story by sending the FF aging through the decades, courtesy of writer Mark Russell (Second Coming) and artist…
Trinary & The Aesthetics Of Representation
I find myself thinking a great deal about representation, who gets represented and who gets to do the representing. Which is to say, I’m thinking a lot about X-Men: Red. Not particularly because it’s any good or memorable, but because it created and launched a character, who has since appeared in X-Books elsewhere. I find…
Battle Of The Atom: Phoenix Pacemaker
Battle Of The Atom: Phoenix Pacemaker: All men must die. All men must serve. Are we still talking about Game of Thrones? I don’t think so but we’re still talking about death and stuff this week so we’re going to go with it.Ranked This Episode: Death Of X X-Men: The Exterminated Uncanny X-Men Annual 2019
Triple Threats, Bloody Sneakers, and Backlash. This is your Week in Wrestling.
Vishal Gullapalli: I’m here first today! No longer am I the latecomer, I set the pace! Muahahahahahaha! Charlie Davis: Vishal is here to apparently Out Work Everyone. Wait… I think that one is taken. Mikey Zee: No, Charlie, I’m pretty sure Vishal is making a Kazuchika Okada reference… anyway, on to this week in wrestling!…
In Superman #31, Jon Kent Begins Stepping Out of his Dad’s Shadow
Welcome back to SuperChat! Spinning out from the pages of BatChat, Super Boys Justin Partridge and Tony Thornley commit themselves to a new never ending battle, diving into the mighty deeds of Superman. This week Justin is taking a well-deserved break and we’re joined by guest columnist Armaan Babu to talk about Jon Kent’s big…
Wonder Woman #772 is an Exciting But Uneven Journey
Wonder Woman’s journey through Asgard continues as she fights her way out of serpents, through dark forests and encounters a dark reflection of herself thanks to an old foe. Wonder Woman #772 features a story by Becky Cloonan and Michael W Conrad, art by Travis Moore, colors by Tamra Bonvillain and letters by Pat Broseau….
We Draw Double Jokers in Joker #3 and Batman/Scooby-Doo #2
The hunt for the Joker reaches a climax (We don’t really believe that, but we’ll see) as Jim Gordon comes face to face with the boogeyman in The Joker #3, with a lead story written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Guillem March, colored by Ari Prianto and lettered by Tom Napolitano. A much less…
Hear The Symphony Of The Night As Wolverine Slays In An Exclusive Preview Of Wolverine #12
The X-Men have a weird relationship with Dracula right? I can’t be the only one who thinks that it’s a bit out of left field that one of the most enduring, repeated plot points in every generation of X-Men comics is that, on top of everything else, Dracula also hates them/is hot for Storm. It’s…