The “Batman, Wanted” arc concludes, as Batman’s allies rush his unconscious body to the docks to get him out of the city before the Orghams finish what they started. With some unlikely help, they can do it, but what will this mean for Gotham? The lead story of Detective Comics #1,080 is written by Ram…
Ryan Q. “Dinosaur Comics” North loves a disembodied brain. Look at his epic run on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, in which he reforms Nazi scientist villain Brain Drain – a disembodied brain and eyes in a robot body – into Werner Herzog-style comic relief. God, that series was good. Marvel used to be a proper…
This year wound down with a new wave of “comics are dying” discourse that proves how insular its fandom is, how it doesn’t consider larger economic factors like inflation and what other industries are struggling as people make decisions based on their disposable income. Yes, readers are aging out of the medium, and that affects…
It’s the New Year, and so here at BatChat we like to look at different versions of Batman at this time, so we’re going back into Elseworlds territory. But this year, it’s a very specific type of Elseworld: the historical Elseworld, ones transplanting DC heroes and concepts into bygone days. And specifically we’re looking at…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Duke #1: When Conrad S. Hauser investigates the mysteries behind the Transformers, the answers will lead to the birth of forces for good and evil the world never imagined. Duke will be the…
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 288: Pulling the rubber mask off Sholly Fisch Writer and developmental psychologist Sholly Fisch joins the show to talk about The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries, MadBalls vs. Garbage Pail Kids and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify,…
Merry Christmas everyone, let’s celebrate with Zack’s unsolicited opinions. Ranked This Episode:
Trapped on a parallel Earth, surrounded by heroes who believe they are imposters, Batman and Superman are confronted by Gog and his chief disciple, Thunderman. But they are about to learn the secret of Gog and what his plan is, and it is darker than they could have expected in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #22, written…
What if Roy Thomas, who had recently stepped down from being editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics in the mid-1970s, was like, “Well, I want to keep writing, but I don’t want to deal with continuity?” Marvel has answered that question a bunch of different ways over the years, from Thomas’ own Invaders series, written during the…
People always seem to think breaking into and sneaking around Doctor Strange’s house is a good idea. What’s up with that? The Silver Surfer crashes into it in The Infinity Gauntlet, the New Mutants Scooby-Doo it up there in Dead Souls. Heck, Sage and Domino just broke into it in X-Force a couple months ago….
The Avengers face their worst nightmares — literally, as Nightmare traps the majority of the team in a petty slumber. It couldn’t have come at a worse time, as the Twilight Court has appeared, ready to go through the Avengers just to get to Kang. Can the Vision and the Scarlet Witch hold their own…
I found myself struggling for a cohesive theme to some kind of end-of-the-year article, something that would capture the state of an industry whose health has been the status of much Mark Millar-fueled discourse lately. Then I read a comic that was so bad it has me dreading what 2024 will bring. On Wednesday, Marvel…
Merry Bats-Mas to one and all! We’re getting near Christmas, and so it’s time to go back to the holiday stories in Gotham well (and if you think we might run out any time soon, have no fears, we’ve got stories for years). This year, we’re reading the first Batman Christmas story, which features some…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Austin’s pick: Original X-Men #1: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman and Angel — the first heroes to bear the X-Men name — once traveled into their own futures and reset the course of history. Now,…
Spinning out of Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate, it’s Spirit World! This life/death-hopping book is written by Alyssa Wong, drawn by Haining, colored by Sebastian Chen and lettered by Janice Chiang. As a Black-Asian comic book fan, I am almost always interested in seeing Asian superheroes. DC Comics’ limited series Spirit World introduces a new nonbinary…