Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaan’s pick: Night Fever: In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can’t sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer,…
What follows is not a critique of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Street Fighter #1, an IDW comic by writer Paul Allor, artist Ariel Medel, colorist Sarah Myer and letterer Ed Dukeshire. At its core it is a silly comic about a group of turtles fighting a group of colorfully costumed humans created in the…
Ron DeSantis is a pile of human excrement molded into human form and stuffed into a suit. The comic about him isn’t so great either. Political Power: Ron DeSantis is written by Michael Frizell, drawn and colored by Martin Gimenez, lettered by Benjamin Gilbert and published by TidalWave Productions. Roy remains the center of the…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 260: Kenneth Laster & Damien Becton Succeed in Not Dying Kenneth Laster and Damien Becton join the show to talk about their Kickstarter campaign for Try Not to Die, an omni-horror comic. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where…
Very famous author Emily Harding of Emma of 83rd Street joins us to talk about another Emma you might know. Emma Frost. Who has never actual read Jane Austen. Ranked This Episode:
Worf is angry with Spock, Spock is distrustful of Lore, Ro and Torres can’t get along, and the new Orion pirate crewmember is a great big wildcard. What could go wrong for the Defiant? Meanwhile, Data runs a game of Dungeons and Dragons Nonspecific D20-Based Open License Fantasy TTRPG for the Theseus crew in Star…
Batman is back in his own Gotham, but things have changed. And so has he. Is he really ready to step right into the role again, even after everything that has happened? Batman #136 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Belen Ortega, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup,…
It’s summer and that means it is time to hit the lake with your boys and a thirty-rack of PBR and enjoy that boat of yours. It’s what you live for, isn’t it? Ain’t nothing better in this world then spending the day out on the boat, regardless of what is being shot at you…
They stalk the night. When they have your name, you are as good as dead, so pray that you never draw their attention. They are the League of Assassins. Whether they serve Ra’s al Ghul, his daughter Talia, the Sensei or any other master, the League has been a thorn in the side of Batman…
Piotr Rasputin may seem like a simple man, but with the Sinister Four having lost voting privileges, he’s the most powerful one-man voting bloc on the Krakoan council. Too bad he’s an unwilling Russian operative. Immortal X-Men #11 is written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Lucas Werneck, colored by David Curiel and lettered by Clayton…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Note: Banner photo is a variant cover to Fantastic Four #8 by Scott Koblish. Listen to Koblish talk about that cover on WMQ&A. Zack’s pick: Loki #1: They may be the “benevolent” God of Stories…
SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Amazing Spider-Man #26. On May 31, Marvel released Amazing Spider-Man #26, controversially killing Marvel’s most prominent South Asian character, Kamala Khan. She becomes one more of a long line of characters whose deaths happen to fuel Peter Parker’s ever-flowing fountain of…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Presents OUR SON PETE Episode 15: The One with the Big, Round Number In a beyond-the-paywall episode of WMQ&A’s monthly Patreon bonus podcast, Chris Hassan of AIPT’s X-Men Monday column joins Dan to talk about Excalibur #100, the Xavier Protocols, the Wisdom-Lockheed feud and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on…
DC’s latest relaunch is here, and we at ComicsXF love nothing more than judging things. (Wait, hold on, my editor is telling me it’s called critique.) Well, CXF’s regular DC columnists Tony Thornley, Armaan Babu and Matt Lazorwitz decided to take a look at the releases so far and grade them. One note, we are…
Rogue, man. We all know she was a villian before joining the X-Men, but for people who only read X-Men (aka listeners of this podcast, I assume) they might not have seen everywhere she shows up as a baddie before this. We resolve that by describing the adventures of ROM, the greatest of the Spaceknights….