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Kamala fights her first Sentinel in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #4

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

Man, remember how much fun The Marvels was earlier this month? How refreshing it was for a Marvel movie to just be a fun romp and not be obsessed with moving some overarching plot along? Just gals bein’ pals. And the Khans! How great were they? That [redacted] cameo at the end sure was a…

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  • Immortal X-Men

Every caption in Immortal X-Men #17, explained!

Mark Turetsky2 years ago2 years ago012 mins

Every issue of Immortal X-Men is narrated by one character. Issue #17, out today, is no different, except that in this case, the narrator is Jean Grey/the Phoenix, who is, well, currently not in the best shape. Is she dead? Is she comatose? Is she reliving all of her past trauma at once? Whatever the…

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  • Staff Picks

Marvel returns to Secret Wars in this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago08 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Secret Wars: Battleworld #1: Forty years ago, Jim Shooter focus-grouped a bunch of kids and found out they loved the words “secret” and “wars.” He used that to create a story intended to…

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  • Interviews

Mutant Pizza trading cards dig into the deepest corners of Ninja Turtle history

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago018 mins

Forty years ago this month, Kevin Eastman drew a masked, bipedal turtle with nunchucks to make his buddy, Peter Laird, laugh in their New Hampshire apartment. And thus a pop culture franchise was born, spanning comics, animation, toys, live-action rubber-suit movies, video games and one unforgettable Vanilla Ice song. And sure, you know Leo, Mikey,…

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  • CXF Interview Podcast

WMQ&A Episode 283: Simon Birks comes out of the cold

Dan Grote and Matthew Lazorwitz2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 283: Simon Birks comes out of the cold Writer Simon Birks joins the show to talk about his Image/Top Cow series Antarctica and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new…

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  • Battle of The Atom

Battle of the Atom: Explicitly D-List

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

Who is ready for Zack and Adam to argue about She-Hulk, a show one of them has not watched, for longer than we talk about some comics? Also, lots of love for John Proudstar, the star of The Gifted, a show we both did watch but forgot about until Zack was writing the episode notes. …

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  • Jean Grey

More Jeans than you can shake a Phoenix at in Jean Grey #4

Anna Peppard and Adam Reck2 years ago1 year ago028 mins

It’s a white hot cavalcade of Jeans Grey in the fiery final issue of our title character’s time-spanning reckoning with her tumultuous past(s). With the future of mutantkind on the line, will Jean douse the flames, or fan them? Jean Grey #4 is written by Louise Simonson, drawn by Bernard Chang, colored by Marcelo Maiolo…

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Logan visits Wakanda in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Wolverine #39

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

Of all the X-Men, Wolverine was always the one who played best with the wider Marvel Universe. He’s fought alongside Captain America in World War II, hunted Wendigos with the Hulk and locked webs with Spider-Man. So it’s been nice watching him go on a series of standalone adventures in which he teams up with…

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  • Star Trek

A New Day Dawns In The Latest Trek Talks

Tony Thornley and Mark Turetsky2 years ago2 years ago047 mins

The Day of Blood is over, and the crews of the Defiant and the Theseus turn their attention toward their futures in an all new Trek Talks! Star Trek: Defiant #8 and #9, written by Christopher Cantwell, with art by Mike Feehan, colors by Marissa Louise and letters by Clayton Cowles, #9 inked by Maria…

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  • BatChat

BatChat With Matt & Will: X Marks the Bat (w/ Adam Reck)

Matthew Lazorwitz, Adam Reck and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

We’re comics fans, so we all love a crossover, right? So why shouldn’t that expand to our podcasts? It’s ComicsXF podcast crossover week, so Matt is joined by Battle of the Atom host Adam Reck to talk about three Batman stories from creators whose work are favorites on BotA. John Francis Moore moves out of…

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  • News

Back to the past, back to the future in previews of Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X #1

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago03 mins

Classic costumes. Fastball Specials. A team-on-the-Blackbird scene. What is this, 1975 through 1991? Yup. We’re going back. Won’t be long now before the softball scene. Marvel has released unlettered previews of January’s Fall of the House of X #1 and Rise of the Powers of X #1, the two five-issue event series that are expected…

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  • News

The X continues to fall in February’s X-Men titles

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago06 mins

This January, two interconnected series will close out the X-Men’s Krakoa era: Gerry Duggan and Lucas Werneck’s Fall of the House of X and Kieron Gillen and R.B. Silva’s Rise of the Powers of X. These five-issue limited series will present the final battle of Krakoa and see the fate of mutantkind decided in a…

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  • Staff Picks

Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the Doom-o-saur in this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago06 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: GIJoe: A Real American Hero #1: The Hama Cut: Skybound celebrates its acquisition of the G.I. Joe license with this director’s cut of the first-ever issue of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero….

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  • CXF Interview Podcast

WMQ&A Episode 282: To gun fu, thanks for everything, David Pepose

Dan Grote and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago03 mins

WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 282: To gun fu, thanks for everything, David Pepose Writer David Pepose returns to talk about his new Punisher series at Marvel as well as Mad Cave’s The Devil That Wears My Face. Plus, it’s ComicsXF Podcast Crossover Week, so Will Nevin stops over from BatChat to…

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  • Loki

Loki just created a multiversal Yggdrasil, I guess?

Jim McDermott2 years ago2 years ago010 mins

Note: This essay contains spoilers for the final episode of Disney+’s Loki season 2. Last week on the season (and perhaps series) finale of Loki, the God of Stories saved the entire multiverse with his bare hands. Weirdly, that’s not a metaphor. After trying for hundreds of years (also not a metaphor) to prevent the…

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