Battle Of The Atom: Mojo TV Takeover
Has there ever been a good Mojo story? One that didn’t disappoint? This episode will not help your case if you think there has been. Ranked This Episode:
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OK, who let Heather out in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Alpha Flight #4
The last time we saw Heather Hudson, aka Vindicator, her husband Mac, aka Guardian, had trapped her in a Department H simulation to restore her mental health or something, in a story in 2019’s Alpha Flight: True North anthology written by – gasp – Ed Brisson. Welp, apparently at some point in the past four…
More Draco connections emerge in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #4
The mutant known as Abyss first appeared during the “Age of Apocalypse” as one of the big, blue guy’s Horsemen. Nearly a decade later, it would be revealed during that oh-so-pivotal Chuck Austen story “The Draco” that Earth-616 Abyss, born Nils Styger, is a son of the demon mutant Azazel and a half-brother of Nightcrawler….
Reading The Marvels: A ComicsXF Primer
As comics fans, we always hope we can find some magic arrow that will transform people who see movies adapted from comics into comics readers. The system is rigged against that, of course: Comics publishers — especially mainstream superhero comics — exist as little more than IP cannon fodder for their vertically integrated masters, feeding…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Gatman Vs. Scarface, Ya Gums!
While a lot of Batman’s best known rogues date back to his earliest days, the 80s spawned a handful of memorable nemeses, and none moreso than Scarface, the evil dummy, and his henchman, the Ventriloquist. This week, we’re reading three stories featuring Scarface, including his first appearance, his origin and the first appearance of his…
Apocalypse assembles his Planeteers in X-Men Red #17
Floating dead-center in the eye of the Mutant Kaiju Kaorak (a not so subtle re-arranging of Krakoa), Storm floats, irises electric blue, electricity teeming from her hands, threatening Genesis with the good time of a fight. This is as audacious as it is silly: this manifestation of mutant cooperation, teeming for a fist fight where…
Star Wars: The High Republic rises to the top of this week’s Staff Picks
Tony’s pick: Star Wars: The High Republic #1: A year after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, Marchion Ro and the Nihil stand victorious. The once mighty Jedi are outclassed, and the Republic is on its knees. On the edges of the galactic frontier, Jedi Master Keeve Trennis leads a desperate assault against an invading force….
WMQ&A Episode 281: Yes, Chef! with Michael Dialynas
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 281: Yes, Chef! with Michael Dialynas Michael Dialynas joins the show to talk about his new BOOM Studios series, Zawa + the Belly of the Beast. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where…
Battle Of The Atom: Fart Cloud
Remember when this podcast started and we were deep in the dog days of the Terrigen Mists? Zack & Adam remember. Ranked This Episode
Gotham War was a letdown, but ‘Tec remains so, so good in BatChat
Gotham is on fire, and worse is coming. Vandal Savage’s plan is about to reach fruition, and while he has promised an army of theives immortality, what he is planning is much darker. After all he has done to them, the Bat family and Catwoman must set aside their differences with Batman to save the…
The Absolute Mess of Loki Season 2
I recall really enjoying the first season of Loki. Fast on the heels of the mostly successful WandaVision, Loki starred Tom Hiddleston as the titular god of mischief on a timeline-tripping adventure involving a love interest who was also an alternate version of himself, an animated clock, secret jet ski aficionado Owen Wilson, and a…
Apocalypse goes Horseman shopping in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men Red #17
“The Blue Dad’s back, and you’re gonna be in trouble …” While Apocalypse was away, his wife and children were wreaking havoc on Arakko. Now it’s time to see where he falls in this mutant-on-mutant war. But first, Daddy needs new Horsemen. Starting with … sigh … Vulcan. Honestly, the servitude could do him good….
BatChat With Matt & Will: Kevin Smith’s On His Best Behavior
Spooky season is over, and so now it’s time for some wholesome fun! We covered three of the six mini-series where Batman ’66 teams up with other properties a ways back, and now we’re returning to cover the other three. We have Kevin Smith writing about the team-up of Batman and the Green Hornet is…
Spider-Boy, king of thieves, weave your little webs of opacity all over this week’s Staff Picks
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. No one asked for this; we just wanted an excuse to put Taylor Swift lyrics in the headline: Spider-Boy #1: After the events of The End of the Spider-Verse, Spider-Boy’s secret history as Spider-Man’s sidekick…
The Moon Siblings Shine Their Brightest in Silk #5
All dreams must turn to waking in Silk #5 written by Emily Kim with art by Ig Guara, colors by Ian Herring, and letters by Ariana Maher. At the end of the previous issue, we saw Silk’s younger brother Albert running from the demon form of Saya Ishii in a literal nightmare. At the same…