In the early to mid-1980s, Marvel very much saw Dazzler as her own thing. Originally planned as a multimedia IP tied to actress Bo Derek, those plans fizzled with the death of disco, but didn’t keep Alison Blaire from starring in her own comic book for 40-some issues before she was folded back into the…
Mei Igarashi was a regular girl until she discovered her unusual abilities and her hair changed from brown to white. Now, learn how and why she came to idolize a mysterious freedom fighter in Africa who also harnesses the power of the storm. Ultimate X-Men #3 is written and illustrated by Peach Momoko, with script…
Does anyone really love Angel? Does anyone, within his Marvel universe, even like him? Who’s asking? It’s Ann Nocenti, in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (2024). Written by Nocenti, drawn by Lee Ferguson, colored by KJ Díaz and lettered by Cory Petit. This beautiful one-shot pops into the Fall of X era at just the right time,…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Doom #1: With Valeria Richards at his side, Doctor Doom goes on a quest to harness more power than any human has ever wielded before to try to stop Galactus from bringing…
Storm has spent the past few years not so much as a superhero but as the leader of a people, defending the broken land of Arakko from threats foreign and domestic. It would be a disservice to the character to simply put her back on the X-Men. So let’s make her an Avenger again. At…
The quick-step march to the end of the Krakoan era continues as Doug Ramsey returns, Mystique and Destiny hash things out, and Hope prepares to do some “messiah stuff” in X-Men Forever #3, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Luca Maresca, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Austin Gorton: It feels like…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode #303: Jordan Morris talks Youth Group Comedy writer and podcaster Jordan Morris joins the show to talk about his upcoming First Second graphic novel Youth Group, out July 16. Other topics include the mid- to late 1990s, ska, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and writing for Hanna-Barbera…
The X-Men reunite then split back up to face off against the dual threats of Bastion and Magneto in X-Men ’97 season 1, episode 9, “Tolerance Is Extinction Part 2,” written by Anthony Sellitti and directed by Emi-Emmett Yonemura “Tolerance Is Extinction Part 2” is emblematic of both the best and worst tendencies of X-Men…
The prompt was “a fine selection of Claremont tentacles, please.” So that’s what we are doing this week. Ranked This Episode
Batman has escaped the prison set up by Zur, who now inhabits Failsafe’s robot body. He must prepare to finally confront his robot double. But various other factions are circling Zur, including Gotham’s new police commissioner, Vandal Savage, and Amanda Waller, whose agenda is only helped by a rogue metahuman. “Dark Prisons” begins in Batman…
Super Jersey Comic Expo on Friday announced it will hold its 2025 show at a new venue, The Dome at Adventure Crossing in Jackson, New Jersey, April 26 and 27, in news being announced first on ComicsXF. The move comes after the 2023 show had to make some rough last-minute pivots that resulted in it…
Mister Sinister is an asshole. That’s not a hot take, even if I said a swear. He is. We had a whole crossover about it just last year. So when he extends a listening ear and, surprisingly, some actual empathy to his conspirator of many decades, Destiny, it comes off as surprising. Did he alter…
The X-Men have had many generations of new mutants, from, well, the New Mutants, to Generation X, to the Morrison era/Academy X kids, to, technically, the O5 X-Men who got pulled forward in time, to whatever little ferals were running around Krakoa and apparently are being shunted off to the White Hot Room for not…
Matt here, and I am going to be writing in the first person for this one. When I started this podcast, I don’t know what I was expecting. Will and I had been writing the BatChat column for a while. Dan Grote and I had been recording The ComicsXF Interview Podcast (then WMQ&A) for quite…
Krakoa took a lot out of Logan, especially toward the end. So it makes sense he’d want to get away for a little bit, hide out from society, maybe run around with some wolves even though he’s named after a cousin of the ferret. Thus begins the new Wolverine series by writer Saladin Ahmed (Daredevil)…