The Enterprise crew fights for their lives as they attempt to resolve last season’s cliffhanger. Also, Spock gets his wish to be back with Nurse Chapel, but at what cost? Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3×01 “Hegemony: Part II” is written by Davy Perez and Henry Alonso Myers and directed by Chris Fisher, and 3×02…
For the first time in New Orleans history, the city has declared a Mutant Appreciation Day festival and street fair, with all the music, food and fun the city is famous for. If the Hellfire Gala is filet mignon, this is corn dogs and lemonade. But are all mutants OK with this attempt at bridging…
Somehow, as we near 200 episodes, we still stumble across holes in our coverage. He’s appeared in a lot of stories we’ve covered, but we have never done an episode purely focused on Penguin stories. So this week, we remedy that. We’re reading Penguin’s first appearance, the story that changed him from supervillain to mobster…
Wanna feel ancient? Tom King and Gabriel Walta’s The Vision is 10 years old. The 12-issue series in which the android Avenger builds himself a family and they slowly erode in a malaise of existential funk – just like humans! – was launched Nov. 4, 2015. Kind of makes me want to sit here and…
Your local comic shop is about to get a little more jawsome. No, wait. Your local comic shop is about to get a little more fin-tastic. No, WAIT. Your local comic shop is about to enter a cartil-age undreamt of. Because shark skeletons are made of cartilage. BOOM. Nailed it. Actually, not BOOM. IDW. Mattel…
The FBI finally discovers the mutant child from the Oklahoma incident and the safehouse Storm sheltered the child in. Storm must protect this child, but there is one problem: The last time Storm was in close proximity to the child, she died a horrible death. Also, cosmic stuff happens. And Bishop is here! Storm #10…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: Flash: Bad Moon Rising Special #1: Bad Moon Rising…
Happy Shark Watch to those who celebrate! Not only is it that time of year when a certain television channel/streaming service shows a lot of footage of nervous scuba divers, but it’s also the 50th anniversary of Jaws, so — dun dun, dun dun — go get that bigger boat you needed because the ComicsXF…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 360: Si Spurrier talks The Voice Said Kill and The Flash Writer Si Spurrier joins the show to talk about his new Image series The Voice Said Kill, winding down his run on The Flash at DC, and more. You can listen to The ComicsXF…
400 episodes and nearly 8 years later, Zack and Adam return to some of their earliest episodes, Days of Future Past style, to right the wrongs that led them to this point. They also answer some listener questions. Re-ranked this episode:
Marvel ramped up to Comic-Con this month by announcing X-Men: Age of Revelation, a sweeping event beginning in October that will remake not just the X-line but will draw in a number of major Marvel players including Spider-Man, the Avengers, Deadpool, Iron Man, and Cloak and Dagger. The basic pitch: 10 years in the future,…
In 1983, Marvel released a promotional comic called The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Texas, in which Professor X and Magneto compete to recruit a mutant named Danny Wiley who has the power to transform into a winged centaur. It is his first and only appearance. Next week, the Uncanny X-Men go to…
Three hundred years ago, metahumans emerged on Earth, ushering in a new age of gods and monsters. Three years ago, a hero named Superman emerged as the most powerful metahuman to date. Three minutes ago, Superman lost for the first time. With that opening crawl, a new era of DC films begins with Superman, starring…
Against the fallout of someone mysteriously killing the rulers of the Marvel galactic empires, the fires of war are lit! As that conflict simmers, Nova and Star-Lord race to discover who is behind all these evil acts — a journey that takes them to the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda. Imperial #2 is written by Jonathan…
Imprisoned inside Ark M, Batman will not give in. He will not give in to the experiments. He will not give in to the privations. He will not give in to Bane. He will escape. Absolute Batman #10 is written by Scott Snyder, drawn by Nick Dragotta, colored by Frank Martin and lettered by Clayton…