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  • Kickstarter

EXCLUSIVE: Check out Hannah Templer’s pinup for The O.Z. #3

Dan Grote2 weeks ago2 weeks ago04 mins

In time for the launch of the Kickstarter for the third chapter of The O.Z., we’re dropping an exclusive look at a pinup for the book by Hannah Templer.

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  • X-Men

Oscar, Oscar, Oscar: Tracing the mystery of Inmate X in Uncanny X-Men

Adam Reck2 weeks ago2 weeks ago06 mins

Adam Reck looks back through the Gail Simone run of Uncanny X-Men to see how the mystery of Inmate X unfolded from issue #1 to #29.

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  • Previews

Mortal Thor #11 messes with the bull and gets the horns (PREVIEW)

Austin Gorton2 weeks ago2 weeks ago02 mins

In the grand scheme of animal/human hybrids from Greek mythology, minotaurs have to have it the hardest, right? Everyone loves a centaur, satyrs are basically just people with hairy legs, but a minotaur? You probably have difficulty getting through doors, you’re top-heavy, every time you drop something it invites a “bull in a China shop”…

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  • Previews

Bishop #1 makes us ask: Where are OUR giant guns? (PREVIEW)

Dan Grote2 weeks ago2 weeks ago02 mins

Bishop has always lived by a strict code. But that code will get called into question when his sister, Shard, is sent to the present right before she died.

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  • BatChat

BatChat With Matt & Will: BatChat Pride 2026

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 weeks ago2 weeks ago01 mins

It’s our annual Pride episode of BatChat. It’s nice to see that we have plenty of stories we can cover about queer, out Bat characters, you know? We’re covering the first of DC’s big Pride anthologies, which features stories including Batwoman, The Question (Renee Montoya), Harley and Ivy and Alan Scott Green Lantern, who might…

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  • X-Men

What If…? Uncanny X-Men #1 answers a burning question

Nola Pfau2 weeks ago2 weeks ago09 mins

What If…? Uncanny X-Men #1 explores a world where Cyclops returns to Madelyne Pryor after the events of “Inferno.” It doesn’t go well.

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  • X-Men

Ororo wins in Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #5

Jude Jones2 weeks ago2 weeks ago05 mins

Jude Jones saw Murewa Ayodele’s run on Storm all the way through to the end. With Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #5, he offers some parting words.

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  • X-Men

Uncanny X-Men #29 stages a mutant prison break

Adam Reck and Austin Gorton2 weeks ago2 weeks ago012 mins

Wave goodbye to Graymalkin Prison and hello to some new team members as another story arc wraps in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #29.

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  • Staff Picks

Team Ice Cream Man takes on Deadman, Dream Girls and more CXF Staff Picks

Dan Grote2 weeks ago3 weeks ago05 mins

Boston Brand floats — begrudgingly — through this bluegreen purgatory we call Earth, upholding the Laws of Spiritual Math and protecting humanity from evil.

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  • CXF Interview Podcast

TCXFIP 402: Mark Waid talks Empire and all things DC Comics

Dan Grote and Matthew Lazorwitz3 weeks ago3 weeks ago02 mins

Writer Mark Waid joins the show to talk about his Zoop campaign for a deluxe hardcover edition of his classic series Empire, plus his current work at DC Comics.

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  • Opinions

How Gerry Conway’s Firestorm, the Nuclear Man, chronicled anxiety about the nuclear family

Stephanie Burt3 weeks ago3 weeks ago014 mins

Stephanie Burt pays tribute to Gerry Conway with an examination of his DC hero Firestorm, the Nuclear Man, one of her earliest superhero memories.

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  • Battle of The Atom

Battle of the Atom: Pure Beautiful Stupid

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 weeks ago3 weeks ago01 mins

Much like the band Arcade Fire, the X-Men villain Arcade knows that more is more. Also we talk about Dawn, a thing that will only entertain my friend Robert. Ranked This Episode:

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  • Previews

Storm’s morals are put to the test in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #5!

Austin Gorton3 weeks ago3 weeks ago02 mins

TYPING! Murewa Ayodele’s Storm saga sure has been a trip, huh? From multi-pantheon fights with gods to teases of hippo riding to confusion over how many issues this final volume of the saga will contain, this run has had it all. And while what that “all” was, wasn’t always clear, the the level of sheer…

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  • Batman

Batman #163 wraps H2SH … for now?

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 weeks ago3 weeks ago09 mins

With the Bat family turned against him, Batman must work with other allies to make his stand against Hush in Batman #163.

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  • Previews

Cyclops is Daddy in our EXCLUSIVE preview of What If…? Uncanny X-Men #1

Dan Grote3 weeks ago3 weeks ago02 mins

What if Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor got to raise baby Nathan? Find out in our exclusive preview of What If…? Uncanny X-Men #1!

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