Battle Of The Atom: Skinsuit
Trent Reznor once said, “I want to feel you from the inside,” and the gothy romantic she is, Moira took that seriously in her tenth life. Ranked This Episode:
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History fit for a presidential executive order in Marvel’s 1776 #1
A mysterious force dares to tamper with the threads of history. Captain America and a squad of Marvel heroes leap into action to safeguard the founding of the United States of America. The fate of the nation hangs in the balance at the dawn of the Revolution, as these heroes must navigate the treacherous waters…
Battle Of The Atom: Let Doom Be Doom
Zack gets mad at people who take a man named Victor Von Doom too seriously. Adam does his absolute best to save the podcast from neurogas. Ranked This Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: Blowing Crap Up
It’s a lovely morning in the X-Mansion, and you are a horrible mutant. Ranked This Episode:
The Exceptional kids play pirate, Cloak and Dagger surprise and more Age of Revelation
It’s time to wrap up the first month of the future! Rather than tackle each “Age of Revelation” book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s offerings: Expatriate X-Men #1 is written by Eve Ewing, drawn by Francesco Mortarino,…
Battle Of The Atom: Corpse Stuff
Happy Halloween, everybody. We have stories about corpses. Also economics? Ranked This Episode:
This week’s Age of Revelation books check in on the villains and key mutants like … Spider-Man
The Age of Revelation continues to grow with another four new stories! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s offerings: X-Men: Book of Revelation #1 by Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo…
Battle Of The Atom: Three Large, Round Reasons
Look folks we are 30 or 40 years old, sometimes it takes 3 weeks to record an episode about 5 total issues of comics. This is what life is for us who choose this life. Ranked This Episode:
The Age of Revelation expands with 4 new books, 2 Rogues and 1 sad Gambit
The Age of Revelation will continue until morale improves (or January, whichever comes first), so we’ve got another week of fresh new “replacement” books and tie-ins alike! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s…
From announcements to Artist Alley, CXF’s New York Comic Con in review
ComicsXF’s Adam Reck and Dan Grote were only at this year’s New York Comic Con for a brief window of Thursday into Friday, but we tried to see as much as we could in two days and bring you our hot takes on what was trending, what was working really well and maybe a few…
Al Ewing returns to Arakko in an X-Men: Age of Revelation roundup
Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse! I mean X! I mean X-Man! … Ah, screw it. Amazing X-Men #1 is written by Jed MacKay, drawn by Mahmud Asrar, colored by Matt Wilson and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Binary #1 is written by Stephanie Phillips, drawn by Giada Belviso, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and lettered by…
11 things ComicsXF is excited to see at New York Comic Con
We’re just days away from this year’s New York Comic Con at the Javits Center. And while we’ll be providing our normal podcast interviews and website wrap-up coverage, we wanted to share our thoughts beforehand of some stuff we’re excited to see (or not see since we won’t be there all weekend). The Fantastic Four:…
Battle Of The Atom: Something To Say
Sometimes, X-Men comics have something to say. No one said they should say it, but darn it, the X-Men are going to say something. Ranked This Episode:
A walk in the ZARK: The evolution of sound effects for Cyclops’ optic blasts (Part I?)
A while back, we here at ComicsXF were pondering the origin and frequency of ZARK, give or take a few Z’s, as a, or perhaps the, sound effect for Cyclops’ optic beams. Surely, ZARK must be up there in terms of mighty Marvel sound effects, along with THWIP, SNIKT and BAMF, right? In fact, what’s…
Battle Of The Atom: Turning Japanese
The editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel’s history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the…