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DIE: Loaded #5 reveals its Master. What now?

Armaan Babu, Mark Turetsky and Rasmus Skov Lykke — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:14:50 +0000

The Master is the one character that brings the rest together, and dooms them to play until all are ready to go home. Meet Violet in DIE: Loaded #5.

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The Fool revealed in Image’s DIE: Loaded #4

Armaan Babu, Rasmus Skov Lykke and Mark Turetsky — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000

What happens when you give a kid a world where they can pretend to be an adult, and the world bends to their desire for mayhem? Meet our Fool in DIE: Loaded #4.

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Marvel’s Wonder Man surprises as actor’s tale, rom-com

Armaan Babu — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Marvel's Wonder Man is a story about acting, and about how being different can isolate you from the world around you, and what it takes to let someone in.

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Enter the Dictator in Image’s DIE: Loaded #3

Armaan Babu, Mark Turetsky and Latonya Pennington — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Someone is bringing the family members of the original DIE party into that 20-sided world. Sophie is working to gather this new party — with one minor snag.

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Image’s DIE: Loaded #2 gets its Frazetta on

Armaan Babu and Rasmus Skov Lykke — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

A Godbinder and a Rage Knight find themselves lost in a realm of endless artscapes, with little idea of why they’re there, and what they’re meant to do. There’s a steep learning curve, but with the help of a mysterious new Master or two, they just might figure things out before they face the game’s...

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Of roles and rolls – Image’s DIE: Loaded takes us back to hell

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000

In 1991, six teenagers disappeared into a magical world based on a roleplaying game. Some, but not all, returned. In 2018, they disappeared once more — and once again, some, but not all, returned. It’s 2025, and people are about to go missing again. Could this be the point of no return? DIE: Loaded #1...

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ADVANCE REVIEW: Does DIE: Loaded #1 uphold the magic it created?

Armaan Babu — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Six children fell into a role-playing game, experienced the true horror of having your fantasies become real – and went through it all again as adults. Now, they’re dealing with what they’ve learned about the true nature of DIE, including the most dangerous truth of all: everyone in the world is still at risk of...

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Doom, Me & ADHD: Nothing in Marvel’s Ultimates #17 needs fixing

Armaan Babu — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Doom can’t think linearly, if he’s to win. He has to focus on the future, on the past, and all the moments in between - and all the moments that weren’t.

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The Age of Revelation expands with 4 new books, 2 Rogues and 1 sad Gambit

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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...

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Al Ewing returns to Arakko in an X-Men: Age of Revelation roundup

Tony Thornley, Adam Reck, Armaan Babu and Austin Gorton — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000

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...

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CXF’s Sinister Six reviews Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

After the dismal Captain America: Brave New World and the surprisingly endearing Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios has released one of its trickiest flicks yet based on the historically difficult-to-adapt Fantastic Four. Fantastic Four: First Steps stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn; and is written by Joshua Friedman, Eric Pearson, Jeff Kaplan and...

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9 ComicsXF writers talk about James Gunn’s Superman, and whether Krypto is a good boy

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:10:06 +0000

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...

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A frustrating finale for fans in Doctor Who’s ‘The Reality War’

Margot Waldman and Armaan Babu — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Margot Waldman: When I started this series of reviews, I got something really pretty desperately wrong. I said that Russell T Davies had nothing to prove to me or to anyone else about Doctor Who. But I’ve realized that, no, he did. He had a big damn thing to prove because he had to prove...

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Giant spectral bone horse-dinosaurs in Doctor Who’s ‘Wish World’

Margot Waldman and Armaan Babu — Sun, 25 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Armaan Babu: It’s the end of the world as we don’t know it. The Rani has swept in, and wasted little time in making and unmaking reality, ready to tear the world apart just to find whoever she’s looking for. It’s a hell of an episode, and the most I’ve enjoyed the series in a...

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Graham Norton forebodes in Doctor Who’s ‘The Interstellar Song Contest’

Margot Waldman and Armaan Babu — Sun, 18 May 2025 17:22:44 +0000

Armaan Babu: I skipped watching the Eurovision finale, but it appears that no matter where you hide, Eurovision will find you. This week, on Doctor Who, Eurovision plays out for over 3 trillion fans across the universe. Margot, are you one of those fans? Margot Waldman: So. Look. I have never watched Eurovision because Eurovision...

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When is a barbershop not a barbershop? When it’s Doctor Who’s ‘The Story and the Engine’

Margot Waldman and Armaan Babu — Sun, 11 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Armaan Babu: If any story is told for long enough, you’re going to come to a part of it that tells you how important stories are. Writers can’t help themselves, and in their defense, they’re not wrong. Stories matter, and stories have power. Where critics like us come in is that we recognize that while...

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It’s not Ruby Sunday’s ‘Lucky Day’ on Doctor Who

Margot Waldman and Armaan Babu — Sun, 04 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Margot Waldman: It’s a strange thing to have a “Doctor-lite” episode in a season as short as this one is – but then, we had one last year in “73 Yards,” another ripped-from-the-headlines political drama (I’m not the first reviewer to compare these two episodes, not by a long shot)! I thought “73 Yards” was...

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Don’t turn your back on Doctor Who’s ‘The Well’

Margot Waldman and Armaan Babu — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:32:23 +0000

Margot Waldman: On their quest to get back home to May 2025, the Doctor and Belinda make a slight detour 500,000 years in the future – and into what I think has been the strongest episode of the season so far. What do you think, Armaan? Armaan Babu: I’m behind you 100%. Well, behind-adjacent, as...

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Doctor Who gets animated in ‘Lux’

Margot Waldman and Armaan Babu — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000

The quest to get Belinda home leads to an abandoned cinema hiding a terrifying secret in Disney’s Doctor Who Season 2, Episode 2, “Lux.” Armaan Babu: If Doctor Who has taught us anything, it’s that it’s not so fun exploring all of space and time without a companion to help you through it. For this...

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The New Gods #5 Asks What Happens When We Die?

Armaan Babu — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Lightray deserved better — but what happens when hope dies? It’s a question that concerns everyone, in The New Gods #5, written by Ram V, drawn by Evan Cagle and Andrew MacLean, colored by Francesco Segala, and lettered by Tomorrow Napolitano What Happens When We Die? It is a question with no verifiable answer —...

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Xavier gets his gold watch in X-Manhunt Omega #1

Adam Reck, Austin Gorton, Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The X-MANHUNT concludes as Professor X reaches his destination and his assorted pursuers, friend and foe alike, catch up with him. Alliances will be battle-tested, the blades of betrayals will cut deep with poisoned tips and, when the dust finally settles, Charles Xavier will have to make a tectonic-shifting choice with the fate of all...

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ON THE X-MANHUNT: X-Force #9 lays a giant egg

Jake Murray, Adam Reck and Armaan Babu — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Sage and Professor X go way back, to another war and another time. But now, in his hour of need, will Sage use her talents to aid the professor’s quest, or put a stop to his manic mission? X-Force #9, the penultimate chapter of “X-Manhunt,” was written by Geoffrey Thorne, pencilled by Marcus To, colored...

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Highfather unlocks Super Saiyan mode in DC’s The New Gods #4

Armaan Babu — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000

War has come to the New Gods, and they must fight to hold onto everything they hold dear. What will they sacrifice to keep the dream of New Genesis alive? Join the fight in The New Gods #4, written by Ram V, drawn by Bernard Chang and Evan Cagle, colored by Francesco Segala and lettered...

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ADVANCE REVIEW: Image’s You’ll Do Bad Things #1 is a slasher with beautiful details

Armaan Babu — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Seth Holms can’t seem to write himself a happy ending. A True Crime bestselling author, he has been trying his best to move on to lighter fare, only to find that no matter how hard he tries, something always keeps pulling him back to dark, gruesome endings for the characters whose fate he controls. He’d...

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Neramani the bollocks, here’s the X-Manhunt in Uncanny X-Men #11

Adam Reck, Austin Gorton and Armaan Babu — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

At the end of the Orchis War, Charles Xavier surrendered himself to the authorities and allowed himself to be imprisoned in his old house. But now, something has spurred him into action, into escaping his incarceration and embarking on a mad scramble across the nation. What has caused Professor X to go on the run?...

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