Mikey Zee: Picture for me, if you will, two ComicsXF writers, smiling, outlined in pencil. First, we paint in one Mikey Zee with watercolors… going through family photos and seeing him grow from being but a wee babe to the adult he is now–wait! Austin! Not yet, they haven’t finished painting me in yet! Oh,…
Let’s play some funny games in Hellions #9, from Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Ariana Maher. Liz Large: Last issue, we discovered some not-so-great Krakoan rules about robots. This issue will be the one where nothing terrible happens, right? Austin Gorton: I mean, statistically speaking, there’s bound to be one issue without something…
We love democracy and apparently so do the X-Men. Marvel is giving fans a chance to vote on the final member in the first ever X-Men Election. During the epic X Of Swords, fans realized that, since the start of the Krakoan era there has been no official X-Men on the orders of Charles Xavier….
With WandaVision set to bring the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the small screen for the first time via Disney Plus, the two title characters (Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany’s Vision) are about to make history. But while the streaming series represents the first starring turn for the cinematic versions of Vision and Scarlet…
Join us as we spend time with new friends and old enemies in Hellions #8, from Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Ariana Maher. Liz Large: Are you ready to watch Nanny get her…baby-mobile? Magic school bus? [Ed. note: shaggin wagon?] back as forcefully as possible? Because that’s why I’m here. Austin Gorton: Yes!…
As we close out the year that was, the staff at Xavier Files wanted to take a moment to highlight our favorite comics from throughout the year. There were so many great books that we couldn’t list them all, but we wanted to give our team the chance to highlight an issue, an arc, a…
The team becomes A Sharpened Blade in Hellions 7, our first issue post-X of Swords, from Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Cory Petit. Austin Gorton: It seems like only yesterday the Hellions were completing their ultimately-futile mission on Arakko and we mourned the (occasionally sad, often hilarious) deaths of them all, but we…
Ten swords, ten champions, ten nearly forty battles for the fate of the world. The soul still burns as the tournament continues. Kenneth Laster & Ari Bard lead us through Saturnyne’s whims in X-Force #16 by Benjamin Percy, Gerry Duggan, Joshua Cassara, Guru-eFX, and Cory Petit. Then Liz Large & Austin Gorton try something completely…
I love the Marvel Handbooks. Really, any sort of reference guide to fictional universes is my jam, as they combine my affection for big, sprawling, narrative mythologies, history books, and pedantry. Back in the Olden Times, the first iteration of the Marvel Handbooks (specifically, the second, deluxe, edition) was my guide to a Marvel Universe…
Ten swords, ten champions, ten battles for the fate of the world. X Of Swords continues to build towards the tournament this week. First Austin Gorton & Liz Large remind us that “‘if you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’” with Hellions #5 by Zeb Wells, Carmen Carnero, David Curiel, and Ariana Maher. Then Allison Senecal…
Love bleeds in issue #4 of Hellions, from Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Ariana Maher. Liz Large: Six months ago if you told me I would have intense feelings about a random assortment of d-listers and Alex Summers, of all people, I would have thought you were crazy. But it turns out that…
Learn whether mutants are bound by Xavier’s dream or by trauma in issue #3 of Hellions, from Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Ariana Maher. Austin Gorton: Welcome back to the ongoing baroque body-horror nightmare that is Hellions! We last left our crew of villainous misfits beset by Zombie Marauders led by their demented…
We’re back! Hellions returns not a moment too soon for an issue by Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Cory Petit. As these reprobates enter the Star Home For Foundlings, they are forced to face their own trauma in Hellions #2. Austin Gorton: Well, after the longest trip from Krakoa to Nebraska ever, the…
We’re in for a wild ride as Hellions begins with a debut issue by Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Cory Petit. The team comes together, with Psylocke as their parole officer and Sinister as the adult in the room. There is no way this could go poorly… Liz Large: I honestly had no…