Remember when Phoenix ate a star and killed a planet of Asparagus People, and then the recently-deceased Jim Shooter told creators Chris Claremont and John Byrne they had to scuttle their plans to lobotomize her as punishment, so they killed her instead, thereby creating one of the most memorable and impactful endings to a superhero…
For the third year in a row, the crew of the Uncanny Experience — Minnesota’s preeminent immersive X-Men fan convention — recently transformed the historic Minneapolis Club into the X-Mansion for a weekend. For the second time, I was able to attend (scheduling conflicts kept me away from last year’s show), with an added twist:…
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…
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…
When a brilliant but exploitative Hollywood director makes a surprise hit horror film featuring a serial-killing mutant girl, there are protests at theaters around the country and a rise in anti-mutant violence in those same communities. But is it “just a movie,” or is something much more insidious going on? Will a malignant force make…
This week sees the release of X-Men: The Hellfire Vigil, an all-hands-on-deck jam that sees the various factions of the mutant diaspora reunite to remember the island they all used to live on. Given the number of From the Ashes titles we’ve seen ended in the runup to the Vigil (NYX, X-Force, X-Factor) and the…
One year ago, at the final Hellfire Gala, the dream of a unified mutant nation was forever shattered by a cowardly sneak attack by anti-mutant forces. To mark the moment and to proclaim loudly and strongly to all concerned that mutantkind still stands, the time has come for X-Men of all stripes to come together…
Hot town, summer in the cityBack of my neck gettin’ dirty and gritty Summer is in full swing: Temps are rising, fireworks are exploding and pools are bustling! We here at ComicsXF love to cool off with some sexy bods, which makes us especially excited for the return of the Marvel swimsuit specials with next…
The last story arc of Laura Kinney: Wolverine brought the ever-delightful Honey Badger into the series (and back into our lives). Now, another character from Laura’s past is set to kick off the next story arc: Haymaker! Debuting in Erica Schultz’s 2023 X-23: Deadly Regenesis retro miniseries, Haymaker makes the jump from retroactive continuity to…
The Dark Artery, gateway to an underworld of unspeakable evil, has taken one of the Outliers, and it will take the Uncanny X-Men to get them back, if they can survive the corruption process needed to enter. Plus, the secret of the Endling at last? Uncanny X-Men #16 is written by Gail Simone, drawn by…
In True North, out July 1, writer and Alpha Flight superfan Daryl Lawrence has written the definitive issue-by-issue accounting of the first volume of everyone’s favorite Canadian super team. As a fellow devotee of the “one issue at a time” approach to comic book analysis, I reached out to Daryl to ask him about the…
Like a semi truck that turns into a robot, or an ancient artifact known as a “cassette tape player” that transforms into a robot and also shoots out cassette tapes that transform into robots, Skybound’s Transformers series is about to undergo a transformation of its own. News broke today that writer and Skybound impresario Robert…
Today marks the end of the current phase of IDW’s Star Trek comics, with the release of Star Trek: Omega. But the Star Trek license isn’t going anywhere, and to prove it, IDW recently announced the next Star Trek series from writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, Star Trek: The Last Starship. In a mashup…
Fifty years ago this May, Illyana Nikolaievna Rasputina made her first appearance in Marvel Comics’ Giant Size X-Men #1. Created by writer Len Wein and artist David Cockrum, Illyana is a young Russian female mutant with the power to create stepping discs she can use to teleport people and objects. She also has been the…
Ever since she discovered she was a mutant, Kamala Khan has been balancing her previous life as Ms. Marvel with her role as a leader in the new community, but her conflicted identity has come at a deep personal cost. Now, pulled into the distant past by an unhinged villain with deep ties to mutant…