There’s a whole lot of time traveling going on in the X-books lately. Cable ended up in the far future town of Salvation Bay, where he fell in love with someone who, like him, had the techno-organic virus. Ms. Marvel is currently gallivanting around the X-Men’s greatest hits, fighting an amalgamation of Legion’s remaining personalities….
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 355: Ben H. Winters talk Oni Press' Benjamin Writer Ben H. Winters, creator of the popular CBS series Tracker, joins the show to talk about his new Oni Press comic Benjamin. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Audible and…
Remember Knull, the god of the symbiotes, whom Donnie Cates and Ryan Stegman rammed down our throats and into our hearts so well he got his own linewide crossover a few years back and just appeared in the third Venom movie? Well, he’s back, and he’s here to harass the All-New Venom, Mary Jane Watson….
Teen heroes hit different depending on the era they’re introduced and how they develop over time. Spider-Man was the bullied nerd turned power fantasy with a monkey’s paw. Kitty Pryde is your kid sister who’s better than you at everything. Ms. Marvel was a plucky can-do superhero for the Obama era. The New Mutants were…
A thing about supervillain teams is they’re often found family. Think about the Frightful Four, always scrappin’ and squabbling, but in the end they come together to defeat those pesky heroes in the Fantastic Four. Or the original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The way Magneto talked to Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, you’d think they…
When we last saw Charles Xavier, he had hatched his dead wife, the late Shi’ar empress Lilandra Neramani, from a hidden Krakoan egg and peaced out to space to save their daughter, the current empress Xandra, from the latest Shi’ar coup. Remember, Cyclops had a mental health crisis? The X-Men cried like when Krakoa went…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Austin’s pick: Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1: Kamala Khan is locked…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The ComicsXF Interview Podcast Episode 354: Zoe Tunnell talks Marvel United: A Pride Special Writer Zoe Tunnell joins the show to talk about her Black Cat-and-Sera story in Marvel United: A Pride Special, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind, Blade Maidens and more. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts,…
Caution: This article contains a spoiler for X-Men #17. You’ve. Been. Warned. Little by little, we have begun to learn about the membership of 3K, the mutant-making shadow organization introduced at the beginning of Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman’s X-Men, whose most notable member appears to be Cassandra Nova. This week’s issue #17 brought another…
Not all that long ago, Mister Sinister implanted his genetic code into Emma Frost and three other members of the Krakoan Quiet Council, creating a series of alternate futures in which Sinister and the three other aspects of the original Nathaniel Essex fought to become a Dominion, not realizing they existed solely to feed data…
What do you think Scott and Jean’s psychic dates are like these days? With Jean the Phoenix again and journeying through space, and Scott in Alaska still doing X-Men stuff, catching each other up must be weird at times. Jean: How’s Logan? Scott: We don’t talk much. He’s down in Louisiana with Rogue’s team, but…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Adam’s pick: Imperial #1: Hickman’s doing his thing again, taking his…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · Our Son Pete Episode 39: Ian Edginton talks X-Force On a very special episode of our monthly Patreon bonus podcast, writer Ian Edginton joins the show to talk about his run on the Counter X era of X-Force, his memories of Pete Wisdom and writing a Marvel comic in the…
In the current arc of Laura Kinney: Wolverine, our heroine is in some kind of altered quasi-sitcom reality where she and her sister Gabby (Hooray!) live with their father, Logan, and Laura is experiencing a trauma response regarding the death of her mother in which she writes fantasies about a violent character called the Wolverine….
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…