Marvel on Thursday kept the Doug times rolling with a sneak peek at the second month of X-Men: Age of Revelation, fall’s big event that will transform the X-line into a dark future ruled by Doug Ramsey, aka Revelation, the heir of Apocalypse. Marvel announced 17 new books last week, all dropping in October, to…
Wanna feel ancient? Tom King and Gabriel Walta’s The Vision is 10 years old. The 12-issue series in which the android Avenger builds himself a family and they slowly erode in a malaise of existential funk – just like humans! – was launched Nov. 4, 2015. Kind of makes me want to sit here and…
Your local comic shop is about to get a little more jawsome. No, wait. Your local comic shop is about to get a little more fin-tastic. No, WAIT. Your local comic shop is about to enter a cartil-age undreamt of. Because shark skeletons are made of cartilage. BOOM. Nailed it. Actually, not BOOM. IDW. Mattel…
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. Matt’s pick: Flash: Bad Moon Rising Special #1: Bad Moon Rising…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 360: Si Spurrier talks The Voice Said Kill and The Flash Writer Si Spurrier joins the show to talk about his new Image series The Voice Said Kill, winding down his run on The Flash at DC, and more. You can listen to The ComicsXF…
Marvel ramped up to Comic-Con this month by announcing X-Men: Age of Revelation, a sweeping event beginning in October that will remake not just the X-line but will draw in a number of major Marvel players including Spider-Man, the Avengers, Deadpool, Iron Man, and Cloak and Dagger. The basic pitch: 10 years in the future,…
In 1983, Marvel released a promotional comic called The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Texas, in which Professor X and Magneto compete to recruit a mutant named Danny Wiley who has the power to transform into a winged centaur. It is his first and only appearance. Next week, the Uncanny X-Men go to…
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…
It’s crazy how much Age of Apocalypse there’s been since the original Age of Apocalypse story. We wrote about it once. Based on this variant cover by Marco Checchetto to X-Men of Apocalypse Alpha, out Sept. 3, we were inspired to do a quickly googly on what the Storm of Earth-295 got up to after…
The Age of Revelation isn’t just an X-Men story, as the latest batch of series reveals shows. Marvel on Thursday revealed details about the final four books that are part of Age of Revelation, the latest in a long tradition of dark X-futures, in which Doug Ramsey, the heir of Apocalypse known as Revelation, has remade…
Hot on the heels of the Abbott Elementary/It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossover, Marvel has chosen to center the City of Brotherly Love in its latest linewide event. Marvel on Wednesday revealed details about four more of the books that are part of Age of Revelation, the latest in a long tradition of dark X-futures, in…
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. Penn’s pick: Warriors and a Wee Wonder #1: What happens when…
Chill exes reunited. One X-woman on the hunt for another. Havok being a dumbass and working for Sinister, again. And Gambit as one of the last guardians of Penumbra. Marvel on Tuesday revealed details about four more of the books that are part of Age of Revelation, the latest in a long tradition of dark…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 359: Cullen Bunn talks The Sixth Gun, Arcana Royale & more Writer Cullen Bunn joins the show to talk about his new Oni Press series The Sixth Gun: Battle for the Six, his Dark Horse series Arcana Royle, his new book and podcast for Ignition…
Last week, we told you about Age of Revelation, the next big X-Men event, in which the world is transformed by Doug Ramsey, aka Revelation, the heir of Apocalypse. With that announcement came logos for a buttload of new series: Today, Marvel announced details on five of those books – Amazing X-Men, Binary, Laura Kinney:…