Dan Grote

Dan Grote is the editor-in-chief of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Winston Wisdom.

Spider-Boy, king of thieves, weave your little webs of opacity all over this week’s Staff Picks

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. No one asked for this; we just wanted an excuse to put Taylor Swift lyrics in the headline: Spider-Boy #1: After the events of The End of the Spider-Verse, Spider-Boy’s secret history as Spider-Man’s sidekick…

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WMQ&A Episode 280: Dracula, motherf***ers with Matt Wagner & Kelley Jones

WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 280: Dracula, motherf***ers with Matt Wagner & Kelley Jones Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones join the show to talk about their Kickstarter campaign for Dracula Vol. 1: The Impaler. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible and…

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Check out our EXCLUSIVE cover reveal for Gilgamesh: Eternal #3, launching today on Zoop

You, a fool: “Did Kieron Gillen launch an Eternals spinoff starring the Forgotten One and I missed the first two issues?” We, an intellectual website: Haha, you fool! We speak of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of global literature’s earliest surviving works, born of ancient Mesopotamia and a proto-example of the Hero’s Journey monomyth. You:…

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Cable and Bishop play ‘made you look’ in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Children of the Vault #3

Marvel’s Children of the Vault combines the high-concept sci-fi of Deniz Camp’s Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E. and the global politics of his 20th Century Men, and throws in the I-hate-you-but-you-shoot-guns-good attitude of your better buddy action movies. But I do wonder why the events of this book aren’t being reflected elsewhere in the Marvel line. No…

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You think Gotham City’s bad, check out the Gotham Below in this week’s Staff Picks

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: Batman: City of Madness #1: Buried deep beneath Gotham City there exists another Gotham, a living nightmare, populated by twisted mirrors of our Gotham’s denizens, fueled by the fear and hatred flowing down…

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WMQ&A Episode 277: British comics history lesson with Paul Grist and Anna Morozova

WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 277: British comics history lesson with Paul Grist and Anna Morozova Paul Grist and Anna Morozova join the show to talk about their upcoming Rebellion series Smash! You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com,…

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