It’s always interesting to see Magneto fight a non-mutant superhero. What would they even have to banter about between punches? “So, you do spider-things, eh? Well, no matter, Magneto will see you driven before him, another enemy of Homo superior removed!” “You fancy yourself a god? See how easily I cast your metal hammer aside,…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: Rise of the Powers of X #1: Ten years ago, the mutants returned from their exile to try and reclaim the Earth from the forces of Orchis. They failed. Now, Nimrod and Omega…
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · Our Son Pete Episode 10: The one with Nate Grey (Excalibur #95) In a beyond-the-paywall episode of our monthly Patreon bonus podcast, Battle of the Atom co-host and ComicsXF Publisher Emeritus Zack Jenkins joins Dan to talk about Excalibur #95, aka the one with Nate Grey, with detours into Marvel…
Remember when Dazzler made the X-Men and then a giant xenophobic robot smashed into her and all her new teammates at the Hellfire Gala? More importantly than that, remember how much fun X-Terminators was? Seriously, come back to Marvel, Leah Williams. The X-line needs your feral energy now more than ever. Anyway, on Earth-65, the…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Rasmus’ pick: Fall of the House of X #1: Mutantkind has never had a greater fall. Outlawed, hunted, killed, most of their kind missing or dead, and now, one of their greatest leaders, Cyclops, is…
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · Our Son Pete Episode 17: Pryde & Wisdom #1 with Brad and Lisa Gullickson In a beyond-the-paywall episode of our monthly Patreon bonus podcast, Brad and Lisa Gullickson from Comic Book Couples Counseling help Dan break down Pryde & Wisdom #1 … and end up getting distracted by Bob….
Ryan Q. “Dinosaur Comics” North loves a disembodied brain. Look at his epic run on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, in which he reforms Nazi scientist villain Brain Drain – a disembodied brain and eyes in a robot body – into Werner Herzog-style comic relief. God, that series was good. Marvel used to be a proper…
This year wound down with a new wave of “comics are dying” discourse that proves how insular its fandom is, how it doesn’t consider larger economic factors like inflation and what other industries are struggling as people make decisions based on their disposable income. Yes, readers are aging out of the medium, and that affects…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Duke #1: When Conrad S. Hauser investigates the mysteries behind the Transformers, the answers will lead to the birth of forces for good and evil the world never imagined. Duke will be the…
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 288: Pulling the rubber mask off Sholly Fisch Writer and developmental psychologist Sholly Fisch joins the show to talk about The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries, MadBalls vs. Garbage Pail Kids and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify,…
What if Roy Thomas, who had recently stepped down from being editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics in the mid-1970s, was like, “Well, I want to keep writing, but I don’t want to deal with continuity?” Marvel has answered that question a bunch of different ways over the years, from Thomas’ own Invaders series, written during the…
People always seem to think breaking into and sneaking around Doctor Strange’s house is a good idea. What’s up with that? The Silver Surfer crashes into it in The Infinity Gauntlet, the New Mutants Scooby-Doo it up there in Dead Souls. Heck, Sage and Domino just broke into it in X-Force a couple months ago….
I found myself struggling for a cohesive theme to some kind of end-of-the-year article, something that would capture the state of an industry whose health has been the status of much Mark Millar-fueled discourse lately. Then I read a comic that was so bad it has me dreading what 2024 will bring. On Wednesday, Marvel…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Austin’s pick: Original X-Men #1: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman and Angel — the first heroes to bear the X-Men name — once traveled into their own futures and reset the course of history. Now,…
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 287: The Anti-Christ's Alfred with John Pearson, Noah Gardner & Ryan Parrott Ryan Parrott, Noah Gardner and John Pearson join the show to talk about their upcoming Image series The Infernals. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music,…