Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 126: Our Daughter Kara, a Supergirl podcast Xavier Files staff writer Cori McCreery joins Dan and Matt to talk about her favorite fictional character, Kara Zor-El, Supergirl. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at xavierfiles.com, where new episodes move Tuesday mornings. You…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s Pick (But Really Everyone’s, But Mostly Zack’s Because It’s His Site, But We Are All Very Excited): X of Swords: Creation #1: Swords! Swords! Swords! Swords! Swords! Listen, if you’re not frothing at…
Friends, the Marvel trinity is spotlighted this week as former A Thor Subject writer Vishal Gullapalli hits us with his thoughts on Thor #7, the most handsome man in comics podcasting Dan Grote gives us the business on Captain America #23, and Spider Correspondent Tony Thornley takes a much deserved break to check out a…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 125: Scott Snyder's eternal darkness BIG GUEST ALERT! Writer Scott Snyder (“Batman,” “Justice League,” “Undiscovered Country”) joins Dan and Matt to talk about his Kickstarter for a collector’s edition of the first issue of NOCTERRA, his upcoming Image series with Tony Daniel, his (many) plans for independent projects and a…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Andrea’s Pick Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1: We can all agree the X-Men’s resident goddess has been underwritten since the dawn of dawn of X the Hickman era began the Disassembled stuff Blue and Gold…
Howdy, y’all. Professor (seriously) Will Nevin here. When I came on board to Xavier Files, I was coming from a mostly three-man operation at WMQ Comics to a family of 30+ contributors, and I figured it would be neat to get some folkx together on occasion to talk about something we’d all read. You know,…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 124: The Kubert School special Dan and Matt journey to the Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey, to talk to President Anthony Marques and instructor Fernando Ruiz about the how the school has evolved under COVID-19 and its newest tenant, Dewey’s Comic City. Also, check out our new show logo…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Will’s Pick Ice Cream Man Presents Quarantine Comix Special #1: During the height of the pandemic in the spring, Team Ice Cream Man – writer W. Maxwell Prince, artist Martin Morazzo, colorist Chris O’Halloran…
BOOM Studios on Tuesday launched a Kickstarter for the graphic novel collections of BRZRKR, an upcoming series about an immortal warrior seeking to end his life, a development project for actor Keanu Reeves, co-written by Matt Kindt, drawn by Ron Garney, colored by Bill Crabtree and lettered by Clem Robbins. By Friday, it had made…
Up-and-coming indie comics creators and start-up publishers need to answer a lot of questions. How much money do I need to publish my comic? How can I work with comic shops to market the comics? How do I select a printer? Entertainment contracts attorney Gamal Hennessy seeks to answer those questions in The Business of Independent Comic…
Chances are, if you make comics, at some point you’ll be out here crowdfunding a book through Kickstarter. But just like every comic may be some reader’s first, creators, too, need to start somewhere when it comes to promoting their first indie or self-published comic. After covering Kickstarters and similar projects on his own site,…
Third-generation comics artist Emma Kubert joins the show to talk about her new Image series “Inkblot,” about a mischievous void-space cat that can traverse dimensions and just doesn’t listen. Much feline flap-a-gummin’ ensues.
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #1: A spacefaring crew harvests the bodies of dead gods to sustain civilization, while its captain desperately seeks to find a live one, in a…
Longtime Deadpool artist Mike Hawthorne joins the show to talk about his BOOM Studios graphic memoir, “Happiness Will Follow,” which tells the story of growing up with his single Puerto Rican mother.
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Batman: Three Jokers #1: No one picked this, but it feels silly to ignore the elephant in the room of this week’s releases, DC’s long-threatened Black Label Bat-mini by writer Geoff Johns and artist…