Mark Russell and Steve Pugh’s AHOY Comics series “Billionaire Island” arrived in early March as an uneasy world watched what would soon be declared a pandemic spread across the globe and collectively tugged on its collar and made a big cartoon gulping sound. Suddenly, the idea of the world’s billionaires moving to a floating island…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 133: The House That Walks Like a Man with Dan Watters Writer Dan Watters joins the show to talk about his upcoming Image series “Home Sick Pilots,” his upcoming Vault series “The Picture of Everything Else,” punk rock, cigarettes, Victorian gothic literature and to make co-host Dan Grote feel old…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick Marauders #15: When we last left our favorite mutants, they’d had a lovely dinner getting to know their Arakkan counterparts, until Wolverine ruined it by [redacted] Saturnyne. Find out what happens next…
Hello friends and readers! We’ll try to take your mind off….everything….with a packed week of reviews as Dan Grote hits up the debut U.S.Agent #1, Jude Jones continues his look at all things Miles in Miles Morales: Spider-Man #20, Justin Partridge brings us closer to life incarnate with Avengers #38, Pierce Lightning looks once more…
Vali Chandrasekaran and Jun-Pierre Shiozawa join the show to talk about their webcomic “Genius Animals?” as well as the comedic genius of Werner Herzog, writing for TV vs. writing for comics, and whether Bugs Bunny was ever really the good guy.
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick X-Men #14: Presumably we get more Apocalypse: Mutantdom’s first Wife Guy in this “X of Swords” tie-in by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Mahmud Asrar. ($3.99) Previously, in “X-Men” … Zack’s Pick…
A few weeks ago, we asked writers, artists, readers, retailers, journalists – pretty much anyone who loves comics – to answer one question: With everything that’s happened this year, what is one thing the comics industry needs to do to evolve and thrive in 2021? As we’ve gotten in dozens of responses, the industry has…
Suzie has a line in the final issue of Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s “Sex Criminals”: “And after a while, you stop asking about someone, you stop thinking about someone. Doesn’t mean I stopped caring.” Jon, equally preoccupied with the thought of seeing his fellow series lead after some time apart, narrates: “Now I know…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 131: The Halloween III Special Happy, happy Halloween! We take a break from talking comics to discuss the 1982 film “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” with guests Lonnie Nadler (“Black Stars Above,” “Undone by Blood”) and Third Amigo Rob Lynch. Special thanks to Rob and Melissa Lynch and Hillary…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick X of Swords: Stasis: First of all, on behalf of XF nation: Fuck a Brett Booth. Now that that’s out of the way, GIVE US THE CROCODILE MONSTER. Jonathan Hickman, Tini Howard,…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 130: Tales From The Comic Shop In honor of co-host Matthew Lazorwitz’s birthday, we reunite some of his former co-workers from Dewey’s Comic City, John Bush and David Harris, to talk about their days of selling comics. Oh, and check this awesome commission friend of the show and Battle of…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s Pick Excalibur #13: Get ready for some hot Braddock-on-Braddock action (Wait …), all written by “X of Swords” co-mastermind Tini Howard and drawn by guest artist R. “Powers” B. “Of” Silva “X.” ($3.99)…
We’ve been pretty rough on DC lately. Maybe it was all those layoffs. Maybe it’s Watchmen fatigue. Maybe it’s all those comic shops that have complained about not getting their UCS/Lunar books on time. Maybe it was the Fandome virtual pep rallies (although to be fair, we’re out on virtual cons in general). Maybe it’s…
Last month, we reported on Archie Comics going day-and-date on comiXology Unlimited, releasing new comics direct to the subscription arm of Amazon’s digital comics service. On Monday, manga publisher Kodansha Comics became the second company to go that route, announcing it will drop new chapters of series such as Attack on Titan, Card Captor Sakura: Clear…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 129: Coffee and Comics with Johnnie Christmas Writer/artist Johnnie Christmas joins the show to talk about his Image sci-fi series “Tartarus,” his comiXology original graphic novel “Crema,” his upcoming middle grade work and more. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at xavierfiles.com,…