Dan Grote

Dan Grote is the editor and publisher 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 Paul Winston Wisdom.

Pete Wisdom Primer

Pete Wisdom

GOLD SILVER BRONZE A spy working for shady British intelligence organization Black Air, Peter Winston Wisdom saw what was really going on in her majesty’s secret service, and he didn’t like it. He joins the mostly mutant superhero team Excalibur after accompanying them on a mission to Genosha and developing a relationship with core member…

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Writer Eric Palicki Barks at the Moon in This Chat about AHOY Comics’ Black’s Myth

The 1987 film “The Monster Squad” is perhaps best known for the line, “Wolfman’s got nards!” Janie Jones “Strummer” Mercado doesn’t have nards, but she is a werewolf. And a private investigator. And she just got presented with a case of biblical proportions. That’s the premise of Black’s Myth, a new, black-and-white series from AHOY…

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The Fantastic Four Get Old, the Hulk Goes Prehistoric and More Staff Picks for 5/19

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick: Fantastic Four Life Story #1: Marvel attempts to replicate the formula behind 2019’s Spider-Man Life Story by sending the FF aging through the decades, courtesy of writer Mark Russell (Second Coming) and artist…

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