Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s pick: Monkey Meat #1: Cartoonist Juni Ba (Djeliya) works his magic on a new Image anthology series about a meat manufacturing company operating in an absurd capitalist hellscape. ($3.99) Listen to Ba on WMQ&A….
Christopher Chance is a man on a deadline and working to solve a crime that might be unsolvable. Despite his better judgment, he’s falling for his lead suspect, and her violent ex-boyfriend isn’t happy about it. Oh, and that ex? He’s a Green Lantern. Grab a bagel and find out what happens next in Human…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 191: The Best of 2021 with the … Four Amigos?! That’s right, your ears and hearts do not deceive you. Our good friends Rob Lynch and Will Nevin BOTH join Dan and Matt to recount some of the year’s best comics. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud,…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s pick: Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1: It’s the end of the world as we know it, and the Parliaments of the Green, the Red and the Rot agree to wipe the slate clean. There’s…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 190: Into the Woods with Joe Ciano Writer Joe Ciano joins us to talk about his debut graphic novel, Children of the Woods, out Jan. 26 from Dark Horse Comics. PLUS, one last interview from C2E2 with Keith Dallas and Don Kramer. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts,…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zach’s Pick: Darkhold: Spider-Man #1: Y’all know the Darkhold, right? It’s that spooky book that shows up in Marvel comics sometimes. Well, what if Spider-Man read it? What then, huh? He’s not a Midnight Son,…
The following first appeared in the ComicsXF newsletter. You can get early access to our editorials, a roundup of the week’s best content and get to know the members of the ComicsXFamily by subscribing right here. Last weekend I attended C2E2, my first convention since New York in 2019. As I recall moments from the show,…
Merlyn and King Arthur have taken the Starlight Citadel. Saturnyne still lives, but not for long. Betsy Braddock must decide once and for all where her loyalties lie. There is no haven for the witchbreed. Can they hold on to their champion, here at the twilight of an age? Find out in Excalibur #26, written…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 189: Chicago Chi-nanigans We ain’t here to start no trouble, we’re just here to interview creators and publishing folks on the floor of C2E2 2021 in Chicago. Guests include Mark Sable, Kami Garcia, Gavin Smith, Stephanie Phillips, AfterShock Publisher Joe Pruett and AWA representatives Dulce Montoya and Lisa Wu. You…
Cori’s Pick: Batgirls #1: Fresh off their backups in Batman, Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain patrol the streets of Gotham under the tutelage of Barbara Gordon and powered by friendship in a new series by writers Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad (Wonder Woman) and drawn by Jorge Corona (The Me You Love in the Dark)….
The following first appeared in the ComicsXF newsletter. You can get early access to our editorials, a roundup of the week’s best content and get to know the members of the ComicsXFamily by subscribing right here. I gave up being a Wednesday warrior sometime in 2004. Grant Morrison had just left New X-Men. Chuck Austen had done…
Big dumb action scenes, gratuitous airplane terminology? Sign us up. Larry Hama delivers some good, dumb fun in X-Men Legends #9
It’s Monster Month in the world’s weirdest horror/humor anthology, AHOY Comics’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Death! Who is killing the classic creatures? Find out in “Edgar Allan Poe’s Gore of Frankenstein!” How stupid were 19th century doctors? Learn the giant, bloodsucking answer in “Annabel’s Leech!” Plus: prose, pix, post and possibly poetry! EDGAR ALLAN…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 188: Just Zoop It with Jordan Plosky It’s business time! Dan and Matt chat with Jordan Plosky, one of the founders of Zoop, a new comics-specific crowdfunding platform. Check out Zoop’s current campaign for The Nightcrawlers, an all-ages supernatural adventure comic by Marco Lopez and Rachel Distler. You can listen…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick: One Star Squadron #1: What if Heroes for Hire but for goofs? Red Tornado puts together a team of heroes-on-demand in this six-issue series by writer Mark Russell (Not All Robots) and artist…