Latonya Pennington

Latonya Pennington is a freelance contributor whose comics criticism can be found at Women Write About Comics, Comic Book Herald, Newsarama and Shelfdust, among others.

What to read to get to know 3 of the incoming X-Men writers

As of this month’s X-Men #35, Krakoa has magically blipped out of this plane of existence, like Poochy returning to his home planet. The Great Reset button has been hit. Kieron Gillen is gone. Al Ewing is gone. Gerry Duggan is gone. Apart from some Blood Hunt tie-ins and Steve Foxe and Netho Diaz’s Heir…

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Goodbye, Krakoa

The ComicsXF bullpen share their favorite Krakoa memories

In which the Comics XF team gathers to remember the things big and small that made the Krakoan era of X-Men comics an entertaining, transformative and memorable one. For more Krakoan remembrances, please read Jude Jones and Adam Reck‘s writing on the matter. Sean Dillon I suppose we should start with the beginning: HoXPoX was…

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On 10 years of Marvel’s Silk, the death of her Amazon series and where Cindy could go next

Recently, it was announced that Amazon Studios was shutting down production of Silk: Spider Society, a series that would have seen the live action debut of Cindy Moon, a Korean-American female Spider-Hero. According to Nellie Andreeva’s Deadline article, the series had been in production since 2019 and had been facing troubles such as changes in…

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