Batman faces down Hush and his cronies with Robin and an odd ally: Bane. Nightwing and Red Hood deal with Joker. And Batgirl goes to talk to her dad, which leads to a confrontation with Batman. Batman #161 is written by Jeph Loeb, penciled by Jim Lee, inked by Scott Williams, colored by Alex Sinclair…
The Enterprise crew fights for their lives as they attempt to resolve last season’s cliffhanger. Also, Spock gets his wish to be back with Nurse Chapel, but at what cost? Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3×01 “Hegemony: Part II” is written by Davy Perez and Henry Alonso Myers and directed by Chris Fisher, and 3×02…
Somehow, as we near 200 episodes, we still stumble across holes in our coverage. He’s appeared in a lot of stories we’ve covered, but we have never done an episode purely focused on Penguin stories. So this week, we remedy that. We’re reading Penguin’s first appearance, the story that changed him from supervillain to mobster…
Happy Shark Watch to those who celebrate! Not only is it that time of year when a certain television channel/streaming service shows a lot of footage of nervous scuba divers, but it’s also the 50th anniversary of Jaws, so — dun dun, dun dun — go get that bigger boat you needed because the ComicsXF…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 360: Si Spurrier talks The Voice Said Kill and The Flash Writer Si Spurrier joins the show to talk about his new Image series The Voice Said Kill, winding down his run on The Flash at DC, and more. You can listen to The ComicsXF…
Imprisoned inside Ark M, Batman will not give in. He will not give in to the experiments. He will not give in to the privations. He will not give in to Bane. He will escape. Absolute Batman #10 is written by Scott Snyder, drawn by Nick Dragotta, colored by Frank Martin and lettered by Clayton…
Superman was pretty great, huh? We wanted to keep the good times rolling this week with an episode featuring characters other than the big guy who appeared in the movie. I really wanted to do a Batman/Mr. Terrific team up, but outside team settings, there aren’t really any, so we instead went with a classic…
We live in the age of reboots. Is there a TV series from the ’80s and ’90s that does not have some new version on a streaming service or even a network (I’m not taking shots here, just stating facts. I’m an old, and have been enjoying the Matlock reboot starring Kathy Bates). But as…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 359: Cullen Bunn talks The Sixth Gun, Arcana Royale & more Writer Cullen Bunn joins the show to talk about his new Oni Press series The Sixth Gun: Battle for the Six, his Dark Horse series Arcana Royle, his new book and podcast for Ignition…
As Batman’s hunt for the killer in Gotham’s Rookery district verges on obsession, he dives deeper in, learning about the past of an erstwhile ally and leaving him open for the killer’s strike. Batman: Dark Patterns #8 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden Sherman, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by Frank Cvetkovic. Matt…
The birth of the new DC Cinematic Universe… DC Extended Universe… DC… ah whatever the hell they’re calling it, kicks off on the big screen this week with the debut of James Gunn’s Superman film, so we’re obviously tying in because SEO is a powerful thing. We have three more stories of the World’s Finest…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 358: David Marquez talks The Unchosen & Uncanny X-Men Writer/artist David Marquez joins the show to talk about his new Image Comics series The Unchosen, drawing the Uncanny X-Men in and out of their clothes, and much more. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts,…
This week sees the release of X-Men: The Hellfire Vigil, an all-hands-on-deck jam that sees the various factions of the mutant diaspora reunite to remember the island they all used to live on. Given the number of From the Ashes titles we’ve seen ended in the runup to the Vigil (NYX, X-Force, X-Factor) and the…
Batman faces down the mastermind behind all his recent woes, the terrorist Ra’s al Ghul, as Harley Quinn storms the TV studio and Scarecrow does … something. It’s a series finale that may or may not (almost definitely may not) answer all your questions in Batman ’89: Echoes #6, written by Sam Hamm, drawn by…
The revolving doors of any prison or mental health facility in Gotham City are running jokes, and rightly so; they can’t keep a D-lister like Ratcatcher locked up, let alone someone like the Joker. But they do keep winding up back in custody, so there has to be story potential there, right? This week’s episode…