DC’s latest relaunch is here, and we at ComicsXF love nothing more than judging things. (Wait, hold on, my editor is telling me it’s called critique.) Well, CXF’s regular DC columnists Tony Thornley, Armaan Babu and Matt Lazorwitz decided to take a look at the releases so far and grade them. One note, we are…
The grand opening of Orgham Place holds something sinister, and the Bat Family must try to stop it. But the Orghams have plans within plans that even Batman may not be able to stop. The lead story in Detective Comics #1,072 is written by Ram V, penciled by Ivan Reis and Stefano Raffaele, inked by…
X-Chat returns with three big issues! The war between Logan and Beast escalates in Wolverine #33 by Benjamin Percy, Juan Jose Ryp, Frank Martin, Orchis wages war on Krakoa in X-Men #22 from Gerry Duggan, Joshua Cassara, Marte Gracia and Clayton Cowles. Kid Omega returns in X-Force #40 from Percy, Robert Hack, Paul Davidson, Guru-eFx,…
The beauty of DC’s Elseworlds concept, rather than a more traditional What If? or imaginary story, is the variety it opened up. This wasn’t a simple small recasting of one event, butterfly effect style, but creators imaginations could go wild and choose different times, places, and even twist the most basic concepts of the character…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 259: Southpaw Sound-off with Jorge Molina Artist Jorge Molina joins the show to talk about Zurdo, an art book looking back at his career in the industry, now crowdfunding on Zoop. PLUS, a sneak peek at the latest episode of our Patreon bonus podcast, Our Son Pete. You can listen…
Of all superheroes, Batman seems to have spawned more characters that are dark reflections of him than any other. Sure, Superman has Bizarro, and Spider-Man has Venom, but Batman has a legion of the them: Killer Moth, Bane, Hush, Owlman (the Lincoln March one), Wrath, Prometheus. There are enough to fill multiple episodes, so we…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 258: Evil Faeries and Vampires with Soo Lee Artist Soo Lee joins the show to talk about her new Dynamite series Disney Villains: Maleficent, her graphic novel Carmilla: The First Vampire, DC/RWBY and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and…
A new anthology series debuts in this first issue of Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The robots are revolting! And they’re killing all humans, too … but seriously. As Batman and Superman face Ultra-Morpho, all the robotic heroes and villains of the DCU begin to attack. And by issue’s end the true mastermind is…
While there are plenty of stories with Bruce Wayne in them, how many are really about Bruce Wayne? Not Batman, the Dark Knight, but captain of industry, philanthropist and playboy Bruce Wayne? At least three, as this week we look at the story of Bruce’s problematic return to health after Knightfall, a 150 year old…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 257: Rangers, Radiants and Recipes with Melissa Flores Writer Melissa Flores joins the show to talk about her Image books The Dead Lucky and Radiant Pink, Power Rangers and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new…
Mystery Inc. is out as Batman’s go-to team of teen sleuths, and the Wraith Wranglers are in. But why has Batman dumped Scooby and the gang? Find out in The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #8, written by Sholly Fisch, drawn and colored by Erich Owen and lettered by Saida Temofonte. All roads lead to a…
Batman’s allies are known for many things. Their brains. Their fighting skills. Their dedication. And while Dr. Leslie Thompkins, the woman who comforted Bruce Wayne the night his parents were killed is lacking in the second of those three attributes, she more than makes up for it in the first and third. Leslie is a…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 256: The Seasons Have Teeth, and So Does Dan Watters Writer Dan Watters returns to talk about his new Humanoids graphic novel The Incal: The Dying Star, BOOM’s The Seasons Have Teeth, Marvel’s Loki, DC’s Knight Terrors: Detective Comics and more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud,…
Batman faces down Red Mask on a journey through the Multiverse, where we see some very familiar cowls in Batman #135, written by Chip Zdarsky, penciled by Mike Hawthorne, Mikel Janin and Jorge Jimenez, inked by Adriano Di Benedetto, Jimenez and Janin, colored by Tomeu Morey and Romulo Fajardo Jr., and lettered by Clayton Cowles….
Wouldn’t it be great to go to school in Gotham City? Well, it probably wouldn’t be scarier than anywhere else. This week, Mrs. Abigale Heartbalm, Esq. stops by, and we talk Gotham Academy and two other school centric Batman related stories. We talk about how Gotham Academy successfully brings manga tropes to Gotham, question how…