The following are real* leaked notes from an unnamed executive** at a media company known for its superhero movies but struggling to produce a movie about a cool guy who kills vampires. Trusted sources*** have verified these leaks. The situation they present is about what everyone would expect. These emails consist of communication with a…
This is a review of the movie Joker: Folie a Deux. As, in order to be considered for certain review aggregators, I have to give it a numerical score, I award Joker: Folie a Deux 0 out of 3 possible Jokers. Frank Cifaldi, host of the Insert Credit podcast, recently offered the following anecdote from…
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…
In Daredevil Vol. 8 #6, aka Daredevil #668, Matt Murdock, with the assistance of Doctor Strange, summons a gateway to Hell in part by quoting the book of Proverbs. Proverbs (or מִשְלֵי) is a book found within the Jewish and Christian scriptural canons. It is a collection of short sayings meant to impart wisdom; here,…
Hell-ppy Hell-oween everyone. We are doing a Hell House instead of a heathen haunted house this year on Battle Of The Atom. ComicsXF Senior Hell Correspondent Robert Secundus joins us. Ranked This Episode:
BatChat religion correspondent Robert “Bobby TwoBucks” Secundus is back this week, and he’s brining with him Jean-Paul Valley, the vigilante and sometimes fanatic known as Azrael. We chart the journey of Azrael from the beginning of his ongoing to his most recent mini-series, with a stop off in an alternate world that is… something. We…
It’s the biggest night of the year for the mutants … but, unfortunately, it’s an even bigger night for Orchis. X-Men: The Hellfire Gala 2023 #1 is written by Gerry Duggan; drawn by Adam Kubert, Luciano Vecchio, Matteo Lolli, Russell Dauterman, Javier Pina, R.B. Silva, Joshua Cassara, Kris Anka and Pepe Larraz; colored by Rain…
A classic tale of chivalry, courage, and inevitability with John Reppion and MD Penman’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ritesh: ‘Tis the season! Of yuletide tales and gift-giving! And so we come to a tale of old–The Tale of Ser Gawain and the Green Knight. Crafted with great care and intense research by John…
Robert Secundus: Today on ComicsXF we are joined by the writer of Age of X-Man: The Extremists War of the Realms: Giant-Man, X-Factor, X-Men Black: Emma Frost, What If? Magik, The Amazing Mary Jane, The Trial of Magneto, Gwenpool Strikes Back, and the forthcoming comic (R)ender. We will be discussing Exterminators #1, the first issue…
Mysteries, conspiracies and sacred structures all rise up in the Canadian wilderness in Brother of All Men #2, written by Zac Thompson, drawn by Eoin Marron, colored by Mark Englert and lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou for AfterShock. As before, I’d ask you to read Brother of All Men #2 before turning to the reflections here….
Batman has a complicated relationship with religion. He is a rationalist living in a world with real angels and demons. So what happens when Batman intersects with religion? Well, we don’t really answer that specific question. But we do have three stories where Batman confronts people and creatures with specific religious ties. And we’re joined…
I don’t think you should read this until you have finished reading AfterShock’s The Brother of All Men #1, an engrossing beginning to what is sure to be a powerful, horrifying, gripping read. If you have any affinity for cult horror, folk horror or the previous work of the creators, Zac Thompson, Eoin Marron, Mark…
With the looming release of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness serving as the latest entry in pop culture’s recent obsession with multiverses and realities alternate, parallel and multiple, we asked our ComicsXF writers to share their thoughts about their favorite alternate reality from across the wide multiverse of stories! Earth-1610: The Ultimate Universe…
Bear with me a moment. I’m not nostalgic for the X-Men comics of the ’70s and ’80s. I wasn’t born yet, but also, unlike a lot of comic nerds my age, I never got into the cartoon that built off those stories, or found my way into a comic shop with back issue bins. I…
The first arc of Donny Cates and Ryan Ottley’s Hulk reaches its climax as Bruce Banner’s control over Starship Hulk slips … and something much worse takes the wheel in Hulk #6, written by Cates, drawn by Ottley, inked by Cliff Rathburn, colored by Frank Martin and lettered by Cory Petit. When I wrote on…