Hey, is Illyana still the Queen of Limbo? What if she’d rather someone else do it? It’s a triumphant return for our creative team (and perhaps less so for our hero team!) in New Mutants #25, from Vita Ayala, Rod Reis, Jan Duursema, Ruth Redmond and Travis Lanham. Liz Large: It’s been 3 months since…
Blade has a daughter who’s gonna be a hero. Moira McTaggart, erstwhile mutant savior and now number one mutant enemy, creeps out on Mary Jane Watson. And those adorable Eternals commit a wee bit of attempted genocide. That’s right: it’s Free Comic Book Day 2022. A.X.E.: Judgement Day, story by Kieron Gillen, art by Dustin…
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…
Captain Kate Pryde has taken her new team to space! Bishop, Psylocke, and the rest– among them, incredibly, the genocidal ex-supervillain Cassandra Nova– have set out for the stars in order to find the First Mutants and solve the mystery of an ancient box. Whatever they seek, the Shi’ar don’t want them to find it–…
What do superheroes do between fight scenes? What about the normies who live among them? Astro City, the long-running indie comic that answers those questions in every issue, is back, baby, back, with all the nostalgia and big feelings we missed when it went away. Astro City: That Was Then #1 is written by Kurt…
Jennifer Walters, the Sensational She-Hulk, may be doing her best to start over, but when your history is as complicated as hers is, it may not let you go. Sometimes that means helping Quicksilver get out of a speeding ticket. Sometimes, though, it means you get to see friends you believed were lost forever, and…
Ahoy, Marauders! It’s a new number one. A new ship (it’s a spaceship). A not-really-new mission (rescue endangered mutants). A new creative team (except that we saw the writer already in the Annual). A new team, except Red Queen Captain Kate Pryde and muscular source of continuity/ time-traveling ex-cop Lucas Bishop. A new mystery (it’s…
Their evil Long Island resort may have burned to the ground, but the Circus of Crime has bigger plans: they’re after a fragment of the Cosmic Cube, a reality-warping macguffin locked up in the Bishop family mansion. Can Kate, her faithful doggo, her difficult sister, and her Young Avengers gal pals stop the heist? Hawkeye:…
Hurt badly in an earlier crossover event, Kate Pryde and Kurt Wagner missed out on “Fall of the Mutants,” believing the rest of their first team, the X-Men, deceased. Instead, the duo remained on Muir Isle, in no shape to fight … until they began the new super-team Excalibur. What happened to Kurt and Kate…
We’ve seen other Spider-people in the Marvel Comics Spider-verse. A lot of them, in fact, just like in that movie. Several are even Peter Parkers. But are there other Spider-Gwens? Or [redacted]-Gwens? Or … what? Find out in Spider-Gwen: Gwen-Verse #1, written by Tim Seeley, drawn by Jodi Nishijima, colored by Federico Blee and lettered…
Jack of Hearts died a relatively long time ago, but like many of his fellow superheroes, he got better. Much better, as it turns out, as his powers are finally allowing him to embrace certain aspects of his humanity long forgotten. There are a lot of whys, hows and whats to be figured out here,…
The Resort Chapiteau has looked fishy since Kate got there. Now she’s found the culprit– the Circus of Crime. Will they burn the house down? Can Kate Bishop get out alive? Hawkeye: Kate Bishop #4, writing by Marieke Nijkamp, pencils by Enid Balám, inks by Oren Junior, colors by Brittany Peer, letters by Joe Caramagna….
It’s reunion time! It’s also time for forgiveness and kisses! Join us for an in-depth discussion of New Mutants #24.
The Cosmos begins, the Cosmos ends. A mask is passed on, twice. Being and unbeing battle for the very existence of existence. Welcome to the Third Cosmos. There will be surviving, there will be experience. Defenders #5 is told by Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez, with letters by Joe Caramagna. Mark Turetsky: Welcome back, Stephanie,…
Jennifer Walters is back to her old self again … again. She’s lost count of the number of reinventions she’s been through. She thought she’d have done more with her life, so what’s different this time around? Find out in She-Hulk #1, written by Rainbow Rowell, drawn by Rogê Antônio, colored by Rico Renzi and…