Spider-Man: Brand New Day lets Peter grow up (SPOILERS)
Professional Spider-fan Tony Thornley reviews Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day. And yes, he’s getting into THAT spoiler!
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X-Men: The Hellfire Murder makes everyone suspect
When a mutant power player is murdered at a masquerade, it falls to Wolverine and Jubilee to solve a locked-room mystery in X-Men: The Hellfire Murder.
When did I start reading more DC than Marvel?
CXF Staff Writer Tony Thornley examines why he’s adding more DC and dropping more Marvel titles these days, and what that means for comics in general.
Marvel’s Avengers: Armageddon #1 parties like it’s 2017
Red Hulk’s tear across the globe must be stopped, but it will take a colossal gathering of Earth’s mightiest heroes to do it in Avengers: Armageddon #1.
Superman/Spider-Man #1 mostly understands the assignment
DC and Marvel’s renewed friendly rivalry continues with Superman/Spider-Man #1, as the Man of Steel and the Web-Slinger meet and save the day.
Venom #256 kills a major Spider-Man cast member (HOORAY!)
The serial killer Torment is following the path of the Death Spiral, and it’s led straight to Dylan Brock, in Venom #256.
G.I. Joe: Real American Hero #21 is a silent classic
Snake-Eyes travels to Cobra HQ to rescue Scarlett and finds himself face to face with a figure from his past in G.I. Joe: Real American Hero #21.
ComicsXF makes its fashionably late New Year’s resolutions for 2026
More than a month late but no worse for wear, the ComicsXFamily makes its New Year’s resolutions for 2026. What sort of things are you looking to accomplish?
Sink Your Teeth In to some vampire PI noir on Kickstarter
Check out Sink Your Teeth In, a sapphic vampire noir, now on Kickstarter from Zoe Tunnell, Lauren Knight, JP Jordan and Jodie Troutman.
ComicsXF follows up on our 2025 geeky resolutions
It’s the end of the year, and at the beginning of 2025, the ComicsXF team set some new year’s resolutions. So how did we do with our resolutions from 2025?
At the halfway point, ComicsXF analyzes what’s not working in the X-Men’s ‘Age of Revelation’
After a full month of covering “Age of Revelation,” the ComicsXF all-star chorus took a break last week, partly because there were no core books out, partly because, well, it was exhausting. And we don’t just mean the pace and volume. These books are exhausting to read and keep up with, and if this event…
The Exceptional kids play pirate, Cloak and Dagger surprise and more Age of Revelation
It’s time to wrap up the first month of the future! Rather than tackle each “Age of Revelation” book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s offerings: Expatriate X-Men #1 is written by Eve Ewing, drawn by Francesco Mortarino,…
This week’s Age of Revelation books check in on the villains and key mutants like … Spider-Man
The Age of Revelation continues to grow with another four new stories! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s offerings: X-Men: Book of Revelation #1 by Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo…
The Age of Revelation expands with 4 new books, 2 Rogues and 1 sad Gambit
The Age of Revelation will continue until morale improves (or January, whichever comes first), so we’ve got another week of fresh new “replacement” books and tie-ins alike! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s…
DC K.O. #1 is a rock’em-sock’em good time with some big twists
The Heart of Apokolips has transformed Earth into a hellscape in preparation for the return of Darkseid, and the Justice League’s only chance to defeat him is to enter a deadly tournament. The world’s greatest heroes fight to become the champion to enter the ring against Darkseid, but there’s a catch: The closer you get…