Welcome to the first of our new review feature: âBat Chat with Matt (and Will!).â Weâre starting off with a big one, folks (Or is it? Weâll get to that), the end of the âJoker Warâ story. As Gotham burns and the Bat-family tries to hold it together, Batman and Joker face down in a…
Itâs all true. The Splash Tuesday was not a good day. And while none of you came here for presidential debate analysis, itâs worth noting that what was once a sacrosanct observation in our national political tradition became so messy and vapid that CNN personality Dana Bash called it a âshit showâ only minutes after…
The Autumnal #1 Writer: Daniel Kraus, Artist: Chris Shehan, Colorist: Jason Wordie, Letterer: Jim Campbell, Publisher: Vault Writers â all of whom loathe the process of editing â have plenty of advice for getting through the ordeal. British writer Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote in 1916 that scribes should â[m]urder your darlings,â meaning that those funny…
Because we canât start with wrestling *every* week. William C. Nevin Memorial Pick of the Week Bourbon. Comics. Whatever. Itâs my pick. This week? A big-ass IDW sale at comiXology. In prepping for our next âAssigned Readingâ piece here at Xavier Files, I hit up comiXology to grab the first trade in the IDW TMNT…
They can’t all be winners. Find out why Will Nevin’s not mad, just disappointed in IDW’s Mueller Report Graphic Novel, and why Robert Secundus shrugged at the first issue of the comiXology original series Edgeworld. The Mueller Report Graphic Novel Written by Steve Duin and Shannon Wheeler, Illustrated by Shannon Wheeler, Published by IDW Gary,…
The Best Man Miro might be in trouble. The âRasslinâ Report If I owned stock in Miro â which I donât, because heâs the professional wrestler formerly known as Rusev â Iâd call in a hold or maybe even a sell order into my broker, because Iâm down as hell on his AEW debut, primarily…
âIâm so excited. Iâm so scared. Iâm so, Iâm soâŚscared!â Poor Jessie Spanoâs âSaved by the Bellâ lament came almost 30 years ago; her heart kathumping on account of her reliance on âKeep Alertâ caffeine pills to keep up with both school and her singing group, Hot Sundae. (The episode âJessieâs Songâ is much goofier…
Howdy, yâall. Professor (seriously) Will Nevin here. When I came on board to Xavier Files, I was coming from a mostly three-man operation at WMQ Comics to a family of 30+ contributors, and I figured it would be neat to get some folkx together on occasion to talk about something weâd all read. You know,…
When even low expectations canât save a thing. A Short Review of âMarvelâs Avengersâ (PS4) It ainât great. The âRasslinâ Report AEWâs âAll Outâ was a middling affair, but thereâs only so much you can do when half your main event participants are either too old (Jericho, and I am sorry, but he canât keep…
The mailbag? Yeah, itâs full as hell. And Now, Your Questions Tweet me (@willnevin) or just scream at me with some stupid thing you want answered. If you donât ask me questions, Iâll find you and beg you for them. Donât make me beg. @BigDadEnergy_: What lessons from pushing the Inhumans can Marvel apply to…
Jimmie Robinson loves Hello Kitty and says he is an âold Black dude who looks like a high school janitor.â Self-deprecating and honest about his demons, thereâs nothing about the writer and artist on the surface that telegraphs the weirdness, the darkness, the madness that has enabled him to create and subsequently resurrect the Bomb…
Journey back in time to World War I, forward to 2024 and even farther forward to a time when Earth is just a myth in this week’s Triple Play, as Matthew Lazorwitz reviews IDW’s Locke & Key … in Pale Battalions Go … #1, Will Nevin reviews Image’s Bomb Queen: Trump Card #1 and Chris…
If youâre going to do a thing â any stupid thing at all â it should be done right. The Splash I donât know who runs social media for IMDb (which, by the way, is one more part of the Amazon empire if you didnât know), but they should be fired â preferably into the…
Nothing is so important that we must sacrifice decency or respect for others. Last Time on âWhy, Willâ Imagine this conversation 50 years from now: âPep Pep, was there *really* a coronavirus pandemic? And more than 150,000 people died? And the United States kinda did nothing?â âThatâs all true, kiddo. It was a nightmare. Daily!â…
Eliot Rahal is not a saint. Heâs not a hero. Heâs just a guy â albeit one who can write some great comics â who lives 15 minutes away from the Minneapolis Police Departmentâs Third Precinct, the den of corruption and indifference that became the epicenter of protests after George Floydâs death at the hands…