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…
Heroes die. We must be ready to let them go. The Splash Stanley Martin Lieber was born Dec. 28, 1922. He died Nov. 12, 2018. In the 95 years in between, Stan Lee was an entertainer, a creator, a publisher, an entrepreneur, a charmer, a bit of a grifter, a figurehead, a lovable scamp and…
What happens when a mother has taken all she can and decides to go Liam Neeson on everyone? What happens when ponies and Autobots roll out together? What happens when comics’ sickest horror anthology takes on beloved children’s classics? Find out in this week’s Triple Play, as Will Nevin reviews Ice Cream Man #20, Zachary…
Remember 2013? When Lance Armstrong copped to being a drug cheat and âStar Trek Into Darknessâ beat âThe Final Frontierâ and âFaith of the Heartâ as the worst Star Trek thing ever made? And you could go outside? Those were the days. The Splash The hallmark of a Zack Snyder movie â outside of his…
Yee-haw! We do Westerns now, pardner! OK, enough of that. We’re breaking form from your regular (as of the past month) Indie Triple Play to bring you two reviews of comics of a similar bent, as Matthew Lazorwitz reviews Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ latest OGN, Pulp, and Will Nevin looks at the second issue…
Just when you think you have all the answers, itâs time to change the questions. The Splash In the fracas between writer Tom King, artist Jae Lee and comic book fans who want works created by people who arenât intolerable assholes, there are no winners. Not King, who now looks like a bully for taking…
Big, big news that I am proud to break this week. Letâs get right to it. Today (July 20): DClassified: Week of Announcements Begins After last weekâs news that DC will be releasing Rorschach, a 12-issue maxiseries by writer Tom King and artist Jorge FornĂ©s that represents a mystifying return to the Watchmen well, the…
This week in our roundup of indie comics, Ian Gregory examines The Rob’s latest attempt to shake up a storied franchise, Robert Secundus jumps all the way into the deep end of Savage Dragon, and Will Nevin goes to Hell (or a simulation thereof?) with Rick and Morty. G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes: Deadgame Story/Art: Rob…