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 āRasslinā Report If I owned stock in Miro ā which I donāt, because heās the professional wrestler formerly known as Rusev ā Iād call in a hold or maybe even a sell order into my broker, because Iām down as hell on his AEW debut, primarily…
āIām so excited. Iām so scared. Iām so, Iām soā¦scared!ā Poor Jessie Spanoās āSaved by the Bellā lament came almost 30 years ago; her heart kathumping on account of her reliance on āKeep Alertā caffeine pills to keep up with both school and her singing group, Hot Sundae. (The episode āJessieās Songā is much goofier…
Howdy, yāall. 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 weād all read. You know,…
When even low expectations canāt save a thing. A Short Review of āMarvelās Avengersā (PS4) It aināt great. The āRasslinā Report AEWās āAll Outā was a middling affair, but thereās only so much you can do when half your main event participants are either too old (Jericho, and I am sorry, but he canāt keep…
The mailbag? Yeah, itās full as hell. And Now, Your Questions Tweet me (@willnevin) or just scream at me with some stupid thing you want answered. If you donāt ask me questions, Iāll find you and beg you for them. Donāt make me beg. @BigDadEnergy_: What lessons from pushing the Inhumans can Marvel apply to…
Jimmie Robinson loves Hello Kitty and says he is an āold Black dude who looks like a high school janitor.ā Self-deprecating and honest about his demons, thereās 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 youāre going to do a thing ā any stupid thing at all ā it should be done right. The Splash I donāt know who runs social media for IMDb (which, by the way, is one more part of the Amazon empire if you didnāt know), but they should be fired ā preferably into the…
Nothing is so important that we must sacrifice decency or respect for others. Last Time on āWhy, Willā Imagine this conversation 50 years from now: āPep Pep, was there *really* a coronavirus pandemic? And more than 150,000 people died? And the United States kinda did nothing?ā āThatās all true, kiddo. It was a nightmare. Daily!ā…
Eliot Rahal is not a saint. Heās not a hero. Heās just a guy ā albeit one who can write some great comics ā who lives 15 minutes away from the Minneapolis Police Departmentās Third Precinct, the den of corruption and indifference that became the epicenter of protests after George Floydās 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 āStar Trek Into Darknessā beat āThe Final Frontierā and āFaith of the Heartā 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 ā 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…