The Mad Titan has returned thanks to a traitor amongst The Eternals midst. In Kieron Gillen, Esad RibiÄ, Matthew Wilson and Clayton Cowles Eternals #6, the rebirth of Thanos is revealed, the work of Phastos, an Eternal fighting against the future. But his plan involves destroying the Earth and that just won’t do. Like Darkseid…
Put on your business boy hat and talk about some of the fastest characters in X-Men history. Is it possible that this Chuckles Austen comic is THE BEST thing we rank this week? Find out.Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #414 (Fall Down, Go Boom) X-Factor: The Quick & The Dead New Mutants vol 2 #7-12…
As officially announced yesterday, Al Ewing’s incredible run on Immortal Hulk is ending with #50. Fans of the Green Door still have plenty of Gamma madness to go as Ewing, Crystal Fraiser, Lan Medina, Antonio Fabela and Joe Sabino are here to share the continuing adventures of Gamma Flight in Gamma Flight #2. In this…
Someone murdered Trigger Keaton, the world’s most famous TV action hero. But to be fair, everyone kinda hated him. Now the plot thickens, the sidekick numbers increase and the stuntman war escalates. Get ready for action in The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton #2, written by Kyle Starks and drawn by Chris Schweizer with color…
Olâ Shellhead returns and Justin brings a friend to our coverage of Iron Man #10! In a special TOX Edition of CXFâs Iron Man reviews, Justin attempts to reason with the person responsible for this very column in the first place! Writer/Editor/Handsome Lad ZACHARY JENKINS! Join the iron-lads as they discuss the finer points of…
Justinâs masochistic streak gets Spider-themed in Sinister War #1! The latest and final âeventâ spinning out of Nick Spencerâs tenure on Amazing Spider-Man. Written by Nick Spencer. Drawn by Mark Bagley. Inked by Andrew Hennessy, John Dell, & Andy Owens. Colored by Brian Reber. Lettered by Joe Caramagna. I read all 70 issues (plus specials)…
Vanessa has taken a trip into the woods to find herself. But what she finds instead is…well, pretty much what youâd expect from a horror story, as it turns out. Does Beyond the Breach #1 offer anything beyond the usual? Itâs written by Ed Brisson, with art by Damian Couceiro, colors by Patricia Delpeche, and…
It’s a whole episode about the bouncing blue Beast and his adventures in Steve Engelhardt’s continuity fix stories.Ranked this episode: Amazing Adventures #11-16 Incredible Hulk #161 Avengers #137-138
Being honest here, I am very tired and doing my best today. Iron Man is lost in space. I am lost in a hotel room. He is a zillionaire, I am less than that. But look at this, Christopher Cantwell, CAFU and Frank D’Armata have blessed me with a preview of Iron Man #10. Check…
How can there be both too many comics and still not nearly enough? The idea of finding something new to read can seem daunting. If you’re looking to jump into a new book, the staff of ComicsXF can point you in the direction of some of our favorite recent releases and currently ongoing titles. Looking…
This is an episode about Apocalypse. He is also only really an active participant in one of these stories. We do like him though, he’s just not actually been good until 2019.Ranked This Episode: Ages Of Apocalypse Extraordinary X-Men: Apocalypse Wars X-Men: Black – Apocalypse
The Hellions are a disastrous team with an evil leader and a habit of making every situation they run into worse. But you don’t understand, I love them. They are a mess and have left chaos in their wake without any real repercussions. Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of their own actions…
Finally, this issue answers the important question: What happened to Chip Zdarsky when the superheroes crossed over into our world? Zdarsky, artist Phil Hester and inker Ande Parks kick Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw off their own book to get weird with it, alongside colorist Dee Cunniffe and letterer John J. Hill, in Imageâs Crossover…
In 2001, I went to the theater to see the big release of the summer. It opened, like many animated tales do, on a narrator expositing about a princess locked in a tower, waiting to be freed by the true loveâs kiss of a valiant knight. Our narrator scoffs, âLike thatâs ever gonna happen. What…
In their first series of Shang-Chi, Gene Luen Yang and Dike Ruan reexamined the character, ahead of his feature film debut. It was no small task. Shang-Chi was created as a spin-off of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, a character that was considered offensively racist back in the 1930s. But Yang was largely successful in recontextualizing…