Battle Of The Atom: Weird Hulk Voice
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
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Iron Man. Alone. In Our Exclusive Preview Of Iron Man #10
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…
The Pull List: Summer 2021
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…
Battle Of The Atom: Apocalypse? Not Actually In This
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
Nanny Learns A Lesson On Motherhood In Our Exclusive Hellions #13 Preview
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…
Some Hot Chip on Chip Action in Image’s Crossover #7
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 Image’s Crossover…
A Cynical Barbaric #1 Merits a Cynical Review
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 love’s kiss of a valiant knight. Our narrator scoffs, “Like that’s ever gonna happen. What…
Cap Intrudes in Shang-Chi #2: A Spoiler-Free Review
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…
Battle Of The Atom: Guthrie Madness
There are a lot of Guthrie children and today? We are going to talk about the lesser Guthries. So get ready for a wild range of stories from all-time greats to terrible, trash books. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #7 (The Crucible) Uncanny X-Men Annual ’95 Uncanny X-Men #437-441 (She Lies With Angels)
The Avengers Reunite in a Review of Heroes Reborn #7 and Heroes Return #1
This Event becomes Event(s) in Heroes Reborn #7; the “finale” issue before the eponymous Heroes Return. Mephisto Save Us All. Written by Jason Aaron. Drawn by Aaron Kuder & Ed McGuinness. Inked by Mark Morales. Colored by Dean White & Matthew Wilson. Lettered by Cory Petit. Heroes Reborn #7 is a truly weird way to…
Feel The Love & Thunder In Our Exclusive Beta Ray Bill #4 Preview
Our buddy Beta Ray Bill has had a rough little bit. His friend broke his favorite hammer and his girlfriend called him ugly. It’s enough to drive a man, or horse alien mutated to become the perfect weapon, to drink. Which Bill has done. Along with wrestling moves; many many wrestling moves. But he’s found…
Spawn’s Universe #1 a Mixed Bag of Ideas that Needs More Women
The Toddfather introduces us to all his neat new toys in Spawn’s Universe #1, an introductory one-shot debuting the new line of Spawn characters and teasing their respective titles. Written by Todd McFarlane; drawn by Jim Cheung, Brett Booth, Stephen Segovia and Marcio Takara; inked by Adelso Corona and McFarlane; colored by Fco Plascencia, Andrew…
Battle Of The Atom: Q&A Special
Zack and Adam had to scramble after our great interview about Planet-Size X-Men got messed up. So we decided to answer your questions about X-Men, us and anything else. It’s a fun session that has nearly no edits. All rippers no skippers.
Magneto & S.W.O.R.D. Are On Notice In Our Preview Of Guardians Of The Galaxy #15
If you have been paying attention to Planet-Size X-Men you will know that Magneto, and the entire Sol system, have had a pretty big week. Proving some people weren’t just spouting lies and fables years ago, the mutants have taken control of Mars. They have terraformed the planet for two reasons, to give a home…
Wolverine Sends Things Out With a Stab in Heroes Reborn: Weapon X & Final Flight #1
Behold the last stand of the Canuckleheads in Heroes Reborn: Weapon X & Final Flight #1. Written by Ed Brisson, drawn by Roland Bosch, colored by Chris O’Halloran, and lettered by Cory Petit Ed Brisson and company send readers out with a brutal bang in Heroes Reborn: Weapon X & Final Flight #1. Providing us…