As Anne architects a social media campaign of looming dread, she begins to doubt her actions and fear her co-workers. Locked in a terror-shrouded fortress of her own design, with nowhere left to run, Anne confronts the fury of a Fungal God long thought dead in I Breathed a Body #3 by Zac Thompson, Andy…
If You Only Listen One X-Men Podcast This Week, It Must Be This One! We wanted to talk about Magik and Shadowcat, we ended up talking about Jim Shooter and Daredevil. This is what happens every time we pick three single issues to talk about. Plus, see Zack slowly descend into madness as he loses…
While the King In Black attacks the Earth, Conan the Barbarian, Deadpool and Night Flyer take their rest at the old Helfire Club.The Marauders aren’t too happy about this. Gerry Duggan, Kev Walker, Scott Hanna, Java Tartaglia and Travis Lanham enter the endgame in Savage Avengers #19. Reading through Savage Avengers #19, I couldn’t help…
David Nakayama is the acclaimed artist, highly sought out after for his covers. He has a diverse background, having been an Art Director in videogames and doing commercial packaging art for Hasbro among others. He sat down with ComicsXF to discuss his process and approach to art. Zachary Jenkins: You’re often called to draw 90s…
Battle Of The Atom: Wacky Races The old men of Battle of the Atom provide all the Old Man content you need. This includes talking about Mark Millar, arguing about New Jersey and talking about Johnny Cash. Ranked This Episode Old Man Logan (Millar/McNiven) Old Man Logan vol 2 #1-4 (Bezerker) Dead Man Logan
It had to happen. Ever since Betsy Braddock was returned to her original body, we knew she would be forced to reckon with what she had done. In Excalibur #19, we finally see it happen. After bumbling out her feelings to an alternate reality Psylocke, Betsy Braddock has had her relationship to Kwannon on her…
It’s the Marc Silvestri Power Hour where we talk all about the life and work of Marc Silvestri. Once again, Zack’s audio is bad and he is so so tired.Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #232-234 (Earthfall) Wolverine #35-37 (Blood & Claws) Cyberforce/X-Men
Being a teen hero is hard. It’s even harder when the government takes draconian measures to prevent you from doing the right thing and enrolls your friends in reeducation centers. That’s what The Champions have been up against during the “Outlawed” event. They have been hunted by C.R.A.D.L.E., their friends have been taken prisoner, but…
What’s Wolverine’s favorite video game system? The XBox I’m sorry. We’re talking about X-Men games tie-ins, some video, some card. These comics are not good, they have never been good, and they never would be good. But they are weird hell and I know you crazy kids love weird comics. Honestly? We get pretty distracted…
It’s hard being a teen. Harder still when your part of a secret magic school where the Scarlet Witch is your teacher and the son of Dormammu one of your classmates. Such is the life of the charming children of Strange Academy. To make matters worse, Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos are making sure everyone…
Robbie MacNiven has spent several years writing licensed novels for franchises like Warhammer 40k. Today marks his first foray into the world of X-Men with First Team: A Marvel: Xavier’s Institute Novel from Aconyte Books. He sat down to talk to the ComicsXF team about the title. Zachary Jenkins: What’s your background with comics, and…
Tyler Boss is an award winning cartoonist and creator of Dead Dog’s Bite, out this week. He sat down with CXF to talk about this long awaited title. Zachary Jenkins: This book is billed as “Twin Peaks means Lady Bird”. We’ve seen from the pages released, a sense of unease already. With comics being a…
We dive into Nova Roma. It’s bad. We don’t care for it. So we listen to “Up The Wolves” by The Mountain Goats, a song that must have been inspired by that terrible New Mutants arc. John Darnielle please confirm. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #7-12 (Nova Roma) New Mutants Forever Necrosha
You ever think about how there’s a book where Mister Sinister is leading a team with Nanny and Orphan Maker under the guise of therapy but really its some very convoluted plot for him to do his very specific brand of chaotic evil? You ever think about how that book owns? What Zeb Wells and…
If I were a comics creator, I would hate Stan Sakai. The man has been drawing a funny animal comic for nearly 40 years now and hasn’t lost a step. He’s been coursing a path for the rabbit ronin Miyamoto Usagi for decades, and continues to execute some of the most exciting cartoons in the…