Alex Goldman from the show Reply All and I had a chance meeting on Twitter where we bonded over that good goo boy, Glob Herman. We decided to do a podcast about it. Ranked this episode: Spider-Man & The X-Men #4-5 X-Men Black: Mojo #1 Age Of X-Man: NextGen
Friends and readers, we have a brand-new week of comics, and with that comes Marvel Minutiaeāthe column where our Marvel Files writers bring you some bite-sized thoughts on some of this weekās Marvel Releases. This week Tony Thornley talks Spider-Man and clickbait while Zack Jenkins is here with some discussion of symbiote boys! Amazing Spider-Man…
In September of 1998, millions of kids were racked with a decision. Pokemon Red or Pokemon Blue. The difference was 11 exclusive monsters to each version. You could still catch 139 unique little buggers, but those last few were lost to you. Cleverly, the marketing folks sold the game with a call to action for…
X-Office Editor Chris Robinson shows up to talk about his job, the X-Books, and a Man-Thing with a machine gun. Please send Chris Robinson your Alcremie’s.
Update 8 Months Later It’s coming in January 2021 now. Stupid pandemic. Original post As announced this morning on a podcast that apparently a lot of people who aren’t in comics journalism listen it, we can confirm that Vita Ayala & Bernard Chang are the creative team on the upcoming Children Of The Atom. Here…
Marvel sent an email out to those good press folks with a Tom Muller logo, RB Silva cover, and a team of Gambit, Angel, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, and Marvel Girl. It said: Coming in April… Children Of The Atom! That’s all we know but that’s not enough information to fill an article. There are many books…
Spinning out of Absolute Carnage, which, itself, was spun out of Venom, Frank Tieri, Angel Unzueta, Guillermo Sanna, and Rachelle Rosenberg bring us a horrific tale about the secrets of Arkham Ravencroft. Zachary Jenkins: So there are no Dawn of X books this week, however this is this one-shot ostensibly about Sabretooth from aspiring street…
Marvel gave a webinar about its’ upcoming books today. It was very funny for all of us who have had to suffer through webinar’s. It was good though, because we now know more about Giant Size X-Men: Nightcrawler #1, and boy did they get a good artist for this. Alan Davis will team up with…
As announced on Polygon (by former HoxPoxTox editor Susana Polo), there is a new X-Factor book coming from Leah Williams and David BaldeĆ³n. Here’s the pretty cover from Ivan Shavrin. As you can tell, the X-Men portion of Twitter is losing their dang minds. As are we here at Xavier Files. It’s Leah, she is…
Zack and events boy Chris Eddleman talk about the big event, that’s right Onslaught! Ranked This Episode: Onslaught Onslaught (Cable) Onslaught (X-Force/X-Man)
Look, there isn’t much to write up here. We all know Mike Del Mundo is one of the best cover artists in the business right now. His dreamlike, flowery compositions are perfect for Krakoa. Now, thanks to Marvel’s Gwen Stacy Variant promotion, we get to see him take a swing at that beautiful mutant island….
X-Men Monday master Chris Hassan joins Zack to chat about some weird comics where the X-Men do some culty stuff. Also we talk about Transformers so you know you are getting that good robot content the people crave. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #495-499 (Divided We Stand) X-Man #34-36 (Messiah Complex) X-Men #48 (Beware Computo,…
Welcome friends to this, our first installment of Marvel Files: Threefer Madness! This week Zack Jenkins and Tony Thornley are looking at three of the big releases this week: Hawkeye: Freefall #1, Star Wars #1, and Daredevil #16! Hawkeye: Freefall #1 ZJ: Shocking everyone, Hawkeye has become an intimidating character to write in the last…
We close out 2019 with Uncanny X-Men scribe Matthew Rosenberg chatting about his entire career on the X-Books, what went right, what went wrong, and what went weird. You probably shouldn’t miss this one!
A veritable smorgasbord of Marvel writers and artists bring us a murder mystery, as well as tantalize with lead-ins and hooks for the stories of 2020 in this follow-up to the story spine of Marvel Comics #1000 and 1001. Ari Bard: Incoming wasā¦ not what I thought it was going to be and pretty fun? …