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 Baldeón. 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 was… not what I thought it was going to be and pretty fun? …
Captain Christi Eddleman joins Zack this week to talk about some Generation X-Mas stories as we celebrate Christimas in style. Ranked This Episode: Generation X #24 (Home for the Holidays) Generation X Holiday Special Generation X #60-61 (Christmas Fear)
The good people at Marvel sent me a .gif showing what God Loves, Man Kills might look like is Marcos Martin drew it instead of Brent Anderson. As I suspected, it continues to be beautiful. These are some variant covers in March if you want them. Otherwise, enjoy the pretty pictures. Press Release New York,…
Here are some of the things Krakoa’s newest resident aren’t: Gwen Stacy Deadpool The Batman Character Spoiler A character with any right to be as good as she is I am, of course, talking about Gwenpool, the alter-ego of Gwendolyn Poole, a comics fan from the real world who accidentally got brought into Marvel’s 616…
Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto are incredibly talented creators. That is without question. What is in question is the fascination with taking a grizzled war vet and making him young and hot. Marvel did it with X-Man in the 90s and they continue to do it will teen Cable. Old Man Cable, of course, was…
This week Miles Stokes from Jay & Miles X-Plain The X-Men joins Zack to talk about Dinosaurs with unbridled enthusiasm. Ranked This Week: Uncanny X-Men #455-459 (Dino Rachel) Excalibur #51 (Don’t Drink The Water) Uncanny X-Men #60-63 (Neal Adam’s Savage Land)
Sara Century from Bitches On Comics joins me today as we talk about all of the best leaders of the X-Men. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #201 (Duel) Generation X #18-19 (For the Sake of the Children) X-Men: Red