Bam! Pow! Zap! Xavier Files isn’t just for X-Men anymore! In case you missed the memo, the site you love is now covering the wider comics industry. And so this week we have a roundup of reviews from across the indie spectrum, including Benjamin “X-Force” Percy’s latest crime thriller (reviewed by Zachary Jenkins), Mark Russell’s…
Hello friends and readers, and welcome to the lightest week in comics this entire year. Okay scratch that, we’ve had months with nothing. But, this was a fairly small week for colorful characters in capes but, Marvel Files has you covered. Zack Jenkins has closing thoughts on Hawkeye: Freefall (and the world we live in)…
Content Warning: There are frank discussions about sex and sexual assault in this episode. If you don’t want that, feel free to skip this week. Two dudes talk about three female centered comics with no women on the creative teams. It sure is a time. Ranked This Episode: X-Women X-Treme X-Men 36-39 (Storm: The Arena)…
Aconyte Books announced today their full lines of Marvel prose novels for Fall 2020. This includes four differnt lines, Legends of Asgard, Marvel Heroines, Xavier’s Institute, and Marvel Untold. From Asgard, to Westchester, to Latveria, these prose stories will introduce audiences to an expanded Marvel Universe. For the general Xavier Files audience, two titles stand…
Hello friends and readers, we’re hitting a twofer this week as the Kurt Busiek helmed Marvel Snapshots returns with a Zack Jenkins review of Russell, Pérez, and Renzi’s take on Captain America. And if the real 2020 doesn’t do it for you, Robert Secundus is here to discuss Iron Man 2020 #4 by Slott, Gage,…
This is episode 150 and The Saga of Vampire Adam does take a hairy turn. If you can, Battle Of The Atom is raising funds for The Advancement Project. If you can, please consider donating. Ranked This Episode: Captain America #170-175 (Secret Empire) A+X #13-18 (Captain America + Cyclops) Captain America #402-408 (Man And Wolf)
We’ve been wondering what’s going on with Free Comic Book Day. We need that sword content that the X-Office has promised us. We need folks to freak out about Tom Taylor doing something. We need those free comics that we crave. Also Spider-Man stuff I guess. Well, those Free Comic Books are coming, just in…
We talk Cable & X-Force and enter the digital multiverse today. If you can, Battle Of The Atom is raising funds for The Advancement Project. If you can, please consider donating. Ranked This Episode: X-Fore #44 (Enter The Purple Era) Cable #22 (The Sad Airport Issue) X-Force #75 (Burning Man)
We love Apocalypse don’t we folks? We love it when his blood courses through our veins? Ranked This Episode: Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure X-Men #182-187 (The Blood Of Apocalypse) Apocalypse Vs Dracula
Hello friends and readers, we have actual physical books to cover for you this week, so in celebration, we decided to do all of them! Zack Jenkins digs into Avengers #33 by Aaron and Garron, while Liz Large dusts off the new #1 of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra by Wong and Cresta. Finally, it’s time…
It’s everyone’s favorite foursome as we talk about the X-Men and Fantastic Four with special guest Stephanie Burt. Ranked This Episode Fantastic Four Vs X-Men X-Men vol 3 #16-19 (Betrayal In The Bermuda Triangle) All-New Wolverine #33-35 (Old Woman Laura)
The boys are back in town, but due to the pandemic gripping our every waking thoughts, we never left to begin with. Anyway we’re talking about Fantomex. Ranked This Episode: New X-Men #142-145 (Assault On Weapon Plus) Dark Reign: The List – Wolverine #1 Fantomex MAX
Hello friends and readers, comics are back, but just like restaurants, we have a limited digital only menu this week as our boss Zack Jenkins zooms in on Wells, Burnett, and Spicer’s Ant-Man #4, and Tony Thornley rides the desolate plains of critique in Avengers of the Wasteland #4 by Brisson, Scharf, and Menon. Ant-Man…
For centuries, man has looked to the stars to find glimpses of the future using the artistic science of astrology. The original symbols were based often on stories and characters from antiquity that few but the biggest mythology geeks are familiar with today. For the sake of updating them for common use, and because Marvel…