Batmanâs quest to stop Hush and save Red Hood from himself leads him to Hushâs allies, while Nightwing finds Hush, Red Hood, Joker and more characters as âH2SHâ rolls on. Batman #160 is written by Jeph Loeb, penciled by Jim Lee, inked by Scott Williams, colored by Alex Sinclair and lettered by Richard Starkings. Will…
Ever since she discovered she was a mutant, Kamala Khan has been balancing her previous life as Ms. Marvel with her role as a leader in the new community, but her conflicted identity has come at a deep personal cost. Now, pulled into the distant past by an unhinged villain with deep ties to mutant…
In the current arc of Laura Kinney: Wolverine, our heroine is in some kind of altered quasi-sitcom reality where she and her sister Gabby (Hooray!) live with their father, Logan, and Laura is experiencing a trauma response regarding the death of her mother in which she writes fantasies about a violent character called the Wolverine….
With one young mutant taken hostage in the underworld of the Dark Artery, itâs left to the remaining Outliers to lead the Louisiana X-Men to try to steal them back, but the ultimate terror blocks the way. The Voice of Darkness seeks a new home, and violence and fear will follow whoever takes that mantle….
Welcome back to Talking AbsoluteâŠ, where we at ComicsXF analyze the Absolute DC storylines, controversies and themes that have captured our imaginations each month. Today, weâll be covering the titles released in the back half of May, talking teenage angst in Absolute Flash, gaseous villains in Absolute Wonder Woman and humanityâs clouded judgment in Absolute…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Giant-Size X-Men #1: Ever since she discovered she was a mutant,…
The Web-Warriors are back to discuss a bunch of books, including a lightning round! In Amazing Spider-Man #3-4, Peter Parker faces the Hobgoblin head on, in a story written by Joe Kelly, drawn by Pepe Larraz, colored by Marte Gracia and lettered by Joe Caramagna. In Spider-Man & Wolverine #1 Marvelâs most popular heroes finally…
Earlier this year at ComicsPRO, Marvel and DC announced their first intercompany crossovers since JLA/Avengers more than 20 years ago. On Tuesday, the two publishers announced the first of them, a Deadpool/Batman book written by Zeb Wells (Amazing Spider-Man) and drawn by Greg Capullo (Batman), coming in September, and a Batman/Deadpool book written by Grant…
This week sees the release of a new Giant-Size X-Men #1, which will set Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, on a time-travel adventure through key points in X-Men history, starting with the dawn of the All-New, All-Different X-Men of 1975. Time travel is a Tuesday for some X-Men. And so we consulted Battle of the Atomâs…
It took us a bit to come to terms with our grief over the end of Andor, but here, at last, are 10 things we loved in Season 2 Episodes 10-12. Suiting Up The beginning of this three-episode arc and its conclusion both have parallel constructions, in that the arc opens with Luthen preparing to…
Armaan Babu: Itâs the end of the world as we donât know it. The Rani has swept in, and wasted little time in making and unmaking reality, ready to tear the world apart just to find whoever sheâs looking for. Itâs a hell of an episode, and the most Iâve enjoyed the series in a…
Thereâs no question that Disney is going a little too hard on live-action remakes. The fatigue is to the point that Snow White bombed incredibly hard. But Lilo & Stitch was already in the can, ready for Memorial Day audiences. Iâll say first, the original animated film is one of my favorites. Itâs the last…
Itâs been two years since the last official Hellfire Gala, but the minds of X-fans are still hot with inspiration! The latest season of the hit video game Marvel Rivals has been a love letter to the First Krakoan Age. Emma Frost, with a brand-new costume, haircut and thunder thighs, invited us all to the…
Who can take some genes and make a dodgy clone? Who can trap a mutant when heâs all alone? Who can throw a comic off its slice-of-life tone? Mr. Sinister can, and does, in Exceptional X-Men #9, written by Eve Ewing, drawn by Carmen Carnero, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by Travis Lanham. Now…
Frank Castle’s had a rough couple years. Blame the misappropriation of his iconography by police and their white supremacist admirers. Still, it put Marvel in a bind. It tried to get out of it by introduing a new Punisher, an ex-SHIELD agent named Joe Garrison, and turning Frank into an agent of The Hand complete…