Lovingly rendered butts for all: Our favorite pinups from the Marvel Swimsuit Specials

Superheroes are meant to be the best of us. As a result, they’re also the sexiest of us. So it stands to reason we’d want to see what they look like in swimwear — though it could be argued many of them wear bathing suits as standard dress. For five years in the 1990s, Marvel…

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It’s a brand new day for Peter Parker as Amazing Spider-Man relaunches to top off our Staff Picks

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. Tony’s pick: Amazing Spider-Man #1: Peter Parker is, shockingly, without a…

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In honor of her 50th anniversary, CXF writers talk about what makes the X-Men’s Storm great

This year — and this week’s Storm #7 by Murewa Ayodele and Luciano Vecchio — marks the 50th anniversary of Ororo Munroe’s first appearance in Marvel’s Giant-Size X-Men #1. To celebrate the character’s cultural impact, CXF contributors Latonya “Penn” Pennington and Jude Jones held a roundtable discussion on the iconic Windrider. ComicsXF: As a character,…

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X-Manhunt ends! H2SH begins! New Image titles with long names! A super-stacked CXF Staff Picks

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. The big ticket items X-Manhunt Omega #1: The “X-Manhunt” concludes as…

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