A little over three years ago, Zack Jenkins DM’d me on Twitter while I was watching Parasite and asked me if I wanted to merge my website, WMQ Comics, with his, Xavier Files. We used the extra time we had during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to forge a new website, ComicsXF, that offered…
ComicsXF’s own Sean Dillon attended this year’s San Diego Comic Con. This is their field report. TUESDAY 8:00 AM EST Playing: Heart First Aid Kit (Grace Petrie & the PC Brigade), Queer as Folk (Grace Petrie) There’s an odd anxiety building inside of me. I’m currently sitting in JFK waiting for my flight to San…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men: The Hellfire Gala 2023 #1: The Hellfire Gala is always the biggest event of the season, but this year’s will change everything for Krakoa. What is meant to be mutantkind’s biggest night…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Hawkgirl #1: Kendra Saunders, the winged warrior better known as Hawkgirl, has been one of the DCU’s greatest heroes for a long time, serving as a member of both the Justice League and…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: Knight Terrors: Robin #1: When two Bat-brothers get taken into the Nightmare Realm, Jason Todd and Tim Drake must fight their worst fears and each other as they’re forced to relive the darkest…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: X-Men: Before the Fall: Sinister Four #1: As the 19th century draws to a close, the dying Nathaniel Essex unleashes four clones of himself into the world. They’ve been haunting it ever since,…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men: Before the Fall: Heralds of Apocalypse: In ancient days, Genesis turned back the hordes of Amenth. In ancient days, Genesis forced Annihilation into a parley. What words were spoken in her mind?…
Chris’ pick: Ultimate Invasion #1: Remember the Ultimate Universe? All those classic stories like the time Sinister pushed Xavier down a flight of stairs or the time Blob ate the Wasp or the time Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch did an incest? Man, I miss those days. But what if I told you the Ultimate…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaan’s pick: Night Fever: In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can’t sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer,…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Note: Banner photo is a variant cover to Fantastic Four #8 by Scott Koblish. Listen to Koblish talk about that cover on WMQ&A. Zack’s pick: Loki #1: They may be the “benevolent” God of Stories…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: DC Pride 2023: Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy go to extreme measures to get a little alone time. Jon Kent gets a crash course in dark magic when John Constantine sics a golem…
Last week’s SuperMassive one-shot from Image Comics ended with a surprise appearance by Medieval Spawn. Turns out that would only be the second-biggest surprise from Image that day. On Wednesday, comics’ third largest publisher announced it had inked an exclusive direct market distribution deal with Lunar, taking monthly titles like Spawn, Saga and Walking Dead…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Austin’s pick: Storm #1: In my day, Storm had a mohawk and wasn’t afraid to stab a Morlock, and that’s the way we liked it! Annie Nocenti revisits this era of Storm’s career for a…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Avengers #1: Jason Aaron’s Avengers run was bad. Jed MacKay’s Moon Knight has been very good. Can MacKay make Earth’s Mightiest Heroes worth reading again? Fingers crossed, friends. Drawn by C.F. Villa (X-Men)….
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Ghostlore #1: After a deadly accident of which they were the only survivors, Lucas and Harmony Agate can see the dead — an overwhelming amount of the deceased, each with their own warnings,…