In one comic, a young woman is reminded of how far she’s come the past few years while living with bipolar disorder. She finds creative ways to take out supervillains and uses her power — and her Ph.D. — to handle a melting-down nuclear core. In another comic, a giant monster emerges from the ocean…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: Batman #135/#900: It’s Batman versus Red Mask in a brutal Gotham that’s never known hope and a comic so big it needs two separate issue numbers!. Can the Dark Knight overcome the terrifying…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s pick: W0rldtr33 #1: In 1999, Gabriel and his friends discovered the Undernet, a secret architecture to the Internet. They charted their exploration on a message board called W0RLDTR33. Then they lost control. Someone broke…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #1: Your dad’s Superboy is back, and he’s ready to Jnco Jeans your Macarena straight into the Steve Urkel! Written by Kenny Porter (DC Mech) and drawn by…
Baseball. It’s America’s pastime as long as you don’t count football or basketball or soccer for the under-30 crowd. Another one of America’s pastimes, despite the substantial efforts by Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery to suck any childish joy we once had for it, is superheroes. Great news for lovers of pastimes that are past…
The following first appeared Tuesday in the ComicsXF newsletter. Sign up using the form on this web page to get editorials, a roundup of the week’s best content and our Staff Picks in your inbox every week. I spent about 10 minutes chatting with Eric Tapper and Chris Carter from GlobalComix last year at New York…
This editorial originally ran in the 2/14/23 edition of the weekly ComicsXF Newsletter. Subscribe here to get the latest in comics news, opinions and other assorted goodies every Tuesday morning. Last week The Walt Disney Company ($DIS) presented its Q1 earnings results and effectively ended a headline-grabbing proxy fight. You can get caught up in…
It is 1986 or ’87. I am 6 or 7 years old. Dad and I are having a catch in the backyard of our home in Union, New Jersey. I played rec league tee-ball for two years. Like the other sports my parents signed me up for — soccer, wrestling, basketball, golf — I was…
2022 was an amazing year for comics. As we look to close out the year, our staff wanted to highlight some of the best comics we read in 2022. Each person was asked to pick one title that resonated with them and stretched what comics could be. We all have different tastes but anyone should…
Nov. 11 was the birthday of Dave Cockrum. In his honor, it’s also the unofficial birthday of Nightcrawler, the demon turned fuzzy elf Cockrum first dreamed up during a storm in Guam before bringing him to the X-Men, where he lavished love upon the swashbuckling version of the character. By all accounts, there’s lots of…
The following first appeared Tuesday in the ComicsXF newsletter. Subscribe using the form on the right side of this page for our weekly editorial, a roundup of the week’s best content and our Staff Picks. Christ, these guys again. If you believed Bad Idea Comics was folding as a publisher in December 2021, you must…
It began with the sound of drums in the distance; a steady dumdum dum, dumdum dum, signaling an imminent arrival. That dumdum dum soon gave yield to more structured sounds: of bass drums, of brass instruments, of feet moving in unison. I heard horns, blaring; voices, wailing; tambourine taps keeping sonic pace with distant police…
When I first discovered writer Aaron Reese’s Webtoon series Bytchcraft, it was through Twitter. Its premise of Black queer witch shenanigans persuaded me to read the comic, and I was impressed in more ways than one. The first chapter, “Back Issue Tango,” introduces the wytch Em and their magical goat familiar Shirley as they summon…
With the looming release of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness serving as the latest entry in pop culture’s recent obsession with multiverses and realities alternate, parallel and multiple, we asked our ComicsXF writers to share their thoughts about their favorite alternate reality from across the wide multiverse of stories! Earth-1610: The Ultimate Universe…
When I first read the graphic novel Window Horses in 2018, I was a poet struggling to find the courage to express myself. Coincidentally, Window Horses featured a Chinese Persian female protagonist dealing with a similar issue. That protagonist, Rosie Ming, is an emerging poet whose self published book of poems earns her an invitation…