Welcome to the world of tomorrow! Superhero comics have regularly featured time travel, possible futures and glimpses of tomorrow for much of their history. Some are utopias, some are dystopias and most are somewhere in between. DC is in the midst of a two-month event, āFuture State,ā that gives readers a glimpse into the future…
This isnāt a review of the DCEUās latest film, Wonder Woman 1984. This isnāt even an educated critique of its structure or a study of its merits. This is a treatise. An impassioned plea. People. We need to discuss Scarf Guy. You know who Iām talking about. The guy who becomes a flesh suit for…
Justin Partridge: So I suppose I should just start with the most obvious question (as I vaguely know your origins as an X-Force Person), but WHY Metallica? What is it about the Third Greatest Metal Band of All Time that drew you to their music? And by extension, this hysterical and brilliant idea for a…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Justinās Pick Future State: Justice League #1: Jon Kent, Tim Fox, Yara Flor, Jo Mullein, Andy Curry and Jess Chambers are the Justice League of the future, and theyāre here to remind yāall that…
Friends, I got too excited last week. I wanted to share this bright and shiny new toy of ours, and I donāt think I properly explained what we (Thatās you, Loyal Content Consumer, and me) are doing here. [Groteās note: I tried to tell him, folks.] Each week, Iām going to run down 10 comics…
āThis is not who we areā In Montgomery, Alabama, there is a monument to the lynched, listing the names of the murdered – or at least the names they can verify. There are over 4400 names listed. This, of course, is low. āThis is not who we areā A woman posted pictures of her leg,…
Change came by force to the comics industry in 2020. A two-month pause in shipping by Diamond Comic Distributors ā until this summer the lone distributor of single-issue comics in North America ā laid bare the industryās weaknesses. It sent comic shops into survival mode, led DC to seek out new distributors, lured creators to…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt & Chris’ Pick Future State: Next Batman #1: DC begins rolling out its two-month Future State event with this look at a future Gotham City ruled by a private law enforcement group and…
Look what [my editors] made me do. Get it? Iām told thatās a reputation reference. Well whatever, it doesn’t matter because weāre not here to talk about 2017 Taylor Swift. No, this is about 2020 Taylor Swift. Specifically evermore, her second full length album release this year which dropped last week. While we already established…
I have experimented with different columns and different formats over the five or so years Iāve been writing about comics, but you, Loyal Content Consumer, donāt necessarily care about that; no, you care about the comics, and I want to care about the comics with you. When Iām curled up in my big ratty office…
Zoe Tunnell: Hi there! I’m Zoe Tunnell, and I think the Eternals are pretty neat. I’ve got a weird history with the team as they somehow were one of my first forays into the Marvel Universe! After getting into comics via the Ultimate Universe as a teen in the mid-2000s, I started scouring my local…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick X-Men #16: When the mutant nation of Krakoa was formed, the X-Men were disbanded as a concept both to keep power on the island balanced among the Quiet Council and to move…
Comics are literature as much as any other written form. There are works of soaring genius, there are works that please the masses and there are works that are just plain awful. From the days of Classics Illustrated, comics have reached out to traditional literature to find source material that was more ārespectableā than what…
Winter may have just started but Spring will soon have sprung. We found 10 things in the Marvel Solicits for March 2021 that we can’t wait to thaw out and enjoy! King In Black Comes To A Close We’ve had feelings about King In Black. Some folks have not liked those feelings. But all of…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick Excalibur #16: So Betsy is a sneering stained-glass mosaic, Saturnyne is keeping Jubilee’s son as her dragon pet that can melt reality and the Captain Britain Corps is back with a thicc-ass…