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…
In 1989 DC Comics released Hawkworld, the last of its big post-Crisis reboots and origin stories, written and drawn by cartoonist Timothy Truman. The three issue miniseries told an origin story for the post-Crisis On Infinite Earths version of classic hero Hawkman while incorporating the gritty urban realism seen in books like “Batman: Year One,”…
The following first appeared in the ComicsXF newsletter. You can get early access to editorials like this, a roundup of the week’s best content and our weekly Staff Picks by subscribing right here. The fall of 2002 was an interesting time for me as far as pop culture. Like many young men my age from Utah,…
The following first appeared in the ComicsXF newsletter. You can get early access to editorials like this, a roundup of the week’s best content and our weekly Staff Picks by subscribing right here. As a teenager, I loved superhero comics. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say I badly wanted to love them. Growing up in…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Devil’s Reign: Superior Four #1: Remember when Marvel did the New Fantastic Four with Spider-Man, Wolverine, the Hulk and Ghost Rider and it ruled? Now imagine that with four Doctors Octopus from across…
With the candidates announced and polls open for the 2022 X-Men Election, we here at ComicsXF want to ensure an informed electorate. After all, democracy dies in darkness. Our crack team of investigators has found some truly shocking things about this round of candidates. Penance: Identity Theft Monet St. Croix touts herself as a near-perfect…
The following first appeared in the ComicsXF newsletter. You can get early access to our editorials, a roundup of the week’s best content and get to know the members of the ComicsXFamily by subscribing right here. So this is the new year, and I don’t feel any different. Sorry, I was listening to Death Cab for…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s pick: Monkey Meat #1: Cartoonist Juni Ba (Djeliya) works his magic on a new Image anthology series about a meat manufacturing company operating in an absurd capitalist hellscape. ($3.99) Listen to Ba on WMQ&A….
The following first appeared in the ComicsXF newsletter. You can get early access to our editorials, a roundup of the week’s best content and get to know the members of the ComicsXFamily by subscribing right here. I woke up last Christmas morning with a Slack notification blinking. Our webmaster, Jason Large, had spent all night building…