“This is not who we are” 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. “This is not who we are” 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 — until this summer the lone distributor of single-issue comics in North America — laid bare the industry’s 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? I’m told that’s a reputation reference. Well whatever, it doesn’t matter because we’re 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 I’ve been writing about comics, but you, Loyal Content Consumer, don’t necessarily care about that; no, you care about the comics, and I want to care about the comics with you. When I’m 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 “respectable” 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…
As we close out the year that was, the staff at Xavier Files wanted to take a moment to highlight our favorite comics from throughout the year. There were so many great books that we couldn’t list them all, but we wanted to give our team the chance to highlight an issue, an arc, a…
If you are only slightly familiar with Star Wars — one of those people who has seen some number of the nine main theatrical films, say — and are not steeped in 40-plus years of lore, you might never have really heard of Mandalorians before the TV show that spotlights one of their number became…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s Pick New Mutants #14: Things are about to get wild in the Akademos Habitat as new series writer Vita Ayala (Children of the Atom) joins the team along with new members Warlock, Warpath…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Forrest’s Pick S.W.O.R.D. #1: Mutants! In! Spaaaaaaaaace! Krakoa gets its own Space Force in once and future SWORD Director Abigail Brand, frequent space-dwelling mutant leader Magneto, former Acolytes Fabian Cortez and Frenzy, current Galadorian…
This week marks the end of a series I’ve been following since its inception six years ago: Lumberjanes from BOOM Studios. This charming all-ages series, created by Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters, explores friendship, various camp skills, romance and a forest full of mythical creatures, interdimensional portals and magic. So it’s not exactly like any…