Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s Pick Excalibur #13: Get ready for some hot Braddock-on-Braddock action (Wait …), all written by “X of Swords” co-mastermind Tini Howard and drawn by guest artist R. “Powers” B. “Of” Silva “X.” ($3.99)…
Weāve been pretty rough on DC lately. Maybe it was all those layoffs. Maybe itās Watchmen fatigue. Maybe itās all those comic shops that have complained about not getting their UCS/Lunar books on time. Maybe it was the Fandome virtual pep rallies (although to be fair, weāre out on virtual cons in general). Maybe itās…
Itās hard to be a Teen Titan when youāre celebrating a 40th anniversary, but theyāll keep trying. Yes, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the definitive āNew Teen Titansā run by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, a run that rivaled the X-Men at the height of its popularity. āNew Teen Titansā helped define superheroes…
Building a wrestling promotion around being cute is not. The āRasslinā Report A wrestling promotion ā like many other fallible human enterprises, really ā is a lot like a sandcastle. It can be intricate. It can be sloppy. It can be impressive. It can be the product of hours of hard work, or it can…
The original New Mutants represented interracial (and sometimes interspecial) solidarity. The New Mutants movie does only barely that, if it does it at all. Initially, the movie was developed as a horror-Breakfast Club hybrid film. The Breakfast Club works because all the characters have social reservations and animosities they overcome together by the end of…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick Rorschach #1: DC’s quest to never give Alan Moore the rights back to Watchmen continues with this Tom King 12-Issue Maxiseries (TM) starring everyone’s favorite Ayn Rand disciple. Drawn by Jorge Fornes…
You got me, Robert Kirkman. The Splash There is something so unabashedly commercial in re-releasing āThe Walking Deadā in color that I canāt help but like it. Tellinā fans it wonāt be collected and makinā āem snap up those floppies? For a series thatās already made dump trucks of television and licensing* money? Itās so…
For a rare metal, adamantium sure does show up a lot in the Marvel Universe. Whether itās making a body for Ultron, coating Wolverine to ākillā him or being made into a giant chair for the Hulk by a spendthrift bird-themed billionaire, adamantium has many purposes. But mostly, it seems to make mutants and other…
Intrepid Xavier Files Media Empire reporter Emily Harding has acquired comment cards from the Krakoan bar known as The Green Lagoon. These have been presented, unedited, for your enjoyment.
Last week, we introduced the Xavier Files 2021 Comics Survey, in which we solicited the comics community for answers to this ONE question: With everything thatās happened this year, what is one thing the comics industry needs to do to evolve in 2021? Since then, we’ve received dozens of answers, from leaning into the youth…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. This Week, in ‘X of Swords‘ Marauders #13: Storm visits her former in-laws in Wakanda to request their aid against the forces of Arakko as the X-Men event continues. Vita Ayala (Children of the…
Ten swords. Ten champions. The X-Men are now on a JRPG fetch quest to start their anime fighting tournament and they all need swords. Some of these we know, some we donāt, but unless you have studied the blade you might be a bit confused. Well donāt worry, while you were having pre-marital sex, I…
Itās all true. The Splash Tuesday was not a good day. And while none of you came here for presidential debate analysis, itās worth noting that what was once a sacrosanct observation in our national political tradition became so messy and vapid that CNN personality Dana Bash called it a āshit showā only minutes after…
Since the 1970s and the boom of martial arts media, the martial arts master has become a standard trope in comics. Ninjas, samurai, karate fighters and kung-fu masters have been present in comics from a myriad of companies. In many cases, they are portrayed through the lens of a white creator and with a problematic…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick X-Factor #4: As “X of Swords” rolls on, it looks like maybe The Five are about to resurrect someone they shouldn’t have. It’s hard to say when all you have to go…