He is the lone avenger of the night. He sits atop gargoyles in Gotham City, eternally alone in his quest for justice. He is Batman. He is the father figure to a group of young people who fight in his endless war against crime. He works with them to make them better, stronger and frankly…
I love Scott Summers. Cyclops has always been my favorite X-man, even when he was at his squarest back in the ā90s cartoon. I donāt know why. Maybe itās because Iām pretty square myself. āX-Men #30,ā the wedding of Scott and Jean Grey, is a favorite X-Men issue of mine. I can quickly rattle off…
The Best Man Miro might be in trouble. The āRasslinā Report If I owned stock in Miro ā which I donāt, because heās the professional wrestler formerly known as Rusev ā Iād call in a hold or maybe even a sell order into my broker, because Iām down as hell on his AEW debut, primarily…
The early 90s X-Books had their share of bad ideas. Characters who never did anything interesting or good but boy did they feel important had have neat designs. Because X-Men were the biggest thing ever in the 90s, some creators, whether from a misplaced sense of nostalgia or wild confidence in their skills, continue to…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Andrea’s Pick Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1: We can all agree the X-Men’s resident goddess has been underwritten since the dawn of dawn of X the Hickman era began the Disassembled stuff Blue and Gold…
The first weekend of the DC FanDome — a 24-hour, multiplatform, virtual hype fest that continues this weekend — included among its many trailers, featurettes and celebrity interviews an image of Darkseid wielding a spear from the vaunted āSnyder Cutā of Justice League. It gave me pause. The spear is a versatile weapon. It can…
Spider-Man is being haunted by his past. Unfortunately, I am not talking about Kindred, the mysterious demonic figure who has been interminably teasing a reveal In the book since the beginning. Or rather, not only about Kindred, but writer Nick Spencerās fascination with stories from Spider-Manās past. From the start Spencer sprinkled his series with…
Weāre at a crossroads in the centuries-long generational war. Boomers, Zoomers, Millennials, and the oft-forgotten Generation X are at arms with one another, blaming each other for their livesā many woes. I find myself in an interesting position amongst all this. Being born in the 1996-to-1999 liminal space between being classified as a Millennial or…
Howdy, yāall. Professor (seriously) Will Nevin here. When I came on board to Xavier Files, I was coming from a mostly three-man operation at WMQ Comics to a family of 30+ contributors, and I figured it would be neat to get some folkx together on occasion to talk about something weād all read. You know,…
With the return of the NFL today, plenty of fanatics are waiting with bated breath to see their beloved teams and players take to the turf and play some good olā football. But for fans like me, whoāve basically given up on their team after years of mediocrity, weāve had to find solace in other…
Itās been a roller coaster of a week for fans of the long-running Adult Swim animated series āThe Venture Bros.ā Series co-creator Jackson Publick revealed on Twitter Monday that the series had been canceled after seven seasons with scripts for season eight already in progress. Quickly, fans rose up, and just as quickly Cartoon Network…
When even low expectations canāt save a thing. A Short Review of āMarvelās Avengersā (PS4) It aināt great. The āRasslinā Report AEWās āAll Outā was a middling affair, but thereās only so much you can do when half your main event participants are either too old (Jericho, and I am sorry, but he canāt keep…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Will’s Pick Ice Cream Man Presents Quarantine Comix Special #1: During the height of the pandemic in the spring, Team Ice Cream Man – writer W. Maxwell Prince, artist Martin Morazzo, colorist Chris O’Halloran…
BOOM Studios on Tuesday launched a Kickstarter for the graphic novel collections of BRZRKR, an upcoming series about an immortal warrior seeking to end his life, a development project for actor Keanu Reeves, co-written by Matt Kindt, drawn by Ron Garney, colored by Bill Crabtree and lettered by Clem Robbins. By Friday, it had made…
Sometimes you get what you want, on page, spelled out, from your favorite comics: sometimes you have to guess or invent. Weāve both been X-fans since the early 1980s, when no mutants were queer or trans on-pageāso we decided which ones were queer and trans for us. (Except Warlock, who weāll defend for the rest…