Marauders - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:01:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Marauders - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Marauders #12 ends the series on a triumphant note! https://comicsxf.com/2023/03/22/marauders-12-ends-the-series-on-a-triumphant-note/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45089 Our Marauders have been to space, welcomed a mutant from 2099, taken a deep dive into the Proterozoic proto-ocean, rescued a couple of ancient mutants from yet another genocide, and wondered who made a mysterious puzzle box. Now their series is ending. Will their questions get answered in Marauders #12, written by Steve Orlando, drawn...

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]]> 45089 Brimstone Love is back and so are character faces in Marauders #11! https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/15/brimstone-love-is-back-and-so-are-character-faces-in-marauders-11/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44735 Our team has come back from the distant past, bringing three plucky survivors from the long-ago, now-defunct mutant society Threshold. Will Captain Kate Pryde start a time loop with their help? Also, remember that jerk Brimstone Love? He’s back too, in Marauders #11, written by Steve Orlando, art by Eleanora Carlini, colors by Matt Milla,...

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]]> 44735 Marauders #10 Tests the Team’s Time Travel Travails! https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/06/marauders-10-tests-the-teams-time-travel-travails/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44426 Billions of years in the past, a culture of proto-mutants and proto-humans faces extinction-level threats from the Unbreathing (an anaerobic civilization), from Arkea (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms), from Sublime (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms created by Grant Morrison), and from Stryfe (that guy). Can our chrono-journeying mutants save everyone? Or anyone? Time to find out in Marauders #10,...

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]]> 44426 Marauders #9 Brings the 90s to Prehistory! https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/07/marauders-9-brings-the-90s-to-prehistory/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44124 Inconceivably long ago in the history of the Earth, the mutants (Enriched) and the non-mutant humans (Enshrined) of the community called Threshhold battle the anaerobes of the Unbreathing and the genocidal megabacteria Arkaea and Sublime. Our Marauders have come, in sealed suits, from the future to save their kin. Some will die, some will live,...

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]]> 44124 Marauders #8 goes once more into the breach! https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/10/marauders-8-goes-once-more-into-the-breach-for-good-ill/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43842 Stephanie – quick! It’s Ian! I’ve traveled back in time billions of years to warn you that a rogue microorganism has infected the creatures you refer to as “pets”! We can only save your beloved cats and dogs if we first review Marauders #8, written by Steve Orlando and illustrated by Eleonora Carlini, colors by...

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]]> 43842 Marauders #7 Sails Forward by Looking to the (Deep) Past! https://comicsxf.com/2022/10/05/marauders-7-sails-forward-by-looking-to-the-deep-past/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43287 Want to meet yet more never-before-seen mutants from a past that looks like a space opera future? Captain Pryde’s crew has you covered in Marauders #7, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Eleanora Carlini, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and Matt Milla, lettered by VC’s Ariana Maher. Stephanie Burt: Hi, Ian! Looks like we’ve got plots...

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]]> 43287 An A.X.E to the Head Prompts Introspection in Marauders #6 https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/08/an-a-x-e-to-the-head-prompts-introspection-in-marauders-6/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42749 The Marauders are back from space and ready to do their part to save the Earth in the editorially-mandated crossover event called “Judgment Day”, but first it’s time for…. a peek inside each one’s dreams in Marauders #6, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Andrea Broccardo, colors by Matt Milla, letters by VC’s Ariana Maher....

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]]> 42749 Everyone’s Time Traveling in the Messy Marauders #5! https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/24/everyones-time-traveling-in-the-messy-marauders-5/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42591 Space opera becomes time drama as our mutant adventurers delve back into the past to undo Shi’ar crimes against mutantkind. And by “the past” we mean… 1993? Marauders #5, with writing by Steve Orlando, line art by Andrea Broccardo, colors by Matt Milla, letters by VC’s Ariana Maher. Ian Gregory: I would say that we’ve...

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]]> 42591 Things Get Timey-Wimey in Marauders #4! https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/13/things-get-timey-wimey-in-marauders-4/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42009 What are the Kin Crimson hiding? Whose space-blood was the First Blood Shed? What’s it all about, Tempo? Find out in Marauders #4, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Eleanora Carlini, colors by Matt Milla, letters by  Ariana Maher. Ian Gregory: Avast, Stephanie – we’re back with more Marauders! We’ve expanded beyond just the pirate...

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]]> 42009 Secrets in Shi’ar Space in Marauders #3! https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/08/secrets-in-shiar-space-in-marauders-3/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41363 Shi’ar space baddies have captured our spacefaring heroes, and no one knows– yet– what secret about the first mutants the Kin Crimson have been keeping from the rest of Shi’ar society. Will Kate Pryde and her band escape? Can they get help? Where can they go? What’s going on? Find out in Marauders #3. Written...

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]]> 41363 Marauders #2 Enters The Court Of The Crimson Kin https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/04/marauders-2-enters-the-court-of-the-crimson-kin/ Wed, 04 May 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40485 Captain Kate Pryde has taken her new team to space! Bishop, Psylocke, and the rest– among them, incredibly, the genocidal ex-supervillain Cassandra Nova– have set out for the stars in order to find the First Mutants and solve the mystery of an ancient box. Whatever they seek, the Shi’ar don’t want them to find it–...

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]]> 40485 Marauders IN SPACE in Marauders #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/06/marauders-in-space-in-marauders-1/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39934 Ahoy, Marauders! It’s a new number one. A new ship (it’s a spaceship). A not-really-new mission (rescue endangered mutants). A new creative team (except that we saw the writer already in the Annual). A new team, except Red Queen Captain Kate Pryde and muscular source of continuity/ time-traveling ex-cop Lucas Bishop. A new mystery (it’s...

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]]> 39934 Marauders Sets Sail on a New Mission, with a New Team, in a Pre-Relaunch Annual https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/24/marauders-sets-sail-on-a-new-mission-with-a-new-team-in-a-pre-relaunch-annual/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37642 The next generation of Marauders starts here, in this story by writer Steve Orlando, artist Creees Lee, colorist Rain Beredo and letterer Cory Petit. With Daken missing, Kate Pryde and Bishop assemble a new crew of Marauders to hunt him down. How will they fare against the machinations of Brimstone Love? The changing of the...

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]]> 37642 Return To Port In Marauders #27 https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/12/return-to-port-in-marauders-27/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37354 It’s time to drop anchor in home port and let the crew disembark: Emma Frost quits, Kate investigates her disability, there’s one more fight on one more ship, and Marauders as we know it comes to an end. Marauders #27, written by Gerry Duggan, art by Matteo Lolli except where it’s by Phil Noto, colors...

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]]> 37354 Krakoa Reveals The Ultimate Weapon Against Nimrod In Marauders #26 https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/01/krakoa-reveals-the-ultimate-weapon-against-nimrod-in-marauders-26/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35524 Marvel’s premier kaiju attacks our favorite airborne mutant privateers and a fire-vs-ice clash ensues! Meanwhile, back on land, Hellfire Club OG Harry Leland is making heavy weather at the UN in Marauders #26, written by Gerry Duggan, art by Matteo Lolli, colors by Rain Beredo, letters by Cory Petit. Ian Gregory: In contrast to the...

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]]> 35524 Lost In Space in Marauders #25 https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/27/lost-in-space-in-marauders-25/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34866 Last time out in this Star Wars comic Marauders, our heroes sold a Macguffin to the dastardly double-crossing space criminal Eden Rixlo in exchange for his spaceship, and then he stole it back from them and shot them out the airlock. Can they come back from that? Marauders #25, writing by Gerry Duggan, art by...

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]]> 34866 The Marauders Trek To Arakko For A War In The Stars In Marauders #24 https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/15/the-marauders-trek-to-arakko-for-a-war-in-the-stars-in-marauders-24/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33727 Our mutant pirates (technically they’re privateers) head to the newly-terraformed Mars! But they don’t expect what they get from the new bad guy they meet at the spaceport. He doesn’t expect them either, since he’s been mindwiped. Who will shoot first? Marauders #24, writing by Gerry Duggan, art by Phil Noto, letters by Cory Petit....

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]]> 33727 A New Crew Sets Forth In Marauders #23 https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/18/a-new-crew-sets-forth-in-marauders-23/ Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32802 With the Hellfire Gala over the Marauders set sail for more battles and action. However, maybe it is time to bring new blood ashore. Gerry Duggan, Ivan Fiorelli, Rain Beredo and Cory Petit dispatch Marauders #23. Christina Eddleman: Ian, I’m really happy to be back to chat about our favorite group of mutants: Kate, Storm,...

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]]> 32802 Of Lourdes Chantel & The Last Hellfire Gala In Marauders #22 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/21/of-lourdes-chantel-the-last-hellfire-gala-in-marauders-22/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=31406 The Gala is over but the Hellfire Trading company has to deal with the repercussions in Marauders #22 by Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Klaus Janson, Rain Beredo and Cory Petit. [Ed. note: This article involves a discussion of domestic abuse and sexual assault.] Ian Gregory: We’re taking our first steps into a brave post-Hellfire Gala...

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]]> 31406 Appetizers Are Served As The Hellfire Gala Begins https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/02/appetizers-are-served-as-the-hellfire-gala-begins/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=28852 You are cordially invited to The Hellfire Gala featuring Marauders #21 by Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Edgar Delgado and Cory Petit, X-Force #20 by Benjamin Percy, Joshua Cassara, Guru-eFX and Joe Caramanga, and Hellions #12 by Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel and Ariana Maher. Best pay attention, there will be fireworks like the world...

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]]> 28852 Bid A Fond Farewell To Storm In Marauders #20 https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/05/bid-a-fond-farewell-to-storm-in-marauders-20/ Wed, 05 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=26471 On the eve of the Hellfire Gala, the Marauders reminisce about a goddess. Gerry Duggan, Stefano Caselli, Edgar Delgado, Chris Sotomayor and Cory Petit deliver Marauders #20. Ian Gregory: Marauders is back with an issue I’m not really sure how to categorize. With our main cast celebrating Storm’s departure from the team, it feels like...

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]]> 26471 Morlocks Take Madripoor In Marauders #19 https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/07/morlocks-take-madripoor-in-marauders-19/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=24518 The gentrification of Lowtown stops here in Gerry Duggan, Stefano Caselli, Edgar Delgado and Cory Petit’s Marauders #19. Christina Eddleman: Nineteen issues in, and I knew it had to happen sooner or later. The readers are going to be so disappointed. A fire and ice pun. Ian, at least you’re here to soften the blow....

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]]> 24518 High Stakes In Lowtown! It’s Marauders #18! https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/17/high-stakes-in-lowtown-its-marauders-18/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=16330 The chess game between the Marauders and Homines Verendi gets more and more complex as lines are drawn in Marauders #18 by Gerry Duggan, Stefano Caselli, Matteo Lolli, Edgar Delgado and Cory Petit. Christina Eddleman: Now that the Marauders are back to marauding, I’m ready for boats! Lot’s of boats! Boats. All. Day. Okay I...

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]]> 16330 The Red Queen Meets Another Dark Monarch. It’s King In Black: Marauders #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/03/the-red-queen-meets-another-dark-monarch-its-king-in-black-marauders-1/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=14291 Earth has fallen. The leaders of the X-Men have fallen. The Marauders? They keep on swimming through the goo. Gerry Duggan, Luke Ross, Carlos Lopez, and Cory Petit tie into King In Black: Marauders #1. Christina Eddleman: I’m so excited to talk about everyone’s favorite kind of issue – a tie-in! Facetious as I may...

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]]> 14291 Preparations Are Made For The Hellfire Gala In Marauders #17 https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/13/preparations-are-made-for-the-hellfire-gala-in-marauders-17/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=12554 With Sebastian Shaw under their paw, the Red and White Queens begin to set the table for the world to learn just how strong Krakoa is. Will you be in attendance of The Hellfire Gala? Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Edgar Delgado and Cory Petit make sure all is in order in Marauders #17. Christina Eddleman:...

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