The Midnight SunsâŠAre Doomed! The new team of Midnight Suns â Magik, Wolverine, Blade, Spirit Rider, And Nico Minoru â face their first brutal test when DOCTOR DOOM lays siege to Strange Academy! What is Doom after?! And an even bigger threat awaits IF they survive â a threat tied to the Sorcerer Supreme and…
The newest New Mutant is Escapade, whose mutant power lets her switch roles, or accessories, or skills, with anyone for a few hours. Now sheâs switched her residence to Krakoa, but sheâs got her doubts.. Oh, and the U-Men are back, hoping to harvest organs. Itâs just like old times, except not, in New Mutants…
Spider-Man comes to the City of Angels as a cosmic horror hits the town too from Taboo, B. Earl, Juan Ferreyra, and Travis Lanham in Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1! No one quite knew what to expect from Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man, especially not me. Cracking the issue open, I was surprised. Where I expected a story…
In a stunning turn of events, the Progenitor has abdicated from the position of God to spend the rest of his days as an omniscient corpse. The position of God has been turned over to noted religious extremist Ajak. Truly, an inspiring moment as we get our first female God. A.X.E.: Judgment Day #6 was…
Darth Vader doesn’t fight the Emperor, then gets assigned another new mission in Star Wars: Darth Vader #28 written by Greg Pak, art by Raffele Ienco, colored by Carlos Lopez and lettered by Joe Caramagna. Darth Vader #28 is repetitious to its detriment. In following up on the reveal that the Emperor was secretly behind…
Branding reigns supreme, as we join our Batman and Superman-centric chat counterparts with X-Chat! In X-Men #15, Forge brings the team back to the Vault from Gerry Duggan, Josh Cassara, Guru-eFx, and Clayton Cowles. Itâs just a mission to rescue Darwin. Surely nothing will go badly. Kraven challenges the biggest and baddest mutants on Krakoa…
How much does faith weigh, and does it balance the scales of what Ajak has done to the world? Sheâs about to find out in A.X.E.: Eternals #1, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Pasqual Ferry, colored by Matt Hollingsworth and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Karen Charm: Rasmus, this has been a week full of…
He’s Luke Skywalker, and he’s here to rescue the Meltons in Star Wars #28, written by Charles Soule, art by AndrĂ©s Genolet, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and lettered by Clayton Cowles. There is an argument to be made that the use of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars #28 is too easy, too deus ex machina-y,…
As Judgment Day rages on, Nightcrawler carries the world on his shoulders and searches for the one ray of hope that might save the world. Optimism! Immortal X-Men #7 is written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Lucas Werneck, colored by David Curiel, lettered by Clayton Cowles and designed by Tom Muller, Jay Bowen and Kieron…
The planet Earth itself stands trial before the Progenitor in A.X.E.: Death to the Mutants #3. Written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, colored by Alex GuimarĂŁes and Erick Arciniega, and lettered by Travis Lanham. Rasmus Lykke: Time is weird in comics. Iâm not talking about the medium here and how time acts strangely…
âNo, I didnât like it. At all.â She told me (of all people!) she doesnât like Black Panther. Not the movie, not the comic. Nothing. But I wasn’t mad. How could I be? She was born in East Africa, educated in Kenya and Namibia. She speaks Amharic to her mother and father. How could she…
Itâs the beginning of the end for the Spider-Verse in Spider-Man #1 from Dan Slott, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Edgar Delgado, and Joe Caramagna! After a year where the Spider-Man line at Marvel finally started making strides forward, itâs impossible to look at Spider-Man #1 without thinking âwhat on Earth are they thinking?â Okay, sure,…
âThe one freedom the Starman cannot grant us is the freedom not to have to look to the stars.â Elizabeth Sandifer AXE: Starfox was written by Kieron Gillen. Its art was done by Daniele Di Nicuolo with colors by Frank William. Letters were done by Joe Sabino Mark: Since Gillen, RibiÄ, et alâs Eternals ended,…
The Red Planet bleeds as Arakko forges a new path in Al Ewing & Madibek Musabekov’s X-Men: Red #7. In my fatherâs study, perched above rolls of processed film and terabytes of photo files, a black and white picture of Miles Davis surveys the workspace. In it Miles, clad in an open-chest white jacket, surveys…
Want to meet yet more never-before-seen mutants from a past that looks like a space opera future? Captain Prydeâs crew has you covered in Marauders #7, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Eleanora Carlini, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and Matt Milla, lettered by VCâs Ariana Maher. Stephanie Burt: Hi, Ian! Looks like weâve got plots…