Friends and readers, welcome to Threefer Madness! This week we’ve got a combination of a new #1, the end of one writer’s tenure, and some heckin’ space adventures. Join writers Vishal Gullapalli and Tony Thornley as we delve into this comics in our traditional conversation Marvel Files Fashion! Iron Man 2020 #1 Arno Stark is…
Spinning out of Absolute Carnage, which, itself, was spun out of Venom, Frank Tieri, Angel Unzueta, Guillermo Sanna, and Rachelle Rosenberg bring us a horrific tale about the secrets of Arkham Ravencroft. Zachary Jenkins: So there are no Dawn of X books this week, however this is this one-shot ostensibly about Sabretooth from aspiring street…
Friends and readers, we have another great week of comics coverage for you here at Marvel Files— the premiere home of conversational Marvel Comics coverage. This week we have the debut of a surprising choice for solo title in Star #1. We also chat continuations of the eclectically cast team title Strikeforce, and the Hollywood…
Friends, welcome to the first installment of Times Immortal! Robert Secundus and Zach Rabiroff are bringing you the finest and most in-depth coverage of Ewing and Bennett’s Immortal Hulk, and we start off with a doozy as Dario Agger tries to draw out the Hulk for a stupendous Kaiju Battle as Jackie McGee gets chewed…
Tini Howard, Marcus To, and Erik Arciniega complete the ritual in Excalibur #5. Rogue reveals the secrets behind the invasion into Otherworld as the rest of the team battles for their lives. Charlie Davis: Ya know…every time I open one of these bad boys up, I think, I’m not sure how I could love Excalibur…
In a perfect world, X-Force wouldn’t be necessary. But mutants keep dying so this world is far from perfect. In X-Force #5 by Ben Percy, Josh Cassara, Dean White, and Rachelle Rosenberg, Kid Omega and Wolverine are in pieces after rushing to stop a break in at one of Professor Xavier’s facilities. Now with two…
In Jonathan Hickman and Rod Reis latest New Mutants tale, our heroes find themselves enjoying space until Shi’ar politics ruin their fun. Zach Rabiroff: Huh. That was weird. Feels like we’ve been sitting very quietly in space for, like, a month for some reason. Wonder what that was all about. Well, anyway, we’re back with…
Welcome friends to this, our first installment of Marvel Files: Threefer Madness! This week Zack Jenkins and Tony Thornley are looking at three of the big releases this week: Hawkeye: Freefall #1, Star Wars #1, and Daredevil #16! Hawkeye: Freefall #1 ZJ: Shocking everyone, Hawkeye has become an intimidating character to write in the last…
The pieces Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Lucas Werneck, and Fredrico Blee have been setting up are finally coming into play in Marauder #5. While the Hellfire Trading Company is facing butting heads with each other, their dominance on the high seas is challenged by an allegiance between the nations who find Krakoa distasteful, and human…
An all-new and very mighty creative team of Donny Cates, Nic Klein, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino takes the helm of THOR! Thor is now All-Father and there is peace across the Realms, but you know what they say: heavy is the head that wears the crown…and things are rarely peaceful for long in Asgard. …
Magneto, Apocalypse, and Xavier have lunch with diplomats, while Cyclops and Gorgon ensure to harm comes to them in Jonathan Hickman, Lenil Francis Yu, Sunny Gho, and the late Gerry Alanguilan’s X-Men #4. Chris Eddleman: Rob, even after the miss that was the last issue of this book, I’ve been craving some X-Men. The main…
A veritable smorgasbord of Marvel writers and artists bring us a murder mystery, as well as tantalize with lead-ins and hooks for the stories of 2020 in this follow-up to the story spine of Marvel Comics #1000 and 1001. Ari Bard: Incoming was… not what I thought it was going to be and pretty fun? …
Tini Howard and Marcus To continue to cast a spell in Excalibur #4. Captain Britain becomes authorized, the Akkaba Coven makes their move, and Rictor is worshiped as a god as this opening arc spirals towards its’ conclusion. Charlie: Hey Nola. I’M NOT DEAD. A little ritual magic, strength of will, and the power of friendship has…
In a perfect world, X-Force wouldn’t be necessary. But as the past three issue have told us, that is not the case. In X-Force #4, Ben Percy and Joshua Cassara finally hit their stride in giving us Mutant CIA and the brains and the brawn of Mutant Intelligence. This All-New, All-Different, All-State-Sanctioned X-Force doesn’t come…
In Gerry Duggan and Lucas Wernek’s Marauders #4, the team splits up to handle the core tenets of their mandate. Storm leads a group to rescue mutants while Kate and Bishop go on a heist while expanding the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Company. Meanwhile, the humans recuit pre-teen terrorists to combat the Marauders. Christi…