Hello friends and readers, comics are back, but just like restaurants, we have a limited digital only menu this week as our boss Zack Jenkins zooms in on Wells, Burnett, and Spicerâs Ant-Man #4, and Tony Thornley rides the desolate plains of critique in Avengers of the Wasteland #4 by Brisson, Scharf, and Menon. Ant-Man…
Mags Immortal is a spinoff of Times Immortal, where Robert Secundus and Zach Rabiroff dive into the weird and wild world of 1970s Marvel Magazines. CW: violence, implied sexual violence, incest, suicide, torture, and religious trauma Robert Secundus: Last time on Mags Immortal we looked at some wonderful comics. But they werenât what really wowed…
Mags Immortal is a spinoff of Times Immortal, where Robert Secundus and Zach Rabiroff dive into the weird and wild world of 1970s Marvel Magazines. CW: violence, implied sexual violence, incest, suicide, torture, and religious trauma Robert Secundus: The other day, while doing research (read: justifying spending money on weird comics stuff on ebay), I…
Hello friends and readers, itâs a packed week here at Marvel Files as Christi Eddleman leads up on the Road to Empyre, the clockwork-like Tony Thornley swings into The Amazing Spider-Man, the big boss Zack Jenkins takes a look back in Marvel Snapshots: Fantastic Four, and Rob Secundus delves into the specifics of Immortal Hulk!…
The curse of the Pale Girl comes into full bloom as Wolverine and Agent Bannister team up to investigate The Flower Cartel. In Wolverine #2, Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert, and Frank Martin put the canucklehead through the ringer as they examine the cost of what he leaves in his wake. Tony Thornley: Hey Pierce! It…
The Brood are vicious predators. They are single minded in their goal of proliferating across the universe. A hive mind that follows their queen without question. In X-Men #9, Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, and Sunny Gho dare to ask, âbut what if a king?â Chris Eddleman: Wow, it looks like weâre concluding the second…
Weâre in for a wild ride as Hellions begins with a debut issue by Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Cory Petit. The team comes together, with Psylocke as their parole officer and Sinister as the adult in the room. There is no way this could go poorly… Liz Large: I honestly had no…
In the aftermath of Peter Quillâs death (SPOILER ALERT), Guardians old and new take time to grieve, reconnect, and hate each other! Allison Senecal: So! How is the old team going to react to the news of Star-Lordâs heroic death in issue 2? Even with four pencillers, and an anthology-esque structure, we get an emotionally…
Hello friends and readers, and welcome to the biggest Marvel Minutiae EVER. We really should be calling Marvel Max…in..utiae. Well anyway, Christina Eddleman is going to be giving her thoughts on the new Spider-Woman #1, Zach Rabiroff starts off with the new teen event with Outlawed #1. Liz Large makes her Minutiae debut with Amazing…
This is it. Captain Marvel versus Vox Supreme with all the strength of the Avengers behind her in this barnburner from Kelly Thompson, Lee Garbett, and Tamra Bonvillain. Cat Purcell: I started out super nervous about this arc as I generally loathe “good guy gone bad” plotlines. But each issue Thompson and her team built…
The song has been sung, the amulet taken up, there is a new Captain Britain and a Braddock sits yet again on the thrown of Otherworld. But where then is the Omniversal Majestrix? Where is Her Royal Whyness? Where is Opal Luna Saturnyne? Tini Howard, Marcus To, and Erik Arciniega answer this questions and more…
In a perfect world, X-Force wouldnât be necessary. Unfortunately, we arenât so lucky. In X-Force #9, we take a load off and have a little fun. Itâs a tiki bar party and everyoneâs there except our old pal Colossus. On an unrelated note, Domino is suddenly feeling a lot better after her resurrection, almost as…
Hello friends and readers and welcome to another week of Marvel Minutiae! We hope you like Spiders and Spider-adjacent folks, because it is all Spidey all the time in this weekâs column. Spider Correspondent Tony Thornley spins us a yarn about Spencer and Ottleyâs ASM, while Christi Eddleman gives us her thoughts on the high…
Xemnu, the Living Hulk, recrafts reality through the magic of television to position himself as the one true Hulk in this tale of forgotten identities by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, and special guest artist Javier RodrĂguez Zach Rabiroff: Times Immortal in your dreams Times Immortal in your memes Times Immortal, Rob and Zach Times Immortal,…
Our Mighty King Thor faces a reckoning…from Sif! Chris Eddleman: Vishal, while the last issue was pretty good in general for what was just one prolonged fight, I was getting nervous that we were going to have to squeeze blood from a turnip to continue our long-form articles. HoweverâCates, Klein, and Wilson gave us a…