Hello friends and readers and welcome to another week of Marvel Minutiae. We have a true hodge-podge this week as newcomer Ian Gregory looks into 2020 Machine Man while our two esteemed editors Chris and Zack dig into returning favorites Valkyrie: Jane Foster and Runaways! 2020 Machine Man #1 I’m an X-Men fan, which means…
Hey friends and readers! Welcome to Captain C’s, the Marvel Files monthly look at Captain Marvel! Cat Purcell and Christina Eddleman are going to take you through the ins and outs of Thompson et al’s run on our favorite Captain. Carol has been hiding the avengers in The Singularity as she tries to figure out…
The one and only, original flavor Logan returns in his first solo ongoing series since 2014 from Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert, Viktor Bogdanovic, Frank Martin, Matthew Wilson and Cory Petit! We get duel stories as Wolverine investigates the new street drug Pollen. Also he fights Dracula. Tony Thornley: Hey there Pierce, welcome to our new…
The Marauders learn of their terrible loss. Each member processes grief a little differently as Gerry Duggan and Stefano Caselli set the stage for what comes next. Vishal Gullapalli: We all grieved for Kate a month or two ago, and while we might not all be all the way through the process, we’re at least…
Jon & Rod are back with New Mutants #7, a comic that laughs in the face of any reader expecting a conventional story. The team pretty neatly solves all the issues with the Shi’ar and then plants a Krakoan Gate while Sunspot decides to buy Cannonball’s apartment building so that he can stay close to…
Hello friends and readers and thank you for check out another week of Marvel Minutiae here at Marvel Files! This week we’re covering Spider-Man stuff galore as Christina Eddleman looks at Gwen Stacy #1 and Spider Correspondent Tony Thornley tackles Amazing Spider-Man #39. Starting us off is Rob Secundus’s extended look at the Mother of…
The Hulk does battle with Xemnu, a monster that weaponizes nostalgia, in this issue by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, and Javier Rodríguez. Zach Rabiroff: Hello there, boys and girls! Remember when you were a kid, living in a two-story suburban house that was always cozy and warm, even in winter time? Remember how your folks…
Cates, Klein, Wilson, and Sabino bring us THOR vs. BETA RAY BILL, the showdown of 2020…? Chris Eddleman: We’re three issues into the new run on Thor, and we’ve finally gotten a big source of interpersonal conflict—that being between our titular hero and his old foe turned friend, Beta Ray Bill. Will this be another…
In a perfect world, X-Force wouldn’t be necessary. Unfortunately, we aren’t so lucky. In X-Force #7, we see the lengths people will go to disrupt the Krakoan status quo, this time using mutant abilities against them. Will Domino, Sage, and Colossus be enough? Is Forge’s Fanfiction getting out of control? What would Kenneth and I…
Tini Howard, Wilton Santos, Oren Junior, and Erick Arciniega take Excalibur back to where it began with issue #7. It’s the Warwolves. It’s always the Warwolves. Let’s hunt. Charlie Davis: So Nola…another issue of Excalibur down and dare I say it…I honestly don’t think there has been an issue out of 7 that have missed…
X-Men #6 pulls the focus in on Mystique, and reveals that there is always more to her than meets the eye. Jonathan Hickman, Matteo Buffagni, and Sunny Gho craft the tale of a mutant raging for what they are owed. Mystique is not the lap dog seen earlier in the run, she has her own…
Friends and readers, we have a brand-new week of comics, and with that comes Marvel Minutiae—the column where our Marvel Files writers bring you some bite-sized thoughts on some of this week’s Marvel Releases. This week the boss steps down from his office as Zack Jenkins talks Black Cat and Savage Avengers (kind of). Plus,…
The Hellfire Trading Company grows as Emma recruits her White Knight in Gerry Duggan, Stefano Caselli, and Edgar Delgado’s Marauders #7. Meanwhile, Bishop learns more about the truth behind Homines Verendi. Christina Eddleman: After our last panic-inducing issue, I’ve felt the compulsion to binge issues that we don’t have yet. I’m very impatient, but so…
Mutants have a new home in Krakoa. They have come from far and wide, from all backgrounds, to join a community of their fellow Homo Superior. But one Omega Mutant has ignored the call. In X-Men/Fantastic Four Chip Zdarsky, Dodsons Terry & Rachel, Laura Martin, Dexter Vines and Karl Story come together to tell the…
In a perfect world, X-Force wouldn’t be necessary. As Beast says himself, he’d “Prefer to avoid trouble altogether.” Unfortunately, trouble always finds its way into Krakoa and in X-Force #6, The team is in full force trying to stop the plant monsters. How well do they work together? Do we get to see more of…