It wasnât supposed to end like this. Xavier Files started at my dining room table over a plate of bacon and eggs. It was a Tumblr blog where I took bits and pieces of my favorite comics podcasts and foolheartedly assumed my opinion on comics would be exactly what the internet needed. I wrote about…
Peach Momoko has done fantastic work on covers and now she is bringing her work to interiors. Demon Days is a Japanese inspired story featuring Marvel characters reimagined as samuri, oni, yojimbos, and YĹkai. Starting with Demon Days: X-Men, Peach will be writing and drawing a 5 issue tale of a sword quest mixing Japanese…
In their stunning first issue, Al Ewing and Valerio Schiti promised that S.W.O.R.D. was the future. They just didn’t say how long that future will last. As Knull, the King in Black, covers the world in darkness, the immortal mutants will learn the most fundamental truth of the universe. Everything dies. Al Ewing has already…
The malevolent machinations of the Clown Prince of Crime are apparently too much for the paltry pages of Batman or even Detective Comics as writer James Tynion IV, artist Guillem March and more will bring the roguesâ galleryâs most famous (and bankable) villain to his own ongoing prestige series The Joker starting in March. According…
The Xenomorph is a spooky, scary and some would say sexy new addition to the Marvel Comics family. In March 2021, they make their way into Marvel Comics for the first time. Phillip Kennedy Johnson will be writing about Weyland-Yutani mercenary Gabriel Cruz, as he fights horrifying creatures in Alien #1. Joining him will be…
The Reign Of X begins this December. Si Spurrier will be taking residence on Krakoa, in a treat for all readers. Si previously worked on the phenomenal X-Club, X-Men: Legacy, and X-Force. Those titles cemented his reputation for cutting wit and cerebral plotting, grounded in emotional character beats. His introduction into this new world order…
Writer Peter Milligan and artist Mike Allred returned to their early 2000s X-team, the celebrity mutant X-Statix, last year in âGiant-Size X-Statix,â a one-shot that pitted a new version of the team, with a new U-Go-Girl, against a rogue splinter group led by famously dead former member Zeitgeist (Yâknow, the one who died again on…
Marvelâs Spider-Man: Miles Morales dropped last week exclusively on the Playstation 4 and the Playstation 5. While the game is indeed a rip-roaring good time with excellent characters, graphics, and gameplay there has not been nearly enough discussion on the most important easter egg in the game. Beware mild late-game spoilers ahead. Bill the Lobster,…
Last month, we reported on Archie Comics going day-and-date on comiXology Unlimited, releasing new comics direct to the subscription arm of Amazon’s digital comics service. On Monday, manga publisher Kodansha Comics became the second company to go that route, announcing it will drop new chapters of series such as Attack on Titan, Card Captor Sakura: Clear…
Listen, we all need a break sometimes, Scott Summers included. The mutant leader is trying his best, but between raising his teenage son, being Captain Commander of Krakoa, and exploring polygamy, sometimes a guy just needs to let loose. Channeling all of our frustration about the last year, artist Alexander Lozano has gifted Cyclops with…
Mike del Mundo is one of the greatest cover artists in the game. His vibrant, textured colors, mixed with expressive character acting, and next level composition, have made him a go-to for exciting moments. He began to build a resume at Marvel with his phenomenal work on X-Men Legacy, Elektra, and Weirdworld. Now things come…
Wonder Woman Earth One Vol. 3 DC on Monday announced a third a final volume of writer Grant Morrison and artist Yanick Paquette’s Wonder Woman: Earth One graphic novel trilogy, to debut in March of next year. The plot, per DC: Diana, now queen of the Amazons, must assemble the disparate Amazonian tribes for the…
In the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead singer of a high school punk bandâwhoâs been missing for weeks. How did she get there, and what do these ghosts want? Expect three-chord songs and big bloody action thatâs Power Rangers meets The Shining (yes, really). Hook this book directly to my goddamn…
Steve Orlando, Steve Niles and Steve Alex Paknadel are among the creators behind TKO Studios’ third wave of graphic novels, announced Thursday and available Nov. 9. The following are solicits from the publisher: THE PULL is a sci-fi epic that asks the ultimate question: What would you do if you only had six days left to live…
In an industry first, Archie Comics on Wednesday announced its new titles would available to read day-and-date on comiXology Unlimited, the subscription arm of Amazon’s digital comics service. The move took effect immediately with the publication of this week’s Sabrina: Something Wicked #3 by Kelly Thompson and Veronica and Andy Fish, Archie and comiXology announced in…