As comics fans, we’re all too familiar with the concept of mind control. Whomst among your favorite heroes hasn’t turned on their friends and allies because a supervillain was using some overcomplicated device to direct their actions from a hidden lair miles beneath an island shaped like a skull? But what if I told you…
Meow! What a preview. Jed MacKay keeps the cat purring with Iron Cat #1. This follow up to MacKay’s acclaimed Black Cat series an Felicia’s past loose ends come back to get her. Artist Pere Pérez joins to tell the tale of Iron Cat aka the follow up to that time Black Cat stole and Iron…
In Tini Howard and Bob Quinn’s Knights Of X we have ten mutants fighting for an Otherworld that hates and fears them. That’s a big cast but friend, it’s about to get smaller as one of the knights will die. Between the Furies (they kill superheroes) in the Crooked Market and the vampires masquerading in…
What if Miles Morales became Thor? What if Gwen Stacy became Wolverine? What if Captain America became a Nazi? What if Spider-Man became beloved character actor Margo Martindale? What if Doctor Strange became Columbo? What if Batman became v. Superman: Dawn of Justice? What if Spawn became your mom? This preview answers one of those…
Look, I’m going to be honest here, I had dreams, big dreams, of filling this section with jokes related to culture’s more important depiction of a grail quest. Unfortunately for me, but deeply fortunate for you, it’s been a decade since I last watched Monty Python And The Holy Grail. It’s Tini Howard, Bob Quinn…
It’s so important that we remember that a “deal with the devil” is a common phrase about compromising your values and not a literal deal with a literal devil. That would be a morally abhorrent thing for Spider-Man to do. Some would say an unforgivable act. Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr. deliver another issue…
Finally. We have been waiting for New Mutants #25 for far too long and now it is here from writer Vita Ayala and artists Rod Reis, Jan Duursema and Ruth Redmond. You know it has that Leinil Francis Yu cover. Maddy Pryor is back and maybe she has some thoughts about how Magik is running…
I’m working and doing this from my phone so no fancy SEO text. Victor LaValle and Leonard Kirk are doing the best book at Marvel. It’s Sabretooth #3. Here’s a preview.
We’re a sucker for a simple-yet-effective pitch. Writer Brian Schirmer first came on our radar in 2019 with Fairlady, a series of standalone fair-play mysteries he described as a gender-swapped “fantasy Magnum P.I.” Sold. His latest, out next month from Vault, is Quests Aside, a workplace comic set in a D&D-style tavern that includes the…
The Destiny Of X marches on as X-Force takes a moment to let Nadia Shammas play in the world of Krakoa’s CIA. Shammas is fresh off the acclaimed release of Squire and is dipping her toes in the direct market with X-Force Annual #1. Joining Shammas is Rafael Pimentel, a newer name in comics, but…
The school year is winding down for all education furthering folks. So too with the teens of Strange Academy. The first era of the series is coming to a close with Strange Academy #18 but fret not, there is more to come. Skottie Young, Humberto Ramos and Edgar Delgado put together this exclusive preview of…
When X-Force #116 kicked off Marvel’s new era, finally divorced from the Comics Code Authority, it did so with gusto. The new X-Force, then led by the vomiting Zeitgeist, was decimated in a tragedy (?) known as the Boyz R Us Massacre. From that point on, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred’s ecstatic mutants made a…
Boy, that Peach Momoko, good at comics, right? If you’re a fan of her variant covers, you’ve no doubt also been enjoying her spin on the Marvel Universe centered on the journey of Mariko Yashida. Sadly, that journey comes to an end next week in Demon Days: Blood Feud #1. (Each issue has been a…
Sure, we could talk about how X-Men Legends #12 brings back the X-Menniest X-Men writer to ever X-Men, Chris Claremont, to tell a story about Nightcrawler and Shadowcat in the days between when the X-Men were believed to have died in “Fall of the Mutants” and when Excalibur forms in “The Sword Is Drawn.” And…
He’s cutting promos, taking names and making sure to secure the intergalactic contenders in our preview of The Thing #5 by Walter Mosley, Tom Riley & Jordie Bellaire. This series has been joyful since it started and shows no signs of slowing down as The Thing does what he does best, brawling in battles he…