If you listen to WMQ&A, you know that I am a cat person. My wife and I have a cat, Bess, who pretty much controls every aspect of our lives. But what I talk about less, because we currently don’t have one around the house, is that we are also bunny people. And so when…
“People don’t believe in God,” says Jesus Christ in Second Coming #1, “so much as they hope for a witness to their suffering.” Thus began a series from writer Mark Russell and artist Richard Pace that surprised readers and critics alike. Far from the blasphemous screed the Fox News crowd assumed it would be before…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick Excalibur #16: So Betsy is a sneering stained-glass mosaic, Saturnyne is keeping Jubilee’s son as her dragon pet that can melt reality and the Captain Britain Corps is back with a thicc-ass…
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 Yōkai. Starting with Demon Days: X-Men, Peach will be writing and drawing a 5 issue tale of a sword quest mixing Japanese…
What if reality was only as real as people believed it was? What if it could change depending on popular support? And what if the real breakout Image comic of 2020 was not a thing that purportedly had something to say about superheroes but actually had something to offer about the way in which conspiracy…
Welcome back to Bat Chat with Matt (and Will!). This week we’re back to just one book with the conclusion of the Ghost-Maker story, as Batman faces off with his foe and Harley has a heart-to-heart with Clownhunter in Batman #105 by James Tynion IV, Carlo Pagulayan & Danny Miki, Alvaro Martinez & Christian Duce…
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…
As we close out the year that was, the staff at Xavier Files wanted to take a moment to highlight our favorite comics from throughout the year. There were so many great books that we couldn’t list them all, but we wanted to give our team the chance to highlight an issue, an arc, a…
The infant Sunstar will grow up to fulfill his destiny as Earth’s most powerful superhero and roommate to Jesus Christ — but first, he and his parents must endure the mundane and the tedious on the last night of the doomed planet Zirconia. Seek a friend for the end of the world in AHOY Comics’…
If you are only slightly familiar with Star Wars — one of those people who has seen some number of the nine main theatrical films, say — and are not steeped in 40-plus years of lore, you might never have really heard of Mandalorians before the TV show that spotlights one of their number became…
The Crisis Command interrogates a ticking clock corpse! But how can heroes save a world without empathy? First, they have to figure out how to save it within themselves, as Nina Next, the science hero Frontier, takes John Doe Empathy out on the town … to discuss their seeeeeeecrets. Let’s rejoin our heroes in Image’s…
The final showdown between Malik and Richter has begun on the surface of the god they’ve discovered. But will Malik survive long enough to find a living god, or has he doomed his crew to an unimaginable fate? Those eight bells mean it’s time to break down BOOM Studios’ We Only Find Them When They’re…
Hello friends and readers! Another packed week as the year ends! Zoe Tunnell flexes her eidetic memory with Taskmaster #2, Jude Jones continues his coverage of all-things Cap with Captain America #26, WMQ head honcho Dan Grote gives us the scoop on Deadpool #9, Matt Lazorwitz hits us with the teen troubles of Magnificent Ms….
The Hulk finds the true meaning of Christmas- Goop! It’s a quieter tale written by Al Ewing, art by Aaron Kuder, colors by Frank Martin & Erick Arciniega, and letters by Cory Petit! Robert Secundus: Have a hellish, grotesque Hulkmas/ it’s a sad time of the year/ We all cry/ when we see Hulk’s eyes/…
Jason Large: And we are back with a book I completely remembered was a thing. This is feeling more and more the book for people who grew up reading Wolverine and do not want to read anything else. Jude Jones: I totally, 100%, absolutely agree. And that’s…fine? I guess? These all feel like mid 90’s…