God Loves, Man Kills II (2003) isnāt a great story. Itās part of the larger X-Treme X-Men line, in which Chris Claremont got to do Claremontian things with the characters Grant Morrison wasnāt using for New X-Men. Like much of X-Treme, the arc suffers from inking and coloring that make characters look glassy, inert, a…
Hello friends and readers, we have actual physical books to cover for you this week, so in celebration, we decided to do all of them! Zack Jenkins digs into Avengers #33 by Aaron and Garron, while Liz Large dusts off the new #1 of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra by Wong and Cresta. Finally, itās time…
In the wake of Kateās death, the Marauders double their efforts. Gerry Duggan, Stefano Casellim and Edgar Delgado craft a tight action issue as our pirate X-Men take down the Russian scientist responsible for the power dampening tech seen round the world. Meanwhile, The Five lose hope. Christina Eddleman: We were so incredibly spoiled when…
Dear Comic Creators: Wow. What a year, right? Brexit. Impeachment hearings. Remember when we almost went to war with Iran back in January? That was crazy. And now here we are, months into global pandemic, isolation orders implemented across the country amid crazy protests, and no real end in sight. Some of us are coping….
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 Spicerās 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…
For centuries, man has looked to the stars to find glimpses of the future using the artistic science of astrology. The original symbols were based often on stories and characters from antiquity that few but the biggest mythology geeks are familiar with today. For the sake of updating them for common use, and because Marvel…
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 werenāt 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…
Comics, especially X-Men comics, and trading cards have a long history together. The X-Men trading cards, followed by the larger Marvel sets, started right as the comics hit their most financially successful period. Trading cards were included in some of the biggest launches, like X-Force #1 and X-Cutionerās Song. Marvelās acquisition of the trading card…
X-Force, they are like the X-Men, but with attitude. If they X-Men were just all Wolverine but also guns right? While this is both reductive and incorrect, this is what society expects of X-Force. There have, however, been many iterations of this squad, and today, weāre going to rank all of them, from worst to…
The first Marvel Champions campaign box was formally announced by Fantasy Flight Games: the Rise of the Red Skull. A new product format, the campaign box will feature two new heroes alongside five new Hydra-themed scenarios, all culminating in a battle against the Red Skull himself. Those five new villains players can battle against are…
I donāt play Animal Crossing, so the last few weeks on social media have been Greek to me. However, I have been playing a lot of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Iāve discovered something. Isabelle rocks. I typically race as either Toad or Toadette. The small, compact characters (or Light) take turns better, especially on…
Weāre going to be talking about a few terms from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, a 20th century Russian literary critic and semiotician. First of all, āheteroglossia.ā Heteroglossia is: āthe base condition governing the operation of meaning in any utterance. It is that which insures the primacy of context over text. At any given time,…
Over the last few months, us X-Fans have gotten accustomed to island life. Krakoa has become our home. We visit tiki bars, hang out on beaches, and enjoy a political system that is questionable. With the recent global pandemic, Krakoa has been taken from us. Comics arenāt coming out this week, we donāt know when…
Hello friends and readers, itās 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!…