Absolute Two-Face strikes and Concrete’s back: Staff Picks
This week the CXF gang is excited for Absolute Batman, Absolute Green Arrow and other comics that aren’t Absolute! What are YOU looking forward to?
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Batman #10 brings the light of hope back to Gotham
Batman reminds Gotham that, regardless of what Vandal Savage might say, it is still his city in Batman #10 by Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez.
Uncanny X-Men #30 ruins another lovely picnic (PREVIEW)
Can even the X-MEN resist the technological terror when MARS NEEDS MUTANTS? Find out in our preview of Uncanny X-Men #30, out next week!
Absolute Catwoman, Armageddon and more CXF Staff Picks
Check out this week’s CXF Staff Picks, featuring Absolute Catwoman, Avengers: Armageddon, Bishop, M.A.S.K. and more. What are YOU reading?
DC announces Absolute Cassandra Cain one-shot spinning off from Absolute Catwoman
Absolute Cassandra Cain: The Shadow’s Hand #1, written by Che Grayson with art by Matias Bergara and a main cover by Bengal, will publish on Sept. 9.
EXCLUSIVE: Check out Hannah Templer’s pinup for The O.Z. #3
In time for the launch of the Kickstarter for the third chapter of The O.Z., we’re dropping an exclusive look at a pinup for the book by Hannah Templer.
Oscar, Oscar, Oscar: Tracing the mystery of Inmate X in Uncanny X-Men
Adam Reck looks back through the Gail Simone run of Uncanny X-Men to see how the mystery of Inmate X unfolded from issue #1 to #29.
Mortal Thor #11 messes with the bull and gets the horns (PREVIEW)
In the grand scheme of animal/human hybrids from Greek mythology, minotaurs have to have it the hardest, right? Everyone loves a centaur, satyrs are basically just people with hairy legs, but a minotaur? You probably have difficulty getting through doors, you’re top-heavy, every time you drop something it invites a “bull in a China shop”…
Bishop #1 makes us ask: Where are OUR giant guns? (PREVIEW)
Bishop has always lived by a strict code. But that code will get called into question when his sister, Shard, is sent to the present right before she died.
What If…? Uncanny X-Men #1 answers a burning question
What If…? Uncanny X-Men #1 explores a world where Cyclops returns to Madelyne Pryor after the events of “Inferno.” It doesn’t go well.
Ororo wins in Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #5
Jude Jones saw Murewa Ayodele’s run on Storm all the way through to the end. With Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #5, he offers some parting words.
Uncanny X-Men #29 stages a mutant prison break
Wave goodbye to Graymalkin Prison and hello to some new team members as another story arc wraps in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #29.
Team Ice Cream Man takes on Deadman, Dream Girls and more CXF Staff Picks
Boston Brand floats — begrudgingly — through this bluegreen purgatory we call Earth, upholding the Laws of Spiritual Math and protecting humanity from evil.
How Gerry Conway’s Firestorm, the Nuclear Man, chronicled anxiety about the nuclear family
Stephanie Burt pays tribute to Gerry Conway with an examination of his DC hero Firestorm, the Nuclear Man, one of her earliest superhero memories.
Storm’s morals are put to the test in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #5!
TYPING! Murewa Ayodele’s Storm saga sure has been a trip, huh? From multi-pantheon fights with gods to teases of hippo riding to confusion over how many issues this final volume of the saga will contain, this run has had it all. And while what that “all” was, wasn’t always clear, the the level of sheer…