Hello friends and readers, Empyre sinks in deep as we cover the highs and lows of this week’s crop of tie-ins. Zach Rabiroff examines the ramifications os Lords Of Empyre: Celestial Messiah #1 by Alex Paknadel, Alex Lins, and Matt Yackey. Then Tony Thornly shows us what those wacky FF kids are doing in Fantastic…
Selfcest. Autovore. Moondragon/Moondragon/Phyla-Vell. When Moondragon lost Phyla-Vell her whole life shattered. Broken, beaten and poisoned by the Dragon of the Moon, she pushed forward for reasons unknown. At least until she realized that another Moondragon, a perfect version from a utopian alternate universe, had slipped into the 616. Misguided and filled with venom, she sets…
Grim solutions start to percolate, a desperate plea is made, and no one is as they seem in Empyre #4 by Al Ewing, Dan Slott, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia, and Joe Caramagna! Mr. Chris Eddleman: Christi, sun and moon of my life, it is awfully odd skipping issues, even though we do it for our…
Empyre burns on as the situation on Genosha gets messier and messier. Hordeculture and some demons join the zombies and plant aliens as Gerry Duggan, Ben Percy, Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck, and Nolan Woodard present Empyre: X-Men #2. Nola Pfau: Allison. Warren. Allison Senecal: Nola. WARREN. The hair. NP: The hair. The himbo. The legend….
It’s an all new Giant-Sized X-Men! This time with science experiment, master thief, and fake Frenchman extraordinaire Fantomex! In this issue, we look at Fantomex’s history and borderline obsession with the extratemporal World in which he was born with Giant Size X-Men: Fantomex #1 by Rod Reis and Jonathan Hickman. Vishal Gullapalli: I’ve been excited…
Each year, Fantasy Flight Games hosts an “in flight report” at GenCon, the largest board game convention in the United States. This year, as the convention went digital, they presented that report live on Twitch, highlighting upcoming releases and announcing new products for the rest of 2020 and beyond. This year one of their biggest…
Superman stands for three things: truth, justice and the American way. In many respects, the Man of Steel and his values are in direct conversation with every action comic that has come since his first one. Villains and anti-heroes are identified in comparison to Superman’s three guiding principles. He is the Jungian archetype of all…
Remember 2013? When Lance Armstrong copped to being a drug cheat and “Star Trek Into Darkness” beat “The Final Frontier” and “Faith of the Heart” as the worst Star Trek thing ever made? And you could go outside? Those were the days. The Splash The hallmark of a Zack Snyder movie — outside of his…
I love ranking things. Everyone loves ranking things. We’ve built a social media empire around the idea of ranking things. So lets rank all the X-Men titles in the Dawn Of X era, shall we? This is not just one opinion, this is the definitive opinion. We polled out writing staff and got twenty members…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. ZACK’S PICK: Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex #1: Remember that time Jonathan Hickman casually mentioned in an interview that the version of Xavier we saw in HOX/POX was the version that had commandeered Fantomex’s body? Man,…
Click. Journey back with us for a moment, back through the decades, to February 2020. A young coronavirus had just notched its first recorded U.S. death. The Senate voted against impeaching President Donald Trump. Kansas City won its first Super Bowl since 1970. Sonic the Hedgehog whizzed into theaters, those places we used to go to watch…
Sister Act Captain Marvel #17 (2004): Peter David (writer), Paul Azaceta (pencils), Chris Sotomayor (colors) Captain Marvel #18 (2020): Kelly Thompson (writer), Cory Smith (pencils), Adriano Di Benedetto (inks), Tamra Bonvillain (colors) All Captain Marvel families are alike, but every Captain Marvel family is unhappy in its own way. Two years ago, Margaret Stohl and…
“We’re made up of all the things that happen to us. The good things fill your heart. But the bad things, and what we choose to do with them, really make us who we are,” says Casey Brinke, cosmic EMT, in Doom Patrol #5. “I’ll keep choosing love.” And then she lights the match that…
TMNT #107 — Story: Sophie Campbell, Script/Colors: Ronda Pattison, Art: Nelson Daniel, Letters: Shawn Lee, Story consulting: Kevin Eastman & Tom Waltz, Publisher: IDW TMNT Annual 2020 — Story: Tom Waltz, Art: Adam Gorham, Colors: John Rauch & Michael Garland, Letters: Shawn Lee, Publisher: IDW Change is hard. Especially when you’re fighting a mutant snake…
Hedra took my breath away. I’ve read it three times, each time unearthing something different. It may be wordless, but it’s left me with a lot to say. Writer and artist Jesse Lonergan is the powerhouse behind Hedra, published by Image Comics. Translating the comic’s name from the ancient Greek, Hedra means “face of a…