Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: Detective Comics #1,100: Tom Taylor and Mikel Janin join…
The gang at ComicsXF had a great time tabling at Super Jersey Comic Expo in April, selling comics, shirts, prints and copies of The ComicsXF Zine. Seems like we oughtta do it again. And it sounds like we’ll have the opportunity to do so. Super Jersey Comic Expo will return April 18 and 19, 2026,…
A common in-story complaint about Bobby Drake is that he’s not living up to his potential, like a perennial high school slacker who graduated from high school 60 years ago. And while he’s certainly keyed far more into his powers these days, one wonders whether No. 6 on the call sheet in a young-mutants-in-training book…
“Pareidolia,” the third arc of the series, wraps up with Batman shot and tied up at the mercy of the man behind the discovery of the body that led Batman to Gotham’s Rookery neighborhood. Can Batman figure out all the secrets and convince his captors to free him before he is killed? Batman: Dark Patterns…
The coven — Adriyel, Em and Michele — need to end the ominous magickal eclipse they caused, but the danger continues to escalate as wytches throughout New York City are being massacred. Is the endless wytching hour connected to the sudden attacks? Will the wytches survive long enough to unravel the mystery and save all…
Last month at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel dropped info on most of the second month of its upcoming Age of Revelation event, in which Doug Ramsey, the heir of Apocalypse called Revelation, remakes the world in his image X years in the future. But missing from that set were the second issues of Binary, which…
In 1989’s “Inferno,” demons and demonic objects controlled by Madelyne Pryor terrorize New York. Daredevil gets beaten up by a vacuum. It’s fun. In 2025’s Psylocke #10, a possessed Kwannon and a group of Yokai, or Japanese demons, prepare to terrorize the Hand in Tokyo. Some things never go out of style. Funny-looking demons terrorizing…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Rasmus’ pick: Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1: Four new Kryptonites have…
A Mike Del Mundo cover is a burst of candy-coated creativity. The colors are bright, but often there’s something horrifying going on at the same time. Or at the very least something interesting. The ones I come back to are the covers he did for Ed Brisson’s run on New Mutants, during the arc where…
This weekend is the 11th annual Flame Con, the world’s largest comics and pop culture convention focused on the work of LGBTQ+ creators. As part of this year’s show, Flame Con, with the support of sponsor Kickstarter, continued its SparQ program. According to Flame Con, SparQ aims to amplify the work of marginalized voices in…
DC Comics launched the New 52 in 2011 as a “soft” reboot of its superhero continuity. I was 8 years old at the time and just getting into comics. At 9, I attended New York Comic Con for the first time, and continued to attend the convention annually until 2020. At that age, the only…
You know what’s cool? That scene in a movie where the monster or the enraged, vengeance-seeking protagonist – or the enraged, vengeance-seeking monster protagonist – picks off the bad guys one by one from the shadows. Just dudes disappearing left and right, screaming for their lives while some unseen force drags them to hell. That’s…
Amid the changing relations between mutants and the city of New Orleans, two of the best guns for hire come to town with a mission, and their target for that mission is an X-man. Deadpool and Outlaw guest-star in this dangerous tale of mayhem vs. mutant. Uncanny X-Men #19 is written by Gail Simone, drawn…
Witness the rise of one of Marvel’s most infamous villains as Steve Rogers comes face to face with Doctor Doom for the first time. Also, who is David Colton, and can Steve trust him to have his back as they infiltrate a hostile country with the new Howling Commandos? Captain America #2 is written by…
A lot of Marvel’s classic villains have had face turns over the years. Magneto became the headmaster of Xavier’s school. Doctor Doom has saved the entire multiverse (for his own nefarious ends, but still). Heck, most of your Steve Ditko-created Spider-rogues have tried being a good guy at least once. But the Red Skull? The…