All eyes are on Ghorman, home of majestic twill, spiders and the Space French, as Andor‘s second season reaches its halfway point. Check out 10 things we loved in “Ever Been to Ghorman?” “I Have Friends Everywhere” and “What a Festive Evening.” 1. ‘Sacre Bleu!’ Modeling the Ghorman rebels on the French Resistance (and, to…
Margot Waldman: Itâs a strange thing to have a âDoctor-liteâ episode in a season as short as this one is â but then, we had one last year in â73 Yards,â another ripped-from-the-headlines political drama (Iâm not the first reviewer to compare these two episodes, not by a long shot)! I thought â73 Yardsâ was…
Remember the Uncreated? They were a race of aliens who came to resent their god, so they killed it. Then they set about trying to destroy other races that had religions. They don’t have many appearances. Kitty Pryde met some of them in a Black Air base that exploded in Excalibur. The Starjammers fought them…
Welcome, everyone, to our first monthly edition of Talking Absolute âŠ, where weâll focus on the storylines, controversies and themes that have captured our imaginations in the Absolute DC titles each month. April was the first month to have releases from all six series, so what better time to start than this? So far, we…
Happy Free Comic Book Day / Thunderbolts* weekend! It’s that magical day of the year when comic shops (pay to) give away select free titles from publishers in a bid to get folks excited about a Marvel movie to check out the source material. The observance comes at a weird time, both for the industry…
Batman continues to make his way through an apartment building controlled by Scarface, trying to find the mastermind. But there is more here than Batman expected, and there is something waiting as he reaches the top floor, a secret that will change the whole case. Batman: Dark Patterns #5 is written by Dan Watters, drawn…
We talk a lot about the preservation of physical media as a bulwark against the erasure of culture, both by streaming services that remove content at their whim and by fascist nations seeking to perpetuate their message of strength through exclusion at the expense of all others. Also, who doesn’t love a nice Criterion Collection…
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. Stephanieâs pick: NYX #10: With Mojo a bigger threat than ever…
Margot Waldman: On their quest to get back home to May 2025, the Doctor and Belinda make a slight detour 500,000 years in the future â and into what I think has been the strongest episode of the season so far. What do you think, Armaan? Armaan Babu: Iâm behind you 100%. Well, behind-adjacent, as…
After far too long a wait, the second season of Andor is finally upon us! Just as the first season premiered with a three-episode release on Disney+, so too does season 2. But unlike season 1, the rest of this season will follow the same format, unfolding across four three-episode arcs. In these first three…
As you may have heard, we here at ComicsXF are more than a little excited about this weekend’s Super Jersey Comic Expo, April 26 and 27 at The Dome at Adventure Crossing in Jackson, New Jersey. Maybe it’s because we’ll have a table there, selling some of the cool stuff you’ll see below. Maybe it’s…
Batman must do the unthinkable: He must save the Jokerâs life. But the Joker has done so much horror over the years, there are members of Batmanâs own family who will not look kindly upon this. Batman #159 is written by Jeph Loeb, penciled by Jim Lee, inked by Scott Williams, colored by Alex Sinclair…
I’m happy for the people this miniseries is making happy. The Zaladane stans who after 34 years got fresh tales of their evil dinosaur priestess who is not Polaris’ sister. The variant cover collectors and traders who stood at attention at the mere mention of “Savage Land Bikini Rogue Adam Hughes variant.” The nostalgia readers…
What stalks the blood-soaked kill floor? A dizzying, heartbreaking, hallucinogenic trip through the endless slaughterhouse! Witness a man’s life cut up, ground down and packaged for easy consumption in Assorted Crisis Events #2, written by Deniz Camp, drawn by Eric Zawadzki, colored by Jordie Bellaire, lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and designed by Tom Muller for…
As you probably know by now, we at ComicsXF are pretty excited about this weekendâs Super Jersey Comic Expo. A group of us will be tabling, bringing with us stickers, shirts, prints, old comics we need to unload and, best of all, a limited number of physical copies of The ComicsXF Zine. (Canât make it…