Gotham is getting stranger. Not only is there a Bat-Man, but now seeming undead Monster Men are rampaging and killing political movers and shakers. Bruce Wayne is in a strange new world, and he has some hard decisions to make if he wants to save his city. The Bat-Man: First Knight #2 is written by…
I’ve never been a Fantastic Four guy, but I gotta say, every time I dip into this current iteration of the series, I have a great time. I read the previous issue, #19, where the Trapster uses a Cosmic Cube to trap the FF in a noir where Alicia Masters plays the private dick and…
THE END IS NIGH! The Krakoan Age is nearly at an end … and what might be the final battle of the heroes of Krakoa. One last stop before the fall and rise come to their conclusion, and everything changes. X-Men # 34 is written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by Joshua Cassara, colored by Romulo…
It’s the view from the White Hot Room as Xavier’s plans come to fruition(?) and the mutants trapped on another plane of existence make their move as the deck-clearing exercise that is “Fall of X” continues in X-Men Forever #2, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Luca Maresca, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by…
It’s all coming to an end in X-Chat #15! In X-Men #33, the series continues to go out with a whimper from Gerry Duggan, Joshua Cassara, Marte Gracia and Clayton Cowles. X-Force #50 comes to some kind of a conclusion from Ben Percy, Robert Gill, Guru-eFX and Joe Caramanga. And Wolverine #47-48 features a fight…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Blood Hunt #1: Vampires are on the loose and plaguing the entire Marvel Universe. Get ready for this summer’s big event, written by Jed MacKay (Avengers) and drawn by Pepe Larraz (House…
It wasn’t that long ago that Mystique yelled “I want my wife back!” in 2020’s X-Men #6, making text what students of Chris Claremont knew to be true for far longer, that Raven Darkholme and Irene Adler were a queer couple whose love dated back decades. (Around that same time, they also kissed on panel…
Batman is back in Gotham, and the city has changed. The Orghams have made it clean, but at a cost of the city. He must gather his allies again and make a final stand. But Catwoman seeks help from a most unexpected source. The lead story of Detective Comics #1,084 is written by Ram V,…
If Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman’s X-Men are the mutant freedom fighters and Eve Ewing and Carmen Carnero’s Exceptional X-Men are the young mutants in training, it appears Gail Simone and David Marquez’s Uncanny X-Men are the big damn heroes. Led by Rogue and including Gambit, Wolverine (Logan), Jubilee and Nightcrawler, the team seems to…
Listen, I know the timeline of when all these comics take place in relation to each other is wibbly-wobbly at best, but I’m pretty sure MODOK resigned from Orchis at the end of Fall of the House of X #2. But here he is in X-Men #34, taking advantage of the conflict between the mutants…
Rhino crashes the party to stomp out Spider-Punk. What secrets lie under the community center that Spidey and his crew call home base? And how does it all tie back to Norman Osborn? Find out in Spider-Punk: Arms Race #2, written by Cody Ziglar, drawn by Justin Mason, colored by Morry Hollowell and lettered by…
XAVIER! NO! Xavier, shocking no one, compromises his morals in pursuit of his dream, as he teams up with Orchis to give mutants a chance. What’s left of the Quiet Council, however, has their own plan in place — it is time for the Phoenix to rise from the ashes that Orchis has left behind….
Most Marvel series don’t go 50 issues these days, let alone creator runs, so it’s pretty remarkable that writer Benjamin Percy got to go out on top with two 50-issue runs, of Wolverine and X-Force. The latter, of course, has already wrapped, but the former still has a couple more weeks in it before its…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives #1: Journalist Kate Marsden hunts for a notorious serial killer in the heart of the Amazon. Hot on the trail of this madman, she…
Welcome to Limbo! Our group chose Illyana Rasputina, the marvelous Magik, for this round! Introduced as the younger sister of Colossus, Magik joined the ’80s New Mutants team as a teen and has since flourished into an A-lister in her own right. She’s been a member of the Phoenix Five, Cyclops’ renegade X-Men squad, the…