The Elite

Pizza Cutters, Space Jam and Nitro at MGM Studios. This is your Week in Wrestling.

Mikey: Another week, another wrestling. That’s the way the saying goes, right? No? Well, it is now. After the shockers heard round the world of last week’s AEW Dynamite and GCW Homecoming Night 1, plus Jay White in the Impact Zone! I’m… really not sure where this week is going to go, but I can’t…

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The Ultimates shows what’s possible with superhero stories and invites us to demand more

Head’s up: This essay includes spoilers for this week’s Ultimates #4 by Deniz Camp, Phil Noto and Travis Lanham. The Ultimates is a future classic.  If Marvel’s founding creative principle is depicting “the world outside your window,” then Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri’s run is observing this mission statement better than any other comic being…

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A Ballad of Mothmen and Rocket Guy Weirdos in Department of Truth #14 and #15

While we wait for the series to begin its next arc following another cliffhanger (Maybe the would-be presidential assassin running the show is actually a physical manifestation of evil!), it’s time to go a little sideways into the archives of the government’s weirdest, spookiest bureau in Department of Truth #14 (written by James Tynion IV,…

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The Sinister Six Meet the Twee Twelve that Are Our Staff Picks for July 14

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Justin’s Pick: Sinister War #1: You know those Sinister Sixes that are, like, double Sinister Sixes? Also, y’ever think about how certain Spider-villains, like Doctor Octopus and Kraven, have gotten these redemptive arcs that made…

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