A coded distress call from Dr. Beverly Crusher leads Admiral Picard and Captain Riker to attempt to steal a starship, while Raffi tries to prevent a terrorist attack. Picard and Riker meet “The Next Generation” in Picard Season 3 Episode 01 written by Terry Matalas, directed by Doug Aarniokoski. Mark Turetsky: Hey Will! It’s been…
The Transformers roll out, renewed and rebooted for Image/Skybound’s Energon Universe in a story written and drawn by Daniel Warren Johnson, colored by Mike Spicer and lettered by Rus Wooton. Tony Thornley: Austin, thanks for joining me. A few months ago here at CXF, I reviewed Void Rivals #1 and found it surprisingly fun and…
I’m not a Tokusatsu gal. The Japanese tradition of costumed superheroes with outrageous names fighting endless goons and flamboyant monsters in a seemingly infinite sea of quarries should, by all accounts, be extremely my kind of thing. But whether it’s Power Rangers, Kamen Rider or Ultraman, every attempt I’ve made to dive into the genre…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Presents OUR SON PETE Episode 15: The One with the Big, Round Number In a beyond-the-paywall episode of WMQ&A’s monthly Patreon bonus podcast, Chris Hassan of AIPT’s X-Men Monday column joins Dan to talk about Excalibur #100, the Xavier Protocols, the Wisdom-Lockheed feud and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 237: Lemme Axe You a Question with Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden join the show to talk about their plans for the next year of Vault Comics’ Barbaric. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com,…
Cassian gets a job offer and makes some new friends as the series stretches out and a larger picture of the wider galaxy begins to form in “Aldhani”, episode four of Andor! Austin Gorton: Adam, in our last review, we both had some mixed feelings about the show’s three part, occasionally plodding, premiere. But even…
It’s time for Volume 1 of Secret Wars (2015)! “But Christi and Chris,” you say, “didn’t you already spend a ton of episodes on Secret Wars?” Why yes readers, we did, but that was Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars. Entirely different. No similarities. None. At all. Music Credits: “Evening Melodrama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative…
After being stuck in a bunker for years, Cindy Moon has blossomed into a character of her own. Filling the void of news room drama that Peter Parker has left vacant for so long, Silk has become J Jonah Jameson’s new investigative journalism prodigy. She’s looking into why so many low level crooks are terrified…
Cartoonist Declan Shalvey is here with a vengeance to talk about vertical scroll comics and his just completed X-Men Unlimited story.
Alex Goldman from the show Reply All and I had a chance meeting on Twitter where we bonded over that good goo boy, Glob Herman. We decided to do a podcast about it. Ranked this episode: Spider-Man & The X-Men #4-5 X-Men Black: Mojo #1 Age Of X-Man: NextGen
Art by Ron Lim and Jimmy Palmiotti Name: Timothy Fitzgerald Code Names: Skullfire First Appearance: X-Men 2099 #1 (Oct ’93) Powers: Energy Absorption and Redirection Teams Affiliation: X-Men 2099 About In 1962 ABC aired The Jetsons, an animated sitcom about the family of the future. The show took the trappings of domestic life in the 60’s and transplanted it a…
This Editorial comes to us from Everett Christensen I. Love. the X-Men. I have loved the X-Men since some of my earliest memories of being a small child in a one bedroom apartment in Stockton. I had a Cable poster. I assured my single mother working three jobs that the poster would help protect me from…
Vengeance is on their minds as a reckoning comes to the Hellfire Trading Company in Marauders #16 by Gerry Duggan, Stefano Caselli, Edgar Delgado, and Cory Petit. Christina Eddleman: Vishal, as much as I loved swords, I’ve been craving this issue for what feels like an eternity. They say revenge is a dish best served…
Welcome back to BatChat! In Detective Comics #1,046, we are treated to the setup of many plots that will come to fruition in the upcoming “Shadows of the Bat” arc in a story written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. In the backup, Batman is…
A veritable smorgasbord of Marvel writers and artists bring us a murder mystery, as well as tantalize with lead-ins and hooks for the stories of 2020 in this follow-up to the story spine of Marvel Comics #1000 and 1001. Ari Bard: Incoming was… not what I thought it was going to be and pretty fun? …