Zack and Adam kick off the show with a classic, a modern masterpiece, and something unfortunate. Ranked this episode God Loves Man Kills Wolverine & the X-Men #17 God Loves Man Kills II Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter! Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi,…
Batman has a complicated relationship with religion. He is a rationalist living in a world with real angels and demons. So what happens when Batman intersects with religion? Well, we don’t really answer that specific question. But we do have three stories where Batman confronts people and creatures with specific religious ties. And we’re joined…
The infant Sunstar will grow up to fulfill his destiny as Earth’s most powerful superhero and roommate to Jesus Christ — but first, he and his parents must endure the mundane and the tedious on the last night of the doomed planet Zirconia. Seek a friend for the end of the world in AHOY Comics’…
You thought Iceman died in the Fall of X? Not quite: He almost melted, but he got revived by … the power of love? Stay frosty with Astonishing Iceman #1, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Vincenzo Carratù, colored by Java Tartaglia and lettered by Travis Lanham. Stephanie: This first issue in a spate of…
After a bit of a hiatus, it’s time to return to Crowdfunding Q&A. Currently on the blockchain-free comics crowdfunding platform Zoop, Thirty-Three is an action comedy family drama. That’s a lot of adjectives right there! ComicsXF’s own Cat Purcell reviewed the book when it was on Kickstarter, a review you can read here, but after…
Valentine’s Day is almost upon us, which means it’s time for DC to release an all-new anthology of shorts; this year filled with little romantic comedies starring all your favorite characters in DC’s How to Lose a Guy Gardner in 10 Days. The approaching Valentine’s Day means it’s also time for people to try and…
We are talking about Morlocks today. They should team up with the ninja turtles. Just saying. Ranked this episode: The Mutant Massacre Uncanny X-Men #291-293 (Morlocks Take Manhatten) Uncanny X-Men Annual #18 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy! Our theme…
Everybody in the world gets a genie. Each genie grants one wish. Here’s what happens in the first eight seconds. Then the first eight minutes. Eight Billion Genies #1 is written by Charles Soule, drawn by Ryan Browne and lettered by Chris Crank for Image Comics. Mark Turetsky: Welcome, dear reader, to our review of…
It’s spooky season! The X-Men have no shortage of characters going bad, whether they’re seduced by their darker impulses, possessed by demons or dark magic, or just having a really, really bad day. And when characters go bad, they signify it with crazier and more revealing costumes. For Halloween, our team imagined some evil looks…
And we have reached the end of October, the spookiest of months, and this the end of villains month. And to wrap it up, we’re getting one of the spookiest of Batman villains: Man-Bat. Dr. Kirk Langstrom has an origin really out of the pages of Spider-Man, but someone has wound up a fixture in…
What do you think Logan is so huffy about in this picture? So Escapade has used her mutant ability to borrow his claws? There are mutants with his claws all over Krakoa. Hell, there are two Laura Kinneys right now! You ain’t special anymore, Bub. Anyway, Marvel’s made it quite clear recently: New Mutants is…
Doc Ock gets brutal. A member of the band goes solo. And the fight goes mecha! All that and more in Spider-Punk: Arms Race #3, written by Cody Ziglar, drawn by Justin Mason, colored by Morry Hollowell and Rico Renzi, and lettered by Travis Lanham. Picking up where issue 2 left off, issue 3 starts…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 128: Jesse Lonergan's Adventures in the 35-Panel Grid Writer/artist Jesse Lonergan joins the show to talk about his sci-fi one-shot comic “Hedra,” his upcoming “Planet Paradise” graphic novel and more. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at xavierfiles.com, where new episodes move…
The Leader faces off against the Devil Hulk and it’s winner-take-all in this issue written by Al Ewing, pencilled by Joe Bennett, inked by Ruy José and Belardino Brabo, colored by Paul Mounts, and lettered by VC’s Cory Petit. Zach Rabiroff: [Lights up on a stage empty except for the snoring body of a bespectacled…
Look, I don’t care that we don’t have a release date or teaser art to show. Can we just talk about the fact that Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children, the DC-BOOM Studios crossover one-shot announced Saturday at New York Comic Con featuring the former’s muck monster and the latter’s bandana-wearing monster hunter, is the…