The Kindred meta-plot is resolved, more or less. The Devil gets his due. Nick Spencer bids farewell. Does any of it matter? Amazing Spider-Man #74 is written by Nick Spencer with Christos Gage, Penciled by [deep breath] Marcelo Ferreira, Mark Bagley, Zé Carlos, Dio Neves, Carlos Gómez, Ivan Fiorelli, and Humberto Ramos, inked by [deeper…
It’s catch-up week for SuperChat, as we see what the Supermen of three worlds are up to. On Warworld, Superman and his team find themselves vastly overpowered – but what does that mean for the rest of the galaxy? Action Comics #1037 written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Miguel Mendonca, colored by Adriano Lucas…
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Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 242: Blank of Blank with Rich Douek and Alex Cormack Rich Douek and Alex Cormack join the show to talk about their new IDW series Breath of Shadows. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move Tuesday…
The editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel’s history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the…
Love bleeds in issue #4 of Hellions, from Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Ariana Maher. Liz Large: Six months ago if you told me I would have intense feelings about a random assortment of d-listers and Alex Summers, of all people, I would have thought you were crazy. But it turns out that…
Dylan is tempted by the power of darkness as Gods battle for the future of the Earth in King in Black #3 Written by Donny Cates, penciled by Ryan Stegman, colored by Frank Martin, and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Forrest Hollingsworth: Justin, after a surprisingly good issue of Venom it’s time for another issue of…
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…
How much power does belief really hold? Krakoa is in crisis as mutants question their belief in their leaders, their peers, and their Gods. It’s up to Nightcrawler (after a steamy night and following day with the Weaponless Zsen) and the Legionnaires to answer this question in Legion of X #4, written by Si Spurrier,…
Reeling from the revelation that his entire heroic identity is a lie, Black Knight tries to cope with the fact that he isn’t the noble paladin he thought he was. Launching a new era of the Avengers’ resident swordsman, Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade is written by Si Spurrier, drawn by Sergio Dávilla,…
Wonder Woman returns to a world that has moved on from her in Wonder Woman #781 written by Michael Conrad and Becky Cloonan with Marcio Takara as artist, Tamra Bonvillain as colorist and Pat Brousseau as letterer. Cat Purcell: We’ve got another great issue here that sets up some wonderful possibilities. It’s good to see…
The Twilight Sword of the enemy tore the one land asunder. But what now keeps it apart? Jonathan Hickman, Phil Noto, and Clayton Cowles weave a tale of wonder in X-Men #16 Chris Eddleman: Rob, it’s been a long war. 22 issues, to be precise. But there is a time for war, and a time…
Name: Marshal Evan Stone III Code Names: Random First Appearance: X-Factor #88 (Mar ’93) Powers: Protoplasmic Form Teams Affiliation: X-Factor, The Acolytes, The Utopians About Back when I talked about Fantomex, I talked about the “cool character”. Someone who seems hand-crafted by a committee to tick every box that a twelve-year-old boy might think is neat….
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 182: Gold's Fools with Si Spurrier Writer Si Spurrier joins the show to talk about his new Vault Comics series THE RUSH (It’s an acronym; we didn’t just start leaving the caps lock on like your aunt), the Klondike gold rush of the late 1800s, and to gently tease some…
The original New Mutants represented interracial (and sometimes interspecial) solidarity. The New Mutants movie does only barely that, if it does it at all. Initially, the movie was developed as a horror-Breakfast Club hybrid film. The Breakfast Club works because all the characters have social reservations and animosities they overcome together by the end of…