The pieces Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Lucas Werneck, and Fredrico Blee have been setting up are finally coming into play in Marauder #5. While the Hellfire Trading Company is facing butting heads with each other, their dominance on the high seas is challenged by an allegiance between the nations who find Krakoa distasteful, and human…
Hey. You. Yeah, you. Wanna become an expert in Supreme Court K-12 public school student speech jurisprudence? It’s fun and cool, and any ol’ idiot can write a dissertation on it. Better yet, until last week, it only required a working knowledge of four cases: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969): The…
Listen, I know it isn’t SEO friendly but I don’t know how to write a headline that is more clear than how Beast is Nimrod now. I wanted to call him Beastrod but when you Google that you just get some upsetting fan art of that guy who joined your party at Hallow Bastion in…
Art by Chris Bachalo Name: Carl Denti Code Names: The X-Cutioner First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men Annual #17 (Nov ’93) Powers: Sh’iar Armor and Power Lance Teams Affiliation: FBI About Frank Miller and Alan Moore killed the superhero, at least for a time. The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen ushered in a new age for comics, creators wanted…
This is the ComicsXF Guide to Fast Food Fish Filet Sandwiches. Part 1 is available here. Part 2 is embedded above. *** In Moby Dick, Pip discovers and is transformed by his experience alone in the vast sea, by an aquatic experience of reality: “The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned…
Twenty years ago, Lucy Weber fought madmen and monsters. Today, she finds her marriage falling apart and her children in danger. And now past threats, and rogue heroes, return to herald the end of the world in Black Hammer: Reborn #3, written by Jeff Lemire, drawn by Caitlin Yarsky, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered…
This week, BatChat is once more joined by Patreon backer and friend of the show Matt McThorn. This time, Matt wanted to talk about times Batman and his allies and enemies crossed over with properties from Dark Horse Comics. So we have Batman meeting Hellboy (and Starman, but that’s less of a jump), The Joker…
Look, anyone with any knowledge of comics history knows that comics creators in mainstream American comics are, well, pretty darn white. And Batman is no exception; there are no truly long runs by creators of color on any of the flagship Batman titles. But there are some good stories by Black writers on Batman, and…
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 278: The first rule of Parisian Fight Club with Juni Ba & Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou Juni Ba and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou join the show to talk about their new Dark Horse graphic novel The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast…
The following first appeared in the ComicsXF newsletter. You can get early access to our editorials, a roundup of the week’s best content and get to know the members of the ComicsXFamily by subscribing right here. Every year, almost inevitably, two things happen. First, Marvel or DC will announce some big reset to a character’s status…
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…
Jim Gordon is in for a weird night. A group calling itself the Good People of Gotham have summoned beings from the 5th Dimension and unleashed a horror on Gotham on top of whatever madness Insomnia is wreaking. And one of these cultists is now using the armor Gordon wore during his brief tenure as…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Ari’s Pick: What’s the Furthest Place from Here? #1: In a world where some kind of apocalypse has wiped out the adult population, roving collectives of teens form connections where they can, and get deep…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Bonus pick: DC Versus Marvel Omnibus: Featuring Superman vs. the Amazing…
Earlier this year, we learned that the fabled Weapon Plus program had a much larger connection to the Marvel Universe than we had known. Well we’re about to learn more as Ben Percy (X-FORCE, WOLVERINE) and Georges Jeanty (WEAPON X, AGE OF X-MAN: X-TREMISTS) dive into the world of Weapon IV in WEAPON PLUS: WORLD…