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. Matt’s pick: Batman & Robin Year One #1: While Bruce Wayne…
A couple times a year, an Exiles fan asks us to talk about comics that they like and we don’t. No one is happy with this and yet we still do it. Ranked This Episode:
We take a break from books with pictures to talk to Carrie Harris about her new book Liberty & Justice for All: A Marvel: Xavier’s Institute Novel staring Tempus and Triage. Pick up the book here!
Ten swords, ten champions, ten nearly forty battles for the fate of the world. The soul still burns as the tournament continues. Kenneth Laster & Ari Bard lead us through Saturnyne’s whims in X-Force #16 by Benjamin Percy, Gerry Duggan, Joshua Cassara, Guru-eFX, and Cory Petit. Then Liz Large & Austin Gorton try something completely…
We love democracy and apparently so do the X-Men. Marvel is giving fans a chance to vote on the final member in the first ever X-Men Election. During the epic X Of Swords, fans realized that, since the start of the Krakoan era there has been no official X-Men on the orders of Charles Xavier….
Luke Skywalker gets back to Jedi business in Star Wars #19, written by Charles Soule, drawn by Marcos Castiello, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In terms of Luke Skywalker, the big hook to any of his stories set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi is the question…
They say home is where the heart is, which is ridiculous. My heart lives in my ribcage right next to my breathe bags. Still, the X-Men’s home is important so we have dedicated an entire episode to that building. Ranked this episode: X-Men: Survival Guide to the Mansion Special Edition X-Men #1 (Back-Up) X-Men: Evolution…
Three years ago, I had the immense pleasure of reviewing the indie superhero short film Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part I for ComicsXF. Over the holidays, I attended a virtual screening for Captain Zero Part II and recently sat down with creator, director, writer and voice actor Z Cher-Aimé to talk about the past,…
This week we talk about Beast. We were going to talk about roller coasters but SOMEONE didn’t get my reference. Anyway this episode also turned into a bunch of romance stories and WOW, Hank McCoy can brood. Ranked this Episode: X-Men Endangered Species Beauty & The Beast X-Factor Special: Prisoner of Love
X-Factor was born during a hurricane. Jackson Guice, the series’ original artist and co-creator, recalled its origins to Comic Book Resources in 2009: The first issue was double-sized. We put it together under the guiding hand of Mike Carlin and the first issue was finished and submitted for final approval to Jim Shooter — who,…
This is the one you have been waiting for. It is a podcast all about X-Men: Destiny character Pixie. Ranked This Episode:
If Hellions is about anything, it is about consequences. It’s a book about bad people who have done bad things wondering what they do next. Zeb Well’s and Stephen Segovia’s mutants don’t fit in with the rest of the world. Luckily there is one enemy who we can all unite against, The Right. Hellions #17…
Old favorites from the Charles Soule Star Wars canon are revisited via an anthology of tales in Star Wars #25, written by Charles Soule, art by Ramon Rosanas, Guiseppe Camuncoli, Danielle Orlandini, Will Sliney and Phil Noto, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg, Arif Prianto and Guru-eFX and lettered by Clayton Cowles. With Commander Zahra defeated and…
With one hell of a hook, we saw something new. You read, I reviewed The Thing #1, now I review: The Thing #2. Written by Walter Mosley, drawn by Tom Reilly, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Joe Sabino. I was at a play sometime last week. It was, unfortunately, in Hindi, a language…
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…