Stephanie – quick! It’s Ian! I’ve traveled back in time billions of years to warn you that a rogue microorganism has infected the creatures you refer to as “pets”! We can only save your beloved cats and dogs if we first review Marauders #8, written by Steve Orlando and illustrated by Eleonora Carlini, colors by…
Writer Jeff Lemire, artist Gabriel Walta, colorist Jordie Bellaire and letterer Steve Wands head out on the back roads and find only horror in Phantom Road #1, published by Image Comics. I grew up on trucks. My dad owned a small trucking company, and I frequently would ride along when I wasn’t in school. As…
He’s cutting promos, taking names and making sure to secure the intergalactic contenders in our preview of The Thing #5 by Walter Mosley, Tom Riley & Jordie Bellaire. This series has been joyful since it started and shows no signs of slowing down as The Thing does what he does best, brawling in battles he…
Batman is back in his own Gotham, but things have changed. And so has he. Is he really ready to step right into the role again, even after everything that has happened? Batman #136 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Belen Ortega, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup,…
Art by Paul Davidson Name: David Haller Code Names: Legion First Appearance: New Mutants #25 (Mar ’85) Powers: A different power for every personality Teams Affiliation: X-Men About People thrive for control. The unknown is a dark expanse and anything we can to shine a light on it matters. It makes us feel safe because we want to be the…
In the world of Heroes Reborn, Hyperion is a big deal. He’s a super heroic man, but when he was a wee superheroeic boy, he had adventures with the Imperial Guard. Writer Ryan Cady talked to us about this one-shot. ANd hey, you get to see our EiC whiff a question so hard right from…
Art by Andy Kubert Name: Guido Carosella Code Names: Strong Guy First Appearance: New Mutants #29 (July ’85) Powers: Kinetic energy absorbsion in his muscle mass Teams Affiliation: X-Factor About Always leave ‘em laughing. Nothing I could say could sum up the massive mutant known as Strong Guy better than Peter David did in his…
Patreon backer Sam Hopper wanted to give us a nice, fun week, and we appreciate that. He requested three stories that inspired episodes of Batman ’66. There are surprisingly few episodes of that show that were adaptations, but definitely enough or an episode. But these are really short stories, so we wanted to add a…
Earlier this week, we posted a series-by-series breakdown of each of the upcoming X-Men From the Ashes series. Then Marvel went and dropped two more. Jerks. Marvel on Thursday announced Sentinels, a five-issue miniseries by writer Alex Paknadel (All Against All) and artist Justin Mason (Spider-Punk: Arms Race), launching Oct. 9. The series will follow…
Marneus finally becomes the marine his friend promised he would be in Warhammer 40K: Marneus Calgar #4 by Kieron Gillen, Jacen Burrows, Java Tartaglia, and Clayton Cowles. Forrest Hollingsworth: Justin it’s the penultimate issue of Marneus Calgar and between the gore, heresy, inquisitorial questioning, and warrior poetry we’ve got a lot to talk about! Are…
It’s a whole episode about the bouncing blue Beast and his adventures in Steve Engelhardt’s continuity fix stories.Ranked this episode: Amazing Adventures #11-16 Incredible Hulk #161 Avengers #137-138
The team comes together in Hellions #17 just in time to fall apart. Sigh. Isn’t that always the case?
ComicsXF’s own Sean Dillon attended this year’s San Diego Comic Con. This is their field report. TUESDAY 8:00 AM EST Playing: Heart First Aid Kit (Grace Petrie & the PC Brigade), Queer as Folk (Grace Petrie) There’s an odd anxiety building inside of me. I’m currently sitting in JFK waiting for my flight to San…
Christi and Chris tackle the first third of X-Cutioner’s Song, the 90s X-Men crossover event where Cable kills Charles Xavier! (… or something like that) Support The Chrises Patreon Kofii Contact The Chrises Twitter: @ChrisesPod Facebook: @ChrisesPod chrisesoninfiniteearths@gmail.com Music Credits “Evening Melodrama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “Get…
If You Only Listen One X-Men Podcast This Week, It Must Be This One! We wanted to talk about Magik and Shadowcat, we ended up talking about Jim Shooter and Daredevil. This is what happens every time we pick three single issues to talk about. Plus, see Zack slowly descend into madness as he loses…