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: The Question: All Along the Watchtower #1: In the…
Wally West’s erratic odyssey through time continues, swapping out the souls of history’s greatest speedsters with Wally’s own confused consciousness. This time, he’s taken to World War II, to help Jay Garrick and the Ray stop Hitler from obtaining the Spear of Destiny – and more pressingly, stopping him from taking out an entire hemisphere…
In “Announcement”, the fallout from the heist has gotten everyone up in arms, from the Empire to the people the Empire’s had its boots on. Word of the attack on Aldhani spreads fast — and to many people, it’s sounding like Rebellion. But where does that leave Andor, who just wants to get away from…
Will is so very tried. Three weeks in a row of big superhero stories. Not a single mobster or Year One era, bare bones Batman story to be found. Because this week, Dick Grayson tier Patreon backer Josh Weil is back, and we’re talking Batman getting super powers! We get a Freaky Friday with the…
“…this essay is about why so many academics don’t seem to realize comics have pictures. It’s also about the consequences of this ignorance, which may or may not be willful but is always, nonetheless, harmful.”
Jason Woodrue and Obsidian threaten to plunge the world into eternal darkness and our only hope is…vegetables?! Join us in looking at Future State: Swamp Thing #2, written by Ram V, penciled by Mike Perkins, colored by June Chung and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. Ari Bard: Hey Vishal… I think plants are our only hope. …
Whether they be masked supervillains or corrupt politicians, Nightwing’s got no shortage of foes to square off against. With both Melinda Zucco and Heartless making their first big moves, it’s Nightwing’s turn to take the full measure of his enemies. One of them, however, is holding a bigger secret than Nightwing could ever have guessed…
It’s about hunting this week. I don’t have anything interesting to say tbh. Ranked This Episode: The Hunt For Xavier (Uncanny X-Men #362-364 & X-Men #82-84) X-Men: The Search For Cyclops The Hunt For Wolverine: Weapon Lost (The Hunt For Wolverine, Weapon Lost, & Dead Ends)
Woah! Is Daredevil really turning himself in? And here we thought everything came to a head in the last issue. Stellar creative team Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Mattia Iacono, and VC’s Clayton Cowles bring us a whole new bombastic arc in their Matt Murdock saga. Vishal Gullapalli: Wait, what’s this? A new column? I’ve been…
Sam and Bucky encounter An Old Enemy, A Forgotten Friend, and a New Locale in “Power Broker” from Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Kenneth Laster: We return to the life and times of Sam & Bucky! This week takes us to a locale that many X-Fans were either pleasantly surprised to see or…
The X-Men and the Avengers have had a long and complicated relationship with one another, dating to their shared birthday on July 2, 1963, and continuing through a series of meet-ups, miniseries and misunderstanding-based fights. From their first encounter in X-Men #9 to the time the love-child of Professor Xavier’s suppressed rage and Magneto’s ……
CATCH THE ELF! When new, lethally powerful and completely untrained young mutants show up on Rogue’s doorstep with no knowledge of how they got there, a grieving Rogue seeks to take Xavier’s place in guiding them to the light, while darkness from the past returns to destroy the X-Men, one at a time. Uncanny X-Men…
Charles Xavier. Beast. Amanda Mueller. Moira MacTaggert. Magneto. Some of the greatest minds and experts on mutantkind are assembled by Mister Sinister to discuss the evolution of Homo superior … but to what devious end? Rest assured, there’ll be at least one dead body before dessert at this meeting of the Eighth Circle. Dan “Never…
Art by JamieFayX Name: Noriko Ashida Code Names: Surge First Appearance: New Mutants #8 (February ’04) Powers: Super speed and Electricity projection Teams Affiliation: X-Men, New Mutants About In the classic short japanese cartoon, the Homestar Runner character Strong Bad answers a reader’s question about what he would be like as a Japanese Cartoon. The answer has always stuck with…