Immortal Thor #14 (LGY #775 – mazel tov!) ended with the Odinson absorbing the power of Zeus in combat, leaving the latter a smoking husk of a god. Does that make Thor Hercules’ dad now? Is that how that works? Because I would read a comic about Thor becoming Hercules’ stepdad, parking his Camaro in…
We got some new stories about a great topic, not marriage. Join us and Kitty as we don’t get married. Also, I didn’t edit this too much so you might get some mouth sounds. Sorry I guess. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #179 Excalibur #12-13 X-Men Gold #30 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master…
As Anne architects a social media campaign of looming dread, she begins to doubt her actions and fear her co-workers. Locked in a terror-shrouded fortress of her own design, with nowhere left to run, Anne confronts the fury of a Fungal God long thought dead in I Breathed a Body #3 by Zac Thompson, Andy…
Spinning out of Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate, it’s Spirit World! This life/death-hopping book is written by Alyssa Wong, drawn by Haining, colored by Sebastian Chen and lettered by Janice Chiang. As a Black-Asian comic book fan, I am almost always interested in seeing Asian superheroes. DC Comics’ limited series Spirit World introduces a new nonbinary…
Today, Fantasy Flight Games announced the Hulk Hero Pack for Marvel Champions, set to arrive in June 2020. This new expansion features X new players cards, including a 40-card pre-assembled Hulk deck that, like all Hero Packs released today, will feature 15 Hulk “signature” cards that go in every Hulk deck, plus 25 other cards,…
In December, ComicsXF’s intrepid head honcho, Zachary Jenkins, hit the floor of C2E2 with a microphone in his hand and a hankering to talk to as many creators as he could get five minutes alone with. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing some of those interviews. You know who should draw a Shazam…
In the ruins of the Orgham Tower, Batman faces down the Orgham prince, and on the surface, the next domino of the Orgham plan to conquer Gotham falls. The lead story in Detective Comics #1,073 is written by Ram V, penciled by Ivan Reis and Goran Sudzuka, inked by Danny Miki and Sudzuka, colored by…
Doctor Doom is the Sorcerer Supreme now, and he’s got a question for the Avengers in Avengers #19, written by Jed MacKay, art by Farid Karami, colors by Federico Blee, and letters by Cory Petit When the term “thought experiment” is thrown out, no doubt most minds tend to turn toward one of the most…
Forrest Hollingsworth: Blood AND Guts? In this economy? Charlie Davis: That’s what they tell me, Forrest. Though I will say all my blood is still inside of my body and my guts are still intact too. I would like a refund. Vishal Gullapalli: Blood and Guts more like Blankets and Pillows, am I right? Am…
Sometimes you find a way to conquer death, and wouldn’t cha know it? You gotta make sure you don’t accidentally create a bunch of clones and overthrow the natural order of the universe.That’s where X-Factor comes in. They investigate the deaths so that mutants might once again live. Join Leah Williams, David Baldeón and Israel…
Cássia Costa hasn’t been having an easy time. New school, new city, new … mystical dragon-related powers? Yes, Inferno Girl Red, a 100-page OGN just launched on Kickstarter, isn’t just the story of the new girl in town, or the new superhero in town, but a little bit of both. We talked with writer and…
We get it, Rogue Red and Storm on the cover of Rogue Storm #3. You’re tired. Beat up. Angry. You wonder when it will end, these slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune. But you must dig down deep. Pick up your weapons. Pull those arrows out of your chest and use their bloody, splintered stumps…
In all of the multiverse, there is only one world that Uatu has avoided watching, one “What If” that he never wished to see. And now it will be revealed, the story that could damn him for all time, in Fantastic Four: Reckoning War: Trial of the Watcher #1, written by Dan Slott, drawn by…
Stop booking terrible, stupid finishes, Vince. The ‘Rasslin’ Report: Your ‘Rasslin’ Dictionary When you know your babyfaces (good guys) from your heels (bad guys), you can impress the smarks (the “smart mark” internet fans). fuck finish (noun): a contrived finish that serves only as a workaround for bookers and fails to answer the kayfabe question…
There are many comics that are underrated, many comics that are controversial and many comics that have been given the wrong shake. Kaare Andrews’ Spider-Man: Reign is one such work. A flawed, messy, brilliant comic that engages with the time it came out while remaining relevant to this day, full of evocative imagery, fantastic fight…