Battle Of The Atom: Aggressively Dumb
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Spiders, Cats, and Space Cowboys? It’s a Savage Week on Marvel Minutiae!
Friends and readers, we have a brand-new week of comics, and with that comes Marvel Minutiae—the column where our Marvel Files writers bring you some bite-sized thoughts on some of this week’s Marvel Releases. This week the boss steps down from his office as Zack Jenkins talks Black Cat and Savage Avengers (kind of). Plus,…
Spawn’s Universe #1 a Mixed Bag of Ideas that Needs More Women
The Toddfather introduces us to all his neat new toys in Spawn’s Universe #1, an introductory one-shot debuting the new line of Spawn characters and teasing their respective titles. Written by Todd McFarlane; drawn by Jim Cheung, Brett Booth, Stephen Segovia and Marcio Takara; inked by Adelso Corona and McFarlane; colored by Fco Plascencia, Andrew…
Marvel and Stitcher Launch Wide Release for ‘Wolverine: The Long Night’
Hey, “Wolverine: The Long Night” is free finally and it’s pretty dope. You can listen to the first two episodes now on whatever you use to get over X-Men Podcasts. It’s more about Wolverine than staring him but it’s still a lot of fun. Anyway here’s a press release. Press Release NEW YORK CITY – September 12, 2018…
Green Arrow’s Birthday, X-Factor’s Finale and More Staff Picks for June 30
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick: Greek Arrow 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular: Celebrate eight decades of the Emerald Archer with this all-star anthology featuring stories by Mariko Tamaki, Tom Taylor, Stephanie Phillips, Benjamin Percy, Otto Schmidt, Javier Rodriguez,…
Dr. Polaris Tops Our First Panels of the Week Feature
Introducing Panels of the Week, where our writing staff lets us know what one comic book moment stuck with them most from the past week’s offerings. Dr. Lorna Dane Our first moment is one that’s LONG overdue. Cori McCreery chooses this panel from X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #2 “because she finally got her Ph.D.,…
Oh, oh, it’s Magik: Redesigning the X-Men’s resident demon sorceress taxicab
Welcome to Limbo! Our group chose Illyana Rasputina, the marvelous Magik, for this round! Introduced as the younger sister of Colossus, Magik joined the ’80s New Mutants team as a teen and has since flourished into an A-lister in her own right. She’s been a member of the Phoenix Five, Cyclops’ renegade X-Men squad, the…
The Dawn of DC Report Card Part 1
DC’s latest relaunch is here, and we at ComicsXF love nothing more than judging things. (Wait, hold on, my editor is telling me it’s called critique.) Well, CXF’s regular DC columnists Tony Thornley, Armaan Babu and Matt Lazorwitz decided to take a look at the releases so far and grade them. One note, we are…
Spider-Man Vs The Demon Bear In Our Exclusive Preview Of Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1
I honestly forgot this book was coming out. It was so two-thousand and late. But it’s finally here, Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1, the book where a guy from The Black Eyed Peas writes a story where Spider-Man fights the Demon Bear from New Mutants. I got a feeling that Taboo, B. Earl and Juan Ferreyra…
Kurt Wagner, Nightcrawler
GOLD SILVER BRONZE Kurt Wagner is many things. He’s a mutant born in Bavaria with unique physical features: blue fur, a prehensile tail, pointed ears, fangs, and three-fingered hands and feet. He’s a teleporter and a trapeze artist. He’s the adopted son of a Romani sorceress and the biological son of a shapeshifter and a…
Slay Your Enemies & All You Desire Shall Be Yours In Our Exclusive Preview Of Defenders: Beyond #2
In 1984, Jim Shooter introducted the formless, Beyonder. A being begging the heroes and villians of the Marvel Universe to slay their enemies to get all they desire. In 1985, Jim Shooter used The Beyonder to explore his midlife crisis and write his great American novel. In 1988, Steve Englehart turned The Beyonder into a…
Oops! All Avengers! It’s Another Installment of the Empyre War Report
Hello friends and readers, it’s looking familiar as we have another week of Captain America and Avengers? Will our intrepid reviewers’ opinions change with these second issues? Zack and Vishal bring the heat yet again! Empyre: Captain America #2 The last time I talked about this comic I got up on a soap box, shared…
BatChat With Matt & Will: New Year, New Batman Golden Age Edition
It’s the New Year, and so here at BatChat we like to look at different versions of Batman at this time, so we’re going back into Elseworlds territory. But this year, it’s a very specific type of Elseworld: the historical Elseworld, ones transplanting DC heroes and concepts into bygone days. And specifically we’re looking at…
Remember that Halloween When Carnage Conquered Universal Studios?
When you think of getting scared at Halloween, you probably don’t think of Universal Studios’ Islands of Adventure theme park, or how the Marvel Universe could get scary. However, several years before Disney bought Marvel and later incorporated it into their theme parks’ Halloween celebrations, Universal Studios spooked up the House of Ideas, with some…
Battle Of The Atom: Hank McCoy Enablers
Many people like to talk about the war crimes of Beast. Today, we want to highlight some of his lesser known mass murders. Everyone’s favorite fun loving Avenger right? Ranked This Episode: Astonishing X-Men #25-30 (Ghost Box) Secret Avengers #16 All-New X-Men #25