As the God City of T’Kon awakens, the crew of the USS Theseus try to avert a deicide and Worf meets a familiar face. Afterwards, a renegade Worf, joined by a crew of misfits and mutineers, hijack the USS Defiant in order to save the galaxy. Star Trek #5 written by Collin Kelly and Jackson…
Legacy looms large as a new villain stakes a claim to Matt’s past and future and a cavalcade of stars team up to celebrate 650 issues of horn-headed justice. Daredevil #2/#650 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Marco Checchetto and Rafael De Latorre, colored by Matthew Wilson, and lettered by VC’s Clayton Cowles. Featuring…
First, the silly bit: This preview contains a panel in which two shirtless men put a blanket on a fully clothed woman. Granted, that woman was attacked by an ice dragon in the previous issue, but still, there’s an irony there. Now that that’s out of the way, if you like the panel on the…
Knock ’em Dead #1 Writer: Eliot Rahal, Artist: Mattia Monaco, Colorist: Matt Milla, Letterer: Taylor Esposito, Publisher: AfterShock I’ve got a joke for you: How did the comedian die? You can bring a room alive by telling a good joke. You can put that room to sleep by explaining it. Like stories, jokes have a…
Big Two superhero comics are an iterative process. What was conceived in the 1930s and 40s has evolved and changed over the intervening three quarters of a century. Usually? That’s for the better. Characters get deeper and develop more of an internal life. Plots become more mature. Art becomes more realistic, or more stylized. And…
Christopher Chance is a man on a deadline and working to solve a crime that might be unsolvable. Despite his better judgment, he’s falling for his lead suspect, and her violent ex-boyfriend isn’t happy about it. Oh, and that ex? He’s a Green Lantern. Grab a bagel and find out what happens next in Human…
Art by Alan Davis Name: Kurt Wagner Code Names: Nightcrawler First Appearance: Giant Sized X-Men #1 (Oct ‘75) Powers: Teleportation, prehensile tail, being a great acrobat Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Excalibur About If there is one thing the X-Men stand for, it is equality. They believe in the dream of a world where people aren’t judged by the color…
The series checks in with Shara Bey, still chillin’ in the belly of a Star Destroyer, in Star Wars #21, written by Charles Soule, drawn by Marcos Castiello and Ramon Rosanas, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and lettered by Clayton Cowles. One of the ways a series like this – one featuring characters from another medium…
No calm before the storm for Mariko Yashida as she continues her journey in Demon Days Rising Storm #1.
Here me listeners! No longer are we the podcast you once knew! We are fire and life incarnate, we are X-Man Update! That’s right, we spend the whole episode talking about how one of us is reading X-Man and nothing about the Phoenix. Deal with it nerds! Ranked this episode: Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of…
Welcome to the first of our new review feature: “Bat Chat with Matt (and Will!).” We’re starting off with a big one, folks (Or is it? We’ll get to that), the end of the “Joker War” story. As Gotham burns and the Bat-family tries to hold it together, Batman and Joker face down in a…
Remy LeBeau may not be able to keep a de-aged, pre-teen Ororo safe, but at least he can…. defend a hot farmer outside St. Louis from real estate developers? Gambit #2, written by Chris Claremont, drawn by Sid Kotian, colors by Espet Grundetjern, letters by Clayton Cowles. Stephanie: Stephanie, you really liked the first issue…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 177: Werewolves and Cats with Danny Lore Writer Danny Lore talks about their upcoming Vault Comics series Lunar Room, their Transformers miniseries Shattered Glass, and Matt’s cat chat cup runneth over. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new…
Welcome to teen hero comics of the 90s. It’s a very very mixed bag. For all the charm that some have, some… don’t. Friend of the show and Patreon backer Josh Weil really wanted to talk about Impulse #50, so we found some other stories of teen heroes in the 90s and Batman, specifically the…
The Uncanny X-Men are the only force standing in front of a murderer’s row of monsters, and Jubilee may fall off the vampire wagon.