Since joining X-Factor, Daken has been an outsider. Leah Williams, David Baldeón, Israel Silva, and Joe Caramagna dive into his psyche in X-Factor #7. Cori McCreery: Well here we are again and mysteries seem to just be compounding for our dear investigators. Andrea Ayres: Wheeze. I’ve been emotionally thrashed. What are we supposed to do with…
In the grisly third installment of Image Comics horror anthology The Silver Coin by artist and creator Michael Walsh and writer Ed Brisson, after a home invasion goes bad, the mysterious coin helps its new owners outrun the law. But it’s leading them down a much darker path. Mark Turetsky: Hi, Armaan! We’re back for…
Last week, Marvel gave us one of its classic teasers, showing Cyclops and a bunch of other mutants hanging from St. Andrew’s crosses like that one time the Reavers did it to Wolverine and we all loved it. On Wednesday, Marvel announced Age of Revelation, a fall event that asks, “What if Age of Apocalypse…
Art by Bill Sienkiewicz Name: Alison Blaire Code Names: Dazzler First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #130 (Feb ’80) Powers: Turns sound into light Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Excalibur About In 2014, writer Kieron Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie released a new series called The Wicked + The Divine. It tells the story of twelve reincarnated gods, given shape…
It’s tough being a newly introduced kid in the pages of X-Men comics. What are the odds Furaha will “survive the experience” and stick around?
He is the lone avenger of the night. He sits atop gargoyles in Gotham City, eternally alone in his quest for justice. He is Batman. He is the father figure to a group of young people who fight in his endless war against crime. He works with them to make them better, stronger and frankly…
SuperChat is back everybody, and joining Tony Thornley is Armaan Babu to look at the new issue of the Superman anthology Superman: Red & Blue #4 featuring: “Namrepus” written by Mark Waid, drawn by Audrey Mok, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Dave Sharpe. “Prospect of tomorrow” written and drawn by Francis Manapul and…
There are some creators who left us too soon, and left us at the height of their creative output. One of those creators was Darwyn Cooke, whose work balanced on a tightrope of nostalgia and modernity, who could tell a story with the best of them. Cooke’s output included many Batman stories, and thanks to…
Name: Alex Summers Code Names: Havok First Appearance: X-Men #54 (Mar ‘69) Powers: Plasma Beams Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Factor, The Brotherhood, The Six, The Starjammers, The Avengers About Siblings have a relationship that few others do. There is the unique challenge of living up to an older brother who is so accomplished. Younger siblings can feel left in the…
Powers Of X #2 by Johnathan Hickman, RB Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, and Marte Gracia continues the tale in four times. In X0, Moira and Xavier recruit Magneto. In X1 and X2, the heroes of those words analyze the data they received on previous missions and prepare for their next one. And 1,000 years away…
Atticus Sloane — misanthrope, criminal, asshole and vampire — lives in a world where blood isn’t the only thing vamps crave. And for the right price, he’ll make you a vampire, too. After all, immortality isn’t cheap in Blood Stained Teeth #1, written by Christian Ward, drawn by Patric Reynolds, colored by Heather Moore and…
Hair and hair-care is a subject that all of us reckon with every single day. It is universal, and everybody has their own specific experience and relationship to it. And yet it remains an underexplored subject in comics. That’s something that’s been slowly changing, as there have been comics and graphic novels coming out exploring…
Upon discovering that Captain America doesn’t live up to God’s standards, the goodies try to kill God. This goes about as well as you’d expect. A.X.E.: Judgment Day #3 is written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Valerio Schiti, colored by Marte Gracia and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Sean: When doing an event comic, there are…
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: Batman & Robin Year One #1: While Bruce Wayne…
Like you (I assume), I am plagued by the non-problem of too many good comics and not enough time to read them all, so I’m behind on this Vault banger from Ram V and Anand RK. But ComicsXF staffers Cassie Tongue and Forrest Hollingsworth aren’t, and those smart folks had this to say about the…