Black Panther #200 is a Love Story

Between man and country, between country and king; between friends; between ex-lovers; between the love of ideology and the love of individualism – there’s a lot of love in Black Panther #200.  We find T’Challa and his partner-cum-conscience Omolola mid-fight, as the masked ideologues who’ve been stalking and killing T’Challa’s secret Wakandan spies have finally…

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Across the Spider-Verse, the Death of Kamala Khan and the need for better stories

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Amazing Spider-Man #26. On May 31, Marvel released Amazing Spider-Man #26, controversially killing Marvel’s most prominent South Asian character, Kamala Khan. She becomes one more of a long line of characters whose deaths happen to fuel Peter Parker’s ever-flowing fountain of…

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The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 343: Josh Weil talks comics and running for Congress

The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 343: Josh Weil talks comics and running for Congress Recurring BatChat with Matt & Will guest Josh Weil joins the CXF Interview Pod to talk about the intersection of politics and comics, as well as running for the House of Representatives in Florida’s 6th District….

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Reunited and it feels so good in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Spider-Man & Wolverine #7

Peanut butter and jelly. Rocky and Bullwinkle. Peaches and Herb. To the pantheon of beloved pairings we can (apparently) add Spider-Man and Wolverine, whose bond is so solid (and/or sales-worthy) that it can create a pocket universe existing entirely outside the “Age of Revelation” timeline. It is a universe in which Wolverine still does his…

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B- and C-list characters deliver a solid B+ MCU movie in Marvel’s Thunderbolts*

After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts. Thunderbolts* is directed by Jake Schreier and stars Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sebastian Stan, Russell Wyatt, Hannah John-Kamen and Lewis Pullman. NOTE:…

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