Every Monday Senior X-Men Editor Mark Paniccia answers fans questions and shares cool new art from the X-Line. We’ll be here compiling all those hints in one place so you don’t have to worry about missing a single second of it. This is #XMENMONDAY Round-Up X-Men: Red #2 We kick off this #XMENMONDAY with our first…
Doctor Aphra and Santa Staros continue the hunt for the experimental hyperdrive in Doctor Aphra #8 written by Alyssa Wong with art by Minkyu Jung, inks by Victor Olazaba, colors by Rachelle Rosenberg and letters by Joe Caramagna. Before I even get into the fun ride that is issue 8, I need to talk about…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 188: Just Zoop It with Jordan Plosky It’s business time! Dan and Matt chat with Jordan Plosky, one of the founders of Zoop, a new comics-specific crowdfunding platform. Check out Zoop’s current campaign for The Nightcrawlers, an all-ages supernatural adventure comic by Marco Lopez and Rachel Distler. You can listen…
Longtime Deadpool artist Mike Hawthorne joins the show to talk about his BOOM Studios graphic memoir, “Happiness Will Follow,” which tells the story of growing up with his single Puerto Rican mother.
In 1989 DC Comics released Hawkworld, the last of its big post-Crisis reboots and origin stories, written and drawn by cartoonist Timothy Truman. The three issue miniseries told an origin story for the post-Crisis On Infinite Earths version of classic hero Hawkman while incorporating the gritty urban realism seen in books like “Batman: Year One,”…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s pick: Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1: It’s the end of the world as we know it, and the Parliaments of the Green, the Red and the Rot agree to wipe the slate clean. There’s…
Being a teen hero is hard. It’s even harder when the government takes draconian measures to prevent you from doing the right thing and enrolls your friends in reeducation centers. That’s what The Champions have been up against during the “Outlawed” event. They have been hunted by C.R.A.D.L.E., their friends have been taken prisoner, but…
This week marks the release of Ultimate Universe: One Year In, a one-shot that celebrates the first year of Marvel’s new Ultimate Universe (Earth 6160) while giving us a tease of things to come. Looking back on the past year, it’s fair to say the Ultimate relaunch has been a resounding success. Series such as…
Name: Ororo Munroe Code Names: Storm First Appearance: Giant Sized X-Men #1 (Oct ‘75) Powers: Weather Control Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Force, The Crew, The Avengers, Fantastic Four About The word unless provides a lot of insight. It is one thing to say someone will do something, it is another to understand what would make them…
I think we all wish that comics were more equitable and diverse, both when it comes to who creates them and who appears in them. While recent years have taken steps in the right direction, there are still plenty of under-represented groups. Marvel this year launched a series of one-shots featuring characters and creators of…
Surprise, surprise – Ultraman isn’t the last Kryptonian in his universe after all! Ultragirl, however, is decidedly on the side of the angels, meaning it’s time for an all out ultra-brawl! In the meantime, Superwoman has taken Sinestro and Green Lantern to her home on Devil Island, as she adds another insidious voice to John…
THE FATE OF A WORLD RELIES ON THE POWER OF PHOTON! Still searching for answers as to why the universe has gone all topsy-turvy, MONICA RAMBEAU blazes into a forgotten corner of the cosmos. But even as she seeks help to put her friends, family and life right side up again, she encounters a group…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: Fall of the House of X #2: In which Polaris leads an invasion of Brood against Orchis. Come on, Uncle Gerry, you’ve had some rough ones lately. Don’t screw this up. Written by…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 256: The Seasons Have Teeth, and So Does Dan Watters Writer Dan Watters returns to talk about his new Humanoids graphic novel The Incal: The Dying Star, BOOM’s The Seasons Have Teeth, Marvel’s Loki, DC’s Knight Terrors: Detective Comics and more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud,…
After signing at a comic book convention, Unbelievable Unteens artist Jane Ito finds herself visited by one of the characters from her own creation — but was it her own creation? Were the Unteens an actual school of teenaged misfit superheroes who battled supervillains under the lead of the mysterious Dr. Miles Moniker? And if…