A Packed Week with Big Heads, Big Endings, and Big Stakes in Marvel Files with Miles Morales: Spider-Man #21, Black Widow #4, Champions #3, Fantastic Four: Road Trip #1, and M.O.D.O.K: Head Games #1!

Jude Jones, Andrea Ayres, Tony Thornley and Zachary Jenkins6 years ago5 years ago013 mins

Hello friends and readers! It’s a chunky week as Jude Jones does double duty with Miles Morales: Spider-Man #21 and Champions #3, Andrea Ayres graces us with her opinions on Black Widow #4, Tony Thornley hits the road with Fantastic Four: Road Trip #1, and our boss Zachary Jenkins loses his head with M.O.D.O.K.: Head…

Oh, oh, it’s Magik: Redesigning the X-Men’s resident demon sorceress taxicab

Joshua Bruckner2 years ago2 years ago07 mins

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…

Two-Face flips a coin to see what else makes the rest of our Staff Picks

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago05 mins

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. Jake’s pick: Two-Face #1: After years of internal conflict, both halves…

Entry 113 – Scarlet Witch

Zachary Jenkins8 years ago5 years ago09 mins

Name: Wanda Maximoff Code Names: Scarlet Witch First Appearance: X-Men #4 (Mar ’64) Powers: Hex magic Teams Affiliation: The Brotherhood, The Avengers About With over 50 years of continuous universe building, Marvel Comics can take characters in pretty bonkers directions. As all progress eventually gets regressed to the mean, momentous events get recontextualized, retconned, or…

Alien Pets, Alien Suits, Alien Friends & Moon Gods This Week As We Cover Avengers #33, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1, Amazing Spider-Man #43, And Venom #25 On Marvel Files

Zachary Jenkins, Liz Large, Tony Thornley and Vishal Gullapalli6 years ago5 years ago010 mins

Hello friends and readers, we have actual physical books to cover for you this week, so in celebration, we decided to do all of them! Zack Jenkins digs into Avengers #33 by Aaron and Garron, while Liz Large dusts off the new #1 of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra by Wong and Cresta. Finally, it’s time…

Hulk Vs The Marvel Universe In Our Exclusive Preview Of The Immortal Hulk #49

Zachary Jenkins5 years ago5 years ago01 mins

He swayed She-Hulk from the Avengers, now Hulk must face down every hero in the Marvel universe who dares stand between him and The One Below All. Superstar writer Al Ewing and series penciler Joe Bennett reach their penultimate issue with The Immortal Hulk #49. Jackie McGee, the journalist who has been following the Devil…

Battle Of The Atom: Unbreakable

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck9 months ago10 months ago01 mins

I wonder what M. Night Shyamalan thought about the X-Men character Marrow. I have to assume he knows about her. Perhaps he has thoughts. Ranked This Episode:

Retcon X Drop His Latest Soundtrack To ResurrXion

Zachary Jenkins8 years ago8 years ago01 mins

Following up their stellar first album from 2017 Retcon X is back with another set of tunes inspired by X-Men. ResurrXion vol II is their new EP inspired by such stories as Mojo Worldwide, Life of X, Orphans of X, X-Men: Gold, Past Lives, and Phoenix Resurrection. Check out the tunes below and make sure to follow…

Which X-Men Vape?

Zachary Jenkins9 years ago5 years ago03 mins

In our modern 2017 world, one question haunts all. “Do you vape bro?” Today I intend to answer this for the X-Men. Please note that my answers are definitive based on my experience as both a self-proclaimed X-Pert and a 2016 Reddit /r/comicbooks “/r/comicbooks Award” nominee (of which I was robbed). Professor X – He…

Knight Takes King in King In Black: Black Knight #1

Pierce Lightning5 years ago5 years ago04 mins

Dane Whitman, the Black Knight, learns the horrible history of his lineage and the Ebony Blade in King in Black: Black Knight #1, written by Si Spurrier with art by Jesus Saiz and letters by Cory Petit. Black Knight is a character that I love conceptually – I mean, what’s not to love about a…

Yes, We Have No Monkey Meat in Monkey Meat #5

Armaan Babu and Ritesh Babu4 years ago4 years ago014 mins

Golo rises, and with his rise comes the fall of Monkey Meat Island. Is this truly the end of the Monkey Meat industry? And has it now been replaced with something far, far worse? Only one thing is for sure — there are no winners in Monkey Meat #5, a Juni Ba creation (with special…

The Ballad of Black Tom & Reckoning With Lovecraft

Rob Secundus, Armaan Babu, Lex Smith and Zachary Jenkins5 years ago5 years ago016 mins

“People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. “Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father’s head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can…

The Turmoil of Mutant Town Continues in TMNT #121

Armaan Babu5 years ago4 years ago06 mins

Old Hob created Mutant Town – much against the will of its residents. Separated its citizens from their families, possibly for the rest of their lives, and policed all who fell beneath his purview, and after a rally turn riot, the old feline fascist has finally been taken down. The question now is: what next?…

Black Panther #6 Finds Pride Leading (Almost) to a Fall

Jude Jones4 years ago4 years ago06 mins

The women in his life bail out T’Challa in Black Panther #6 written by John Ridley with art by Stefano Landini, colors by Matt Milla, and letters by Joe Sabino. Black Women are the Foundation; Black Women are the Future. At one point in the census track I grew up in, the average life expectancy…

Interview: Dan Parent Talks about His Kevin Keller Omnibus Kickstarter

Matthew Lazorwitz5 years ago5 years ago03 mins

Archie Comics has been publishing all-ages tales of the Riverdale gang for 80 years, and while the core of the gang remains the big five (Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Reggie), plenty of other characters have joined the gang. While many come and go after a couple years, a few stick around, like Moose Mason,…