Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 129: Coffee and Comics with Johnnie Christmas Writer/artist Johnnie Christmas joins the show to talk about his Image sci-fi series “Tartarus,” his comiXology original graphic novel “Crema,” his upcoming middle grade work and more. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at xavierfiles.com,…
A mysterious force dares to tamper with the threads of history. Captain America and a squad of Marvel heroes leap into action to safeguard the founding of the United States of America. The fate of the nation hangs in the balance at the dawn of the Revolution, as these heroes must navigate the treacherous waters…
The Mad Hatter is one of Batman’s oddest major foes. While all of the rogues who have existed since the Golden Age have gone through various permutations, few are as wildly different. Sometimes he is obsessed with hats. Sometimes he is a mind control scientist. Sometimes he is obsessed with Alice In Wonderland and has…
The Runaways try to understand high school. It goes better for some than others. Rainbow Rowell, Andrés Genolet, Dee Cunniffe, and Joe Caramagna bring us Runaways #33. They say you can never go home again and that may be true for the Runaways’ Molly Hayes. The one time Princess Powerful loved being with her friends…
In “Through a Glass Darkly,” Diana has traveled with Deadman to the resting place of Seigfried to hopefully put her feelings of him to rest as well. Wonder Woman #782 is written by Michael Conrad, Becky Cloonan, art by Marcio Takara, colored by Tamra Bonvillain, and lettered by Pat Brosseau. Cat Purcell: Andrea I’m so…
Horror writer Steve Niles joins the show to talk about his new graphic novel Heartbreak Manor, soon to be crowdfunding on Zoop.
Pakistani. American. Muslim. Inhuman. Mutant. Superhero. Outlaw. Avenger. Champion. Exile. X-man. There are a lot of labels on Kamala Khan, and the latest one has upended her world entirely, and given her an all-new mission statement. But underneath all the labels, when you take away the societies who believe they have a claim on her…
At the end of the Orchis War, Charles Xavier surrendered himself to the authorities and allowed himself to be imprisoned in his old house. But now, something has spurred him into action, into escaping his incarceration and embarking on a mad scramble across the nation. What has caused Professor X to go on the run?…
The War Above All thunders louder and closer. As the cosmos braces, Ororo Munroe turns her gaze to her home in Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1.
Fight club with your favorite superhuman brawlers, hiding your superhero friends in your tiny office, and trying to figure out what’s going on with your newly resurrected friend’s radiation powers — a day in the life of Jennifer Walters in She-Hulk #4, written by Rainbow Rowell, drawn by Luca Maresca, colored by Rico Renzi and…
In House of X #1, a masked figure, presumably Charles Xavier, is seen awakening a number of people from plant-pods. We are shown that over the past few months, the X-Men have been planting Krakoa flowers. These grow into Habitats– domains of Krakoa that acts as embassies for the country of Krakoa. The Professor has…
The X-Men thrive on dysfunction, they live on it. Much like Krakoa eats mutants (which we’ve all kinda just ignored, right?), the X-Men eat a lack of actual teamwork and cohesiveness. Regardless, Marvel thinks they have put together the most dysfunctional team I could possibly imagine. Marvel, try me. The file read “Classified X”, which…
Rogue, man. We all know she was a villian before joining the X-Men, but for people who only read X-Men (aka listeners of this podcast, I assume) they might not have seen everywhere she shows up as a baddie before this. We resolve that by describing the adventures of ROM, the greatest of the Spaceknights….
In A.X.E.: Death to the Mutants #2, a moody teen raises hell and writes poetry, the Deviants come to the rescue, Ikaris steals the mic and Sersi spearheads a jailbreak. Written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, colored by Alex Guimarães and lettered by Travis Lanham. Mark Turetsky: You know, sometimes I think back…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s Pick: Black Panther #1: A new creative team takes Wakanda into a new era. Join writer John Ridley (Other History of the DC Universe) and artist Juann Cabal (Guardians of the Galaxy) as T’Challa…