I first saw this book on the old AWA website. Hidden away in a corner, just a title, and this cover. There was no announcement, no news, no press. It just sat there, on that old iteration of a site that’s since been radically changed. And as I stared at it, I wondered: What on…
We are all the hero of our own story. It is an idea hammered home from an early age, with countless books, TV shows, movies and other media showcasing noble figures we can see ourselves in, knowing we would be just as heroic if given a chance. (This is not to say that everyone deserves…
Press Release New York, NY—January 16, 2018—Marvel’s femme fatale returns to comic books this spring – and so does superstar comic writer Gail Simone! DOMINO will unleash her risqué, hard-core action on the Marvel Universe in an all-new story, and Marvel can now announce the full creative team that will help to bring the soldier…
There’s a whole lot of time traveling going on in the X-books lately. Cable ended up in the far future town of Salvation Bay, where he fell in love with someone who, like him, had the techno-organic virus. Ms. Marvel is currently gallivanting around the X-Men’s greatest hits, fighting an amalgamation of Legion’s remaining personalities….
Time to Make Waves in The Union #2 from Paul Grist, Andrea Di Vito, Drew Geraci, Le Beau Underwood, Nolan Woodard, and Travis Lanham. Nola Pfau: LIZ, HAPPY NEW YEAR, MORE SNAKES! Liz Large: The most important feature of 2021: the presence of Snakes! NP: I certainly can’t think of any more newsworthy events. THE…
Here are some of the things Krakoa’s newest resident aren’t: Gwen Stacy Deadpool The Batman Character Spoiler A character with any right to be as good as she is I am, of course, talking about Gwenpool, the alter-ego of Gwendolyn Poole, a comics fan from the real world who accidentally got brought into Marvel’s 616…
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 298: To kill a bookcase with Zack Quaintance Zack Quaintance returns to talk about his Kickstarter campaign for the anthology Death of Comics Bookcase Vol. 1. And dachshunds. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible and at…
Our very first Dick Grayson backer, Josh Weil, makes his return to the podcast this week, but he’s not It’s strange to think that Jason Todd has been back from the dead longer than he was actually dead now. For those of us who read Batman comics in the 90s, the death of Jason was…
I, (state name here), a member of good standing of the Bird-Brain Warlock Haters Fan Club, do solemnly swear to be a Bird-Brain and hate Warlock and not read about him or draw him unless I have to and especially never fall in love and, if I do, may I die slowly and painfully and…
A national trauma has been successfully weaponized, which is probably fine and very unlikely to end in tears or provoke an army of ghosts to flood from the Earth to seek revenge. But let’s keep an eye on it anyway in Home Sick Pilots #9, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Caspar Wijngaard, lettered by…
An online binge shopper receives a grisly package. A horde of the decaying undead grapples with its dwindling humanity. A family man endures an endless grind of the mundane as cosmic madness looms outside. The Beauty and The Realm creator Jeremy Haun returns to horror with Haunthology, a black-and-white graphic novel of interlocking short comic…
BatChat religion correspondent Robert “Bobby TwoBucks” Secundus is back this week, and he’s brining with him Jean-Paul Valley, the vigilante and sometimes fanatic known as Azrael. We chart the journey of Azrael from the beginning of his ongoing to his most recent mini-series, with a stop off in an alternate world that is… something. We…
In 1983, Marvel released a promotional comic called The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Texas, in which Professor X and Magneto compete to recruit a mutant named Danny Wiley who has the power to transform into a winged centaur. It is his first and only appearance. Next week, the Uncanny X-Men go to…
Vali Chandrasekaran and Jun-Pierre Shiozawa join the show to talk about their webcomic “Genius Animals?” as well as the comedic genius of Werner Herzog, writing for TV vs. writing for comics, and whether Bugs Bunny was ever really the good guy.
We’ve met a lot of new kids during the Age of Revelation. Omega Kids. Elbecca the Chorister. Temper and Ransom’s baby. Kids who theoretically weren’t even born in the present of the X-books. But the fact of the matter is, we’re still getting to know the kids we met during “From the Ashes,” which was…