Generation X-23 #2 lets us meet the new kids (FIRST LOOK)
The Facility that created X-23 didn’t stop with those experiments! Meet the new Generation of X-mutants, led by X-INFINITY, in Generation X-23 #2.
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We Apply The Hottest League Of Legends Strats To The Battle For Angel Island As Zacky Reads Sonic The Hedgehog Vol. 3
Let us continue our journey through the IDW Sonic the Hedgehog with Vol. 3, “The Battle for Angel Island”. This covers Sonic The Hedgehog #9-12, written by Ian Flynn and drawn by Tracy Yardley and Evan Stanley. The last time we talked about Sonic, I like to think we had a long, thoughtful discussion about…
The Vig comes for Gambit in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Uncanny X-Men #12
Webster’s defines “vig” (short for vigorish) as “a charge taken (as by a bookie or a gambling house) on bets” or “interest paid to a moneylender.” Normally, opening with information from the dictionary would be cliché (I mean, it’s still cliché), but it felt important to share because next week’s issue of Uncanny X-Men features…
Fantastic Fools? How a Claremont and Byrne cold war put Galactus on trial
While the Chris Claremont/John Byrne run of Uncanny X-Men is rightly regarded as a creative high water mark for the series, containing some of its best-known and beloved stories (including “Proteus,” “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and “Days of Future Past”), their run ended somewhat abruptly, with Byrne departing after one-too-many “Colossus ripping up a stump”…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Riddle Me This, Will (w/ John Wickham)
We’ve read plenty of his stories, and if you are a long time listener to the podcast, I’m sure you realize that Tom King is a writer who has some serious variety of placements on the big board. He has multiple stories in the top 10, plus a number of stories lingering near the bottom….
Battle Of The Atom: Sheath Our Blades
We all have swords this week as we talk about stories were people get swords. Spoiler alert, it holds up. Ranked This Episode: X Of Swords Rise Of Apocalypse Wolverine vol 3 #36-40 (Origins and Endings)
Happy Belated Father’s Day, Big Daddy [A] Is Back in Our Staff Picks
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men: Before the Fall: Heralds of Apocalypse: In ancient days, Genesis turned back the hordes of Amenth. In ancient days, Genesis forced Annihilation into a parley. What words were spoken in her mind?…
Review: Vault’s ‘The Autumnal’ Pretty to Look at, but Writing Burs Abound
The Autumnal #1 Writer: Daniel Kraus, Artist: Chris Shehan, Colorist: Jason Wordie, Letterer: Jim Campbell, Publisher: Vault Writers — all of whom loathe the process of editing — have plenty of advice for getting through the ordeal. British writer Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote in 1916 that scribes should “[m]urder your darlings,” meaning that those funny…
Hulk smashes everything, Superman smashes Captain Atom and more CXF Staff Picks
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. Rasmus’ pick: Hulk: Smash Everything #1: Is Hulk really the strongest…
5 comics to read for Black Sci-Fi Fantasy Month
October is Black Sci-Fi Fantasy Month, a monthlong celebration of Black sci-fi, fantasy and horror works in a variety of mediums. In recent years, there have been a plethora of comic books that explore Blackness through a speculative lens. Check out some of them below. Iyanu: Child of Wonder By Roye Okupe and Godwin Akpan…
The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 340: Rodney Barnes talks Florence & Normandie and more
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 340: Rodney Barnes talks Florence & Normandie Writer Rodney Barnes joins the show to talk about his upcoming Zoop campaign for a hardcover special edition of his graphic novel Florence & Normandie with rapper Xzibit, his Image series Killadelphia, Batman: Full Moon and more. You can listen to…
Car Jackers and Connections – #XMENMONDAY Round-Up
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, alongside the rest of the best stuff in X-Men Social media, so you don’t have to worry about missing a single second of it. This is #XMENMONDAY…
Leah Williams Lets Us Know Which X-Terminators Vape
Robert Secundus: Today on ComicsXF we are joined by the writer of Age of X-Man: The Extremists War of the Realms: Giant-Man, X-Factor, X-Men Black: Emma Frost, What If? Magik, The Amazing Mary Jane, The Trial of Magneto, Gwenpool Strikes Back, and the forthcoming comic (R)ender. We will be discussing Exterminators #1, the first issue…
At the halfway point, ComicsXF analyzes what’s not working in the X-Men’s ‘Age of Revelation’
After a full month of covering “Age of Revelation,” the ComicsXF all-star chorus took a break last week, partly because there were no core books out, partly because, well, it was exhausting. And we don’t just mean the pace and volume. These books are exhausting to read and keep up with, and if this event…
Three Issues Not Enough for Marvel’s Villains for Hire
When devils reign, it is perhaps inaccurate to describe things as spinning out of control — it’s merely a question of whose hands control has been shifted to. Mayor Wilson Fisk seems to be holding all the cards, and it’s the Thunderbolts who forfeit. Devil’s Reign: Villains For Hire #3 is written by Clay McLeod…