As reviewers, we often have access to issues a few days — sometimes week — ahead of time, depending on the publisher and the particular issue. Gives us time to really soak things in and perhaps revisit them a few times before putting proverbial pen to paper and recording our thoughts. As I cracked open…
Chariot #1 Writer: Bryan Edward Hill, Artist: Priscilla Petraites, Colorist: Marco Lesko, Publisher: AWA I’ve been getting really into synthwave lately. Which is to say I’ve been listening to synthwave covers of 1990s video game music while I work. It’s just upbeat enough to keep me motivated while I’m shuffling the commas around, and there…
Renegade Rule — written by Ben Kahn and Rachel Silverstein, drawn by Sam Beck and lettered by Jim Campbell for Dark Horse — is a delightful and fun little treat for the beginning of Pride. The bones of the story being told aren’t necessarily new or revolutionary, but the artwork, earnest characters and the excitement…
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…
For the last few months, I’ve been averaging 10+ miles per day on my runs. Hold your applause, please — it’s not so much an accomplishment as it is daring my body to fall to pieces on me. (My body has not done so to date. The coward.) But I was thinking earlier today with…
All of you who read our site regularly may know me as a writer, podcaster, editor and crowdfunding correspondent. But what you may not know is that while I’m all those things by night (and later afternoon, early morning and the occasional lunch break), by day I’m the director of IT at a regional theater…
Hello friends and readers, comics are back, but just like restaurants, we have a limited digital only menu this week as our boss Zack Jenkins zooms in on Wells, Burnett, and Spicer’s Ant-Man #4, and Tony Thornley rides the desolate plains of critique in Avengers of the Wasteland #4 by Brisson, Scharf, and Menon. Ant-Man…
Press Release New York, NY—May 12, 2017— This June, Bobby Drake steps out into the cold with an all-new solo X-Men series written by Sina Grace (All-New X-Men Annual, Self-Obsessed) coupled with artwork by Alessandro Vitti (Avengers Arena, Secret Warriors) with Marvel Comics’ ICEMAN #1. Bobby Drake has been in the Super Hero game longer…
Batman is back in his own Gotham, but things have changed. And so has he. Is he really ready to step right into the role again, even after everything that has happened? Batman #136 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Belen Ortega, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup,…
Miles Morales is Spider-Man, not Kid Arachnid, not Spin, certainly not Spy-D. He is Spider-Man. The best superhero movie of all time said so. But even there, he couldn’t just be a dime-store Peter Parker ripoff. He had to get his own identity in the form of a costume that reflects who he is. He’s…
Step back to Bruce Wayne’s earliest days as Batman, and to a time when Thomas Wayne was still alive, as the background of this new Batman starts to be filled in. Absolute Batman #4 is written by Scott Snyder from a plot by Snyder and Nick Dragotta, drawn by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, colored by Frank…
Miles Morales and Amulet team up in the latest installment of Infinite Destinies in Miles Morales: Spider-Man Annual #1. Written by Saladin Ahmed, art by Luca Maresca, colors by Fernando Sifuentes, and letters by Cory Petit. [Ed. note: A previous version of this article ran with misinformation about Ahmed’s background. This has been corrected.] I’m…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s Pick: Ka-Zar #1: The lord of the Savage Land is back from the dead, with some new powers, some family drama and a creeping sense of unease in a five-issue series by writer Zac…
The 90’s weren’t as good as a lot of fans claim they were. Comics were obsessed with flashy art, toyetic design, and continuity that is still hard to follow today. The 90’s also weren’t anywhere near as bad as other fans complain about. There is a lot of energy in those comics and they were…
The quest to get Belinda home leads to an abandoned cinema hiding a terrifying secret in Disney’s Doctor Who Season 2, Episode 2, “Lux.” Armaan Babu: If Doctor Who has taught us anything, it’s that it’s not so fun exploring all of space and time without a companion to help you through it. For this…