Each week, XavierFiles staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Check with your local comic shop to make sure they’re open or offering pickup or shipping services. Negan Lives #1: Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard return to the world of “The Walking Dead” in a…
Fifty years ago this May, Illyana Nikolaievna Rasputina made her first appearance in Marvel Comics’ Giant Size X-Men #1. Created by writer Len Wein and artist David Cockrum, Illyana is a young Russian female mutant with the power to create stepping discs she can use to teleport people and objects. She also has been the…
The King In Black has been defeted, but the impending Snarkwar looms over head. Find out how Abigail Brand responds in S.W.O.R.D. #5 by Al Ewing, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia, and Ariana Maher. Zach Rabiroff: Fabian’s back, some Snarks get whacked, and a long-lost Acolyte makes a dramatic comeback. You ready to talk some S.W.O.R.D.?…
Welcome back to BatChat! In Detective Comics #1,045, Batman and Mayor Nakano’s confrontation with the parasitic spawn of Hue Vile comes to a conclusion with a little help from the Batfamily in a story written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. In the backup, Batman…
Press Release New York, NY—March, 8th 2017 — X-MEN PRIME #1 and INHUMANS PRIME #1 are set to take the comics industry by storm on March 29th, setting the stage for the entire line or ResurrXion titles. When visiting your local comic shop on March 29th, don’t forget to grab a copy of the FREE…
Name: N/A Code Names: Fantomelle & Culpepper First Appearance: Wolverines #2 (Jan ’15) Powers: Misdirection, External Nervous System/Fox Friend, Total Control Over Her Body’s Position In 6 Dimensions Teams Affiliation: N/A About One of the most omnipresent things to come out of superhero culture is merchandise. Whether it is the three-foot-tall stuffed Batman my dad had as a…
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…
The most talked about moment in New Mutants #1 [Ed. Note: Which we talked about here] was the promise of more Murd Blurdock. Murd was a character who appeared on two beautiful pages of Al Ewing and Adam Gorham’s Rocket series. He’s a Daredevil joke and a very funny one. Anyway, Jonathan Hickman & Rod…
It’s an off week for all the main Bat titles, so we’re digging into the DC Vault for this week’s BatChat, specifically the digital issue #3 of Let Them Live!: Unpublished Tales from the DC Vault, a tale entitled “Flesh Made Word” written by Scott Bryan Wilson, drawn by John Paul Leon, colored by Dave…
Over his 85+ years, Batman has been a member of lots of different teams. This week, fellow ComicsXF writer Austin Gorton stops by to talk about three different teams Batman has been a member of. We fill in another gap in Will’s knowledge of the roots of the Morrison run, Snapper Carr is kind of…
Dang ol’ Magneto, man, talkin’ ’bout that next generation of mutant kids? Run aroun’ using dang ol’ magnets to reflec’ people’s mind beams and talkin’ ’bout mothervine and all ‘dat. Zippin’ round like vrroom-bing-bop-screech-pow man. It’s a, a real weird school man. Ranked This Episode:
We’ve argued plenty ’round these parts about whether Deadpool is an X-Men character, but apparently we should be arguing more about whether Deadpool is a Spider-Man character. Case in point: This comic. Deadpool has a version of the Carnage symbiote. He is being pursued by Doctor Octopus and a character named Harrower to whom the…
This week, Matt and Will are joined by the Carrie Kelly to Matt’s grumpy old Bruce Wayne, singer/storyteller/myth scholar and previous guest on WMQ&A, Veronica Biatrise (@joanofarchetype), to talk about one of her favorite characters, Poison Ivy, just in time for Ivy’s new mini-series to debut this week. We have classic Ivy, modern Ivy and…
In space, no one can hear you scream … when your appendix bursts in ET-ER #2. “Hero” is written by John Lees, drawn by Laci Krstic, colored by Miroslav Mrva and lettered by AndWorld Design. “Precious Cargo” is written by Michael Corst, drawn by Mark Texeira, colored by Dan Brown and lettered by Steve Wands….
People were nervous when it was first announced, but ResurrXion has breathed new life into an X-Men line that had some struggles in the recent years. There is a sense of cohesiveness in all of these books that was really missing recently. Maybe it is the tone, maybe it is as simple as the trade…