The Fantastic Four are all tied up in Empyre but before they get to that, they have to wrap up their wild adventures with the X-Men in X-Men/Fantastic Four #4 by Chip Zdarsky, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Ranson Getty, and Laura Martin. With Doomâs hand revealed, Franklin makes his choice between Yancy Street and Krakoa….
Hello friends and readers, itâs time for a little bit of Marvel Minutiae this week. Our esteemed boss Zack Jenkins is getting into Venom #26 and the start of Venom Beyond, Andrea Ayres ponders over Spider-Woman #2, and Tony Thornley starts off Empyre tie-ins with Fantastic Four #21. Venom #26 I think itâs fair to…
After tons and tons of adventures and misadventures, Carol needs a goshdarn break. Will she and her friends have a normal game night? Okay, we know the answer to that. Cat and Christi dive into this one off issue by Kelly Thompson, Francesco Manna, Carlos Lopez, and Clayton Cowles! Cat Purcell: I would like to…
Claws come out as Larry Hama returns to writing Albert, the robot Wolverine, in a rip roaring adventure on Madripoor that officially ties into Iron Man 2020 but really couldnât care less. Roland Boschi and Andres Mossa draw the first part of this duo of issues. Vishal Gullapalli: Iron Man 2020âs in full swing, and…
On March 23, Diamond Comic Distributors halted shipment to comic shops as a response to the mass shutdown stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the circumstances, this was unavoidable. However, much has been written about the systemic problems within the comics industry that led to the monopoly Diamond held. This shutdown, and the resulting retooling…
Each week, XavierFiles staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. CHRISâ PICK: FCBD X-Men #1: Free Comic Book Summer begins with a sneak peek at this fall’s “X of Swords” by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Pepe Larraz (aka Team “House of X”) and a…
The Brood are vicious predators. They are single minded in their goal of proliferating across the universe. A hive mind that follows their queen without question. In X-Men #9, Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, and Sunny Gho dare to ask, âbut what if a king?â Chris Eddleman: Wow, it looks like weâre concluding the second…
This is it. Captain Marvel versus Vox Supreme with all the strength of the Avengers behind her in this barnburner from Kelly Thompson, Lee Garbett, and Tamra Bonvillain. Cat Purcell: I started out super nervous about this arc as I generally loathe “good guy gone bad” plotlines. But each issue Thompson and her team built…
Thanks to their escapades in space, the New Mutants accidently lure The Brood to Krakoa. Lucky for them, the island has defenders in X-Men #8 by Jonathan Hickman, Mahmud Asar, and Sunny Gho. Chris Eddleman: Rob, the New Mutants are back and things have never been…mutantier? Spacier?…Newer? Well anyway, after the big reveals and high…
A veritable smorgasbord of Marvel writers and artists bring us a murder mystery, as well as tantalize with lead-ins and hooks for the stories of 2020 in this follow-up to the story spine of Marvel Comics #1000 and 1001. Ari Bard: Incoming was⌠not what I thought it was going to be and pretty fun? …
Current Ranking of X-Men Stories These master rankings are the truth. There is no room for arguments, no room for disagreement. It is the definitive ranking of the X-Universe. This is not a quantitative measurement, there is no cumulative score, and there never will be. Factors such as uniqueness, historical significance, and the ever important how-much-I-want-to-reread-it-test,…