Number One deals with an outbreak aboard the Enterprise while Pike and Spock are trapped on-world with the âGhosts of Illyria.â Written by Akela Cooper & Bill Wolkoff, directed by Leslie Hope. Mark Turetsky: This episode has it all! Contact tracing, lockdowns, people engaging in risky behavior in the face of a deadly infection. Sometimes…
In Immortal X-Men #2, our courageous council fights off a detestable Kaiju, and the new girl eliminates the threat with extreme prejudice. Written by Kieron Gillen, with line art by Lucas Werneck, colors by David Curiel and letters by Clayton Cowles. Mark Turetsky: Itâs been a month and a half since the premiere issue of…
Hey, is Illyana still the Queen of Limbo? What if sheâd rather someone else do it? Itâs a triumphant return for our creative team (and perhaps less so for our hero team!) in New Mutants #25, from Vita Ayala, Rod Reis, Jan Duursema, Ruth Redmond and Travis Lanham. Liz Large: Itâs been 3 months since…
Hello there! With a Disney+ show launching at the end of the month, everyoneâs favorite Jedi with a loose definition of âthe truthâ gets a miniseries spotlighting his past exploits. First up, in Star Wars: Obi-Wan #1, an adventure of tween Obi-Wan from his Jedi Temple days, written by Christopher Cantwell, art by Ario Anindito,…
With the looming release of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness serving as the latest entry in pop cultureâs recent obsession with multiverses and realities alternate, parallel and multiple, we asked our ComicsXF writers to share their thoughts about their favorite alternate reality from across the wide multiverse of stories! Earth-1610: The Ultimate Universe…
I just think Storm. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #151-152 (The Hellfire Gambit) Uncanny X-Men #169-170 (Morlocks) Marauders #20 (Windriders)
Captain Britain gathers her ten best friends on a quest to stop Merlin from conquering all of Otherworld in Knights of X #1, written by Tini Howard, drawn by Bob Quinn, colored by Erick Arciniega, and lettering by Ariana Maher. Nola Pfau: Karen! Iâm so excited weâre getting to go on this journey together. It…
Khonshuâs rewound the sky, Stevenâs deciphered the clues, and Marc and Layla have punched nearly everyone whoâs gotten in their way. Thereâs only one thing left to do: race through the final resting place of the goddess of Ammit to find the statue holding her prisoner. Thatâs right â itâs a tomb raiding episode. Pack…
In our timeline, Robert Secundus and Christopher Eddlemen annotated every issue of House of X and Powers of X, two series that were one, the Summer of 2019. But imagine another timelineâ a timeline where the 90s X-Men cartoon never ended and continued to adapt not the storylines of the Marvel comics, but the notes…
Crimson Dawn returns as plot threads come together in Star Wars #22, written by Charles Soule, drawn by Ramon Rosanas, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Though the series has been operating under the âCrimson Reignâ banner since the end of âWar of the Bounty Huntersâ, Crimson Dawn hasnât really factored into…
Death has had terrible tastes in men. Thanos? Deadpool? At last, it seems like sheâs chosen a worthy lover in Ben Grimm. As the Thing is, though, he doesnât like it when cosmic entities manipulate his life and take his girlfriend out of the picture just to win his affections. Thatâs right, itâs clobberinâ time,…
GOLD SILVER BRONZE Kurt Wagner is many things. Heâs a mutant born in Bavaria with unique physical features: blue fur, a prehensile tail, pointed ears, fangs, and three-fingered hands and feet. Heâs a teleporter and a trapeze artist. Heâs the adopted son of a Romani sorceress and the biological son of a shapeshifter and a…
Storm is regent of Arakko. Should she be? Al Ewing, Stefano Caselli, Federico Blee and Ariana Maher investigate in X-Men Red #1 Jude Jones: I was all in from the jump. A book, set on the planet we saw (beautifully, artfully, amazingly) terraformed; featuring the culturally rich, oft maligned Arakkii; led by the Queen, err,…
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 Iâm all those things by night (and later afternoon, early morning and the occasional lunch break), by day Iâm the director of IT at a regional theater…
Emma Frost is framed for murder in Devilâs Reign: X-Men #2-3 written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by Phil Noto and lettered by Cory Petit. Christi Eddleman: Hey⌠sweetheart? This says issue three? Wasn’t the last issue we discussed issue one? Did we deliberately skip covering issue two because there wasn’t enough substance and/or we were…