The Fantastic Four are out of gas and in need of assistance out in space, finding themselves wrapped up in a combination coliseum/casino plot in this lead-up to Empyre! Writer Dan Slott, artists RB Silva and Sean Izaakse, colorists Marte Gracia and Marcio Menyz, and letterer Joe Caramagna bring us this far flung first family…
Released this year from Secret Acres, The Marchenoir Library is the latest work in Alex Degen’s unusual career. Degen, an American cartoonist, has created a unique graphic novel told entirely through the front and back covers of a fictional superhero series. We are given brief descriptions of the titular Marchenoir, her recurring allies and enemies,…
Content Warning: There are frank discussions about sex and sexual assault in this episode. If you don’t want that, feel free to skip this week. Two dudes talk about three female centered comics with no women on the creative teams. It sure is a time. Ranked This Episode: X-Women X-Treme X-Men 36-39 (Storm: The Arena)…
God Loves, Man Kills II (2003) isn’t a great story. It’s part of the larger X-Treme X-Men line, in which Chris Claremont got to do Claremontian things with the characters Grant Morrison wasn’t using for New X-Men. Like much of X-Treme, the arc suffers from inking and coloring that make characters look glassy, inert, a…
For centuries, man has looked to the stars to find glimpses of the future using the artistic science of astrology. The original symbols were based often on stories and characters from antiquity that few but the biggest mythology geeks are familiar with today. For the sake of updating them for common use, and because Marvel…
Mags Immortal is a spinoff of Times Immortal, where Robert Secundus and Zach Rabiroff dive into the weird and wild world of 1970s Marvel Magazines. CW: violence, implied sexual violence, incest, suicide, torture, and religious trauma Robert Secundus: The other day, while doing research (read: justifying spending money on weird comics stuff on ebay), I…
Comics, especially X-Men comics, and trading cards have a long history together. The X-Men trading cards, followed by the larger Marvel sets, started right as the comics hit their most financially successful period. Trading cards were included in some of the biggest launches, like X-Force #1 and X-Cutioner’s Song. Marvel’s acquisition of the trading card…
Zack & Adam talk about Fortnite and also Storm, who we love and cherish! Ranked this episode: X-Men: Hidden Years #6-7 Storm vol 2 Ororo: Before The Storm
Zack and Adam try recording live from their basements and also on Twitter. People seemed to like it. Unlike Hyperstorm, who people do not like for good reason. Ranked This Episode: Fantastic Four #406-414 (Hyperstorm) Days Of Future Present Daydreamers If you’re a comics creator in need, check this out.
X-Force, they are like the X-Men, but with attitude. If they X-Men were just all Wolverine but also guns right? While this is both reductive and incorrect, this is what society expects of X-Force. There have, however, been many iterations of this squad, and today, we’re going to rank all of them, from worst to…
Hello friends and readers, it’s a packed week here at Marvel Files as Christi Eddleman leads up on the Road to Empyre, the clockwork-like Tony Thornley swings into The Amazing Spider-Man, the big boss Zack Jenkins takes a look back in Marvel Snapshots: Fantastic Four, and Rob Secundus delves into the specifics of Immortal Hulk!…
We’re in for a wild ride as Hellions begins with a debut issue by Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia, David Curiel, and Cory Petit. The team comes together, with Psylocke as their parole officer and Sinister as the adult in the room. There is no way this could go poorly… Liz Large: I honestly had no…
Hello friends and readers, and welcome to the biggest Marvel Minutiae EVER. We really should be calling Marvel Max…in..utiae. Well anyway, Christina Eddleman is going to be giving her thoughts on the new Spider-Woman #1, Zach Rabiroff starts off with the new teen event with Outlawed #1. Liz Large makes her Minutiae debut with Amazing…
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…
Announced at C2E2, the X-Books are going to be in a 15 part crossover called X Of Swords. 10 (X) mutants will get magical swords to fight an evil that we don’t know about. But there are sword. Comics rule folks. The best sword is Cyclops’ lightsabre. Eyeboy has a sword with eyes on it….