With the looming release of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness serving as the latest entry in pop cultureās 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…
Bear with me a moment. Iām not nostalgic for the X-Men comics of the ā70s and ā80s. I wasnāt born yet, but also, unlike a lot of comic nerds my age, I never got into the cartoon that built off those stories, or found my way into a comic shop with back issue bins. I…
The skies have turned, backwards and forwards, and the moon has shown us (nearly) all of its faces. As gods are released from their stony prisons, the battle for the souls of mankind takes place among the pyramids. Who rises, who falls, and what choices do our heroes make in this final fight for free…
Captain Kate Pryde has taken her new team to space! Bishop, Psylocke, and the rest– among them, incredibly, the genocidal ex-supervillain Cassandra Nova– have set out for the stars in order to find the First Mutants and solve the mystery of an ancient box. Whatever they seek, the Shiāar donāt want them to find it–…
A haunted battle rages across the West Coast, watched by the whole world … including the world’s ghosts. Let’s hope they don’t get any bright ideas. Or really stupid ones. Weāre almost at the end in Home Sick Pilots #14, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Caspar Wijngaard, lettered by Aditya Bidikar and designed by…
In Star Trek: Picard season 2, episode 8, āMercy,ā Raffi and Seven track down a fledgling Borg Queen, Kore self-liberates, and Picard and Guinan get interrogated in FBI custody. Written by Cindy Appel & Kirsten Beyer, directed by Joe Menendez. Mark Turetsky: It was Shakespeare who once wrote, āthe quality of mercy is not strained.ā…
A hidden king is uncovered ā¦ with the help of some makeup, in Bylines in Blood #4, written by Erica Schultz and Van Jensen, drawn by Aneke, lettered by Cardinal Rae and published by AfterShock. Former New York City police Detective Easton Newburn met a New York City resident who became his assistant. This is…
Jim Gordon gets some answers but leaves some questions open in the penultimate issue of this series, as the final fate of the Clown Prince of Crime remains a mystery in The Joker #14, written by James Tynion IV, penciled by Giuseppe Camuncoli, inked by Cam Smith, colored by Arif Prianto and lettered by Tom…
Are Marc Spector and Steven Grant stuck in the afterlife, forced to relive their memories in an attempt to become whole and balance the scales? Or has Marc truly imagined everything, and is really a man coming to grips with his delusions in a psych ward? Wherever the answers lie, theyāre all dwarfed by the…
Lex Luthor is bad mouthing Superman in public as part of a deeper, nefarious scheme. It must be Tuesday. Luthor is armed with bad takes on several of Supermanās recent actions, and cinches it all with a devastating video that frames Superman for murder. Jon Kent, though? Heās got The Truth on his side. Superman:…
Alana meets a fellow survivor, Hazel learns that learning is hard, and the Skipper learns the truth about Bombazine in Saga #58, drawn by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan and lettered/designed by Fonografiks. Matt Lazorwitz: Well, isnāt it nice when a plan comes together, Mark? We do a three-section column, and this issue…
Sabretooth was sent to the Pit. Then he made it a hell. Now itās a prison, and Victor Creed is leading a daring escape. Will the exiled mutants be able to work together long enough to find their way out of the Pit? Or are they digging a deeper hole? And whoās their jailer anyway?…
Atticus Sloane — misanthrope, criminal, asshole and vampire — lives in a world where blood isn’t the only thing vamps crave. And for the right price, he’ll make you a vampire, too. After all, immortality isn’t cheap in Blood Stained Teeth #1, written by Christian Ward, drawn by Patric Reynolds, colored by Heather Moore and…
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! Iām so excited weāre getting to go on this journey together. It…
Khonshuās rewound the sky, Stevenās deciphered the clues, and Marc and Layla have punched nearly everyone whoās gotten in their way. Thereās only one thing left to do: race through the final resting place of the goddess of Ammit to find the statue holding her prisoner. Thatās right ā itās a tomb raiding episode. Pack…