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A nightmare-fuel Joker debuts in DC’s Absolute Batman, and more CXF Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: Absolute Batman #15: Alfred reveals to Bruce the story...

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The X-Men of the Age of Apocalypse come to Earth-616 in this week’s CXF Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. X-Men of Apocalypse Alpha #1: The X-Men of the Age of...

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The Marvel Swimsuit Special returns as a League for Justice forms in this week’s CXF Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Adam’s pick: Marvel Swimsuit Special #1: Roxxon Comics is at it...

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Giant-Size Dark Phoenix and Spider-Man, Marvel does Pride and more CXF Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Austin’s pick: Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1: Kamala Khan is locked...

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What to read to get to know 3 of the incoming X-Men writers

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

As of this month’s X-Men #35, Krakoa has magically blipped out of this plane of existence, like Poochy returning to his home planet. The Great Reset button has been hit. Kieron Gillen is gone. Al Ewing is gone. Gerry Duggan is gone. Apart from some Blood Hunt tie-ins and Steve Foxe and Netho Diaz’s Heir...

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Skybound drops a Duke on us during the holiday limbo week, and more Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:30:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Duke #1: When Conrad S. Hauser investigates the mysteries behind the Transformers, the answers will lead to the birth of forces for good and evil the world never imagined. Duke will be the...

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Ms. Marvel returns to lead this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaan’s pick: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1: Fresh from being killed off in an issue of Amazing Spider-Man and having her identity rewritten to make her a mutant in line with what could have...

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It’s Hellfire Gala Time, BayBEE, in This Week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men: The Hellfire Gala 2023 #1: The Hellfire Gala is always the biggest event of the season, but this year’s will change everything for Krakoa. What is meant to be mutantkind’s biggest night...

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SuperChat Travels Across the Universe and Multiverse

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The Super-Family is spreading. Through the planet, through the Universe, through the Multiverse and through more comics than we can shake a stick at. With so many people wearing the crest of the House of El, we start to wonder: what does that symbol truly represent? On Earth, it represents family, as Superman and his...

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SuperChat Brings Us Tales of Supermen and Superboys

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Fri, 05 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000

It’s Supermen, Supermen, Supermen, everywhere you look. Evil, electric, parasitic, young and space-faring and, of course, original flavor. There’s something for everyone! Superman and his family deal with the threat of Metallo and his malevolent metallic minions — but there’s more than meets the eye in Action Comics #1053, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn...

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SuperChat is Back With Superman’s Family and His New Friend… Lex Luthor?

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0000

A new day dawns, and Superman is facing all new challenges. Mainly, a little voice in his ear trying to lead him down a darker path. Lex Luthor has decided to ally himself with Superman — but his help might be worse than his hindrance. Was this team-up doomed to failure from the start? We...

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Heart to Hearts and Trips to the Zoo In SuperChat

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Kal-El is back. And he’s brought change with him — change that are making a lot of people nervous. Now that he’s back home, though, Superman’s focus is clear: his family comes first, above all else. Watch him deal with the fallout of claiming Olgrun’s Fire in Action Comics #1,048, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson,...

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SuperChat is Back… And So is Kal-El

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0000

After a while away on Warwold, Kal-El is finally returning home for a Kent family reunion! His return to Earth comes with more than a few complications, though, as we see in Action Comics #1047, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Riccardo Federici, colored by Lee Loughridge and lettered by Dave Sharpe. The story...

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SuperChat Goes from the Circus to the Space Age and to Warworld and Gammora

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:00:00 +0000

This week, we look at Superman through the ages! Gladiator Superman continues to fight for Warworld in Action Comics #1045 and #1046, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Will Conrad and Brent Peeples for #1045 and Fico Ossio for #1046, colored by Lee Loughridge and lettered by Dave Sharpe, with back-up stories written by...

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SuperDad and Dreamer In This Month’s SuperChat

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000

It’s all about the kids, really. On Warworld, we see the origin of the Orphan, and his strange connection to Genesis that’s been fuelling Mongul’s new plans, in Action Comics #1044, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Riccardo Federici and Will Conrad, colored by Lee Loughridge, and lettered by Dave Sharpe, with a back-up...

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It’s a Bonus Sized SuperChat with Young Clark, Jon, BatSupes, and Perry White

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Here at SuperChat, we don’t just talk about the Man of Steel himself — there are worlds and worlds of stories revolving around our favorite Kryptonian, and this month, we’re lookin’ at a lot of them! In the Action Comics 2022 Annual – written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Si Spurrier, drawn by Dale Eaglesham...

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WMQ&A Episode 213: The Philly Special GO BIRDS!

Dan Grote and Matthew Lazorwitz — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 213: The Philly Special GO BIRDS! GO BIRDS! Matt and Dan visit Fan Expo Philadelphia and chat with Danny Schlitz (William Shakespeare’s Avengers), Isaac Goodhart (Victor and Nora), Ryan Parrott (Power Rangers, Rogue Sun) and Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Action Comics, Alien). It’s a con show, so pardon the ambient noise....

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Jon Kent Stands up to Batman and Clark Faces Warworld in this Month’s SuperChat

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:00:00 +0000

As Superman leads a revolution on Warworld, something deep beneath the planet rumbles — and we find that this conflict with Mongul is a lot bigger than anyone imagined in Action Comics #1042 and #1043, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Ricardo Frederici and Will Conrad, colored by Lee Loughridge, and lettered by Dave...

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Even Superman Needs a Little Help From a Friend Somtimes in This Month’s SuperChat

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Even a Superman needs help from a more street-level hero every now and again, no matter how much their methods may vary, and something both father and son are both aware of in this month’s Superchat! Jon Kent and Dick Grayson’s team-up continues as they investigate The Rising in Superman: Son of Kal El #9,...

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Plenty of Team-Ups in This Month’s SuperChat

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000

It’s a Jon Kent team-up extravaganza on this week’s Superchat! DC’s newest Superman and Aquaman deal with the leviathan threat (not THAT Leviathan threat) once and for all—but interference from Bendix’s Gamorran super task force has cost lives. How responsible is Jon Kent for the lives lost? Find out, in Superman: Son of Kal-El #8,...

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Supermen of Different Worlds Face Different Problems in This Month’s SuperChat

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Things change, things end, things begin again, but one thing remains—Superman fights for a better world, no matter which world it might be. On Earth, Jonathan Kent tries to stop a leviathan, but things get quickly out of hand when Bendix’s Gamorran task force shows up in Superman: Son of Kal-El #7, written by Tom...

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Hope and Family Are at the Center of This Week’s SuperChat

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Though they’ve been stuck in a bad place on their respective worlds, our Supermen each rally themselves in their own ways on this week’s Superchat. One Superman finally escapes a bottled city, taking the fight to Brainiac to save all bottled cities everywhere, in Superman ‘78 #5, written by Robert Venditti, drawn by Wilfredo Torres,...

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Swamp Thing, Kang and More Staff Picks for Dec. 27

Dan Grote — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s pick: Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1: It’s the end of the world as we know it, and the Parliaments of the Green, the Red and the Rot agree to wipe the slate clean. There’s...

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SuperChat Catches Up with Action, ’78, and Son of Kal-El

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0000

It’s catch-up week for SuperChat, as we see what the Supermen of three worlds are up to. On Warworld, Superman and his team find themselves vastly overpowered – but what does that mean for the rest of the galaxy? Action Comics #1037 written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Miguel Mendonca, colored by Adriano Lucas...

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The End of Fear State, Danny DeVito and More Staff Picks for Dec. 1

Dan Grote — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Cori’s Pick: Batman: Fear State Omega: James Tynion IV’s final Bat-event winds down so he can focus on his Substack. Drawn by Riccardo Federici. ($4.99) Previously, in Batman stuff … Matt’s Pick: Gotham City Villains...

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