The People Pulling the Strings Are What’s Most Grotesque about I Breathed a Body #2

As the world reels from the most depraved livestream ever put online, Anne and her co-workers lean into the violence. Horrific appetites are revealed, death is made into spectacle, and the world changes in an instant. Step behind the curtain of online outrage to see the people pulling the strings. Become those who push the…

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Shadow Doctor Shows the Lengths One Goes to When a Dream Is Denied

Shadow Doctor #1 Writer: Peter Calloway, Artist: Georges Jeanty, Colorist: Juancho!, Letterer/Backmatter designer: Charles Pritchett, Publisher: AfterShock America, like most things, has its good and bad aspects. Those who find themselves categorized under the banner term of “minority” often know all too well just how bad the bad side of the United States can be. …

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Advance Review: Social Media Is Disturbing, Even without Mushrooms, in I Breathed a Body #1

When the world’s biggest influencer posts something irredeemably horrific online, the world changes in an instant. Now it’s up to his social media manager, Anne Stewart, to fan the flames of outrage and create a sensationalist campaign that rewrites the rules of “banned content.” Thus begins a carnival of lust, revulsion, desire and disgust —…

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WMQ&A Episode 143: Dr. Stephanie Phillips on Dr. Harleen Quinzel

Dan Grote ¡ WMQ&A Episode 143: Dr. Stephanie Phillips on Dr. Harleen Quinzel Stephanie Phillips returns to the show to talk about her nascent run on DC’s Harley Quinn, her many indie projects, getting a Ph.D. and more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes…

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All the Lovecraft Easter Eggs in AfterShock’s Miskatonic #2

Miskatonic’s Magical Misery Tour continues with a trip to Arkham in AfterShock Comics’ Miskatonic #2. Written by Mark Sable, penciled by Giorgio Pontrelli, colored by Pippa Bowland and lettered by Thomas Mauer, Miskatonic #2 finds our intrepid investigators on the run from the Dagon cultists, aiming toward deeper, darker corners of Lovecraft Country. We open…

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S.W.O.R.D. Returns to Orbit, a Haunted House Walks and More Staff Picks for 12/9

Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Forrest’s Pick S.W.O.R.D. #1: Mutants! In! Spaaaaaaaaace! Krakoa gets its own Space Force in once and future SWORD Director Abigail Brand, frequent space-dwelling mutant leader Magneto, former Acolytes Fabian Cortez and Frenzy, current Galadorian…

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