Age of Revelation - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:19:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Age of Revelation - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 CXF awards yearbook-style superlatives to the Age of Revelation. Who was best in class? https://comicsxf.com/2026/01/01/comicsxf-awards-yearbook-style-superlatives-to-the-age-of-revelation-who-was-best-in-class/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55448 In addition to the final recap of “Age of Revelation,” the ComicsXF team looked at the overall event via high school-yearbook style superlatives.

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]]> 55448 Doug Ramsey’s Ego trip ends in Marvel’s X-Men: Age of Revelation Finale https://comicsxf.com/2026/01/01/doug-ramseys-ego-trip-ends-in-marvels-x-men-age-of-revelation-finale/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55443 "I have plotted the way forward for this species. For this world. For all of us. I do not do this out of anger, but of love." Welcome to the Age of Revelation Finale.

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]]> 55443 Ultimate Endgame begins and Age of Revelation ends in this week’s CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/31/ultimate-endgame-begins-and-age-of-revelation-ends-in-this-weeks-cxf-staff-picks/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55425 The Maker has had thousands of years to prepare for his return. With the barrier around The City finally gone, the heroes of the Ultimate Universe must mobilize to defeat him before it's game over.

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]]> 55425 Our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Expatriate X-Men #3 shows us the proper way to blorbo https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/18/our-exclusive-preview-of-marvels-expatriate-x-men-3-shows-us-the-proper-way-to-blorbo/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55317 One of my chief quibbles with “Age of Revelation” has been the loud use of deep-pull mutants without any real examination of why they’re there or what they think about the world they’ve created. And of course, it’s hard to do that when the story is only three months long and you have to zip...

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]]> 55317 Marvel’s Rogue Storm #3 will flare up your ADHD https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/17/marvels-rogue-storm-3-will-flare-up-your-adhd/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55292 X years later, as a result of the actions of Rogue Red and Storm, an ancient evil has been let loose upon the world. Sorcerers are meeting their brutal ends. Magical defenses from many Marvel mystics prove futile. With the help of the disgraced sorcerer Daniel Drumm, Rogue Red and Storm will face the ancient...

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]]> 55292 We give our leads an inspirational speech in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Rogue Storm #3 https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/11/we-give-our-leads-an-inspirational-speech-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-marvels-rogue-storm-3/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55223 We get it, Rogue Red and Storm on the cover of Rogue Storm #3. You’re tired. Beat up. Angry. You wonder when it will end, these slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune. But you must dig down deep. Pick up your weapons. Pull those arrows out of your chest and use their bloody, splintered stumps...

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]]> 55223 I’m seeing triple! 9 Fantomexes! in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Sinister’s Six #3 https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/04/im-seeing-triple-9-fantomexes-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-marvels-sinisters-six-3/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55138 Once upon a time, Fantomex was split into three people – Fantomex, Cluster and Weapon XIII – each a different aspect of the original Charlie Cluster-7. In the Age of Revelation, we’ve seen two of those personalities – Fantomex in Murewa Ayodele and Roland Boschi’s Rogue Storm, and Cluster, or Lady Fantomex, in David Marquez...

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]]> 55138 Let’s swear a blood oath in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Unbreakable X-Men #3 https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/04/unbreakable-xmen-3-preview/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55120 You guys wanna cut your hands open and mush bloods? It’s not weird. (Hi, I grew up during the AIDS crisis, and I definitely sat through whole gym assemblies on Dec. 1 where they advised against stuff like this.) Check out our exclusive preview of Unbreakable X-Men #3, out next week, and keep scrolling for...

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]]> 55120 We wonder where Jean is in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Binary #3 https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/26/binary-3-preview/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55043 And that’s a wrap on Stephanie Phillips’ time with Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force. Come January, Phillips will be off the X-books and preparing to launch a new volume of Daredevil alongside artist Lee Garbett. It’s a big transition period in general for Phillips, as her longest comics series to date, BOOM Studios’ Grim,...

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]]> 55043 At the halfway point, ComicsXF analyzes what’s not working in the X-Men’s ‘Age of Revelation’ https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/23/whats-wrong-with-age-of-revelation/ Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54989 After a full month of covering “Age of Revelation,” the ComicsXF all-star chorus took a break last week, partly because there were no core books out, partly because, well, it was exhausting. And we don’t just mean the pace and volume. These books are exhausting to read and keep up with, and if this event...

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]]> 54989 A vs. X(-Force) in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s X-Vengers #2 https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/20/xvengers-2-preview/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54926 While Jason Loo and Sergio Davila’s X-Vengers lean more toward New Mutants nostalgia with their leadership of Dani Moonstar and Cannonball, the team of Seraphim they deal with leans more toward what the New Mutants became: X-Force. Sunspot, Boom-Boom and Warpath represent the latter team, with their extreme attitude and penchant for explosions. They’re joined...

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]]> 54926 Return to Penumbra in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Unbreakable X-Men #2 https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/16/unbreakable-xmen-2-preview/ Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54831 Never let a crossover get in the way of your ongoing story arc. Unbreakable X-Men continues the Penumbra story from Gail Simone’s Uncanny X-Men, the city of the dead that lay not far from the Louisiana X-Men’s home like so many Zombie N’awlins Morlocks. What does any of it have to do with Doug Ramsey’s...

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]]> 54831 Aunt May can survive anything in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Radioactive Spider-Man #2 https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/13/radioactive-spiderman-2-preview/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54840 X YEARS LATER … HOW IS AUNT MAY STILL ALIVE? For someone who started out as the frailest old woman in comics, May Parker sure has survived a lot. Terminal diseases. Foreclosure. Doctor Octopus pitching woo. And apparently, in 10 years, she’ll survive Revelation’s X-Virus. She’ll have to live in stasis because she’s some kind...

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]]> 54840 All things must pass. But will we remember Marvel’s Rogue Storm #2? https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/12/all-things-must-pass-but-will-we-remember-marvels-rogue-storm-2/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54815 X years later, many secret events have taken place among the mutants of the world — including the one that changed Gambit and Rogue’s marriage forever. As Storm embarks on her quest to destroy Eegun, the devourer of Sorcerers Supreme, Gambit has a score to settle with Storm for the fate of his marriage. But...

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]]> 54815 DIE reloads, Gargoyles x the Fantastic Four, and more of this week’s CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/12/staff-picks-nov12/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54793 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. Rasmus’ pick: DIE Loaded #1: A year after their return from...

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]]> 54793 Thinking about the New Mutants again in this EXCLUSIVE variant cover reveal for X-Vengers #3 https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/11/xvengers-3-variant-cover/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:49:32 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54802 This X-Vengers #3 variant cover by Edwin Galmon shows half of the original class of New Mutants – Cannonball, Sunspot, Dani Moonstar and Doug Ramsey/Revelation – as they were in happier days and as they are now. Three hardened warriors taking the fight to a former teammate gone mad with power. But it begs the...

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]]> 54802 A truth: Month 2 of Marvel’s Age of Revelation gets off to a rough start https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/09/age-of-revelation-amazing-binary-sabretooth-longshots-2/ Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54751 Age of Revelation enters its second month with a big reveal about why present-day Cyclops and Beast are in the future. Amazing X-Men #2 is written by Jed MacKay, drawn by Mahmud Asrar, colored by Matthew Wilson and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Binary #2 is written by Stephanie Phillips, drawn by Giada Belviso, colored by...

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]]> 54751 Ohhh, so THAT’S what happened to Jean in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Binary #2 https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/02/binary-2-preview/ Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54683 So much for “now and forever,” huh? This preview of next week’s Binary #2, part of the ongoing “Age of Revelation” event, appears to show Jean Grey sacrificing herself – as she does – to stop the spread of the X-Virus beyond Earth. Sounds right. All she ever did was die on us. But wait,...

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]]> 54683 The Exceptional kids play pirate, Cloak and Dagger surprise and more Age of Revelation https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/02/age-of-revelation-expatriate-undeadpool-cloakordagger-xvengers/ Sun, 02 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54677 It’s time to wrap up the first month of the future! Rather than tackle each “Age of Revelation” book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s offerings: Expatriate X-Men #1 is written by Eve Ewing, drawn by Francesco Mortarino,...

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]]> 54677 Wondering what Warlock tastes like in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Longshots #2 https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/30/longshots-2-preview/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54694 So we’re just eating Warlocks now? We wondered in this week’s Age of Revelation roundup where Doug Ramsey’s selfsoulfriend is, and he (or a version of him or another Technarch being; who’s to say, really?) appears to show up in this comic, where he is unceremoniously killed by Hellcat and then shown being eaten by...

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]]> 54694 An Absolute Batman flashback and more Age of Revelation in this week’s CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/29/staff-picks-oct29/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54656 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 Annual 2025 #1: Big names tell tales...

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]]> 54656 Hey, it’s those kids we like in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Expatriate X-Men #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/26/expatriate-xmen-1-preview/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54614 We’ve met a lot of new kids during the Age of Revelation. Omega Kids. Elbecca the Chorister. Temper and Ransom’s baby. Kids who theoretically weren’t even born in the present of the X-books. But the fact of the matter is, we’re still getting to know the kids we met during “From the Ashes,” which was...

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]]> 54614 This week’s Age of Revelation books check in on the villains and key mutants like … Spider-Man https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/26/age-of-revelation-book-spiderman-omegakids-lastwolverine/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54603 The Age of Revelation continues to grow with another four new stories! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s offerings: X-Men: Book of Revelation #1 by Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo...

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]]> 54603 Say Hello to Halloween and more Age of Revelation books in this week’s CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/22/staff-picks-oct22/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54568 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: Hello Halloween #1: What if Hello Darkness but Halloween?...

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]]> 54568 The Age of Revelation expands with 4 new books, 2 Rogues and 1 sad Gambit https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/19/age-of-revelation-unbreakable-roguestorm-sinister-frost/ Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54543 The Age of Revelation will continue until morale improves (or January, whichever comes first), so we’ve got another week of fresh new “replacement” books and tie-ins alike! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s...

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