Alan Moore - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:51:05 +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 Alan Moore - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: A Black & White Episode https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/12/batchat-with-matt-will-a-black-white-episode/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51091 Last week was three random books from Will’s collection. This week is three stories that Matt has wanted to cover that don’t easily fit in with any themes he has come up with yet. We read some more black and white stories, the sequel to a highly ranked sorry by a late, great writer and...

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]]> 51091 We Come To Christmas’ End with a New Graphic Novel of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/06/we-come-to-christmas-end-with-a-new-graphic-novel-of-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44436 A classic tale of chivalry, courage, and inevitability with John Reppion and MD Penman’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ritesh: ‘Tis the season! Of yuletide tales and gift-giving! And so we come to a tale of old–The Tale of Ser Gawain and the Green Knight. Crafted with great care and intense research by John...

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]]> 44436 Bat Chat With Matt & Will: A Swamp Thing Redwood Kaiju https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/22/bat-chat-with-matt-will-a-swamp-thing-redwood-kaiju/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43044 It’s another Patreon request this week! John Wickham, Jason Todd tier backer wanted us to talk about the story where Swamp Thing comes to Gotham and turns the city into a jungle, so we are, as well as two other stories where Batman meets Swamp Thing. The Garden of Earthly Delights (Swamp Thing V.2 #52-53) The...

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]]> 43044 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 41: Content Warnings Abound https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/30/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-41-content-warnings-abound/ Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41777 So, this week was supposed to see the release of the final issue of James Tynion IV’s ongoing Joker series, a series Matt & Will have unabashedly loved over on the BatChat column. But whether it’s supply chain shipping issues or something more related to the production of this particular issue, the comic has been...

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]]> 41777 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 35: Two Deaths and One Good Day For Jason Todd https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/19/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-35-two-deaths-and-one-good-day-for-jason-todd/ Thu, 19 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40843 Jason Todd is probably the unluckiest Robin (with apologies to Stephanie Brown): seemingly orphaned, lived on the streets, taken in by Batman only to be killed by the Joker only to be resurrected as a homicidal vigilante. But for decades, it was Jason’s death, not his life, that defined him as a character and added...

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]]> 40843 Why, Will: Video game ‘Avengers,’ AEW bookers disappoint https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/09/why-will-video-game-avengers-aew-bookers-disappoint/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8195 When even low expectations can’t save a thing. A Short Review of ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ (PS4) It ain’t great. The ‘Rasslin’ Report AEW’s “All Out” was a middling affair, but there’s only so much you can do when half your main event participants are either too old (Jericho, and I am sorry, but he can’t keep...

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