Alex Segura - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 13 May 2025 17:21:24 +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 Alex Segura - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Marvel’s Star Wars #1 enters the era of the New New Republic https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/13/marvels-star-wars-1-enters-the-era-of-the-new-new-republic/ Tue, 13 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52611 Darth Vader is dead! The New Republic lives! Moff Adelhard (you all remember him, right?) is defeated! For the first time, Marvel’s second run of Star Wars comics drops the Star Warriors into an ongoing series set in the post-Original Trilogy era in Star Wars #1, written by Alex Segura, drawn by Phil Noto and...

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]]> 52611 Alex Segura On Taking Marvel’s Star Wars Into A New Era https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/09/alex-segura-on-taking-marvels-star-wars-into-a-new-era/ Fri, 09 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52549 May the Fourth and Revenge of the Fifth may have passed for this year, but that doesn’t mean we, or the pop culture landscape, are done with Star Wars. With a new volume of Marvel’s Star Wars ongoing launching this past Wednesday, writer and Star Wars fan Matt Lazorwitz was able to sit down with...

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]]> 52549 ‘Just … let it go’: Alex Segura talks about his new webcomic, The Forgotten Five, now on Patreon https://comicsxf.com/2025/03/31/alex-segura-forgotten-five/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52074 Alex Segura might be the nicest person in comics. An industry veteran with impressive stints at DC and Archie, he’s also a best-selling novelist — the Los Angeles Times awarded 2022’s Secret Identity its Book Prize for mystery/thriller. It’s also been named a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an NPR Best Mystery of the...

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]]> 52074 BatChat solves mysteries in Detective Comics, Justice League Unlimited and The Question https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/24/batchat-tec-jlu-question/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:19:10 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51474 The Bat family races to save the young men targeted by the serial killer Asema. Batman confronts the killer, but the results are not what he was expecting. Detective Comics #1,093 is written by Tom Taylor, drawn and colored by Mikel Janin and lettered by Wes Abbott.  The Amazon rainforest burns with mystical fire. While...

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]]> 51474 Fill your stocking with CXF mini reviews of Avengers, Miles Morales and Spider-Society https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/23/mini-reviews-avengers-miles-morales-spider-society/ Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51197 In a bid to broaden the number of comics we cover at ComicsXF, we give you, the reader, these one-paragraph reviews of some recent releases. Avengers #21 W: Jed MacKay | A: Valerio Schiti | C: Federico Blee | L: Cory Petit | P: Marvel Finally, the rematch you’ve been waiting for: Avengers vs. X-Men,...

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]]> 51197 BatChat covers Absolute, Batman & Robin Year One, World’s Finest and The Question https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/20/batchat-absolute-yearone-worldsfinest-question/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51186 Bruce Wayne faces a moral dilemma: let the Party Animals operate without Batman’s interference for a week and receive a large sum of money and the gang going easier on Gotham. As Bruce tries to make his decision, political wrangling makes it more clear exactly who is behind the chaos in Gotham. Absolute Batman #3...

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]]> 51186 Mark Waid continues to be good at comics in BatChat (Plus, The Question in space!) https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/22/batchat-yearone-worldsfinest-question/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50901 While Two-Face joins forces with the General, and Batman and Robin experience growing pains in their relationship, Bruce Wayne faces a threat like none he has ever experienced: Gotham Child Protective Services. Batman & Robin: Year One #2 is written by Mark Waid, drawn and colored by Chris Samnee and lettered by Clayton Cowles and...

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]]> 50901 The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 328: Alex Segura talks Alter Ego, The Question and more https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/12/tcxfip-328-alex-segura/ Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50777 The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 328: Alex Segura talks Alter Ego, The Question, Star Wars and more Writer Alex Segura joins the show to talk about his new novel Alter Ego, the release of The Legendary Lynx in trade, DC’s The Question: All Along the Watchtower, his recent Star Wars work,...

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]]> 50777 WMQ&A Episode 273: Mystery Inc. with Alex Segura https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/12/wmqa-episode-273-mystery-inc-with-alex-segura/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46536 WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 273: Mystery Inc. with Alex Segura Writer Alex Segura joins the show to talk about his contributions to AHOY Comics’ Project Cryptid, his recent Sinestro story in Knight Terrors: Green Lantern and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud,...

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]]> 46536 We Become the First People to Read Comixology Original Books (We Think) https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/02/we-become-the-first-people-to-read-comixology-original-books-we-think/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44075 In an all-too-plausible future, the nation is split. The old country is dead. This is New America #1, written by Curt Pires, drawn by Luca Casalanguida, colored by Mark Dale, lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and published by Comixology Originals. It’s a ballad of love, murder, sketchy flyboys and at least one creepy robot in Barnstormers...

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