Andy MacDonald - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:16:17 +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 Andy MacDonald - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Old Friends and New Strangers in Wonder Woman 2021 Annual #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/08/old-friends-and-new-strangers-in-wonder-woman-2021-annual-1/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35627 Since her return from the Sphere of the Gods, Diana has tried her best to reconnect with her past and those she left behind. But now the past is coming for her. It all begins when a mysterious man appears, claiming to know the dark history of the Amazons. Could his claims be true? And...

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]]> 35627 Green Lantern #5 Doesn’t Pick Its Battle https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/06/green-lantern-5-doesnt-pick-its-battle/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32442 Convinced that Sinestro is to blame for the devastating explosion on Oa, Teen Lantern flies to Korugar in an attempt to confront him, taking on the entire Sinestro Corps alone – though it’s another mysterious wielder of the light of Fear that keeps Keli alive. Meanwhile, in the Dark Sector, John convinces his new allies...

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]]> 32442 Diana Continues Her Journey in Wonder Woman #775 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/16/diana-continues-her-journey-in-wonder-woman-775/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=31141 Diana makes her way through the Graveyard of the Gods in Wonder Woman #775. Written by Michael W. Conrad and Becky Cloonan, art by Andy MacDonald, colors by Nick Filardi and lettered by Pat Brosseu  Andrea Ayres: Wonder Woman #775 had a lot packed into a single issue. Given the pacing of Wonder Woman #774,...

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]]> 31141 A Mirror, A Kaleidoscope, A Window: Social Media’s Effect On Our Soul https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/15/a-mirror-a-kaleidoscope-a-window-social-medias-effect-on-our-soul/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30467 Heads up, this piece contains some sexual images and my not be appropriate for all audiences. When do you feel seen? Whenever a relatable image, meme, statement, general piece of content, etc. appears on social media, there’s a barrage of “Wow, this is me!”, “I’m in this, and I don’t like it”, or “I feel...

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]]> 30467 Wonder Woman #774 Brings Diana to a Fallen Olympus https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/25/wonder-woman-774-brings-diana-to-a-fallen-olympus/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30124 Olympus has fallen and Wonder Woman has arrived with Ratatosk to find out how and why. Wonder Woman #774 continues written by Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad, art by Andy MacDonald, colors by Nick Filardi and letters by Pat Brousseau. Cat Purcell: I’m very sad to see Diana leave Asgard, especially as we know she’s...

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]]> 30124 Final Fungal Thoughts as AfterShock’s I Breathed a Body #5 Wraps the Series https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/27/final-fungal-thoughts-as-aftershocks-i-breathed-a-body-5-wraps-the-series/ Thu, 27 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=28321 Everything ends, everything begins in the techno-organic hellscape of I Breathed a Body #5 by Zac Thompson, Andy MacDonald, Triona Farrell and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.  Robert Secundus: Flesh fades; data dissipates; even languages are someday lost; all is dust. Stories end. And so too, this comic, and our conversations about it. Still, I think, this is...

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]]> 28321 The Mushroom Apocalypse Draws Closer in I Breathed a Body #4 https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/03/the-mushroom-apocalypse-draws-closer-in-i-breathed-a-body-4/ Mon, 03 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=26137 The cult of Mylo grows, but the mystical mushroom secret has roots in the much deeper, darker world of I Breathed a Body #4 by Zac Thompson, Andy MacDonald, Triona Farrell and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.  CW: I Breathed a Body #4 features images of suicide and self-harm, and this article will be discussing those images. Zachary...

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]]> 26137 We Rank I Breathed a Body #3 from Anne to Zoe https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/01/we-rank-i-breathed-a-body-3-from-anne-to-zoe/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=23887 As Anne architects a social media campaign of looming dread, she begins to doubt her actions and fear her co-workers. Locked in a terror-shrouded fortress of her own design, with nowhere left to run, Anne confronts the fury of a Fungal God long thought dead in I Breathed a Body #3 by Zac Thompson, Andy...

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]]> 23887 The People Pulling the Strings Are What’s Most Grotesque about I Breathed a Body #2 https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/24/the-people-pulling-the-strings-are-whats-most-grotesque-about-i-breathed-a-body-2/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=21652 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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]]> 21652 Advance Review: Social Media Is Disturbing, Even without Mushrooms, in I Breathed a Body #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/19/advance-review-social-media-is-disturbing-even-without-mushrooms-in-i-breathed-a-body-1/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=13208 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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