Benjamin Percy - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:17:33 +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 Benjamin Percy - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Logan: Black, White & Blood #2 shows off Coccolo’s cover talents: Preview https://comicsxf.com/2026/01/29/logan-black-white-blood-2-shows-off-coccolos-cover-talents-preview/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55761 Benjamin Percy, Robert Gill, Mirka Andolfo, Frank Tieri and Raffaele Ienco take turns telling tales in Logan: Black, White & Blood #2.

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]]> 55761 The dream of the ’90s is alive in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Deadpool/Wolverine #10 https://comicsxf.com/2025/09/28/deadpool-wolverine-10/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54263 I haven’t been reading Deadpool/Wolverine, mostly because both characters are already in a million other comics, some of which are also team-up books. But I found the recap page for issue #10 oddly compelling. Allow me to share it here in full, bolding key words as I go: “In the far future, mutant supremacist Apocalypse...

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]]> 54263 Can we shorten Hell Hulk in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Hellverine #10 https://comicsxf.com/2025/09/04/hellverine-10-preview/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54012 What if, instead of calling him Hell Hulk, they just called him Helk? Or Hellk? Also, if there’s a Hell Hulk, does that mean there’s a Heaven Hulk? And is the Purgatory Hulk also gray like Joe Fixit? Maybe we’ll find out in the inevitable Hell Hulk miniseries. Check out our exclusive preview of Hellverine...

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]]> 54012 Hey, everyone, Frank’s back! Percy and Ohta team up for a new, Red Band Punisher #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/23/punisher-percy-ohta-announcement/ Fri, 23 May 2025 18:43:25 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52794 Frank Castle’s had a rough couple years. Blame the misappropriation of his iconography by police and their white supremacist admirers. Still, it put Marvel in a bind. It tried to get out of it by introduing a new Punisher, an ex-SHIELD agent named Joe Garrison, and turning Frank into an agent of The Hand complete...

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]]> 52794 Spider-Man’s brand new Brand New Day continues as he meets Predator, Godzilla https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/06/amazing-spiderman-predator-godzilla/ Tue, 06 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52475 What amped Rhino up from criminal super-bruiser to rampaging disaster machine? We aren’t spilling, but it just amped up Spider-Man! And the only people who can help are Norman Osborn and … Peter’s long-lost childhood best friend? Amazing Spider-Man #2 is written by Joe Kelly, drawn by Pepe Larraz, colored by Marte Gracia and lettered...

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]]> 52475 Akihiro dies again in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Hellverine #4 https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/08/hellverine-4-preview/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49813 Deadpool & Wolverine was a tribute to all the crappy non-MCU movies that existed before and in some cases during the MCU. And yet, you know who wasn’t in it? Nicolas Cage. The Ghost Rider. Maybe Marvel couldn’t afford him. Maybe no one thought to ask him. Maybe he doesn’t get along with Wesley Snipes....

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]]> 49813 Remembering Krakoa: How the last 5 years of X-Men comics changed a life, and a website https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/20/remembering-krakoa/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49305 ‘ It was the last week of July, 2019. House of X #1 had come out and I wasn’t convinced. I loved the artwork. I was interested in what Jonathan Hickman was setting up. My growing group of comics-obsessed friends were already proclaiming it a hit. But I was still spending that week being the...

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]]> 49305 Wolverine #50 one of the better Krakoan farewells https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/12/wolverine-50/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49230 It’s closing time for Logan in Wolverine #50, written by Benjamin Percy and Victor LaValle, drawn by Geoff Shaw and Cory Smith, colored by Alex Sinclair and lettered by Cory Petit, with backups by Larry Hama, Daniel Piccioto, Yen Nitro and Petit; and Percy, Javi Fernandez, Matt Hollingsworth and Petit. Tony Thornley: Well, Matt, we’re...

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]]> 49230 Hellfire, vengeance and stabbing in Hellverine #1 https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/31/hellverine-1/ Fri, 31 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49098 Marvel’s latest Wolverine-mash-up anti-hero makes his debut in Hellverine #1, written by Benjamin Percy, drawn by Julius Ohta, colored by Frank D’Armata and lettered by Travis Lanham. If there is one thing that Marvel can never get enough of, it’s relaunching books as soon as possible to get a juicy new #1. If there were...

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]]> 49098 Wolverine wears his adamantium on his sleeve in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Wolverine #50 https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/24/wolverine-50-preview-2/ Fri, 24 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49047 “Boy, it really feels like they’re rushing to end Krakoa,” say a lot of people reading a lot of X-books for the past year. And yet. Over in Benjamin Percy’s protected little corner of the island, the Sabretooth War has been going on for 10 issues. Ten issues of a bunch of Sabreteeth ripping through...

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]]> 49047 Things get bloody, nostalgic in a preview of Marvel’s supersized Wolverine #50 https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/24/wolverine-50-preview/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:37:48 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48699 Most Marvel series don’t go 50 issues these days, let alone creator runs, so it’s pretty remarkable that writer Benjamin Percy got to go out on top with two 50-issue runs, of Wolverine and X-Force. The latter, of course, has already wrapped, but the former still has a couple more weeks in it before its...

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]]> 48699 Beast didn’t start the fire in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Force #49 https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/15/xforce-49-preview/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47959 Last time, in X-Force #48, the team awakened a clone of Beast whose memories date to when he was a member of the New Defenders, meaning he’s missed out on about three “We Didn’t Start the Fire”s’ worth of events. Don’t worry, Hank, we’ll catch you up. Defenders split, X-FactorThen the Mutant MassacreWarren gets some...

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]]> 47959 The birthday boy is nervous as ‘Sabretooth War’ begins in Wolverine #41 https://comicsxf.com/2024/01/12/wolverine-41/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47686 Wolverine and Sabretooth observe a longtime tradition in their rivalry as “Sabretooth War” begins in Wolverine #41, written by Benjamin Percy and Victor LaValle, drawn by Cory Smith and Geoff Shaw, inked in part by Oren Junior, colored by Alex Sinclair and lettered by Cory Petit. Tony Thornley: Well, the climax of the Krakoan era...

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]]> 47686 X-Men, X-Force & Wolverine rush to tie up their plot threads in X-Chat #13 https://comicsxf.com/2024/01/03/xchat-13-xmen-xforce-wolverine/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47570 The Fall of X continues, and mostly ends, in X-Chat #13! In X-Men #29, Doom invites the X-Men to dinner, by Gerry Duggan, Joshua Cassara, Marte Gracia and Clayton Cowles. In X-Force #47, Colossus finally breaks free of his brother Mikhail, by Benjamin Percy, Daniel Picciotto, Guru-eFx and Joe Caramagna. And Logan’s world tour ends...

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]]> 47570 Logan visits Wakanda in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Wolverine #39 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/16/wolverine-39-preview/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47143 Of all the X-Men, Wolverine was always the one who played best with the wider Marvel Universe. He’s fought alongside Captain America in World War II, hunted Wendigos with the Hulk and locked webs with Spider-Man. So it’s been nice watching him go on a series of standalone adventures in which he teams up with...

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]]> 47143 Battle Of The Atom: New York Comic Con Super Special 2023 https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/23/battle-of-the-atom-new-york-comic-con-super-special-2023/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46956 Adam does interviews with a lot of folks. Zack has not actually listened to the episode yet. Please let him know any exciting news that comes from these.

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]]> 46956 Whose story is it anyway in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Force #45 https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/28/xforce-45-preview/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46688 For years of publishing time now, Colossus has been puppeted by the Chronicler at the behest of his brother, Mikhail Rasputin. But now that Krakoa has fallen, it looks like Colossus has neared the end of his usefulness, and Mikhail has set his sights on a new organization to infiltrate … Orchis. Cool. Kill ’em...

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]]> 46688 From Russia with fun in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Force #44 https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/07/xforce-44-preview/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46514 Jean left the team. Beast turned out to be a war criminal. Logan was always sidetracked by solo adventures. Colossus turned out to be his brother’s thrall. Deadpool is working for Steve Rogers again. Guess it’s just us girls. Sage and Domino have got enough mad in them for Orchis, for Mikhail Rasputin, for pretty...

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]]> 46514 Logan holds Ghost Rider close in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Wolverine #36 https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/24/wolverine-36-preview/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46376 Y’ever see two people on a motorcycle in traffic and wonder how come you never see Ghost Rider with a passenger on his hell-cycle or whatever it’s called? Wonder no longer, as this week’s preview of Wolverine #36 – part of the ongoing “Weapons of Vengeance” story – shows what it’s like for Logan to...

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]]> 46376 Ghost Rider/Wolverine Alpha issue is the first Fall of X clunker https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/11/ghost-rider-wolverine-alpha-issue-is-the-first-fall-of-x-clunker/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46251 A demonic serial killer is murdering innocent mutants. But what is it about this deadly new villain that forces Wolverine and Ghost Rider to team up? And what buried secret does he share with Wolverine and Ghost Rider’s never-before-seen first meeting? Find out in Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance Alpha #1, written by Benjamin Percy,...

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]]> 46251 NOW Can Beast Have Some Comeuppance in Our Exclusive Preview of Wolverine #35 https://comicsxf.com/2023/07/20/now-can-beast-have-some-comeuppance-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-wolverine-35/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46028 We’re long past the days of the bouncing, blue-furred Beast who quoted Shakespeare and pulled lighthearted pranks while simultaneously trying to cure the Legacy Virus. Since the ’90s he’s been on a downward trajectory of devil’s bargains and war crimes. Benjamin Percy steered into the skid, and has spent the most recent arcs of both...

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]]> 46028 X-Chat #7 Features Clones, Clones, Everywhere! https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/15/theres-clones-galore-as-x-chat-7-discusses-x-force-37-dark-web-finale-1/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44734 We’re a little behind but a few important events have happened since we last met! In X-Force #37, we finally meet the head of Xeno, the Man with the Peacock Tattoo, from Benjamin Percy, Robert Gill, Guru-eFx, and Joe Caramagna! Meanwhile, “Inferno II Electric Boogaloo” ends in Dark Web Finale #1 from Zeb Wells, Adam...

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]]> 44734 X-Chat #6 Catches Up With Crossovers, Catharsis & Conflict! https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/31/x-chat-6-catches-up-with-crossovers-catharsis-and-conflict/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44624 We’re a little behind but a few important events have happened since we last met! Welcome to X-Chat #6! In X-Men Annual #1, Firestar gets the much-deserved spotlight from Steve Foxe, Andrea DiVito, Sebastian Cheng and Clayton Cowles! Two key characters get some major closure in Dark Web: X-Men #2-3, by Gerry Duggan, Phil Noto,...

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]]> 44624 X-Men #15 Re-Opens the Vault in This Week’s X-Chat! https://comicsxf.com/2022/10/21/x-men-15-leads-this-weeks-x-chat-as-the-x-men-go-back-in-the-vault/ Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43533 Branding reigns supreme, as we join our Batman and Superman-centric chat counterparts with X-Chat! In X-Men #15, Forge brings the team back to the Vault from Gerry Duggan, Josh Cassara, Guru-eFx, and Clayton Cowles. It’s just a mission to rescue Darwin. Surely nothing will go badly. Kraven challenges the biggest and baddest mutants on Krakoa...

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]]> 43533 Wolverine goes for the hat trick in the new X-Men roundup! https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/29/wolverine-goes-for-the-hat-trick-in-the-new-x-men-roundup/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43189 Yes, we’re still looking for a name, but welcome back! We’re taking a look again at three big books from across the X-Men Universe. This week, they all feature Wolverine, plus we have a special guest appearance by the Amazing Spider-Man! In Wolverine #24, The Hand takes advantage of the Judgment Day to kill Wolverine...

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