Brian Michael Bendis - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Brian Michael Bendis - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BENDIS IS COMING! … Back! … To Marvel! … For a backup story in Avengers #800! https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/11/bendis-avengers-800/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:37 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54797 Brian Michael Bendis is part of the reason I got back into reading Marvel Comics. Even when I wasn’t a Wednesday warrior during a stretch from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s, I had amassed a stack of New Avengers trades, along with events like House of M, Secret Invasion and Siege. They presented Marvel’s...

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]]> 54797 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep. 46: Batman Loves Dinosaurs https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/04/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-46-batman-loves-dinosaurs/ Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=42343 So, Matt spent most of his long drive into work trying to come up with a Batman version of the Green Lantern oath, but he’s not a poet, so instead we’re admitting that here. This week, we’re reading three stories where Batman wields a power ring. One of these books is far and away the...

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]]> 42343 The Great Infinite Frontier #0 ComicsXF Roundtable https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/05/the-great-infinite-frontier-0-comicsxf-roundtable/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=22477 Matt Lazorwitz: Welcome to ComicsXF’s roundtable discussion of DC’s new linewide event introduction, Infinite Frontier #0. I’m Matt Lazorwitz, the guy who came up with this harebrained scheme, and I’d like to start with everyone here sounding off. Let’s see who I’ve been able to gather from our illustrious staff. Tony Thornley: Hi, I’m Tony...

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]]> 22477 The Legion Stumbles, Batman/Superman Get Along and Lex Luthor Soars In Future State https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/26/the-legion-stumbles-batman-superman-get-along-and-lex-luthor-sores-in-future-state/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=21917 The Legion of Super-Heroes confront their rogue member but not is all as it seems in Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #2 written by Brian Michael Bendis, art by Riley Rossmo, colors by Ivan Plascencia and letters by Dave Sharpe. Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #2 is only 19 pages. But somehow it felt like...

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]]> 21917 DC Future State Month One Wraps with the Legion, Lex Luthor and Batman/Superman https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/29/future-state-month-one-wraps-with-the-legion-lex-luthor-and-batman-superman/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=13811 Greetings and salutations, friends. We’re headed back to the future (Acknowledge the pun! Acknowledge it!) with three time-tossed tales from Detective Comics Comics. First, Brian Michael Bendis and Riley Rossmo future hard with a vengeance in Legion of Super-Heroes #1. Then, Mark Russell and Steve Pugh do their social-issues schtick in Superman vs. Imperious Lex...

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