Clay McLeod Chapman - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:15:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Clay McLeod Chapman - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Three Issues Not Enough for Marvel’s Villains for Hire https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/24/three-issues-not-enough-for-marvels-villains-for-hire/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39170 When devils reign, it is perhaps inaccurate to describe things as spinning out of control — it’s merely a question of whose hands control has been shifted to. Mayor Wilson Fisk seems to be holding all the cards, and it’s the Thunderbolts who forfeit. Devil’s Reign: Villains For Hire #3 is written by Clay McLeod...

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]]> 39170 Devil’s Reign: Villains for Hire #1 is the Right Kind of Ugly https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/19/devils-reign-villains-for-hire-1-is-the-right-kind-of-ugly/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37533 With superheroes outlawed in New York, Mayor Wilson Fisk needs superpowered operatives to keep the city under control. With Whiplash, Rhino, Electro, and Agony making up the new Thunderbolts, however, control isn’t all that easily found. Devil’s Reign: Villains for Hire #1, written by Clay McLeod Chapman, drawn by Manuel Garcia, inked by Lorenzo Ruggiero,...

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]]> 37533 Andi Benton Gets to Shine in Extreme Carnage: Scream #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/14/andi-benton-gets-to-shine-in-extreme-carnage-scream-1/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30911 Extreme Carnage: Scream by Clay McLeod Chapman, Chris Mooneyham, Marcio Menyz, and Travis Lanham In the shadow of Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman’s recently concluded, critically and commercially lauded reinvention of Eddie Brock in Venom, writer Clay McLeod Chapman and artist Chris Mooneyham were quietly charting a reinvention of their own with Life Foundation Symbiote,...

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