Dan Slott - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:17:05 +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 Dan Slott - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: His Father’s Mustache https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/12/batchat-with-matt-will-his-fathers-mustache/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46788 Everyone knows that Batman is also billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. But what most people outside of Batman comics fans don’t know is that Batman has another alter ego: two-bit mobster Matches Malone, an identity Batman uses to infiltrate the mob. This week, we’re reading three stories where Batman uses the Matches identity: an arc that...

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]]> 46788 What If … Uatu Actually DIDN’T Interfere for Once in Trial of the Watcher #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/16/what-if-uatu-actually-didnt-interfere-for-once-in-trial-of-the-watcher-1/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=38989 In all of the multiverse, there is only one world that Uatu has avoided watching, one “What If” that he never wished to see. And now it will be revealed, the story that could damn him for all time, in Fantastic Four: Reckoning War: Trial of the Watcher #1, written by Dan Slott, drawn by...

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]]> 38989 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 16: A Serious Podcast On Serious Earth https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/06/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-16-a-serious-podcast-on-serious-earth/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37173 It is a mad house. It is the home to terror, both supernatural and all too irrational. Arkham Asylum is one of the most recognizable locales in Gotham City, if not the entire DC Universe. This week, as “Shadows of the Bat,” the tale of the new Arkham Tower, begins in Detective Comics, Matt &...

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]]> 37173 Johnny Storm Flames But the Writing Fizzles in Fantastic Four #36 https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/22/johnny-storm-flames-but-the-writing-fizzles-in-fantastic-four-36/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33930 Things go from bad to fucked for Jonathan Lowell Spencer Storm in Fantastic Four #36. Written by Dan Slott; Drawn by Nico Leon; Colored by Dono Sánchez-Almara; Lettered by Joe Caramagna. I am becoming increasingly convinced that Dan Slott doesn’t know much about real emotions. He’s just seen them on TV.  In the aftermath of...

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]]> 33930 The Bride of Doom Concludes Uneventfully in Fantastic Four #33 and #34! https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/28/the-bride-of-doom-concludes-uneventfully-in-fantastic-four-33-and-34/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=31958 Hold onto your Unstable Molecules because it’s time for another FF Review Two-in-One! First Up… Doctor Doom offers a clean slate as a wedding gift to the world in Fantastic Four #33 – Part II of “Bride of Doom”. Written by Dan Slott. Drawn by R.B. Silva & Luca Maresca. Colored by Jesus Arbutov. Lettered...

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]]> 31958 Johnny Storm Learns Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows in Fantastic Four #32 https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/12/johnny-storm-learns-politics-makes-strange-bedfellows-in-fantastic-four-32/ Wed, 12 May 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=27014 Doctor Doom reveals his bride despite the Johnny Storm sized roadblock to the altar in Fantastic Four #32. Written by Dan Slott, drawn by R.B. Silva & Javier Rodriguez, colored by Jesus Aburtov, and lettered by Joe Caramagna. The Slott Era of FF once again finds some charm in going small as we kick off...

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]]> 27014 A Mixed Bag of Three Stories in Carnage: Black, White, and Blood #3 https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/05/a-mixed-bag-of-three-stories-in-carnage-black-white-and-blood-3/ Wed, 05 May 2021 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=26483 Across concerts, choppy seas, and conventions, the world tries to make sense of the chaos that is Carnage in Carnage: Black, White, and Blood #3

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]]> 26483 Fantastic Four #30 Gets Goopy Right After It’s Fashionable https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/15/fantastic-four-30-gets-goopy-right-after-its-fashionable/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=25219 Just when you thought you were out they GOOP YA back in Fantastic Four #30. Written by Dan Slott, drawn by Zé Carlos, colored by Jesus Aburtov, and lettered by Joe Caramagna, Fantastic Four #30 (LGY #675) finds the First Family still struggling through Knull’s invasion. Separated, down two members, and trapped on Yancy Street,...

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