Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tonyâs Pick (but honestly, arenât we all hype?): Planet-Sized X-Men #1: Itâs a red issue, drawn by Pepe Larraz (and written by âUncleâ Gerry Duggan). THE X-MEN ARE GOING TO MARS, BABY! I mean, no,…
Eisner-nominated writer Kelly Thompson and her collaborators on Hawkeye, artist Leonardo Romero and colorist Jordie Bellaire, team up once again for an action-packed Black Hammer one-shot that pits the Spiral City vigilante Skulldigger against a new and cunning thief who is sure to leave him with scars. Lettered by Nate Piekos for Dark Horse Comics….
Renegade Rule â written by Ben Kahn and Rachel Silverstein, drawn by Sam Beck and lettered by Jim Campbell for Dark Horse â is a delightful and fun little treat for the beginning of Pride. The bones of the story being told arenât necessarily new or revolutionary, but the artwork, earnest characters and the excitement…
Joe Bradley is almost at the heart of the maze, at the center of which lies Lady Pendermills and all the answers Joe needs about whatâs happened to Pendermillsâ missing people. What she learns in her final confrontation will change everything she thinks she knows. Written, drawn, colored and lettered by Tyler Boss. I am…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Austinâs Pick: Hellions #12: Happy Hellfire Gala! The big event is here, and who better to start it off with than the team of miscreants who got sent to Otherworld to retrieve a sword just…
Eisner Award-winning writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Diego Olortegui team up once again for a truly unusual Black Hammer issue that moves our heroes away from the farm to a bizarre setting that’s a cross between gothic soap opera and space opera. With Dave Stewart (colors) and Nate Piekos (letters). Honestly, I donât know what…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Danâs Pick: X-Corp #1: The mutants are doing a business! Warren Kenneth Worthington III and Monet St. Croix run Krakoaâs corporate arm in a new series written by Tini Howard (Excalibur) and drawn by Alberto…
Itâs all fun and games until someone loses an eye – or a trailer full of clues in a mysterious fire. Joe Bradleyâs search for her missing friend Mac Guffin has yielded a number of clues, but no actual answers, and the deeper Joe dives into this mystery, the less likely it seems that sheâs…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishalâs Pick: Heroes Reborn #1: The Avengers do an Age of Apocalypse, imagining a world where Earthâs Mightiest Heroes never teamed up, with Blade in the Bishop role, in a seven-issue event series by writer…
Sex Criminalsâ Chip Zdarsky and Tartarus‘ Johnnie Christmas team up for the first time with this action-packed Hammerverse special. Before he was trapped with Spiral City’s greatest heroes on a mysterious limbo farm, aging hero Abraham Slam found himself already an outcast in his own world. And with the arrival of a belligerent reboot hero…
Itâs colder, now. You could sense the cold was coming last issue, with the crisp autumn air and pale sunlight, but now winter is here, and the missing Cormac Guffinâs trail has gone cold. Her friend Joe Bradley is still hot on her trail, however â but if sheâs not careful, itâs only a matter…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chrisâ Pick: The Silver Coin #1: Artist Michael Walsh (Black Hammer/Justice League) invites his writer friends to tell horror stories centered on the titular coin. First up, Chip Zdarsky (Daredevil) tells the story of a…
The Baltimore legacy lives on in Lady Baltimore. Picking up nearly 13 years after the last Baltimore epic, The Red Kingdom, the Outerverse (the name provided to this separate arm of the Mignola umbrella of titles) finds itself expanding. Led by a new leading lady and two new titles, writer Christopher Golden and a full…
Dan Grote ¡ WMQ&A Episode 152: The Alien Special with Phillip Kennedy Johnson Writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson joins the show to talk about Marvel’s new Alien series, in an episode so big we had to tag in Third Amigo Rob Lynch. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at ComicsXF.com,…
I think this review has to start with the solicit for Orphan and the Five Beasts: Spurred on by her masterâs dying words, the adopted warrior âOrphan Moâ seeks to find and kill five former disciples who now threaten the land with corruption from their demonic powers. Part Five Deadly Venoms and part surreal grindhouse,…