Dark X-Men - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:05:39 +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 Dark X-Men - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the Doom-o-saur in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/15/staff-picks-nov-15/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47124 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: GIJoe: A Real American Hero #1: The Hama Cut: Skybound celebrates its acquisition of the G.I. Joe license with this director’s cut of the first-ever issue of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero....

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]]> 47124 More Draco connections emerge in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #4 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/09/dark-xmen-4-preview/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47083 The mutant known as Abyss first appeared during the “Age of Apocalypse” as one of the big, blue guy’s Horsemen. Nearly a decade later, it would be revealed during that oh-so-pivotal Chuck Austen story “The Draco” that Earth-616 Abyss, born Nils Styger, is a son of the demon mutant Azazel and a half-brother of Nightcrawler....

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]]> 47083 Finally, the Dawn of X from Emplate’s perspective in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #3 https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/19/dark-xmen-3-preview/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46935 Emplate, aka Marius St. Croix, was among the villains to emerge from a gate when Charles Xavier offered mutant amnesty to all in 2019’s House of X #5. A data page would later reveal he had been charged with helping measure the island’s energy-absorption levels. And that was pretty much all we saw of him...

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]]> 46935 Tom King does Wonder Woman, Nightcrawler does Spider-Man and more Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/20/staff-picks-sept-20/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46592 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Sean’s pick: Wonder Woman #1: After a mysterious Amazonian is accused of mass murder, Congress passes the Amazon Safety Act, barring all Amazons from U.S. soil. To carry out their plans, the government starts a...

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]]> 46592 Crisis on Multiple Madelynes in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #2 https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/14/dark-xmen-2-preview/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46564 Once upon a time, Doctor Doom made a hamburger multiverse and called it Battleworld. And in that hamburger multiverse there was an Inferno world where Madelyne Pryor went full demon. That Madelyne somehow survived the re-rewriting of reality and ended up on Earth-616, tangled with the time-displaced original five X-Men and, off-panel, was captured by...

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]]> 46564 Dark X-Men #1 is a hell of a good time https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/22/dark-x-men-1-is-a-hell-of-a-good-time/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46352 Madelyne Pryor has a lot to worry about. As Queen of Limbo, she has to quell constant demonic uprisings against her home. She’s also in charge of the Limbo-New York Embassy, managing mutant refugees from the fall of Krakoa, and generally dealing with a city that does not want her there — and now Orchis...

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]]> 46352 The Uncanny Avengers reassemble and the X-Men get Dark again in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/16/the-uncanny-avengers-reassemble-and-the-x-men-get-dark-again-in-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46263 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Uncanny Avengers #1: Innocent people and world leaders are dead after simultaneous attacks on the U.S. and Krakoan governments, and that means one thing: It’s time for a new iteration of Steve Rogers’...

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]]> 46263 Entry 021 – X-Man https://comicsxf.com/2016/03/22/entry-021-x-man/ Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:18:43 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=155 Art by Simone Bianchi and Simone Peruzzi Name: Nathaniel Grey Code Names: X-Man First Appearance: X-Man #1 (Mar ‘95) Powers: Omega Level Psi-Abilities Teams Affiliation: New Mutants About When writing any story there is an old adage “Show Don’t Tell”. What it comes down to is that audiences should be able to form their own opinion of...

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