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A thinly disguised metaphor for dementia in Image’s Assorted Crisis Events #6

Dan Grote — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Are you or someone you love suffering from retro-anterograde temporal diminishment? Do you find yourself vacillating between child and octogenarian from one moment to the next? Is it increasingly difficult to remember important details such as your name, your address, the date or the faces of cherished loved ones? If so, see a doctor and...

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Doom, Me & ADHD: Nothing in Marvel’s Ultimates #17 needs fixing

Armaan Babu — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Doom can’t think linearly, if he’s to win. He has to focus on the future, on the past, and all the moments in between - and all the moments that weren’t.

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Why Image’s Assorted Crisis Events by Camp and Zawadzki is the comic of 2025

Jake Murray — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000

After millions of years trapped in the same 60 seconds, Anna has to readjust to life on the straight and narrow. But even out of the time loop, all roads seem to end where they began. Will Anna be able to escape endless recursion? Assorted Crisis Events #5 is written by Deniz Camp, drawn by...

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Talking DC’s Absolute Martian Manhunter #3, Absolute Wonder Woman #8 & Absolute Flash #3

Jake Murray and Cat Purcell — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Welcome back to Talking Absolute…, where we at ComicsXF analyze the Absolute DC storylines, controversies and themes that have captured our imaginations each month. Today, we’ll be covering the titles released in the back half of May, talking teenage angst in Absolute Flash, gaseous villains in Absolute Wonder Woman and humanity’s clouded judgment in Absolute...

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Talking DC’s Absolute Martian Manhunter #2, Absolute Flash #2 & Absolute Wonder Woman #7

Jake Murray — Sun, 04 May 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Welcome, everyone, to our first monthly edition of Talking Absolute …, where we’ll focus on the storylines, controversies and themes that have captured our imaginations in the Absolute DC titles each month. April was the first month to have releases from all six series, so what better time to start than this? So far, we...

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Assorted Crisis Events #2 puts the trauma of the immigrant experience through the meat grinder

Jake Murray — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000

What stalks the blood-soaked kill floor? A dizzying, heartbreaking, hallucinogenic trip through the endless slaughterhouse! Witness a man’s life cut up, ground down and packaged for easy consumption in Assorted Crisis Events #2, written by Deniz Camp, drawn by Eric Zawadzki, colored by Jordie Bellaire, lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and designed by Tom Muller for...

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Examining the 2nd wave of DC’s Absolute line: Flash, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern

Jake Murray, Scott Redmond and Matthew Lazorwitz — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:14:49 +0000

Jake Murray: Let me start off with the coldest take since Dr. Victor Fries took up his nom de guerre: The first wave of titles in DC’s Absolute line have been pretty damn successful (that’s Absolute Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman for the dozen or so uninitiated). Let me stun you with another ice-cold blast...

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Assorted Crisis Events #1 the perfect dizzying, chaotic allegory for our current moment

Jake Murray — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Time is having a crisis. Mingling in the red-light district, you can find actual cavemen, medieval knights and cyborg soldiers on leave from World War IV. Victorian debutantes amble their way into cellphone stores, confused and bewildered (what is a data plan?). On their way to work, bleary-eyed commuters get trapped in time-loops, assaulted by...

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An action-packed CXF mini reviews covers The Ultimates, Sentinels, GI Joe and New Champions

Jake Murray, Dan Grote, Austin Gorton and Tony Thornley — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000

In a bid to broaden the number of comics we cover at ComicsXF, we give you, the reader, these mini reviews of some recent releases. The Ultimates #8 W: Deniz Camp | A: Juan Frigeri | C: Federico Blee | L: Travis Lanham | P: Marvel Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri transport their extraordinary universe building through...

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The Ultimates #6 spills the tea on death, destiny and empire

Jake Murray — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0000

The entire roster of the Ultimates unites for the first time in this high-octane, climactic conclusion of the first arc. Iron Lad has a plan to defeat the Hulk, the most powerful and imposing member of the Maker’s Council. But has he gotten his team in over their heads? The Ultimates #6 is written by...

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The Ultimates shows what’s possible with superhero stories and invites us to demand more

Jake Murray — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Head’s up: This essay includes spoilers for this week’s Ultimates #4 by Deniz Camp, Phil Noto and Travis Lanham. The Ultimates is a future classic. If Marvel’s founding creative principle is depicting “the world outside your window,” then Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri’s run is observing this mission statement better than any other comic being...

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In Ultimates #1, some people just ain’t cut out to be heroes

Jake Murray — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:58:35 +0000

Six months ago, Tony Stark sent Peter Parker a radioactive spider to set him back on the course to become Spider-Man. Since then, Iron Lad (Stark), Captain America, Doom, Thor and Sif have begun to do the same for other lost heroes, building a network of super-powered heroes hungry for change… Now they must band...

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Cable and Bishop play ‘made you look’ in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Children of the Vault #3

Dan Grote — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Marvel’s Children of the Vault combines the high-concept sci-fi of Deniz Camp’s Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E. and the global politics of his 20th Century Men, and throws in the I-hate-you-but-you-shoot-guns-good attitude of your better buddy action movies. But I do wonder why the events of this book aren’t being reflected elsewhere in the Marvel line. No...

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Cable & Bishop play Bad Cop/Bad Cop in Children of the Vault #1

Stephanie Burt and Ian Gregory — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Sealed in a dream-state by Krakoan technology, the fearsomely powerful Children of the Vault have been dormant in Chile while thinking they’ve taken over the world. Now Krakoa belongs to the past. Are the Children the future? Not if Cable and Bishop have much to say about it in Children of the Vault #1, written...

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The War Will Never Let Us Go in 20th Century Men #6

Sean Dillon — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0000

It’s all led to this, an all-out battle between the Iron Star, President Goode and the inhuman monster known as 6Bill. Can Azra save her people, or will they become more collateral damage in this war of super powers? 20th Century Men #6 is written by Deniz Camp, drawn by Stipan Morian and lettered by Aditya...

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In Conversation with Myself about the Structure of Image’s 20th Century Men #5

Dan Grote — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0000

In the burning deserts of Afghanistan, Platonov confronts Azra about her secrets and discovers her grand plan. But what will he do with what he learns? Then, in the frigid tundra of Siberia, the Iron Star seeks out an old ally for help. But something is terribly wrong with the Collective Man. Image’s 20th Century...

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Alternate Histories and Hidden Histories in Image’s 20th Century Men #4

Ritesh Babu — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0000

The Battle of Beaux Arts has begun. The American super-force the Suicide Cowboys launches an all-out assault on the Iron Star, hoping to decapitate the Soviet forces in one decisive action. Meanwhile, back in the states, we learn about President Goode’s plans for the monster known as 6Bill. It’s all in Image’s 20th Century Men...

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What Is Truth? 20th Century Men #3 Explores

Ritesh Babu — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:00:00 +0000

The war rages on! Krylov, now embedded with the Iron Star’s forces, sees the brutality of battle up close. Can he make it out alive with his sanity intact? 20th Century Men #3 takes us from the deserts of Afghanistan to the U.S. capital, and all the way to Mars, courtesy of writer Deniz Camp,...

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Tell Us How You Really Feel about the Colonizers in 20th Century Men #2

Ritesh Babu — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:00:00 +0000

After President Goode’s shocking decision last issue, the world has gone to war. Soviet and American forces clash all across Afghanistan as the Iron Star searches for his stolen heart, faces the British super-soldier known as The Lion and tries to hide it all from a dogged reporter working to uncover the truth. 20th Century...

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A Cracked-Mirror Look at the Cold War in Image’s 20th Century Men #1

Ritesh Babu — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000

At the end of the 20th century, superheroes, geniuses, madmen and activists rush toward World War III. A Soviet “iron” hero, a superpowered American president, an insane cyborg soldier, an Afghan woman hellbent on building a better life for her people; these strange yet familiar beings collide in a story that mixes history, politics and...

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WMQ&A Episode 221: Deniz Camp and His Adventures in the 20th Century

Dan Grote and Matthew Lazorwitz — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 221: Deniz Camp and His Adventures in the 20th Century Writer Deniz Camp joins the show to talk about his series 20th Century Men, Bloodshot Unleashed and Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes...

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Philip Blank Wants a Small Story in Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E #1

Ari Bard — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000

I first read Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E. #1 (along with its second) last year, back when it was called C.H.A.O.S. Agent. At the time, I was finishing up a teaching certificate program with the University of Connecticut (Hartford). Back then, I was working as a student teacher at Eastern Middle School in Riverside, CT. Most days,...

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Truth and Absurdity in Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E with Deniz Camp

Ari Bard — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:00:00 +0000

From Deniz Camp, Filya Bratukhin, Jason Wordie and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Scout Comics’ Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E. follows special agent Philip Blank, a top operative for the orangutan bosses at W.O.R.L.D.E., as he travels all over the world, time and the multiverse saving it from itself. But Philip isn’t naive enough to think that his bosses have...

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