Ethan Sacks - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:32:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ethan Sacks - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Image’s A Haunted Girl handles depression sensitively while exploring the supernatural https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/23/haunted-girl-image/ Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50274 Content warning: This review discusses suicidal ideation. If you or someone you love is in a mental health crisis, help is available through non-carceral resources like Blackline, Kiva Centers Groups and Wallflower Alliance. Cleo, a 16-year-old adopted Japanese-American whose anxiety and depression drive her to suicidal thoughts, is fresh out of the hospital and trying...

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]]> 50274 WMQ&A Episode 279: New York Comic Con 2023 https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/24/wmqa-279-nycc-2023/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46966 WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 279: New York Comic Con 2023 Dan wanders the Javits Center during New York Comic Con 2023 for interviews with Goats Flying Press founder Sebastian Girner, artist Hayden Sherman, writer Ethan Sacks, Vault Comics CEO and Publisher Damian Wassel, and writer Steve Orlando. You can listen to...

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]]> 46966 Never Bring a Dagger to a Magic Fight in Midnight Sons #5! https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/16/never-bring-a-dagger-to-a-magic-fight-in-midnight-sons-5/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44754 Will the Sons stop the ritual and cancel the apocalypse? It’s Midnight Sons #5 written by Ethan Sacks, with art by Luigi Zagaria and Alberto Foche, colors by Antonio Fabela, and letters by Joe Sabino. The issue begins years ago in New Orleans as Agatha Harkness pays a visit to The Laveaus. Agatha tries to...

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]]> 44754 Things Get Batty in Midnight Suns #3! https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/20/things-get-batty-in-midnight-suns-3/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44273 The Midnight Suns brave the darkest and most horrifying journey imaginable to secure aid from one of the most ancient and dangerous beings in all of existence. What terrible secret from the past is Agatha Harkness hiding? And what does the truth mean for Zoe Laveau’s future?! Written by Ethan Sacks, with art by Luigi...

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]]> 44273 Doom Comes Calling in Midnight Suns #2 https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/01/doom-comes-calling-in-midnight-suns-2/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43652 The Midnight Suns…Are Doomed! The new team of Midnight Suns – Magik, Wolverine, Blade, Spirit Rider, And Nico Minoru – face their first brutal test when DOCTOR DOOM lays siege to Strange Academy! What is Doom after?! And an even bigger threat awaits IF they survive – a threat tied to the Sorcerer Supreme and...

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]]> 43652 Midnight Suns #1 Comes Out Of the Gate in Spooky Style https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/22/43090/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43090 Rise of the Midnight Suns! A dark prophesy and apocalyptic new villains with horrifying powers the likes of which Earth has never faced before ordains a team of MIDNIGHT SUNS to rise and tear @#$% up: Magik, Wolverine, Blade, Spirit Rider & Nico Minoru. But what does this new threat have to do with the...

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]]> 43090 Bounty Hunters #16 is a Hive of Scum and Villainy https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/22/bounty-hunters-16-is-a-hive-of-scum-and-villainy/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33953 Old alliances shatter and new ones are formed in their wake in Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #16, written by Ethan Sacks, drawn by Paolo Villanelli, colored by Arif Prianto; and lettered by Joe Sabino. “War of the Bounty Hunters” gets to some good old fashioned betrayin’ in Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #16. New gruesome twosome...

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]]> 33953 Relationship Drama Takes Over Bounty Hunters This Week in a Two-For-One Review https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/04/relationship-drama-takes-over-bounty-hunters-this-week-in-a-two-for-one-review/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32371 We promise “NO disintegrations” as CXF’s Star Wars team brings you a Bounty Hunters 2-in-1 Review! First up… Bounty Hunters are makin’ up in Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #15. Written by Ethan Sacks. Drawn by Paolo Villanelli. Colored by Arif Pritano. Lettered by Travis Lanham. The Scum & Villainy section of Marvel’s Star Wars toy-box...

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]]> 32371 Punisher and Elektra Put Together Some Kinda Suicide Squad in Heroes Reborn: Squadron Savage #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/10/punisher-and-elektra-put-together-some-kinda-suicide-squad-in-heroes-reborn-squadron-savage-1/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29289 Marvel’s Summer event mixes some Black Mirror with black ops in Heroes Reborn: Squadron Savage #1, in which Elektra and Frank Castle lead a band of mind-wiped cutthroats that “protect” America’s interests in the dark. Written by Ethan Sacks, drawn by Luca Pizzari, colored by Carlos Lopez, lettered by Travis Lanham. Heroes Reborn dips back...

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