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June 17, 2025
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Staff Picks Santa is coming down your chimney with a sack full of Metamorpho

Dan Grote6 months ago6 months ago07 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New  comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Dan’s pick: Metamorpho the Element Man #1: To know him is…

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  • X-Men

Kate Pryde finds her calling as a teacher in Exceptional X-Men #3

Stephanie Burt7 months ago7 months ago015 mins

Kate Pryde thought she had quit teaching teenage mutants how to get by in a world that hates and fears them. Emma Frost wants her to pick up where she left off. She won’t even have to leave Chicagoland this time. Find out if Emma gets what Emma wants in Exceptional X-Men #3, written by…

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  • Staff Picks

The Question side-eyes the entire Justice League and more of this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote7 months ago7 months ago08 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New  comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: The Question: All Along the Watchtower #1: In the…

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  • X-Men

Kate Pryde resigns herself to ‘One more time then, for the children,’ in Exceptional X-Men #2

Stephanie Burt8 months ago8 months ago016 mins

Our Kate Pryde finally gets her date with Nina. It’s a high school sporting event. Teen mutants are there. Three guesses what happens next in Exceptional X-Men #2, written by Eve Ewing, drawn by Carmen Carnero, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by Travis Lanham. In the immortal words of Nils Sjöberg, this is what…

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  • Staff Picks

Absolute Batman, Sentinels, the Toxic Avenger and more in this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote8 months ago8 months ago08 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New  comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: Absolute Batman #1: Without the mansion, without the money,…

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  • X-Men

Exceptional X-Men #1 is a Kitty Pryde reset with some surprising flavor to it

Stephanie Burt9 months ago9 months ago014 mins

The formerly teenage genius formerly known as Shadowkat is back in Chicago, back behind the bar with a dishrag for a paycheck, done with rescuing teenage mutants for good. See how long that one lasts in Exceptional X-Men #1, written by Eve Ewing, drawn by Carmen Carnero, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by Joe…

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  • Opinions

Editorial: Why the From the Ashes X-Men comics have more new mutants than New Mutants

Dan Grote9 months ago9 months ago010 mins

If you’re an X-Men fan of a certain age, you may have read the past two months’ worth of From the Ashes comics and wondered, “Where did all the New Mutants and Generation X kids go? I mean I know Magik is in X-Men, but it’s like the rest of them just disappeared into the…

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  • Staff Picks

Exceptional X-Men #1 and more in this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote10 months ago10 months ago09 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New  comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Stephanie’s pick: Exceptional X-Men #1: After the fall of Krakoa, Kate…

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  • News

New series, fill-in artists and ‘Psychic Rescue’ revisited: Marvel’s X-Men books in October

Dan Grote11 months ago11 months ago019 mins

There are 13 X-books coming out in October. Two of them are issues of the same book. That’s a lot. We’ve only gotten two published From the Ashes comics so far: X-Men #1 and Phoenix #1, so it’s way too early for predictions, but we can make plenty of observations based on the covers and…

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The ComicsXF series-by-series guide to the X-Men: From the Ashes era

Jake Murray12 months ago12 months ago047 mins

Welcome to the ComicsXF series-by-series guide to the new era of X-Men comics. The last few years saw a new dawn for the House of X: Mutants reigned (for a while) but were always destined to fall. And From the Ashes of the mutant island nation of Krakoa, this is what comes next. What do…

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  • News

One more time then, for the children in Exceptional X-Men by Ewing & Carnero

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago011 mins

The X-Men have had many generations of new mutants, from, well, the New Mutants, to Generation X, to the Morrison era/Academy X kids, to, technically, the O5 X-Men who got pulled forward in time, to whatever little ferals were running around Krakoa and apparently are being shunted off to the White Hot Room for not…

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