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Do y’all remember the 2016 X-Men ’92 story “The World Is a Vampire” by Chris Sims, Chad Bowers and Alti Firmansyah? The BotA Boyz covered it waaaaaaay back in Episode 7. In that story, Dead Girl from the X-Statix journeys into the Darkhold matrix or whatever and the Darkhold takes the form of a little…
Generally speaking, the episodes we do here are carefully curated. We try to take a theme, a character, and thoroughly dig through the 85 years of Batman stories to find the ones that best fit that theme. But then there are the weeks where Will just picks three random books off his bookshelf and wants…
When Virgil Hawkins revealed his secret identity as Static to his girlfriend, Daisy, he thought that was going to make their relationship a lot easier. But Daisy is tired of all the superheroics interrupting their date nights on a regular basis. Now, just as Virgil is about to invite her to the big Dakota music…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Austinâs pick: Phoenix #1: She is Jean Grey. She is Phoenix. She saves the world. She brings death. One woman, alone in space, who not only must do what no one…
The sun has set on the first Krakoan age. The characters and books have moved on to a new status quo, but many of us werenât yet ready to say goodbye to the stories of the past five years, and to the era that began this redesign project. The Hellfire Gala quickly became a font…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 312: Tom Fowler talks about the history of RPGs Tom Fowler joins the show to talk about his Kickstarter campaign for Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where…
In X-Men (Vol. 7) #1, Beast makes an offhand reference to Chief Paula Robbins of having never experienced Krakoa for himself. For anyone who didn’t read (or has forgotten) Ben Percy’s X-Force run, this is because Beast as he currently exists is a clone of the original Beast. Specifically, he is a clone created with…
There’s no villains this week, but there is Ken. We all love Ken, and by all I mean Zack and Adam. Ranked This Episode:
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the DC Comics’ superhero team Teen Titans. Originally created by Bruno Premani and Bob Haley in 1964, their most well known comic book incarnation would be introduced in 1984 by Marv Wolfman and the late, great George PĂ©rez. Their iconic 1980’s storylines such as “Terror of Trigon” and…
At the end of âGotham War,â a thief broke into Bruce Wayneâs brownstone and discovered that he is Batman. Now he is trying to use that information to his advantage, to make one big score and get out of the life. But things arenât all that easy in Batman #150, written by Chip Zdarsky, penciled…
I don’t really know how to write around this, or whether I should even try. Marvel has sent us a preview in which Namor takes a piss bath. The imprisoned, presumably former king of Atlantis is given a bucket of dingy, yellow liquid by his jailers – who claim they all “chipped in” to fill…
We’ve all seen the memes and the jokes: Batman’s real super power is his wallet. Batman has, historically, been from the moneyed class, and that’s how he gets all those wonderful toys. But what happens when Batman doesn’t have all that cash? That’s what friend of the show, Patreon backer, and financial adviser Abigale Heartbalm…
The X-Men rise from the ashes! Yes, thatâs what weâre going with for the flagship debut. X-Men #1 is written by Jed MacKay, drawn by Ryan Stegman, inked by JP Mayer, colored by Marte Gracia and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Tony Thornley: I feel like there’s about 10 different clichĂ©s we could use for the…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Tonyâs pick: X-Men #1: Krakoa is gone and Orchis has fallen, but the X-Men remain, always. Cyclops leads, because that is what he does. Beast builds, because that is what he…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 311: Wes Craig talks Kaya Wes Craig returns to talk about Kaya now that his Image Comics series is 20 issues in. Also, because it’s Episode 311, we asked Wes to name his favorite 311 song. The answer may shock you. Or it may not. You…