Doom, Me & ADHD: Nothing in Marvel’s Ultimates #17 needs fixing
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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This week’s Age of Revelation books check in on the villains and key mutants like … Spider-Man
The Age of Revelation continues to grow with another four new stories! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s offerings: X-Men: Book of Revelation #1 by Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo…
The Child of Fire revealed in DC’s Batman: Dark Patterns #11
“Child of Fire” continues. Jim Gordon goes to an unlikely source for help. Batman, still recovering from his wounds, deduces the identity of the Child of Fire and goes to track him down. And the history of Gotham and fire is laid bare. Batman: Dark Patterns #11 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden…
Let’s play Keepy Uppy in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Emma Frost: The White Queen #5
Sometimes, if you stare at a thing long enough, you start to see something that isn’t there. So, in the process of putting together this preview and reaching for an intro, I called over my 8-year-old daughter, who confirmed to me, without prompting, that yes, The knight on this obvious-metaphor chessboard looks like Bluey. Check…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Eternally Yours, Robin
For you out there, it has only been one week since our last episode. But we took a week off recording so we could really pack in the comics. This week, we’re covering the entire, 26 issue run of Batman & Robin Eternal, the weekly series that ran at the end of the New 52…
Say Hello to Halloween and more Age of Revelation books in this week’s CXF Staff Picks
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: Hello Halloween #1: What if Hello Darkness but Halloween?…
The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 372: Tiffany Babb talks The Comics Courier #3
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 372: Tiffany Babb talks The Comics Courier #3 Tiffany Babb returns to the show to talk about the latest issue of her newspaper-format criticism journal The Comics Courier, now on Kickstarter. Also: Baseball! New York Comic Con! Other tangents! You can listen to The ComicsXF…
The Age of Revelation expands with 4 new books, 2 Rogues and 1 sad Gambit
The Age of Revelation will continue until morale improves (or January, whichever comes first), so we’ve got another week of fresh new “replacement” books and tie-ins alike! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s…
An Absolute twofer as we review DC’s Absolute Evil #1 and Absolute Batman #13
In a heavily guarded room, five people gather. They are rich, or powerful, or both. They discuss the secrets of the world, and their growing discontent as superhumans are manifesting. And they will form an alliance strangely like one we have seen before, but completely different in a key way. Absolute Evil #1 is written…
The fashion of Fabian Cortez in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men: Book of Revelation #1
Well, it looks like Fabian Cortez is back to one, eh? X-villainy’s best obsequious twit is back and doing his fawning lackey who will betray you at the first opportunity schtick, using his ability to boost others’ mutant power to cozy up to yet another big bad. So much for the come-to-Jesus moment he seemed…
The naivety of Steve and his shield in Marvel’s Captain America #4
As Doctor Doom prepares a fatal strike against those who stand against him, a sudden betrayal has Cap on the ropes and questioning everything he thought he knew. Captain America #4 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Valerio Schiti, colored by Frank Martin and lettered by Joe Caramagna. Part of me – part of…
TCXFIP NYCC Bonus Minisode 1: Hunter Gorinson talks Oni Press
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · TCXFIP NYCC Bonus Minisode 1: Hunter Gorinson talks Oni Press In the first of two bonus mini episodes recorded at this year’s New York Comic Con, Dan chats with Oni Press President and Publisher Hunter Gorinson.
Diving into Gwenpool nostalgia in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Jeff the Land Shark #5
Remember when Gwenpool retconned herself into being a mutant so she could live on Krakoa and not disappear from Marvel’s publishing line? And then she showed up in the big battle scene at the end of “X of Swords” and at the Hellfire Gala and in a Marvel x Fortnite promo comic and she argued…
BatChat With Matt & Will: You’re a Damn Good Cop, Jim Gordon
Jim Gordon made his first appearance in Detective Comics #27. You know, the same comic that Batman made his first appearance. So, you can imagine the number of stories that Gordon has been featured in. But especially since Frank Miller made “Batman: Year One” as much about Gordon as it is about Batman, that number…
A goddess gone mad and a Rogue gone red in Marvel’s Rogue Storm #1
X years later, with Earth’s gods gone, only Ororo Munroe, the mutant god of storms, remains. She is a goddess driven mad by dark magic and grief. Now, as Storm threatens to freeze the world into a new Ice Age, Rogue leads a team of killers and legends — Gateway, Iceman, Fantomex, Spiral and Warpath….