Battle of the Atom: Crux Point of Your Life
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Batman teams up with Robin, an Italian comics icon and the 1930s in BatChat
Damianâs maybe/sorta girlfriend, Flatline the apprentice to Lord Death Man, is in Gotham, and sheâs looking for some missing family with Robinâs help. Meanwhile, Batman continues to look into the mystery of Man-Bat and Shush. Batman & Robin #7 is written by Joshua Williamson, drawn by Simone Di Meo, colored by Giovanna Niro and lettered…
Welp, it’s over: Marvel announces what’s next for the X-Men after Krakoa
Itâs time to go back, Marvel has decided. Back to â90s logos. Back to familiar costumes. Back to small teams of marquee mutants. Back to teaching, if not back to the mansion. The House of Ideas on Thursday announced the beginning of the future of the mutant line during a panel at South by Southwest…
The evil ones confront Storm in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Resurrection of Magneto #3
Pure evil in X-Men comics has taken many forms over the years. The Shadow King. The Adversary. Annihilation. They’re the villains who can’t be turned or reasoned with, more force than foe. The ones who manipulate events from the shadows and return like clockwork every few years to remind the light that the darkness exists…
EXCLUSIVE: It takes a kid to kill a kid in Strange Academy: Blood Hunt #2
The Darkhold is a mystic tome that holds nearly all the secrets of black magic, a book so powerful it can drive its possessor insane. Also it was in WandaVision. Nowadays, it’s apparently also a child? As revealed in those “Contest of Chaos” annuals where Agatha Harkness made superheroes fight? (Imagine if “Shattershot” came out…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Better With Nihilists
And hey, did you miss the past couple episodes because of the issues here in the site? Well, here are the links: Episode 124: Ice Fetishizaton with three origins of Mr. Freeze Episode 125: Inside Under the Red Hood with three stories featuring Jason Todd, including “Under the Red Hood” In this weekâs BatChat column, we…
Fall of the House of X #3 isn’t just bad; it’s weirdly bad
Cyclops and his new bestie Dr. Gregor take the fight to Nimrod while Doctor Stasis meets his ends in Fall of the House of X #3 written by Gerry Duggan, art by Lucas Werneck & Jethro Morales, colors by Bryan Valenza, and letters by Travis Lanham. Jake Murray: If youâve read Fall of the House…
I’ve had enough Jim Lee X-Men merch
There I was, minding my own business, eating the Trader Joeâs salad Iâd packed for lunch, when I saw the following D23 promotion for X-Men â97 on my Twitter feed:Â And, as I looked at the âanimation-styleâ artwork done in homage to Jim Leeâs classic 1992 Impel X-Men cards, complete with a binder and trading…
Ultimate Black Panther #2 has us asking: Whatâs the point?
After Moon Knight’s forces attack the stronghold of Wakanda, T’Challa can no longer resist Shuri and the Dora Milaje’s calls to action. Grieving and enraged, Black Panther demands to know who has been leaking information about Wakanda to their enemy, and the source shocks him to his core. Ultimate Black Panther #2 is written by…
DC teams up Batman and Dylan Dog, who we totally didn’t have to google (Staff Picks)
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Mattâs pick: Batman/Dylan Dog #1: Joker is in London to seal a hellish pact with Dylan Dogâs nemesis, the Mephistophelian Xabaras. The doorbell of Craven Road No. 7 screams, and beyond the doorway, Bruce…
A New Bad-@$$ War Reports With Mace Windu #1
In a tale set before the downfall of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire, Jedi Mace Windu plunges into the criminal underworld to safely retrieve a secret formula that risks upending the galactic status quo in Mace Windu #1 written by Marc Bernadin, pencils by Georges Jeanty, inks by Dexter Vines, colors by…
We sift for grains of truth in the SXSW X-Men panel rumors
Late last week, several key players at Marvel confirmed theyâd be leading a panel this Thursday at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. While they didnât directly confirm this would be the official unveiling of the title lineup of the next era of X-Men comics, the panel includes new X-editor Tom Brevoort and…
WMQ&A Episode 295: We’re wolves with Dailen Ogden, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast ¡ WMQ&A Episode 295: We're wolves with Dailen Ogden, Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly Dailen Ogden, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly join the show to talk about their Vault Comics graphic novel, WifWulf. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible…
Batman possessed by Zur, a demon and his love for Catwoman in BatChat
After hearing Jokerâs tale, Batman is determined to escape the prison Zur has left him in. And Zur is out, in the body of Failsafe, claiming to be Batman and enforcing his new form of justice. âDark Prisonsâ begins in Batman #145, written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and…
Weapon X-Men #1 ain’t off to a great start
In Original X-Men, you saw the Phoenix recruit the young X-Men to fix yet another time-displaced disaster. But now the threat is deadlier than ever, and it’s time to call in the X-Men’s big gun. He’s the best there is at what he does, in every universe he does it in, and this job is…