Battle Of The Atom: In A Psy-Locke
Celebrate Betsy with us as Psylocke meets our psyche. Ranked This Episode:
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Synch’s having a rough time in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men #31
I’m gonna be honest: I’m not loving this Talon-inside-Synch’s-body subplot in X-Men. It’s another example of the woman having to suffer to further the male hero’s arc, and it came during a week when Gerry Duggan was writing a lot of women — Laura, Emma Frost, Riri Williams, Jean Grey — as props for their…
BatChat With Matt & Will: The Wedding That Didn’t Happen (w/Abigale Heartbalm)
At 120 episodes, we’ve covered a lot of Batman comics. A lot. But I think few have been more contentious, both in the fandom and on this podcast, as the ones this week. Because this week we’re talking about the Tom King run, the creator with possibly the biggest gaps in his work on The…
Dead X-Men rise to the top of this week’s Staff Picks
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adamās pick: Dead X-Men #1: When the world turned against Krakoa, these five mutants lost their lives, but their mission as X-Men is just getting started. To preserve Xavier’s dream, they must accomplish the impossible…
INTERVIEW: Zoe Tunnell plays kaiju cupid in IDW’s Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special
Godzilla, the king of the monsters, a force of wanton destruction summoned by manās inhumanity to man, known for tearing cities apart ā¦ but also, perhaps, bringing people together? On Feb. 7, IDW will release the Godzilla Valentineās Day Special, a comic in which a kaiju blogger and a paramilitary peacekeeper go from enemies to…
Battle Of The Atom: Is A Jerk!
Zack has the week off so Adam is joined by Harvard Prof Stephanie Burt (of Taylor Swift course fame) to talk Kitty Pryde! Ranked This Episode:
Resurrection of Magneto #1 leaves us awestruck
On Krakoa, resurrection from the dead was as easy as completing a circuit. But Krakoa fell. The time of easy miracles is over, and only the hard roads are left. Now, it falls to Storm to bring the X-Menās oldest enemy home. But after all he did, and all that was done to him, can…
Joker story bad, Penguin story good, ‘Tec story great in BatChat
The final act of āGotham Nocturneā begins here. Stranded alone on the desert that is the apotheosis of all deserts, Batman must fight the Azmer demon inside him as Simon Hurt and his master Barbatos circle. Meanwhile, Renee Montoya continues her investigation into the death of GCPD members as the Question leads her down a…
Rise from your grave in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dead X-Men #1
Previously, in Dead X-Men: Remember that? Fun times. Even with resurrection seemingly off the table for now, mutants are finding all sorts of ways to come back. Jean Grey found herself communing with the Phoenix Force again in the White Hot Room. X-Force has a clone of Beast circa his New Defenders era just lying…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Rowing the Amazon in a Cadillac
Ah, my sweet summer children, let me tell you of a time called the early 90s. It was a time of hope. It was a time of questionable fashion. And it was a time when there were only three monthly Batman family titles, and one of them very rarely interacted with the others. This week,…
Magneto is back up in yo’ ass with the Resurrection in this week’s Staff Picks
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaanās pick: Resurrection of Magneto #1: On Krakoa, resurrection from the dead was as easy as completing a circuit. But Krakoa fell. The time of easy miracles is over, and only the hard roads are…
WMQ&A Episode 290: Zac Thompson 3: Dream Warriors
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast Ā· WMQ&A Episode 290: Zac Thompson 3: Dream Warriors Writer Zac Thompson returns to talk about his new Oni Press series, Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, his upcoming BOOM Studios series Blow Away and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon…
Battle Of The Atom: #FungusCore
Has Battle of the Atom turned into too much of a dads making dick jokes podcast? You be the judge because we are talking about X-Men character Man-Thing this week. I cannot tell if people enjoy it when we stretch the premise of the show like this and we no longer need the feedback as…
The Has-Bros explore the Energon Universe with Duke #1, Transformers #4 and Cobra Commander #1
In Duke #1, a bold new era kicks off for America’s daring, highly trained special mission force, written by Joshua Williamson, drawn by Tom Reilly, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Rus Wooton. Meanwhile, an arm-less Optimus Prime races to save Spike’s life as the Decepticons continue to push the Autobots to their limits…
Magog, Catwoman and Godzilla in this week’s BatChat
Two sets of the Worldās Finest heroes must confront Gog and Magog to stop the ancient god and his servant from leading the heroes of Earth-22 into a war on Apokolips they cannot win in Batman/Superman: Worldās Finest #22, written by Mark Waid, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Tamra Bonvillain and lettered by Steve…