Battle Of The Atom: Date Night
Oh baby, we’re hot just like an oven for this the newest episode of Battle Of The Atom. This time it’s about dating. Ranked This Episode
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The road to the fireworks factory goes ever on in Avengers #9 and #10!
It’s an all out brawl between the Avengers and the Twilight Court! Gods vs. gods, kings vs. kings, icons against icons. Need we say more? The masterminds behind this certainly aren’t. The Avengers #9 is written by Jed MacKay, drawn by Francisco Mortarino, colored by Federico Blee, and lettered by VC’s Cory Petit, with art…
Joker’s origin, Grundy as cryptid and Bruce in spaaaaaaace in BatChat
Surfacing from the river near Ace Chemicals, the Joker stumbles through Gotham, not yet the monster he will become. And in the future, the world has become that very monster. “Joker: Year One” begins in Batman #142, written by Chip Zdarsky, penciled by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Andrea Sorrentino, inked by Stefano Nesi and Sorrentino, colored…
Visit Satana’s orgy pad in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Blade #8
Given we’re headed toward a linewide Marvel event involving vampires, it’s probably a good time to check in on Blade, whose whole deal is killing vampires. Currently, Blade is trying to stop an ancient supernatural force called the Adana. To that end, he’s been going on various fetch quests and teaming up with Marvel characters…
Flame Con LGBTQ+ comics convention to celebrate 10th anniversary; tickets on sale now
Every year (barring those when the in-person event was canceled during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic), our intrepid man in the field Matt Lazorwitz goes to New York’s Flame Con and collects interviews with some of the guests there. As such, it’s given him the opportunity to talk with great LGBTQ+ creators like…
BatChat With Matt & Will: On the Trail of Darwyn Cooke
There are those creators you just come back to, whose work never ceases to amaze. Darwyn Cooke is one of those creators. Passing on too young, Cooke still left an impressive body of work, a lot of which was Batman or Batman adjacent. We’re returning to his work this week with two intertwined tales of…
EXCLUSIVE: Mystique revealed on this variant cover to X-Men Forever #1
Recently, right-wing pundits have begun to circulate the theory that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship is a psy-op for the government, and that at halftime at the Super Bowl, they will preempt Usher to announce their endorsement of Joe Biden for president, using Swift’s vast influence as a pop culture icon to steer the…
Thunder. Thunder. Thunder. Thundercats. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The Thundercats are the latest ’80s nostalgia IP to get a revamp, this time from Dynamite, in Thundercats #1, written by Declan Shalvey, drawn by Drew Moss, colored by Arcancia Studio and lettered by Jeff Eckleberry. Even among its fans — among whose ranks I count myself — it’s hard to deny that the Thundercats…
Ultimate Black Panther #1 so far not that much different from the original
Khonshu and Ra, the force known together as Moon Knight, are seeking to expand their brutal control of the continent of Africa. In response, the lone bulwark against them, the isolated nation of Wakanda, will send forth its champion, its king, the Black Panther. Find out what happens next in Ultimate Black Panther #1, written…
The Ultimate line expands to Wakanda in this week’s Staff Picks
Mark’s pick: Ultimate Black Panther #1: In the wake of Ultimate Invasion, Khonshu and Ra — the force known together as Moon Knight — are seeking to expand their brutal control of the continent of Africa. In response, the lone bulwark against them, the isolated nation of Wakanda, will send forth its champion, its king,…
Redroot, Blood Dawns, Judas and Justice: An X-Men Infinity comic roundup
As the final curtain came down on the Hellfire Gala, Charles Xavier sent thousands of mutants away from Krakoa to places unknown, kickstarting the Fall of X era. As the X-office shuffled the deck, A-list mutants either returned to star in successful ongoing titles or were given headlining roles in miniseries. The vast majority found…
WMQ&A Episode 291: Back to the future with Paul Cornell & Laura Helsby
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 291: Back to the future with Paul Cornell and Laura Helsby Paul Cornell and Laura Helsby join the show to talk about their 2000AD serial “The English Astronaut.” Also: Basketball! The Harrogate Toilet! And math! You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts,…
ADVANCE REVIEW: The One Hand is one-half of a mystery where whodunnit isn’t the question
The year is 2873, and the One Hand Killer has struck again — and Detective Ari Nassar is postponing retirement to put him behind bars. He’s got a lot of questions to answer. What are the strange ciphers left behind at the scene of every crime? Why are these killings happening? And most importantly, why…
Battle Of The Atom: In A Psy-Locke
Celebrate Betsy with us as Psylocke meets our psyche. Ranked This Episode:
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…