Federica Mancin - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 06 May 2026 11:36:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Federica Mancin - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Happy Mother’s Day from this review of Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #4 https://comicsxf.com/2026/05/06/happy-mothers-day-from-this-review-of-storm-earths-mightiest-mutant-4/ Wed, 06 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56732 As Ororo fights her mother and meets her daughter in Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #4, Jude Jones shares a special Mother's Day message.

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]]> 56732 Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #3 lets us hear from Ororo https://comicsxf.com/2026/04/15/storm-earths-mightiest-mutant-3-lets-us-hear-from-ororo/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56554 To save Storm from the War Above All, a mysterious entity abducts Ororo from the multiverse completely, in Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #3.

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]]> 56554 Finding the good in Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #2 https://comicsxf.com/2026/03/11/finding-the-good-in-storm-earths-mightiest-mutant-2/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56237 Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant and the Scarlet Witch face impossible choices as an interdimensional invasion draws nearer.

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]]> 56237 Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #2 guest stars Scarlet Witch (PREVIEW) https://comicsxf.com/2026/03/05/storm-earths-mightiest-mutant-2-guest-stars-scarlet-witch-preview/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56163 STORM and SCARLET WITCH face impossible choices as an interdimensional invasion draws nearer. Will their friendship stand the test of imminent destruction?

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]]> 56163 Check out Kevin Wada’s variant cover for Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #3 (EXCLUSIVE) https://comicsxf.com/2026/03/03/check-out-kevin-wadas-variant-cover-for-storm-earths-mightiest-mutant-3-exclusive/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:02:28 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56147 To save STORM from THE WAR ABOVE ALL, a mysterious entity abducts her. Earth's Mightiest Mutant must find her way back by any means necessary.

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]]> 56147 Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1 gets back to the action https://comicsxf.com/2026/02/04/storm-earths-mightiest-mutant-1-gets-back-to-the-action/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55831 The War Above All thunders louder and closer. As the cosmos braces, Ororo Munroe turns her gaze to her home in Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #1.

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]]> 55831 Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1 gives us a small reminder of Orchis: Preview https://comicsxf.com/2026/01/29/storm-earths-mightiest-mutant-1-gives-us-a-small-reminder-of-orchis-preview/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55751 Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant shares a Japanese tea ceremony with an enemy and visits France for a masquerade. But it all ends in a gut-wrenching funeral.

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]]> 55751 EXCLUSIVE: Check out Dike Ruan’s variant cover to Marvel’s Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/12/exclusive-check-out-dike-ruans-variant-cover-to-marvels-storm-earths-mightiest-mutant-1/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55258 This Dike Ruan variant cover to February’s Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant #1 reminds us of a wonderful essay Jude Jones wrote last year about the importance of Ororo’s natural hair texture. “Storm may not be a queen anymore, but she still wears a crown upon her head,” Jude wrote at the time in response to...

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]]> 55258 Kitty makes peace with her present, just in time for the future, in Exceptional X-Men #13 https://comicsxf.com/2025/09/10/exceptional-xmen-13/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54051 Kitty Pryde’s stuck in her past, and a Sentinel’s chasing her through the suburb she once called home. Can her teenage students from Chicagoland save her present-day self, or her past self, or both, before all of X-reality gets erased? You already know the answer in Exceptional X-Men #13, written by Eve Ewing, drawn by...

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]]> 54051 What year is it in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Exceptional X-Men #13 https://comicsxf.com/2025/09/07/exceptional-xmen-13-preview/ Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54005 According to this one wiki I found and probably other stuff people have said interviews and whatnot, 15 years have passed between the time the Fantastic Four went on the space flight that gave them their powers and the present of the Marvel Universe. That means, if a story is set in 2025, the Age...

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]]> 54005 The kids go on their first time travel mission in Exceptional X-Men #12 https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/20/exceptional-xmen-12-2/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53871 Exceptional X-teacher and self-described baby mutant rescue lady Kitty Pryde has disappeared! Looks like she got sucked into a time-and-space wormhole. Can her intrepid students go back in time to get her back? Find out (maybe) in Exceptional X-Men #12, written by Eve Ewing, drawn by Federica Mancin, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by...

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]]> 53871 Iceman picks up the slack in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Exceptional X-Men #12 https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/17/exceptional-xmen-12/ Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53812 A common in-story complaint about Bobby Drake is that he’s not living up to his potential, like a perennial high school slacker who graduated from high school 60 years ago. And while he’s certainly keyed far more into his powers these days, one wonders whether No. 6 on the call sheet in a young-mutants-in-training book...

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]]> 53812 School’s never out for Kitty Pryde in Exceptional X-Men #11 and Giant-Size House of M #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/16/exceptional-xmen-11-giant-size-house-of-m-1/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53396 Can Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost’s teen students have just one good day? When that day goes bad, can Ironheart set it right, or at least unite scriptwriter Eve Ewing’s Chicago? Stroll toward the answer in Exceptional X-Men #11, written by Ewing, drawn by Federica Mancin, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by Travis Lanham....

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]]> 53396 Emma Frost unlocks her Sinister Rivals skin in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Exceptional X-Men #10 https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/06/exceptional-xmen-10-preview/ Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52961 Not all that long ago, Mister Sinister implanted his genetic code into Emma Frost and three other members of the Krakoan Quiet Council, creating a series of alternate futures in which Sinister and the three other aspects of the original Nathaniel Essex fought to become a Dominion, not realizing they existed solely to feed data...

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]]> 52961 Marvel releases X-Men: The Hellfire Vigil designs right after we drop this year’s Hellfire Gala looks https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/19/xmen-hellfire-vigil-design/ Mon, 19 May 2025 17:11:37 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52726 It’s a good day for fashion, eh? Less than an hour after we posted our talented Redesigning team’s looks for a theoretical 2025 Hellfire Gala, Marvel released design sheets for this year’s Hellfire Vigil, a July one-shot serving as a year-later memorial for the First Krakoan Age and setup for some of the next year’s...

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]]> 52726 Xavier gets his gold watch in X-Manhunt Omega #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/03/30/xmanhunt-omega/ Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52062 The X-MANHUNT concludes as Professor X reaches his destination and his assorted pursuers, friend and foe alike, catch up with him. Alliances will be battle-tested, the blades of betrayals will cut deep with poisoned tips and, when the dust finally settles, Charles Xavier will have to make a tectonic-shifting choice with the fate of all...

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]]> 52062 Gwen Stacy moves to the 616 in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #1 https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/28/spider-gwen-ghost-spider-1/ Tue, 28 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49064 Gwen Stacy is officially a resident of Earth-616, for good. What does that mean for her, though? Find out in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider #1, written by Stephanie Phillips, drawn by Federica Mancin, colored by Matt Milla and lettered by Ariana Maher. After nearly a decade since her debut, Marvel Comics doesn’t seem to know...

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