Francesco Manna - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:53:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Francesco Manna - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Electron gets it in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Imperial War: Exiles #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/28/imperial-war-exiles-1-preview/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53946 The X-Men, and mutants in general, are often portrayed as underdogs, a marginalized group operating in a world that hates and fears them. Yet when it’s time to do space battles, their greatest allies are the royal family of an intergalactic empire that has pressed countless alien races into its service. Sure, Lilandra has talked...

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]]> 53946 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 Catch the Mean Girls reference in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Giant-Size House of M #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/13/giant-size-house-of-m-preview/ Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53331 House of M, the Marvel event in which the Scarlet Witch, then a mutant and the daughter of Magneto, rewrites reality to create a world where Magneto rules and mutants are the dominant social class, turns 20 this year, which doesn’t sound right but is also painfully true. Also more than 20 years old? The...

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]]> 53331 Marvel announces Imperial tie-in starring Charles Xavier and Lilandra https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/11/imperial-war-exiles/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:07:51 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53002 When we last saw Charles Xavier, he had hatched his dead wife, the late Shi’ar empress Lilandra Neramani, from a hidden Krakoan egg and peaced out to space to save their daughter, the current empress Xandra, from the latest Shi’ar coup. Remember, Cyclops had a mental health crisis? The X-Men cried like when Krakoa went...

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