Skip to content
December 25, 2025
  • BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman and the Origins of Christmas
  • Wanda’s moving up in the world in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Sorcerer Supreme #1
  • Writer Jed MacKay leaving Marvel’s Avengers with issue #36; Armageddon to follow
  • Absolute Wonder Woman meets Absolute Batman at the top of this week’s CXF Staff Picks

COMICSXF

The comics criticism you crave

  • HOME
  • Articles
    • Opinions
    • Issue Overviews
    • Television Overviews
    • Interviews
    • Odds & Ends
    • Redesigning
  • Battle of The Atom
  • TCXFIP
  • BatChat
  • Primer
    • Creator Primers
    • The Pull List
    • Character Primers
    • Team Primers
  • Patreon
  • Shop
  • About Us
  • Home
  • Fred Harper

Fred Harper

  • Previews

EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Planet strikes in Fred Harper’s cover for AHOY’s The Toxic Avenger Comics #8

Dan Grote2 weeks ago2 weeks ago01 mins

BEHOLD … THE VISION I MEAN … DOCTOR PLANET! He is tired of Earth. These people. He is tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. Guess that means it’s time to take out the trash. (The trash is the Toxic Avenger.) (But not reallly because Toxie is the hero of this book.)…

Read More
  • Previews

The Battle of Asbury Park in our EXCLUSIVE preview of AHOY’s The Toxic Avenger Comics #5

Dan Grote1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

About a month ago, we shared covers from AHOY’s Toxic Avenger Comics #5, in which ol’ Toxie gets his Frazetta on in a fantasy pastiche. Now, we get up in them guts with a special preview of the comic. And little did we know, it’s Jersey AF. Not because the Toxic Avenger is from the…

Read More
  • Previews

EXCLUSIVE: Check out these covers to AHOY’s Toxic Avenger Comics #5 and think about justice

Dan Grote3 months ago3 months ago02 mins

Now, more than ever, we are all the Toxic Avenger. A bunch of weirdos, hideously deformed by a cruel, uncaring system, who have chosen to strap on our tutu, pick up our mop and seek justice through unhinged vigilantism. In an age where nearly every 30-50-year-old property has been licensed into a comic (Wild West…

Read More
  • Issue Overviews

Let’s Get Funky with AHOY’s Wrong Earth: Purple (Oh, and Some AfterShock Stuff, Too)

Will Nevin and Ian Gregory4 years ago4 years ago010 mins

If you’re wondering what Prince would be like as a comic book villain, then your long search for answers is now over. The Wrong Earth: Purple is written by Stuart Moore, drawn by Fred Harper, lettered by Rob Steen and published by AHOY Comics. Santa’s missing his list, so it’s time to go to the…

Read More
  • AHOY Comics

Let’s Watch Melville Make Terrible Decisions in AHOY’s Snelson #2-4

Will Nevin and Cassie Tongue4 years ago4 years ago013 mins

He rants about how “comedy is dying” because apparently you can’t say offensive horseshit under the guise of making bigots laugh (Who knew?!) without people taking note. Things don’t get better from there in Snelson #2-4, written by Paul Constant, drawn by Fred Harper, colored by Lee Loughridge and lettered by Rob Steen for AHOY…

Read More
  • AHOY Comics

Snelson’s Not Here to Be Liked — We Hope

Will Nevin and Cassie Tongue4 years ago4 years ago011 mins

What if we excavated a tired, white ‘90s comedian and sent him on tour with some fresher voices only for him to melt down on stage and lean into the “cancel culture” brain rot infecting entirely too many people? Meet Melville Snelson. He sucks, on stage and off it, in AHOY Comics’ Snelson: Comedy is…

Read More
2016-2025, ComicsXF Powered By BlazeThemes.