From the Ashes - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:30:03 +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 From the Ashes - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 In X-Men #10, if you mess with Cyclops, you get the boom(boom) https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/02/in-x-men-10-if-you-mess-cyclops-you-get-the-boomboom/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51557 Scott Summers burns it ALL down in an issue that shows what this series really can be! X-Men #10 from Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo and Clayton Cowles. Tony Thornley: Cyclops has unleashed hell, and I am here for it. Scott [Redmon, not Summers], welcome welcome! Scott Redmond: Thanks for having me!...

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]]> 51557 ComicsXF’s official ranking of the From the Ashes X-Men books https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/02/comicsxfs-official-ranking-of-the-x-men-from-the-ashes-comics-so-far/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51029 As of this writing, there are 13(!) monthly X-books on the shelves, two of which — X-Men and Uncanny X-Men — ship on an 18-issue-a-year schedule. That’s a lot, and there’s more coming, including Laura Kinney: Wolverine (who is already starring in NYX); a Timeslide one-shot co-starring Cable and Bishop; Magik (who is already starring...

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]]> 51029 Xavier is busting out: Marvel announces X-Manhunt event coming in March https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/22/x-manhunt/ Sun, 22 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51128 Sigh. We never did get that break from Xavier, did we? After being taken into custody at the end of the Krakoan age/beginning of From the Ashes last summer and being locked up in his old house, aka Graymalkin Prison, one couldn’t be blamed for thinking we might get a nice respite from the would-be...

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]]> 51128 Wolverine #3 Does Lone Wolf and Cub with a Wendigo, to pleasing effect. https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/21/wolverine-3-does-lone-wolf-and-cub-with-a-wendigo-to-pleasing-effect/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50897 As reviewers, we often have access to issues a few days — sometimes week — ahead of time, depending on the publisher and the particular issue. Gives us time to really soak things in and perhaps revisit them a few times before putting proverbial pen to paper and recording our thoughts. As I cracked open...

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]]> 50897 Editorial: Why the From the Ashes X-Men comics have more new mutants than New Mutants https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/08/xmen-fromtheashes-new-mutants/ Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50021 If you’re an X-Men fan of a certain age, you may have read the past two months’ worth of From the Ashes comics and wondered, “Where did all the New Mutants and Generation X kids go? I mean I know Magik is in X-Men, but it’s like the rest of them just disappeared into the...

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]]> 50021 Avengers #17 has the Avengers saying, “it’s Storm, I know her!” https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/15/avengers-17-has-the-avengers-saying-its-storm-i-know-her/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49879 Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. A tagline long attributed to the gathered heroes known as the Avengers (one they might have given themselves, who can say). Yet, how mighty can a team of heroes be when they routinely ignore some of the most powerful beings around? Who just happens to be mutants, by the way. Don’t worry...

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]]> 49879 Psylocke to get her own solo series from Wong and Carratù https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/27/psylocke-wong-carratu/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49712 Cyclops and Psylocke’s relationship has come a long way. Think about it. Thirty or so years ago, a version of Psylocke that was a hybrid of Betsy Braddock and the assassin Kwannon tried to seduce Scott Summers by licking motor oil off his face, scaring him so badly that he ran away to Alaska (Fun...

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