Hollow Heart - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:41:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Hollow Heart - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Magneto’s on Trial. Again. In Our Staff Picks for Aug. 18 https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/16/magnetos-on-trial-again-in-our-staff-picks-for-aug-18/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32687 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Mark’s Pick: Trial of Magneto #1: The Pretender Wanda Maximoff is dead, and all suspicions lead to Magneto. So it’s probably not him, right? RIGHT?! Written by Leah Williams and drawn by Lucas Werneck. ($4.99)...

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]]> 32687 X-Men Save the Day, the Justice League Get Animated Again and More Staff Picks for July 7 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/05/x-men-save-the-day-the-justice-league-get-animated-again-and-more-staff-picks-for-july-7/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30505 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s Pick: X-Men #1: The heroes of Krakoa are here: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Polaris, Sunfire, Rogue, Wolverine and Synch are here to restore your faith in mutants and chew bubble gum. And they’re all out...

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]]> 30505 Heroes Reborn Again, a Chinese-centric Noir and More Staff Picks for 5/5 https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/03/heroes-reborn-again-a-chinese-centric-noir-and-more-staff-picks-for-5-5/ Mon, 03 May 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=26104 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick: Heroes Reborn #1: The Avengers do an Age of Apocalypse, imagining a world where Earth’s Mightiest Heroes never teamed up, with Blade in the Bishop role, in a seven-issue event series by writer...

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]]> 26104 The X Spot: Turncoat Bond Slinks His Way to the Top (Again) https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/08/the-x-spot-turncoat-bond-slinks-his-way-to-the-top-again/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=24592 Would you like to know a lot of the things I hate, like state legislators, Peacock and steak fries? READ ON, FRIENDO.   The Bottom (at the Top) 10. Tribute: Rush Limbaugh. Writers: Don Smith and Michael Frizell, Artist: J.B. Fernandes, Colorist: Simon Wright, Letterer: Wilson Ramos Jr., Publisher: Tidalwave Productions The central thesis of this...

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]]> 24592 Advance Review: Vault’s Hollow Heart Details the Relationship between a Man and His Monster https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/16/advance-review-vaults-hollow-heart-details-the-relationship-between-a-man-and-his-monster/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=15262 Hollow Heart #1 Written and lettered by Paul Allor, drawn and colored by Paul Tucker. Published by Vault. Here’s a lovely and promising start to a super-gay near-future science fiction story that’s nonetheless tropey as all get out. El (as in Spanish “the,” as in the Chicago El, but also as in the Hebrew divinity)...

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]]> 15262 Hollow Heart, Future State, an Uncanny X-Men Omnibus and More Staff Picks for 2/17 https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/15/hollow-heart-future-state-an-uncanny-x-men-omnibus-and-more-staff-picks-for-2-17/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=15176 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Ari’s Pick: Hollow Heart #1: We’ve heard this new Vault Comics series described as a queer spin on The Shape of Water, in which a mechanic falls in love with a jumble of organs that...

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]]> 15176 The X Spot: Am I Stupid? Also, Some Supreme Court News https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/16/the-x-spot-am-i-stupid-also-some-supreme-court-news/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=13048 Years and years ago, in the days when I still lived at home and was fraught with teen mopiness, I had a blue overstuffed recliner in my room, a worn out hand-me-down that I loved until it literally fell apart. (If memory serves, I think the left arm gave out.) But in those days, I’d...

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