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Onslaught, Miracle Molly, Aquaman and More Staff Picks for Sept. 22

Dan Grote — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick: X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation #1: Si Spurrier and Bob Quinn wrap up their Way of X story with a one-shot confrontation with that most ’90s of convoluted X-villains, Onslaught. ($4.99) Previously, in Way...

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A Mirror, A Kaleidoscope, A Window: Social Media’s Effect On Our Soul

Ari Bard — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Heads up, this piece contains some sexual images and my not be appropriate for all audiences. When do you feel seen? Whenever a relatable image, meme, statement, general piece of content, etc. appears on social media, there’s a barrage of “Wow, this is me!”, “I’m in this, and I don’t like it”, or “I feel...

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Final Fungal Thoughts as AfterShock’s I Breathed a Body #5 Wraps the Series

Rob Secundus and Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 27 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Everything ends, everything begins in the techno-organic hellscape of I Breathed a Body #5 by Zac Thompson, Andy MacDonald, Triona Farrell and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Robert Secundus: Flesh fades; data dissipates; even languages are someday lost; all is dust. Stories end. And so too, this comic, and our conversations about it. Still, I think, this is...

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Next Stop: Hellfire Gala, Mister Miracle and More Staff Picks for 5/26

Dan Grote — Mon, 24 May 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick: Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom #1: Someone wants to challenge Shilo Norman for the moniker of Mister Miracle. But if this is anyone but Scott Free or the late Thaddeus Brown, they’re...

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The Mushroom Apocalypse Draws Closer in I Breathed a Body #4

Zachary Jenkins and Rob Secundus — Mon, 03 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000

The cult of Mylo grows, but the mystical mushroom secret has roots in the much deeper, darker world of I Breathed a Body #4 by Zac Thompson, Andy MacDonald, Triona Farrell and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. CW: I Breathed a Body #4 features images of suicide and self-harm, and this article will be discussing those images. Zachary...

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Crack an Egg on It! Robin Flies Solo in Our Staff Picks for 4/28

Dan Grote — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick: Robin #1: Damian Wayne enters the League of Lazarus tournament to prove he’s the best at fights in a new series by writer Joshua Williamson and artist Gleb Melnikov. ($3.99) Check out the...

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We Rank I Breathed a Body #3 from Anne to Zoe

Rob Secundus and Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000

As Anne architects a social media campaign of looming dread, she begins to doubt her actions and fear her co-workers. Locked in a terror-shrouded fortress of her own design, with nowhere left to run, Anne confronts the fury of a Fungal God long thought dead in I Breathed a Body #3 by Zac Thompson, Andy...

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Beta Ray Bill, Katana, I Breathed a Body and More Staff Picks for 3/31

Dan Grote — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick: Beta Ray Bill #1: Three words: Daniel Warren Johnson. Three more words: Beta Ray Bill. Three more words: Fin Fang Foom. Three more words: I am wet. Colored by Mike Spicer and featuring...

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The People Pulling the Strings Are What’s Most Grotesque about I Breathed a Body #2

Zachary Jenkins and Rob Secundus — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:00:00 +0000

As the world reels from the most depraved livestream ever put online, Anne and her co-workers lean into the violence. Horrific appetites are revealed, death is made into spectacle, and the world changes in an instant. Step behind the curtain of online outrage to see the people pulling the strings. Become those who push the...

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WMQ&A Episode 145: Mushrooms and MySpace with Zac Thompson

Dan Grote and Matthew Lazorwitz — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 145: Mushrooms and MySpace with Zac Thompson Writer Zac Thompson returns to the show to talk about his new AfterShock series I Breathed a Body, the miracles of mushrooms, the evils of social media and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at...

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The X Spot: Catching up on Too Many Books and Too Much News

Will Nevin — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000

This is a week for catching up, for getting to a few of those books I’ve “been meaning to” for “an inordinate amount of time” which is now apparently “leading to an abuse of sarcastic quotes.” To the books, Geoffrey! 10. Batman: The Abduction. Writer: Alan Grant, Artist: Norm Breyfogle, Inker: James A. Hodgkins, Colorist:...

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Advance Review: Social Media Is Disturbing, Even without Mushrooms, in I Breathed a Body #1

Zachary Jenkins and Rob Secundus — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:00:00 +0000

When the world’s biggest influencer posts something irredeemably horrific online, the world changes in an instant. Now it’s up to his social media manager, Anne Stewart, to fan the flames of outrage and create a sensationalist campaign that rewrites the rules of “banned content.” Thus begins a carnival of lust, revulsion, desire and disgust —...

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Wonder Woman, Iron Fist, I Breathed a Body and More Staff Picks for 1/20

Dan Grote — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1: In our top “Future State” story this week, Diana takes on a new threat, the Undoing, at the end of time with help from writers Becky Cloonan...

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