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Batman fights knights, Ice Cream Man is back in playing card form and more CXF Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: DC K.O.: Knightfight #1: The Dark Knight is forced...

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Flash sees a Bad Moon Rising, plus Mr. Terrific, quilts and more in this week’s CXF Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: Flash: Bad Moon Rising Special #1: Bad Moon Rising...

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DC’s Power Company rises while The Power Fantasy is collected in this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

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Ultimate Wolverine, a Storm celebration and 10 more comics we’re excited about in January

Dan Grote — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Happy new year! What, we can start celebrating Christmas on Nov. 1 but we can’t start prepping for New Year’s? You people make no sense. Anyway, we here at CXF took a peek at the January solicits, and here are a few of the things we’re excited for. MARVEL Ultimate Wolverine #1: The new iteration...

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Searching for the Perfect Word in Ice Cream Man #28

Ari Bard and Will Nevin — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Some of us are lucky enough to find passions or interests that truly define us. These are pursuits we’re willing to go to the ends of the Earth for all while remaining uncompromising. But what about the cost that comes with this journey? Find out in Ice Cream Man #28, written by W. Maxwell Prince,...

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A Metamorphosis — and Your Troubles — in Ice Cream Man #27

Ari Bard and Will Nevin — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:00:00 +0000

At some point or another, we’re all forced to change with the times. You can either embrace the transformation or fight it kicking and screaming. So cozy up in your cocoon and prepare for a metamorphosis. Will what emerges be better than what entered? Were you ready to confront life’s existential burdens? Find out in...

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Swamp Thing, Kang and More Staff Picks for Dec. 27

Dan Grote — Mon, 27 Dec 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. Vishal’s pick: Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1: It’s the end of the world as we know it, and the Parliaments of the Green, the Red and the Rot agree to wipe the slate clean. There’s...

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Dig into the Roots of Your Family — and Your Troubles — in Ice Cream Man #26

Will Nevin and Ari Bard — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Are you brave enough to climb down the twisting, gnarled trunk of your family tree? And honest enough to accept whatever you find? Discover those internal truths and more in Ice Cream Man #26, written by W. Maxwell Prince, drawn by Martin Morazzo, colored by Chris O’Halloran and lettered by Good Old Neon. Will Nevin:...

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Brubaker & Phillips, Nubia, Wanda’s Back and More Staff Picks for Oct. 20

Dan Grote — Mon, 18 Oct 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. Matt’s Pick: Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book: My Grishams! Writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips roll out the third volume in their series of Image Graphic Novels for Dads as PI Ethan Reckless...

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Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down in Ice Cream Man #25

Will Nevin and Ari Bard — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum where the creepy, crawly things will slither over your bones as you decay into the dry dust of timelessness. But before that, before you’re just a line in a review or on a tombstone, you’ve got to hit the ground in the overstuffed anniversary Ice Cream Man...

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Cable in Space, Superman in ’78, Williams in Landscape in Staff Picks for Aug. 25

Dan Grote — Mon, 23 Aug 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. Matt’s Pick: Cable Reloaded #1: The old man is back, and he’s here to stop “The Last Annihilation” and have a nice time. Written by Al Ewing (S.W.O.R.D.) and drawn by Bob Quinn (Way of...

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Image’s Haha Ends Where It Began — in Sticky Sweet Ice Cream

Will Nevin and Ari Bard — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Haha — our favorite anthology series about clowns — ends with a story that began in our other favorite anthology series, Ice Cream Man, and it’s produced by the same creative team: written by W. Maxwell Prince, drawn by Martin Morazzo, colored by Chris O’Halloran and lettered by Good Old Neon. Content warning: This review...

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The X Spot: Double Agent Bond Lands at 001

Will Nevin — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Heavy on format changes and spies and assassins this week. Let’s get to it. The Bottom (at the Top) 10. Spawn #1-2. Story, pencils and inks: Todd McFarlane; Colorists: Steve Oliff, Reuben Rude and Olyoptics; Letterer: Tom Orzechowski; Publisher: Image With the news of Todd McFarlane starting a shared “Spawn’s Universe,” I thought it would...

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Future State Winds Down, Some X-Men Flee the Vault in Our Staff Picks for 2/24

Dan Grote — Mon, 22 Feb 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. Cori’s Pick: Future State: Superman: House of El #1: Journey into the far future and meet the descendants of Kal-El, including twins Rowan and Ronan Kent, the new Superman of Earth and a Blue Lantern,...

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The X Spot: Am I Stupid? Also, Some Supreme Court News

Will Nevin — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000

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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The X (Ten) Spot: A Dark Interlude’s Density and the Joy of Sweet Smut

Will Nevin — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:00:00 +0000

I have experimented with different columns and different formats over the five or so years I’ve been writing about comics, but you, Loyal Content Consumer, don’t necessarily care about that; no, you care about the comics, and I want to care about the comics with you. When I’m curled up in my big ratty office...

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A Post-Betsy Excalibur, Dorian Gray, The Seeds and More Staff Picks for 12/23

Dan Grote — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick Excalibur #16: So Betsy is a sneering stained-glass mosaic, Saturnyne is keeping Jubilee’s son as her dragon pet that can melt reality and the Captain Britain Corps is back with a thicc-ass...

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Why, Will: The Cowards of the Country

Will Nevin — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:00:29 +0000

Everything is bad. And there are a few people to blame. The Splash When I’m good and angry and I want to wreck someone and the facts fit the moment, I reach for something special. It’s not “asshole” (vague, common), nor “bastard” (weak) nor “motherfucker” (got a nice sound to it, but it’s not angry...

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‘X of Swords,’ New Doctor Who, ‘Dark Interlude’ & More Staff Picks for Nov. 18

Dan Grote — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. This Week in Swords X-Force #14, Hellions #6 and Cable #6: Last week we learned that “X of Swords” doesn’t really involve as much sword-fighting as we thought it would. What will that mean...

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Why, Will: Hi, I’m Will. I’m a Mark for Colorized ‘Walking Dead.’

Will Nevin — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:00:17 +0000

You got me, Robert Kirkman. The Splash There is something so unabashedly commercial in re-releasing “The Walking Dead” in color that I can’t help but like it. Tellin’ fans it won’t be collected and makin’ ’em snap up those floppies? For a series that’s already made dump trucks of television and licensing* money? It’s so...

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‘Ice Cream Man: Quarantine Comix’: Exciting. Scary.

Will Nevin — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:00:00 +0000

“I’m so excited. I’m so scared. I’m so, I’m so…scared!” Poor Jessie Spano’s “Saved by the Bell” lament came almost 30 years ago; her heart kathumping on account of her reliance on “Keep Alert” caffeine pills to keep up with both school and her singing group, Hot Sundae. (The episode “Jessie’s Song” is much goofier...

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Why, Will: Video game ‘Avengers,’ AEW bookers disappoint

Will Nevin — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:00:00 +0000

When even low expectations can’t save a thing. A Short Review of ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ (PS4) It ain’t great. The ‘Rasslin’ Report AEW’s “All Out” was a middling affair, but there’s only so much you can do when half your main event participants are either too old (Jericho, and I am sorry, but he can’t keep...

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The Ice Cream Man Cometh and Kate Pryde Seeks Revenge in Our Staff Picks for Sept. 9

Dan Grote — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Will’s Pick Ice Cream Man Presents Quarantine Comix Special #1: During the height of the pandemic in the spring, Team Ice Cream Man – writer W. Maxwell Prince, artist Martin Morazzo, colorist Chris O’Halloran...

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Indie Triple Play: Ice Cream Man, Transformers/My Little Pony, Bad Mother

Zachary Jenkins, Christi Eddleman and Will Nevin — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:00:00 +0000

What happens when a mother has taken all she can and decides to go Liam Neeson on everyone? What happens when ponies and Autobots roll out together? What happens when comics’ sickest horror anthology takes on beloved children’s classics? Find out in this week’s Triple Play, as Will Nevin reviews Ice Cream Man #20, Zachary...

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Why, Will: Let’s Revisit the Good ol’ ‘Man of Steel’ Discourse

Will Nevin — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:00:00 +0000

Remember 2013? When Lance Armstrong copped to being a drug cheat and “Star Trek Into Darkness” beat “The Final Frontier” and “Faith of the Heart” as the worst Star Trek thing ever made? And you could go outside? Those were the days. The Splash The hallmark of a Zack Snyder movie — outside of his...

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