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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. ZACK’S PICK: Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex #1: Remember that time Jonathan Hickman casually mentioned in an interview that the version of Xavier we saw in HOX/POX was the version that had commandeered Fantomex’s body? Man,…
Writer W. Maxwell Prince — the man behind the scripts behind the surreal “Ice Cream Man” anthology series at Image Comics and the similarly weird “King of Nowhere” at BOOM Studios — is reclusive…ish. He escaped Twitter (genius), and he gets his comic book industry news, he says, from friends — like when one told…