Welcome to Monkey Meat Island, where the 99% authentic (we don’t talk about the 1%) Monkey Meat product is made! Every employee and resident of the island is, of course, quite satisfied with their lot in life … but if one of them wasn’t, what would their story be? Monkey Meat #1 was created by…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s pick: Monkey Meat #1: Cartoonist Juni Ba (Djeliya) works his magic on a new Image anthology series about a meat manufacturing company operating in an absurd capitalist hellscape. ($3.99) Listen to Ba on WMQ&A….
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…
Comics came roaring back in 2021 and we couldn’t be happier for it. As we look to close out the year, our staff wanted to highlight some of the best comics we read in 2021. Each person was asked to pick on title that resonated with them and stretched what comics could be. We all…
Cori’s Pick: Batgirls #1: Fresh off their backups in Batman, Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain patrol the streets of Gotham under the tutelage of Barbara Gordon and powered by friendship in a new series by writers Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad (Wonder Woman) and drawn by Jorge Corona (The Me You Love in the Dark)….
For the first time in his life, Lou Prado is on a winning streak. Maybe it’s the new casino or maybe it’s the lucky coin in his pocket, but all of a sudden, Loser Lou’s bets can’t go wrong. He’s about to make the gamble of his life — and the stakes are deadly high…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick: One Star Squadron #1: What if Heroes for Hire but for goofs? Red Tornado puts together a team of heroes-on-demand in this six-issue series by writer Mark Russell (Not All Robots) and artist…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Cori’s Pick: Batman: Fear State Omega: James Tynion IV’s final Bat-event winds down so he can focus on his Substack. Drawn by Riccardo Federici. ($4.99) Previously, in Batman stuff … Matt’s Pick: Gotham City Villains…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s Pick: Black Panther #1: A new creative team takes Wakanda into a new era. Join writer John Ridley (Other History of the DC Universe) and artist Juann Cabal (Guardians of the Galaxy) as T’Challa…
He was a drunk, a misogynist, a bully and an all-around, all-time asshole — the asshole’s asshole. But someone killed that bastard Trigger Keaton, and in the final issue of The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton, we finally find out who done it. But does that even matter? Wasn’t it really the door fucking we…
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Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Ari’s Pick: What’s the Furthest Place from Here? #1: In a world where some kind of apocalypse has wiped out the adult population, roving collectives of teens form connections where they can, and get deep…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 185: Our House with Sloane Leong Writer/artist/editor/pottery enthusiast/dachshund owner Sloane Leong joins Dan and Matt to talk about her new TKO graphic novel, “Graveneye.” You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move Tuesday mornings. You can follow the…
It’s a crisp autumn night in the Midwest. My mom drops me off far enough away so my friends don’t have to see me climb out of a Honda Odyssey in my Underoath hoodie. I wasn’t just worried about my image, I wanted to be able to go to the hardcore shows in the shack…
M.O.M.: Mother of Madness is a three-issue miniseries, distributed by Image Comics, written by Emilia Clarke and Marguerite Bennett, drawn by Leila Leiz, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by Haley Rose-Lyon. Maya is a single mom who has superpowers tied to her hormonal cycle. She tackles the pressures of office life, managing friendships and…