Agent Cole Turner is going home, but the world — and the agency he knew — is gone in Department of Truth #12, written by James Tynion IV, illustrated by Martin Simmonds, lettered by Aditya Bidikar, designed by Dylan Todd and edited by Steve Foxe. Will Nevin: Jumpin’ Jesus alive, we’ve got so much to…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 179: The Once & Future Eternal Who DIEs with Kieron Gillen Writer Kieron Gillen joins the show to talk about his work on Once & Future, Eternals, the upcoming DIE RPG and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Cassie’s Pick: Inferno #1: Mystique makes good on her promise to burn Krakoa to the ground as Head of X Jonathan Hickman takes his leave of us with this four-part event miniseries. Issue #1 is…
Al Simmons and his team return for a sophomoric sophomore installment in King Spawn #2, written by Sean Lewis and Todd McFarlane, drawn by Javi Fernandez, colored by FCO Plascencia and lettered by AndWorld Design. The ghoulish shape of Spawn’s Universe continues to form in King Spawn #2. Still reeling from the opening issue, Al…
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…
A national trauma has been successfully weaponized, which is probably fine and very unlikely to end in tears or provoke an army of ghosts to flood from the Earth to seek revenge. But let’s keep an eye on it anyway in Home Sick Pilots #9, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Caspar Wijngaard, lettered by…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s Pick: Batman: The World: Batman goes beyond borders as a platoon of international writers and artists tell tales of the Dark Knight set in their home countries, led by the Batman: Damned team of…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s Pick: Ka-Zar #1: The lord of the Savage Land is back from the dead, with some new powers, some family drama and a creeping sense of unease in a five-issue series by writer Zac…
The Todd’s core text dips back into thematic excess amid some substantial worldbuilding as the Spawn’s Universe branding reaches Spawn #321, written by Todd McFarlane, drawn by Carlo Barberi and Thomas Nachlik, colored by Jay David Ramos and Andrew Dalhouse, and lettered by Tom Orzechowski. *TW/CW: This review contains mentions of sexual assault and trafficking.* …
“Why am I like this?” What a loaded question right? It definitely comes with a burden of uncomfortable introspection and contemplation about the changes we might want to make moving forward. After all, we can’t change the past, right? What we’ve already done, for better or worse, is permanently imprinted onto us, and what people…
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…
The final encounter approaches. There is everything to play for, even if everyone’s already lost, in DIE #19, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Stephanie Hans and lettered by Clayton Cowles for Image Comics. Mark Turetsky: Hi, Corey! It’s been a month, and we’re one step closer to DIE’s resolution, and the unraveling of all…
Spawn’s Universe crowns its monarch and assembles another crop of co-stars in King Spawn #1, written by Sean Lewis and Todd McFarlane; drawn by Javi Fernandez, Stephen Segovia, Marcio Takara, Philip Tan and Brett Booth; inked by Adelso Corona and Daniel Henriques; colored by FCO Plascencia, Andrew Dalhouse, Marcelo Maiolo, Peter Steigerwald and Dave McCaig;…
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…
Picking up from the shocking ending of issue #5, Radiant Black’s life just got a whole lot more complicated. Pursued by a new enemy and not sure whom to trust, will our hero escape with his life? Or is this the beginning of the end? Issue #7 is written by Kyle Higgins, drawn by Marcelo…