Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Batman: Three Jokers #1: No one picked this, but it feels silly to ignore the elephant in the room of this week’s releases, DC’s long-threatened Black Label Bat-mini by writer Geoff Johns and artist…
This week, the indie arm of Xavier Files brings you reviews of Decorum #4, courtesy of Chris Eddleman, and Savage Dragon #251, courtesy of Robert Secundus. Enjoy! Decorum #4 Writer: Jonathan Hickman, Artist: Mike Huddleston, Colorist: Sasha E. Head, Letterer: Rus Wooton, Publisher: Image Decorum has been an interesting journey through the world created within,…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick Wonder Woman: Dead Earth #4: Daniel Warren Johnson wraps his DC Black Label series about Diana waking up in, and bringing hope to, a post-nuclear future overrun by giant monsters. ($6.99) CHECK…
[Ed. note: Contains spoilers for Image’s Big Girls #1.] Let’s get straight into it. The premise of Big Girls #1 by Jason Howard appears interesting at first glance, right? A future world, big people fighting monsters? Yes. Cool. Cool. Except that’s about as exciting as it ever gets. Big Girls #1 wants to say more…
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…
Jason Howard, creator of Image’s new series “Big Girls,” joins Dan and Matt to talk about gender roles, drawing crazy stuff with Robert Kirkman, the NBA bubble, schooling under COVID-19 and more.
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,…
Hedra took my breath away. I’ve read it three times, each time unearthing something different. It may be wordless, but it’s left me with a lot to say. Writer and artist Jesse Lonergan is the powerhouse behind Hedra, published by Image Comics. Translating the comic’s name from the ancient Greek, Hedra means “face of a…
Yee-haw! We do Westerns now, pardner! OK, enough of that. We’re breaking form from your regular (as of the past month) Indie Triple Play to bring you two reviews of comics of a similar bent, as Matthew Lazorwitz reviews Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ latest OGN, Pulp, and Will Nevin looks at the second issue…
High noon in a desert town. Two men face off, hands on the butts of their holstered revolvers. [Grote’s note: Heh heh, butts.] A blur of motion, a crack of gunfire, and one (or both) falls. This scene is a hallmark of the American Western, a genre that was popular in comics throughout the 1950s…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. CORI’S PICK (BUT REALLY EVERYONE’S, BUT MOSTLY CORI’S BECAUSE SHE’S REVIEWING IT THIS WEEK, BUT MAN, WE ARE ALL VERY EXCITED): X-Factor #1: After a tantric, monthslong wait, Leah Williams and David Baldeon’s series…
Here comes the BOOM! … Studios. This week in our indie review roundup, Dan Grote cracks open Image’s Chu #1, Zachary Jenkins looks at Power Rangers: Ranger Slayer #1 and Robert Secundus continues his exploration of the BOOM!-fyverse (TM) with Angel & Spike #12. Chu #1 Writer/Letterer: John Layman, Artist: Dan Boultwood, Publisher: Image Tony…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. DAN’S PICK: Chu #1: Tony Chu’s criminal sister Saffron steals the spotlight – and other stuff – in the debut issue of this prequel to John Layman and Rob Guillory’s classic Image series “Chew.”…
This week in our roundup of indie comics, Ian Gregory examines The Rob’s latest attempt to shake up a storied franchise, Robert Secundus jumps all the way into the deep end of Savage Dragon, and Will Nevin goes to Hell (or a simulation thereof?) with Rick and Morty. G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes: Deadgame Story/Art: Rob…
Artist Sanford Greene joins Dan and Matt to talk about his Eisner-nominated Image Comics series “Bitter Root,” looking for content during a pandemic, his sweet studio spinner rack and more.