Ed. Note: This is a special spoiler-free advance review of The Power Fantasy #1. Check back next Wednesday for the full review, with spoilers. âSuperpowered.â You have certain preconceptions. Theyâre incorrect. Here, that word has a specific technical definition. Namely, âany individual with the destructive capacity of the nuclear arsenal of the USA.â There are…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Adamâs pick: X-Force #1: The world is fractured. Forge uses his powers of invention to devise the only fix: an all-new, all-different X-Force. Forge leads a custom-made, handpicked team of mutants…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast ¡ The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 314: Joe Casey talks Jonny Quest, Blood Squad Seven Writer Joe Casey joins the show to talk about his new Dynamite series Jonny Quest, his Image series Blood Squad Seven, DC’s Kneel Before Zod and more. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube,…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Austinâs pick: NYX #1: So no one told you life was gonna be this way (CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP). A group of young mutants â Ms. Marvel, Wolverine, Prodigy, Anole and…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Austinâs pick: Phoenix #1: She is Jean Grey. She is Phoenix. She saves the world. She brings death. One woman, alone in space, who not only must do what no one…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Tonyâs pick: X-Men #1: Krakoa is gone and Orchis has fallen, but the X-Men remain, always. Cyclops leads, because that is what he does. Beast builds, because that is what he…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast ¡ The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 311: Wes Craig talks Kaya Wes Craig returns to talk about Kaya now that his Image Comics series is 20 issues in. Also, because it’s Episode 311, we asked Wes to name his favorite 311 song. The answer may shock you. Or it may not. You…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. Starting this week, new DC books come out Wednesdays along with everything else. Tonyâs pick: Absolute Power #1: DC’s big summer event kicks off with a bang, as the combined might of Failsafe and the Brainiac Queen has at last given Amanda Waller the…
We here at ComicsXF are pretty much in the tank for The Power Fantasy, Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s new Image Comics series about six superpowered individuals who cannot fight or else the world will blow up. It is the perfect Gillen concept in that it is big and colorful and witty while also, at…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Tonyâs pick: X-Men: Blood Hunt: Magik #1: After the Fall of the House of X, Illyana Rasputina has returned to her homeland to search her soul and steel it for what comes next. But…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast ¡ The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 309: Kieron Gillen & Caspar Wijngaard talk The Power Fantasy Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard join the show to talk about their upcoming Image Comics series The Power Fantasy. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com,…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Tonyâs pick: Destro #1: James McCullen Destro XXIV is the man behind M.A.R.S. Industries, the undisputed leader in providing high-tech weapons to world powers for the right price. But the emergence of Energon has…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast ¡ CXF Interview Podcast Episode 308: Kelly Thompson talks Powerpuff Girls, Scarlett & Birds of Prey Writer Kelly Thompson joins the show to talk about her Powerpuff Girls series at Dynamite, Scarlett at Skybound, Birds of Prey at DC, Black Cloak at Image and more. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify,…
Since its debut last year, Hasbro and Skyboundâs Energon Universe has breathed new life into a 40-year-old franchise, giving readers a thoroughly modern take on the Transformers and GI Joe. Last week, phase two of GI Joeâs return launched with Kelly Thompson and Marco Ferrariâs Scarlett. One-half of ComicsXFâs Has-Bros, Tony Thornley, sat down with…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Austinâs pick: X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #1: For centuries, Apocalypse tested the mutants of Earth to guarantee that only the strong would survive. Now, as he takes his throne on Arakko, another must rise…