The event continues to unravel as Ellie, Otto and Ava rise from the ashes of their comic shop to begin their four-color odyssey to find the truth beyond the dome. Meanwhile: Super-prisons! Magic guns! Mysterious government agents! And other stuff! Zachary Jenkins and Dan McMahon break down Image’s Crossover #2 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw,…
In the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead singer of a high school punk band who’s been missing for weeks. How did she get there, and what do these ghosts want? Expect three-chord songs and big bloody action that’s Power Rangers meets The Shining. It’s Home Sick Pilots…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Forrest’s Pick S.W.O.R.D. #1: Mutants! In! Spaaaaaaaaace! Krakoa gets its own Space Force in once and future SWORD Director Abigail Brand, frequent space-dwelling mutant leader Magneto, former Acolytes Fabian Cortez and Frenzy, current Galadorian…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 135: Steve Orlando's Quantum Moment Writer Steve Orlando joins the show to talk about his Image series “Commanders in Crisis,” his new TKO book “The Pull,” his work at DC and much more. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at xavierfiles.com, where…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zach’s Pick X-Men #15: Pretty sure Apocalypse fights his wife in this one. But also, nothing’s really gone as predicted in “X of Swords. I mean, Magik arm wrestled a croco-monster that turned out…
The Crisis Command, last survivors of the multiverse, are faced with an impossible task: avenging the death…of an idea! DOA is empathy itself, and while empathy withers and dies across the world, Originator uses her abilities to bring the John Doe back for 24 hours to reveal the name of his killer. It’s Image’s “Commanders…
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…
Beyond this point lie spoilers for “Crossover” #1. Ye be warned… The Splash “Crossover,” the meta comic-book-about-comic-books from the mind of writer Donny Cates and artist Geoff Shaw, has a heap of stuff to talk about — the merits of which have already been ably discussed by Big Boss Zack and Dan “the Man” McMahon….
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 133: The House That Walks Like a Man with Dan Watters Writer Dan Watters joins the show to talk about his upcoming Image series “Home Sick Pilots,” his upcoming Vault series “The Picture of Everything Else,” punk rock, cigarettes, Victorian gothic literature and to make co-host Dan Grote feel old…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick X-Men #14: Presumably we get more Apocalypse: Mutantdom’s first Wife Guy in this “X of Swords” tie-in by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Mahmud Asrar. ($3.99) Previously, in “X-Men” … Zack’s Pick…
Suzie has a line in the final issue of Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s “Sex Criminals”: “And after a while, you stop asking about someone, you stop thinking about someone. Doesn’t mean I stopped caring.” Jon, equally preoccupied with the thought of seeing his fellow series lead after some time apart, narrates: “Now I know…
Jazz, good jazz, is a conversation in a language you don’t quite read. A collaboration between a motley band of discrete artists, pushing and pulling each other into new and unforeseen directions. Tight, syncopated beats laid under velvety woodwinds, while twinkling piano keys dance up and down the staff, sliding between thunderous rapture from the…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick X of Swords: Stasis: First of all, on behalf of XF nation: Fuck a Brett Booth. Now that that’s out of the way, GIVE US THE CROCODILE MONSTER. Jonathan Hickman, Tini Howard,…
The Scumbag #1 Writer: Rick Remender, Artist: Lewis LaRosa, Colorist: Moreno DiNisio, Letterer: Rus Wooton, Publisher: Image There was definite power on the debate stage in Nashville Thursday night. Say what you will about Donald J. Trump (Really, say anything aside from cracks about his weight — it’s all earned) or Joe Biden (Jesus lord,…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s Pick Excalibur #13: Get ready for some hot Braddock-on-Braddock action (Wait …), all written by “X of Swords” co-mastermind Tini Howard and drawn by guest artist R. “Powers” B. “Of” Silva “X.” ($3.99)…