Immortal Thor - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:30:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Immortal Thor - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 The X-Men remember Krakoa and a new run of Captain America begins in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/02/staff-picks-july2/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53235 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New  comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Austin’s pick: X-Men: The Hellfire Vigil #1: One year ago, at...

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]]> 53235 Hickman rewrites Marvel’s cosmic order, DC kicks off Pride Month and more CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/04/staff-picks-june4/ Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52905 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New  comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Adam’s pick: Imperial #1: Hickman’s doing his thing again, taking his...

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]]> 52905 DC Goes All In as the X-Men’s Storm flies solo in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/02/staff-picks-oct2/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50323 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New  comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: DC All In Special: Following the events of Absolute...

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]]> 50323 Thor becomes Hercules’ stepdad, we think, in our EXCLUSIVE preview of The Immortal Thor #15 https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/29/immortal-thor-15-preview/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49960 Immortal Thor #14 (LGY #775 – mazel tov!) ended with the Odinson absorbing the power of Zeus in combat, leaving the latter a smoking husk of a god. Does that make Thor Hercules’ dad now? Is that how that works? Because I would read a comic about Thor becoming Hercules’ stepdad, parking his Camaro in...

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]]> 49960 Forge leads a new X-Force and the Super-Pets assemble in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/31/staff-picks-july31/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49736 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Adam’s 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...

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]]> 49736 Now and forever, Phoenix #1 leads this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/17/staff-picks-july17/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49586 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Austin’s 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...

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]]> 49586 Go to Karate Prom as the Blood Hunt continues in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/22/staff-picks-may22/ Wed, 22 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49016 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Karate Prom: Don “TheDragonWilson” Jones is the finest fighter Benjamin Harrison High School has ever produced. But when he enters the ring against Lincoln High’s Sam Steadman, it’s love at first knockout....

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]]> 49016 The Good Book in comics, or, when not to quote the King James Version (an FCBD X-Men review) https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/06/comics-king-james-bible/ Mon, 06 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48829 In Daredevil Vol. 8 #6, aka Daredevil #668, Matt Murdock, with the assistance of Doctor Strange, summons a gateway to Hell in part by quoting the book of Proverbs. Proverbs (or מִשְלֵי) is a book found within the Jewish and Christian scriptural canons. It is a collection of short sayings meant to impart wisdom; here,...

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]]> 48829 Let the Blood Hunt begin in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/01/staff-picks-may1/ Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48767 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Blood Hunt #1: Vampires are on the loose and plaguing the entire Marvel Universe. Get ready for this summer’s big event, written by Jed MacKay (Avengers) and drawn by Pepe Larraz (House...

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]]> 48767 Usagi Yojimbo DOES NOT cross over with The Crow in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/03/staff-picks-april3/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48434 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Mark’s pick: Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #1: Finally making it out of the frozen mountains, Usagi and Yukichi come across a merchant being attacked by four brigands. They rescue the supposed merchant only to...

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]]> 48434 Thor F’s up a rich guy’s stuff in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Immortal Thor #9 https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/28/immortal-thor-9-preview/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48398 Marvel is a subsidiary of a global megacorporation. Al Ewing is a wizard who knows what his readers want to see: a superhero sticking it to the richos who own megacorporations. And because there is not currently a fifth Thor movie in the planning stages, Disney will let Marvel let Al Ewing do what he...

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]]> 48398 DC teams up Batman and Dylan Dog, who we totally didn’t have to google (Staff Picks) https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/13/staff-picks-march13/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48197 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: Batman/Dylan Dog #1: Joker is in London to seal a hellish pact with Dylan Dog’s nemesis, the Mephistophelian Xabaras. The doorbell of Craven Road No. 7 screams, and beyond the doorway, Bruce...

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]]> 48197 Never Mind the Bollocks, here’s Spider-Punk in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/28/staff-picks-feb-2/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=48064 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Scott’s pick: Spider-Punk: Arms Race #1: Hobie Brown is the anarchic Spider-Punk, set to protect Earth-138 with his ax and his chaotic band of punk rockin’ heroes backing him! Norman Osborn is dead,...

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]]> 48064 Magneto is back up in yo’ ass with the Resurrection in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/01/24/staff-picks-jan-24/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47763 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaan’s pick: Resurrection of Magneto #1: On Krakoa, resurrection from the dead was as easy as completing a circuit. But Krakoa fell. The time of easy miracles is over, and only the hard roads are...

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]]> 47763 The battle for Arakko, and X-Men Red, end in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/13/staff-picks-dec-13/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47401 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Mark’s pick: X-Men Red #18: Their armies have clashed and torn a world apart. Now, finally, the two war leaders meet. Storm versus Genesis for the fate of the Red Planet — as the planet...

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]]> 47401 Get a front-row seat to the Frost-Stark wedding in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/27/staff-picks-sept-27/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46631 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Invincible Iron Man #10: You are cordially invited to the wedding of Anthony Edward Stark and Emma Grace Frost. Come join the lucky couple as they exchange vows. Attire is Hellfire formal. Orchis...

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]]> 46631 New Thor title can’t help but be compared to that other Immortal Ewing book https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/23/immortal-thor/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46361 In Norse myths, they called him Thunderer. Vuer has he been called, and Hloriddi. The Gods know him as Asgard’s King, keeper of Mjolnir, hero of the tales. When injustice grips the Earth and ancient powers bring down the sky, he fights for those who cannot — and when the tale is done, we will...

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]]> 46361 Enter the Realm of X in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/23/enter-the-realm-of-x-in-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46346 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Realm of X #1: After the Hellfire Gala, Magik, Mirage, Marrow, Dust and Typhoid Mary find themselves stranded in Vanaheim. Y’know, the Thor place? The locals seem to believe they hold the key...

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