Imperial - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:59:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Imperial - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 An Absolute Batman flashback and more Age of Revelation in this week’s CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/29/staff-picks-oct29/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54656 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: Absolute Batman Annual 2025 #1: Big names tell tales...

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]]> 54656 Electron gets it in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Imperial War: Exiles #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/28/imperial-war-exiles-1-preview/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53946 The X-Men, and mutants in general, are often portrayed as underdogs, a marginalized group operating in a world that hates and fears them. Yet when it’s time to do space battles, their greatest allies are the royal family of an intergalactic empire that has pressed countless alien races into its service. Sure, Lilandra has talked...

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]]> 53946 There’s something missing in Imperial War: Black Panther #1 (Hint: It’s T’Challa’s [REDACTED]) https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/27/imperial-war-black-panther-1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:04:51 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53940 Blamed for the assassinations that have started an all-out galactic war, T’Challa will first need to survive a brutal assault from the World-Breaker Hulk and Amadeus Cho before he can even think about hunting down the true culprit, and all while his spacecraft spirals towards certain doom. Imperial War: Black Panther #1 is written by...

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]]> 53940 Marvel’s Imperial #3 gives the game away, then begins playing a new one altogether https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/24/imperial-3/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53873 The conflict begins to spread out to the wider universe! Find out who’s really orchestrating the great game of cosmic houses as the last chance to stop a universal war presents itself. Imperial #3 is written by Jonathan Hickman, drawn by Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by Ariana Maher...

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]]> 53873 Detective Comics turns #1,100 but doesn’t look a day over Vol. 4, Issue #25: CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/20/staff-picks-aug20/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53865 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: Detective Comics #1,100: Tom Taylor and Mikel Janin join...

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]]> 53865 Marvel’s Imperial #2 reminds us of a certain kind of Invasion https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/18/imperial-2/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53436 Against the fallout of someone mysteriously killing the rulers of the Marvel galactic empires, the fires of war are lit! As that conflict simmers, Nova and Star-Lord race to discover who is behind all these evil acts — a journey that takes them to the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda. Imperial #2 is written by Jonathan...

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]]> 53436 Marvel announces Imperial tie-in starring Charles Xavier and Lilandra https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/11/imperial-war-exiles/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:07:51 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53002 When we last saw Charles Xavier, he had hatched his dead wife, the late Shi’ar empress Lilandra Neramani, from a hidden Krakoan egg and peaced out to space to save their daughter, the current empress Xandra, from the latest Shi’ar coup. Remember, Cyclops had a mental health crisis? The X-Men cried like when Krakoa went...

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]]> 53002 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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