Jackson Lanzing - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:38:21 +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 Jackson Lanzing - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 School’s never out for Kitty Pryde in Exceptional X-Men #11 and Giant-Size House of M #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/16/exceptional-xmen-11-giant-size-house-of-m-1/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53396 Can Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost’s teen students have just one good day? When that day goes bad, can Ironheart set it right, or at least unite scriptwriter Eve Ewing’s Chicago? Stroll toward the answer in Exceptional X-Men #11, written by Ewing, drawn by Federica Mancin, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by Travis Lanham....

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]]> 53396 Catch the Mean Girls reference in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Giant-Size House of M #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/13/giant-size-house-of-m-preview/ Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53331 House of M, the Marvel event in which the Scarlet Witch, then a mutant and the daughter of Magneto, rewrites reality to create a world where Magneto rules and mutants are the dominant social class, turns 20 this year, which doesn’t sound right but is also painfully true. Also more than 20 years old? The...

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]]> 53331 Trek Talks: Star Trek Omega and putting the toys back in the toybox https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/30/trek-talks-star-trek-omega-and-putting-the-toys-back-in-the-toybox/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53229 It’s the end of an era in Star Trek Omega, written by Christopher Cantwell, Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with art by Oleg Chudakov, Joe Eisma, Mike Feehan, Tess Fowler, Angel Hernandez, Liana Kangas, Megan Levens, Travis Mercer, Ramon Rosanas, Rachael Stott, Erik Tamayo, Davide Tinto and Marcus To, colors by Lee Loughridge and Marissa...

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]]> 53229 On Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1, or: That Ain’t Jean Grey https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/14/giant-size-dark-phoenix-saga-jean-grey/ Sat, 14 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53007 Last week, our team got together to talk about Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Adam Kubert’s X-Men anniversary special Giant-Size X-Men (Vol. 3) #1, wherein Avengers superfan and now forced-into-mutantdom-by-the-MCU Kamala Khan started a time-traveling journey through the X-Men’s greatest hits as she was chased by the empty shell of Legion’s leftover multiple personalities. While...

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]]> 53007 Scott and Jean catch up in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/05/giant-size-dark-phoenix-saga-1/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52934 What do you think Scott and Jean’s psychic dates are like these days? With Jean the Phoenix again and journeying through space, and Scott in Alaska still doing X-Men stuff, catching each other up must be weird at times. Jean: How’s Logan? Scott: We don’t talk much. He’s down in Louisiana with Rogue’s team, but...

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]]> 52934 Ms. Marvel Shermans her way through X-Men history in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (not that one) https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/01/giant-size-xmen-1/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52883 Ever since she discovered she was a mutant, Kamala Khan has been balancing her previous life as Ms. Marvel with her role as a leader in the new community, but her conflicted identity has come at a deep personal cost. Now, pulled into the distant past by an unhinged villain with deep ties to mutant...

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]]> 52883 A beautiful if heavy-handed sendoff to our favorite city-dwelling mutants in NYX #10 https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/11/nyx-10/ Sun, 11 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52413 Is New York City itself a kind of mutant? Can it give us all a model for mutant communities? How did Mojo take it over from Grand Central Station? Can he be defeated using the power of solidarity, or the solidarity of love, or the love of trains? Why is NYX ending? Find out which...

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]]> 52413 ON THE X-MANHUNT: The kids are alright without Xavier in NYX #9 https://comicsxf.com/2025/03/06/nyx-9/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:44:48 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51902 Professor Charles Xavier has escaped from Graymalkin Prison to save his daughter from an attack out in space — and he has a plan to aid her. The problem is, his former students are none too happy to see him. Is there anyone left willing to help him out? Find out in NYX #9, written...

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]]> 51902 A Hellion of a lot of history between Julian and Laura in NYX #8 https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/20/nyx-8/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51777 Julian Keller, aka Hellion, swung back and forth between hero and baddie for almost his entire on-page existence. Now it looks like he’s killed civilians, and he’s headed to the mutant supermax for it. Should our NYX regulars capture him or set him free? Find out in NYX #8, written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin...

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]]> 51777 Hellion busts out in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s NYX #8 https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/16/nyx-8-preview/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51697 Once again, NYX proves itself to be the series most willing to engage with the Krakoan era as part of a larger discussion about what mutant society looks like now. In doing so, next week’s issue flashes back to Crucible, the space where mutants on Krakoa were given the chance to die in battle for...

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]]> 51697 Trek Talks tackles reality rewrites, wild AI, and death by vacuums https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/13/trek-talks-tackles-reality-rewrites-wild-ai-and-death-by-vacuums/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51716 A new batch of Trek Tales hit especially close to home in our newest “Trek Talks!” Star Trek #28, written by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with art by Tess Fowler and letters by Clayton Cowles. Star Trek: Defiant #23, written by Christopher Cantwell, with art by Ángel Unzueta, colors by Marissa Louise and letters...

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]]> 51716 The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 338: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly talk Timeless, Trek & more https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/04/tcxfip-338-lanzing-kelly/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51573 The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 338: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly talk Timeless and Star Trek Co-writers and best friends Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing join the show to talk about Power Man: Timeless, their upcoming Star Trek event Lore War, and much more. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts,...

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]]> 51573 Synch feels out of sync in Marvel’s NYX #7 https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/12/nyx-7/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51346 Remember Everett Thomas, aka Synch? He’s been through a lot. He’s back. And he’s really angry at Prodigy. Find out why in NYX #7, written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, drawn by Enid Balám, colored by Raúl Angulo and lettered by Joe Sabino. Two things can be true at the same time. First, mutants...

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]]> 51346 Panic! at the Disco Dazzler show in Marvel’s NYX #6 https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/04/nyx-6/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51018 Life in New York is exhausting. Let’s dance. Good thing Dazzler’s in town. Score tickets somehow and queue for the show in NYX #6, written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, penciled by Michael Shelfer, inked by Shelfer and Elisabetta D’Amico, colored by Raúl Angulo and lettered by Joe Sabino. And we’re back: The mutants-take-Manhattan...

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]]> 51018 Our EXCLUSIVE preview of NYX #6 teases a special guest. We’re not saying who. https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/01/nyx-6-preview/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50950 NYX is a book about younger mutants – the ones most analogous to Zoomers – finding community as a post-Krakoan diaspora. It’s also an odd burst of 2000s nostalgia, as it largely centers on characters who were created during that decade, an era when Marvel introduced dozens of new mutants (lowercase N, lowercase M) in...

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]]> 50950 Marvel’s NYX #5 misses the mark by about a week https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/17/nyx-5/ Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50819 Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mutant Manuel de la Rocha staged a fight between his ally Julian Keller and Jersey City’s favorite do-gooder, Ms. Marvel, to provoke a crackdown on mutants, so that radicalized, even-more-oppressed mutants would support Manuel’s fake revolution. See whether his evil plan works in NYX #5, written by Jackson Lanzing...

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]]> 50819 The Cuckoos’ plot revealed in our EXCLUSIVE preview of NYX #5 https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/07/nyx-5-preview/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50748 OK, let me see if I’ve got this straight: Sophie is the one currently starring apart from her sisters in NYX but who is still very much in on their current plot alongside Hellion and Empath. Esme is the one who went nuts on Kick and appeared to be in love with Magneto … or...

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]]> 50748 Academia and justice collide in NYX #4 https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/01/nyx-4/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50709 Despite the destruction of the Krakoan dream, Professor David Alleyne — codename Prodigy — finally has something he wants to keep: tenure at Empire State University, where he’s teaching recent mutant history to a mixed, and suspicious, class. In that class: the redoubtable Kamala Khan, New York City’s most sympathetic (and only public) mutant superhero....

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]]> 50709 Battle Of The Atom: New York Comic Con Super Special 2024 https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/28/battle-of-the-atom-new-york-comic-con-super-special-2024/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50628 This is a New York Comic Con super special featuring Pepe Larraz, Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing, Declan Shalvey, Spencer Ackerman, Jackson Lanzing, David Marquez, Josh Cassara, Gerry Duggan, Chris Condon, and Justin Mason!

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]]> 50628 Professor Prodigy practices pragmatism in our EXCLUSIVE preview of NYX #4 https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/27/nyx-4-preview/ Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50532 Of all the From the Ashes X-titles, NYX has been the most willing to engage with the legacy of Krakoa, which puts it near the top of the list for best current X-title. And perhaps more than any other mutant, Empire State University Professor David Alleyne, the former X-man Prodigy, is tasked with unpacking what...

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]]> 50532 Everything’s heavy underground in NYX #3 https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/28/nyx-3/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50313 Kamala Khan wants to study, and to protect everyone, and to keep her secret identity. Laura Kinney wants to protect the mutants, and to carve up the haters and bad guys. Sophie Cuckoo, Kamala’s new college BFF, wants … what? And what about Anole? Find out in NYX #3, written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin...

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]]> 50313 With its spotlight on Wolverine, NYX #2 remains the best X-Men From the Ashes comic https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/30/nyx-2/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49987 Every day, mutants are being stolen off the streets of Manhattan — unprotected and forgotten by the human world. Now, a war-worn Wolverine will descend into New York’s criminal underworld to bring them back into the light. Who is the mysterious mutant fixer known only as Local? Can Laura Kinney stand alone against the dangerous...

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]]> 49987 Alien Bugs, God-like Beings, and Data’s Head in the Latest Trek Talks! https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/31/alien-bugs-god-like-beings-and-datas-head-in-the-latest-trek-talks/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49747 Trek Talks returns with a fistful of Trek comics! Star Trek #21-22, written by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with art by Megan Levens, colors by Lee Loughridge and letters by Clayton Cowles. Star Trek: Defiant #16, written by Christopher Cantwell, with art by Ángel Unzueta, colors by Marissa Louise and letters by Clayton Cowles....

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]]> 49747 NYX #1 is the best From the Ashes X-Men comic so far https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/24/nyx-1/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:35:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49692 This is a book about mutants living past the end of their world and into a new beginning. This is Ms. Marvel embracing her mutant life on the neon streets of the Lower East Side. This is Anole trying to keep his head above water. This is Wolverine in the shadows of Bushwick, protecting her...

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]]> 49692 Now it’s Anole’s turn in our EXCLUSIVE cover reveal of NYX #3, out in September https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/18/nyx-3-cover-reveal/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49297 You guys ‘member that time Wolverine got knocked into the sewers below the Hellfire Club by Harry Leland and he said, “Okay, suckers, you’ve taken yer best shot! Now it’s my turn.” Look like it’s Anole’s turn to declare that it is, in fact, his turn. His turn to do what? No idea. NYX, one...

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