Javier Rodriguez - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 25 May 2025 23:13:38 +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 Javier Rodriguez - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Talking DC’s Absolute Martian Manhunter #3, Absolute Wonder Woman #8 & Absolute Flash #3 https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/28/absolute-flash-wonderwoman-martianmanhunter/ Wed, 28 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52838 Welcome back to Talking Absolute…, where we at ComicsXF analyze the Absolute DC storylines, controversies and themes that have captured our imaginations each month. Today, we’ll be covering the titles released in the back half of May, talking teenage angst in Absolute Flash, gaseous villains in Absolute Wonder Woman and humanity’s clouded judgment in Absolute...

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]]> 52838 Talking DC’s Absolute Martian Manhunter #2, Absolute Flash #2 & Absolute Wonder Woman #7 https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/04/absolute-martianmanhunter-flash-wonderwoman/ Sun, 04 May 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52365 Welcome, everyone, to our first monthly edition of Talking Absolute …, where we’ll focus on the storylines, controversies and themes that have captured our imaginations in the Absolute DC titles each month.  April was the first month to have releases from all six series, so what better time to start than this? So far, we...

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]]> 52365 Examining the 2nd wave of DC’s Absolute line: Flash, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern https://comicsxf.com/2025/04/04/absolute-flash-martian-manhunter-green-lantern/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:14:49 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52158 Jake Murray: Let me start off with the coldest take since Dr. Victor Fries took up his nom de guerre: The first wave of titles in DC’s Absolute line have been pretty damn successful (that’s Absolute Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman for the dozen or so uninitiated). Let me stun you with another ice-cold blast...

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]]> 52158 Defenders: Beyond #5 Brings us A Cosmic Ending Worth the One Above All. https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/30/defenders-beyond-5-brings-us-a-cosmic-ending-worth-the-one-above-all/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44041 Our non-team of fearless DEFENDERS meet their maker in the HOUSE OF IDEAS and have a chat with THE ONE ABOVE ALL. But is EVERYTHING as it SEEMS? Defenders: Beyond #5 created by Al Ewing and Javier Rodríguez, letters by Joe Caramagna. Mark Turetsky: Hey Karen, for our final Defenders Beyond review, I wanted us...

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]]> 44041 Defenders: Beyond #4 https://comicsxf.com/2022/10/20/defenders-beyond-4/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:00:04 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43506 The Defenders find themselves in a superhero utopia, but here’s the thing — it’s not real if it’s a dream. Defenders: Beyond #4 is brought to you by Al Ewing and Javier Rodríguez, with letters by Joe Caramagna. Karen Charm: Dig, if you will, a picture — Defenders: Beyond is about to hit its 50th issue on...

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]]> 43506 Two Cosmos(es?) for the Price of One in Defenders Beyond #2! https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/29/two-cosmoses-for-the-price-of-one-in-defenders-beyond-2/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42649 As our fearless DEFENDERS continue their epic journey into THE BEYOND, the fearsome fivesome meets THE OMEGA COUNCIL and learns the SECRETS OF CREATION and possibly gains a new non-teammate in Defenders Beyond #2! As told by Al Ewing and Javier Rodríguez, with letters by Joe Caramagna. Mark Turetsky:  Well, Karen! It looks like another...

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]]> 42649 Oh No. We’re Having Another Team-Up in Defenders Beyond #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/26/oh-no-were-having-another-team-up-in-defenders-beyond-1/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42226 The cards are pulled once again, summoning a new non-team of Defenders who must plunge farther back through the prior incarnations of our universe to save them all in Defenders Beyond #1. Words by Al Ewing, pictures by Javier Rodríguez and letters by Joe Caramagna. Karen Charm: I turn the card to reveal “The Prince...

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]]> 42226 What If … Uatu Actually DIDN’T Interfere for Once in Trial of the Watcher #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/16/what-if-uatu-actually-didnt-interfere-for-once-in-trial-of-the-watcher-1/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=38989 In all of the multiverse, there is only one world that Uatu has avoided watching, one “What If” that he never wished to see. And now it will be revealed, the story that could damn him for all time, in Fantastic Four: Reckoning War: Trial of the Watcher #1, written by Dan Slott, drawn by...

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]]> 38989 Defenders #4 Has No Words, Should Have Sent a Poet https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/15/defenders-4-has-no-words-should-have-sent-a-poet/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35968 Our fearless Defenders find themselves on the third stop on their multicosmic journey: The archetypal FOURTH COSMOS! Get out your Blake. And your Jung. And your Silver Age Omnibus. Defenders #4 is told to us by Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez, with lettering by Joe Caramagna. Mark Turetsky: Welcome to the Fourth Cosmos, Stephanie! I...

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]]> 35968 Marvel Max, or Rather Omni-Max in Defenders #2! https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/09/marvel-max-or-rather-omni-max-in-defenders-2/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33447 The new Defenders stand against a universal constant in the final days of The Sixth Cosmos in Defenders #2. When last we left Marvel’s greatest non-team, they had just been transported to a “time before time”, joining with Taaia, Mother of Galactus, to defend the past against the hunger of Omni-Max. But can the past...

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]]> 33447 Enter The 6th Cosmos, Home Of Galactus, In Our Exclusive Preview Of Defenders #2 https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/02/enter-the-6th-cosmos-home-of-galactus-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-defenders-2/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33277 As longtime readers of Al Ewing’s work know, the 616 is currently in its 8th iteration of the cosmos. [Ed. note: As a site that came to notoriety through X-Men, I have to note that this is fully unrelated to the lives of Moira X.] In Ultimates2 #100, we saw all of the multiverses from...

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]]> 33277 A Long, Long Time Ago in Defenders #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/11/a-long-long-time-ago-in-defenders-1/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32571 When existence itself faces extraordinary threats, it needs an extraordinary defense! That’s when you call…The Defenders! Doctor Strange and the Masked Raider take a non-team of Marvel’s weirdest, wildest heroes on a mission that will uncover the hidden architecture of reality itself! This cosmos was not the first to exist…but if the Defenders can’t track...

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