Jeff Lemire - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 29 Jun 2025 15:16:02 +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 Jeff Lemire - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Emo Wally, a minotaur and Ra’s al Musk in Absolute Flash, Wonder Woman and Superman https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/29/absolute-flash-wonderwoman-superman-batman/ Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53128 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 June, featuring emo Flash, a Musky Ra’s al Ghul and something stinky in Absolute Wonder Woman. Absolute Flash #4 Written by Jeff Lemire,...

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]]> 53128 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 Check out an extended preview of DC’s Robin & Batman: Jason Todd #1, out in June https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/07/robin-batman-jason-todd/ Wed, 07 May 2025 12:30:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52490 Admittedly, the Big Board was not kind to the original volume of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s Robin & Batman. On a list of 552 Batman stories, the retelling of Dick Grayson’s early years as Robin currently sits at 522. Check out Matt and Will’s discussion here. But readers responded more favorably, enough so that...

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]]> 52490 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 BatChat With Matt & Will: Black Label Batman (w/ Matt McThorn) https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/06/batchat-with-matt-will-black-label-batman-w-matt-mcthorn/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49173 In this week’s BatChat column, we read Detective Comics #1,085, Batman: Dark Age #3 and Batman: The Brave and the Bold #13. Check out the Big Board of rankings HERE. Thanks to Geri Nonnewitz for our podcast logo. Follow the show on Twitter @BatChatComics, and back us on Patreon.

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]]> 49173 A Great, Big Convoy of Terror in Phantom Road #1 https://comicsxf.com/2023/03/07/a-great-big-convoy-of-terror-in-phantom-road-1/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44971 Writer Jeff Lemire, artist Gabriel Walta, colorist Jordie Bellaire and letterer Steve Wands head out on the back roads and find only horror in Phantom Road #1, published by Image Comics. I grew up on trucks. My dad owned a small trucking company, and I frequently would ride along when I wasn’t in school. As...

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]]> 44971 It’s a No-Tell Motel in Hotell Because Almost Everyone Dies (Also: Little Monsters! Red Sonja!) https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/16/its-a-no-tell-motel-in-hotell-because-almost-everyone-dies-also-little-monsters-red-sonja/ Mon, 16 May 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40836 A “Hotel California” reference here would be pretty lame, right? But there are literally characters checking out and never leaving in Hotell Vol. 2 #5, written by John Lees, drawn by Dalibor Talajic, colored by Lee Loughridge, lettered by Sal Cipriano and published by Artists, Writers and Artisans.  There’s a “New Kid in Town,” and...

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]]> 40836 Red Sonja Travels to a Town Called Terror Filled With Little Monsters https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/18/red-sonja-travels-to-a-town-called-terror-filled-with-little-monsters/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40148 In a land of talking chainmail, the woman with the talkiest chainmail is queen. Probably — in Immortal Red Sonja #1, written by Dan Abnett, drawn by Alessandro Miracolo, colored by Ellie Wright, lettered by Jeff Eckleberry and published by Dynamite. It’s a quiet night in the ‘burbs … until your dad’s goon squad hauls...

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]]> 40148 Those Tiny Vamp Scamps Are So Darn Cute in Little Monsters https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/11/those-tiny-vamp-scamps-are-so-darn-cute-in-little-monsters/ Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=38554 The meek shall inherit the earth. And by meek, we apparently mean kiddie vampires in Little Monsters #1, written by Jeff Lemire, drawn by Dustin Nguyen, lettered by Steve Wands and published by Image. Netflix needed something to adapt, so we’ve got King of Spies #1, written by Mark Millar at Netflix, drawn by Matteo...

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]]> 38554 Joker Enters the Endgame as ‘Shadows of the Bat’ Continues in BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/15/joker-enters-the-endgame-as-shadows-of-the-bat-continues-in-batchat-text-edition/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37419 Everything has led to this. All the forces that have pursued the Joker for the past 10 issues are converging on the Sampson estate, as Jim Gordon has a realization, in The Joker #11, written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Stefano Raffaele, colored by Romulo Fajardo Jr. and lettered by Tom Napolitano. In Detective...

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]]> 37419 Find out What Comic Broke Matt in This Week’s BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/24/find-out-what-comic-broke-matt-in-this-weeks-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=36584 Looks like we oopsed up and called it too early before, but this time it’s really the last issue of the new volume of Legends of the Dark Knight. This issue features two shorts:  “The Ghost and the Knight,” written by Che Grayson, drawn by Belen Ortega, colored by Alejandro Sanchez and lettered by Aditya...

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]]> 36584 Joker Remixes the Hits and a Sad Dad Raises the Boy Wonder in BatChat https://comicsxf.com/2021/11/12/joker-remixes-the-hits-and-a-sad-dad-raises-the-boy-wonder-in-batchat/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35229 The truth of The Network and their deep connections to Gotham and the Joker begin to be revealed, as Jim Gordon once again comes face to face with Joker in The Joker #9, written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Stefano Raffaele, colored by Romulo Fajardo Jr. and lettered by Tom Napolitano. Some new ghost...

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]]> 35229 The Real Unbelievable Unteens Is the Friends We Made Along the Way https://comicsxf.com/2021/11/10/the-real-unbelievable-unteens-is-the-friends-we-made-along-the-way/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 22:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35214 Unbelievable Unteens comic book artist Jane Ito finds her world turned upside down after discovering her comic book creations were real and she was one of them. As she and the Unteens reunite and put the pieces together, they take on the forces that disbanded them for one final fight. In reality, Unbelievable Unteens #4...

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]]> 35214 A Mother’s Rage Unleashed in Dark Horse’s Black Hammer: Reborn #5 https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/27/a-mothers-rage-unleashed-in-dark-horses-black-hammer-reborn-5/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34875 A multidimensional nightmare wreaks chaos on Spiral City as the powerful superhero known as the Black Hammer joins forces with the brutal vigilante known as the Skulldigger to put an end to this madness in Black Hammer: Reborn #5, written by Jeff Lemire, drawn by Malachi Ward, Matthew Sheean and Rich Tomasso, and lettered by...

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]]> 34875 Family Fridging and Troubled Teens in a Black Hammer Roundup https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/18/family-fridging-and-troubled-teens-in-a-black-hammer-roundup/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34704 In Black Hammer: Reborn #4, Colonel Weird brings Lucy on a trip through the Para-Zone, and the sins of her past; written by Jeff Lemire, drawn by Caitlin Yarsky, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered by Nate Piekos.  Meanwhile, in Unbelievable Unteens #3, the newly reunited no-longer-teens remember the White Wraith Saga that tore the...

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]]> 34704 Pastiche vs. Narrative in Dark Horse’s The Unbelievable Unteens #2 https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/09/pastiche-vs-narrative-in-dark-horses-the-unbelievable-unteens-2/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33496 Unbelievable Unteens comic book artist Jane Ito finds her world flipped upside down after discovering that the heroes from her comics were not so fictional and she herself was one of them and had powers. As she and the team of underdog heroes once known as the Unteens begin to come back together, they slowly...

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]]> 33496 Divorce at the End of the World in Dark Horse’s Black Hammer: Reborn #3 https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/02/divorce-at-the-end-of-the-world-in-dark-horses-black-hammer-reborn-3/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33265 Twenty years ago, Lucy Weber fought madmen and monsters. Today, she finds her marriage falling apart and her children in danger. And now past threats, and rogue heroes, return to herald the end of the world in Black Hammer: Reborn #3, written by Jeff Lemire, drawn by Caitlin Yarsky, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered...

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]]> 33265 Art, Commerce and a Teen Titans Pastiche in The Unbelievable Unteens https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/11/art-commerce-and-a-teen-titans-pastiche-in-the-unbelievable-unteens/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32550 After signing at a comic book convention, Unbelievable Unteens artist Jane Ito finds herself visited by one of the characters from her own creation — but was it her own creation? Were the Unteens an actual school of teenaged misfit superheroes who battled supervillains under the lead of the mysterious Dr. Miles Moniker? And if...

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]]> 32550 A Trip into the Para-Zone and a Classic Superhero Misunderstanding in Black Hammer Reborn #2 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/21/a-trip-into-the-para-zone-and-a-classic-superhero-misunderstanding-in-black-hammer-reborn-2/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=31466 Lucy Weber, formerly the powerful hero Black Hammer, is struggling to keep her daughter from following the same path of heroism — a battle she seems destined to lose as the family is confronted with spatial warps, shark monsters and familiar faces from the past that threaten to bring more violence into their lives than...

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]]> 31466 Journey to the Future with Image’s The Silver Coin #4 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/14/journey-to-the-future-with-images-the-silver-coin-4/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30870 The cycle of horror travels far into the future for the fourth issue of The Silver Coin by artist Michael Walsh and writer Jeff Lemire. The year is 2467, and the old world has been buried beneath the junk of a new civilization. From the trash, a scavenger discovers ancient treasure — a coin. The...

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]]> 30870 Black Hammer Is Reborn, and in Need of a Hook https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/23/black-hammer-is-reborn-and-in-need-of-a-hook/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29731 Writer Jeff Lemire returns to the World of Black Hammer, this time with artist Caitlin Yarsky, colorist Dave Stewart and letterer Nate Piekos. It’s 20 years later, and Lucy, and the world, have moved on. Living in the suburbs of Spiral City, Lucy is married and has children. But all is not blissful. Her marriage...

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]]> 29731 Jump into the World of Black Hammer with this Handy Reading Guide https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/05/jump-into-the-world-of-black-hammer-with-this-handy-reading-guide/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=12783 It’s 2021, and the question on every comic reader’s mind is, “What is Black Hammer, and how do I get into it?”  Well, maybe not every comic reader, but with three miniseries currently being published, an anthology series coming next week and three new series announced recently, the world of Black Hammer might seem a...

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