Joe Kelly - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:42:23 +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 Joe Kelly - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Aunt May can survive anything in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Radioactive Spider-Man #2 https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/13/radioactive-spiderman-2-preview/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54840 X YEARS LATER … HOW IS AUNT MAY STILL ALIVE? For someone who started out as the frailest old woman in comics, May Parker sure has survived a lot. Terminal diseases. Foreclosure. Doctor Octopus pitching woo. And apparently, in 10 years, she’ll survive Revelation’s X-Virus. She’ll have to live in stasis because she’s some kind...

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]]> 54840 This week’s Age of Revelation books check in on the villains and key mutants like … Spider-Man https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/26/age-of-revelation-book-spiderman-omegakids-lastwolverine/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54603 The Age of Revelation continues to grow with another four new stories! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s offerings: X-Men: Book of Revelation #1 by Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo...

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]]> 54603 Spider-Man’s brand new Brand New Day continues as he meets Predator, Godzilla https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/06/amazing-spiderman-predator-godzilla/ Tue, 06 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52475 What amped Rhino up from criminal super-bruiser to rampaging disaster machine? We aren’t spilling, but it just amped up Spider-Man! And the only people who can help are Norman Osborn and … Peter’s long-lost childhood best friend? Amazing Spider-Man #2 is written by Joe Kelly, drawn by Pepe Larraz, colored by Marte Gracia and lettered...

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]]> 52475 Pepe Larraz’s art breathes new life into Marvel’s latest relaunch of Amazing Spider-Man https://comicsxf.com/2025/04/20/amazing-spiderman-1-2025/ Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52232 Peter Parker gets a new beginning! Again! But really it’s a pretty fun launch. Amazing Spider-Man #1 is written by Joe Kelly, drawn by Pepe Larraz, colored by Marte Gracia and lettered by Joe Caramagna, with backups written by Kelly, drawn by John Romita Jr., inked by Scott Hanna, colored by Marcio Menyz and lettered...

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]]> 52232 All’s Wells that ends Wells in Amazing Spider-Man #60 https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/05/amazing-spiderman-60/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50735 Writer Zeb Wells ends his nearly three-year run on Amazing Spider-Man with a quiet issue #60 alongside artists John Romita Jr., Ed McGuinness, Paolo Rivera, Todd Nauck and Patrick Gleason; inkers Scott Hanna and Mark Farmer; colorists Marcio Menyz, Rachelle Rosenberg and Edgar Delgado; and letterer Joe Caramagna, while Joe Kelly, Mark Buckingham, Delgado and...

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]]> 50735 BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman is the Kwisatz Haderach (w/ Dan Grote) https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/25/batchat-with-matt-will-batman-is-the-kwisatz-haderach-w-dan-grote/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48724 It’s time to celebrate! Matt’s other show, The ComicsXF Interview Podcast, reached episode 300 this week. And so for that celebration, that show’s co-host, the first ever BatChat guest, Matt’s best friend of over 30 years, ComicsXF Editor-in-Chief Dan Grote, is joining BatChat again. We are talking stories from three creators who have been interviewed...

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]]> 48724 BatChat With Matt & Will: For the Love of Laughing Fish https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/16/batchat-with-matt-will-for-the-love-of-laughing-fish/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44756 Hey look, it’s Valentine’s week! And since Grant Morrison once called Batman a, “hairy chested love god,” who are we to argue? That means it’s time for three tales of the Dark Knight and romance! Strange Apparitions (Detective Comics V.1 #471-476) The Return of Scarface (Batman V.1 #475-476, Detective Comics V.1 #642) Perchance… (JLA #90)...

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]]> 44756 BatChat With Matt & Will: Id, Ego and Super(boy’s)ego (w/ Josh Weil) https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/01/batchat-with-matt-will-id-ego-and-superboysego-w-josh-weil/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44049 Welcome to teen hero comics of the 90s. It’s a very very mixed bag. For all the charm that some have, some… don’t. Friend of the show and Patreon backer Josh Weil really wanted to talk about Impulse #50, so we found some other stories of teen heroes in the 90s and Batman, specifically the...

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]]> 44049 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep. 26: Super Comics and Bat Cassettes (w/Cori McCreery) https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/17/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-26-super-comics-and-bat-cassettes-w-cori-mccreery/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=38995 DThey’re darkness and light. One is the champion of the city of tomorrow, one is the hero a corrupt and fallen city needs. They have been rivals, allies and sometimes friends. They are Batman and Superman. This week, a new volume of World’s Finest, the classic Batman/Superman team-up book, launches so Matt and Will are...

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]]> 38995 Action, Adventure, and Some Problems In Non-Stop Spider-Man #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/10/action-adventure-and-some-problems-in-non-stop-spider-man-1/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=22606 It’s “en media res” the comic book by Joe Kelly, Chris Bachalo, Tim Townsend, Marco Menyz, Dale Eaglesham, Morry Hollowell, and Travis Lanham! After a year of delays, Non-Stop Spider-Man finally hits stands this week. The series is built around the concept of a high octane, all action Spider-Man story, a literal interpretation of the...

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