Jonas Scharf - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:45:24 +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 Jonas Scharf - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Rise from your grave in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dead X-Men #1 https://comicsxf.com/2024/01/25/dead-xmen-1-preview/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47771 Previously, in Dead X-Men: Remember that? Fun times. Even with resurrection seemingly off the table for now, mutants are finding all sorts of ways to come back. Jean Grey found herself communing with the Phoenix Force again in the White Hot Room. X-Force has a clone of Beast circa his New Defenders era just lying...

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]]> 47771 More Draco connections emerge in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #4 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/09/dark-xmen-4-preview/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47083 The mutant known as Abyss first appeared during the “Age of Apocalypse” as one of the big, blue guy’s Horsemen. Nearly a decade later, it would be revealed during that oh-so-pivotal Chuck Austen story “The Draco” that Earth-616 Abyss, born Nils Styger, is a son of the demon mutant Azazel and a half-brother of Nightcrawler....

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]]> 47083 Finally, the Dawn of X from Emplate’s perspective in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #3 https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/19/dark-xmen-3-preview/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46935 Emplate, aka Marius St. Croix, was among the villains to emerge from a gate when Charles Xavier offered mutant amnesty to all in 2019’s House of X #5. A data page would later reveal he had been charged with helping measure the island’s energy-absorption levels. And that was pretty much all we saw of him...

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]]> 46935 Crisis on Multiple Madelynes in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #2 https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/14/dark-xmen-2-preview/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46564 Once upon a time, Doctor Doom made a hamburger multiverse and called it Battleworld. And in that hamburger multiverse there was an Inferno world where Madelyne Pryor went full demon. That Madelyne somehow survived the re-rewriting of reality and ended up on Earth-616, tangled with the time-displaced original five X-Men and, off-panel, was captured by...

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]]> 46564 Dark X-Men #1 is a hell of a good time https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/22/dark-x-men-1-is-a-hell-of-a-good-time/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46352 Madelyne Pryor has a lot to worry about. As Queen of Limbo, she has to quell constant demonic uprisings against her home. She’s also in charge of the Limbo-New York Embassy, managing mutant refugees from the fall of Krakoa, and generally dealing with a city that does not want her there — and now Orchis...

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