Justin Mason - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:20:20 +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 Justin Mason - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Let’s go robo-surfing now in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Sentinels #5 https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/20/sentinels-5-preview/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51779 Look at those four happy robot kids on Justin Mason’s cover to Sentinels #5. Drumfire and Sawtooth each throwing a hand in the air, waving it like they just don’t care. Voivod looking a bit apprehensive but excited. Lockstep fully embracing the moment and striking a surfer pose. All while they ride a traditional Sentinel...

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]]> 51779 An action-packed CXF mini reviews covers The Ultimates, Sentinels, GI Joe and New Champions https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/12/mini-reviews-ultimates-sentinels-gijoe-newchampions/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51326 In a bid to broaden the number of comics we cover at ComicsXF, we give you, the reader, these mini reviews of some recent releases. The Ultimates #8 W: Deniz Camp | A: Juan Frigeri | C: Federico Blee | L: Travis Lanham | P: Marvel Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri transport their extraordinary universe building through...

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]]> 51326 Is this really Magneto in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Sentinels #3? https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/15/sentinels-3-preview/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51096 According to Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman’s X-Men, Magneto is in a wheelchair suffering from “resurrection-linked degenerative sickness,” a new disease that so far seems to affect only him. How, then, does he appear in this issue of Sentinels, seemingly at full strength, menacing both the team AND former traitorous hanger-on Fabian Cortez? Is it...

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]]> 51096 Ms. Marvel and Wolverine are the new Odd Couple in our EXCLUSIVE cover reveal for NYX #7 https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/19/nyx-7-mason-cove/ Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50854 The 1965 Neil Simon play The Odd Couple, later made and remade into a number of movies and TV shows, posits that two divorced, middle-aged men who exist in an imaginary binary of cleanliness are fertile grounds for comedy. This variant cover by Justin Mason for NYX #7, out Jan. 8, posits a similar scenario...

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]]> 50854 Pepperidge Farm remembers Onslaught in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Sentinels #2 https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/17/sentinels-2-preview/ Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50810 The year was 1996. I was 16 years old and had only been collecting comics for about three years. It was the summer of Onslaught. I remember being excited for the big linewide crossover. Finally, the thing the X-books had been teasing since the end of the Age of Apocalypse – not to mention the...

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]]> 50810 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 X-Chat catches up with Sentinels, X-Men and Phoenix https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/20/xchat-sentinels-xmen-phoenix/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50482 The bad guys take the lead in Sentinels #1, written by Alex Paknadel, drawn by Justin Mason, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by Travis Lanham.  Quiet, psychic rescue in progress, again, in X-Men #5, written by Jed MacKay; drawn by Ryan Stegman; inked by JP Mayer, John Livesay and Stegman; colored by Marte Gracia,...

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]]> 50482 Part 2 of our From the Ashes series guide proves all the best X-Men are women … and Sentinels? https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/24/xmen-from-ashes-wave2/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49920 So, we’re six new series and eight issues into the X-Men: From the Ashes era. How’s everyone feeling? Have you recovered from the months-long hangover from your last night at the Green Lagoon, or are you still missing the tiki-bar lifestyle? Have you found your new X-Men title yet, or are you struggling to find...

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]]> 49920 Marvel announces Sentinels by Paknadel & Mason and Mystique by Shalvey https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/28/sentinels-paknadel-mason-mystique-shalvey/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:13:54 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49446 Earlier this week, we posted a series-by-series breakdown of each of the upcoming X-Men From the Ashes series. Then Marvel went and dropped two more. Jerks. Marvel on Thursday announced Sentinels, a five-issue miniseries by writer Alex Paknadel (All Against All) and artist Justin Mason (Spider-Punk: Arms Race), launching Oct. 9. The series will follow...

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]]> 49446 Battle of the Multi-Limbed Mechs in Spider-Punk: Arms Race #4 https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/21/spider-punk-arms-race-4/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49390 IT’S MECH VS MECH! Otto Octavius’ Spider-Slayer Sentinel vs. Team Spider-Punk’s Spider-Van Mech! Giant robots punching each other in the middle of the city! All this in Spider-Punk: Arms Race #4, written by Cody Ziglar, drawn by Justin Mason, colored by Morry Hollowell and lettered by VC’s Travis Lanham. The comic opens as the Spider-Robot...

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]]> 49390 Experience Anarcho-Octo Terror In Spider-Punk: Arms Race #3 https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/20/spider-punk-arms-race-3/ Mon, 20 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48987 Doc Ock gets brutal. A member of the band goes solo. And the fight goes mecha! All that and more in Spider-Punk: Arms Race #3, written by Cody Ziglar, drawn by Justin Mason, colored by Morry Hollowell and Rico Renzi, and lettered by Travis Lanham. Picking up where issue 2 left off, issue 3 starts...

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]]> 48987 Stop. Hammer time in Spider-Punk: Arms Race #2 https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/25/spiderpunk-arms-race/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48728 Rhino crashes the party to stomp out Spider-Punk. What secrets lie under the community center that Spidey and his crew call home base? And how does it all tie back to Norman Osborn? Find out in Spider-Punk: Arms Race #2, written by Cody Ziglar, drawn by Justin Mason, colored by Morry Hollowell and lettered by...

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]]> 48728 Anarchy in the USA in Spider-Punk: Arms Race # https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/19/spider-punk-1/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48265 Hobie Brown is the anarchic Spider-Punk, set to protect Earth-138 with his ax in hand and a chaotic band of punk rockin’ heroes backing him. Norman Osborn is dead, but will the chaos he’s created be too much for Spider-Punk to handle? Find out in Spider-Punk: Arms Race #1, written by Cody Ziglar, drawn by...

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]]> 48265 Yup, We’re Still Reading Stuff from Months Ago (including Local Man and Where Monsters Lie) https://comicsxf.com/2023/04/21/yup-were-still-reading-stuff-from-months-ago-including-local-man-and-where-monsters-lie/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45291 One long and bloody night is finally at its end in Rogues’ Gallery #4, with story by Hannah Rose May and Declan Shalvey, written by May, drawn by Justin Mason, colored by Triona Farrell, lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and published by Image. Roy is getting closer to his final destination. And perhaps nearer to a...

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]]> 45291 Ron Becomes a Papa (Maybe), and We Grapple with Pratfalls in Spy Superb https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/08/ron-becomes-a-papa-maybe-and-we-grapple-with-pratfalls-in-spy-superb/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44696 Ron Livingston gets farther away from everyone and everything he’s ever known and closer to the end in Traveling to Mars #2, written by Mark Russell, drawn by Roberto “Dakar” Meli, colored by Chiara di Francia, lettered by Mattia Gentili and published by Ablaze. Actress Maisie Wade confronts the murderous fans who’ve invaded her home...

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]]> 44696 It’s Bonding, Beach Day, and Back to Their Roots in New Mutants #30 https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/21/its-bonding-beach-day-and-back-to-their-roots-in-new-mutants-30/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43058 Let’s celebrate 40 years of the New Mutants (and Ryan Reynolds?!?) in New Mutants #30 from a stacked team of creators!

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]]> 43058 Killin’ for Fun (and Revenge and Profit) in Rogues’ Gallery, Absolution and Above Snakes https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/12/killin-for-fun-and-revenge-and-profit-in-rogues-gallery-absolution-and-above-snakes/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42826 If you go after the queen of TV superheroes, you’d better not miss. Or you could think about sucking less as a person. Your choice, really, in Rogues’ Gallery #1, written by Hannah Rose May, with story by May and Declan Shalvey, drawn by Justin Mason, colored by Triona Farrell, lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and...

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