Krakoa - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:06:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Krakoa - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Remembering Krakoa: How the last 5 years of X-Men comics changed a life, and a website https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/20/remembering-krakoa/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49305 ‘ It was the last week of July, 2019. House of X #1 had come out and I wasn’t convinced. I loved the artwork. I was interested in what Jonathan Hickman was setting up. My growing group of comics-obsessed friends were already proclaiming it a hit. But I was still spending that week being the...

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]]> 49305 Krakoa Was for Lovers: How the last 5 years of X-Men stories helped save one writer https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/06/krakoa-was-for-lovers/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49177 The first thing you should know is that without Krakoa, I might not be alive. If I don’t pick up that Black Panther comic in 2016 and fall in love with the genre … if the Xavier Files doesn’t do those brilliant deep dives into those introductory House of X and Powers of X books...

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]]> 49177 HoX PoX ToXCII: Annotating X-Men ’92: House Of XCII #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/15/hox-pox-toxcii-annotating-x-men-92-house-of-xcii-1/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40110 In our timeline, Robert Secundus and Christopher Eddlemen annotated every issue of House of X and Powers of X, two series that were one, the Summer of 2019. But imagine another timeline— a timeline where the 90s X-Men cartoon never ended and continued to adapt not the storylines of the Marvel comics, but the notes...

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]]> 40110 X Deaths of Wolverine #5 Changes Very Little https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/23/x-deaths-of-wolverine-5-changes-very-little/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39152 Wolverine and the Wolverines fight Wolverine and it’s the Wolverine-iest as the series concludes in X Deaths of Wolverine #5, written by Benjamin Percy, art by Federico Vicentini, colored by Dijjo Lima, and lettered by Cory Petit. Chris Eddleman: Well, our ten-week crossover is now at its end, and we’re here to sift through the...

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]]> 39152 X Observations About The New Quiet Council https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/27/x-observations-about-the-new-quiet-council/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34893 In our earlier discussion regarding Inferno #2, Chris and I spent a little bit of time talking about new Quiet Council dynamics, but I really just couldn’t stop thinking about it. Here are some interesting things I noticed now that the Quiet Council is once again operating at full capacity. First, a quick breakdown of...

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