Leah Williams - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:58:15 +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 Leah Williams - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 367: Matt Goes to Flame Con 2025, Part II https://comicsxf.com/2025/09/15/tcxfip-367-flame-con-part-i/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54132 The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 367: Matt Goes to Flame Con 2025, Part II In the second half of Matt Lazorwitz’s Flame Con interviews, he chats with How Could You creator Ren Strapp, Lifetime Passes writer Terry Blas, and Voyeur and Gotham City Sirens writer Leah Williams. Listen to Part...

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]]> 54132 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 SuperChat Brings Us Tales of Supermen and Superboys https://comicsxf.com/2023/05/05/superchat-brings-us-tales-of-supermen-and-suprboys/ Fri, 05 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45380 It’s Supermen, Supermen, Supermen, everywhere you look. Evil, electric, parasitic, young and space-faring and, of course, original flavor. There’s something for everyone! Superman and his family deal with the threat of Metallo and his malevolent metallic minions — but there’s more than meets the eye in Action Comics #1053, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn...

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]]> 45380 SuperChat is Back With Superman’s Family and His New Friend… Lex Luthor? https://comicsxf.com/2023/03/10/superchat-is-back-with-supermans-family-and-his-new-friend-lex-luthor/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45018 A new day dawns, and Superman is facing all new challenges. Mainly, a little voice in his ear trying to lead him down a darker path. Lex Luthor has decided to ally himself  with Superman — but his help might be worse than his hindrance. Was this team-up doomed to failure from the start? We...

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]]> 45018 A New Era Begins In This Week’s SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/30/a-new-era-begins-in-this-weeks-superchat/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44639 A new year brings in new beginnings. An era ends, and a new era rises. Jon’s faces down the Red Sin and finishes off his series with Superman: Son of Kal-El #18, written by Tom Taylor, penciled by Cian Tormey and Ruairí Coleman, inked by Cian Tormey, Ruairí Coleman and Scott Hanna, colored by Romulo...

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]]> 44639 Nuclear Revenge in X-Terminators #5 https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/25/nuclear-revenge-in-x-terminators-5/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44574 Boom-Boom, Dazzler, Jubilee and Laura Kinney (the best Wolverine) have escaped 1. Dazzler’s creepazoid ex-boyfriend Alex, who happens to be a vampire; 2. Alex’s ultra-creepy mutant fight club; 3. the Collector’s disturbingly creepy space station; and 4. space. Now they’re back on Krakoa. What will they do for an encore? Find out in X-Terminators #5,...

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]]> 44574 Lots of BA-THROOOOM Humor in X-Terminators #4 https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/29/lots-of-ba-throooom-humor-in-x-terminators-4/ Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44372 Laura Kinney (the best Wolverine!), Alison Blaire (the no-longer-so-disco Dazzler!), Jubilation Lee (surprisingly practical!) and Boom-Boom (boom, there it is!) have fought their way out of a vampire monster arena only to end up trapped between star systems, stuck in a quasi-harem on the Collector’s spacefaring retreat. What’s a girl to do? Find out in...

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]]> 44372 Is X-Terminators #3 Any Good? You Bet Your [Peach Emoji] https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/30/is-x-terminators-3-any-good-you-bet-your-peach-emoji/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44034 Watch Dazzler free kidnapped victims from Otherworld while Wolverine tears up the kidnappers’ prison, Jubilee jokes about Dazzler’s ample rear end and everyone except for the readers gets to marvel at Boom-Boom’s bare boobs! We’re not kidding, and neither is she in X-Terminators #3, written by Leah Williams, drawn by Carlos Gómez, colored by Bryan...

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]]> 44034 X-Men #16 leads the pack as X-Chat pops the popcorn! https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/23/x-men-16-leads-the-pack-as-x-chat-pops-the-popcorn/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43992 We’re a little behind but the line rolls on! Welcome back to our fourth installment of X-Chat! In X-Men #16, Forge dives into the Vault from Gerry Duggan, Josh Cassara, Guru-eFx, and Clayton Cowles. It goes badly. The girls get in deep in X-Terminators #2 from Leah Williams, Carlos Gomez, Bryan Valenza, and Travis Lanham....

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]]> 43992 Jubilee Does A Suplex In Our Exclusive Preview Of X-Terminators #2 https://comicsxf.com/2022/10/20/jubilee-does-a-suplex-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-x-terminators-2/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43523 You ever here about a journalism term called “burying the lede”? Well here at ComicsXF we refuse to do that. We put the lede right there in the headline. Disaster gals doing wresting moves and looking hot doing it. Leah Williams and Carlos Gomez are doing God’s work here and we love it. Check out...

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]]> 43523 Leah Williams Lets Us Know Which X-Terminators Vape https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/21/leah-williams-lets-us-know-which-x-terminators-vape/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43062 Robert Secundus: Today on ComicsXF we are joined by the writer of Age of X-Man: The Extremists War of the Realms: Giant-Man, X-Factor, X-Men Black: Emma Frost, What If? Magik, The Amazing Mary Jane, The Trial of Magneto, Gwenpool Strikes Back, and the forthcoming comic (R)ender. We will be discussing Exterminators #1, the first issue...

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]]> 43062 Battle Of The Atom: Grindhouse Of X with Leah Williams https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/19/battle-of-the-atom-grindhouse-of-x-with-leah-williams/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43037 We get it started in here with X-Terminators writer Leah Williams on a very dumb (complimentary) comic. It’s X-Terminators week at long last!

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]]> 43037 Booty Shorts and Bloodsuckers in Our X-clusive Preview of X-Terminators #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/15/booty-shorts-and-bloodsuckers-in-our-x-clusive-preview-of-x-terminators-1/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42905 Breaking up sucks. Sometimes you gotta just get together with your best gals and dance it out. Hi, 42-year-old straight guy here for X-TERMINATORS, the comic where Dazzler, Boom-Boom, Jubilee and possibly also Wolverine make bad decisions, blow shit up and fight vampires in a comic so presumably messed up it comes with a mature-readers’...

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]]> 42905 Scarlet Witch Unravels The Mystery In X-Men: The Trial Of Magneto #4 https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/01/scarlet-witch-unravels-the-mystery-in-x-men-the-trial-of-magneto-4/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35510 Alas, nothing is ever what it seems on Krakoa. As we continue to unravel the mystery of Wanda, she faces her toughest challenge yet, herself. Let’s join Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck, David Messina, Edgar Delgado and Clayton Cowles as we spin the wheel once more in X-Men: The Trial Of Magneto #4. Charlie Davis: Well...

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]]> 35510 Is All Well That Ends Well In X-Men: The Trial Of Magneto #2 https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/15/is-all-well-that-ends-well-in-x-men-the-trial-of-magneto-2/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33745 Is there such a thing as the perfect crime? Sure, all the evidence points to Magneto, but can it really be that easy? Nothing is what it seems on Krakoa. Find out what happens when Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck, and Edgar Delgado bring us along to solve the case of who killed the Scarlet Witch...

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]]> 33745 Mourn The Murder Of The Scarlet Witch In X-Men: The Trial Of Magneto #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/18/mourn-the-murder-of-the-scarlet-witch-in-x-men-the-trial-of-magneto-1/ Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32836 Once upon a time, The Scarlet Witch, The Pretender Wanda Maximoff, was the daughter of Magneto. She’s been evil and an Avenger. She is now dead. Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck, Joe Caramagna and Edgar Delgado examine her fate in X-Men: The Trial Of Magneto #1. Charlie Davis: Well. It’s here. I don’t know about you,...

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]]> 32836 Battle Of The Atom: Bunny Stickers & A Crudely Drawn Diagram With Leah Williams https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/16/battle-of-the-atom-bunny-stickers-a-crudely-drawn-diagram-with-leah-williams/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32724 Longtime friend of the show Leah Williams stops by to talk about The Trial of Magneto, X-Factor and much much more! Here’s that diagram we talk about 

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]]> 32724 The Hellfire Gala Ends With A Universe Shaking Revelation In X-Factor #10 https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/30/the-hellfire-gala-ends-with-a-universe-shaking-revelation-in-x-factor-10/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30293 Much like the Hellfire Gala, our time with X-Factor is at and end. Leah Williams, David Baldeón, David Messina, Lucas Werneck, Israel Silva and Joe Caramagna take a bow with X-Factor #10. Cori McCreery: Well here we are, Andrea. The end of the road. I’m going to very much miss this team, but even more,...

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]]> 30293 Where Does Marvel Voices: Pride Succeed? And Where Does It Fail? https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/22/where-does-marvel-voices-pride-succeed-and-where-does-it-fail/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29885 This week, Marvel Comics is releasing the next in their series of Marvel Voices anthologies, designed to give exposure and voice to to a more demographically diverse segment of creators and characters. And since this is June, Pride Month, Marvel’s special is focusing on LGBTQA+ representation. Marvel Voices: Pride features stories from Luciano Vecchio, Mike...

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]]> 29885 Threads Weave Together To Form A Beautiful Tapestry As X-Factor #9 Hits Its Grand Finale https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/12/threads-weave-together-to-form-a-beautiful-tapestry-as-x-factor-9-hits-its-grand-finale/ Wed, 12 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=27057 We have a lot to wrap up and not a ton of time before the Gala. Lucky for us, Leah Williams, David Baldeón, Israel Silva and Joe Caramagna are here to defeat a goddess in X-Factor #9. Cori McCreery: First the bad news: Polaris is leaving the book to join the X-Men. Next the worse...

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]]> 27057 Boneyard’s Haunted In X-Factor #8 https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/10/boneyards-haunted-in-x-factor-8/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=22647 Boneyard’s Haunted. Leah Williams, David Baldeón, Israel Silva and Joe Caramagna do a spook in X-Factor #8. Cori McCreery: Hey Andrea, do you like ghost stories? Andrea Ayres: Hey Cori, I love them.  Eye-Boy Sees Dead People CM: Alright so first we get a flashback to set the stage, and I absolutely love the idea...

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]]> 22647 Battle of the Atom: Episode 18 – Get #BringBackMaggott Trending with Leah Williams https://comicsxf.com/2017/12/04/battle-atom-episode-18-get-bringbackmaggott-trending-leah-williams/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:00:14 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=2927 Zack & Adam are joined by the writer of the upcoming X-Men Gold Annual, Leah Williams to talk about Excalibur’s 30th Anniversary, how long it took to come up with the best opening line in comics this year, the recent revelations about CB Cebulski, and most importantly, Maggott. This is a Maggott heavy episode people....

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