Leonard Kirk - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:31:45 +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 Leonard Kirk - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Star Wars: A New Legacy celebrates 10 years of new obscure characters to be precious about https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/03/star-wars-new-legacy/ Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51565 The really bad news first: it has somehow, implausibly, gruesomely, been 10 years since 2015. I know. This means it has been just shy of 10 years since The Force Awakens inaugurated a whole new era of things for Star Wars fans to be apoplectically upset about, and 10 years since Marvel began publishing Star...

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]]> 51565 Hell Breaks Loose in Sabretooth #5! https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/06/hell-breaks-loose-in-sabretooth-5/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41900 Plans come together and then promptly fall apart and then become new plans, and you know what? Just read the comic, you’ll thank us later. Sabretooth #5 written by Victor LaValle, drawn by Leonard Kirk, colored by Rain Beredo, and lettered by Cory Petit.  Jude Jones: We know her name was Nanny of the Maroons....

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]]> 41900 Punishments Do Not Fit The Crimes In Sabretooth #4 https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/29/punishments-do-not-fit-the-crimes-in-sabretooth-4/ Wed, 29 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41758 Feral Councils are quiet, Quiet Councils are feral, and Victor Creed hosts a fireside chat in our latest journey through the carceral state of Krakoa. Sabretooth #4 was written by Victor LaValle, penciled by Leonard Kirk, inked by Craig Yeung, colored by Rain Beredo, and lettered by VC’s Cory Petit.  Jude Jones: Abortion is now...

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]]> 41758 Victor Creed Plans An Escape in Sabretooth #3 https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/27/victor-creed-plans-an-escape-in-sabretooth-3/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40349 Sabretooth was sent to the Pit. Then he made it a hell. Now it’s a prison, and Victor Creed is leading a daring escape. Will the exiled mutants be able to work together long enough to find their way out of the Pit? Or are they digging a deeper hole? And who’s their jailer anyway?...

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]]> 40349 Sabretooth #2 Is an Exploration of Injustice In “Utopia” https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/09/sabretooth-2-is-an-exploration-of-injustice-in-utopia/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=38312 Professor X promised there would be no prisons on Krakoa. He lied. Sabretooth was the first mutant sent to the Pit. Now he welcomes five more mutants into his own private hell. What laws did they break? Are they ready for what they’ll find? Sabretooth #2 continues digging into Krakoan justice. Written by Victor LaValle,...

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]]> 38312 We Reckon With The Meaning of Justice in Sabretooth #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/02/02/we-reckon-with-the-meaning-of-justice-in-sabretooth-1/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37777 For breaking the laws of Krakoa, Sabretooth was dragged into the Pit, sentenced to an eternity of torment. But no prison can hold him – or can it? A sentient island staffed by mutants has many kinds of walls. Sabretooth #1 is a gory journey into the carceral state of Krakoa written by Victor LaValle,...

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]]> 37777 Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Run Concludes in Captain America #30 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/07/ta-nehisi-coates-run-concludes-in-captain-america-30/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30622 Steve Rogers tries to confront the evils being seeded within American society once more as Ta-Nehisi Coates’ run comes to a close in Captain America #30. Art by Leonard Kirk, color art by Matt Milla, and letters by Joe Caramagna. “You slept through some things, didn’t you?” It’s just past Independence Day, and as our...

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]]> 30622 Sin Is Empowered and Steve Struggles With Morals in Captain America #29 https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/19/sin-is-empowered-and-steve-struggles-with-morals-in-captain-america-29/ Wed, 19 May 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=27731 Alliances are brokered and strange bedfellows are made as Coates’s run on Captain America screams towards its conclusion. Will our hero let his pride dictate his actions? Will our hero’s friends take those actions for him? After these actions, are they even heroes? Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Leonard Kirk, and colored by Matt Milla....

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]]> 27731 Can Red Skull Kill the Idea of Captain America in Captain America #28? https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/31/can-red-skull-kill-the-idea-of-captain-america-in-captain-america-28/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=23670 Fear reigns and a country is fractured in Captain America #28. The reincarnated Red Skull continues to plan, plot, and execute his plan to kill the idea of Captain America – and Cap and friends can’t seem to stop him. Will headway be made, or will cynicism succeed? Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Leonard...

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]]> 23670 We Say The Final Word On Wolverine: Black, White & Blood #4 https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/10/we-say-the-final-word-on-wolverine-black-white-blood-4/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=22649 Jude Jones: So I’ve been pretty hard on this series and…I’m not ashamed. It wasn’t necessarily bad but I found myself repeatedly unsatisfied. But I realized that maybe, just maybe, I was looking at this all wrong. Instead of approaching every story like it should be this encapsulated, logical, coherent, fulfilling vignette, I should just...

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]]> 22649 Doomed Planet. Desperate Parents. Last Hope. And Hey, Jesus, in AHOY’s Second Coming: Only Begotten Son #1 https://comicsxf.com/2020/12/17/doomed-planet-desperate-parents-last-hope-and-hey-jesus-in-ahoys-second-coming-only-begotten-son-1/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=10081 The infant Sunstar will grow up to fulfill his destiny as Earth’s most powerful superhero and roommate to Jesus Christ — but first, he and his parents must endure the mundane and the tedious on the last night of the doomed planet Zirconia. Seek a friend for the end of the world in AHOY Comics’...

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