Louise Simonson - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:27:57 +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 Louise Simonson - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 We interviewed Gerry Conway at this 2019 Camden, NJ, panel https://comicsxf.com/2026/04/29/we-interviewed-gerry-conway-at-this-2019-camden-nj-panel/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:27:47 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56647 In 2019, Dan Grote and Matt Lazorwitz interviewed Gerry Conway for a panel at Camden Comic Con. Conway died this week at 73.

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]]> 56647 BatChat With Matt & Will: A Tragic Lack of Women Writers https://comicsxf.com/2025/03/27/batchat-with-matt-will-a-tragic-lack-of-women-writers/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52082 Mainstream superhero comics have been a boys’ club since their invention, and while things have gotten better in recent years, it is telling how few Batman comics have women writers, outside the works of Devin Grayson and Mariko Tamaki. For the last week of March, of Women’s History Month, we’re reading three stories by other...

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]]> 52082 More Jeans than you can shake a Phoenix at in Jean Grey #4 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/17/more-jeans-than-you-can-shake-a-phoenix-at-in-jean-grey-4/ Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47173 It’s a white hot cavalcade of Jeans Grey in the fiery final issue of our title character’s time-spanning reckoning with her tumultuous past(s). With the future of mutantkind on the line, will Jean douse the flames, or fan them? Jean Grey #4 is written by Louise Simonson, drawn by Bernard Chang, colored by Marcelo Maiolo...

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]]> 47173 Jean Grey #3 lights the Inferno anew! https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/26/jean-grey-3-lights-the-inferno-anew/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46992 35 years after their Inferno first ensorcelled us, Weezie & Maddie are out of Limbo and back in the thick of it. Will a demon-infested New York survive the experience? Jean Grey’s not the woman she used to be — but neither is Madelyne Pryor. Jean Grey #3 written by Louise Simonson, drawn by Bernard...

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]]> 46992 Jean Grey #2 makes subtext text as Wolverine goes Phoenix https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/27/jean-grey-2/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46666 We all remember when Jean piloted the shuttle and came back different — but what if she didn’t? The Phoenix force finds a new host (or two) in the latest installment of Jean’s undead journey through the living history of her past. Jean Grey #2 is written by Louise Simonson, drawn by Bernard Chang, colored...

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]]> 46666 Jean Grey #1 goes to the past to wreck the future! https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/23/jean-grey-1-goes-to-the-past-to-wreck-the-future/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46360 After the events of the Hellfire Gala, Jean’s life is in shambles. Literally. But that’s nothing new for a woman who was into resurrection before it was cool. A life rife with retcons invites plentiful possibilities for different pasts and futures—which path(s) will Jean take? Jean Grey #1 written by Louise Simonson, drawn by Bernard...

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]]> 46360 Ain’t No Thing but Chicken Wings as the Simonsons Return in X-Men Legends #11 https://comicsxf.com/2022/02/02/aint-no-thing-but-chicken-wings-as-the-simonsons-return-in-x-men-legends-11/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37761 Just in time to celebrate 40 years of the original New Mutants, catch up with some old friends — like Sunspot, Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Boom-Boom, Dani Moonster and Rictor — as Caliban leads Famine and War, the remaining Horsemen of Apocalypse, in a hunt for new blood. Witness a never-before-seen link between the New Mutants and...

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]]> 37761 Wanted: Two Horsemen, Must Be Able to Work Nights and Weekends, in X-Men Legends #11 https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/27/wanted-two-horsemen-must-be-able-to-work-nights-and-weekends-in-x-men-legends-11/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37680 Sad Apocalypse is sad. His ship, Ship, is gone, he’s down two Horsemen and he’s worried the Celestials will take one look at X-Factor and give the world a big thumb’s down. Ever the goodest boy, even in service of evil, Caliban wants to make Apocalypse happy again, by plumbing the Morlock tunnels looking for...

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]]> 37680 Walt and Weezie Bring the Hodge in a Delightful X-Men Legends #4 https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/23/walt-and-weezie-bring-the-hodge-in-a-delightful-x-men-legends-4/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29984 Weezie and Walt wrap-up their flashback story with a Cameron Hodge showdown in X-Men Legends #4 written by Louise Simonson, art by Walt Simonson, colored by Laura Martin, and lettered by John Workman   The conclusion to Louise and Walt Simonson’s retro tale of the original X-Factor, this issue does many of the same things that...

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]]> 29984 Louise & Walt Simonson Return In Our Advance Review Of X-Men Legends #3 https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/27/louise-walt-simonson-return-in-our-advanced-review-of-x-men-legends-3/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:16:07 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=25852 Revisit the days of the original X-Factor as a new story set in a new corner of X-history begins in X-Men Legends #3 written by Louise Simonson, art by Walt Simonson, colored by Laura Martin, and lettered by John Workman   After a pair of issues set in the grim ‘n’ gritty, hatch mark-y 90s, X-Men...

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