Marauders - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:01:59 +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 Marauders - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Marauders #12 ends the series on a triumphant note! https://comicsxf.com/2023/03/22/marauders-12-ends-the-series-on-a-triumphant-note/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45089 Our Marauders have been to space, welcomed a mutant from 2099, taken a deep dive into the Proterozoic proto-ocean, rescued a couple of ancient mutants from yet another genocide, and wondered who made a mysterious puzzle box. Now their series is ending. Will their questions get answered in Marauders #12, written by Steve Orlando, drawn...

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]]> 45089 Kissing & Dads In Our Exclusive Preview Of Marauders #12 https://comicsxf.com/2023/03/16/kissing-dads-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-marauders-12/ Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45059 Dear readers, it is so important that you know the kissing parts and Dad parts of Marauders #12 are unrelated. X-Men books contain multitudes and those multitudes are having feelings about your new girlfriend from a far distant past mutant society as well as other people having feelings about their mob affiliated Dad who, to...

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]]> 45059 Brimstone Love is back and so are character faces in Marauders #11! https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/15/brimstone-love-is-back-and-so-are-character-faces-in-marauders-11/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44735 Our team has come back from the distant past, bringing three plucky survivors from the long-ago, now-defunct mutant society Threshold. Will Captain Kate Pryde start a time loop with their help? Also, remember that jerk Brimstone Love? He’s back too, in Marauders #11, written by Steve Orlando, art by Eleanora Carlini, colors by Matt Milla,...

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]]> 44735 Marauders #10 Tests the Team’s Time Travel Travails! https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/06/marauders-10-tests-the-teams-time-travel-travails/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44426 Billions of years in the past, a culture of proto-mutants and proto-humans faces extinction-level threats from the Unbreathing (an anaerobic civilization), from Arkea (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms), from Sublime (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms created by Grant Morrison), and from Stryfe (that guy). Can our chrono-journeying mutants save everyone? Or anyone? Time to find out in Marauders #10,...

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]]> 44426 Marauders #9 Brings the 90s to Prehistory! https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/07/marauders-9-brings-the-90s-to-prehistory/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44124 Inconceivably long ago in the history of the Earth, the mutants (Enriched) and the non-mutant humans (Enshrined) of the community called Threshhold battle the anaerobes of the Unbreathing and the genocidal megabacteria Arkaea and Sublime. Our Marauders have come, in sealed suits, from the future to save their kin. Some will die, some will live,...

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]]> 44124 Marauders #8 goes once more into the breach! https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/10/marauders-8-goes-once-more-into-the-breach-for-good-ill/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43842 Stephanie – quick! It’s Ian! I’ve traveled back in time billions of years to warn you that a rogue microorganism has infected the creatures you refer to as “pets”! We can only save your beloved cats and dogs if we first review Marauders #8, written by Steve Orlando and illustrated by Eleonora Carlini, colors by...

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]]> 43842 Battle Of The Atom: Our Flag Means Death https://comicsxf.com/2022/10/10/battle-of-the-atom-our-flag-means-death/ Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43359 Everyone knows how the X-Men are pirates now. These are times when the X-Men met some pirates. Yo Ho! Ranked This Episode: Marauders #1-12, #16 Uncanny X-Men #384-385, X-Men #104 (Crimson Pirates) Nightcrawler #8-12 (Bloody Bess + Shadow King)

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]]> 43359 Marauders #7 Sails Forward by Looking to the (Deep) Past! https://comicsxf.com/2022/10/05/marauders-7-sails-forward-by-looking-to-the-deep-past/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43287 Want to meet yet more never-before-seen mutants from a past that looks like a space opera future? Captain Pryde’s crew has you covered in Marauders #7, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Eleanora Carlini, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and Matt Milla, lettered by VC’s Ariana Maher. Stephanie Burt: Hi, Ian! Looks like we’ve got plots...

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]]> 43287 The X-Men Of 2099 Shock The Present In Our Exclusive Preview Of Marauders #7 https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/29/the-x-men-of-2099-shock-the-present-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-marauders-7/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43207 The world of 2099 is a strange one. A world where mega corporations have consolidated all commerce and life to serve their ends. It would be called late-stage capitalism, but that implies there is an end in sight. Who could imagine such an existence? This is what Kate Pryde and her Marauders face in our...

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]]> 43207 An A.X.E to the Head Prompts Introspection in Marauders #6 https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/08/an-a-x-e-to-the-head-prompts-introspection-in-marauders-6/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42749 The Marauders are back from space and ready to do their part to save the Earth in the editorially-mandated crossover event called “Judgment Day”, but first it’s time for…. a peek inside each one’s dreams in Marauders #6, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Andrea Broccardo, colors by Matt Milla, letters by VC’s Ariana Maher....

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]]> 42749 Everyone’s Time Traveling in the Messy Marauders #5! https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/24/everyones-time-traveling-in-the-messy-marauders-5/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42591 Space opera becomes time drama as our mutant adventurers delve back into the past to undo Shi’ar crimes against mutantkind. And by “the past” we mean… 1993? Marauders #5, with writing by Steve Orlando, line art by Andrea Broccardo, colors by Matt Milla, letters by VC’s Ariana Maher. Ian Gregory: I would say that we’ve...

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]]> 42591 Things Get Timey-Wimey in Marauders #4! https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/13/things-get-timey-wimey-in-marauders-4/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42009 What are the Kin Crimson hiding? Whose space-blood was the First Blood Shed? What’s it all about, Tempo? Find out in Marauders #4, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Eleanora Carlini, colors by Matt Milla, letters by  Ariana Maher. Ian Gregory: Avast, Stephanie – we’re back with more Marauders! We’ve expanded beyond just the pirate...

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]]> 42009 Secrets in Shi’ar Space in Marauders #3! https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/08/secrets-in-shiar-space-in-marauders-3/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41363 Shi’ar space baddies have captured our spacefaring heroes, and no one knows– yet– what secret about the first mutants the Kin Crimson have been keeping from the rest of Shi’ar society. Will Kate Pryde and her band escape? Can they get help? Where can they go? What’s going on? Find out in Marauders #3. Written...

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]]> 41363 Marauders #2 Enters The Court Of The Crimson Kin https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/04/marauders-2-enters-the-court-of-the-crimson-kin/ Wed, 04 May 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40485 Captain Kate Pryde has taken her new team to space! Bishop, Psylocke, and the rest– among them, incredibly, the genocidal ex-supervillain Cassandra Nova– have set out for the stars in order to find the First Mutants and solve the mystery of an ancient box. Whatever they seek, the Shi’ar don’t want them to find it–...

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]]> 40485 Marauders IN SPACE in Marauders #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/06/marauders-in-space-in-marauders-1/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39934 Ahoy, Marauders! It’s a new number one. A new ship (it’s a spaceship). A not-really-new mission (rescue endangered mutants). A new creative team (except that we saw the writer already in the Annual). A new team, except Red Queen Captain Kate Pryde and muscular source of continuity/ time-traveling ex-cop Lucas Bishop. A new mystery (it’s...

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]]> 39934 Marauders Sets Sail on a New Mission, with a New Team, in a Pre-Relaunch Annual https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/24/marauders-sets-sail-on-a-new-mission-with-a-new-team-in-a-pre-relaunch-annual/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37642 The next generation of Marauders starts here, in this story by writer Steve Orlando, artist Creees Lee, colorist Rain Beredo and letterer Cory Petit. With Daken missing, Kate Pryde and Bishop assemble a new crew of Marauders to hunt him down. How will they fare against the machinations of Brimstone Love? The changing of the...

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]]> 37642 Lost In Space in Marauders #25 https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/27/lost-in-space-in-marauders-25/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34866 Last time out in this Star Wars comic Marauders, our heroes sold a Macguffin to the dastardly double-crossing space criminal Eden Rixlo in exchange for his spaceship, and then he stole it back from them and shot them out the airlock. Can they come back from that? Marauders #25, writing by Gerry Duggan, art by...

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]]> 34866 Batman Goes Global, Thanos Rises and More Staff Picks for Sept. 15 https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/13/batman-goes-global-thanos-rises-and-more-staff-picks-for-sept-15/ Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33627 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s Pick: Batman: The World: Batman goes beyond borders as a platoon of international writers and artists tell tales of the Dark Knight set in their home countries, led by the Batman: Damned team of...

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]]> 33627 Magneto’s on Trial. Again. In Our Staff Picks for Aug. 18 https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/16/magnetos-on-trial-again-in-our-staff-picks-for-aug-18/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32687 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Mark’s Pick: Trial of Magneto #1: The Pretender Wanda Maximoff is dead, and all suspicions lead to Magneto. So it’s probably not him, right? RIGHT?! Written by Leah Williams and drawn by Lucas Werneck. ($4.99)...

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]]> 32687 Superman Gets Some Shady Friends, Moon Knight’s Back and More Staff Picks for July 21 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/19/superman-gets-some-shady-friends-moon-knights-back-and-more-staff-picks-for-july-21/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=31201 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick: Superman and the Authority #1: Now that Jonathan Kent is doing his share of Superman-ing, Kal-El needs something else to do. How about getting a dope new costume and man-in-the-chairing the Authority? Grant...

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]]> 31201 The Pull List: June 2021 https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/10/the-pull-list-june-2021/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29169 How can there be both too many comics and still not nearly enough? The idea of finding something new to read can seem daunting. If you’re looking to jump into a new book, the staff of ComicsXF can point you in the direction of some of our favorite recent releases and currently ongoing titles. Looking...

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]]> 29169 THE HELLFIRE GALA and, I Dunno, Other Stuff Probably in Our Staff Picks for 6/2 https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/31/the-hellfire-gala-and-i-dunno-other-stuff-probably-in-our-staff-picks-for-6-2/ Mon, 31 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=28721 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Austin’s Pick: Hellions #12: Happy Hellfire Gala! The big event is here, and who better to start it off with than the team of miscreants who got sent to Otherworld to retrieve a sword just...

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]]> 28721 Kate Pryde, The Red Queen https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/28/kate-pryde-the-red-queen/ Fri, 28 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=28391 GOLD SILVER BRONZE Known as Kitty, or Shadowcat, for most of her life, Kate Pryde is now a mutant of some renown: captain of the Marauder; Red Queen of the Hellfire Trading Corporation; a member of the Quiet Council that rules the mutant island Krakoa. For much of her life she was, instead, the relatable...

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]]> 28391 Heroes Reborn Again, a Chinese-centric Noir and More Staff Picks for 5/5 https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/03/heroes-reborn-again-a-chinese-centric-noir-and-more-staff-picks-for-5-5/ Mon, 03 May 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=26104 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick: Heroes Reborn #1: The Avengers do an Age of Apocalypse, imagining a world where Earth’s Mightiest Heroes never teamed up, with Blade in the Bishop role, in a seven-issue event series by writer...

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]]> 26104 Morlocks Take Madripoor In Marauders #19 https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/07/morlocks-take-madripoor-in-marauders-19/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=24518 The gentrification of Lowtown stops here in Gerry Duggan, Stefano Caselli, Edgar Delgado and Cory Petit’s Marauders #19. Christina Eddleman: Nineteen issues in, and I knew it had to happen sooner or later. The readers are going to be so disappointed. A fire and ice pun. Ian, at least you’re here to soften the blow....

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