Mario Santoro - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:44:42 +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 Mario Santoro - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Bishop #4 gives us a showdown with Mirrormind (PREVIEW) https://comicsxf.com/2026/09/17/bishop-4-gives-us-a-showdown-with-mirrormind-preview/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=57901 Bishop finds himself on a cruise ship where nothing is as it seems, thanks to MIRRORMIND! Check out our exclusive preview of Bishop #4.

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]]> 57901 Bishop #3 gives us Hot Blob back (PREVIEW) https://comicsxf.com/2026/08/13/bishop-3-gives-us-hot-blob-back-preview/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=57596 Bishop and his sister Shard fight tooth and nail against Skippingstone, yet another member of THE FINAL BROTHERHOOD, in a preview of Bishop #3.

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]]> 57596 Bishop #2 takes the fight to Flamequake (PREVIEW) https://comicsxf.com/2026/07/24/bishop-2-takes-the-fight-to-flamequake-preview/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=57436 Bishop's sister, Shard, is back! But she's not here for a family reunion. What is her mission? Check out a preview of next week's Bishop #2.

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]]> 57436 Bishop #1 makes us ask: Where are OUR giant guns? (PREVIEW) https://comicsxf.com/2026/06/04/bishop-1-makes-us-ask-where-are-our-giant-guns-preview/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56997 Bishop has always lived by a strict code. But that code will get called into question when his sister, Shard, is sent to the present right before she died.

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]]> 56997 Bishop (and more importantly Shard) getting 5-issue mini https://comicsxf.com/2026/03/05/bishop-and-more-importantly-shard-getting-5-issue-mini/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:47:24 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56191 This June, the future comes back to bite in BISHOP, a five-issue series by writer Saladin Ahmed (Wolverine) and artist Mario Santoro (Storm).

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]]> 56191 Let’s swear a blood oath in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Unbreakable X-Men #3 https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/04/unbreakable-xmen-3-preview/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55120 You guys wanna cut your hands open and mush bloods? It’s not weird. (Hi, I grew up during the AIDS crisis, and I definitely sat through whole gym assemblies on Dec. 1 where they advised against stuff like this.) Check out our exclusive preview of Unbreakable X-Men #3, out next week, and keep scrolling for...

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]]> 55120 Ororo gets lost in a battle of cosmic forces in Marvel’s Storm #12 https://comicsxf.com/2025/09/28/storm-12/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54257 Everything ends. Our universe is no exception. However, the only way the universe ends is over Ororo Munroe’s dead body. So be it. Storm #12 is written by Murewa Ayodele, drawn by Mario Santoro, colored by Fer Sifuentes-Sujo and lettered by Travis Lanham. It’s about 5 p.m. on Monday here in the District of Columbia....

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]]> 54257 The ‘Thunder War’ climaxes in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Storm #12 https://comicsxf.com/2025/09/21/storm-12-preview/ Sun, 21 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54169 One of Storm’s most beloved arcs is the period in the 1980s when she loses her powers. It gives us the brilliant “Lifedeath” by Chris Claremont and Barry Windsor-Smith. She fights Cyclops for leadership of the X-Men and wins. She sticks it to enemies like Fenris and the Murder Grandpas. She proves herself as a...

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]]> 54169 Marvel’s Storm #11 is everything, everywhere, all at once https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/07/storm-11/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53723 Hadad is here to end our universe. Eternity, sensing the coming cataclysm, abandons the universe to seek the help of The One Above All — the only entity benevolent and powerful enough to defeat the first storm god. With the powers of the Eternal Storm stripped away, Storm is no longer the most powerful being...

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]]> 53723 Storm #8 does too much and yet too little, but damn if it doesn’t look good doing it https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/07/storm-8/ Wed, 07 May 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52488 Storm does not lie. We all know that. But in the aftermath of the X-Manhunt, she is under investigation by the FBI. Will Ororo have to perjure herself or face jail time for assisting fugitive Charles Xavier? And what is Maggott up to back at the Storm Sanctuary? Storm #8 is written by Murewa Ayodele,...

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]]> 52488 Gods and more gods in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Storm #8 https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/04/storm-8-preview/ Sun, 04 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52420 Remember the Uncreated? They were a race of aliens who came to resent their god, so they killed it. Then they set about trying to destroy other races that had religions. They don’t have many appearances. Kitty Pryde met some of them in a Black Air base that exploded in Excalibur. The Starjammers fought them...

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