Hey! Quit Playing Games With Our Hearts Excalibur #22
Has Saturnyne’s gamble paid off? We’ll find out in Excalibur #22. By Tini Howard, Marcus To, Erick Arciniega, and Ariana Maher.
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Briefly, Black Widow
It’s taken eleven years, eight MCU appearances, one pandemic and the death of the character, but Black Widow is finally getting her own solo film! Even better/sadder, Black Widow also represents the first MCU film entirely directed by a woman, Cate Shortland (Anna Boden previously co-directed Captain Marvel with Ryan Fleck). Thanks to her long…
Chrises On Infinite Earths: The Below is Apes (Marvel Apes)
Christi and Chris take a fun detour to the Marvel Apes universe: Baboon Reed Richards, Vampire Captain America, and more primate puns than we can stand. Support The Chrises Patreon Kofii Contact The Chrises Twitter: @ChrisesPod Facebook: @ChrisesPod chrisesoninfiniteearths@gmail.com Music Credits “Evening Melodrama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/…
Where Does Marvel Voices: Pride Succeed? And Where Does It Fail?
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…
The Slimy End is Here in Venom #200
The End Is Here. Venom #200 Penciled by Ryan Stegman, Kev Walker, Danilo S. Beyruth, Ron Lim, Guiu Vilanova, Gerardo Sandoval, and Mark Bagley, Colored by Frank Martin, Chris O’Halloran, Jim Campbell, Matt Milla, Alex Sinclair, Chris Sotomayor and Richard Isanove, Lettered by Clayton Cowles. Forrest Hollingsworth: It’s here. The finale of Donny Cates and Ryan…
Looking Up Loki
Explore the history of Marvel’s mischievous trickster god in honor of his Disney+ debut! From stalwart super-villain of the Silver Age to one of Marvel’s first gender-fluid characters (depending on whom you ask, and when), Loki has amassed a large & complex history in both comics and via his appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,…
Children of the Atom #4: Chosen Family is Best Family
Children of the Atom #4 lets Marvel Lad take center stage. Brought to us by Vita Ayala, Paco Medina, David Curiel, and Travis Lanham.
A New Weapon Forged in Beta Ray Bill #3
Beta Ray Bill takes a bloody path to find his glory — and the perfect weapon to forge it with. And he’s even got a few friends to brave the battle alongside him. But the journey is one even Odin would call treacherous, and not all of Bill’s friends will survive. At least not in…
Time Travel Throws Our Heroes for a Loop in Runaways #36
The Runaways keep trying to lead normal lives, and maybe they’ve finally got it right. It’s like Party of Five, if you remember the 1990s. But who remembers the 1990s? Time travelers, that’s who. It’s a trip back from the future in Runaways #36. Written by Rainbow Rowell, line art by Andrés Genolet, colored by Dee…
An Ode to Hot Ones As Superheroes and Villains are Paired With Hot Sauces
I would describe myself as a middle of the road hot sauce consumer and comic book fan. I show out for all the movies and most of the shows, but I’m picky about which comics I actually choose to read. I wouldn’t win any trivia contests and would be a terrible editor at CXF [Ed….
Born Anew and Veiled in Slime. King in Black Wraps and Leaves Us With Some Ghosts
Endings and new beginnings across Venom #34 by Donny Cates, Iban Coello, and Jesus Aburtov and King in Black #5 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, and Frank Martin and Jason Keith, letters by Clayton Cowles Forrest Hollingsworth: It’s here. The months-in-the-making finale of King in Black and the penultimate issue of Donny Cates and Ryan…
We’re Still Just Talking About Snakes in The Union #4
Time to move into the endgame as we read the penultimate issue of The Union by Paul Grist, Andrea Di Vito, Le Beau Underwood, Nolan Woodard, and Travis Lanham. Liz Large: Well, we’re back, after a month spent pining for Snakes. How are you holding up? Nola Pfau: I’m very glad that The Union is…
Queen Cat Comes Back in Black Cat #4
Queen Cat is back, baby, and she’s got her sights set on Felicia. Nina Vakueva is guesting on art duties, alongside our usual creative team – Jed MacKay, Brian Reber, and Ferran Delgado. Allison Senecal: Uh, I was not expecting this from a Lily Hollister issue in the year of our Lord 2021. Zoe Tunnell:…
Captain Marvel and WandaVision: The Lives They Could Not Live
WandaVision spends much of its first episode devoted to playing out a classic sitcom plot. Vision’s boss Mr. Hart and his wife are coming to dinner, only there has been a matter of miscommunication and Elisabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff is under the impression that it is her and the synthezoid’s anniversary. Obviously, hijinks ensue. Taking…
29 Fun Facts About Falcon & Winter Soldier to Catch Up On
WandaVision is over (and if you watched the show but haven’t checked out CXF’s coverage of it, you can do so here), but the seemingly-unending wheel of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to turn, bringing us the next Disney+ series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Where WandaVision was positioned as something a little bit…