A common in-story complaint about Bobby Drake is that he’s not living up to his potential, like a perennial high school slacker who graduated from high school 60 years ago. And while he’s certainly keyed far more into his powers these days, one wonders whether No. 6 on the call sheet in a young-mutants-in-training book…
Last month at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel dropped info on most of the second month of its upcoming Age of Revelation event, in which Doug Ramsey, the heir of Apocalypse called Revelation, remakes the world in his image X years in the future. But missing from that set were the second issues of Binary, which…
In 1989’s “Inferno,” demons and demonic objects controlled by Madelyne Pryor terrorize New York. Daredevil gets beaten up by a vacuum. It’s fun. In 2025’s Psylocke #10, a possessed Kwannon and a group of Yokai, or Japanese demons, prepare to terrorize the Hand in Tokyo. Some things never go out of style. Funny-looking demons terrorizing…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Rasmus’ pick: Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1: Four new Kryptonites have…
A Mike Del Mundo cover is a burst of candy-coated creativity. The colors are bright, but often there’s something horrifying going on at the same time. Or at the very least something interesting. The ones I come back to are the covers he did for Ed Brisson’s run on New Mutants, during the arc where…
You know what’s cool? That scene in a movie where the monster or the enraged, vengeance-seeking protagonist – or the enraged, vengeance-seeking monster protagonist – picks off the bad guys one by one from the shadows. Just dudes disappearing left and right, screaming for their lives while some unseen force drags them to hell. That’s…
Amid the changing relations between mutants and the city of New Orleans, two of the best guns for hire come to town with a mission, and their target for that mission is an X-man. Deadpool and Outlaw guest-star in this dangerous tale of mayhem vs. mutant. Uncanny X-Men #19 is written by Gail Simone, drawn…
Witness the rise of one of Marvel’s most infamous villains as Steve Rogers comes face to face with Doctor Doom for the first time. Also, who is David Colton, and can Steve trust him to have his back as they infiltrate a hostile country with the new Howling Commandos? Captain America #2 is written by…
A lot of Marvel’s classic villains have had face turns over the years. Magneto became the headmaster of Xavier’s school. Doctor Doom has saved the entire multiverse (for his own nefarious ends, but still). Heck, most of your Steve Ditko-created Spider-rogues have tried being a good guy at least once. But the Red Skull? The…
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…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Austin’s pick: The Avengers in the Veracity Trap!: It starts with…
I’m an ’80s baby, raised on bad sitcoms and movies with heavy-handed messages (and great soundtracks). The idea of Blackness then was still shrouded in otherness: Most programs either sought seamless integration with some small Black aesthetic flairs, or played up those Black aesthetics for comedic impact. So many of those shows seemed to be…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · Our Son Pete Episode 29: The One with the Naked Gun (Excalibur #114 with Matt Lazorwitz) Dan’s CXF Interview Podcast co-host Matt Lazorwitz returns to talk about Excalibur #114, in which Pete reveals his past with Sari St. Hubbins. But really this episode is about the 1988 movie The Naked Gun….
After the dismal Captain America: Brave New World and the surprisingly endearing Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios has released one of its trickiest flicks yet based on the historically difficult-to-adapt Fantastic Four. Fantastic Four: First Steps stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn; and is written by Joshua Friedman, Eric Pearson, Jeff Kaplan and…
While the Chris Claremont/John Byrne run of Uncanny X-Men is rightly regarded as a creative high water mark for the series, containing some of its best-known and beloved stories (including “Proteus,” “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and “Days of Future Past”), their run ended somewhat abruptly, with Byrne departing after one-too-many “Colossus ripping up a stump”…