It’s a good day for fashion, eh? Less than an hour after we posted our talented Redesigning team’s looks for a theoretical 2025 Hellfire Gala, Marvel released design sheets for this year’s Hellfire Vigil, a July one-shot serving as a year-later memorial for the First Krakoan Age and setup for some of the next year’s…
A common complaint among X-Men fans is that with each new era, new classes of new (lowercase n) mutants (lowercase m) get introduced, only to be forgotten about in the next, save for a couple who look good in group shots or whose personalities are so strong as to stick by force. This is true….
The Louisiana X-Men thought Haven House was a safe place, a place to call home. But is it more than that? What is the history of the hidden landscape under the Louisiana swampland, and what does it want with the young Outliers? Long-held secrets revealed, and a part of X-history never before shown threatens to…
Logan begins his new quest after the shocking events of last month’s anniversary issue. First stop brings him back to the Howlett Estate, but he isn’t alone. Harpoon and Vertigo of the Marauders have designs on Wolverine, and they’re not the only ones. Wolverine #9 is written by Saladin Ahmed, drawn by Javier Pina, colored…
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. Scott’s pick: Supergirl #1: Kara Zor-El has been a key member…
Darth Vader is dead! The New Republic lives! Moff Adelhard (you all remember him, right?) is defeated! For the first time, Marvel’s second run of Star Wars comics drops the Star Warriors into an ongoing series set in the post-Original Trilogy era in Star Wars #1, written by Alex Segura, drawn by Phil Noto and…
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts. Thunderbolts* is directed by Jake Schreier and stars Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sebastian Stan, Russell Wyatt, Hannah John-Kamen and Lewis Pullman. NOTE:…
Superheroes are meant to be the best of us. As a result, they’re also the sexiest of us. So it stands to reason we’d want to see what they look like in swimwear — though it could be argued many of them wear bathing suits as standard dress. For five years in the 1990s, Marvel…
Is New York City itself a kind of mutant? Can it give us all a model for mutant communities? How did Mojo take it over from Grand Central Station? Can he be defeated using the power of solidarity, or the solidarity of love, or the love of trains? Why is NYX ending? Find out which…
Marvel on Friday announced X-Men of Apocalypse, a six-part miniseries (four issues bookended by an Alpha and Omega issues) starting in September, written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Simone Di Meo. The book will see the X-Men of Earth-295 — including Gambit, Sabretooth, Wild Child, Blink, Morph and Forge — traveling to Earth-616 on…
May the Fourth and Revenge of the Fifth may have passed for this year, but that doesn’t mean we, or the pop culture landscape, are done with Star Wars. With a new volume of Marvel’s Star Wars ongoing launching this past Wednesday, writer and Star Wars fan Matt Lazorwitz was able to sit down with…
And just like that, three of the OG From the Ashes titles are gone. First X-Force, then NYX and now X-Factor. That puts a lot of mutants back on the table. In additon to the many we haven’t seen since Krakoa blinked into the White Hot Room. That’s also a lot of marquee mutants to…
“Tell me you haven’t had the same question gnawing at you, Erik. “All of the other X-Men returned to their reality. “You stuck around to help me build a new world while my body died on a beach somewhere. “Or you left and the version of you from this reality reappeared. Something like that. “The…
Following hot on the heels of the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its, “yes, that asterisk in our title is there for a reason” reveal, Marvel on Wednesday announced that Sam Humphries and Ton Lima’s previously announced Thunderbolts series set to debut in June will actually be a New Avengers series. Synergy!…
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,…