So here’s a fun fact: Magik is a fairly decent seller for Marvel. According to ICv2’s sales tracking data, based on shops that use the ComicHub point-of-sale system, Magik #8 was the 23rd best selling comic of August. That also makes it the second-best selling X-office comic of August, after Uncanny X-Men #19. Maybe it’s…
When the entire X-line blinked out of existence for the Age of Apocalypse in 1995, it lasted four months. When Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic smashed Earth-616 and Earth-1610 together to give Doctor Doom a multiversal Battleworld in Secret Wars in 2015, canceling every ongoing series (even ones that had just launched), the main series…
A meeting with Doctor Doom in Latveria forces Steve to confront the realities of the harsh new world he’s awoken in. Meanwhile, Dave Colton and the Howling Commandos infiltrate Doom’s fortress to rescue hostages, but instead they uncover a sinister truth behind Doom’s rise to power. Captain America #3 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn…
The thing about Namor is, if you were another superhero, would you want to team up with him? He’s a good guy, he’s a bad guy, he’s on your team, he’s off your team, he’s mad at humanity, he’s mad at Wakanda, he’s constantly hitting on your blond partner. He’s a wingfooted pain in the…
Kitty Pryde’s stuck in her past, and a Sentinel’s chasing her through the suburb she once called home. Can her teenage students from Chicagoland save her present-day self, or her past self, or both, before all of X-reality gets erased? You already know the answer in Exceptional X-Men #13, written by Eve Ewing, drawn by…
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. X-Men of Apocalypse Alpha #1: The X-Men of the Age of…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 366: Matt Goes to Flame Con 2025, Part I In a special two-part event, Matt Lazorwitz went to Flame Con and recorded interviews with: IN PART I (dropping on the main feed Tuesday): West Hollywood Monster Squad co-creators Sina Grace and Bradley Clayton, Avengers Academy…
According to this one wiki I found and probably other stuff people have said interviews and whatnot, 15 years have passed between the time the Fantastic Four went on the space flight that gave them their powers and the present of the Marvel Universe. That means, if a story is set in 2025, the Age…
The two baddest brawlers of the Louisiana X-Men buddy up to go undercover in faraway Argentina to chase and destroy a legendary X-villain! Behold two-fisted fury as only Wolverine and Ransom can bring it in Uncanny X-Men #20, written by Gail Simone, drawn by Luciano Vecchio, colored by Matt Wilson and lettered by Clayton Cowles….
What if, instead of calling him Hell Hulk, they just called him Helk? Or Hellk? Also, if there’s a Hell Hulk, does that mean there’s a Heaven Hulk? And is the Purgatory Hulk also gray like Joe Fixit? Maybe we’ll find out in the inevitable Hell Hulk miniseries. Check out our exclusive preview of Hellverine…
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. Matt’s pick: Batman #1: A new day dawns for the Dark…
My first X-Men comic was 1993’s X-Men Vol. 2 #20, a tale I’ve shared on many a podcast at this point. But my first issue of Uncanny X-Men was #301, which came out just a couple weeks later. As Uncanny issues go, it’s not a load-bearing one. Battle of the Atom hasn’t even ranked it…
The X-Men, and mutants in general, are often portrayed as underdogs, a marginalized group operating in a world that hates and fears them. Yet when it’s time to do space battles, their greatest allies are the royal family of an intergalactic empire that has pressed countless alien races into its service. Sure, Lilandra has talked…
Blamed for the assassinations that have started an all-out galactic war, T’Challa will first need to survive a brutal assault from the World-Breaker Hulk and Amadeus Cho before he can even think about hunting down the true culprit, and all while his spacecraft spirals towards certain doom. Imperial War: Black Panther #1 is written by…
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. Matt’s pick: Immortal Legend Batman #1: Humanity broke the barrier between…