This year wound down with a new wave of âcomics are dyingâ discourse that proves how insular its fandom is, how it doesnât consider larger economic factors like inflation and what other industries are struggling as people make decisions based on their disposable income. Yes, readers are aging out of the medium, and that affects…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Danâs pick: Duke #1: When Conrad S. Hauser investigates the mysteries behind the Transformers, the answers will lead to the birth of forces for good and evil the world never imagined. Duke will be the…
What if Roy Thomas, who had recently stepped down from being editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics in the mid-1970s, was like, âWell, I want to keep writing, but I donât want to deal with continuity?â Marvel has answered that question a bunch of different ways over the years, from Thomasâ own Invaders series, written during the…
People always seem to think breaking into and sneaking around Doctor Strange’s house is a good idea. What’s up with that? The Silver Surfer crashes into it in The Infinity Gauntlet, the New Mutants Scooby-Doo it up there in Dead Souls. Heck, Sage and Domino just broke into it in X-Force a couple months ago….
The Avengers face their worst nightmares â literally, as Nightmare traps the majority of the team in a petty slumber. It couldnât have come at a worse time, as the Twilight Court has appeared, ready to go through the Avengers just to get to Kang. Can the Vision and the Scarlet Witch hold their own…
I found myself struggling for a cohesive theme to some kind of end-of-the-year article, something that would capture the state of an industry whose health has been the status of much Mark Millar-fueled discourse lately. Then I read a comic that was so bad it has me dreading what 2024 will bring. On Wednesday, Marvel…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Austinâs pick: Original X-Men #1: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman and Angel â the first heroes to bear the X-Men name â once traveled into their own futures and reset the course of history. Now,…
Gwenâs back on her Earth. The bandâs back together. Her Earthâs Dazzler wants them as an opening act. What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Spider-Gwen: Smash #1, written by Melissa Flores, penciled by Enid BalĂĄm, inked by Elisabetta DâAmico, colored by Fer Sifuentes-Sujo and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Some superhero comics never let…
The previous issue of Uncanny Avengers ended with Captain Krakoa being revealed as the evil Captain America from everyone’s favorite Trump-era Marvel crossover, Secret Empire. (We did Nazi that coming!) This issue – the final one of this volume – appears to open with another reveal: Evil Steve prefers to be called Grant now. “The…
How would you describe a perfect day? Perfect â like “good,” like “ok,” like “no good,” like “very bad” â is subjective: an appreciation based on a range of experiences. Perfect, reasonably, might look vastly different among different peoples. And yet, so many different people hold on to the idea of objective perfection â the…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Markâs pick: X-Men Red #18: Their armies have clashed and torn a world apart. Now, finally, the two war leaders meet. Storm versus Genesis for the fate of the Red Planet â as the planet…
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast ¡ WMQ&A Episode 286: The Three Amigos Sears Wishbook Special (w/ Austin Gorton) From Transformers to GI Joe to Madballs, Dan, Matt, Specialest of Guests Rob Lynch and CXF writer/editor Austin Gorton talk about the Reagan-era toys that have kept a stranglehold on American culture for four decades, and the…
Remember how in 2019 Marvel released House of X and Powers of X and that was it for X-Men titles for a couple months, and it was the big event everyone was focused on? Nearly five years later, the Hickman’s away and the mice are all over the place, as the two linchpin series of…
Hmm. Moon Knight, huh? Gonna be honest, I have no idea what to say here. It is my understanding from smart people that Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio’s run has been well received. And that while this is the final issue of this volume of Moon Knight, MacKay and Cappuccio will return next month with…
Marvel teased next yearâs big Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X event miniseries this week with covers of eachâs issue #3, on sale in March. While the Fall #3 cover shows Logan about to pop a claw right in Dr. Stasisâ forehead clover, the cover to Rise #3…