This January, two interconnected series will close out the X-Men’s Krakoa era: Gerry Duggan and Lucas Werneck’s Fall of the House of X and Kieron Gillen and R.B. Silva’s Rise of the Powers of X. These five-issue limited series will present the final battle of Krakoa and see the fate of mutantkind decided in a…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: GIJoe: A Real American Hero #1: The Hama Cut: Skybound celebrates its acquisition of the G.I. Joe license with this director’s cut of the first-ever issue of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero….
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 282: To gun fu, thanks for everything, David Pepose Writer David Pepose returns to talk about his new Punisher series at Marvel as well as Mad Cave’s The Devil That Wears My Face. Plus, it’s ComicsXF Podcast Crossover Week, so Will Nevin stops over from BatChat to…
Note: This essay contains spoilers for the final episode of Disney+’s Loki season 2. Last week on the season (and perhaps series) finale of Loki, the God of Stories saved the entire multiverse with his bare hands. Weirdly, that’s not a metaphor. After trying for hundreds of years (also not a metaphor) to prevent the…
The last time we saw Heather Hudson, aka Vindicator, her husband Mac, aka Guardian, had trapped her in a Department H simulation to restore her mental health or something, in a story in 2019’s Alpha Flight: True North anthology written by – gasp – Ed Brisson. Welp, apparently at some point in the past four…
The mutant known as Abyss first appeared during the “Age of Apocalypse” as one of the big, blue guy’s Horsemen. Nearly a decade later, it would be revealed during that oh-so-pivotal Chuck Austen story “The Draco” that Earth-616 Abyss, born Nils Styger, is a son of the demon mutant Azazel and a half-brother of Nightcrawler….
As comics fans, we always hope we can find some magic arrow that will transform people who see movies adapted from comics into comics readers. The system is rigged against that, of course: Comics publishers — especially mainstream superhero comics — exist as little more than IP cannon fodder for their vertically integrated masters, feeding…
Floating dead-center in the eye of the Mutant Kaiju Kaorak (a not so subtle re-arranging of Krakoa), Storm floats, irises electric blue, electricity teeming from her hands, threatening Genesis with the good time of a fight. This is as audacious as it is silly: this manifestation of mutant cooperation, teeming for a fist fight where…
Tony’s pick: Star Wars: The High Republic #1: A year after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, Marchion Ro and the Nihil stand victorious. The once mighty Jedi are outclassed, and the Republic is on its knees. On the edges of the galactic frontier, Jedi Master Keeve Trennis leads a desperate assault against an invading force….
I recall really enjoying the first season of Loki. Fast on the heels of the mostly successful WandaVision, Loki starred Tom Hiddleston as the titular god of mischief on a timeline-tripping adventure involving a love interest who was also an alternate version of himself, an animated clock, secret jet ski aficionado Owen Wilson, and a…
“The Blue Dad’s back, and you’re gonna be in trouble …” While Apocalypse was away, his wife and children were wreaking havoc on Arakko. Now it’s time to see where he falls in this mutant-on-mutant war. But first, Daddy needs new Horsemen. Starting with … sigh … Vulcan. Honestly, the servitude could do him good….
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. No one asked for this; we just wanted an excuse to put Taylor Swift lyrics in the headline: Spider-Boy #1: After the events of The End of the Spider-Verse, Spider-Boy’s secret history as Spider-Man’s sidekick…
All dreams must turn to waking in Silk #5 written by Emily Kim with art by Ig Guara, colors by Ian Herring, and letters by Ariana Maher. At the end of the previous issue, we saw Silk’s younger brother Albert running from the demon form of Saya Ishii in a literal nightmare. At the same…
Back in the 1980s, Charles Xavier left Earth to go have sex with his alien bird empress girlfriend, and in doing so left the school, and the New Mutants, to his friend/archenemy/boyfriend? Magneto. Magneto, famously, did a bad job. The Beyonder kills all his students, he fights the Avengers, he joins the Hellfire Club, he…
35 years after their Inferno first ensorcelled us, Weezie & Maddie are out of Limbo and back in the thick of it. Will a demon-infested New York survive the experience? Jean Grey’s not the woman she used to be — but neither is Madelyne Pryor. Jean Grey #3 written by Louise Simonson, drawn by Bernard…