We all remember when Jean piloted the shuttle and came back different — but what if she didn’t? The Phoenix force finds a new host (or two) in the latest installment of Jean’s undead journey through the living history of her past. Jean Grey #2 is written by Louise Simonson, drawn by Bernard Chang, colored…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Invincible Iron Man #10: You are cordially invited to the wedding of Anthony Edward Stark and Emma Grace Frost. Come join the lucky couple as they exchange vows. Attire is Hellfire formal. Orchis…
Realm of X is set in Vanaheim, one of the Ten Realms of the World Tree, along with Asgard, Jotunheim, Muspelheim and the other ones. Y’know, from Thor stuff. Saturnine is the former omniversal majestrix of Otherworld, a completely different thing that unites the many Earths of the multiverse and has its own topography of…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Sean’s pick: Wonder Woman #1: After a mysterious Amazonian is accused of mass murder, Congress passes the Amazon Safety Act, barring all Amazons from U.S. soil. To carry out their plans, the government starts a…
The Fall of X is here in an all new X-Chat! Shadowkat is out for blood, Firestar is in over her head and Iron Man and Emma Frost screw up in X-Men #26 written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by Jim Towe & Javier Pina, colored by Marte Gracia and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In X-Force…
Once upon a time, Doctor Doom made a hamburger multiverse and called it Battleworld. And in that hamburger multiverse there was an Inferno world where Madelyne Pryor went full demon. That Madelyne somehow survived the re-rewriting of reality and ended up on Earth-616, tangled with the time-displaced original five X-Men and, off-panel, was captured by…
It’s the power of nothing versus the hordes of Genesis & Annihilation in X-Men Red #15 written by Al Ewing, art by Yildiray Cinar, colors by Federico Blee, and letters by Ariana Maher. Think about your first memory: the clarity, the circumstances, the people. Do you smile when you think of it? Recoil in embarrassment…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: Batman and Robin #1: Father and son. Bruce and Damian. Batman and Robin. A lot has happened to the Dynamic Duo recently, but now they’re back together and ready to fight crime in…
WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 273: Mystery Inc. with Alex Segura Writer Alex Segura joins the show to talk about his contributions to AHOY Comics’ Project Cryptid, his recent Sinestro story in Knight Terrors: Green Lantern and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud,…
Selene wants the External Gate back, but Xavier is just not in the mood for visitors, and the mutant diaspora finds an unlikely ally in Immortal X-Men #15, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Paco Medina, colored by David Curiel and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Austin Gorton: Mark, I understand you’ve been a bit under…
Jean left the team. Beast turned out to be a war criminal. Logan was always sidetracked by solo adventures. Colossus turned out to be his brother’s thrall. Deadpool is working for Steve Rogers again. Guess it’s just us girls. Sage and Domino have got enough mad in them for Orchis, for Mikhail Rasputin, for pretty…
Click here to read Part I. Click here to read Part II. Sometimes a year’s worth of comic books feels like a day, and sometimes a day feels like a year. Our first two parts of this three-part look back at Grant Morrison’s New X-Men (2001-04) were written and edited before Fall of X (2023)….
Two of Birnin T’Chaka’s most powerful crime families are about to become one in a wedding that is the talk of Wakanda. Neither Black Panther nor Beisa are on the guest list, but that won’t stop them from making an appearance at this who’s-who of Wakanda’s rich, powerful and dangerous, especially with the assassin Deathlok…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaan’s pick: Birds of Prey #1: Dinah Lance is one of the DCU’s most elite fighters, and combined with her sonic scream, she’s a fearsome foe in any scenario, but sometimes even the Black Canary…
In 2022, a crack team of ComicsXF writers and TTRPG lovers came together to try out the Marvel Multiverse RPG playtest — and found it wanting. Now, the members of the ComicsXF staff come together once more to play the finalized version of the game. Has it improved from playtest, gotten immeasurably worse or ended…