Battle of the Atom: Vewy Anime
Ah, Albert & Elsie-Dee. The kind of characters only people terminally cursed with X-Men brain rot could love. We love them so much. Ranked This Episode
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Our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men: Blood Hunt: Jubilee reminds us she was a vampire once
Oh, that’s right, Jubilee was a vampire for, like, a really long time! Not reading X-Men comics from roughly 2004 to 2017 means I almost completely skipped Jubilee’s vampire phase, save for the tail end of it in the Christina Strain/Amilcar Pinna Generation X series. Hey, didn’t Jubilee have a kid, too? What happened there?…
Krakoa Was for Lovers: How the last 5 years of X-Men stories helped save one writer
The first thing you should know is that without Krakoa, I might not be alive. If I don’t pick up that Black Panther comic in 2016 and fall in love with the genre … if the Xavier Files doesn’t do those brilliant deep dives into those introductory House of X and Powers of X books…
Krakoa waves goodbye, and all that’s left are Ashes in X-Men #35/Uncanny #700
All good things must come to an end, and as good of a thing as the Krakoan era has been for mutantkind, its time has come at last. The tragedy and triumph of FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X, the madness and mystery of RISE OF THE POWERS OF X, they have all come to…
The Krakoan era ends with a $10 X-Men comic in this week’s Staff Picks
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men #35/Uncanny X-Men #700: We belong together. And you know that I’m right. Why do you play with my heart? Why do you play with my mind? Said we’d be forever. Said…
Battle of the Atom: Not Getting Over
Fill-in stories are a great chance to try and get a character over. Not Hazard though, he ain’t ever getting over. Ranked This Episode:
Mystique & Destiny immortalize Be Gay, Do Crimes in ‘X-Men: The Wedding Special #1’
Marvel’s first queerest family is throwing a party, and everyone’s invited! Particularly if it pleases the brides to know you won’t be home during their rapturous re-exchanging of vows. X-Men: The Wedding Special #1 was written by Kieron Gillen, Tini Howard, Tate Brombal, Yoon Ha Lee and Wyatt Kennedy; drawn by Rachael Stott, Phillip Sevy,…
Hellfire, vengeance and stabbing in Hellverine #1
Marvel’s latest Wolverine-mash-up anti-hero makes his debut in Hellverine #1, written by Benjamin Percy, drawn by Julius Ohta, colored by Frank D’Armata and lettered by Travis Lanham. If there is one thing that Marvel can never get enough of, it’s relaunching books as soon as possible to get a juicy new #1. If there were…
Rise of the Powers of X #5: Krakoa Ends, but Data Pages Are Forever
It’s the final battle against Enigma as Phoenix rises, Xavier schemes and Moira faces a crucial decision in Rise of the Powers of X #5, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Luciano Vecchio, colored by David Curiel and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Jake Murray: And thus ends the penultimate (ish) issue of the Krakoa era….
3 flavors of Pride – X-Men, DC and Star Trek – lead this week’s Staff Picks
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men: The Wedding Special: Mystique and Destiny are one of the most beloved gay couples in history since they were made textual five years ago. Somewhere in their 100+ years together, the…
Gwen Stacy moves to the 616 in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #1
Gwen Stacy is officially a resident of Earth-616, for good. What does that mean for her, though? Find out in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider #1, written by Stephanie Phillips, drawn by Federica Mancin, colored by Matt Milla and lettered by Ariana Maher. After nearly a decade since her debut, Marvel Comics doesn’t seem to know…
Battle of the Atom: The One with the Guy from Lost
The guy from Lost wrote a comic one time. It had Hulk in it. Ipso facto we are doing a Hulk episode. Ranked This Episode
Fall Of The House Of X #5 Put Away Those Toys, It’s Krakoa’s Bedtime!
It’s the final battle against Nimrod as the end of the Krakoa Era is just issues away in Fall of the House of X #5, written by Gerry Duggan, art by Lucas Werneck & Stefano Caselli, colors by Bryan Valenza, and letters by Travis Lanham. Scott Redmond: As the Krakoan era continues to crawl towards…
Wolverine wears his adamantium on his sleeve in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Wolverine #50
“Boy, it really feels like they’re rushing to end Krakoa,” say a lot of people reading a lot of X-books for the past year. And yet. Over in Benjamin Percy’s protected little corner of the island, the Sabretooth War has been going on for 10 issues. Ten issues of a bunch of Sabreteeth ripping through…
On 10 years of Marvel’s Silk, the death of her Amazon series and where Cindy could go next
Recently, it was announced that Amazon Studios was shutting down production of Silk: Spider Society, a series that would have seen the live action debut of Cindy Moon, a Korean-American female Spider-Hero. According to Nellie Andreeva’s Deadline article, the series had been in production since 2019 and had been facing troubles such as changes in…