We’re a little behind but a few important events have happened since we last met! Welcome to X-Chat #6! In X-Men Annual #1, Firestar gets the much-deserved spotlight from Steve Foxe, Andrea DiVito, Sebastian Cheng and Clayton Cowles! Two key characters get some major closure in Dark Web: X-Men #2-3, by Gerry Duggan, Phil Noto,…
Have you ever had one of those days where everything is going wrong? Like you’ve somehow been sucked across the infinite cosmos into the wrong corner of fragmented space-time? And you run into someone from your past you really can’t stand? Like, say, someone from…beyond? If so, maybe you’ll have some good advice for Monica…
This issue of Peach Momoko’s Marvel Universe-as-Japanese fairy tale appears to trip balls. That is all. Actually, that’s not all. Deets below. PHOENIX vs MAGIK!Things are heating up in Momoko’s Marvel Universe! The spirit world is divided. Its inhabitants, strange creatures called yokai, have chosen sides, and the two factions are on the brink of…
What do you think Logan is so huffy about in this picture? So Escapade has used her mutant ability to borrow his claws? There are mutants with his claws all over Krakoa. Hell, there are two Laura Kinneys right now! You ain’t special anymore, Bub. Anyway, Marvel’s made it quite clear recently: New Mutants is…
Sinister has replaced key members of Krakoa’s Quiet Council with genetically altered toadies, leading to a years-long experiment in Sinisterarchy in Sins of Sinister #1 is written by Kieron Gillen, with art by Lucas Werneck, colors by Bryan Valenza, letters by Clayton Cowles, with guest art by Geoffrey Shaw, Marco Checchetto, Juan José Ryp, David…
Boom-Boom, Dazzler, Jubilee and Laura Kinney (the best Wolverine) have escaped 1. Dazzler’s creepazoid ex-boyfriend Alex, who happens to be a vampire; 2. Alex’s ultra-creepy mutant fight club; 3. the Collector’s disturbingly creepy space station; and 4. space. Now they’re back on Krakoa. What will they do for an encore? Find out in X-Terminators #5,…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 241: Joe Kelly Talks about His Dad, 'classic' cars and Sonic's Feet Writer Joe Kelly joins the show to talk about his new Image series, Immortal Sergeant, and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes…
Professor Xavier is in a reflective mood in the wake of Sinister’s attack on the Quiet Council, as he and the X-Men recover and strike back in Immortal X-Men #10, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Lucas Werneck, colored by David Curiel and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Mark Turetsky: Austin, we’ve reached it. The end….
We’ve argued plenty ’round these parts about whether Deadpool is an X-Men character, but apparently we should be arguing more about whether Deadpool is a Spider-Man character. Case in point: This comic. Deadpool has a version of the Carnage symbiote. He is being pursued by Doctor Octopus and a character named Harrower to whom the…
Laura Kinney spent untold centuries fighting alongside Synch in the time nexus called the Vault. Then he got out, and she died, and the X-Men resurrected her. Except whoops! She didn’t die. She’s out. Now there are two. What’s a clone to do? X-Men #18 is written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by C.F. Villa, colored…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 239: Kelly Thompson Loves a Creature Writer Kelly Thompson joins the show to talk about her new Image series Black Cloak, Captain Marvel and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move Tuesday mornings. You can…
Billions of years in the past, a culture of proto-mutants and proto-humans faces extinction-level threats from the Unbreathing (an anaerobic civilization), from Arkea (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms), from Sublime (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms created by Grant Morrison), and from Stryfe (that guy). Can our chrono-journeying mutants save everyone? Or anyone? Time to find out in Marauders #10,…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Presents Our Son Pete Episode 11: The One with the London Hellfire Club Strap on your fanciest leather bondage gear, we’re starting the London Hellfire Club arc with special guest Dr. Anna Peppard (Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! podcast). Together we discuss the Wisdom-Lockheed feud, the branding of spy apparatus,…
Laura Kinney (the best Wolverine!), Alison Blaire (the no-longer-so-disco Dazzler!), Jubilation Lee (surprisingly practical!) and Boom-Boom (boom, there it is!) have fought their way out of a vampire monster arena only to end up trapped between star systems, stuck in a quasi-harem on the Collector’s spacefaring retreat. What’s a girl to do? Find out in…
Welcome to Inferno! As our friends at Jay & Miles Xplain the X-Men like to say, Inferno never ends! And with that, we’re in the thick of “Dark Web”, AKA Inferno II: Electric Boogaloo! In Dark Web: #1, Christmas in New York gets interrupted by a familiar demon problem from Zeb Wells, Adam Kubert, Frank Martin,…