Battle of the Atom: Crux Point of Your Life
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Welp, it’s over: Marvel announces what’s next for the X-Men after Krakoa
It’s time to go back, Marvel has decided. Back to ‘90s logos. Back to familiar costumes. Back to small teams of marquee mutants. Back to teaching, if not back to the mansion. The House of Ideas on Thursday announced the beginning of the future of the mutant line during a panel at South by Southwest…
The evil ones confront Storm in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Resurrection of Magneto #3
Pure evil in X-Men comics has taken many forms over the years. The Shadow King. The Adversary. Annihilation. They’re the villains who can’t be turned or reasoned with, more force than foe. The ones who manipulate events from the shadows and return like clockwork every few years to remind the light that the darkness exists…
EXCLUSIVE: It takes a kid to kill a kid in Strange Academy: Blood Hunt #2
The Darkhold is a mystic tome that holds nearly all the secrets of black magic, a book so powerful it can drive its possessor insane. Also it was in WandaVision. Nowadays, it’s apparently also a child? As revealed in those “Contest of Chaos” annuals where Agatha Harkness made superheroes fight? (Imagine if “Shattershot” came out…
Fall of the House of X #3 isn’t just bad; it’s weirdly bad
Cyclops and his new bestie Dr. Gregor take the fight to Nimrod while Doctor Stasis meets his ends in Fall of the House of X #3 written by Gerry Duggan, art by Lucas Werneck & Jethro Morales, colors by Bryan Valenza, and letters by Travis Lanham. Jake Murray: If you’ve read Fall of the House…
I’ve had enough Jim Lee X-Men merch
There I was, minding my own business, eating the Trader Joe’s salad I’d packed for lunch, when I saw the following D23 promotion for X-Men ‘97 on my Twitter feed: And, as I looked at the “animation-style” artwork done in homage to Jim Lee’s classic 1992 Impel X-Men cards, complete with a binder and trading…
Ultimate Black Panther #2 has us asking: What’s the point?
After Moon Knight’s forces attack the stronghold of Wakanda, T’Challa can no longer resist Shuri and the Dora Milaje’s calls to action. Grieving and enraged, Black Panther demands to know who has been leaking information about Wakanda to their enemy, and the source shocks him to his core. Ultimate Black Panther #2 is written by…
DC teams up Batman and Dylan Dog, who we totally didn’t have to google (Staff Picks)
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: Batman/Dylan Dog #1: Joker is in London to seal a hellish pact with Dylan Dog’s nemesis, the Mephistophelian Xabaras. The doorbell of Craven Road No. 7 screams, and beyond the doorway, Bruce…
A New Bad-@$$ War Reports With Mace Windu #1
In a tale set before the downfall of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire, Jedi Mace Windu plunges into the criminal underworld to safely retrieve a secret formula that risks upending the galactic status quo in Mace Windu #1 written by Marc Bernadin, pencils by Georges Jeanty, inks by Dexter Vines, colors by…
We sift for grains of truth in the SXSW X-Men panel rumors
Late last week, several key players at Marvel confirmed they’d be leading a panel this Thursday at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. While they didn’t directly confirm this would be the official unveiling of the title lineup of the next era of X-Men comics, the panel includes new X-editor Tom Brevoort and…
Weapon X-Men #1 ain’t off to a great start
In Original X-Men, you saw the Phoenix recruit the young X-Men to fix yet another time-displaced disaster. But now the threat is deadlier than ever, and it’s time to call in the X-Men’s big gun. He’s the best there is at what he does, in every universe he does it in, and this job is…
Battle Of The Atom: Zoobooks
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Ultimate X-Men #1 not a big bang but a magical evolution
Hisako Ichiki is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal life – go to school, hang out with her friends, ignore the political strife broiling over after the events of Ultimate Invasion – but life has other plans for her. In Japan, urban legends have sprung to life and brought some unusual…
Peach Momoko reimagines the Ultimate X-Men and even more 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: Ultimate X-Men #1: Hisako Ichiki is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal life. But life has other plans for her. In Japan, urban legends have sprung to life…
Marvel and the NBA have a lot more in common than you think: PART ONE
This is a variant cover to 2021’s Venom #35/200, drawn by Kael Ngu. Take a closer look at it. How does it make you feel? Joy? Apprehension? Confusion? For me, it’s a true work of art, and represents the crossover between two of my favorite things in the world: basketball and comics. While the effects…