With the looming release of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness serving as the latest entry in pop cultureâs recent obsession with multiverses and realities alternate, parallel and multiple, we asked our ComicsXF writers to share their thoughts about their favorite alternate reality from across the wide multiverse of stories! Earth-1610: The Ultimate Universe…
Bear with me a moment. Iâm not nostalgic for the X-Men comics of the â70s and â80s. I wasnât born yet, but also, unlike a lot of comic nerds my age, I never got into the cartoon that built off those stories, or found my way into a comic shop with back issue bins. I…
Avengers vs Defenders Part One Christi and Chris cover the first half of Avengers vs. Defenders (Avengers #115-116 and Defenders #8-9) Support The Chrises Patreon Ko-fi Contact The Chrises Twitter: @ChrisesPod Facebook: @ChrisesPod chrisesoninfiniteearths@gmail.com Music Credits “Evening Melodrama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ âGet Awayâ by Scott Holmes…
Are Marc Spector and Steven Grant stuck in the afterlife, forced to relive their memories in an attempt to become whole and balance the scales? Or has Marc truly imagined everything, and is really a man coming to grips with his delusions in a psych ward? Wherever the answers lie, theyâre all dwarfed by the…
Sabretooth was sent to the Pit. Then he made it a hell. Now itâs a prison, and Victor Creed is leading a daring escape. Will the exiled mutants be able to work together long enough to find their way out of the Pit? Or are they digging a deeper hole? And whoâs their jailer anyway?…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 207: David F. Walker's Impostor Syndrome David F. Walker joins Dan and Matt to talk about his anthology Impostor Syndrome, now funding on Zoop. 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 follow the…
What if the war on drugs was just one guy, man, and he decided to give it up? Get real high and read The Secret History of the War on Weed, written by Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, with art by Scott Koblish, colors by Hi-Fi, lettered by Clayton Cowles and published by Image. Ahhh,…
Wolverine and Deadpool go together like chocolate and peanut butter in Wolverine #20, written by Benjamin Percy, drawn by Adam Kubert, colored by Frank Martin and Dijjo Lima, and lettered by Cory Petit. Tony Thornley: Cassie! Welcome! From this first issue, I think this is going to be a lot of fun! Cassie Tongue: I…
The first arc of Donny Cates and Ryan Ottley’s Hulk reaches its climax as Bruce Banner’s control over Starship Hulk slips ⊠and something much worse takes the wheel in Hulk #6, written by Cates, drawn by Ottley, inked by Cliff Rathburn, colored by Frank Martin and lettered by Cory Petit. When I wrote on…
When Arnim Zola launches a catastrophic attack on New York City, he meets his match in Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers. In the battle that follows, two Captain Americas (Captains America?) prove better than one, and Sam and Steve decide they might just keep a good thing going. Begin the next era of Caps in…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 206: Caught in a Time Loop with Ibrahim Moustafa Writer/artist/custom toy builder Ibrahim Moustafa joins the show to talk about his new Humanoids graphic novel Retroactive. 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…
Arthur Harrowâs got the upper hand, and in that hand, the scarab. The release of the goddess Ammit, and the deaths of millions who will be judged unworthy for crimes they havenât yet committed, is nigh. The minds that make up Moon Knight are running through Cairo, trying to track Harrow down, but his trailâs…
Itâs Wolverineâs time to shine in X-Men #10, written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by Javier Pina, colored by Marte Gracia and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Tony Thornley: Cori, welcome back. Missed you last month (though Adam Reck did a wonderful job). Ready to check out an issue that (in my opinion) continues the seriesâ upswing?…
When we last left Silk, we learned a little about the manyao and saw Cindy Moon help K-pop singer Luna Snow battle the manyaoâs henchman at Luna’s concert. But now the manyao has set her sights on Silk! Letâs see how things continue in Silk #3, written by Emily Kim, drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa, colored…
Itâs a large world, yes, but itâs also very small. I find that niche communitiesâ say, I donât know, comic review sites, dispersed around the world as they may beâ cultivate a connected community. So as a member of this connected comics community, Iâve been more than tangentially aware of a few illustrators and writers…