Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: Knight Terrors: Robin #1: When two Bat-brothers get taken into the Nightmare Realm, Jason Todd and Tim Drake must fight their worst fears and each other as they’re forced to relive the darkest…
Did you know Chris Bachalo is very good at drawing Illyana Rasputina, aka Magik? Maybe you didn’t because you came up in the 1990s and fell off comics and you only remember Bachalo as the Generation X guy. OK, well, picture Husk but taller and a demon anime princess with a huge Final Fantasy sword….
Doctor Stasis and Mother Righteous reunite after more than a century apart. X-Men: Before the Fall: The Sinister Four #1 is written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Paco Medina, colored by Edgar Delgado and Protobunker’s Fer Sifuentes-Sujo, and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Mark Turetsky: Rasmus! It’s good to see you again after all these years…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: X-Men: Before the Fall: Sinister Four #1: As the 19th century draws to a close, the dying Nathaniel Essex unleashes four clones of himself into the world. They’ve been haunting it ever since,…
The Scoundrel continues to be the absolute worst at taking “no” for an answer, and with Jen’s heart, she’s finding it harder and harder to say the word. Attempting to blow up New York, however, may just be what puts him in her bad books for good … or so we hope. She-Hulk #14 is…
Kid Cable returns to stop the events of the Hellfire Gala. Destiny offers unclear warnings to Rogue. And the breakout character of X of Swords is back. There’s apparently way too much going on in next week’s X-Men #24. Check out our exclusive preview, see if you can decipher Destiny’s dire predictions and keep scrolling…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men: Before the Fall: Heralds of Apocalypse: In ancient days, Genesis turned back the hordes of Amenth. In ancient days, Genesis forced Annihilation into a parley. What words were spoken in her mind?…
We have a treat for you this time, redesign fans! After several rounds of voting, our group was deadlocked on who to pick, so we went with two! We’re bringing you the sinister Nathaniel Essex, aka Mister Sinister and all his cloned incarnations, and Rachel Summers, currently known as Prestige! Both are very popular characters…
Stephanie Burt: Yeah, we’re late. I’m late. I know. At least it’s still June, which means we’ve still got time to look at this year’s attempts by both of the Big Two to pursue the pink pound, gain gay ganache and generally roll out a big welcome mat in rainbow colors, while claiming they’ve always…
She can take a cloud and tease out a thunderstorm. She can turn a tornado into a blizzard. And she’s not afraid to cut you. She is the most interesting mutant in the world. Siena Blaze. Just kidding, it’s Storm. We’re talking about Storm. Check out our exclusive preview of Storm #2, and get those…
Our heroes have barely escaped Count Nefaria’s villain-team tryouts; their covers are thoroughly blown, but they’ve got the suitcase with the Weird Engine, and the Count would like it back. Will he catch them? Will they escape him for good? Will the story conclude? Don’t count on any of those events in the pulse-pounding, sparklingly…
Kang the Conqueror is in need of the Avengers’ help, but what could possibly convince them to help him? The means to save 1000 lives is a good start, because the Master of Time is slowly running out of time himself — the Tribulation events are coming. Avengers #2 is written by Jed MacKay, drawn…
Chris’ pick: Ultimate Invasion #1: Remember the Ultimate Universe? All those classic stories like the time Sinister pushed Xavier down a flight of stairs or the time Blob ate the Wasp or the time Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch did an incest? Man, I miss those days. But what if I told you the Ultimate…
Hey, remember waaaay back in Excalibur (2019) #22 when Pete Wisdom had The Five resurrect the four psychics of STRIKE as part of his plan to take back Britain from Reuben Brousseau and Coven Akkaba, and then Professor X was mean to Pete, Betsy went to Otherworld and literally NOTHING HAPPENED for two years? Well,…
Genesis is here as White Sword sends an emissary to Arakko in X-Men Red #12 written by Al Ewing, art by Jacopo Camagni, colors by Federico Blee and letters by Arianna Maher. “It’s all connected” Whether or not you believe The Wire was the best show in television history (spoiler: it was, is, and will…