Hellions #15 Explores Its Seriously Sinister Trust Issues
Everything is going wrong and Tarn wants his stuff back!
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A Batman Event, Aquaman’s Birthday and More Staff Picks for Sept. 1
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s Pick: Batman: Fear State Alpha: Shine the event signal! The Scarecrow plot cooking in Batman culminates in this new big-deal story written by James “Substack” Tynion IV and drawn by Riccardo Federici. ($4.99) Previously,…
Sunday Editorial: So You Lost Your Hickman
The following first appeared in the ComicsXF newsletter. You can get early access to our editorials, a roundup of the week’s best content and get to know the members of the ComicsXFamily by subscribing right here: Subscribe As first reported by Entertainment Weekly, it appears that “Head of X” scribe Jonathan Hickman isn’t contracted to do…
Strange Academy #12 Brings All The Action But No Heart
One of the students at the school-for-magic-kids has been taken over by a scary demon with uncountable eyes who feeds on angst and hatred! What will the other kids do? Can they expect help from… Howard the Duck? Strange Academy #12, writing by Skottie Young, art by Humberto Ramos, colors by Edgar Delgado, letters by…
Amazing Spider-Man #72 Gets A Little Satanic
Retcons can be a useful tool in the world of serialized storytelling. They can add important character details about characters, stories, and locales. Hell, one of the best stories of the last five years was a massive retcon, as House of X #2 permanently altered the history of Moira MacTaggert. Amazing Spider-Man #72 hands the…
Go Behind Bars with J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Life Story Annual #1
Spider-Man. He’s a threat. He’s a menace. And J. Jonah Jameson will do whatever it takes to make the world see it. But in this companion piece to 2019’s Spider-Man: Life Story, will his decades of obsession bear fruit for Jonah … or be his destruction? Let’s do hard time with Spider-Man: Life Story Annual…
WMQ&A Episode 174: Mark Russell Life Story
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 174: Mark Russell Life Story Writer Mark Russell joins the show to talk about a range of books, from AWA’s Not All Robots to Marvel’s Fantastic Four Life Story to AHOY’s Second Coming to Vault’s Deadbox, and to tease future projects. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud,…
Cable in Space, Superman in ’78, Williams in Landscape in Staff Picks for Aug. 25
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s Pick: Cable Reloaded #1: The old man is back, and he’s here to stop “The Last Annihilation” and have a nice time. Written by Al Ewing (S.W.O.R.D.) and drawn by Bob Quinn (Way of…
Magneto’s on Trial. Again. In Our Staff Picks for Aug. 18
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Mark’s Pick: Trial of Magneto #1: The Pretender Wanda Maximoff is dead, and all suspicions lead to Magneto. So it’s probably not him, right? RIGHT?! Written by Leah Williams and drawn by Lucas Werneck. ($4.99)…
Chrises on Infinite Earths: Reveal-ish (X-Cutioner’s Song Pt. 3)
Christi and Chris are joined by artist, podcaster, and critique, Adam Reck to wrap up X-Cutioner’s Song. Adam brings his childhood nostalgia to this classic X-story. Support The Chrises Patreon Kofii 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/…
The Defenders Return and DC Recycles in Our Staff Picks for Aug. 11
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick: Defenders #1: Remember a couple years ago when Al Ewing tried to make the Masked Raider happen? Well, he’s back, along with Doctor Strange (Hey, isn’t he about to die?), the Silver Surfer…
What If… Roy Thomas Created the MCU’s Next Hit Series? An Interview With The Comics Legend
Marvel Comics’ What If…?, appropriately enough, was born from a moment of pivotal decision. After two years as the top editor at the House of Ideas, preceded by the better part of a decade as the right hand man to Stan Lee, Roy Thomas had stepped down from his position at the helm of the…
The Sinisters Six All Share A Common Goal In Sinister War #2
We got teams for DAYS in the sophomore installment of Nick Spencer’s conclusion to Amazing Spider-Man, Sinister War #2! Written by Nick Spencer & Ed Brisson. Drawn by Mark Bagley, Diogenes Neves, Carlos Gómez, and Zé Carlos. Inked by Andrew Hennessy, John Dell, Andy Owens, Carlos Gómez, and Zé Carlos. Colored by Brian Reber. Lettered…
The Gang Gets Sinister on Sinister in Hellions #14
Things go from bad to worse for Sinister.
Robots and Mutants and Hulk, Oh My! It’s Our Staff Picks for Aug. 4
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Ari’s Pick: The Me You Love in the Dark #1: The team behind Image’s Middlewest, writer Skottie Young and artist Jorge Corona, spin a new tale about an artist who moves to an old house…