Michael Moreci - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:19:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Michael Moreci - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories: The Bad Batch: Ghost Agents #1 gives ‘filler’ a good name https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/17/star-wars-bad-batch-ghost-agents-1/ Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51736 The Bad Batch is back for another high-octane adventure set during the Clone Wars. Their mission: to hunt down the mysterious Separatist ghost agent who executed a daring heist on Coruscant. The thief’s trail leads Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair and Tech to the seediest corners of the galaxy, where kingpins and thugs threaten the clones’ mission,...

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]]> 51736 Check Out Our Big-Axe Extended Preview of Vault’s Barbaric: Hell to Pay #1 https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/16/check-out-our-big-axe-extended-preview-of-vaults-barbaric-hell-to-pay-1/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44503 The rights to Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian have bounced around from comics publisher to comics publisher the past few years. But when you really think about it, anyone can do a barbarian story. All you need is a big shirtless dude with dirty hair, a weapon of some kind, some dirty-sexy people in...

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]]> 44503 WMQ&A Episode 237: Lemme Axe You a Question with Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/20/wmqa-episode-237-lemme-axe-you-a-question-with-michael-moreci-and-nathan-gooden/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44256 Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 237: Lemme Axe You a Question with Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden join the show to talk about their plans for the next year of Vault Comics’ Barbaric. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com,...

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]]> 44256 Chonky Boy Alert: Team Vault Talks to Us about the Wasted Space Omnibus Kickstarter https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/13/chonky-boy-alert-team-vault-talks-to-us-about-the-wasted-space-omnibus-kickstarter/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42842 Look at your bookshelf right now. What’s on it? Some novels you haven’t touched since that book club you joined after college, maybe a framed photo of your partner, some cherished action figures from the 1990s Toy Biz X-Men line that have no value otherwise. Now look down at the next shelf, the one sagging...

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]]> 42842 Dark Horse Gives Us an Exclusive Look at Covers for Stranger Things: Kamchatka #3 https://comicsxf.com/2022/02/17/dark-horse-gives-us-an-exclusive-look-at-covers-for-stranger-things-kamchatka-3/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=38023 It’s been nearly three years since we last checked in with the gang in Hawkins, Indiana, from the Netflix series Stranger Things. The first half of Season 4 is scheduled to debut May 27, so we’ve got at least a few more months to spend thinking about what these kids look like now they’ve all...

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]]> 38023 A Cynical Barbaric #1 Merits a Cynical Review https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/30/a-cynical-barbaric-1-merits-a-cynical-review/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30221 In 2001, I went to the theater to see the big release of the summer. It opened, like many animated tales do, on a narrator expositing about a princess locked in a tower, waiting to be freed by the true love’s kiss of a valiant knight. Our narrator scoffs, “Like that’s ever gonna happen. What...

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]]> 30221 ‘Devil’s Highway,’ ‘Billionaire Island’ & ‘The Plot’: Your indie triple play for July 1 https://comicsxf.com/2020/07/01/devils-highway-billionaire-island-the-plot-your-indie-triple-play-for-july-1/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=6701 Bam! Pow! Zap! Xavier Files isn’t just for X-Men anymore! In case you missed the memo, the site you love is now covering the wider comics industry. And so this week we have a roundup of reviews from across the indie spectrum, including Benjamin “X-Force” Percy’s latest crime thriller (reviewed by Zachary Jenkins), Mark Russell’s...

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