Nathan Gooden - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 15 Jan 2023 15:43:08 +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 Nathan Gooden - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 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 Saddle up for Yukon Horrors in Vault’s THE RUSH #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/27/saddle-up-for-yukon-horrors-in-vaults-the-rush-1/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34761 1899, Yukon Territory. A frozen frontier, bloodied and bruised by the last great Gold Rush. But in the lawless wastes to the north, something whispers in the hindbrains of men, drawing them to a blighted valley, where giant spidertracks mark the snow and impossible guns roar in the night. To Brokehoof, where gold and blood...

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]]> 34761 Gold Enough for Ya? Check out an Exclusive, Extended Preview of Vault’s THE RUSH #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/25/gold-enough-for-ya-check-out-an-exclusive-extended-preview-of-vaults-the-rush-1/ Mon, 25 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34824 In 1999, Fiona Apple released her second album, When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ‘fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When...

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]]> 34824 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 A 1990s Tabletop RPG Becomes a Comic in ‘Vampire: The Masquerade’ #1 https://comicsxf.com/2020/08/06/a-1990s-tabletop-rpg-becomes-a-comic-in-vampire-the-masquerade-1/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7428 “The Masquerade keeps us safe. The Masquerade is everything.” In the godless times of 1991, there arose a TTRPG system so goth, so theater-kid horny, it was only played in the darkest of basements and dingiest of industrial clubs. That system was Vampire: The Masquerade. Now, the lunatics at Vault Comics have resurrected this goth...

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