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,…

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Superman Gets Some Shady Friends, Moon Knight’s Back and More Staff Picks for July 21

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick: Superman and the Authority #1: Now that Jonathan Kent is doing his share of Superman-ing, Kal-El needs something else to do. How about getting a dope new costume and man-in-the-chairing the Authority? Grant…

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Primer Update: May 2021

Last month we launched a new part of ComicsXF: Primer. Our goal with Primer continues to be to provide examples of the best comics to read, whether looking to add something to your current pull list, or read up on a character you are interested in, but never knew quite where to start or what…

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Chrises On Infinite Earths: My Yorrick (X-Necrosha Pt 1)

It’s zombie time as Christi and Chris get (re)animated in their discussion of the first half of X-Necrosha. Music Credits:  “Evening Melodrama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “Get Away” by Scott Holmes is licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial License.  “Happy Alley” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By…

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Chrises On Infinite Earths: The Krakoan Kindergarten Class (Inferno Pt.1)

The Krakoan Kindergarten Class (Inferno Pt.1): In part one of three of the Chris’s coverage of Inferno, we discuss the New Mutants portion of the event, supplemented by The X-Tremists. The punching is good, the teens are uncomfortably sexy, and Colossus is bad, maybe. Music Credits: “Evening Melodrama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons:…

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