New X-Men - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:03:15 +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 New X-Men - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Battle Of The Atom: The 2002 All-Stars https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/15/battle-of-the-atom-the-2002-all-stars/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55267 Een la yair of ur laird déux thousand deux Marvel writairs absulute-lee loved makeng nu charactairs to throw at people and ‘ope zey stik. Vairy fu of zém did. But zere was un and of curse ‘e’s francais, why do you think ‘e ‘as zis ootrajéous accént? Ranked zis episode:

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]]> 55267 Hickman rewrites Marvel’s cosmic order, DC kicks off Pride Month and more CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/04/staff-picks-june4/ Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52905 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New  comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Adam’s pick: Imperial #1: Hickman’s doing his thing again, taking his...

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]]> 52905 Magik, Zatanna and some non-magic users in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/26/staff-picks-june26/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49412 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: X-Men: Blood Hunt: Magik #1: After the Fall of the House of X, Illyana Rasputina has returned to her homeland to search her soul and steel it for what comes next. But...

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]]> 49412 Xavier Files Entry 122: Cassandra Nova https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/07/xavier-files-122-cassandra-nova/ Tue, 07 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48837 That’s right, readers, we’re bringing back the Xavier Files, and this time, you get to help choose who we add to our Mutant Master Rankings. Support ComicsXF on Patreon at the $10-a-month level or higher, and you can request either a new entry to the Files, or an update of an existing file (as most...

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]]> 48837 Rereading the Morrison run, Part III: Live, reader, live https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/07/rereading-the-morrison-run-part-iii-live-reader-live/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46507 Click here to read Part I. Click here to read Part II. Sometimes a year’s worth of comic books feels like a day, and sometimes a day feels like a year. Our first two parts of this three-part look back at Grant Morrison’s New X-Men (2001-04) were written and edited before Fall of X (2023)....

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]]> 46507 Rereading the Morrison Run, Part II (of III): There’s a Riot Goin’ On https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/28/morrison-run-part-2/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46391 Click here to read Part One! Welcome back to our three-part look back at the Grant Morrison — and Frank Quitely and John Paul Leon and Phil Jimenez and others — run of New X-Men! From the first arcs — “E Is for Extinction” and its successors, dealing with Cassandra Nova — we’ve seen how...

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]]> 46391 Rereading the Morrison Run, Part I (of III): Nothing Less than Fabulous https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/15/reading-the-morrison-run-part-i-of-iii-nothing-less-than-fabulous/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46267 Modern X-fans — even those who dislike it — agree that the recent era of X-comics, depicting the rise and now fall of the Krakoan nation-state, is a grand, far-reaching change to mutant history. You might say — as several fans and journalists have all but said — that it represents the greatest X-change since...

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]]> 46267 Which X-man was Grant Morrison going to kill on Genosha? https://comicsxf.com/2019/10/01/which-x-man-was-grant-morrison-going-to-kill-on-genosha/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:29:10 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=4916 Note: This essay, published in 2019, has been updated to reflect that Grant Morrison is commonly referred to by they/them pronouns. In late 2000, writer Grant Morrison submitted a brief, typed essay to the senior editorial staff at Marvel – the ‘Morrison Manifesto’ – outlining what the X-Men would be under their pen. This manifesto,...

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]]> 4916 Entry 081 – The Stepford Cuckoos https://comicsxf.com/2017/07/27/entry-081-the-stepford-cuckoos/ Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:30:49 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=2260 Name: Sophie, Phoebe, Mindee, Celeste, and Esme Cuckoo Code Names: Stepford Cuckoos, Five-In-One, Four-In-One, Three-In-One, Thousand-In-One, Weapon IVX First Appearance: New X-Men #118 (Nov ‘01) Powers: Telepathy, Diamond form Teams Affiliation: X-Men About Identical twins are a bizarre concept for me. They are copies of yourself, and not just physically. The major influencing factors in life like...

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]]> 2260 Entry 077 – Dust https://comicsxf.com/2017/06/08/entry-077-dust/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:54:26 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=2037 Art by Frank Quitely Name: Sooraya Qadir Code Names: Dust First Appearance: New X-Men  #133 (Dec ‘02) Powers: Turns into living sand Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Hellions About On Friday May 26th, 2017 on a train in Portland, two teenage girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab, were accosted by a man yelling at them to “go back...

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]]> 2037 Entry 067 – Hellion https://comicsxf.com/2017/03/23/entry-067-hellion/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:36:09 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=1576 Art by Sana Takeda Name: Julian Keller Code Names: Hellion First Appearance: New Mutants #2 (Aug ‘03) Powers: Telekinesis Teams Affiliation: X-Men About A healthy awareness of one’s ability is a good thing. When that devolves into arrogance it becomes an issue. That’s why Spider-Man’s mantra “with great power there must also come great responsibility” is so important. Spider-Man would...

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]]> 1576 A Whack On The Side Of The X-Gene: How Grant Morrison Brought Back Creativity and Saved the X-Men https://comicsxf.com/2017/03/20/a-whack-on-the-side-of-the-x-gene-how-grant-morrison-brought-back-creativity-and-saved-the-x-men/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:00:42 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=1553 In July of 2000, the film X-Men became the surprise hit of the summer. More than anything else it signaled the beginning of the era of the comic book movie blockbuster. Over on the print side, things weren’t so bright. The X-Men books felt stagnant and they were nothing like the effortlessly cool film that...

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]]> 1553 Entry 063 – X-23 https://comicsxf.com/2017/02/20/entry-063-x-23/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:19:15 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=1237 Art by Ariela Kristantina and Sonia Oback Name: Laura Kinney Code Names: X-23, Wolverine First Appearance: X-Men: Evolution Season 3 Episode 11 Powers: Healing factor, enhanced senses, adamantium coated claws in hands and feet Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Force, Avengers Academy About In 1943, the writers of the Batman movie serials introduced The Bat’s Cave, a secret underground lair for the...

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]]> 1237 Entry 019 – Elixir https://comicsxf.com/2016/03/08/entry-019-elixir/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:00:15 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=104 Name: Josh Foley Code Names: Elixir First Appearance: New Mutants #5 (Nov ’03) Powers: Able to control the bodily health in others Teams Affiliation: New Mutants, X-Men, X-Force, Reavers, Utopians About With great power, comes great responsibility. The most classic line in comics works because that sense of responsibility can be used to explore so many...

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]]> 104 Entry 015 – Negasonic Teenage Warhead https://comicsxf.com/2016/02/26/entry-015-negasonic-teenage-warhead/ Fri, 26 Feb 2016 05:30:07 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=75 As seen in Deadpool, portrayed by Brianna Hildebrand Name: Ellie Phimister Code Names: Negasonic Teenage Warhead First Appearance: New X-Men #115 (Aug ’01) Powers: Telepathy, Precogntion, Taking her name literally in the movie Teams Affiliation: None When it was announced that Negasonic Teenage Warhead would be appearing in the Deadpool film in a supporting role...

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]]> 75 Entry 007 – Armor https://comicsxf.com/2016/02/25/entry-007-armor/ Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:48:24 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=47 Art by John Tyler Christopher Name: Hisako Ichiki Code Names: Armor First Appearance: Astonishing X-Men (Oct ‘04) Powers: Psionic exoskeleton powered by her connection to her ancestors Teams Affiliation: X-Men, New X-Men About There is a saying that goes “the inmates are running the asylum”, those who were once held captive by something, are now...

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]]> 47 Entry 002 – Glob Herman https://comicsxf.com/2016/02/25/entry-002-glob-herman/ Fri, 26 Feb 2016 02:13:16 +0000 http://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=28 Art by Ramon Villalobos  Name: Robert Herman Code Names: Glob Herman, Glob, The Inhuman Torch (he is the only one to call himself that) First Appearance: New X-Men #117 (Oct 01) Powers: Body made of Bio-paraffin Wax, Superhuman Strength & Resilience Team Affiliation: Omega Gang, Hellfire Academy, X-Men About Created by Grant Morrison & Ethan...

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