NYX - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:30:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 NYX - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 A beautiful if heavy-handed sendoff to our favorite city-dwelling mutants in NYX #10 https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/11/nyx-10/ Sun, 11 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52413 Is New York City itself a kind of mutant? Can it give us all a model for mutant communities? How did Mojo take it over from Grand Central Station? Can he be defeated using the power of solidarity, or the solidarity of love, or the love of trains? Why is NYX ending? Find out which...

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]]> 52413 Marvel’s NYX wraps, 2 DC Annuals and a nice, big Transformers hardcover in the CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/04/30/staff-picks-april30/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52373 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. Stephanie’s pick: NYX #10: With Mojo a bigger threat than ever...

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]]> 52373 ON THE X-MANHUNT: The kids are alright without Xavier in NYX #9 https://comicsxf.com/2025/03/06/nyx-9/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:44:48 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51902 Professor Charles Xavier has escaped from Graymalkin Prison to save his daughter from an attack out in space — and he has a plan to aid her. The problem is, his former students are none too happy to see him. Is there anyone left willing to help him out? Find out in NYX #9, written...

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]]> 51902 X-Manhunt begins, but more importantly, Monkey Meat is back in our CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/03/05/staff-picks-march5/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51877 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. Dan’s pick: Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch #1: Going on vacation?...

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]]> 51877 A Hellion of a lot of history between Julian and Laura in NYX #8 https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/20/nyx-8/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51777 Julian Keller, aka Hellion, swung back and forth between hero and baddie for almost his entire on-page existence. Now it looks like he’s killed civilians, and he’s headed to the mutant supermax for it. Should our NYX regulars capture him or set him free? Find out in NYX #8, written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin...

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]]> 51777 Zatanna and the Jersey Devil lead this week’s CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/19/staff-picks-feb19/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51742 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. Matt’s pick: Zatanna #1: Zatanna Zatara, the Mistress of Magic, is...

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]]> 51742 Hellion busts out in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s NYX #8 https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/16/nyx-8-preview/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51697 Once again, NYX proves itself to be the series most willing to engage with the Krakoan era as part of a larger discussion about what mutant society looks like now. In doing so, next week’s issue flashes back to Crucible, the space where mutants on Krakoa were given the chance to die in battle for...

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]]> 51697 The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 338: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly talk Timeless, Trek & more https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/04/tcxfip-338-lanzing-kelly/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51573 The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 338: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly talk Timeless and Star Trek Co-writers and best friends Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing join the show to talk about Power Man: Timeless, their upcoming Star Trek event Lore War, and much more. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts,...

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]]> 51573 ComicsXF’s official ranking of the From the Ashes X-Men books https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/02/comicsxfs-official-ranking-of-the-x-men-from-the-ashes-comics-so-far/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51029 As of this writing, there are 13(!) monthly X-books on the shelves, two of which — X-Men and Uncanny X-Men — ship on an 18-issue-a-year schedule. That’s a lot, and there’s more coming, including Laura Kinney: Wolverine (who is already starring in NYX); a Timeslide one-shot co-starring Cable and Bishop; Magik (who is already starring...

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]]> 51029 Synch feels out of sync in Marvel’s NYX #7 https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/12/nyx-7/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51346 Remember Everett Thomas, aka Synch? He’s been through a lot. He’s back. And he’s really angry at Prodigy. Find out why in NYX #7, written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, drawn by Enid Balám, colored by Raúl Angulo and lettered by Joe Sabino. Two things can be true at the same time. First, mutants...

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]]> 51346 The X-Men’s Magik runs a solo mission and more of this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/08/staff-picks-jan8/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51311 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. Austin’s pick: Magik #1: Something ancient has awakened beneath the Alaskan...

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]]> 51311 What were ComicsXF’s 24 favorite comics of 2024? https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/05/best-comics-of-2024/ Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51248 While those other comics sites had their year-end best-of lists ready to go by Thanksgiving, we … got busy and put it off till the last possible minute. But hey, that just means we were able to take the full scope of the year’s comics into account. In doing so, we settled on these 24...

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]]> 51248 Panic! at the Disco Dazzler show in Marvel’s NYX #6 https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/04/nyx-6/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51018 Life in New York is exhausting. Let’s dance. Good thing Dazzler’s in town. Score tickets somehow and queue for the show in NYX #6, written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, penciled by Michael Shelfer, inked by Shelfer and Elisabetta D’Amico, colored by Raúl Angulo and lettered by Joe Sabino. And we’re back: The mutants-take-Manhattan...

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]]> 51018 Two-Face flips a coin to see what else makes the rest of our Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/04/staff-picks-dec4/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51004 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. Jake’s pick: Two-Face #1: After years of internal conflict, both halves...

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]]> 51004 Our EXCLUSIVE preview of NYX #6 teases a special guest. We’re not saying who. https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/01/nyx-6-preview/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50950 NYX is a book about younger mutants – the ones most analogous to Zoomers – finding community as a post-Krakoan diaspora. It’s also an odd burst of 2000s nostalgia, as it largely centers on characters who were created during that decade, an era when Marvel introduced dozens of new mutants (lowercase N, lowercase M) in...

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]]> 50950 Ms. Marvel and Wolverine are the new Odd Couple in our EXCLUSIVE cover reveal for NYX #7 https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/19/nyx-7-mason-cove/ Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50854 The 1965 Neil Simon play The Odd Couple, later made and remade into a number of movies and TV shows, posits that two divorced, middle-aged men who exist in an imaginary binary of cleanliness are fertile grounds for comedy. This variant cover by Justin Mason for NYX #7, out Jan. 8, posits a similar scenario...

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]]> 50854 Marvel’s NYX #5 misses the mark by about a week https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/17/nyx-5/ Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50819 Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mutant Manuel de la Rocha staged a fight between his ally Julian Keller and Jersey City’s favorite do-gooder, Ms. Marvel, to provoke a crackdown on mutants, so that radicalized, even-more-oppressed mutants would support Manuel’s fake revolution. See whether his evil plan works in NYX #5, written by Jackson Lanzing...

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]]> 50819 GI Joe fights for freedom as the X-Men’s Psylocke stabs … for … strudel? … in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/13/staff-picks-nov13/ Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50772 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. Tony’s pick: GI Joe #1: Conrad Hauser, Codename Duke, has assembled...

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]]> 50772 The Cuckoos’ plot revealed in our EXCLUSIVE preview of NYX #5 https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/07/nyx-5-preview/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50748 OK, let me see if I’ve got this straight: Sophie is the one currently starring apart from her sisters in NYX but who is still very much in on their current plot alongside Hellion and Empath. Esme is the one who went nuts on Kick and appeared to be in love with Magneto … or...

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]]> 50748 DC Versus Marvel finally sees the light of day, and more Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/30/staff-picks-oct30/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50661 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. Bonus pick: DC Versus Marvel Omnibus: Featuring Superman vs. the Amazing...

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]]> 50661 Professor Prodigy practices pragmatism in our EXCLUSIVE preview of NYX #4 https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/27/nyx-4-preview/ Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50532 Of all the From the Ashes X-titles, NYX has been the most willing to engage with the legacy of Krakoa, which puts it near the top of the list for best current X-title. And perhaps more than any other mutant, Empire State University Professor David Alleyne, the former X-man Prodigy, is tasked with unpacking what...

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]]> 50532 Ram V’s Detective Comics run ends, a Chinese James Bond and more CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/25/staff-picks-sept25/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50280 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. Matt’s pick: Detective Comics #1,089: It began with a melody, strange...

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]]> 50280 Editorial: Why the From the Ashes X-Men comics have more new mutants than New Mutants https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/08/xmen-fromtheashes-new-mutants/ Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50021 If you’re an X-Men fan of a certain age, you may have read the past two months’ worth of From the Ashes comics and wondered, “Where did all the New Mutants and Generation X kids go? I mean I know Magik is in X-Men, but it’s like the rest of them just disappeared into the...

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]]> 50021 With its spotlight on Wolverine, NYX #2 remains the best X-Men From the Ashes comic https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/30/nyx-2/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49987 Every day, mutants are being stolen off the streets of Manhattan — unprotected and forgotten by the human world. Now, a war-worn Wolverine will descend into New York’s criminal underworld to bring them back into the light. Who is the mysterious mutant fixer known only as Local? Can Laura Kinney stand alone against the dangerous...

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]]> 49987 Avengers vs. Aliens vs. Frankenstein vs. Archie in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/28/staff-picks-aug28/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49947 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. Austin’s pick: Aliens vs. Avengers #1: Xenomorphs reach Earth! The perfect...

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