Phil Noto - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:30:57 +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 Phil Noto - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Doom, Me & ADHD: Nothing in Marvel’s Ultimates #17 needs fixing https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/26/doom-me-adhd-the-ultimates-17/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54582 Doom can’t think linearly, if he’s to win. He has to focus on the future, on the past, and all the moments in between - and all the moments that weren’t.

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]]> 54582 Marvel’s Star Wars #1 enters the era of the New New Republic https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/13/marvels-star-wars-1-enters-the-era-of-the-new-new-republic/ Tue, 13 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52611 Darth Vader is dead! The New Republic lives! Moff Adelhard (you all remember him, right?) is defeated! For the first time, Marvel’s second run of Star Wars comics drops the Star Warriors into an ongoing series set in the post-Original Trilogy era in Star Wars #1, written by Alex Segura, drawn by Phil Noto and...

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]]> 52611 The Ultimates shows what’s possible with superhero stories and invites us to demand more https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/08/ultimates-4/ Sun, 08 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50026 Head’s up: This essay includes spoilers for this week’s Ultimates #4 by Deniz Camp, Phil Noto and Travis Lanham. The Ultimates is a future classic.  If Marvel’s founding creative principle is depicting “the world outside your window,” then Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri’s run is observing this mission statement better than any other comic being...

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]]> 50026 Krakoa waves goodbye, and all that’s left are Ashes in X-Men #35/Uncanny #700 https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/05/xmen-35/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49150 All good things must come to an end, and as good of a thing as the Krakoan era has been for mutantkind, its time has come at last. The tragedy and triumph of FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X, the madness and mystery of RISE OF THE POWERS OF X, they have all come to...

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]]> 49150 Corporate synergy takes its toll in X-Chat #14! https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/27/corporate-synergy-takes-its-toll-in-x-chat-14/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=48063 The Fall of X continues, and gets bloody in X-Chat #14! In X-Men #31, the X-Men and Spidey face Nimrod from Gerry Duggan, Phil Noto, and Clayton Cowles! In X-Force #49, no one’s favorite bromance is reignited from Benjamin Percy, Robert Gill, Guru-eFx, and Joe Caramagna! And lastly Wolverine #43 sees the Sabretooth War take...

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]]> 48063 Synch’s having a rough time in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men #31 https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/01/xmen-31-preview/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47826 I’m gonna be honest: I’m not loving this Talon-inside-Synch’s-body subplot in X-Men. It’s another example of the woman having to suffer to further the male hero’s arc, and it came during a week when Gerry Duggan was writing a lot of women — Laura, Emma Frost, Riri Williams, Jean Grey — as props for their...

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]]> 47826 X-Chat #6 Catches Up With Crossovers, Catharsis & Conflict! https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/31/x-chat-6-catches-up-with-crossovers-catharsis-and-conflict/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44624 We’re a little behind but a few important events have happened since we last met! Welcome to X-Chat #6! In X-Men Annual #1, Firestar gets the much-deserved spotlight from Steve Foxe, Andrea DiVito, Sebastian Cheng and Clayton Cowles! Two key characters get some major closure in Dark Web: X-Men #2-3, by Gerry Duggan, Phil Noto,...

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]]> 44624 Star Wars #25 Is Not Equal to the Sum of Its Parts https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/20/star-wars-25-is-not-equal-to-the-sum-of-its-parts/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42151 Old favorites from the Charles Soule Star Wars canon are revisited via an anthology of tales in Star Wars #25, written by Charles Soule, art by Ramon Rosanas, Guiseppe Camuncoli, Danielle Orlandini, Will Sliney and Phil Noto, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg, Arif Prianto and Guru-eFX  and lettered by Clayton Cowles.  With Commander Zahra defeated and...

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]]> 42151 Good Witches and Bad Witches Both Enjoy Devil’s Reign: X-Men #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/19/good-witches-and-bad-witches-both-enjoy-devils-reign-x-men-1/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37504 Unfortunately, the eviction notice for vigilante superheroics comes to Seneca Park as the X-Men come face to face with Kingpin’s Thunderbolts in Devil’s Reign: X-Men #1 written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by Phil Noto and lettered by Cory Petit. Christi Eddleman: Unfortunately for everyone, and especially me, I can only sing some Staind as I...

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]]> 37504 Lost In Space in Marauders #25 https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/27/lost-in-space-in-marauders-25/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34866 Last time out in this Star Wars comic Marauders, our heroes sold a Macguffin to the dastardly double-crossing space criminal Eden Rixlo in exchange for his spaceship, and then he stole it back from them and shot them out the airlock. Can they come back from that? Marauders #25, writing by Gerry Duggan, art by...

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]]> 34866 The Marauders Trek To Arakko For A War In The Stars In Marauders #24 https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/15/the-marauders-trek-to-arakko-for-a-war-in-the-stars-in-marauders-24/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33727 Our mutant pirates (technically they’re privateers) head to the newly-terraformed Mars! But they don’t expect what they get from the new bad guy they meet at the spaceport. He doesn’t expect them either, since he’s been mindwiped. Who will shoot first? Marauders #24, writing by Gerry Duggan, art by Phil Noto, letters by Cory Petit....

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]]> 33727 Deadpool: Black, White & Blood #1 Throws Some Shade (Three of Them) on the Merc With a Mouth https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/05/deadpool-black-white-blood-1-throws-some-shade-three-of-them-on-the-merc-with-a-mouth/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32399 What’s black, whit and red all – everyone else has already made this joke, right? Deadpool shows his true, highly specific colors in Deadpool: Black, White & Blood #1, featuring stories written by Tom Taylor, Ed Brisson, and James Stokoe, with art by Stokoe, Phil Noto, and Whilce Portacio; colour art by Rachelle Rosenberg; and...

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]]> 32399 We Enter The Endgame Of Cable #10 https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/28/we-enter-the-endgame-of-cable-10/ Wed, 28 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=25898 Cable has a problem. He made a big fuss about making sure the timeline was safe and stable and then stuck around for far too long. Now he is in over his head and thinks there is only one way this ends. Gerry Duggan, Phil Noto and Joe Sabino deliver Cable #10.  Ian Gregory: We’re...

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]]> 25898 Kid Cable Bargains With Fate As He Realizes What He Must Do In Cable #9 https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/24/kid-cable-bargains-with-fate-as-he-realizes-what-he-must-do-in-cable-9/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=23411 All markers are called in. All debts are due. Nathan Summers has a plan, and he’ll need everyone’s help to execute it. Gerry Duggan, Phil Noto and Joe Sabino deliver Cable #9. Ian Gregory: Reading Cable now is a bit of a different experience than a few weeks ago, now that we know the series...

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