Pulp - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Fri, 30 Apr 2021 12:42:43 +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 Pulp - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Wonder Woman, Iron Fist, I Breathed a Body and More Staff Picks for 1/20 https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/18/wonder-woman-iron-fist-i-breathed-a-body-and-more-staff-picks-for-1-20/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=13090 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1: In our top “Future State” story this week, Diana takes on a new threat, the Undoing, at the end of time with help from writers Becky Cloonan...

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]]> 13090 The X Spot: Batman, Batman and 8 Other Comics in Between https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/08/the-x-spot-batman-batman-and-8-other-comics-in-between/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=12195 Friends, I got too excited last week. I wanted to share this bright and shiny new toy of ours, and I don’t think I properly explained what we (That’s you, Loyal Content Consumer, and me) are doing here. [Grote’s note: I tried to tell him, folks.] Each week, I’m going to run down 10 comics...

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]]> 12195 Your Western Double-Play: Pulp and That Texas Blood https://comicsxf.com/2020/07/30/your-western-double-play-pulp-and-that-texas-blood/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7303 Yee-haw! We do Westerns now, pardner! OK, enough of that. We’re breaking form from your regular (as of the past month) Indie Triple Play to bring you two reviews of comics of a similar bent, as Matthew Lazorwitz reviews Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ latest OGN, Pulp, and Will Nevin looks at the second issue...

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]]> 7303 Get spurred to read these 4 great comics Westerns https://comicsxf.com/2020/07/30/get-spurred-to-read-these-4-great-comics-westerns/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7283 High noon in a desert town. Two men face off, hands on the butts of their holstered revolvers. [Grote’s note: Heh heh, butts.] A blur of motion, a crack of gunfire, and one (or both) falls. This scene is a hallmark of the American Western, a genre that was popular in comics throughout the 1950s...

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]]> 7283 You guys! X-Factor’s here! … and some other comics that are also out July 29 https://comicsxf.com/2020/07/27/you-guys-x-factors-here-and-some-other-comics-that-are-also-out-july-29/ Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7211 Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. CORI’S PICK (BUT REALLY EVERYONE’S, BUT MOSTLY CORI’S BECAUSE SHE’S REVIEWING IT THIS WEEK, BUT MAN, WE ARE ALL VERY EXCITED): X-Factor #1: After a tantric, monthslong wait, Leah Williams and David Baldeon’s series...

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