Rare Flavours - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:34:01 +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 Rare Flavours - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 3 IDW #1s – Star Trek, Twilight Zone and Street Sharks – top this week’s CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/09/24/staff-picks-sept24/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54242 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: Star Trek — The Last Starship #1: The Federation...

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]]> 54242 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 X-Factor is back on the job while the Nightwatcher Nightwatches in our Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/14/staff-picks-aug14/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49851 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: X-Factor #1: From the ashes of Krakoa, a new...

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]]> 49851 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 The Creature from the Black Lagoon lives to lead off this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/24/staff-picks-april24/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48686 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives #1: Journalist Kate Marsden hunts for a notorious serial killer in the heart of the Amazon. Hot on the trail of this madman, she...

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]]> 48686 Never Mind the Bollocks, here’s Spider-Punk in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/28/staff-picks-feb-2/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=48064 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Scott’s pick: Spider-Punk: Arms Race #1: Hobie Brown is the anarchic Spider-Punk, set to protect Earth-138 with his ax and his chaotic band of punk rockin’ heroes backing him! Norman Osborn is dead,...

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]]> 48064 Comics are still good: Presenting ComicsXF’s Top Comics of 2023 https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/28/best-comics-of-2023/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47540 This year wound down with a new wave of “comics are dying” discourse that proves how insular its fandom is, how it doesn’t consider larger economic factors like inflation and what other industries are struggling as people make decisions based on their disposable income. Yes, readers are aging out of the medium, and that affects...

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]]> 47540 Marvel trots out the OG X-Men again in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/20/staff-picks-dec-20/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47453 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Austin’s pick: Original X-Men #1: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman and Angel — the first heroes to bear the X-Men name — once traveled into their own futures and reset the course of history. Now,...

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]]> 47453 Halloween means lots of Dracula in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/25/staff-picks-oct-25/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46968 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Mark’s pick: Universal Monsters: Dracula #1: When Dr. John Seward admits a strange new patient into his asylum, the madman tells stories of a demon who has taken residence next door. But as Dr. Seward...

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]]> 46968 Tom King does Wonder Woman, Nightcrawler does Spider-Man and more Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/20/staff-picks-sept-20/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46592 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Sean’s pick: Wonder Woman #1: After a mysterious Amazonian is accused of mass murder, Congress passes the Amazon Safety Act, barring all Amazons from U.S. soil. To carry out their plans, the government starts a...

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