Robert Venditti - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:16:12 +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 Robert Venditti - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Supermen of Different Worlds Face Different Problems in This Month’s SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/31/super-chat-january/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37732 Things change, things end, things begin again, but one thing remains—Superman fights for a better world, no matter which world it might be.  On Earth, Jonathan Kent tries to stop a leviathan, but things get quickly out of hand when Bendix’s Gamorran task force shows up in Superman: Son of Kal-El #7, written by Tom...

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]]> 37732 Hope and Family Are at the Center of This Week’s SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/08/hope-and-family-are-at-the-center-of-this-weeks-superchat/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37234 Though they’ve been stuck in a bad place on their respective worlds, our Supermen each rally themselves in their own ways on this week’s Superchat.  One Superman finally escapes a bottled city, taking the fight to Brainiac to save all bottled cities everywhere, in Superman ‘78 #5, written by Robert Venditti, drawn by Wilfredo Torres,...

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]]> 37234 SuperChat Catches Up with Action, ’78, and Son of Kal-El https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/18/superchat-catches-up-with-action-comics-1037-78-and-son-of-kal-el/ Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=36168 It’s catch-up week for SuperChat, as we see what the Supermen of three worlds are up to. On Warworld, Superman and his team find themselves vastly overpowered – but what does that mean for the rest of the galaxy? Action Comics #1037 written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Miguel Mendonca, colored by Adriano Lucas...

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]]> 36168 Brainiac is a Double Dose of Trouble for Superman in Two Books This Week https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/18/brainiac-is-a-double-dose-of-trouble-for-superman-in-two-books-this-week/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34713 While the Superman of Earth Prime gets ready for Warworld, over in other Earths, other Superman have more classic villains to face – and Brainiac’s the brains behind it all. An older Superman and his recruits thwart Brainiac’s varied contingency plans, truly coming together as a team for the first time in the conclusion to...

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]]> 34713 Two Hits and a Big Miss in This Week’s Super-Sized SuperChat https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/28/two-hits-and-a-big-miss-in-this-weeks-super-sized-superchat/ Sat, 28 Aug 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33118 A triple offering of Super-comics this week, looking to the Man of Steel’s past, present, and future. Over in Action Comics#1,034, the members of the House of El are doing all they can to stop Warworld from spreading its influence on Earth, stopping both all-out war and ending a home invasion – but are these...

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]]> 33118 Superman: Red & Blue #4 has Tales Tricky, Bizarre(o) and Heart Warming https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/19/superman-red-blue-4-has-tales-tricky-bizarreo-and-heart-warming/ Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29800 SuperChat is back everybody, and joining Tony Thornley is Armaan Babu to look at the new issue of the Superman anthology Superman: Red & Blue #4 featuring: “Namrepus” written by Mark Waid, drawn by Audrey Mok, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Dave Sharpe.  “Prospect of tomorrow” written and drawn by Francis Manapul and...

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]]> 29800 Robert Venditti Talks Mechs, Dinos and A-holes Ahead of Bad Idea’s Tankers (with EXCLUSIVE Preview) https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/02/robert-venditti-talks-mechs-dinos-and-a-holes-ahead-of-bad-ideas-tankers-with-exclusive-preview/ Fri, 02 Apr 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=23732 When it comes to bad ideas, Robert Venditti has a few. Well, at least one.  Let’s just say Venditti, the writer behind the return of X-O Manowar and the recent volume of Hawkman, is the writer behind the next title from Bad idea, the comic company that is breaking pretty much every established rule of...

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