Shang-Chi - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Fri, 27 May 2022 14:13:34 +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 Shang-Chi - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Asian Identity Is Multifaceted In Marvel Voices: Identity #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/27/asian-identity-is-multifaceted-in-marvel-voices-identity-1/ Fri, 27 May 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41149 Marvel Voices is a comic book anthology series that is inspired by the podcast series Voices of Marvel hosted by Angélique Roché. Both media discuss diverse comic book characters and creators, but the comic book anthology series takes it a step further by giving certain characters a chance to shine in their own stories. In...

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]]> 41149 Inferno Climaxes, Monkey Meat and More Staff Picks for Jan. 5 https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/03/inferno-climaxes-monkey-meat-and-more-staff-picks-for-jan-5/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37045 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Zack’s pick: Monkey Meat #1: Cartoonist Juni Ba (Djeliya) works his magic on a new Image anthology series about a meat manufacturing company operating in an absurd capitalist hellscape. ($3.99) Listen to Ba on WMQ&A....

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]]> 37045 Secrets Of Shang-Chi’s Ancestry In Our Preview Of Shang-Chi #7 https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/30/secrets-of-shang-chis-ancestry-in-our-preview-of-shang-chi-7/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=36758 While the wider world may know him best from his MCU debut, over in comics Shang-Chi has been making quiet an impact thanks to quality work from Gene Luen Yang and Dike Ruan. The film, which revolved around the relationship of Shang-Chi’s parents, is now making its reverberations known through a new arc “Family Of...

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]]> 36758 Secrets of Shang-Chi https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/03/secrets-of-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-ten-rings/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33292 We explore the secrets of Shang-Chi ahead of the Marvel Studios release "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"

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]]> 33292 Cap Intrudes in Shang-Chi #2: A Spoiler-Free Review https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/28/cap-intrudes-in-shang-chi-2-a-spoiler-free-review/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30193 In their first series of Shang-Chi, Gene Luen Yang and Dike Ruan reexamined the character, ahead of his feature film debut. It was no small task. Shang-Chi was created as a spin-off of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, a character that was considered offensively racist back in the 1930s. But Yang was largely successful in recontextualizing...

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]]> 30193 Green Arrow’s Birthday, X-Factor’s Finale and More Staff Picks for June 30 https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/28/green-arrows-birthday-x-factors-finale-and-more-staff-picks-for-june-30/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30174 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick: Greek Arrow 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular: Celebrate eight decades of the Emerald Archer with this all-star anthology featuring stories by Mariko Tamaki, Tom Taylor, Stephanie Phillips, Benjamin Percy, Otto Schmidt, Javier Rodriguez,...

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]]> 30174 Beta Ray Bill, Katana, I Breathed a Body and More Staff Picks for 3/31 https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/29/beta-ray-bill-katana-i-breathed-a-body-and-more-staff-picks-for-3-31/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=23487 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick: Beta Ray Bill #1: Three words: Daniel Warren Johnson. Three more words: Beta Ray Bill. Three more words: Fin Fang Foom. Three more words: I am wet. Colored by Mike Spicer and featuring...

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]]> 23487 A Week Of Magic, Mystery, and Family in Marvel Files with Amazing Spider-Man #51, Shang-Chi #2, and Savage Avengers #13! https://comicsxf.com/2020/10/29/a-week-of-magic-mystery-and-family-in-marvel-files-with-amazing-spider-man-51-shang-chi-2-and-savage-avengers-13/ Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=9197 Hello friends and readers! Amazing Spider-Man marches on unceasingly with #51 and Spider-Correspondent Tony Thornley brings you coverage, while Zoe Tunnell continues with Shang-Chi #2 after a great first issue, and finally Justin Partridge delves into the eldritch world of Savage Avengers #13! Amazing Spider-Man #51 Written by: Nick Spencer Art by: Patrick Gleason Colors...

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]]> 9197 4 Notable Martial Arts Masters in Comics https://comicsxf.com/2020/10/01/4-notable-martial-arts-masters-in-comics/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8690 Since the 1970s and the boom of martial arts media, the martial arts master has become a standard trope in comics. Ninjas, samurai, karate fighters and kung-fu masters have been present in comics from a myriad of companies. In many cases, they are portrayed through the lens of a white creator and with a problematic...

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]]> 8690 Tales of the Past Are Brought to the Present as We Look at Giant-Size X-Men: Tribute to Wein and Cockrum, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #4, Fantastic Four #24, and Shang-Chi #1! https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/30/tales-of-the-past-are-brought-to-the-present-as-we-look-at-giant-size-x-men-tribute-to-wein-and-cockrum-star-wars-doctor-aphra-4-fantastic-four-24-and-shang-chi-1/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8656 Hello friends and readers, after a brief week off we have a giant Marvel Minutiae this week. I stole from Zack both in content and collaborators, and as such Adam Reck will be giving us an artist-eye view on Giant-Size X-Men: Tribute to Wein and Cockrum. Liz Large gives us her thoughts on Star Wars:...

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]]> 8656 ‘X of Swords’ continues, Tynion’s ‘Department of Truth’ & More Staff Picks for Sept. 30 https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/28/x-of-swords-continues-tynions-department-of-truth-more-staff-picks-for-sept-30/ Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8624 Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick X-Factor #4: As “X of Swords” rolls on, it looks like maybe The Five are about to resurrect someone they shouldn’t have. It’s hard to say when all you have to go...

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