Slaughterhouse-Five - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:51:30 +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 Slaughterhouse-Five - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 From Vonnegut to North, We Review BOOM’s Adaptation of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/17/from-vonnegut-to-north-we-review-booms-adaptation-of-slaughterhouse-five/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8436 The adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is here thanks to BOOM Studios, Ryan North and Albert Monteys. Color assistance comes courtesy of Richard Zaplana. The graphic novel adaptation brings Billy Pilgrim’s journey to life and updates it for a new generation of humans toiling with the cost of war, violence and insecurity. Jason Large: Kurt...

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]]> 8436 Why, Will: Worrying about Miro, and whether ‘The Boys’ has ‘Watchmen’ vibes https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/16/why-will-worrying-about-miro-and-whether-the-boys-has-watchmen-vibes/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8418 The Best Man Miro might be in trouble. The ‘Rasslin’ Report If I owned stock in Miro — which I don’t, because he’s the professional wrestler formerly known as Rusev — I’d call in a hold or maybe even a sell order into my broker, because I’m down as hell on his AEW debut, primarily...

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]]> 8418 Giant-Size Storm, Mega-Sized Batman, Regular-Sized Chip Zdarsky in our Sept. 16 Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/14/giant-size-storm-mega-sized-batman-regular-sized-chip-zdarsky-in-our-sept-16-staff-picks/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8321 Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Andrea’s Pick Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1: We can all agree the X-Men’s resident goddess has been underwritten since the dawn of dawn of X the Hickman era began the Disassembled stuff Blue and Gold...

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