Something Is Killing the Children - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 12 Oct 2025 02:01:55 +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 Something Is Killing the Children - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 NYCC: Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children is the best intercompany crossover title ever https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/11/swamp-thing-is-killing-the-children/ Sun, 12 Oct 2025 02:01:53 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54469 Look, I don’t care that we don’t have a release date or teaser art to show. Can we just talk about the fact that Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children, the DC-BOOM Studios crossover one-shot announced Saturday at New York Comic Con featuring the former’s muck monster and the latter’s bandana-wearing monster hunter, is the...

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]]> 54469 Brubaker & Phillips, Nubia, Wanda’s Back and More Staff Picks for Oct. 20 https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/18/brubaker-phillips-nubia-wandas-back-and-more-staff-picks-for-oct-20/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34679 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s Pick: Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book: My Grishams! Writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips roll out the third volume in their series of Image Graphic Novels for Dads as PI Ethan Reckless...

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]]> 34679 Witness An Induction in Something is Killing The Children #18 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/28/witness-an-induction-in-something-is-killing-the-children-18/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=31947 It’s hard to think of a comics writer right now who is hotter than James Tynion IV. He writes Batman, the comic about Batman (which, in direct objection to the critique of this site, rules). He just won an Eisner for 2020 Best Writer. And a Something Is Killing The Children show is in development...

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]]> 31947 Fly with Superman’s Son, Go to Horny Jail with Demons: Staff Picks for July 28 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/26/fly-with-supermans-son-go-to-horny-jail-with-demons-staff-picks-for-july-28/ Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=31863 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Cori’s Pick: Superman, Son of Kal-El #1: Walk with me for a minute. Y’know how Cannonball ended up being a great hero and father because he was trained by a mix of Xavier, Magneto and...

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]]> 31863 Alan Scott’s Quest, Nightcrawler’s Hangover and More Staff Picks for 6/23 https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/21/alan-scotts-quest-nightcrawlers-hangover-and-more-staff-picks-for-6-23/ Mon, 21 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29840 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Cori’s Pick: Infinite Frontier #1: When our heroes saved the DC Multiverse in Dark Nights: Death Metal, everything was put back where it belonged. But Alan Scott has noticed some of his allies are still...

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]]> 29840 A Post-Betsy Excalibur, Dorian Gray, The Seeds and More Staff Picks for 12/23 https://comicsxf.com/2020/12/21/a-post-betsy-excalibur-dorian-gray-the-seeds-and-more-staff-picks-for-12-23/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=10140 Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Chris’ Pick Excalibur #16: So Betsy is a sneering stained-glass mosaic, Saturnyne is keeping Jubilee’s son as her dragon pet that can melt reality and the Captain Britain Corps is back with a thicc-ass...

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]]> 10140 The Ice Cream Man Cometh and Kate Pryde Seeks Revenge in Our Staff Picks for Sept. 9 https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/07/the-ice-cream-man-cometh-and-kate-pryde-seeks-revenge-in-our-staff-picks-for-sept-9/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8120 Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Will’s Pick Ice Cream Man Presents Quarantine Comix Special #1: During the height of the pandemic in the spring, Team Ice Cream Man – writer W. Maxwell Prince, artist Martin Morazzo, colorist Chris O’Halloran...

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