Steve Foxe - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:53:55 +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 Steve Foxe - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Electron gets it in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Imperial War: Exiles #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/28/imperial-war-exiles-1-preview/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53946 The X-Men, and mutants in general, are often portrayed as underdogs, a marginalized group operating in a world that hates and fears them. Yet when it’s time to do space battles, their greatest allies are the royal family of an intergalactic empire that has pressed countless alien races into its service. Sure, Lilandra has talked...

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]]> 53946 Marvel announces Imperial tie-in starring Charles Xavier and Lilandra https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/11/imperial-war-exiles/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:07:51 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53002 When we last saw Charles Xavier, he had hatched his dead wife, the late Shi’ar empress Lilandra Neramani, from a hidden Krakoan egg and peaced out to space to save their daughter, the current empress Xandra, from the latest Shi’ar coup. Remember, Cyclops had a mental health crisis? The X-Men cried like when Krakoa went...

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]]> 53002 Scott and Jean catch up in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/05/giant-size-dark-phoenix-saga-1/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52934 What do you think Scott and Jean’s psychic dates are like these days? With Jean the Phoenix again and journeying through space, and Scott in Alaska still doing X-Men stuff, catching each other up must be weird at times. Jean: How’s Logan? Scott: We don’t talk much. He’s down in Louisiana with Rogue’s team, but...

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]]> 52934 An action-packed CXF mini reviews covers The Ultimates, Sentinels, GI Joe and New Champions https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/12/mini-reviews-ultimates-sentinels-gijoe-newchampions/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51326 In a bid to broaden the number of comics we cover at ComicsXF, we give you, the reader, these mini reviews of some recent releases. The Ultimates #8 W: Deniz Camp | A: Juan Frigeri | C: Federico Blee | L: Travis Lanham | P: Marvel Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri transport their extraordinary universe building through...

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]]> 51326 Diving deep into Spider-Man and his amazing friends in our inaugural Web-Chat https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/06/webchat-amazing-chasm-darkweb/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50018 Hello, everyone! Welcome to a new thing here at ComicsXF. I’m Tony Thornley, the curator for our new Spider-column. Rather than a standard discussion piece like our BatChat and X-Chat columns, this is going to be more of a roundup as our team covers the world wide web of Spider-Man. So strap in as we...

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]]> 50018 X-Chat finds the Heir of Apocalypse, goes on a Blood Hunt and mashes up with Donald Duck https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/09/xchat-apocalypse-bloodhunt-donaldduck/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49805 As the X-Men are rising from the ashes, one face in particular looks to the past in X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse from Steve Foxe, Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons, Alex Sinclair and Clayton Cowles. The X-Men are probably the superheroes best equipped to fight vampires, so why are we doing four character-focused one-shots? Well, they’re fun...

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]]> 49805 [A] prepares for the final rose ceremony in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #4 https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/25/xmen-heir-apocalypse-4/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49697 Well, Apocalypse, you’ve narrowed your 12 suitors down to four: Cable, Forge, Cypher and Mirage. You’ve taken them on the hometown dates, where they met your four favorite children, and also Genocide. Now, it’s time to make your final decision. But first, if you’re both willing, you and each of your final four suitors may...

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]]> 49697 -[A]- fights a big, metal bird in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #3 https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/04/xmen-heir-apocalypse-3-preview/ Thu, 04 Jul 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49486 2024 seems to be the year the X-Office remembered Archangel exists. Warren Kenneth Worthington III did not get a lot to do on Krakoa. He died in the initial Orchis raid in House of X (and was resurrected). He co-led a five-issue miniseries, X-Corp, in 2021 that we didn’t love. And then for a while...

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]]> 49486 Psy-Crow is still a thing in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men: Blood Hunt: Psylocke https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/27/xmen-bloodhunt-psylocke-preview/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49424 One of the many pleasant surprises of the Krakoan era was the budding romance between a post-Betsy Psylocke, now in her own body, and John Greycrow. Y’see, Greycrow used to be a real piece of shit. Except his idea of sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s was killing all the Morlocks. But people can change, no matter...

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]]> 49424 Rachel’s had enough of Moira and her BS in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dead X-Men #4 https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/11/dead-xmen-4-preview/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48536 Rachel Summers isn’t having the best Fall of X. Separated from her girlfriend, lied to by Charles Xavier, shot by Charles Xavier. Just a bummer of a time. But she also doesn’t need Charles unmaking Krakoa and thereby erasing her first textual queer relationship. Either way, she is done with Moira and her bullsh–. Check...

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]]> 48536 Redroot, Blood Dawns, Judas and Justice: An X-Men Infinity comic roundup https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/06/xmen-unlimited-infinity-comic/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47854 As the final curtain came down on the Hellfire Gala, Charles Xavier sent thousands of mutants away from Krakoa to places unknown, kickstarting the Fall of X era. As the X-office shuffled the deck, A-list mutants either returned to star in successful ongoing titles or were given headlining roles in miniseries. The vast majority found...

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]]> 47854 Rise from your grave in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dead X-Men #1 https://comicsxf.com/2024/01/25/dead-xmen-1-preview/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47771 Previously, in Dead X-Men: Remember that? Fun times. Even with resurrection seemingly off the table for now, mutants are finding all sorts of ways to come back. Jean Grey found herself communing with the Phoenix Force again in the White Hot Room. X-Force has a clone of Beast circa his New Defenders era just lying...

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]]> 47771 More Draco connections emerge in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #4 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/09/dark-xmen-4-preview/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47083 The mutant known as Abyss first appeared during the “Age of Apocalypse” as one of the big, blue guy’s Horsemen. Nearly a decade later, it would be revealed during that oh-so-pivotal Chuck Austen story “The Draco” that Earth-616 Abyss, born Nils Styger, is a son of the demon mutant Azazel and a half-brother of Nightcrawler....

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]]> 47083 Finally, the Dawn of X from Emplate’s perspective in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #3 https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/19/dark-xmen-3-preview/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46935 Emplate, aka Marius St. Croix, was among the villains to emerge from a gate when Charles Xavier offered mutant amnesty to all in 2019’s House of X #5. A data page would later reveal he had been charged with helping measure the island’s energy-absorption levels. And that was pretty much all we saw of him...

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]]> 46935 Crisis on Multiple Madelynes in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #2 https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/14/dark-xmen-2-preview/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46564 Once upon a time, Doctor Doom made a hamburger multiverse and called it Battleworld. And in that hamburger multiverse there was an Inferno world where Madelyne Pryor went full demon. That Madelyne somehow survived the re-rewriting of reality and ended up on Earth-616, tangled with the time-displaced original five X-Men and, off-panel, was captured by...

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]]> 46564 Dark X-Men #1 is a hell of a good time https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/22/dark-x-men-1-is-a-hell-of-a-good-time/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46352 Madelyne Pryor has a lot to worry about. As Queen of Limbo, she has to quell constant demonic uprisings against her home. She’s also in charge of the Limbo-New York Embassy, managing mutant refugees from the fall of Krakoa, and generally dealing with a city that does not want her there — and now Orchis...

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]]> 46352 X-Chat #6 Catches Up With Crossovers, Catharsis & Conflict! https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/31/x-chat-6-catches-up-with-crossovers-catharsis-and-conflict/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44624 We’re a little behind but a few important events have happened since we last met! Welcome to X-Chat #6! In X-Men Annual #1, Firestar gets the much-deserved spotlight from Steve Foxe, Andrea DiVito, Sebastian Cheng and Clayton Cowles! Two key characters get some major closure in Dark Web: X-Men #2-3, by Gerry Duggan, Phil Noto,...

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]]> 44624 X-Men ’92: House of XCII #2 is a Treat In Design and Plot https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/01/xmen-92-2-design/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41231 With the nation of Krakoa established, mutantkind is ready to defend their new nation from threats of all kinds, but the X-Men have no idea about the mutant whose secret power of resurrection lies behind the entire thing. Live the Many Lives of Jubilation X in X-Men ’92: House of XCII #2, written by Steve...

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]]> 41231 HoX PoX ToXCII: Annotating X-Men ’92: House Of XCII #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/15/hox-pox-toxcii-annotating-x-men-92-house-of-xcii-1/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40110 In our timeline, Robert Secundus and Christopher Eddlemen annotated every issue of House of X and Powers of X, two series that were one, the Summer of 2019. But imagine another timeline— a timeline where the 90s X-Men cartoon never ended and continued to adapt not the storylines of the Marvel comics, but the notes...

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]]> 40110 WMQ&A Episode 204: Steve Foxe Plays ’92 Trivia https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/05/wmqa-episode-204-steve-foxe-plays-92-trivia/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39696 Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 204: Steve Foxe Plays '92 Trivia Writer Steve Foxe returns to talk about X-Men ’92: House of XCII, Archer & Armstrong Forever, and to play some ’92 trivia. (Programming note: Since we recorded this episode, the release date for X-Men ’92: House of XCII #1 has been pushed to April...

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]]> 39696 WMQ&A Episode 134: Steve Foxe Is Gonna Scare the Hell out of You https://comicsxf.com/2020/11/17/wmqa-episode-134-steve-foxe-is-gonna-scare-the-hell-out-of-you/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=9527 Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 134: Steve Foxe Is Gonna Scare the Hell out of You Writer/editor Steve Foxe joins the show to talk about his quarterly horror magazine Razorblades with James Tynion IV, his erotic videogaming OGN “Cheater Code,” writing children’s books and much more. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple...

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