Steve Orlando - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:09:09 +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 Steve Orlando - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Wanda’s moving up in the world in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Sorcerer Supreme #1 https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/24/wandas-moving-up-in-the-world-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-sorcerer-supreme-1/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55376 Twenty years ago, Wanda Maximoff said, “No more mutants,” and Marvel spent the next 14 years or so trying to figure out how to give everybody their powers back. Also Wanda’s rep was damaged for a pretty long time. That, too. Then there was the whole not-a-mutant, not-Magneto’s-daughter thing. And that time she turned the...

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]]> 55376 A family member returns in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Vision & Scarlet Witch #3 https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/23/vision-scarlet-witch-3/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53502 Wanna feel ancient? Tom King and Gabriel Walta’s The Vision is 10 years old. The 12-issue series in which the android Avenger builds himself a family and they slowly erode in a malaise of existential funk – just like humans! – was launched Nov. 4, 2015. Kind of makes me want to sit here and...

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]]> 53502 Wanda gets robbed – again – in our EXCLUSIVE preview of SCARLET WITCH #9 https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/02/scarlet-witch-9-preview/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51513 Before we show you art from next week’s Scarlet Witch #9, a comic in which the Black Cat breaks into Wanda’s vault to steal some magic stuff, we’d like to show you this page from 2024’s X-Men: The Wedding Special. In that comic, which you can read more about here, Mystique and Destiny stage a...

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]]> 51513 Hey, Chthon, get off my lawn in Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver #2 https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/21/scarlet-witch-quicksilver-2/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48348 Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are no longer on speaking terms. So when the Wizard corners each of them with his new army of Frightful Four Hundred, it will take all their ingenuity, and all their power, to survive. But can the twins save themselves without unleashing something worse? And are they really as alone as...

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]]> 48348 The Maximoff twins fall out again in Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #1 https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/15/scarlet-witch-quicksilver/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47954 The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have been heroes, friends, family heads and occasionally villains, but, above all, they are twins who look out for each other. So when Wanda receives a letter from the recently deceased Magneto that would upset Pietro, she burns it before her brother can read it. But her choice drives them...

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]]> 47954 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 WMQ&A Episode 279: New York Comic Con 2023 https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/24/wmqa-279-nycc-2023/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46966 WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 279: New York Comic Con 2023 Dan wanders the Javits Center during New York Comic Con 2023 for interviews with Goats Flying Press founder Sebastian Girner, artist Hayden Sherman, writer Ethan Sacks, Vault Comics CEO and Publisher Damian Wassel, and writer Steve Orlando. You can listen to...

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]]> 46966 Bobby’s Back in Astonishing Iceman #1 https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/02/bobbys-back-in-astonishing-iceman-1/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46173 You thought Iceman died in the Fall of X? Not quite: He almost melted, but he got revived by … the power of love? Stay frosty with Astonishing Iceman #1, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Vincenzo Carratù, colored by Java Tartaglia and lettered by Travis Lanham. Stephanie: This first issue in a spate of...

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]]> 46173 Wanda’s Doing Oz Stuff in Our Exclusive Preview of Scarlet Witch #7 https://comicsxf.com/2023/07/27/wandas-doing-oz-stuff-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-scarlet-witch-7/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46115 Really, Marvel, Scarlet Witch? Twenty-four hours since the mutants got their asses handed to them by Orchis, and you give us a preview of the comic starring the last person who successfully decimated mutantkind? That’s cold-blooded. Anyway, looks like Wanda’s doing Oz stuff next week. Check out the preview, and get the basic deets below....

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]]> 46115 Marauders #12 ends the series on a triumphant note! https://comicsxf.com/2023/03/22/marauders-12-ends-the-series-on-a-triumphant-note/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45089 Our Marauders have been to space, welcomed a mutant from 2099, taken a deep dive into the Proterozoic proto-ocean, rescued a couple of ancient mutants from yet another genocide, and wondered who made a mysterious puzzle box. Now their series is ending. Will their questions get answered in Marauders #12, written by Steve Orlando, drawn...

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]]> 45089 Brimstone Love is back and so are character faces in Marauders #11! https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/15/brimstone-love-is-back-and-so-are-character-faces-in-marauders-11/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44735 Our team has come back from the distant past, bringing three plucky survivors from the long-ago, now-defunct mutant society Threshold. Will Captain Kate Pryde start a time loop with their help? Also, remember that jerk Brimstone Love? He’s back too, in Marauders #11, written by Steve Orlando, art by Eleanora Carlini, colors by Matt Milla,...

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]]> 44735 BatChat With Matt And Will: Hugo Strange’s Monsters https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/09/batchat-with-matt-and-will-hugo-stranges-monsters/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44705 Hugo Strange is one of Batman’s first recurring nemeses. And when Strange appears, he often brings with him his Monster Men, evil science experiments that Strange uses for his twisted plans. This week, in another thrice told tale, we see three versions of Batman confronting Strange and his creatures. The Giants of Hugo Strange (Batman...

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]]> 44705 Marauders #10 Tests the Team’s Time Travel Travails! https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/06/marauders-10-tests-the-teams-time-travel-travails/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44426 Billions of years in the past, a culture of proto-mutants and proto-humans faces extinction-level threats from the Unbreathing (an anaerobic civilization), from Arkea (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms), from Sublime (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms created by Grant Morrison), and from Stryfe (that guy). Can our chrono-journeying mutants save everyone? Or anyone? Time to find out in Marauders #10,...

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]]> 44426 Marauders #9 Brings the 90s to Prehistory! https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/07/marauders-9-brings-the-90s-to-prehistory/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44124 Inconceivably long ago in the history of the Earth, the mutants (Enriched) and the non-mutant humans (Enshrined) of the community called Threshhold battle the anaerobes of the Unbreathing and the genocidal megabacteria Arkaea and Sublime. Our Marauders have come, in sealed suits, from the future to save their kin. Some will die, some will live,...

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]]> 44124 Marauders #8 goes once more into the breach! https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/10/marauders-8-goes-once-more-into-the-breach-for-good-ill/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43842 Stephanie – quick! It’s Ian! I’ve traveled back in time billions of years to warn you that a rogue microorganism has infected the creatures you refer to as “pets”! We can only save your beloved cats and dogs if we first review Marauders #8, written by Steve Orlando and illustrated by Eleonora Carlini, colors by...

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]]> 43842 Marauders #7 Sails Forward by Looking to the (Deep) Past! https://comicsxf.com/2022/10/05/marauders-7-sails-forward-by-looking-to-the-deep-past/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43287 Want to meet yet more never-before-seen mutants from a past that looks like a space opera future? Captain Pryde’s crew has you covered in Marauders #7, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Eleanora Carlini, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and Matt Milla, lettered by VC’s Ariana Maher. Stephanie Burt: Hi, Ian! Looks like we’ve got plots...

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]]> 43287 The X-Men Of 2099 Shock The Present In Our Exclusive Preview Of Marauders #7 https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/29/the-x-men-of-2099-shock-the-present-in-our-exclusive-preview-of-marauders-7/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43207 The world of 2099 is a strange one. A world where mega corporations have consolidated all commerce and life to serve their ends. It would be called late-stage capitalism, but that implies there is an end in sight. Who could imagine such an existence? This is what Kate Pryde and her Marauders face in our...

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]]> 43207 An A.X.E to the Head Prompts Introspection in Marauders #6 https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/08/an-a-x-e-to-the-head-prompts-introspection-in-marauders-6/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42749 The Marauders are back from space and ready to do their part to save the Earth in the editorially-mandated crossover event called “Judgment Day”, but first it’s time for…. a peek inside each one’s dreams in Marauders #6, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Andrea Broccardo, colors by Matt Milla, letters by VC’s Ariana Maher....

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]]> 42749 Everyone’s Time Traveling in the Messy Marauders #5! https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/24/everyones-time-traveling-in-the-messy-marauders-5/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42591 Space opera becomes time drama as our mutant adventurers delve back into the past to undo Shi’ar crimes against mutantkind. And by “the past” we mean… 1993? Marauders #5, with writing by Steve Orlando, line art by Andrea Broccardo, colors by Matt Milla, letters by VC’s Ariana Maher. Ian Gregory: I would say that we’ve...

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]]> 42591 Things Get Timey-Wimey in Marauders #4! https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/13/things-get-timey-wimey-in-marauders-4/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42009 What are the Kin Crimson hiding? Whose space-blood was the First Blood Shed? What’s it all about, Tempo? Find out in Marauders #4, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Eleanora Carlini, colors by Matt Milla, letters by  Ariana Maher. Ian Gregory: Avast, Stephanie – we’re back with more Marauders! We’ve expanded beyond just the pirate...

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]]> 42009 Secrets in Shi’ar Space in Marauders #3! https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/08/secrets-in-shiar-space-in-marauders-3/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41363 Shi’ar space baddies have captured our spacefaring heroes, and no one knows– yet– what secret about the first mutants the Kin Crimson have been keeping from the rest of Shi’ar society. Will Kate Pryde and her band escape? Can they get help? Where can they go? What’s going on? Find out in Marauders #3. Written...

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]]> 41363 Get That October 2019 Feeling All Over Again with Giant-Size X-Men: Thunderbird https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/05/get-that-october-2019-feeling-all-over-again-with-giant-size-x-men-thunderbird/ Thu, 05 May 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40529 Bear with me a moment.  I’m not nostalgic for the X-Men comics of the ’70s and ’80s. I wasn’t born yet, but also, unlike a lot of comic nerds my age, I never got into the cartoon that built off those stories, or found my way into a comic shop with back issue bins. I...

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]]> 40529 Marauders IN SPACE in Marauders #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/06/marauders-in-space-in-marauders-1/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39934 Ahoy, Marauders! It’s a new number one. A new ship (it’s a spaceship). A not-really-new mission (rescue endangered mutants). A new creative team (except that we saw the writer already in the Annual). A new team, except Red Queen Captain Kate Pryde and muscular source of continuity/ time-traveling ex-cop Lucas Bishop. A new mystery (it’s...

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]]> 39934 Marauders Sets Sail on a New Mission, with a New Team, in a Pre-Relaunch Annual https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/24/marauders-sets-sail-on-a-new-mission-with-a-new-team-in-a-pre-relaunch-annual/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37642 The next generation of Marauders starts here, in this story by writer Steve Orlando, artist Creees Lee, colorist Rain Beredo and letterer Cory Petit. With Daken missing, Kate Pryde and Bishop assemble a new crew of Marauders to hunt him down. How will they fare against the machinations of Brimstone Love? The changing of the...

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]]> 37642 Where Does Marvel Voices: Pride Succeed? And Where Does It Fail? https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/22/where-does-marvel-voices-pride-succeed-and-where-does-it-fail/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29885 This week, Marvel Comics is releasing the next in their series of Marvel Voices anthologies, designed to give exposure and voice to to a more demographically diverse segment of creators and characters. And since this is June, Pride Month, Marvel’s special is focusing on LGBTQA+ representation. Marvel Voices: Pride features stories from Luciano Vecchio, Mike...

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