The Boy Wonder - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:27:53 +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 The Boy Wonder - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 What were ComicsXF’s 24 favorite comics of 2024? https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/05/best-comics-of-2024/ Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51248 While those other comics sites had their year-end best-of lists ready to go by Thanksgiving, we … got busy and put it off till the last possible minute. But hey, that just means we were able to take the full scope of the year’s comics into account. In doing so, we settled on these 24...

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]]> 51248 Gail Simone’s Uncanny X-Men run begins, The Power Fantasy and more in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/07/staff-picks-aug7/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49786 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Austin’s pick: Uncanny X-Men #1: A core group of essential X-Men rises From the Ashes to face a world without a home — and without Professor X! (That second part seems...

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]]> 49786 Absolute Power begins absolutely at the top of this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/03/staff-picks-july3/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49469 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. Starting this week, new DC books come out Wednesdays along with everything else. Tony’s pick: Absolute Power #1: DC’s big summer event kicks off with a bang, as the combined might of Failsafe and the Brainiac Queen has at last given Amanda Waller the...

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]]> 49469 The Krakoan era ends with a $10 X-Men comic in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/05/staff-picks-june5/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49130 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men #35/Uncanny X-Men #700: We belong together. And you know that I’m right. Why do you play with my heart? Why do you play with my mind? Said we’d be forever. Said...

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]]> 49130 Boy Wonder sets a high bar for this week’s BatChat (Also: Batman, BatScoob) https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/10/batchat-batman-batscooby-boywonder/ Fri, 10 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48883 Batman has escaped the prison set up by Zur, who now inhabits Failsafe’s robot body. He must prepare to finally confront his robot double. But various other factions are circling Zur, including Gotham’s new police commissioner, Vandal Savage, and Amanda Waller, whose agenda is only helped by a rogue metahuman. “Dark Prisons” begins in Batman...

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]]> 48883 Ba studies Robin, tri-color Turtles and more of this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/08/staff-picks-may8/ Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48846 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: The Boy Wonder #1: The young prince Damian Wayne was raised to be the heir to the fearsome League of Assassins. But everything changed when his father, the Batman, reclaimed him and...

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