3 flavors of Pride – X-Men, DC and Star Trek – lead this week’s Staff Picks

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: The Wedding Special: Mystique and Destiny are one of the most beloved gay couples in history since they were made textual five years ago. Somewhere in their 100+ years together, the…

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Comics are still good: Presenting ComicsXF’s Top Comics of 2023

This year wound down with a new wave of “comics are dying” discourse that proves how insular its fandom is, how it doesn’t consider larger economic factors like inflation and what other industries are struggling as people make decisions based on their disposable income. Yes, readers are aging out of the medium, and that affects…

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Spider-Boy, king of thieves, weave your little webs of opacity all over this week’s Staff Picks

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. No one asked for this; we just wanted an excuse to put Taylor Swift lyrics in the headline: Spider-Boy #1: After the events of The End of the Spider-Verse, Spider-Boy’s secret history as Spider-Man’s sidekick…

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