The Nasty - 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 Nasty - 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 3 flavors of Pride – X-Men, DC and Star Trek – lead this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/29/staff-picks-may29/ Wed, 29 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49076 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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]]> 49076 Never Mind the Bollocks, here’s Spider-Punk in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/28/staff-picks-feb-2/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=48064 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Scott’s pick: Spider-Punk: Arms Race #1: Hobie Brown is the anarchic Spider-Punk, set to protect Earth-138 with his ax and his chaotic band of punk rockin’ heroes backing him! Norman Osborn is dead,...

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]]> 48064 Comics are still good: Presenting ComicsXF’s Top Comics of 2023 https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/28/best-comics-of-2023/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47540 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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]]> 47540 Spider-Boy, king of thieves, weave your little webs of opacity all over this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/01/staff-picks-nov-1/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47007 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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]]> 47007 We’re Choosing Chaos (and Night Fever) in This Week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/06/14/were-choosing-chaos-and-night-fever-in-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45690 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaan’s pick: Night Fever: In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can’t sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer,...

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]]> 45690 Cullen Bunn Is Gonna Scare the Heck Outta You in This Week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/05/10/cullen-bunn-is-gonna-scare-the-heck-outta-you-in-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Wed, 10 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45435 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Ghostlore #1: After a deadly accident of which they were the only survivors, Lucas and Harmony Agate can see the dead — an overwhelming amount of the deceased, each with their own warnings,...

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]]> 45435 WMQ&A 2-for-1: Scott Koblish and John Lees https://comicsxf.com/2023/04/07/wmqa-2-for-1-scott-koblish-and-john-lees/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45154 Play catchup on your favorite interview podcast! Here are our two most recent episodes. Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 251: Doing The Nasty with John Lees First, writer John Lees joins the show to talk about his new Vault Comics series The Nasty, and the real-life horror history that inspired it. Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode...

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