Absolute Batman learns the truth about Ark M as X-Men returns to the present in our Staff Picks
The origins of the enigmatic Ark M are explored! What terrible secrets lie within its walls, and just who is assigned to protect it from discovery?

The origins of the enigmatic Ark M are explored! What terrible secrets lie within its walls, and just who is assigned to protect it from discovery?
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Dan’s pick: Sentinels #5: Warden Ellis and Director Trask’s plans for…
It’s a new year, and in true new year’s tradition, the ComicsXF team has set some New Year’s resolutions. Also in New Year’s tradition, it’s almost the end of the first month of the year, and we’re just now getting to it, and, look, the beginning of the year was a lot OK? So sit…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: DC Power: Rise of the Power Company #1: The…
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Nose pimples. Cincinnati chili. Taking six guesses to figure out Wordle. There are any number of reasons to sink slowly, softly and sadly into blackness. These are some of my reasons to keep my head up. Eight Million Ways to Die, graphic novel adaptation Here’s…
Happy new year! What, we can start celebrating Christmas on Nov. 1 but we can’t start prepping for New Year’s? You people make no sense. Anyway, we here at CXF took a peek at the January solicits, and here are a few of the things we’re excited for. MARVEL Ultimate Wolverine #1: The new iteration…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Dan’s pick: X-Factor #1: From the ashes of Krakoa, a new…
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: NYX #1: So no one told you life was gonna be this way (CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP). A group of young mutants — Ms. Marvel, Wolverine, Prodigy, Anole and…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. Tony’s pick: X-Men #1: Krakoa is gone and Orchis has fallen, but the X-Men remain, always. Cyclops leads, because that is what he does. Beast builds, because that is what he…
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: Ultimate X-Men #1: Hisako Ichiki is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal life. But life has other plans for her. In Japan, urban legends have sprung to life…
Forty years ago this month, Kevin Eastman drew a masked, bipedal turtle with nunchucks to make his buddy, Peter Laird, laugh in their New Hampshire apartment. And thus a pop culture franchise was born, spanning comics, animation, toys, live-action rubber-suit movies, video games and one unforgettable Vanilla Ice song. And sure, you know Leo, Mikey,…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Hawkgirl #1: Kendra Saunders, the winged warrior better known as Hawkgirl, has been one of the DCU’s greatest heroes for a long time, serving as a member of both the Justice League and…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men: Before the Fall: Heralds of Apocalypse: In ancient days, Genesis turned back the hordes of Amenth. In ancient days, Genesis forced Annihilation into a parley. What words were spoken in her mind?…
What follows is not a critique of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Street Fighter #1, an IDW comic by writer Paul Allor, artist Ariel Medel, colorist Sarah Myer and letterer Ed Dukeshire. At its core it is a silly comic about a group of turtles fighting a group of colorfully costumed humans created in the…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Note: Banner photo is a variant cover to Fantastic Four #8 by Scott Koblish. Listen to Koblish talk about that cover on WMQ&A. Zack’s pick: Loki #1: They may be the “benevolent” God of Stories…