Tony Daniel - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:33:12 +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 Tony Daniel - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 X-Men #32 has us thinking about Weapon PRIME (PREVIEW) https://comicsxf.com/2026/06/18/x-men-32-has-us-thinking-about-weapon-prime-preview/ Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=57124 While the X-Men's rescue mission was compromised by the identity of the mutant they were tracking, it's now completely shot by the intervention of Department H.

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]]> 57124 X-Men #24 shows why Beast is the perfect X-Men villain https://comicsxf.com/2026/01/25/x-men-24-and-the-unified-theory-of-evil-beast/ Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55663 With X-Men #24 taking the Age of Revelation Finale reveal to another level, this is a great time to talk about Beast’s evolution over the decades.

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]]> 55663 After the Age of Revelation, Cyclops tries to get Doug outta heeeere in Marvel’s X-Men #23 https://comicsxf.com/2026/01/07/after-the-age-of-revelation-cyclops-tries-to-get-doug-outta-heeeere-in-marvels-x-men-23/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:58:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55496 Cyclops has been stranded in the Age of Revelation. But while he’s been there, what has his future counterpart been doing in the present?

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]]> 55496 EXCLUSIVE: This Karen S. Darboe variant cover for X-Men #25 puts the ladies first https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/23/exclusive-this-karen-s-darboe-variant-cover-for-x-men-25-puts-the-ladies-first/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55364 “All the best X-Men are women,” the T-shirt says, and it’s true. X-Men – at least since Chris Claremont – has been a franchise built on powerful, beautiful women, and the men who snikt, zark and bamf for them. There are no Outback-era X-Men without Storm, Psylocke, Rogue and Dazzler. There’s no Blue and Gold...

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]]> 55364 Batman #157 ends the Zdarsky era with sound and fury signifying nothing as H2SH nears https://comicsxf.com/2025/02/07/batman-157/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51659 Chip Zdarsky’s run on Batman comes to its conclusion as Batman tries to stop the escape of a Russian agent while Jim Gordon and the Riddler fight it out and Commander Star leads a people’s revolt in the streets of Gotham. Batman #157 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Jorge Jimenez and Tony S....

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]]> 51659 A Russian twist in Batman, a messy divorce in Two-Face and a sweet train fight in Batgirl https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/06/batchat-batman-twoface-batgirl/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51290 The Riddler’s plan stands revealed, but there is more to all of the chaos in Gotham, as Batman learns who has been pulling the Court of Owls’ strings. Batman #156 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Tony Daniel, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles.  Divorce cases are often ugly things. Divorce...

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]]> 51290 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Most Ethical Jason? (w/ John Wickham) https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/26/batchat-with-matt-will-the-most-ethical-jason-w-john-wickham/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50299 Our very first Dick Grayson backer, Josh Weil, makes his return to the podcast this week, but he’s not It’s strange to think that Jason Todd has been back from the dead longer than he was actually dead now. For those of us who read Batman comics in the 90s, the death of Jason was...

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]]> 50299 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Wedding That Didn’t Happen (w/Abigale Heartbalm) https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/01/batchat-with-matt-will-the-wedding-that-didnt-happen-w-abigale-heartbalm/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47818 At 120 episodes, we’ve covered a lot of Batman comics. A lot. But I think few have been more contentious, both in the fandom and on this podcast, as the ones this week. Because this week we’re talking about the Tom King run, the creator with possibly the biggest gaps in his work on The...

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]]> 47818 BatChat With Matt & Will: BatChat R.I.P. https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/14/batchat-with-matt-will-batchat-r-i-p/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46561 I kind of can’t believe we made it this far, but here it is: episode 100! And for that, we’re hitting one of the last legendary Batman stories we haven’t touched, and one we’ve slowly been building towards for many of these 100 episodes, the culmination of the first act of Grant Morrison’s epic run:...

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]]> 46561 BatChat With Matt & Will: Devil Batman Went Down to Gotham https://comicsxf.com/2023/06/29/batchat-with-matt-will-devil-batman-went-down-to-gotham/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45856 We’re back to the three series we’ve been covering arc by arc. This time, Will actually likes a Grant Morrison story in his run on Batman! The Penguin has a rough day in No Man’s Land! And a reasonable number of artists draw an arc of Injustice! It’s a miracle all around! Well, except for...

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