Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Ari’s Pick: Hollow Heart #1: We’ve heard this new Vault Comics series described as a queer spin on The Shape of Water, in which a mechanic falls in love with a jumble of organs that…
After performing a wedding over Memorial Day weekend (and a long evening of celebration after) I awoke to a pounding headache, an unexpected guest in my hotel room, a missing car, and an e-mail from the writer of Uncanny X-Men. Cullen Bunn was gracious enough to take time away from his comics work to talk to…
Art by Ron Garney and Mark Morales Name: Sammy Paré Code Names: Squid-Boy First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #410 (Oct ’02) Powers: Generic Aquatic Powers Teams Affiliation: X-Men About In the 2010 Christmas episode of the show Community, Abed Nadir (the website TVTropes given human form) gets asked by his friend why he is excited to do something that he should otherwise hate….
Art by Mark Brooks Name: Rachel Anne Summers (Aka: Grey) Code Names: Phoenix, Marvel Girl, Mother Askani First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #141 (Jan 81) Powers: Telekinesis, Telepathy, Occasional Phoenix Host Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Excalibur, Starjammers, Jean Grey School About In the post apocalyptic waste land of 2013, Franklin Richards had a girlfriend who could…