Vault Comics - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:27:05 +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 Vault Comics - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Swamp Thing meets Jesus in this week’s CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2026/04/29/swamp-thing-meets-jesus-in-this-weeks-cxf-staff-picks/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56637 As Swamp Thing is cast back through time, he will meet a carpenter who will change the trajectory of his life. Swamp Thing 1989 #1 leads our Staff Picks.

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]]> 56637 Supergirl’s new adventures, a game of Exquisite Corpses and more in this week’s CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/14/staff-picks-may14/ Wed, 14 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52598 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. Scott’s pick: Supergirl #1: Kara Zor-El has been a key member...

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]]> 52598 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 The CXF Interview Podcast: Cody Ziglar talks Goobers, Deadpool, Miles Morales and more https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/24/tcxfip-321-cody-ziglar/ Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50277 The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 321: Cody Ziglar talks Goobers, Deadpool and Miles Morales Writer Cody Ziglar joins the show to talk about his new Vault Comics series Goobers, Marvel’s Deadpool and Miles Morales: Spider-Man, and more. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Audible and...

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]]> 50277 The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 315: Corin Howell talks Lilith https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/06/tcxfip-315-corin-howell/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49783 The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 315: Corin Howell talks Lilith Artist Corin Howell joins the show to talk about her spicy new Vault Comics series, Lilith. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move Tuesday mornings. You can follow...

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]]> 49783 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 WMQ&A Episode 295: We’re wolves with Dailen Ogden, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/12/wmqa-295-ogden-lanzing-kelly/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48160 WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 295: We're wolves with Dailen Ogden, Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly Dailen Ogden, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly join the show to talk about their Vault Comics graphic novel, WifWulf. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible...

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]]> 48160 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 WMQ&A Episode 279: New York Comic Con 2023 https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/24/wmqa-279-nycc-2023/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46966 WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 279: New York Comic Con 2023 Dan wanders the Javits Center during New York Comic Con 2023 for interviews with Goats Flying Press founder Sebastian Girner, artist Hayden Sherman, writer Ethan Sacks, Vault Comics CEO and Publisher Damian Wassel, and writer Steve Orlando. You can listen to...

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]]> 46966 Check out an 11-page preview of Vault’s Something Crawled Out #1, out Oct. 25 https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/18/something-crawled-out-1-preview/ Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46539 What if your best friend was the devil? What would you do? Spray-paint pentagrams on the sides of big-box stores? Listen to awesome heavy metal music? Bully old ladies? Participate in blood orgies? Manipulate foreign countries to war? MURDER BABIES?! BABY MURDERER! If you’re Edith “Eddie” Miller, you and your sexy, pale, Edward Cullen-looking young...

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]]> 46539 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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]]> 45154 WMQ&A Episode 245: Killing God with Christopher Sebela and Ben Hennessy https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/21/wmqa-episode-245-killing-god-with-christopher-sebela-and-ben-hennessy%ef%bf%bc/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:17:22 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44821 Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 245: Killing God with Christopher Sebela and Ben Hennessy Christopher Sebela and Ben Hennessy join the show to talk about their new Vault Comics series, Godfell. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move Tuesday mornings. You can...

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]]> 44821 WMQ&A Episode 240: Learn About Cow Holes with Matthew Erman and Emily Pearson https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/17/wmqa-episode-240-learn-about-cow-holes-with-matthew-erman-and-emily-pearson/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44527 Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 240: Learn About Cow Holes with Matthew Erman and Emily Pearson Matthew Erman and Emily Pearson join the show to talk about their new Vault Comics graphic novel Bonding. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move...

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]]> 44527 Check Out Our Big-Axe Extended Preview of Vault’s Barbaric: Hell to Pay #1 https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/16/check-out-our-big-axe-extended-preview-of-vaults-barbaric-hell-to-pay-1/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44503 The rights to Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian have bounced around from comics publisher to comics publisher the past few years. But when you really think about it, anyone can do a barbarian story. All you need is a big shirtless dude with dirty hair, a weapon of some kind, some dirty-sexy people in...

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]]> 44503 WMQ&A Episode 237: Lemme Axe You a Question with Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/20/wmqa-episode-237-lemme-axe-you-a-question-with-michael-moreci-and-nathan-gooden/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44256 Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 237: Lemme Axe You a Question with Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden join the show to talk about their plans for the next year of Vault Comics’ Barbaric. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com,...

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]]> 44256 We Make Heart Eyes at … Heart Eyes (and Justice Warriors and Immortal Red Sonja) https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/29/we-make-heart-eyes-at-heart-eyes-and-justice-warriors-and-immortal-red-sonja/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43194 The world may be over, and monsters might loom over the horizon, but don’t feel so bad: You’ve got a new girl in your life. There’s nothing ominous about that in Heart Eyes #1, written by Dennis Hopeless, drawn by Victor Ibáñez, colored by Addison Duke, lettered by Simon Bowland and published by Vault. The...

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]]> 43194 Chonky Boy Alert: Team Vault Talks to Us about the Wasted Space Omnibus Kickstarter https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/13/chonky-boy-alert-team-vault-talks-to-us-about-the-wasted-space-omnibus-kickstarter/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42842 Look at your bookshelf right now. What’s on it? Some novels you haven’t touched since that book club you joined after college, maybe a framed photo of your partner, some cherished action figures from the 1990s Toy Biz X-Men line that have no value otherwise. Now look down at the next shelf, the one sagging...

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]]> 42842 Is There Something Wrong with This Column *and* Patrick Todd? https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/01/is-there-something-wrong-with-this-column-and-patrick-todd/ Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42311 I thought they got rid of that ol’ Deadbox? Guess it’s still out there fading in the sun, huh? Bad choices and bad movies continue in Deadbox #3, written by Mark Russell, drawn by Benjamin Tiesma, colored by Vladimir Popov, lettered by AndWorld Design and published by Vault. Thom is a bad dad, and his...

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]]> 42311 Learn about the Beginning of End After End in This Exclusive Vault Preview https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/11/learn-about-the-beginning-of-end-after-end-in-this-exclusive-vault-preview/ Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41917 Imagine you’ve died. Doesn’t matter how. It’ll probably be doing something mundane. Except instead of the eternal void or whatever your religion may have taught you, you find yourself on a fantasy battlefield, surrounded by soldiers from throughout history, fighting skeleton warriors and being guided by a fairy who kind of looks like Wilford Brimley....

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]]> 41917 This 14-Page Exclusive Preview Will Mind Control You into Buying Vault’s Mindset #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/27/this-14-page-exclusive-preview-will-mind-control-you-into-buying-vaults-mindset-1/ Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41628 As comics fans, we’re all too familiar with the concept of mind control. Whomst among your favorite heroes hasn’t turned on their friends and allies because a supervillain was using some overcomplicated device to direct their actions from a hidden lair miles beneath an island shaped like a skull? But what if I told you...

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]]> 41628 WMQ&A Episode 215: Everything Is Better with CHUDs … and Brian Schirmer https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/21/wmqa-episode-215-everything-is-better-with-chuds-and-brian-schirmer/ Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41536 Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 215: Everything Is Better with CHUDs … and Brian Schirmer Brian Schirmer returns to the show to talk about his Vault Comics series Quests Aside. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move Tuesday mornings. You can follow...

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