Walt Simonson - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:13:46 +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 Walt Simonson - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: Villains Month- Man-Bat https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/31/batchat-with-matt-will-villains-month-man-bat/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50655 And we have reached the end of October, the spookiest of months, and this the end of villains month. And to wrap it up, we’re getting one of the spookiest of Batman villains: Man-Bat. Dr. Kirk Langstrom has an origin really out of the pages of Spider-Man, but someone has wound up a fixture in...

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]]> 50655 Krakoa waves goodbye, and all that’s left are Ashes in X-Men #35/Uncanny #700 https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/05/xmen-35/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49150 All good things must come to an end, and as good of a thing as the Krakoan era has been for mutantkind, its time has come at last. The tragedy and triumph of FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X, the madness and mystery of RISE OF THE POWERS OF X, they have all come to...

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]]> 49150 Wanted: Two Horsemen, Must Be Able to Work Nights and Weekends, in X-Men Legends #11 https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/27/wanted-two-horsemen-must-be-able-to-work-nights-and-weekends-in-x-men-legends-11/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37680 Sad Apocalypse is sad. His ship, Ship, is gone, he’s down two Horsemen and he’s worried the Celestials will take one look at X-Factor and give the world a big thumb’s down. Ever the goodest boy, even in service of evil, Caliban wants to make Apocalypse happy again, by plumbing the Morlock tunnels looking for...

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]]> 37680 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 2: Endings https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/30/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-2-endings/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34189 BatChat is back for episode 2, and it’s the final episode! OK, no it’s not, but it is focusing on three tales of Batman’s possible final days. The Dark Knight Returns (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4) Some of These Days (Batman Annual V.3 #2) The Last Batman Story-? (Batman V.1 #300) If you’d like,...

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]]> 34189 Louise & Walt Simonson Return In Our Advance Review Of X-Men Legends #3 https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/27/louise-walt-simonson-return-in-our-advanced-review-of-x-men-legends-3/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:16:07 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=25852 Revisit the days of the original X-Factor as a new story set in a new corner of X-history begins in X-Men Legends #3 written by Louise Simonson, art by Walt Simonson, colored by Laura Martin, and lettered by John Workman   After a pair of issues set in the grim ‘n’ gritty, hatch mark-y 90s, X-Men...

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