We Only Find Them When They're Dead - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sat, 28 Aug 2021 22:45:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 We Only Find Them When They're Dead - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 A Batman Event, Aquaman’s Birthday and More Staff Picks for Sept. 1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/30/a-batman-event-aquamans-birthday-and-more-staff-picks-for-sept-1/ Mon, 30 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33135 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s Pick: Batman: Fear State Alpha: Shine the event signal! The Scarecrow plot cooking in Batman culminates in this new big-deal story written by James “Substack” Tynion IV and drawn by Riccardo Federici. ($4.99) Previously,...

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]]> 33135 Heroes Reborn Again, a Chinese-centric Noir and More Staff Picks for 5/5 https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/03/heroes-reborn-again-a-chinese-centric-noir-and-more-staff-picks-for-5-5/ Mon, 03 May 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=26104 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick: Heroes Reborn #1: The Avengers do an Age of Apocalypse, imagining a world where Earth’s Mightiest Heroes never teamed up, with Blade in the Bishop role, in a seven-issue event series by writer...

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]]> 26104 Choices Are Made, Fates Are Sealed in We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #5 https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/28/choices-are-made-fates-are-sealed-in-we-only-find-them-when-theyre-dead-5/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=13767 Malik and Paula. El and Jay. Choices will be made and fates sealed near the corpse of a god in BOOM Studios’ We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #5 by Al Ewing, Simone di Meo, Mariasara Miotti and AndWorld Design. Chris Eddleman: Andrea, the first arc of We Only Find Them When They’re Dead...

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]]> 13767 The X Spot: Catching up on Too Many Books and Too Much News https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/23/the-x-spot-catching-up-on-too-many-books-and-too-much-news/ Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=13341 This is a week for catching up, for getting to a few of those books I’ve “been meaning to” for “an inordinate amount of time” which is now apparently “leading to an abuse of sarcastic quotes.” To the books, Geoffrey! 10. Batman: The Abduction. Writer: Alan Grant, Artist: Norm Breyfogle, Inker: James A. Hodgkins, Colorist:...

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]]> 13341 Would the Decompressed Nature of We Only Find Them When They’re Dead Be Better Served in Trade? Let’s Discuss. https://comicsxf.com/2020/12/16/would-the-decompressed-nature-of-we-only-find-them-when-theyre-dead-be-better-served-in-trade-lets-discuss/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=10027 The final showdown between Malik and Richter has begun on the surface of the god they’ve discovered. But will Malik survive long enough to find a living god, or has he doomed his crew to an unimaginable fate? Those eight bells mean it’s time to break down BOOM Studios’ We Only Find Them When They’re...

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]]> 10027 There’s No Escaping the Cycle, and There’s No Escaping This Review of ‘We Only Find Them When They’re Dead’ #3 https://comicsxf.com/2020/11/12/theres-no-escaping-the-cycle-and-theres-no-escaping-this-review-of-we-only-find-them-when-theyre-dead-3/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=9480 Captain Malik and the crew of the Vihaan II are trapped in warp space, as they’re pursued by the mysterious government agent Richter. They have two choices: drop out of warp speed and risk being destroyed by Richter, or stay in warp until their engines explode from overheating. Who will survive long enough to discover...

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]]> 9480 More Swords, More Zords and Parental Horrors Await in This Week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2020/11/09/more-swords-more-zords-and-parental-horrors-await-in-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=9392 Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick Marauders #15: When we last left our favorite mutants, they’d had a lovely dinner getting to know their Arakkan counterparts, until Wolverine ruined it by [redacted] Saturnyne. Find out what happens next...

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]]> 9392 Let’s Explore Character Motivations in BOOM Studios’ ‘We Only Find Them When They’re Dead’ #2 https://comicsxf.com/2020/10/08/lets-explore-character-motivations-in-boom-studios-we-only-find-them-when-theyre-dead-2/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8764 Captain Malik and the crew of the Vihaan II escape from their tyrannical government - and chart a course straight to the first living god they can find. But the only thing more dangerous than what lies ahead of them … is who follows behind them. Andrea Ayres and Zach Rabiroff continue their A-to-Z examination of Al Ewing, Simone di Meo, Mariasara Miotti and AndWorld Design’s We Only Find Them When They’re Dead.

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]]> 8764 Al Ewing Wrote a Fifth of This Week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2020/08/31/al-ewing-wrote-a-fifth-of-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7966 Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #1: A spacefaring crew harvests the bodies of dead gods to sustain civilization, while its captain desperately seeks to find a live one, in a...

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