What If? - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:26:56 +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 What If? - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Love wins in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s What If … Galactus Transformed Gambit https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/05/what-if-galactus-transformed-gambit-preview/ Sun, 05 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51270 People are always asking, “What if … Galactus transformed Gambit?” But what they really should be asking is “What if … Gambit transformed Galactus?” Picture it: Gambit teaching the Devourer of Worlds to play No Limit Hold ‘Em, inviting him to ante up at a poker game on the Blue Area of the Moon with...

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]]> 51270 Battle Of The Atom: Dearly Beloved https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/09/battle-of-the-atom-dearly-beloved/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50081 Once upon a time, Cyclops and Jean Grey got married at a Marvel holiday party and made it everyone else’s problem. Ranked This Episode:

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]]> 50081 Your guide to the weirdest, wackiest, wrongest What Ifs: A ComicsXF Primer https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/22/whatif-primer/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47459 What if Roy Thomas, who had recently stepped down from being editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics in the mid-1970s, was like, “Well, I want to keep writing, but I don’t want to deal with continuity?” Marvel has answered that question a bunch of different ways over the years, from Thomas’ own Invaders series, written during the...

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]]> 47459 Finally, Find out What Happens If Miles Morales Becomes Thor in Our Exclusive Preview https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/10/finally-find-out-what-happens-if-miles-morales-becomes-thor-in-our-exclusive-preview/ Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41416 What if Miles Morales became Thor? What if Gwen Stacy became Wolverine? What if Captain America became a Nazi? What if Spider-Man became beloved character actor Margo Martindale? What if Doctor Strange became Columbo? What if Batman became v. Superman: Dawn of Justice? What if Spawn became your mom? This preview answers one of those...

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]]> 41416 The Multiverse According to ComicsXF! https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/05/the-multiverse-according-to-comicsxf/ Thu, 05 May 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40498 With the looming release of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness serving as the latest entry in pop culture’s recent obsession with multiverses and realities alternate, parallel and multiple, we asked our ComicsXF writers to share their thoughts about their favorite alternate reality from across the wide multiverse of stories!  Earth-1610: The Ultimate Universe...

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]]> 40498 What If… Miles Morales #1 Shows Us What Miles Could Be https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/01/what-if-miles-morales-1-shows-us-what-miles-could-be/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=38211 A lot of people will tell you that Miles Morales has a branding problem. Depending on who you ask — or, more likely, who’s offering you their unsolicited opinion — there are two trains of thought that’ll lead to that conclusion. The first, typically loudest, is that Miles is held back by being a legacy...

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]]> 38211 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 What If… Roy Thomas Created the MCU’s Next Hit Series? An Interview With The Comics Legend https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/09/what-if-roy-thomas-created-the-mcus-next-hit-series-an-interview-with-the-comics-legend/ Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=31895 Marvel Comics’ What If…?, appropriately enough, was born from a moment of pivotal decision. After two years as the top editor at the House of Ideas, preceded by the better part of a decade as the right hand man to Stan Lee, Roy Thomas had stepped down from his position at the helm of the...

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