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May 30, 2025
  • Ms. Marvel Shermans her way through X-Men history in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (not that one)
  • Everywhere you look, it’s our EXCLUSIVE preview of Laura Kinney: Wolverine #7
  • The Outliers go to Hot Topic in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #15
  • BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman Vs. Charles E. Cheese (w/ Josh Weil)

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Ms. Marvel Shermans her way through X-Men history in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (not that one)

Adam Reck, Anna Peppard, Austin Gorton and Dan Grote2 hours ago12 hours ago031 mins

Ever since she discovered she was a mutant, Kamala Khan has been balancing her previous life as Ms. Marvel with her role as a leader in the new community, but her conflicted identity has come at a deep personal cost. Now, pulled into the distant past by an unhinged villain with deep ties to mutant…

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  • Previews

Everywhere you look, it’s our EXCLUSIVE preview of Laura Kinney: Wolverine #7

Dan Grote20 hours ago2 days ago02 mins

In the current arc of Laura Kinney: Wolverine, our heroine is in some kind of altered quasi-sitcom reality where she and her sister Gabby (Hooray!) live with their father, Logan, and Laura is experiencing a trauma response regarding the death of her mother in which she writes fantasies about a violent character called the Wolverine….

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  • X-Men

The Outliers go to Hot Topic in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #15

Adam Reck and Austin Gorton24 hours ago24 hours ago016 mins

With one young mutant taken hostage in the underworld of the Dark Artery, it’s left to the remaining Outliers to lead the Louisiana X-Men to try to steal them back, but the ultimate terror blocks the way. The Voice of Darkness seeks a new home, and violence and fear will follow whoever takes that mantle….

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  • Staff Picks

Ms. Marvel goes on a Giant-Size X-Men adventure in this week’s CXF Staff Picks

Dan Grote2 days ago3 days ago08 mins

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. Giant-Size X-Men #1: Ever since she discovered she was a mutant,…

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  • Opinions

The 10 best X-Men time travel stories according to the Battle of the Atom podcast 

Adam Reck3 days ago2 days ago013 mins

This week sees the release of a new Giant-Size X-Men #1, which will set Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, on a time-travel adventure through key points in X-Men history, starting with the dawn of the All-New, All-Different X-Men of 1975. Time travel is a Tuesday for some X-Men. And so we consulted Battle of the Atom’s…

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  • Redesigning

Before the Vigil, the Redesigning team throws its own 2025 Hellfire Gala

Joshua Bruckner6 days ago5 days ago016 mins

It’s been two years since the last official Hellfire Gala, but the minds of X-fans are still hot with inspiration! The latest season of the hit video game Marvel Rivals has been a love letter to the First Krakoan Age. Emma Frost, with a brand-new costume, haircut and thunder thighs, invited us all to the…

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  • X-Men

Exceptional X-Men #9 and the joys of decompression

Stephanie Burt6 days ago7 days ago012 mins

Who can take some genes and make a dodgy clone? Who can trap a mutant when he’s all alone? Who can throw a comic off its slice-of-life tone? Mr. Sinister can, and does, in Exceptional X-Men #9, written by Eve Ewing, drawn by Carmen Carnero, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by Travis Lanham. Now…

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  • Previews

Lighten up, Dani Moonstar, in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s Magik #5

Dan Grote1 week ago1 week ago03 mins

Do you think Dani Moonstar ever gets tired of being the sensible, level-headed New Mutant? Like, remember when she yelled at Professor Xavier about her belt? That was her first appearance, and it’s the only act of teenage rebellion of hers that I can immediately recall. Cyclops has rebelled more than her. And why is…

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  • Previews

Our EXCLUSIVE preview of Uncanny X-Men #15 is a good reason to revisit Image’s Bitter Root

Dan Grote1 week ago1 week ago03 mins

First, the silly bit: This preview contains a panel in which two shirtless men put a blanket on a fully clothed woman. Granted, that woman was attacked by an ice dragon in the previous issue, but still, there’s an irony there. Now that that’s out of the way, if you like the panel on the…

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  • Staff Picks

The Thing tells us what time it is in this week’s CXF Staff Picks (Hint: It’s clobberin’ time)

Dan Grote1 week ago2 weeks ago06 mins

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. Matt’s pick: The Thing #1: Ben Grimm may be the strongest…

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  • News

Marvel releases X-Men: The Hellfire Vigil designs right after we drop this year’s Hellfire Gala looks

Dan Grote2 weeks ago2 weeks ago07 mins

It’s a good day for fashion, eh? Less than an hour after we posted our talented Redesigning team’s looks for a theoretical 2025 Hellfire Gala, Marvel released design sheets for this year’s Hellfire Vigil, a July one-shot serving as a year-later memorial for the First Krakoan Age and setup for some of the next year’s…

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  • Previews

Our EXCLUSIVE preview of Exceptional X-Men #9 is for the children (like Wu-Tang!)

Dan Grote2 weeks ago2 weeks ago05 mins

A common complaint among X-Men fans is that with each new era, new classes of new (lowercase n) mutants (lowercase m) get introduced, only to be forgotten about in the next, save for a couple who look good in group shots or whose personalities are so strong as to stick by force. This is true….

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  • X-Men

Here there be dragons, Man-Things and rock golems in Uncanny X-Men #14

Adam Reck and Austin Gorton2 weeks ago2 weeks ago019 mins

The Louisiana X-Men thought Haven House was a safe place, a place to call home. But is it more than that? What is the history of the hidden landscape under the Louisiana swampland, and what does it want with the young Outliers? Long-held secrets revealed, and a part of X-history never before shown threatens to…

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  • Wolverine

Back to the grind in Wolverine #9

Scott Redmond2 weeks ago2 weeks ago06 mins

Logan begins his new quest after the shocking events of last month’s anniversary issue. First stop brings him back to the Howlett Estate, but he isn’t alone. Harpoon and Vertigo of the Marauders have designs on Wolverine, and they’re not the only ones. Wolverine #9 is written by Saladin Ahmed, drawn by Javier Pina, colored…

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  • X-Men

A beautiful if heavy-handed sendoff to our favorite city-dwelling mutants in NYX #10

Stephanie Burt3 weeks ago3 weeks ago013 mins

Is New York City itself a kind of mutant? Can it give us all a model for mutant communities? How did Mojo take it over from Grand Central Station? Can he be defeated using the power of solidarity, or the solidarity of love, or the love of trains? Why is NYX ending? Find out which…

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