X-Men Forever - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Sun, 19 May 2024 13:03:14 +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 X-Men Forever - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 X-Men Forever #4 offers Hope in more ways than one https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/18/xmen-forever-4/ Sat, 18 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48992 Kieron Gillen’s Immortal X-Men saga comes to an end a second time, with plot threads left to other series to resolve for a second time, as Destiny and Mystique launch a rescue mission while Hope and Jean Grey act as two different kinds of midwives in X-Men Forever #4, written by Gillen, drawn by Luca...

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]]> 48992 Hickman and Greene take on Doom, Spidey declares Morbin’ time and more Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/15/staff-picks-may15/ Wed, 15 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48911 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Doom #1: With Valeria Richards at his side, Doctor Doom goes on a quest to harness more power than any human has ever wielded before to try to stop Galactus from bringing...

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]]> 48911 Jumping from POV to POV in X-Men Forever #3 https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/14/xmen-forever-3/ Tue, 14 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48919 The quick-step march to the end of the Krakoan era continues as Doug Ramsey returns, Mystique and Destiny hash things out, and Hope prepares to do some “messiah stuff” in X-Men Forever #3, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Luca Maresca, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by Clayton Cowles.  Austin Gorton: It feels like...

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]]> 48919 Sinister and Destiny share a nice moment(?!) in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men Forever #4 https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/09/xmen-forever-4-preview/ Thu, 09 May 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48875 Mister Sinister is an asshole. That’s not a hot take, even if I said a swear. He is. We had a whole crossover about it just last year. So when he extends a listening ear and, surprisingly, some actual empathy to his conspirator of many decades, Destiny, it comes off as surprising. Did he alter...

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]]> 48875 Ba studies Robin, tri-color Turtles and more of this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/08/staff-picks-may8/ Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48846 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: The Boy Wonder #1: The young prince Damian Wayne was raised to be the heir to the fearsome League of Assassins. But everything changed when his father, the Batman, reclaimed him and...

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]]> 48846 Go away, Kafka, the important mutants are talking in X-Men Forever #2 https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/01/xmen-forever-2/ Wed, 01 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48785 It’s the view from the White Hot Room as Xavier’s plans come to fruition(?) and the mutants trapped on another plane of existence make their move as the deck-clearing exercise that is “Fall of X” continues in X-Men Forever #2, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Luca Maresca, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by...

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]]> 48785 X-Men Forever #1 is Immortal X-Men #19. We will not be explaining. (Yes, we will.) https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/21/xmen-forever-1/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48337 With the House of X falling and the Powers of X rising, go behind the scenes of the fight against Orchis and Dominion with the remnants of the Krakoan Quiet Council in X-Men Forever #1, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Luca Maresca, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Austin Gorton: Welcome...

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]]> 48337 X-Men Forever (Forever-ever? ForEVER-ever?), new Ram V and more CXF Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/20/staff-picks-march20/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48314 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Austin’s pick: X-Men Forever #1: How can you kill a digital god? What do you do when the Phoenix is bleeding out into nothing? There have been questions that have haunted you since the...

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]]> 48314 That’s (nearly) a wrap on the Krakoa era in May’s X-Men comics https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/16/xmen-comics-may/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=48002 One more month. One more month of Krakoa. One more month till we find out what’s next. One more month till we find out whether this Gail Simone Free Comic Book Day story has anything to do with anything. One more month (or maybe two) until we learn what that “From the Ashes” teaser means....

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]]> 48002 EXCLUSIVE: Mystique revealed on this variant cover to X-Men Forever #1 https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/07/xmen-forever-cover-leirix/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47870 Recently, right-wing pundits have begun to circulate the theory that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship is a psy-op for the government, and that at halftime at the Super Bowl, they will preempt Usher to announce their endorsement of Joe Biden for president, using Swift’s vast influence as a pop culture icon to steer the...

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]]> 47870 The Avengers join the battle in April’s X-Men titles. What took them so long? https://comicsxf.com/2024/01/17/xmen-april/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:37:27 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47716 I don’t think I’m talking out of turn when I say the Avengers are shit allies. Historically, when the X-Men have needed the backing of other heroes, if the Avengers aren’t out facing some other universe-ending threat, they’re engaging the mutants in a misunderstanding-based fight before teaming up against a common foe. Steve Rogers tries,...

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]]> 47716 Two series that are one and a butt-ton of minis: Behold the X-Men titles in March https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/08/xmen-march-2024/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:44:18 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47380 Remember how in 2019 Marvel released House of X and Powers of X and that was it for X-Men titles for a couple months, and it was the big event everyone was focused on? Nearly five years later, the Hickman’s away and the mice are all over the place, as the two linchpin series of...

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]]> 47380 Battle Of The Atom: Giant Spider Baby https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/26/battle-of-the-atom-giant-spider-baby/ Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:34:49 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43159 Folks, they say you can never go home again. That has literally, never once, in his entire life, stopped Chris Claremont from trying. We travel to the world of Elsewhen and see all these times creators just, came back and did something weird. X-Men Forever #1-5 X-Factor Forever First X-Men

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