X-Men Red - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:13:25 +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 X-Men Red - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 X-Men Red #18 concludes the series with promise both met and unfulfilled https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/14/x-men-red-18-concludes-the-series-with-promise-both-met-and-unfulfilled/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47422 How would you describe a perfect day? Perfect —  like “good,” like “ok,” like “no good,” like “very bad” — is subjective: an appreciation based on a range of experiences. Perfect, reasonably, might look vastly different among different peoples.  And yet, so many different people hold on to the idea of objective perfection — the...

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]]> 47422 The battle for Arakko, and X-Men Red, end in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/13/staff-picks-dec-13/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47401 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Mark’s pick: X-Men Red #18: Their armies have clashed and torn a world apart. Now, finally, the two war leaders meet. Storm versus Genesis for the fate of the Red Planet — as the planet...

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]]> 47401 Apocalypse assembles his Planeteers in X-Men Red #17 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/08/apocalypse-assembles-his-planeteers-in-x-men-red-17/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47078 Floating dead-center in the eye of the Mutant Kaiju Kaorak (a not so subtle re-arranging of Krakoa), Storm floats, irises electric blue, electricity teeming from her hands, threatening Genesis with the good time of a fight. This is as audacious as it is silly: this manifestation of mutant cooperation, teeming for a fist fight where...

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]]> 47078 Star Wars: The High Republic rises to the top of this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/08/staff-picks-nov-8/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47072 Tony’s pick: Star Wars: The High Republic #1: A year after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, Marchion Ro and the Nihil stand victorious. The once mighty Jedi are outclassed, and the Republic is on its knees. On the edges of the galactic frontier, Jedi Master Keeve Trennis leads a desperate assault against an invading force....

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]]> 47072 Apocalypse goes Horseman shopping in our EXCLUSIVE preview of X-Men Red #17 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/02/xmen-red-17-preview/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47030 “The Blue Dad’s back, and you’re gonna be in trouble …” While Apocalypse was away, his wife and children were wreaking havoc on Arakko. Now it’s time to see where he falls in this mutant-on-mutant war. But first, Daddy needs new Horsemen. Starting with … sigh … Vulcan. Honestly, the servitude could do him good....

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]]> 47030 Temptation looms in X-Men Red #16 https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/12/temptation-looms-in-x-men-red-16/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46780 The pain is always there, just over the horizon like the sun at dusk, patiently waiting, if not teasing the inevitable full of its punishing power.  Talk to a survivor of trauma, internal or external. They’ll tell you. The brightness of that pain — the intensity, the heat — can be like sitting in the...

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]]> 46780 You think Gotham City’s bad, check out the Gotham Below in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/11/staff-picks-oct-11/ Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46760 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: Batman: City of Madness #1: Buried deep beneath Gotham City there exists another Gotham, a living nightmare, populated by twisted mirrors of our Gotham’s denizens, fueled by the fear and hatred flowing down...

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]]> 46760 The Fisher King leads the charge in X-Men Red #15! https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/14/the-fisher-king-leads-the-charge-in-x-men-red-15/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46573 It’s the power of nothing versus the hordes of Genesis & Annihilation in X-Men Red #15 written by Al Ewing, art by Yildiray Cinar, colors by Federico Blee, and letters by Ariana Maher. Think about your first memory: the clarity, the circumstances, the people. Do you smile when you think of it? Recoil in embarrassment...

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]]> 46573 Storm leads the march to war in X-Men Red #14 https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/16/storm-leads-the-march-to-war-in-x-men-red-14/ Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46278 Civil war rages on Arakko as news of the new Mutant Massacre reaches the red planet in X-Men Red #14, written by Al Ewing, drawn by Yildiray Çinar, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by Ariana Maher. A year ago, under circumstances best left for another story, I played my first game of chess. I...

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]]> 46278 Change and tradition collide in X-Men Red #13 https://comicsxf.com/2023/07/21/change-and-tradition-collide-in-x-men-red-13/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46037 Geneis and her fancy staff bring havoc to the Great Ring in X-Men Red #13 by Al Ewing, Jacopo Camagni, Federico Blee, and Ariana Maher. “Your father has three dead friends.  All three of them used. Your father didn’t. Your father, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, is alive.” Thus concluded the one and only talk...

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]]> 46037 Hawkgirl Returns and Star Trek Cries for Blood in This Week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/07/19/hawkgirl-returns-and-star-trek-cries-for-blood-in-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46022 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Hawkgirl #1: Kendra Saunders, the winged warrior better known as Hawkgirl, has been one of the DCU’s greatest heroes for a long time, serving as a member of both the Justice League and...

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]]> 46022 Arakko is caught between a sword & a staff in X-Men Red #12! https://comicsxf.com/2023/06/14/arakko-is-caught-between-a-sword-a-staff-in-x-men-red-12/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45714 Genesis is here as White Sword sends an emissary to Arakko in X-Men Red #12 written by Al Ewing, art by Jacopo Camagni, colors by Federico Blee and letters by Arianna Maher. “It’s all connected” Whether or not you believe The Wire was the best show in television history (spoiler: it was, is, and will...

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]]> 45714 A Perfect Storm In X-Men Red #11 https://comicsxf.com/2023/05/11/a-perfect-storm-in-x-men-red-11/ Thu, 11 May 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45449 The feelings of exhaustion, oscillating to exasperation and back again; the anger, masking sadness; the wounds that I keep seeing over and over and over again.  I was tempted to say I was tired, but that is a lie.  I am not tired.  I am traumatized.  And I am not alone.  Comics are many things,...

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]]> 45449 Cullen Bunn Is Gonna Scare the Heck Outta You in This Week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/05/10/cullen-bunn-is-gonna-scare-the-heck-outta-you-in-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Wed, 10 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45435 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Ghostlore #1: After a deadly accident of which they were the only survivors, Lucas and Harmony Agate can see the dead — an overwhelming amount of the deceased, each with their own warnings,...

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]]> 45435 Night Begins to Shine in X-Men Red #6 https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/14/night-begins-to-shine-in-x-men-red-6/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42885 Planet Arakko chose peace over war. Now war has chosen them. The monstrous arsenal of the Eternals is on the march. The Arakkii must defend their broken land according to the ancient laws … but against an enemy even older than they are, can the old ways win? Or is a new Arakko about to...

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]]> 42885 X-Men Red #5 Will Have You Screaming “Oh Shit!” https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/03/x-men-red-5-will-have-you-screaming-oh-shit/ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42329 Good Comics, like other great literary works, can be read and understood on two planes: a literal one and a metaphorical/metaphysical one. Take the Bible: You can read it literally and get some great superhero action, or metaphorically and learn to, you know, love people or whatever. And while people’s interpretation of the Bible can too...

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]]> 42329 X-Men Red #4 Digs Into Immortality & Identity https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/29/x-men-red-4-digs-into-immortality-identity-and-intergalactic-politics/ Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41765 The meaning of death, the politics of immortality, and the determination of identity are on the table in X-Men Red #4, written by Al Ewing, drawn by Juann Cabal, Andrés Genolet & Michael Sta. Maria, colored by Federico Blee, and lettered by Ariana Maher. Jude Jones: Man, it feels like we were just here a...

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]]> 41765 MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAT!!! in X-Men Red #3 https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/15/mortal-kombaaaaaaaaat-in-x-men-red-3/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41478 Tarn the Uncaring waged war and torture on Arakko for centuries. He’s the most hated being on Mars … and he sits on their ruling council. Abigail Brand has a plan to remedy that — and reap the rewards. So does Roberto Da Costa. But only one of them can win … and Tarn’s going...

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]]> 41478 Trinary & The Aesthetics Of Representation https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/17/trinary-the-aesthetics-of-representation/ Mon, 17 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=27566 I find myself thinking a great deal about representation, who gets represented and who gets to do the representing. Which is to say, I’m thinking a lot about X-Men: Red. Not particularly because it’s any good or memorable, but because it created and launched a character, who has since appeared in X-Books elsewhere. I find...

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