Battle of the Atom: Not Getting Over
Fill-in stories are a great chance to try and get a character over. Not Hazard though, he ain’t ever getting over. Ranked This Episode:
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Mystique & Destiny immortalize Be Gay, Do Crimes in ‘X-Men: The Wedding Special #1’
Marvel’s first queerest family is throwing a party, and everyone’s invited! Particularly if it pleases the brides to know you won’t be home during their rapturous re-exchanging of vows. X-Men: The Wedding Special #1 was written by Kieron Gillen, Tini Howard, Tate Brombal, Yoon Ha Lee and Wyatt Kennedy; drawn by Rachael Stott, Phillip Sevy,…
Rise of the Powers of X #5: Krakoa Ends, but Data Pages Are Forever
It’s the final battle against Enigma as Phoenix rises, Xavier schemes and Moira faces a crucial decision in Rise of the Powers of X #5, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Luciano Vecchio, colored by David Curiel and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Jake Murray: And thus ends the penultimate (ish) issue of the Krakoa era….
3 flavors of Pride – X-Men, DC and Star Trek – lead this week’s Staff Picks
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men: The Wedding Special: Mystique and Destiny are one of the most beloved gay couples in history since they were made textual five years ago. Somewhere in their 100+ years together, the…
Battle of the Atom: The One with the Guy from Lost
The guy from Lost wrote a comic one time. It had Hulk in it. Ipso facto we are doing a Hulk episode. Ranked This Episode
Fall Of The House Of X #5 Put Away Those Toys, It’s Krakoa’s Bedtime!
It’s the final battle against Nimrod as the end of the Krakoa Era is just issues away in Fall of the House of X #5, written by Gerry Duggan, art by Lucas Werneck & Stefano Caselli, colors by Bryan Valenza, and letters by Travis Lanham. Scott Redmond: As the Krakoan era continues to crawl towards…
Wolverine wears his adamantium on his sleeve in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Wolverine #50
“Boy, it really feels like they’re rushing to end Krakoa,” say a lot of people reading a lot of X-books for the past year. And yet. Over in Benjamin Percy’s protected little corner of the island, the Sabretooth War has been going on for 10 issues. Ten issues of a bunch of Sabreteeth ripping through…
Wolverine gets REVENGE in Red Band mini by Capullo and Hickman
Last week, Marvel gave us DOOM, a one-shot where writer Jonathan Hickman let artist Sanford Greene take the wheel and tell a balls-out story about the hastened death of the universe. It ruled. Hickman is following that up with Wolverine: Revenge, a five-issue miniseries where, much like DOOM, he is letting artist Greg Capullo take…
Wolverine belongs to the city in our EXCLUSIVE cover reveal for NYX #2
Normally, as a true fan of The Big Lebowski, I hate the f*****g Eagles, man. Except in one instance: The 1985 soundtrack to the TV show Miami Vice. Nevermind that it was my mom’s favorite show at the time, or that it popularized Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” It also included two bangers from…
Battle of the Atom: Adaptations of Adaptations
Everyone is talking about X-Men ’97, aren’t they? Well, I guess everyone includes us because you get the unfiltered opinions of these two chuckleheads now. Also we talk about adaptations of things from the original animated series. Ranked This Episode:
X-Men Forever #4 offers Hope in more ways than one
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…
X-Men ’97’s ‘Tolerance Is Extinction Part 3’ ends a season of too much and never enough
Things are looking bleak for our merry mutants as Wolverine lies metal-less and bleeding and the Gold Team are captives of Bastion. The X-Men must regroup and find a way to fight the future (or just travel there) in the season finale of X-Men ’97, “Tolerance Is Extinction Part 3,” written by Beau DeMayo and…
Storm moves to Atlanta, still a queen in new solo series by Ayodele and Werneck
She’s keeping the hair. She’s keeping an artist who knows how to draw her. She has a Black writer. She’s not returning to any sort of 1990s-era status quo involving the mansion or Blue and Gold teams or a costume you can’t tell is black or white. You guys … I think Storm might be…
Dazzler goes on tour in new Marvel miniseries by Loo and Loureiro
In the early to mid-1980s, Marvel very much saw Dazzler as her own thing. Originally planned as a multimedia IP tied to actress Bo Derek, those plans fizzled with the death of disco, but didn’t keep Alison Blaire from starring in her own comic book for 40-some issues before she was folded back into the…
The goth, the Shadow and the lightning in the dark in Ultimate X-Men #3
Mei Igarashi was a regular girl until she discovered her unusual abilities and her hair changed from brown to white. Now, learn how and why she came to idolize a mysterious freedom fighter in Africa who also harnesses the power of the storm. Ultimate X-Men #3 is written and illustrated by Peach Momoko, with script…