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Jean Grey is fire and life incarnate again in Phoenix by Phillips and Miracolo

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago08 mins

Five down, four to go. Marvel on Wednesday announced Phoenix, a new series starring Jean Grey as fire and life incarnate once more, written by Stephanie Phillips (Rogue & Gambit) and drawn by Alessandro Miracolo (White Widow). According to Marvel, the series will see Jean Grey, as the Phoenix, return to space to answer a…

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Resurrection of Magneto #4 - cover
  • X-Men

Resurrection of Magneto #4 Ends The Series And An Era On A High Note.

Jude Jones1 year ago1 year ago019 mins

“I will try again. It is all I can do.” In 2019’s X-Men #1, the first comic post HoX/PoX, perhaps Magneto, floating above the fray while ripping the roof off of the (then, supposedly) last Orchis facility on Earth, adorned in glowing white, his power easily overwhelming his opponents…perhaps he was a new god. Those…

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  • Staff Picks

Ultimate X-Men, Power Rangers, Magneto and more of this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago08 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Jake’s pick: Ultimate X-Men #2: It’s a new school year for Hisako as she tries to get a grasp on her new powers. She meets a cool, white-haired punk girl named Mei (aka Maystorm),…

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Forge invents a new iteration of X-Force by Thorne and To

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago08 mins

Marvel on Tuesday announced a new volume of X-Force, written by Geoffrey Thorne (Green Lantern) and drawn by Marcus To (Excalibur). The latest iteration of the team is centered on Forge, so hot right now after the adaptation of “Lifedeath” on X-Men ’97, and includes mutant “it” couple Betsy Braddock and Rachel Summers (no codenames…

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  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Behind The Music

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck1 year ago1 year ago01 mins

When I wore a younger man’s clothes I used to go to concerts and have a great time. Now I talk about them on podcasts. Ranked This Episode:

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  • Film & TV

Get trapped in a video game and declare your love for X-Men ’97’s ‘Motendo/Lifedeath’

Austin Gorton1 year ago1 year ago015 mins

It’s two tales for the price of one as Jubilee gets sucked into a Mojo-fied version of the X-Men arcade game and Storm deals with the fallout of her power loss as she grows closer to Forge in X-Men ’97 episode 3, “Motendo/Lifedeath Part 1,” directed by Chase Conley and written by Beau DeMayo and…

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Marvel unveils more details of June’s Mystique and Destiny wedding special

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago08 mins

Since one resurrected the other in Inferno, Mystique and Destiny have been one of the pivotal couples of the Krakoan era. Now that that era is ending, Marvel is celebrating by having them renew their wedding vows. Marvel’s June Voices anthology, out May 29 and retailing for $9.99, is X-Men: The Wedding Special, telling a…

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Visit the Mojo Dojo Casa House in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #2

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago02 mins

Well, Mojo’s having a week, isn’t he? First, he traps Jubilee and Sunspot in a video game in X-Men ’97, now he’s attempting to trap Lila Cheney in a lifetime contract in the latest issue of Ms. Marvel. But wait, doesn’t Kamala Khan have bigger fish to fry right now with the whole Orchis thing?…

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Our Son Pete Episode 13: The One Where They Blow Stuff up Real Good (with Sara Century)

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago02 mins

WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · Our Son Pete Episode 13: Excalibur #98 with Sara Century Comics critic and podcaster Sara Century helps Dan unravel the mysteries of Excalibur #98, aka the one where they blow stuff up real good. Has there ever actually been a proactive X-team? Why is Excalibur stealing X-Force’s bit? Is…

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  • Film & TV

‘Inferno’ in 30 minutes or less in Episode 3 of X-Men ’97

Austin Gorton1 year ago1 year ago014 mins

TWO Jean Greys? The X-Men are seeing double as the machinations of an old foe come to light, leading to Cyclops and Jean having to make an agonizing decision in X-Men ’97 season 1 episode 3, “Fire Made Flesh,” written by Beau DeMayo & Charlie Feldman and directed by Yomi Yonemura. The first two episodes…

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One last chat between old friends in Rise of the Powers of X #3

Austin Gorton and Jake Murray1 year ago10 months ago022 mins

The past, present and future of Krakoa all rest in a trigger finger. The scenario you prayed would never happen plays out as two series that are one move toward a crash that will reverberate outside the universe in Rise of the Powers of X #3, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by R.B. Silva, colored…

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  • Staff Picks

Batman gets Dark, Six Fingers, RoPoX and more in this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago06 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Bonus pick: Batman: Dark Age #1: Meet Bruce Wayne, Gotham’s favorite delinquent son. Witness the boy become a dark knight shaped by a city in turmoil as it marches toward its prophesied doom. By…

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  • Film & TV

Nostalgia and more in the first two episodes of X-Men ’97

Austin Gorton1 year ago1 year ago027 mins

Picking up where the original X-Men animated series left off in 1997, X-Men ’97 returns to a familiar yet different world, where Professor X is dead, Jean Grey is pregnant and Bishop is there. But the world still fears and hates mutants, and now the X-Men must find a way to protect it while working…

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  • Previews

Li’l Moira gets what’s coming to her in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Rise of the Powers of X #3

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago02 mins

A while back, when Rise of the Powers of X #3 was first solicited, we hazarded some guesses as to who was the gloved hand pointing a high-tech looking gun at Moira on the cover. Charles Xavier came in third, after Mystique and Moira herself. But here he is, aiming what kinda looks like Forge’s…

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  • X-Men

X-Men Forever #1 is Immortal X-Men #19. We will not be explaining. (Yes, we will.)

Austin Gorton and Tony Thornley1 year ago1 year ago022 mins

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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