Skip to content
June 15, 2025
  • On No Kings Day, why now is a good time to relearn the lessons of Superman
  • Take an early, EXCLUSIVE look at next month’s Runaways #2, a One World Under Doom tie-in
  • Enter The Rookery in Batman: Dark Patterns #7
  • Supervillains squabble in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Marvel’s X-Men #18

COMICSXF

The comics criticism you crave

  • HOME
  • Articles
    • Opinions
    • Issue Overviews
    • Television Overviews
    • Interviews
    • Odds & Ends
    • Redesigning
  • Battle of The Atom
  • TCXFIP
  • BatChat
  • Primer
    • Creator Primers
    • The Pull List
    • Character Primers
    • Team Primers
  • Patreon
  • Shop
  • About Us
  • Home
  • X-Men
  • Page 25

X-Men

  • X-Men

X-Men, X-Force & Wolverine rush to tie up their plot threads in X-Chat #13

Matthew Lazorwitz and Tony Thornley1 year ago1 year ago018 mins

The Fall of X continues, and mostly ends, in X-Chat #13! In X-Men #29, Doom invites the X-Men to dinner, by Gerry Duggan, Joshua Cassara, Marte Gracia and Clayton Cowles. In X-Force #47, Colossus finally breaks free of his brother Mikhail, by Benjamin Percy, Daniel Picciotto, Guru-eFx and Joe Caramagna. And Logan’s world tour ends…

Read More
  • Staff Picks

Fall of the House of X kicks off the new year and our Staff Picks

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago07 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Rasmus’ pick: Fall of the House of X #1: Mutantkind has never had a greater fall. Outlawed, hunted, killed, most of their kind missing or dead, and now, one of their greatest leaders, Cyclops, is…

Read More
  • Our Son Pete

OUR SON PETE Episode 17: The One with Bob (Pryde & Wisdom #1)

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago02 mins

WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · Our Son Pete Episode 17: Pryde & Wisdom #1 with Brad and Lisa Gullickson In a beyond-the-paywall episode of our monthly Patreon bonus podcast, Brad and Lisa Gullickson from Comic Book Couples Counseling help Dan break down Pryde & Wisdom #1 … and end up getting distracted by Bob….

Read More
  • Staff Picks

Skybound drops a Duke on us during the holiday limbo week, and more 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, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Duke #1: When Conrad S. Hauser investigates the mysteries behind the Transformers, the answers will lead to the birth of forces for good and evil the world never imagined. Duke will be the…

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Abducting Mall Santas

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck1 year ago1 year ago01 mins

Merry Christmas everyone, let’s celebrate with Zack’s unsolicited opinions. Ranked This Episode:

Read More
  • X-Men

Original X-Men #1 is nostalgia and nothing more

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago017 mins

I found myself struggling for a cohesive theme to some kind of end-of-the-year article, something that would capture the state of an industry whose health has been the status of much Mark Millar-fueled discourse lately. Then I read a comic that was so bad it has me dreading what 2024 will bring. On Wednesday, Marvel…

Read More
  • Staff Picks

Marvel trots out the OG X-Men again 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, everything else Wednesdays. Austin’s pick: Original X-Men #1: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman and Angel — the first heroes to bear the X-Men name — once traveled into their own futures and reset the course of history. Now,…

Read More
  • Previews

Don’t call him Steve in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Uncanny Avengers #5

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

The previous issue of Uncanny Avengers ended with Captain Krakoa being revealed as the evil Captain America from everyone’s favorite Trump-era Marvel crossover, Secret Empire. (We did Nazi that coming!) This issue – the final one of this volume – appears to open with another reveal: Evil Steve prefers to be called Grant now. “The…

Read More
X-Men Red #18
  • X-Men Red

X-Men Red #18 concludes the series with promise both met and unfulfilled

Jude Jones2 years ago2 years ago022 mins

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…

Read More
  • Staff Picks

The battle for Arakko, and X-Men Red, end in this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago07 mins

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…

Read More
  • News

Two series that are one and a butt-ton of minis: Behold the X-Men titles in March

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago011 mins

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…

Read More
  • Opinions

Who’s about to shoot Moira in Rise of the Powers of X #3? We have our theories.

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago016 mins

Marvel teased next year’s big Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X event miniseries this week with covers of each’s issue #3, on sale in March. While the Fall #3 cover shows Logan about to pop a claw right in Dr. Stasis’ forehead clover, the cover to Rise #3…

Read More
  • News

How to get your hands on this year’s hottest holiday card

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

In 1968, Rankin-Bass, the same animation company that gave the world Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Year without a Santa Claus, released The Little Drummer Boy, a stop-motion special about a little boy who gets to play the drums at the birth of the baby Jesus (after a whole bunch of really messed up…

Read More
  • Uncategorized

Ms. Marvel #3 & #4 leave us wanting more (in a good way)

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley2 years ago2 years ago024 mins

Orchis is closing in on Ms. Marvel, with a plan to use her to get to the X-Men. All she has to do is embrace her new mutant identity. But with so many other labels already hanging on her shoulders, Kamala Khan has to wrestle with just what it means to fully accept another one…

Read More
  • X-Men

‘Tis the season for retcons in X-Men Blue: Origins!

Stephanie Burt and Tony Thornley2 years ago2 years ago021 mins

The Krakoan era draws closer to the end with a massive retcon in X-Men Blue: Origins by Si Spurrier, Marcus To, Wilton Santos, Oren Junior, Ceci De La Cruz, and Joe Caramagna! Tony Thornley: Oh my goodness, I don’t think any of us quite knew what to expect with this. I think we can probably…

Read More
  • 1
  • …
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • …
  • 49
2016-2025, ComicsXF Powered By BlazeThemes.