Yildiray Cinar - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Mon, 15 Apr 2024 02:19:05 +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 Yildiray Cinar - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Weapon X-Men #2 is almost as rotten as Zombie Wolverine https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/15/weapon-xmen-2/ Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48574 The mediocre multiverse misadventure continues in Weapon X-Men #2, written by Christos Gage, drawn by Yildiray Cinar, colored by Nolan Woodard and lettered by Clayton Cowles. No doubt, you’re surprised to see us back here, talking and thinking about this particular series. Especially after the way last month’s article tore through the first issue like...

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]]> 48574 Weapon X-Men #1 ain’t off to a great start https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/11/weapon-xmen-1/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48149 In Original X-Men, you saw the Phoenix recruit the young X-Men to fix yet another time-displaced disaster. But now the threat is deadlier than ever, and it’s time to call in the X-Men’s big gun. He’s the best there is at what he does, in every universe he does it in, and this job is...

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]]> 48149 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 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 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 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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