Dark Crisis #3 is written by Joshua Williamson, penciled by Daniel Sampere, inked by Sampere, Daniel Henriques and Danny Miki, colored by Alejandro Sanchez and lettered by Tom Napolitano Half of whatās wrong with this comic can be summed up by this panel. Who the fuck is Lian? No, seriously. Who is she? Has she…
Deathstroke’s Secret Society attacks Titans Tower in Dark Crisis #2. Written by Joshua Williamson, art by Damiel Sampere, colors by Alejandro Sanchez and letters by Tom Napolitano. The problem with writing about a book like Dark Crisis is that itās nothing. There is nothing here to engage with. Nothing here to talk about. Its very…
Joshua Williamsonās caretaker stint on Batman ends as the Dark Knight returns to Badhnisia in Batman #124, written by Joshua Williamson, drawn by Howard Porter and Jorge Fornes, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup, Poison Ivy deals with the fallout of āFear Stateā in a story that leads into…
The Justice League is dead. Long live the Justice League? As a new threat rises, can Superman, Jon Kent, gather a team of heroes to counter Pariah and the Great Darkness? Dark Crisis #1 is written by Joshua Williamson, with art by Daniel Sampere, colors by Alejandro SĆ”nchez and letters by Tom Napolitano. Outside of…
Once upon a time, Doctor Doom made a hamburger multiverse and called it Battleworld. And in that hamburger multiverse there was an Inferno world where Madelyne Pryor went full demon. That Madelyne somehow survived the re-rewriting of reality and ended up on Earth-616, tangled with the time-displaced original five X-Men and, off-panel, was captured by…
Dan Grote Ā· WMQ&A Episode 224: Things Get Dark with Joshua Williamson Writer Joshua Williamson joins the show to talk about his upcoming Image series Dark Ride, the linewide DC event Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths, theme park strategy and much more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music,…
The Multiverse is breaking, and heroes are being randomly scattered across unfamiliar universes. In one world, the Diana we know finds herself in a world destroyed by Darkseid – but how did it come to this? Justice League Infinity #4 is written by J.M. DeMatteis and James Tucker, drawn by Ethan Beavers, colored by Nick…
Twenty years ago, Lucy Weber fought madmen and monsters. Today, she finds her marriage falling apart and her children in danger. And now past threats, and rogue heroes, return to herald the end of the world in Black Hammer: Reborn #3, written by Jeff Lemire, drawn by Caitlin Yarsky, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered…
A. Why This Matters X-Force #18 by Benjamin Percy, Garry Brown and Joshua Cassara saw the bizarre, wholly unexpected death of Dr. Hank McCoyāthe Beast; he was neither the focus of the story nor on that issueās cover. But heāll be back by X-Force #20, working security for the Hellfire Gala event this June. What…
As King In Black winds down, S.W.O.R.D. makes sure Krakoa is kept safe. Surely this will end well. Al Ewing, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia and Ariana Maher deliver S.W.O.R.D. #4. Zach Rabiroff: Well, Iām out of the shower, and I finally managed to wash all of this disgusting Knull goop out of my hair. Boy,…
Bruce Wayne comes face to face with his successor and learns exactly how far the Magistrate police state has infiltrated Gotham while Grifter, Huntress and Luke Fox make a midnight run across the city to escape in Future State: Dark Detective #3, featuring: āDark Detective,ā written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by…
I have experimented with different columns and different formats over the five or so years Iāve been writing about comics, but you, Loyal Content Consumer, donāt necessarily care about that; no, you care about the comics, and I want to care about the comics with you. When Iām curled up in my big ratty office…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. This Week in Swords X-Force #14, Hellions #6 and Cable #6: Last week we learned that “X of Swords” doesn’t really involve as much sword-fighting as we thought it would. What will that mean…
Commanders in Crisis #1 is the first issue in a new superhero epic from writer Steve Orlando, artist Davide Tinto, colorist Francesca Carotenuto and letterer Fabio Amelia. Told via a dramatic murder mystery, five survivors of doomed multiverses live as heroes in another, and together, they can save this multiverse before it falls, too. The…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. DANāS PICK: Chu #1: Tony Chu’s criminal sister Saffron steals the spotlight – and other stuff – in the debut issue of this prequel to John Layman and Rob Guillory’s classic Image series “Chew.”…