Godzilla, the king of the monsters, a force of wanton destruction summoned by manâs inhumanity to man, known for tearing cities apart ⌠but also, perhaps, bringing people together? On Feb. 7, IDW will release the Godzilla Valentineâs Day Special, a comic in which a kaiju blogger and a paramilitary peacekeeper go from enemies to…
Union, New Jersey, the town where I grew up, was a victim of the comic shop implosion of the 1990s. By the time I left town for college in 1998, a couple of the stores where I had bought books over the years had closed. I had no idea whether there were any stores near…
Forty years ago this month, Kevin Eastman drew a masked, bipedal turtle with nunchucks to make his buddy, Peter Laird, laugh in their New Hampshire apartment. And thus a pop culture franchise was born, spanning comics, animation, toys, live-action rubber-suit movies, video games and one unforgettable Vanilla Ice song. And sure, you know Leo, Mikey,…
Will Robson is excited to talk about Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, his comic about a team tasked with cleaning up ocean pollution whose mission quickly goes bad. He said the underwater horror book was inspired partly by the fact that he saw a double feature of Jaws and The Exorcist when…
X-Fans know Ann Nocenti as a legendary, generative editor during the 1980s, and as the writer who created Longshot, Spiral, Mojo and the Mojoverse. Daredevil fans will never forget her. Sheâs been mostly away from Big Two comics in recent days, but now sheâs very much back, with a mini-series set in the past of…
âWe had this pitch going for three years,â Lonnie Nadler tells me, his voice a mix of pride in the work and dissatisfaction with the comics industry writ large. âAnd the only reason it’s taken us this long is because we couldn’t find a publisher who would be willing to commit to a series this…
Hollywood is historically rife with White Savior narratives. Hollywood is also rife with spoofs. A new comic by the team of Scott Burman, Eric Nguyen, Iwan Joko Triyono and Micah Myers hopes to combine both in comics form. Published by Dark Horse comics, two issues have been published so far of the four-issue mini-series. CXF…
Hair and hair-care is a subject that all of us reckon with every single day. It is universal, and everybody has their own specific experience and relationship to it. And yet it remains an underexplored subject in comics. Thatâs something thatâs been slowly changing, as there have been comics and graphic novels coming out exploring…
Alex Paknadel is irritated by writers who think they are too good for âgenre fiction.â âNo one wants to be Ian McEwan, who absolutely insisted what he was doing wasnât science fiction,â he tells me over Zoom, and he would know. Paknadel holds a Ph.D. in English literature. His masterâs thesis was titled, ââThey’re Nuts…
Robert Secundus: Today on ComicsXF we are joined by the writer of Age of X-Man: The Extremists War of the Realms: Giant-Man, X-Factor, X-Men Black: Emma Frost, What If? Magik, The Amazing Mary Jane, The Trial of Magneto, Gwenpool Strikes Back, and the forthcoming comic (R)ender. We will be discussing Exterminators #1, the first issue…
âWhile I was in the pandemic […] I had started to toy around with this instrument I purchased called an Apprehension Engine.â Claudio Sanchez says from his home recording studio. âItâs typically this scary, nightmare instrument. I had started to fool around with this instrument and it started giving me these ideas about what the…
I had the chance to attend Dragoncon this past weekend and asked Rico Renzi, artist of Spider-Man: Enter the Spiderverse, She-Hulk, Unbeatable Squirrelgirl, and currently Grim a few questions about his art, his contributions to Grim, and life and death! Renzi has utilized his masterful pairings of color to create an instantly recognizable body of…
It’s been a little over a year since Scott Snyder left DC to pursue a massive line of creator-owned work at Comixology, IDW and other publishers. A lot has changed across the industry and in the work, so I sat down with Scott to talk about the new genres he’s branching out into, the craft…
Look at your bookshelf right now. Whatâs on it? Some novels you havenât touched since that book club you joined after college, maybe a framed photo of your partner, some cherished action figures from the 1990s Toy Biz X-Men line that have no value otherwise. Now look down at the next shelf, the one sagging…
Somewhere on the Trans-Canada highway, that great artery connecting all ten Canadian provinces, Ryan North speeds along in his car. There, among the anonymous byroads of rural Quebec, where the Internet is spotty, the white-throated sparrows serenade with their call of âoh-sweet-Canada-Canada!â and the cabanes Ă sucre provide the vital, sugary lifeblood to the worldâs…