If Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman’s X-Men are the mutant freedom fighters and Eve Ewing and Carmen Carnero’s Exceptional X-Men are the young mutants in training, it appears Gail Simone and David Marquez’s Uncanny X-Men are the big damn heroes. Led by Rogue and including Gambit, Wolverine (Logan), Jubilee and Nightcrawler, the team seems to…
Listen, I know the timeline of when all these comics take place in relation to each other is wibbly-wobbly at best, but I’m pretty sure MODOK resigned from Orchis at the end of Fall of the House of X #2. But here he is in X-Men #34, taking advantage of the conflict between the mutants…
Rhino crashes the party to stomp out Spider-Punk. What secrets lie under the community center that Spidey and his crew call home base? And how does it all tie back to Norman Osborn? Find out in Spider-Punk: Arms Race #2, written by Cody Ziglar, drawn by Justin Mason, colored by Morry Hollowell and lettered by…
XAVIER! NO! Xavier, shocking no one, compromises his morals in pursuit of his dream, as he teams up with Orchis to give mutants a chance. What’s left of the Quiet Council, however, has their own plan in place — it is time for the Phoenix to rise from the ashes that Orchis has left behind….
Most Marvel series don’t go 50 issues these days, let alone creator runs, so it’s pretty remarkable that writer Benjamin Percy got to go out on top with two 50-issue runs, of Wolverine and X-Force. The latter, of course, has already wrapped, but the former still has a couple more weeks in it before its…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays (for now), everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s pick: Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives #1: Journalist Kate Marsden hunts for a notorious serial killer in the heart of the Amazon. Hot on the trail of this madman, she…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · Episode 300: Jed MacKay on Blood Hunt, X-Men and more For the big, round, 300th episode of the podcast formerly known as WMQ&A, writer Jed MacKay joins the show to talk about Marvel’s summer Blood Hunt event, his upcoming run on X-Men and much more. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview…
Welcome to Limbo! Our group chose Illyana Rasputina, the marvelous Magik, for this round! Introduced as the younger sister of Colossus, Magik joined the ’80s New Mutants team as a teen and has since flourished into an A-lister in her own right. She’s been a member of the Phoenix Five, Cyclops’ renegade X-Men squad, the…
Lila Cheney has made a deal with the devil — or as close as you get, when Mojo’s involved! She’s got to get her views up while figuring out where her kidnapped fans have been taken. Fortunately, she’s got the perfect ally to help her out: our very own Ms. Marvel! Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace…
Nine hundred X-Men stories in and we may be losing the plot because oops, this one is all Malice and we don’t actually get much closer to understanding her. Ranked This Episode:
At the end of Rise of the Powers of X #3, Charles Xavier, having abandoned his plan to kill young Moira X before her powers manifest, shoots Rachel Summers with the same gun he didn’t shoot Li’l Moira with. THEN, in this week’s Fall of the House of X #4, he … well, y’know what,…
Remember Professor X? Well, he’s back, in space-consort form, as Deathbird tries to skunk his engagement to Lilandra on the grounds that he’s a dirty Earth ape. Meanwhile, Storm deals with a death bird of her own as she fights to save Forge’s life and regain her powers in X-Men ’97 season 1, episode 6….
In pursuit of Moon Knight, the Black Panther has been ambushed by a pair of freedom fighters – Killmonger and Storm. What they have have to show him may change everything that Wakanda’s war with Ra and Khonshu is about. Ultimate Black Panther #3 is written by Bryan Hill, drawn by Stefano Caselli, colored by…
The X-Men don’t play softball but do play hardball in the latest, bloodiest installment of the ongoing end of an era. Fall of the House of X #4 written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by Lucas Werneck and Jethro Morales, colored by Bryan Valenza, and lettered by VC’s Travis Lanham. Anna Peppard: We all know baseball…
From the company that brought you Roxxon Body Gel™, and the immersive Roxxspexx™, comes a brand new adventure starring their very own mascot, the Mighty Thor! Watch as he fights Loki and his lies of global pollution and the idea that corporations are not to be trusted! But is there something more sinister going on…