Margot Waldman: On their quest to get back home to May 2025, the Doctor and Belinda make a slight detour 500,000 years in the future – and into what I think has been the strongest episode of the season so far. What do you think, Armaan? Armaan Babu: I’m behind you 100%. Well, behind-adjacent, as…
After far too long a wait, the second season of Andor is finally upon us! Just as the first season premiered with a three-episode release on Disney+, so too does season 2. But unlike season 1, the rest of this season will follow the same format, unfolding across four three-episode arcs. In these first three…
Welcome, everyone, to our first monthly edition of Talking Absolute …, where we’ll focus on the storylines, controversies and themes that have captured our imaginations in the Absolute DC titles each month. April was the first month to have releases from all six series, so what better time to start than this? So far, we…
As you may have heard, we here at ComicsXF are more than a little excited about this weekend’s Super Jersey Comic Expo, April 26 and 27 at The Dome at Adventure Crossing in Jackson, New Jersey. Maybe it’s because we’ll have a table there, selling some of the cool stuff you’ll see below. Maybe it’s…
Batman must do the unthinkable: He must save the Joker’s life. But the Joker has done so much horror over the years, there are members of Batman’s own family who will not look kindly upon this. Batman #159 is written by Jeph Loeb, penciled by Jim Lee, inked by Scott Williams, colored by Alex Sinclair…
I’m happy for the people this miniseries is making happy. The Zaladane stans who after 34 years got fresh tales of their evil dinosaur priestess who is not Polaris’ sister. The variant cover collectors and traders who stood at attention at the mere mention of “Savage Land Bikini Rogue Adam Hughes variant.” The nostalgia readers…
What stalks the blood-soaked kill floor? A dizzying, heartbreaking, hallucinogenic trip through the endless slaughterhouse! Witness a man’s life cut up, ground down and packaged for easy consumption in Assorted Crisis Events #2, written by Deniz Camp, drawn by Eric Zawadzki, colored by Jordie Bellaire, lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and designed by Tom Muller for…
As you probably know by now, we at ComicsXF are pretty excited about this weekend’s Super Jersey Comic Expo. A group of us will be tabling, bringing with us stickers, shirts, prints, old comics we need to unload and, best of all, a limited number of physical copies of The ComicsXF Zine. (Can’t make it…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: Absolute Martian Manhunter #2: The other-dimensional alien consciousness calling…
Two weeks ago, Jon Adams’ long-running webcomic Chief O’Brien At Work ended its 12 year run. In more than 400 entries, the comic featured a largely static image of Chief O’Brien as he waits for someone, anyone, to need the transporter, or, failing that, a friend. With mostly unseen supporting characters like Keiko, Commander Riker,…
Logan faces off with the Adamantine. The Wendigo is pulled into a deadly trap as a specter from the past emerges. And a story you never thought you’d see begins here. Wolverine #8/400 is written by Saladin Ahmed, drawn by Martin Coccolo, colored by Bryan Valenza and lettered by Cory Petit, with a backup written…
The quest to get Belinda home leads to an abandoned cinema hiding a terrifying secret in Disney’s Doctor Who Season 2, Episode 2, “Lux.” Armaan Babu: If Doctor Who has taught us anything, it’s that it’s not so fun exploring all of space and time without a companion to help you through it. For this…
Two years ago, the X-Men threw a lovely party that went all to crap when Orchis showed up and made Charles Xavier force nearly all of mutantkind through Krakoan gates. The mutants regrouped and over the next year defeated Orchis, but at the cost of their homeland blinking onto another plane of existence. Since then,…
Once upon a time, two righteous dudes named Fabian Nicieza and Greg Capullo wrote and drew a book called X-Force, about a bunch of extreme young adults finding their way in the world with the help of their large, swollen gun dad. Sometimes, their large, swollen gun dad, whom they called Cable, would disappear for…
THE WINTER SOLDIER THAWS? Wolverine’s confrontation with Kitty Pryde and Gambit leaves him disoriented, violent and questioning his Maker’s Council overlords. Who is “Logan”? Ultimate Wolverine #4 was written by Chris Condon, drawn by Alessandro Cappuccio, colored by Bryan Valenza and lettered by Cory Petit. Survivor. Soldier. Hunter. Specimen. Animal. Relentless. Sputnik. No, that’s not…