In X-Factor #1, Angel leads a new iteration of the group, this time recruited by the US government and a social media company. As mutant and human tensions continue to rise, the new team demonstrates that they’re not really up to the task of protecting pride and country. But with fame, fortune, and power up…
BOOKS: A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Early 1970s!
In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, for the first month I read Witch’s Business, The Ogre Downstairs, and Eight Days of Luke! These are three fun standalone books aimed at ages 8-12. Of them, my favorite is probably Witch’s Business for the way it shows children working…
REVIEW: Uncanny X-Men #1 Builds the Suspense with a Dream Mutant Team
Krakoa has fallen. In Uncanny X-Men #1, a small group of mutants, Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler, search for purpose in a world that continues to hate mutantkind. Mutants still need the X-Men because they’re being hunted, locked up, and killed. But what exactly makes a mutant an X-Man? That’s what this little team must…
REVIEW: The Power Fantasy #1 Is This Summer’s Strongest Debut
Image Comics’ The Power Fantasy is one of the strongest first issues from 2024.
REVIEW: Deadpool #1-4 – Real Laughs and Real Pain for Wade
Deadpool #1-4 gives us a dour, sarcastic Merc with a Mouth – whose gory glibness hides a whole lot of pain. Things blow up, people bleed, Wade is actively threatened with death (!!), and a new supervillain is right in Wade’s path. It’s not my favorite Deadpool arc, but it is sufficiently intriguing enough to…
REVIEW: Ultimate Spider Man #3-6: A Dinner Date with Destiny
Ultimate Spider-Man #3-6 sees Peter Parker’s world opening up more and more as he directly targets Kingpin with the Green Goblin’s help. With a supportive family, new friends in Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborn, and Uncle Ben and J. Jonah Jameson starting their own newspaper – and making that pesky Spidey a main part of…
VIZ Pubwatch: July 2024
Another month, another VIZ Pubwatch! This month, we’re talking about some of our favorites, including a rerelease of Taiyo Matsumoto’s GoGo Monster and the newest Steel of the Celestial Shadows volume. But first, the news!
REVIEW: Aliens: What If…#2-4 Isn’t Afraid to Get Messy
Aliens What if….? #2-4 gives us even more of what makes the first issue so great. The rat-a-tat wit of Paul and Leon Reiser, Hans Rodionoff and Brian Volk-Weiss keeps you hopping as they bring a Weyland Yutani corporate stooge to life and examines what might have happened had Carter Burke survived the massacre at…
REVIEW: Phoenix #1 – A Space Age Love Song to Jean Grey
After the mutant nation of Krakoa fell, the X-Man Jean Grey rose from the ashes to embrace her identity as the one true Phoenix. Phoenix #1 is a blazing new beginning for an iconic heroine as she seeks her destiny among the stars.
REVIEW: Werewolf By Night: Blood Hunt #1 Lives Up to the Name
In one of the bloodiest hunts yet, Jake Gomez finds himself ensnared in two types of undead villainy — can Werewolf By Night tame his savage beast, save his friends, and defeat a villain you don’t remember from 1973?
Review: Young Woman and the Sea Highlights the Indomitable Human Spirit to Defeat Old White Dudes
Young Woman and the Sea tells the true story of how Trudy Ederle (Daisy Ridley) overcame the extraordinary sexism of the 1920s to follow her dreams of swimming across the English Channel, a feat achieved only by five men at the time, and no women.
Archie Comics Pubwatch: June 2024
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for June! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In June’s Pubwatch, Sabrina’s got another annual to watch out for! Also, there are plenty of new variant covers and much more!