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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 16m

We FINALLY finished recorded this one last night. #BOTA is BACK on Monday.

Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 14d

Next time on #BattleoftheAtom we're talking about inter-company Wolverine crossovers!

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ComicsXF @comicsxf.com · 1h

Check out this week's CXF Staff Picks, ft. comics by @enidbalam.bsky.social @danpgwatters.bsky.social @valerioschiti.bsky.social @ryannorth.ca @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social @ayodelemurewa.bsky.social @davidmarquez.bsky.social @cavan.bsky.social and more
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It's a miracle! Marvel's Unbreakable X-Men lead this week's CXF Staff Picks - COMICSXF

At Haven House, only three X-Men remain — wounded, grieving and guarding the portal to the terrifying Penumbra.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 18h

Get while they're still available folks!

David Harper @davidharper.bsky.social · 18h

It's time!

STILT-ZINE — the world's greatest zine entirely about the Marvel villain known as Stilt-Man — is now up for order!

Want a copy? Order soon because inventory is limited! More folks picked one up at NYCC than I expected!

STILT-ZINE

It's time! The world's greatest Stilt-Man zine is finally here! Want STILT-ZINE? My latest creation? You can order it today. Who am I?...

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 20h

Au contraire - Never adapt the X-Men cuz it's always bad.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 20h

Likewise! Thanks for hanging out!

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Jordan D. White @cracksh0t.bsky.social · 21h

His art was incredible. We reference him on an almost daily basis in the comic business. He will be missed.

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 21h

Drew Struzan, iconic poster artist of Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and Star Wars, among others, has died at age 78.

Drew Struzan, Iconic Poster Artist Of Star Wars And Indiana Jones, Dead At Age 78

Drew Struzan, iconic poster artist of Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and Star Wars, among others, has died at age 78.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 23h

ICYMI Check out the CXF Wrap-Up of this weekend's #NYCC 2025!

ComicsXF @comicsxf.com · 2d

@adamreck.bsky.social & @danielpgrote.bsky.social report on the highs and lows of New York Comic Con 2025:
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From announcements to Artist Alley, CXF's New York Comic Con in review - COMICSXF

ComicsXF’s Adam Reck and Dan Grote tried to see as much as they could in two days and bring you their hot takes on New York Comic Con.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

You might like Iron & Frost this week

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

SCEMMA 4EVA

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Dan Grote @danielpgrote.bsky.social · 1d

Vocabulary words for this episode: Collyridianism, nunsploitation, monstrance, Eucharist.

ComicsXF @comicsxf.com · 1d

NEW TCXFIP! Writer Tini Howard joins the show to talk about her new @boom-studios.com series MARIAN HERETIC:
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The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 371: Tini Howard talks BOOM Studios' Marian Heretic - COMICSXF

Writer Tini Howard joins the show to talk about her new BOOM Studios nunsploitation series Marian Heretic and more.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a better cover than NIN’s version of Joy Division’s “Dead Souls”? youtu.be/8eptioPpo4w?...

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Way back in Amazing Heroes #192, CC talked about Betsy only being "Lady Mandarin" for Acts of Vengeance. Then readers got a look at Jim Lee's art and (no pun intended) all bets were off.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

It was my pleasure!

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Yum! Gotta let me know where this is

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Was never supposed to be permanent. Was just going to be for Acts of Vengeance. www.cbr.com/comic-book-l...

Comic Book Legends Revealed #536

This week, we take a look at the mysterious origins of Psylocke becoming Asian and the creation of Devil Dinosaur!

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

It's great!

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Publishing this book sends a strong message that Marvel continues to live in the past instead of engaging with the present. It suggests they are ignorant of how offensive their own IP has been. And suggests they're fine prioritizing schlock for speculators instead of quality comics.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Marvel's current X-Office does boast creator diversity, but canceling the previous Psylocke (Kwannon) book written by a nonbinary writer and replacing it with this? Not a good look.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Publishing a retro yellowface miniseries that doubles down on tropes with Elektra and The Hand is already problematic.
When your EiC practiced yellow face by impersonating a fictional Japanese man, it seems downright insane.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

"Ninja" is the third in a series of retro X-titles (Savage Land Rogue, White Queen) that have zero story reasons to exist beyond selling cheesecake variant covers of "sexy ladies." But Psylocke Ninja has the additional issue of an enormously problematic version of the character at its core.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Jim Zub and Thony Silas's Mystery in Madripoor gave Krakoan creators like Tini Howard and Zeb Wells ample opportunity to develop the individual characters of Captain Britain Betsy and Kwannon Psylocke. Audiences have had six years of stories with those versions of the characters as the status quo.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

I think we need to call this Psylocke announcement what it is: Racist and Sexist. The original Acts of Vengeance change was never meant to be permanent, and had the benefit of being drawn by an Asian American, but should never have lasted for the decades that it did.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Sure does!

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 1d

X-Men has some of the greatest female characters in comics but the way they're always regressing those characters to some of their worst eras because apparently guys like 'em best that way sure is something

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

Editor: Ok so we're gonna need a sexy Psylocke
Artist: You got it, here ya go
Editor: Nah, man, Imma need a bigger kadunkadunk
Artist: How's this?
Editor: Make it so her leg is dislodged from her hip
Artist: I can do that
Editor: Can we add some hot dog fingers?

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