Dan Grote
@danielpgrote.bsky.social
EiC of ComicsXF, co-host of The CXF Interview Podcast, father of Peter Paul Winston Wisdom. Noted stuff lover.
My guess: She shows up at the end of Cyclops #1 in a bad disguise, rips it off and Scott is like
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
My guess: She shows up at the end of Cyclops #1 in a bad disguise, rips it off and Scott is like
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Did you know: The animated "Age of Apocalypse" two parter that aired after the comic book event actually inspired the comic book event?
I break down the mechanics of how that's possible for @comicsxf.com (sadly it doesn't involve any actual time travel) #XMen #XMen97
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I break down the mechanics of how that's possible for @comicsxf.com (sadly it doesn't involve any actual time travel) #XMen #XMen97
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November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Did you know: The animated "Age of Apocalypse" two parter that aired after the comic book event actually inspired the comic book event?
I break down the mechanics of how that's possible for @comicsxf.com (sadly it doesn't involve any actual time travel) #XMen #XMen97
comicsxf.com/2025/11/25/o...
I break down the mechanics of how that's possible for @comicsxf.com (sadly it doesn't involve any actual time travel) #XMen #XMen97
comicsxf.com/2025/11/25/o...
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Check out CXF Staff Picks ft. comics by @gabrielhardman.bsky.social @thekylestarks.bsky.social @ssnyder1835.bsky.social @alewingpromotes.bsky.social @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social @martinsimmonds.bsky.social and more!
This week's hot #1s are Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia and Dark Horse's Devil on My Shoulder. What are YOU looking forward to reading?
Batman, Green Arrow & the Question team up, new Kyle Starks horror and more CXF Staff Picks
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 [email protected]. Matt’s pick: Batman/Green Arrow/The Question — Arcadia #1: From the decaying husk of Hub City, Vic Sage, the Question, goes deep undercover on the trail of a human-trafficking operation in the frozen Arctic.
comicsxf.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Check out CXF Staff Picks ft. comics by @gabrielhardman.bsky.social @thekylestarks.bsky.social @ssnyder1835.bsky.social @alewingpromotes.bsky.social @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social @martinsimmonds.bsky.social and more!
My greatest hope for season 5 of Stranger Things is for the Wheelers to get divorced and for Karen Wheeler to find the happiness she so desperately deserves. Let Ted keep wandering around that Target.
a woman is smiling with the words here we go on the bottom
ALT: a woman is smiling with the words here we go on the bottom
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November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My greatest hope for season 5 of Stranger Things is for the Wheelers to get divorced and for Karen Wheeler to find the happiness she so desperately deserves. Let Ted keep wandering around that Target.
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ICYMI yesterday - BOTA is talking SHARKS
Battle Of The Atom: Dolphin’s Ancient Enemy
You'll never go in the water again, but maybe you'll go back in the podcast again and talk about Loa (Alani Ryan). Ranked This Episode: Classic X-Men #13 Namor: The First Mutant #5 Deadpool vol 7 #6
You'll never go in the water again, but maybe you'll go back in the podcast again and talk about Loa (Alani Ryan). Ranked This Episode: Classic X-Men #13 Namor: The First Mutant #5 Deadpool vol 7 #6
Battle Of The Atom: Dolphin’s Ancient Enemy
You'll never go in the water again, but maybe you'll go back in the podcast again and talk about Loa (Alani Ryan). Ranked This Episode: Classic X-Men #13 Namor: The First Mutant #5 Deadpool vol 7 #6
comicsxf.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
ICYMI yesterday - BOTA is talking SHARKS
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NEW TCXFIP: Go deep on the magical side of the Marvel Universe with @weredawgz.blacksky.app!
Writer Danny Lore joins the show to talk about their new book The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness: A Magical History and Spellbook.
The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 377: Danny Lore talks The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 377: Danny Lore talks The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness Writer Danny Lore joins the show to talk about their new book The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness: A Magical History and Spellbook from Insight Editions. You can listen to The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move Tuesday mornings.
comicsxf.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
NEW TCXFIP: Go deep on the magical side of the Marvel Universe with @weredawgz.blacksky.app!
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Because we are sophisticated modern aesthetes, me & my best boy @adamreck.bsky.social went to an art gallery to appreciate Peter Gallagher's HEATHCLIFF.
In this article: Ham helmets! Garbage Ape!! Secret Heathcliff lore!!! #Heathcliff #ART #HAM
In this article: Ham helmets! Garbage Ape!! Secret Heathcliff lore!!! #Heathcliff #ART #HAM
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Because we are sophisticated modern aesthetes, me & my best boy @adamreck.bsky.social went to an art gallery to appreciate Peter Gallagher's HEATHCLIFF.
In this article: Ham helmets! Garbage Ape!! Secret Heathcliff lore!!! #Heathcliff #ART #HAM
In this article: Ham helmets! Garbage Ape!! Secret Heathcliff lore!!! #Heathcliff #ART #HAM
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Seeing a room of Cliff-heads go bonkers for @Heathcliff Peter Gallagher was an amazing sight to see. Join us as we recount of our experience of this one of a kind exhibition and artist interview!
On Nov. 22, cartoonist Peter Gallagher sat down for an interview in front of a packed room of Heathcliff fans in Asbury Park, NJ, and our own Anna Peppard and Adam Reck were on the scene.
‘Heathcliff is definitely a New Jersey cat’: Cartoonist Gallagher speaks in Asbury Park
Starting on Oct. 18, The Art Spot in Asbury Park, New Jersey, held the first-ever exhibition of original artwork by Heathcliff artist Peter Gallagher. On Saturday, Nov. 22, Gallagher sat down for a closing-night interview in front of a packed room of Heathcliff fans. ComicsXF’s Anna Peppard and Adam Reck were there and bring you this exclusive report. Adam Reck: …
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November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Seeing a room of Cliff-heads go bonkers for @Heathcliff Peter Gallagher was an amazing sight to see. Join us as we recount of our experience of this one of a kind exhibition and artist interview!
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Are you excited for a Dani Moonstar solo series?
About damn time: Dani Moonstar getting her own solo series from Marvel this March
Man, if I had a nickel for every time I wondered aloud on this website why Dani Moonstar hasn't gotten a bigger push from Marvel, I'd have ... several nickels. Sorry, this is breaking news and I haven't kept a spreadsheet. Anywho, folks who checked out last month's Echo: Seeker of Truth one-shot may have noticed at the back a teaser for upcoming books that included a…
comicsxf.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Are you excited for a Dani Moonstar solo series?
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This is really the crux of the problem. Every time the x-men go back to the DoFP dark future well, all it really does is create a "hey, the x-men just kind of suck at what they're trying to do?" moment for me as a long time reader and fan
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is really the crux of the problem. Every time the x-men go back to the DoFP dark future well, all it really does is create a "hey, the x-men just kind of suck at what they're trying to do?" moment for me as a long time reader and fan
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This week's CXF Interview Podcast with guest @weredawgz.blacksky.app is LIVE for Patreon backers www.patreon.com/posts/144215... Listen to us talk about The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness before everyone else, and get those backer benefits!
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November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This week's CXF Interview Podcast with guest @weredawgz.blacksky.app is LIVE for Patreon backers www.patreon.com/posts/144215... Listen to us talk about The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness before everyone else, and get those backer benefits!
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Look at this coverrrrr
We also ran an exclusive preview of Marvel's Black Cat #4 by @gwillow.me & @biggleb.bsky.social comicsxf.com/2025/11/20/x...
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Look at this coverrrrr
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Time to check out what y'all have been checking out this week at CXF, topped by the announcement of X-MEN UNITED by @eveewing.bsky.social & Tiago Palma:
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November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Time to check out what y'all have been checking out this week at CXF, topped by the announcement of X-MEN UNITED by @eveewing.bsky.social & Tiago Palma:
comicsxf.com/2025/11/23/x...
comicsxf.com/2025/11/23/x...
In this episode:
✅Cats!
✅Who’s in your Marvel coven?
✅Dan can’t take Doctor Strange seriously
✅Does The Craft hold up?
✅What animal would be your familiar?
✅Who does Danny main in Rivals?
✅And more!!!
✅Cats!
✅Who’s in your Marvel coven?
✅Dan can’t take Doctor Strange seriously
✅Does The Craft hold up?
✅What animal would be your familiar?
✅Who does Danny main in Rivals?
✅And more!!!
This week's CXF Interview Podcast with guest @weredawgz.blacksky.app is LIVE for Patreon backers www.patreon.com/posts/144215... Listen to us talk about The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness before everyone else, and get those backer benefits!
The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 377: Danny Lore talks The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness | ComicsXF
Get more from ComicsXF on Patreon
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November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In this episode:
✅Cats!
✅Who’s in your Marvel coven?
✅Dan can’t take Doctor Strange seriously
✅Does The Craft hold up?
✅What animal would be your familiar?
✅Who does Danny main in Rivals?
✅And more!!!
✅Cats!
✅Who’s in your Marvel coven?
✅Dan can’t take Doctor Strange seriously
✅Does The Craft hold up?
✅What animal would be your familiar?
✅Who does Danny main in Rivals?
✅And more!!!
I have now seen both Freaky (2003) and Freakier Friday. The Alpha and Omega of 21st century cinema in one day.
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I have now seen both Freaky (2003) and Freakier Friday. The Alpha and Omega of 21st century cinema in one day.
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There was something almost cathartic about confronting the issues of this event, and the X-Line at large, with the gang.
The ComicsXF chorus sits down to have an honest chat about what's not working in Marvel's "Age of Revelation" X-Men event.
At the halfway point, ComicsXF analyzes what’s not working in the X-Men’s ‘Age of Revelation’
After a full month of covering “Age of Revelation,” the ComicsXF all-star chorus took a break last week, partly because there were no core books out, partly because, well, it was exhausting. And we don’t just mean the pace and volume. These books are exhausting to read and keep up with, and if this event has done anything, it’s pulled back the curtain on what problems the current X-Men line has.
comicsxf.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
There was something almost cathartic about confronting the issues of this event, and the X-Line at large, with the gang.
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pretty much dead center on everything this line, and marvel at-large, suffers from but this specifically blows my mind.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
pretty much dead center on everything this line, and marvel at-large, suffers from but this specifically blows my mind.
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this event vivisection made me happy I’m not really involved anymore - note, I actually *have* bought a few rando issues of this story because I buy any comic with Rogue where she’s not married, and this has given me that. but apparently the context is nonsense even if you’re steeped in the books!
It's an intervention for an event with @brawl2099.bsky.social @danielpgrote.bsky.social @scottredmond.bsky.social @adamreck.bsky.social & @austingorton.bsky.social
The ComicsXF chorus sits down to have an honest chat about what's not working in Marvel's "Age of Revelation" X-Men event.
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
this event vivisection made me happy I’m not really involved anymore - note, I actually *have* bought a few rando issues of this story because I buy any comic with Rogue where she’s not married, and this has given me that. but apparently the context is nonsense even if you’re steeped in the books!
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HALFWAY?!?
The ComicsXF chorus sits down to have an honest chat about what's not working in Marvel's "Age of Revelation" X-Men event.
At the halfway point, ComicsXF analyzes what’s not working in the X-Men’s ‘Age of Revelation’
After a full month of covering “Age of Revelation,” the ComicsXF all-star chorus took a break last week, partly because there were no core books out, partly because, well, it was exhausting. And we don’t just mean the pace and volume. These books are exhausting to read and keep up with, and if this event has done anything, it’s pulled back the curtain on what problems the current X-Men line has.
comicsxf.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
HALFWAY?!?
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The @comicsxf.com team's chat about what's not working and why with the X-Men's latest dystopian crossover very much underscored why I haven't been reading it, including:
"A sharper, tighter focus on something that actually matters and tracks could have done this event a world of good." #XMen
"A sharper, tighter focus on something that actually matters and tracks could have done this event a world of good." #XMen
The ComicsXF chorus sits down to have an honest chat about what's not working in Marvel's "Age of Revelation" X-Men event.
At the halfway point, ComicsXF analyzes what’s not working in the X-Men’s ‘Age of Revelation’
After a full month of covering “Age of Revelation,” the ComicsXF all-star chorus took a break last week, partly because there were no core books out, partly because, well, it was exhausting. And we don’t just mean the pace and volume. These books are exhausting to read and keep up with, and if this event has done anything, it’s pulled back the curtain on what problems the current X-Men line has.
comicsxf.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The @comicsxf.com team's chat about what's not working and why with the X-Men's latest dystopian crossover very much underscored why I haven't been reading it, including:
"A sharper, tighter focus on something that actually matters and tracks could have done this event a world of good." #XMen
"A sharper, tighter focus on something that actually matters and tracks could have done this event a world of good." #XMen
Attn @mattlaz1013.bsky.social !!!
I cannot properly describe the joy I feel in announcing that my friend ROGER LANGRIDGE (@hotelfred.bsky.social) is writing, drawing and lettering MUPPETS NOIR, starting in February! @dearbhlala.bsky.social's on colors, Declan Shalvey's done a variant cover & I get to edit the whole thing.
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Attn @mattlaz1013.bsky.social !!!
One of us cried during this intervention. Try and guess who!
The ComicsXF chorus sits down to have an honest chat about what's not working in Marvel's "Age of Revelation" X-Men event.
At the halfway point, ComicsXF analyzes what’s not working in the X-Men’s ‘Age of Revelation’
After a full month of covering “Age of Revelation,” the ComicsXF all-star chorus took a break last week, partly because there were no core books out, partly because, well, it was exhausting. And we don’t just mean the pace and volume. These books are exhausting to read and keep up with, and if this event has done anything, it’s pulled back the curtain on what problems the current X-Men line has.
comicsxf.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
One of us cried during this intervention. Try and guess who!
Candy Crush keeps showing me this Dropbox ad with Death Cab for Cutie where Ben Gibbard has a skullet, and I just think he needs to go where head meets scissors. Like I can see him balding from such great heights.
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Candy Crush keeps showing me this Dropbox ad with Death Cab for Cutie where Ben Gibbard has a skullet, and I just think he needs to go where head meets scissors. Like I can see him balding from such great heights.
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Glad that @deathchrist2000.bsky.social does God's work by reading tom taylor slop so I don't have to 🫡
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Glad that @deathchrist2000.bsky.social does God's work by reading tom taylor slop so I don't have to 🫡
I stayed out of this one because I don’t have the academic’s brain needed to parse Morrison. @deathchrist2000.bsky.social was more than up to the task, though.
Now that you've read both Deadpool/Batman AND Batman/Deadpool, what was your favorite story in the batch?
Morrison’s final farewell to superheroes a slight but fun affair in DC/Marvel’s Batman/Deadpool
When an old enemy asks Batman for help, the Dark Knight and the Merc with a Mouth find themselves in an insane and absurd jungle full of cartoon ninjas, bizarre ruins and a giant typewriter. What evil mastermind lurks behind the scenes? Who could possibly be the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes them dance? Batman/Deadpool #1 features a main story written by Grant Morrison, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Alejandro Sánchez and lettered by Todd Klein.
comicsxf.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I stayed out of this one because I don’t have the academic’s brain needed to parse Morrison. @deathchrist2000.bsky.social was more than up to the task, though.