X-Heroes News

You heard it here first, folks. Just when you thought you’d seen the last of the X-Heroes, just when you started to be able to sleep again without drenching your pillows in tears because the promise of new X-Heroes strips was gone from your life comes the following announcement… The X-Heroes are coming back! And they won’t be alone. They’ll have almost every major creator owned superhero fighting right beside them! Madman! The Maxx! Too Much Coffee Man! Cerebus! And more intriguing characters then you can shake a copy of Wizard at (what are you doing with that garbage anyway?) That’s right, The X-Heroes are participating in the much ballyhooed “War of the Independents”, being headed up by Scott “Generation X, Fetch” Lobdell and Dave “Penance” Ryan. There’s no official site for the big event yet, but click on these links to see David’s MySpace page and ComicSpace page. InternationalHero.co.uk also has a lot of info on the event here.

Needless to say, the humble X-Heroes are thrilled and honored to be participating in such an esteemed event, in the company of such icons of independent entertainment! And they won’t just be sticking to the sidelines either. They’ll be joined by their good buddies The Kosmix. The creator of The Kosmix, John McDowell, drew the above image to announce this monumental team up, or “marriage”, of these super heroic titans. The Kosmix/X-Heores team-up crossover battle-royale extravaganza is planned to take the form of a 24 page comic book, scheduled to be released side by side with the main event itself in summer 2008. I can hear your cries already. “Will it actually come out?” Well, we’re going to do our best, kids. Until John and I are making those fat “professional comic book artist” greenbacks we can’t guarantee anything. But we can tell you this: We are working on the most rockin’, colossal, bruise inducing, hilarious, and entertaining crossover book this side of The Punisher Meets Archie! So don’t worry, we’re even more excited about it than you (in case you couldn’t tell) so if there’s a way for it to be made, it will be.

I also wanted to direct people attention to something I found while Googling my own name. X-Heroes Speesheez! Thanks to timlight for these awesome little versions of America’s favorite demoralized superheroes.

Thanks everyone, and see you in a year!

The X-Heroes have made some new friends while barrelin’ down the information superhighway, and we here at TheXHeroes.com have the photos to prove it. First up, Captain DeathRay makes some friends the new-fashioned way. Say “Hello” to Space Wraith and Cosmognat of The Kosmix!

To see John McDowell pit his Kosmix against The X-Heroes in an old-fashioned knock down drag out superhero battle royale, check out the Guest Art section of this very website here.

Next up, Plan B and Rob of Here There Be Robots get in a little misunderstanding. But don’t worry, something tells me they’ll end up with a couple of mugs of grog at the local dive bar before they do any serious damage.

One of my favorite parts of comic books like Madman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is their regular featuring of guest art. It’s really exciting to see different takes on established characters, especially ones you love. And it’s even more exciting to see talented artists draw your own characters, which is why the Guest Art section of TheXHeroes.com is so prominent! John McDowell of The Kosmix webcomic and I traded pin ups of our characters “fighting” each other, which was a blast. Jonah Gragory of Here There Be Robots won a small contest I held over a DrunkDuck.com, and got this picture mailed to him as a prize.

Hello everyone, and welcome to The X-Heroes website!

This strip was originally serialized on DrunkDuck.com (here) during the last month and a half of 2006. I’m glad I posted it there because I met a lot of cool people, but my intention for the strip all along was to feature it on its own specially created website, which you are now browsing. And even if you’ve read the strips before, explore all around as there’s lots of new material. Check out the Cast section for origin stories, go to Guest Art to see some of the better art on the website, and Extras for tons of dvd style bonus material. And keep your eyes open, because there’s some other cool stuff hidden around…

But for the immediate future, this is the end of The X-Heroes. I’ve moved on to another big project which is completely different, and the less I say about it this early the better (eighty page graphic novel) I’ll keep you all posted. BUT, The X-Heroes will return someday. There’s a chance that a big event featuring many independently owned superheroes will come together in the next one to two years, and it looks like The X-Heroes will become a part of it. If and when it happens I’ll put together three or four brand new strips that tie in to it, but if it doesn’t happen I’ll do the new strips as stand alone stories. That’s the deal and count on it.
So basically, read and enjoy this site and forget about The X-Heroes. Then be pleasantly surprised when you see their return in a year or two. And doesn’t it seem like the years keep whizzing by faster and faster? I know they do for me.

I’m probably not taking any submissions for the Guest Art section, but the Gallery of Villainy could always use some more ugly mugs populating its walls! And here’s the only piece of X-Heroes art not featured somewhere on this site. An ad I made for MySpace (click to see The X-Heroes MySpace page.) Enjoy!

Okay, that’s all from me. Without the following people this website would be worse looking, emptier, or non existent:
Vincent Mui, Brandon Dawley, Brian Ferguson, Brett Thompson, Mike Fayer, Zach Sivers, Shane Ronzio, Chris Fillhart and Chris Cimino.
I’ve met a lot of super cool comic book people while promoting The X-Heroes, but the following folks are above and beyond and have top quality books: Javier Hernandez has been the coolest and his El Muerto is the Dia del los Muertos superhero I never knew I needed. And Jeremy and Jonah Gregory with Here There Be Robots are totally tops in addition to having the funniest funny book I’ve read since comics were fun.

Keep your units on you kids!

Colin