All week Marvel has been releasing teasers for a new, secret X-Team. Unfortunately, the teasers have not been needed as some sites got everything right from the start and have no need to dragging things out. We got the final additions to this dysfunctional team today and they are Wild Child and Empath. We, of…
Marvel has been releasing teasers about a dysfunctional X-Men team over the last few days. So far we have Psylocke, Havok, Nanny, and Orphan Maker. I have not be wrong on any of my guesses. Marvel has. Today we got two more Mister Sinister & Scalphunter. We have yet to be wrong, unlike Marvel who…
The Xavier Institute has a long history of, questionable educational accreditation. Regardless of that, Magik is apparently qualified to teach in STRANGE ACADEMY #1. Or maybe not, frankly we have one, out of context image. Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos, no strangers to teams of teens with abilities have created a new cast of kids…
Marvel has been releasing teasers about a dysfunctional X-Men team over the last few days. What we know is this, I guessed all of them right from the start and any deviation from my guesses is a sign that we are in one of the X-Men’s dark futures and we need to find the M’Kraan…
Tini Howard and Marcus To continue to cast a spell in Excalibur #3. As Captain Britain and her knights battle the forces of Otherworld, •┤Ȧ├• finds the key to his experiments in Julio Rictor. Nola Pfau: Welcome to the latest installment of Excalibuddies! As always, Charlie and I are here to provide you some in-depth…
Sebastian Shaw has machinations. Machinations bore out in Gerry Duggan, Michele Bandini, Elisabeth D’Amico, and Federico Blee’s Marauders #3. His son, Shinobi, is reborn, and Shaw sees this as an opportunity to consolidate power on Krakoa. Ever the scheamer, he tells Shinobi that his previous death was orchestrated by Emma Frost & Kate Pryde, setting…
The Savage Land is under attack in X-Men #3 by Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, Gerry Alanguilan, Sunny Gho, and Rain Beredo. Cyclops, Emma Frost, and Sebastian Shaw confront Hordeculture, a group of radical bioterrorists comprised of elderly women with massive plans. Plans that are threatened by Krakoa. They show the X-Men the extent of…
Yesterday, Marvel released a teaser about a dysfunctional X-Men team. It was a move that implies the existence of a functional X-Men team, something scientists have long since agreed was an impossibility. Regardless, we now have a new piece to the puzzle. Psylock and Havok have just be revealed. We previously bet our reputation on…
The X-Men thrive on dysfunction, they live on it. Much like Krakoa eats mutants (which we’ve all kinda just ignored, right?), the X-Men eat a lack of actual teamwork and cohesiveness. Regardless, Marvel thinks they have put together the most dysfunctional team I could possibly imagine. Marvel, try me. The file read “Classified X”, which…
As the decade comes to a close it is a time to reflect. A time to look back at some of out most cherished memories of the years past and celebrate their achievements. So in that spirit, I have taken a look at the best stories from each of the past ten years. As comics…
Special guest Charlie Davis joins Zack for a discussion about Shatterstar and his son and his father and his son ans his father and his son and his father and so on Ranked this episode: X-Force: Shatterstar Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe Shatterstar
Psylocke continues her hunt for Apoth in Fallen Angels #2 from Bryan Edward Hill, Szymon Kudranski, and Frank D’Armata. We learn more of Psylocke’s past life as a Hand assassin, while in the present, the squad disagrees on the best way to proceed next. Tony Thornley: Welcome back to Missing Lobsters! So before we dive…
In a perfect world, X-Force wouldn’t be necessary. That lasted a matter of days. In X-Force #2, Ben Percy, Joshua Cassara, and Dean White show us Krakoa in mourning. When beloved leader Charles Xavier is brutally assassinated, some turn to faith, others to science, and others to revenge. Unfortunately, there is no fix during a…
Jonathan Hickman and Rod Reis bring us the space adventures of the space New Mutants as they escape space jail and hang out with their space friends in New Mutants #2. They get a chance to meet up with their old friends Cannonball and Smasher before getting conscripted into Shi’ar Imperial business involving Deathbird and…
You all know Magneto. He is arguably the most well known X-Men character outside of Wolverine. He requires no preamble. He’s getting a spotlight issue by Ben Oliver & Jonathan Hickman. Oliver has been away from comics for a while but jumped at the chance to work with Johnny Hix saying “I’ve long been a…