Comics, especially X-Men comics, and trading cards have a long history together. The X-Men trading cards, followed by the larger Marvel sets, started right as the comics hit their most financially successful period. Trading cards were included in some of the biggest launches, like X-Force #1 and X-Cutioner’s Song. Marvel’s acquisition of the trading card…
Zack & Adam talk about Fortnite and also Storm, who we love and cherish! Ranked this episode: X-Men: Hidden Years #6-7 Storm vol 2 Ororo: Before The Storm
Zack and Adam try recording live from their basements and also on Twitter. People seemed to like it. Unlike Hyperstorm, who people do not like for good reason. Ranked This Episode: Fantastic Four #406-414 (Hyperstorm) Days Of Future Present Daydreamers If you’re a comics creator in need, check this out.
This week we’re all talking about that JoeMad content as we celebrate a game neither of us intends on playing. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #326 Deadpool: The Circle Chase Savage Wolverine #6-8 (Hands On A Dead Body)
X-Force, they are like the X-Men, but with attitude. If they X-Men were just all Wolverine but also guns right? While this is both reductive and incorrect, this is what society expects of X-Force. There have, however, been many iterations of this squad, and today, we’re going to rank all of them, from worst to…
It had to be done. We had to talk about it. After a long absence from the show, Chuckles Austen’s work does come back up and let me tell you, there is some yelling. Also we talk about Bible now. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #423-424 (Holy War) X-Factor vol 3 #16 (No Dominion) X-Factor…
The first Marvel Champions campaign box was formally announced by Fantasy Flight Games: the Rise of the Red Skull. A new product format, the campaign box will feature two new heroes alongside five new Hydra-themed scenarios, all culminating in a battle against the Red Skull himself. Those five new villains players can battle against are…
I don’t play Animal Crossing, so the last few weeks on social media have been Greek to me. However, I have been playing a lot of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and I’ve discovered something. Isabelle rocks. I typically race as either Toad or Toadette. The small, compact characters (or Light) take turns better, especially on…
We’re going to be talking about a few terms from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, a 20th century Russian literary critic and semiotician. First of all, “heteroglossia.” Heteroglossia is: “the base condition governing the operation of meaning in any utterance. It is that which insures the primacy of context over text. At any given time,…
Over the last few months, us X-Fans have gotten accustomed to island life. Krakoa has become our home. We visit tiki bars, hang out on beaches, and enjoy a political system that is questionable. With the recent global pandemic, Krakoa has been taken from us. Comics aren’t coming out this week, we don’t know when…