It is 1986 or ’87. I am 6 or 7 years old. Dad and I are having a catch in the backyard of our home in Union, New Jersey. I played rec league tee-ball for two years. Like the other sports my parents signed me up for — soccer, wrestling, basketball, golf — I was…
We don’t actually go to Long Island on this one, but we got to the island of Madripoor. We’re all Madripoor down here. Ranked This Episode: Generation X #53-54 Wolverine #1-3 (The Black Blade) X-23/Daken: Dark Wolverine: Collision
All hell breaks loose aboard the USS Theseus, and only a godlike being with a single letter for a name could be responsible in Star Trek #3 written by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing, with art by Joe Eisma and Ramon Rosanas, colors by Lee Loughridge and letters by Clayton Cowles. Mark Turetsky: Hey Tony!…
A classic tale of chivalry, courage, and inevitability with John Reppion and MD Penman’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ritesh: ‘Tis the season! Of yuletide tales and gift-giving! And so we come to a tale of old–The Tale of Ser Gawain and the Green Knight. Crafted with great care and intense research by John…
Billions of years in the past, a culture of proto-mutants and proto-humans faces extinction-level threats from the Unbreathing (an anaerobic civilization), from Arkea (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms), from Sublime (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms created by Grant Morrison), and from Stryfe (that guy). Can our chrono-journeying mutants save everyone? Or anyone? Time to find out in Marauders #10,…
After being blasted by Failsafe, Batman wakes up in a world very different from the Gotham he knows. Batman #131 is written by Chip Zdarsky, penciled by Mike Hawthorne, inked by Adriano Di Benedetto, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup, Tim Drake is sure that Batman is alive and…
In 1997, Toy Biz released a line of action figures called “X-Men: Monster Armor” where the X-Men got cool Halloween costume looking snap-on accessories. This had no basis in any other piece of X-Men media, but that was the toy industry for you. I must assume Si Spurrier spent his life working to get a…
One of the earliest foes that Batman ever faced was the vampire known as The Monk who, at the end of his first storyline, Batman killed. With a gun. It was the Golden Age. But death has never kept a comic book character down, and with alternate Earths and reboot, The Monk has returned in…
Storm vs Vulcan. It all comes down to this. Al Ewing, Stefano Caselli, Jacopo Camagni, Federico Blee and Ariana Maher deliver X-Men Red #10. Writing reviews of individual issues can sometimes feel like the writing equivalent of Groundhog Day: You’re praising (or parcing) the same things in every issue. Writers have their styles, their preferences…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Presents Our Son Pete Episode 11: The One with the London Hellfire Club Strap on your fanciest leather bondage gear, we’re starting the London Hellfire Club arc with special guest Dr. Anna Peppard (Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! podcast). Together we discuss the Wisdom-Lockheed feud, the branding of spy apparatus,…
Welcome to 2023. We’re doing politics now. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #4 (Global Economics) X-Factor #82-83 (X-Patriots) Ultimate War