At the end of the Orchis War, Charles Xavier surrendered himself to the authorities and allowed himself to be imprisoned in his old house. But now, something has spurred him into action, into escaping his incarceration and embarking on a mad scramble across the nation. What has caused Professor X to go on the run?…
We love Meggan, here’s an episode. Also Anna is here and isn’t that great! Ranked this Episode:
RIP Zack “The Bad Boy Of X-Men Podcasting” Jenkins. He leaves behind a loving co-host and many people who would consider him an enemy because of jokes he made about X-Men. Ranked This Episode: Also in the episode: Greg Land, Marc Guggenheim, Ben Percy, Craig Kyle, David Pepose, Chris Condon, Ryan Stegman, Zeb Wells and…
The four potential mutant recruits known as the Outliers are the target of a new, vicious and unstoppable anti-mutant weapon initiative, a cold-hearted pack of tracking Sentinels based on dogs, who use their enhanced senses and chainsaw-like teeth to hunt down and kill mutants. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide as the Outliers face the…
Rivers Cuomo once said, “I wanna go back, back to the shack, back to the Strat with the lightning strap,” and we echo that message by going back to our roots for a 1,000th story celebration about the stories the occurred at both the birth of the podcast and the birth of us. Rivers Cuomo…
When TV shows cared about Nielsen ratings, ad rates would be set based on how well a show performed during a very specific portion of the year called “Sweeps Week”. To goose the system, shows would bring out all the stops with big episodes, guest stars, all of that. We honor that tradition as the…
As of this writing, there are 13(!) monthly X-books on the shelves, two of which — X-Men and Uncanny X-Men — ship on an 18-issue-a-year schedule. That’s a lot, and there’s more coming, including Laura Kinney: Wolverine (who is already starring in NYX); a Timeslide one-shot co-starring Cable and Bishop; Magik (who is already starring…
It’s a new year, and in true new year’s tradition, the ComicsXF team has set some New Year’s resolutions. Also in New Year’s tradition, it’s almost the end of the first month of the year, and we’re just now getting to it, and, look, the beginning of the year was a lot OK? So sit…
The Outliers, still finding their place in the mutant world, are hunted by a lethal new set of foes: a bloodthirsty, relentless and unstoppable pack of stealth Sentinels. Cut off from their mentors and allies, with no knowledge of who built or aimed these deadly drones, four untrained mutants are on the run and completely…
This episode is all about Gambit. Why? I mean, that’s quite the important question. Friedrich Nietzsche said “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” Of course, Nietzsche also said “The Superman is the meaning of the earth.” and I remember just enough about that time he had blue electricity powers…
Once upon a time, in the years before Xavier Files, Zack and his friend Thomas started an X-Men book club where the first thing they wanted to talk about was Mike Carey’s X-Men work. This is then that domino meme that gets us to this very moment nearly a decade later. Ranked This Episode:
When we think of icons, we think of them. They are X-Men characters whose names we would never confuse or mix up and certainly characters who should help Slingers sell more copies. Ranked This Episode:
In our post-truth world, it is sometimes difficult to discern what Magneto truly is. Is he a freedom fighter filled with righteous fury? A lunatic obsessed with supremacy? A kind shepherd for the next generation of his people? What this podcast posits, it that he is a South Beach yoga instructor, and you know we…
We don’t have a friend or a guest named Kevin in this one. But we do have Christmas stories of VARIOUS quality. Someone help us escape from the holiday hellscape we have created for ourselves. Ranked This Episode: