Battle of the Atom: Not Getting Over
Fill-in stories are a great chance to try and get a character over. Not Hazard though, he ain’t ever getting over. Ranked This Episode:
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Mystique & Destiny immortalize Be Gay, Do Crimes in ‘X-Men: The Wedding Special #1’
Marvel’s first queerest family is throwing a party, and everyone’s invited! Particularly if it pleases the brides to know you won’t be home during their rapturous re-exchanging of vows. X-Men: The Wedding Special #1 was written by Kieron Gillen, Tini Howard, Tate Brombal, Yoon Ha Lee and Wyatt Kennedy; drawn by Rachael Stott, Phillip Sevy,…
Battle of the Atom: The One with the Guy from Lost
The guy from Lost wrote a comic one time. It had Hulk in it. Ipso facto we are doing a Hulk episode. Ranked This Episode
Battle of the Atom: Adaptations of Adaptations
Everyone is talking about X-Men ’97, aren’t they? Well, I guess everyone includes us because you get the unfiltered opinions of these two chuckleheads now. Also we talk about adaptations of things from the original animated series. Ranked This Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: Dream Of The Fisherman’s Wife
The prompt was “a fine selection of Claremont tentacles, please.” So that’s what we are doing this week. Ranked This Episode
Battle Of The Atom: Spider-Man’s Old Pants
I (Zack) asked my wife if she ever thought about Spider-Man’s old pants and how that is what Venom is. She said I need to mulch. Ranked This Episode:
Battle of the Atom: An Angels and Demons Thing
Nightcrawler is a constant in the world of X-Men. Here are some stories where he isn’t. Ranked This Episode
Battle Of The Atom: Alice ‘Malice’ McAllister
Nine hundred X-Men stories in and we may be losing the plot because oops, this one is all Malice and we don’t actually get much closer to understanding her. Ranked This Episode:
Fall of the House of X #4 gets so much wrong
The X-Men don’t play softball but do play hardball in the latest, bloodiest installment of the ongoing end of an era. Fall of the House of X #4 written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by Lucas Werneck and Jethro Morales, colored by Bryan Valenza, and lettered by VC’s Travis Lanham. Anna Peppard: We all know baseball…
Battle Of The Atom: Behind The Music
When I wore a younger man’s clothes I used to go to concerts and have a great time. Now I talk about them on podcasts. Ranked This Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: Dead For 3 Pages
Sometimes SOMEONE will start a plot and ever finish it. This is about the time Claremont decided Dazzler was immortal. Ranked This Episode
Battle of the Atom: Her Web Connects Us All
Zack once threatened Adam with a Madame Web episode. Well guess what the Bad Boy of X-Men Podcasting did? Plus, Zack and Adam sent each other predictions about the new X-Men era. Now that it’s announced, we get to see who was right and who is committed to bits you couldn’t possibly understand. Ranked This…
Battle of the Atom: Crux Point of Your Life
Our beloved Bendis-era X-Men. Our Saint, Eva Bell. This one is for you. Ranked This Episode:
I’ve had enough Jim Lee X-Men merch
There I was, minding my own business, eating the Trader Joe’s salad I’d packed for lunch, when I saw the following D23 promotion for X-Men ‘97 on my Twitter feed: And, as I looked at the “animation-style” artwork done in homage to Jim Lee’s classic 1992 Impel X-Men cards, complete with a binder and trading…
Battle Of The Atom: Zoobooks
Who is ready for a huge amount of discussion about sustainability and how to manage the pending climate disaster? Ranked This Episode