Battle Of The Atom: Three Large, Round Reasons
Look folks we are 30 or 40 years old, sometimes it takes 3 weeks to record an episode about 5 total issues of comics. This is what life is for us who choose this life. Ranked This Episode:
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The Age of Revelation expands with 4 new books, 2 Rogues and 1 sad Gambit
The Age of Revelation will continue until morale improves (or January, whichever comes first), so we’ve got another week of fresh new “replacement” books and tie-ins alike! Rather than tackle each book in a traditional “ToX” format, your intrepid CXF review crew will offer up their individual thoughts in brief for each of this week’s…
From announcements to Artist Alley, CXF’s New York Comic Con in review
ComicsXF’s Adam Reck and Dan Grote were only at this year’s New York Comic Con for a brief window of Thursday into Friday, but we tried to see as much as we could in two days and bring you our hot takes on what was trending, what was working really well and maybe a few…
Al Ewing returns to Arakko in an X-Men: Age of Revelation roundup
Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse! I mean X! I mean X-Man! … Ah, screw it. Amazing X-Men #1 is written by Jed MacKay, drawn by Mahmud Asrar, colored by Matt Wilson and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Binary #1 is written by Stephanie Phillips, drawn by Giada Belviso, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and lettered by…
11 things ComicsXF is excited to see at New York Comic Con
We’re just days away from this year’s New York Comic Con at the Javits Center. And while we’ll be providing our normal podcast interviews and website wrap-up coverage, we wanted to share our thoughts beforehand of some stuff we’re excited to see (or not see since we won’t be there all weekend). The Fantastic Four:…
Battle Of The Atom: Something To Say
Sometimes, X-Men comics have something to say. No one said they should say it, but darn it, the X-Men are going to say something. Ranked This Episode:
A walk in the ZARK: The evolution of sound effects for Cyclops’ optic blasts (Part I?)
A while back, we here at ComicsXF were pondering the origin and frequency of ZARK, give or take a few Z’s, as a, or perhaps the, sound effect for Cyclops’ optic beams. Surely, ZARK must be up there in terms of mighty Marvel sound effects, along with THWIP, SNIKT and BAMF, right? In fact, what’s…
Battle Of The Atom: Turning Japanese
The editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel’s history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the…
The good, the bad and the Hitler of Marvel/DC’s Deadpool/Batman #1
Wade Wilson has been hired for a job in Gotham City, but will the world’s greatest detective help him or destroy him? Deadpool/Batman #1 features a main story written by Zeb Wells, drawn by Greg Capullo, inked by Tim Townsend, colored by Alex Sinclair and lettered by Clayton Cowles. AND … Tony Thornley: Hello, everyone,…
Ransom and Wolverine go to Comic-Con in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #21
The Wolverine/Ransom two-fisted team-up takes a weird turn, as our badass heroes chase a villain to, of all places, a comic book convention in Argentina. How do they find and eliminate their target in a sea of masked cosplayers? And what if some of the cosplayers are the actual villains they are portraying? Uncanny X-Men…
Battle Of The Atom: I Know You Planned It
We’re talking about X-stories from the mid-80s and early 90s that incorporate the incomprehensible idea that anything bad could ever happen to the Twin Towers. Ranked This Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: Unbreakable
I wonder what M. Night Shyamalan thought about the X-Men character Marrow. I have to assume he knows about her. Perhaps he has thoughts. Ranked This Episode:
Wolverine and Ransom go a-brawlin’ in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #20
The two baddest brawlers of the Louisiana X-Men buddy up to go undercover in faraway Argentina to chase and destroy a legendary X-villain! Behold two-fisted fury as only Wolverine and Ransom can bring it in Uncanny X-Men #20, written by Gail Simone, drawn by Luciano Vecchio, colored by Matt Wilson and lettered by Clayton Cowles….
Battle Of The Atom: Zxazx Attack
Sometimes, we wonder if we should change the podcast to be something more palatable to general audiences. But listen, if the X-Men have taught us anything, it’s to be weird little freaks, so we are going to continue to do an X-Men podcast that is increasingly about things you wouldn’t normally get in an X-Men…
Battle Of The Atom: Don’t Bow To The Mouse
Do you think I mind that Walter Disney doesn’t approve of some of these comics? That his estate isn’t entitled to the sweat of the worker’s brow? None of these comics are officially sanctioned, and who cares? Ranked This Episode: