Battle Of The Atom: Daddy’s Home.
In which we understand how much Cable’s favorite Everclear song is “Father of Mine” Ranked This Episode:
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Jubilee to the rescue in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #19, guest-starring Deadpool
Amid the changing relations between mutants and the city of New Orleans, two of the best guns for hire come to town with a mission, and their target for that mission is an X-man. Deadpool and Outlaw guest-star in this dangerous tale of mayhem vs. mutant. Uncanny X-Men #19 is written by Gail Simone, drawn…
Battle Of The Atom: Clown Agnostic
Clowns are so cool, I wish they were real… Ranked This Episode:
CXF’s Sinister Six reviews Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps
After the dismal Captain America: Brave New World and the surprisingly endearing Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios has released one of its trickiest flicks yet based on the historically difficult-to-adapt Fantastic Four. Fantastic Four: First Steps stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn; and is written by Joshua Friedman, Eric Pearson, Jeff Kaplan and…
SHARK WATCH: It’s insane how often superheroes fight sharks. Here are 27 examples.
It goes without saying, but superheroes need to fight stuff, and more often than not when they’re in ocean waters, they encounter sharks. Now, according to the 20th anniversary edition of the Worst Case Scenario Handbook, there are a few things you can do to fend off a shark attack, but most of them boil…
SHARK WATCH: Your guide to Marvel’s many races of weird little shark guys
People really like sharks. I get it, they’re graceful, powerful, nonstop death machines with mouths filled with endless quantities of razor-sharp teeth. What’s not to love? The creators behind decades of Marvel comics are no exception. They love their sharks too, which means there are a healthy number of shark species, shark races and shark-related…
Mutants are the holiday in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #18
For the first time in New Orleans history, the city has declared a Mutant Appreciation Day festival and street fair, with all the music, food and fun the city is famous for. If the Hellfire Gala is filet mignon, this is corn dogs and lemonade. But are all mutants OK with this attempt at bridging…
SHARK WATCH: These are the 10 best shark characters in comics
Happy Shark Watch to those who celebrate! Not only is it that time of year when a certain television channel/streaming service shows a lot of footage of nervous scuba divers, but it’s also the 50th anniversary of Jaws, so — dun dun, dun dun — go get that bigger boat you needed because the ComicsXF…
Battle Of The Atom: Ranknarök Returns
400 episodes and nearly 8 years later, Zack and Adam return to some of their earliest episodes, Days of Future Past style, to right the wrongs that led them to this point. They also answer some listener questions. Re-ranked this episode:
9 ComicsXF writers talk about James Gunn’s Superman, and whether Krypto is a good boy
Three hundred years ago, metahumans emerged on Earth, ushering in a new age of gods and monsters. Three years ago, a hero named Superman emerged as the most powerful metahuman to date. Three minutes ago, Superman lost for the first time. With that opening crawl, a new era of DC films begins with Superman, starring…
Battle of the Atom: Krakoa Cops
The wild thing about looking back on comics is how much they are colored by what was happening when you were originally reading them. In retrospect, perhaps things are different. Anyway the optics on pitching a book as religious police was still an amazing unforced error. Ranked This Episode: Legion of X #1-5 Wolverine: Dangerous…
Uncanny X-Men #17 has us giving Otter Party a 5-star Letterboxd review
When a brilliant but exploitative Hollywood director makes a surprise hit horror film featuring a serial-killing mutant girl, there are protests at theaters around the country and a rise in anti-mutant violence in those same communities. But is it “just a movie,” or is something much more insidious going on? Will a malignant force make…
Battle Of The Atom: The Mane
Sabretooth has a costume with a lion’s mane sewn into it. Wrestler Tyler Mane played Sabretooth in a movie. Are these facts related to this episode? Ranked This Episode:
12 new X-Men series we want to see announced after the Hellfire Vigil
This week sees the release of X-Men: The Hellfire Vigil, an all-hands-on-deck jam that sees the various factions of the mutant diaspora reunite to remember the island they all used to live on. Given the number of From the Ashes titles we’ve seen ended in the runup to the Vigil (NYX, X-Force, X-Factor) and the…
X-Men: The Hellfire Vigil is one weird wake
One year ago, at the final Hellfire Gala, the dream of a unified mutant nation was forever shattered by a cowardly sneak attack by anti-mutant forces. To mark the moment and to proclaim loudly and strongly to all concerned that mutantkind still stands, the time has come for X-Men of all stripes to come together…