Battle Of The Atom: Mom’s Happy Powder
There’s no villains this week, but there is Ken. We all love Ken, and by all I mean Zack and Adam. Ranked This Episode:
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Battle Of The Atom: Canada Day with Anna Peppard
We were going to release this on Canada Day, but that darn novel coronavirus got in the way. Anyway, Anna is here and we are going to talk about John Byrne a lot. Ranked This Episode
Battle Of The Atom: Care Bear Stare
It’s well known that Charles Francis Xavier is a jerk. Here’s some more. Ranked This Episode:
The ComicsXF bullpen share their favorite Krakoa memories
In which the Comics XF team gathers to remember the things big and small that made the Krakoan era of X-Men comics an entertaining, transformative and memorable one. For more Krakoan remembrances, please read Jude Jones and Adam Reck‘s writing on the matter. Sean Dillon I suppose we should start with the beginning: HoXPoX was…
Remembering Krakoa: How the last 5 years of X-Men comics changed a life, and a website
‘ It was the last week of July, 2019. House of X #1 had come out and I wasn’t convinced. I loved the artwork. I was interested in what Jonathan Hickman was setting up. My growing group of comics-obsessed friends were already proclaiming it a hit. But I was still spending that week being the…
Battle Of The Atom: The Krakoan Gardener with Jordan D White
Outgoing X-Line editor and one of the friendliest friends of the pod Jordan D White talks about the First Krakoan Era and also a bunch of stuff that we wanted to talk about that is going to make the segment who wants us to ask any questions about “continuity” or “original plans” or “dropped plot…
Battle of the Atom: Vewy Anime
Ah, Albert & Elsie-Dee. The kind of characters only people terminally cursed with X-Men brain rot could love. We love them so much. Ranked This Episode
Krakoa waves goodbye, and all that’s left are Ashes in X-Men #35/Uncanny #700
All good things must come to an end, and as good of a thing as the Krakoan era has been for mutantkind, its time has come at last. The tragedy and triumph of FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X, the madness and mystery of RISE OF THE POWERS OF X, they have all come to…
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:
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