Battle Of The Atom: Better Recognize
Do the children even remember Wizard Magazine these days? I mean, to be fair, Zack only knows of it, but was never of it. Luckily, the children all remember Skin; isn’t that right children? Ranked This Episode:
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50 years of Magik: ComicsXF talks about what makes Illyana Rasputina great
Fifty years ago this May, Illyana Nikolaievna Rasputina made her first appearance in Marvel Comics’ Giant Size X-Men #1. Created by writer Len Wein and artist David Cockrum, Illyana is a young Russian female mutant with the power to create stepping discs she can use to teleport people and objects. She also has been the…
On Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1, or: That Ain’t Jean Grey
Last week, our team got together to talk about Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Adam Kubert’s X-Men anniversary special Giant-Size X-Men (Vol. 3) #1, wherein Avengers superfan and now forced-into-mutantdom-by-the-MCU Kamala Khan started a time-traveling journey through the X-Men’s greatest hits as she was chased by the empty shell of Legion’s leftover multiple personalities. While…
Battle Of The Atom: The Fightingist Smashouts
Comic fans oft wonder “who would win”. Those folks need to touch grass. Ranked This Episode:
The 10 best X-Men stories involving the Shi’ar according to Battle of the Atom
Let’s face it: The Shi’ar are pretty stupid. You heard me, you frickin’ birdos! I’m talking about you, you dumb Silverhawks-lookin’ space pigeons. You can’t decide who belongs on the throne, you can’t even get a bunch of your own people to defend yourselves so you have to manufacture a bootleg Legion of Super-Heroes. Heck…
Battle Of The Atom: Everyone Looks The Same
I’ll be real with you, sometimes there’s a request that really throws us for a loop. This is one of them. Ranked This Episode:
The 10 best X-Men time travel stories according to the Battle of the Atom podcast
This week sees the release of a new Giant-Size X-Men #1, which will set Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, on a time-travel adventure through key points in X-Men history, starting with the dawn of the All-New, All-Different X-Men of 1975. Time travel is a Tuesday for some X-Men. And so we consulted Battle of the Atom’s…
Ms. Marvel Shermans her way through X-Men history in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (not that one)
Ever since she discovered she was a mutant, Kamala Khan has been balancing her previous life as Ms. Marvel with her role as a leader in the new community, but her conflicted identity has come at a deep personal cost. Now, pulled into the distant past by an unhinged villain with deep ties to mutant…
The Outliers go to Hot Topic in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #15
With one young mutant taken hostage in the underworld of the Dark Artery, it’s left to the remaining Outliers to lead the Louisiana X-Men to try to steal them back, but the ultimate terror blocks the way. The Voice of Darkness seeks a new home, and violence and fear will follow whoever takes that mantle….
Battle Of The Atom: We Live In A (Mutant) (Space) Society
I’m not mad, just disappointed at the (space) society you chose to build. I thought we raised you better than this (in space)? Ranked This Episode:
10 things we loved in Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Episodes 10-12
It took us a bit to come to terms with our grief over the end of Andor, but here, at last, are 10 things we loved in Season 2 Episodes 10-12. Suiting Up The beginning of this three-episode arc and its conclusion both have parallel constructions, in that the arc opens with Luthen preparing to…
Battle Of The Atom: We Live In A (Mutant) Society
I’m not mad, just disappointed at the society you chose to build. I thought we raised you better than this? Ranked This Episode:
Here there be dragons, Man-Things and rock golems in Uncanny X-Men #14
The Louisiana X-Men thought Haven House was a safe place, a place to call home. But is it more than that? What is the history of the hidden landscape under the Louisiana swampland, and what does it want with the young Outliers? Long-held secrets revealed, and a part of X-history never before shown threatens to…
Battle Of The Atom: Michigan J Frog Situation
This episode is about Iron Man, but more than that, it’s about the turn of the century Evangelical crossover literary sensation Left Behind. Ranked This Episode:
Lovingly rendered butts for all: Our favorite pinups from the Marvel Swimsuit Specials
Superheroes are meant to be the best of us. As a result, they’re also the sexiest of us. So it stands to reason we’d want to see what they look like in swimwear — though it could be argued many of them wear bathing suits as standard dress. For five years in the 1990s, Marvel…