In 1998 Marvel comics decided that Cable should just be a Jack Kirby character for a while and boy oh boy was it a good time. Let Zack & Adam transport you to the weird world of the Askani’son as we more or less worship Ladronn in this episode. Ranked this Episode: Cable #48-53 (Hellfire…
In 1984, Jim Shooter introducted the formless, Beyonder. A being begging the heroes and villians of the Marvel Universe to slay their enemies to get all they desire. In 1985, Jim Shooter used The Beyonder to explore his midlife crisis and write his great American novel. In 1988, Steve Englehart turned The Beyonder into a…
Every year, artists, retailers, publishers and fans gather in Chicago’s South Loop at McCormick Place, North America’s largest convention hall, for C2E2. In normal years, the midwest’s premiere comics and entertainment expo heralds the beginning of convention season, bringing fans out of their winter hibernation and welcoming a new year of comics. In 2020, the…
We all have swords this week as we talk about stories were people get swords. Spoiler alert, it holds up. Ranked This Episode: X Of Swords Rise Of Apocalypse Wolverine vol 3 #36-40 (Origins and Endings)
We raise our swords to talk about Excalibur this week with some wacky stories that one of us likes a lot more than the other. Who is who may surprise you. Ranked this episode: Excalibur #62-65 (Warpies Return) Excalibur #6-8 (Inferno) Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn
It’s her, Kamala Khan. The Inhuman so good that some baseball cap, phase monitoring wearing media moguls have decided that she should no longer be an Inhuman (or wildly enough, a member of the Clandestine) and instead become the MCU’s first mutant. It’s him, Logan. The X-Man so good that he can actually hold a…
Enter the world of Mutant X, a run that’s buck wild and if anyone tries to tell me it is good, I will think less of them. Maddy is in this a lot and people like her. Ranked This Episode: Mutant X #4-12 & Annual 1999 (Goblin Queen) Mutant X #31-32 & Annual 2002 (Beyonder)…
I have long threatened every outlet who will listen with a pitch of me talking about how nuts the Benjamin Percy and Cory Smith run of Ghost Rider is. Folks, Ghost Rider #5 has Man-Thing, Dracula and Boom-Boom from the X-Men all cranking their hogs as they do a motorcycle race. As Ghost Rider is…
Dare to talk about drugs today with the boys of Battle Of The Atom. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Legacy #10-12 (Invasive Exotics) Ultimate X-Men #94-97 (Banshee) Spider-Man, Power Man & Storm: Smokescreen
Something is in the air at Marvel. First Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez introduce Galactus’ hot mom and now Jed McKay and Marcelo Ferreira have brought back Clea’s hot mom, Umar the Unrelenting. As all of us know, Clea is of the Dark Dimension, the accursed land where the Faltine exiles Umar and her brother…
The first time I had sex, I wasn’t worried about pregnancy or STDs or anything like that. I was worried for my immortal soul. Thirteen years of Christian school, camps, youth groups and revivals had made one thing clear: what I was doing was wrong and worthy of eternal damnation in a lake of fire….
We spend the episode talking about the master of Magnetism. Content Warning: We talk about the Holocaust Ranked This Episode: Magento: Testament Magneto War Defenders #15-16
Gambit is dead. “But” you say “mutants can’t die right?” Well, my child, that isn’t fully true in Otherworld where even a mutant can die and the resurrection protocols can only return a version of them that isn’t quite right. In the last issue of Tini Howard and Bob Quinn’s Knights Of X. Gambit lived…
It was a dark and stormy night, in that there was a massive storm outside of Zack’s window and team? We had to call the episode early so SOMEONE could get away from the window. We talk about Annuals this week. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants Annual #3 X-Force Annual #3 Uncanny X-Men #371, X-Men…
Continuing their unbeaten streak of kicking ass, Vita Ayala and Rod Reis are delivering the next in their fantastic run on New Mutants with New Mutants #27. This arc, “The Trials Of Magik” has been a fantastic and detailed look at Illyana Rasputin, the break-out start of the last decade of X-Men comics. Along with…