Battle Of The Atom: The Year Of Maggott with Alex Paknadel
X-Men Unlimited writer Alex Paknadel helps celebrate the year of Maggott as he and Zack talk about the just wrapped arc!
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Which Knight Will Fall In Our Exclusive Preview Of Knights Of X #3?
In Tini Howard and Bob Quinn’s Knights Of X we have ten mutants fighting for an Otherworld that hates and fears them. That’s a big cast but friend, it’s about to get smaller as one of the knights will die. Between the Furies (they kill superheroes) in the Crooked Market and the vampires masquerading in…
Public Domain #1 and the Malevolence of the Modern Mythology
Syd Dallas is responsible for pop culture’s greatest hero: The Domain. But his sons, Miles and David, have a complicated relationship with both the creation and their creator. Can they convince their dad to fight for their family’s legacy? Find out in Public Domain #1, written, drawn, catered and key gripped by Chip Zdarsky via…
Battle Of The Atom: Legion’s Secret Wars
Hey you tall haired freaks, we’re here to talk about David Haller, the boy known as Legion. He’s been in some, uhhhh, odd stories over the years. These are 3 of them. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Legacy #13-14 (Hope & Glory) Legion Age Of X
Battle Of The Atom: Circus Crimes
Listen folks, this one has everything you want from those BotA Boyz: religion, art, making fun of Daddy Chris, circus crimes and incest. It’s always fun to talk about Nightcrawler. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #83-85 (The Soul Sword Trilogy) Nightcrawler vol 3 #7-12 (The Winding Way) Nightcrawler vol 4 #1-4
Battle Of The Atom: Daddyboros
Shatterstar begat Longshot who begat Shatterstar who begat Longshot who begat Shatterstar who begat Longshot who begat Shatterstar who begat Longshot who begat Shatterstar and oh shoot it’s a DADDYBOROS! Ranked This Episode: X-Factor #259 (Daddyboros) Longshot Shattershot
A Perilous Quest In Our Exclusive Preview Of Knights Of X #2
Look, I’m going to be honest here, I had dreams, big dreams, of filling this section with jokes related to culture’s more important depiction of a grail quest. Unfortunately for me, but deeply fortunate for you, it’s been a decade since I last watched Monty Python And The Holy Grail. It’s Tini Howard, Bob Quinn…
Battle Of The Atom: Chunks Of Wolverine
We celebrate our 250th episode in a low key style with some exciting stories about X-23, plus a Q&A segment. Always a fun time.Ranked This Episode: X-23 Vol 1 (Innocence Lost) X-23 Vol 3 #10-12 (Touching Darkness) X-23 Vol 4 #1-5 (Two Birthdays and Three Funerals)
Peter Parker Makes A Deal With The Devil In Our Exclusive Preview Of Amazing Spider-Man #2
It’s so important that we remember that a “deal with the devil” is a common phrase about compromising your values and not a literal deal with a literal devil. That would be a morally abhorrent thing for Spider-Man to do. Some would say an unforgivable act. Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr. deliver another issue…
Battle Of The Atom: Zaladane, She Who Speaks
We talk about some early Claremont stories with weird characters like Zaladane. Y’all know and love Zaladane right? We’re not just riding the coattails of another podcast by referencing Zaladane in this one right?Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #104 (The Gentleman’s Name Is Magneto) Uncanny X-Men #114-116 (To Save the Savage Land) Marvel’s Super-Heroes #10-11…
Who Will Rule Limbo In Our Exclusive Preview Of New Mutants #25
Finally. We have been waiting for New Mutants #25 for far too long and now it is here from writer Vita Ayala and artists Rod Reis, Jan Duursema and Ruth Redmond. You know it has that Leinil Francis Yu cover. Maddy Pryor is back and maybe she has some thoughts about how Magik is running…
Donny Cates Realizes the World Doesn’t Revolve Around Him in Crossover #13
It’s fair to say that back in November 2020, I was harsh to Crossover #1. It was the day after the U.S. presidential election, and the last thing I needed was a book jerking off to the idea that superheroes would save us and that comics fans were the real oppressed people. I was bringing…
Let The Quiet Council Be Judged In Our Exclusive Reveal Of Immortal X-Men #6 As A.X.E.: Judgement Day Continues
The mutants have been judged and found excessively deviant. This causes no shortage of trouble for a Quiet Council who oft refuses to live up to their name. How will Krakoa’s unelected leaders deal with the Avengers and the Eternals? Kieron Gillen and Michele Bandini intend to show us in Immortal X-Men #6. Our friends…
Battle Of The Atom: Wassup!
The dream of the 90s is still alive and well in this podcast. We chat about “good 90s X-Men that we haven’t already talked about” Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #287-290 X-Men #42-44 (Fall of Avalon) X-Men #70 (Homecoming)
The Multiverse According to ComicsXF!
With the looming release of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness serving as the latest entry in pop culture’s recent obsession with multiverses and realities alternate, parallel and multiple, we asked our ComicsXF writers to share their thoughts about their favorite alternate reality from across the wide multiverse of stories! Earth-1610: The Ultimate Universe…