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…
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)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)
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…
“Literally the last thing I did before I left Marvel was the first Marvel’s Voices. It was a huge fight,” Chris Robinson says of the anthology series focused on marginalized creators and characters. The publisher has since put out six follow-up anthologies celebrating first “diverse” intellectual property and, second, diverse creators. “While you guys are…
I just think Storm. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #151-152 (The Hellfire Gambit) Uncanny X-Men #169-170 (Morlocks) Marauders #20 (Windriders)
Ryan North had a long, modern classic run on the comic The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. He’s now returned to write a podcast about the character. It’s good. We talked to him about it. Zachary Jenkins: Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show is a new, six part audio mini-series from Marvel and Sirius XM. This is…
We had so much fun talking about the Starjammers last week, we decided to keep the party going by talking about our favorites like Cr+reee and Tolon Hawk. These are characters X-Men fans are deeply invested in right? Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #154-157 (Sidrian Hunters & Starjammers) Spotlight On Starjammers Starjammers vol 2
I’m working and doing this from my phone so no fancy SEO text. Victor LaValle and Leonard Kirk are doing the best book at Marvel. It’s Sabretooth #3. Here’s a preview.
We spend the whole episode talking about Cyclops. You must understand, we love our son so much. He has so many daddy issues. Heck, I bet you could fill up a whole episode with them.Ranked This Episode: Cyclops vol 1 Avengers Vs X-Men: Consequences Cyclops vol 3 #1-5