Battle Of The Atom: Sheath Our Blades
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)
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Battle Of The Atom: That’s A Baby
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
Inhumans Vs X-Men In Our Exclusive Preview Of Ms Marvel & Wolverine #1
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…
Battle Of The Atom: I Just Eat His Salsa
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)…
The Marvel Universe Cranks Its Collective Hog In Our Exclusive Preview Of Ghost Rider #5
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…
Battle Of The Atom: SSRI Hot Chick
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
Meet The Sorcerer Supreme’s Hot Mom In Our Exclusive Preview Of Strange #4
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 Unreality Of Purity Culture In Jessica Campbell’s Rave
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….
Battle Of The Atom: Across The Magnetosphere
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
Mourn The Death Of Gambit In Our Exclusive Preview Of Knights Of X #4
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…
Battle Of The Atom: Worried For Your Safety
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…
Follow The White Rabbit In Our Exclusive Preview Of New Mutants #27
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…
Battle Of The Atom: A Place Called Awoogah
We talk about definitely an X-Men character no matter what you say, Deadpool on this exciting episode where there is nothing but Deadpool content. Ranked This Episode: Deadpool vol 5 #15-19 (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) Deadpool vol 4 #15-18 (Want You To Want Me) Deadpool vol 2
Hell Is Empty, The Devils Are Here In Our Preview Of Sabretooth #5
Victor LaValle & Leonard Kirk’s Sabretooth is among the best comics coming out these days. It’s a thrilling critique of the “justice system”, an exploration of evil and a true terror. Sabretooth has been in The Pit since the early days of Krakoa, what happens now that he’s out? If you aren’t reading this book,…
Battle Of The Atom: The Gallagher Family Tree
We ask “What If those BotA boys talked about the best comic strip cat for an absurd chunk of the episode?” And we salute a fallen friend. Ranked This Episode: What If? Wolverine: Enemy Of The State What If? Deadly Genesis What If? Astonishing X-Men