The editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel’s history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the…
We’re talking about X-stories from the mid-80s and early 90s that incorporate the incomprehensible idea that anything bad could ever happen to the Twin Towers. Ranked This Episode:
I wonder what M. Night Shyamalan thought about the X-Men character Marrow. I have to assume he knows about her. Perhaps he has thoughts. Ranked This Episode:
Sometimes, we wonder if we should change the podcast to be something more palatable to general audiences. But listen, if the X-Men have taught us anything, it’s to be weird little freaks, so we are going to continue to do an X-Men podcast that is increasingly about things you wouldn’t normally get in an X-Men…
Do you think I mind that Walter Disney doesn’t approve of some of these comics? That his estate isn’t entitled to the sweat of the worker’s brow? None of these comics are officially sanctioned, and who cares? Ranked This Episode:
In which we understand how much Cable’s favorite Everclear song is “Father of Mine” Ranked This Episode:
Clowns are so cool, I wish they were real… Ranked This Episode:
400 episodes and nearly 8 years later, Zack and Adam return to some of their earliest episodes, Days of Future Past style, to right the wrongs that led them to this point. They also answer some listener questions. Re-ranked this episode:
The wild thing about looking back on comics is how much they are colored by what was happening when you were originally reading them. In retrospect, perhaps things are different. Anyway the optics on pitching a book as religious police was still an amazing unforced error. Ranked This Episode: Legion of X #1-5 Wolverine: Dangerous…
Sabretooth has a costume with a lion’s mane sewn into it. Wrestler Tyler Mane played Sabretooth in a movie. Are these facts related to this episode? Ranked This Episode:
Chris Hassan from AiPT’s X-Men Monday joins us for a journey through the last 300 installments of his column and what folks were talking about for all that time. This episode also doubles as a weird history lesson on/therapy session what it was like to be a figure of minor notoriety in X-Men fandom for…
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:
Comic fans oft wonder “who would win”. Those folks need to touch grass. Ranked This Episode:
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:
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: