This is an episode about Apocalypse. He is also only really an active participant in one of these stories. We do like him though, he’s just not actually been good until 2019.Ranked This Episode: Ages Of Apocalypse Extraordinary X-Men: Apocalypse Wars X-Men: Black – Apocalypse
The Hellions are a disastrous team with an evil leader and a habit of making every situation they run into worse. But you don’t understand, I love them. They are a mess and have left chaos in their wake without any real repercussions. Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of their own actions…
Finally, this issue answers the important question: What happened to Chip Zdarsky when the superheroes crossed over into our world? Zdarsky, artist Phil Hester and inker Ande Parks kick Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw off their own book to get weird with it, alongside colorist Dee Cunniffe and letterer John J. Hill, in Imageās Crossover…
In 2001, I went to the theater to see the big release of the summer. It opened, like many animated tales do, on a narrator expositing about a princess locked in a tower, waiting to be freed by the true loveās kiss of a valiant knight. Our narrator scoffs, āLike thatās ever gonna happen. What…
In their first series of Shang-Chi, Gene Luen Yang and Dike Ruan reexamined the character, ahead of his feature film debut. It was no small task. Shang-Chi was created as a spin-off of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, a character that was considered offensively racist back in the 1930s. But Yang was largely successful in recontextualizing…
There are a lot of Guthrie children and today? We are going to talk about the lesser Guthries. So get ready for a wild range of stories from all-time greats to terrible, trash books. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #7 (The Crucible) Uncanny X-Men Annual ’95 Uncanny X-Men #437-441 (She Lies With Angels)
This Event becomes Event(s) in Heroes Reborn #7; the āfinaleā issue before the eponymous Heroes Return. Mephisto Save Us All. Written by Jason Aaron. Drawn by Aaron Kuder & Ed McGuinness. Inked by Mark Morales. Colored by Dean White & Matthew Wilson. Lettered by Cory Petit.Ā Heroes Reborn #7 is a truly weird way to…
Our buddy Beta Ray Bill has had a rough little bit. His friend broke his favorite hammer and his girlfriend called him ugly. It’s enough to drive a man, or horse alien mutated to become the perfect weapon, to drink. Which Bill has done. Along with wrestling moves; many many wrestling moves. But he’s found…
The Toddfather introduces us to all his neat new toys in Spawnās Universe #1, an introductory one-shot debuting the new line of Spawn characters and teasing their respective titles. Written by Todd McFarlane; drawn by Jim Cheung, Brett Booth, Stephen Segovia and Marcio Takara; inked by Adelso Corona and McFarlane; colored by Fco Plascencia, Andrew…
Zack and Adam had to scramble after our great interview about Planet-Size X-Men got messed up. So we decided to answer your questions about X-Men, us and anything else. It’s a fun session that has nearly no edits. All rippers no skippers.
If you have been paying attention to Planet-Size X-Men you will know that Magneto, and the entire Sol system, have had a pretty big week. Proving some people weren’t just spouting lies and fables years ago, the mutants have taken control of Mars. They have terraformed the planet for two reasons, to give a home…
Behold the last stand of the Canuckleheads in Heroes Reborn: Weapon X & Final Flight #1. Written by Ed Brisson, drawn by Roland Bosch, colored by Chris OāHalloran, and lettered by Cory Petit Ed Brisson and company send readers out with a brutal bang in Heroes Reborn: Weapon X & Final Flight #1. Providing us…
When you are on issue number 258 of a nearly perfect series, how do you keep readers surprised? Stan Sakai has tried numerous approaches since relaunching Usagi Yojimbo at IDW. For some tales, like āHomecomingā he tried to tap into emotional beats that had long been left dormant, reminding readers of some of the earliest…
Over the weekend, a project by Reddit user /u/hbicofhbic got some attention in the comics sphere. The user is recoloring 2019s House Of X #1 with a limited pallet and flat tones to reflect the pop art style of a bygone age. It is a fascinating example of coloring through time and a reminder of…
Hello normal human podcast listeners, we are your regular human hosts. Nothing is wrong. He loves you.Ranked this episode: Secret Invasion: X-Men X-Factor/She-Hulk: Secret Invasion Captain Britain & The MI:13 #1-4