Jordan Blum isn’t your average Hollywood big shot. For one, he’s worked on funny and subversive shows like Community, American Dad and the upcoming MODOK series for Hulu. For two, he’s a big old X-Men nerd. And for three, he’s also co-writing MODOK: Head Games. Jordan sat down for a chat with us about the…
It’s the first of our Double Dazzler celebration! This week it’s old school with Disco stories featuring Allison Blaire.Ranked this episode: Dazzler #9-11 (Herald of Galactus) Dazzler #38 (Vs The X-Men) Dazzler: The Movie
It sucks to be Quentin Quire. He has become the punching bag for the X-Force creative team of Benjamin Percy and Joshua Cassara who have killed him in nearly every mission the mutant CIA has undertaken. Sure they gave him a girlfriend, and that’s pretty near, but he also has become bored of death. In…
The Runaways try to understand high school. It goes better for some than others. Rainbow Rowell, Andrés Genolet, Dee Cunniffe, and Joe Caramagna bring us Runaways #33. They say you can never go home again and that may be true for the Runaways’ Molly Hayes. The one time Princess Powerful loved being with her friends…
Even when I was a kid, something about Transformers: Beast Wars felt different. Maybe it was the early and ugly CGI, but I like to think that even back then, I noticed the writing. Now, I’m not going to get up here and make some claim about it being an underappreciated masterpiece, but as a…
X-Force Vs Chick-Fil-A: Everyone loves Cable. He’s a terrific athlete! But, oh no, many people are fighting him this week. He’s even fighting some of the children he takes care of. We should do something about that, like rank it. Ranked This Episode: Cable And X-Force #1-5 (Wanted) Deadpool Vs X-Force X-Force #49-50 (Cable Vs…
The Runaways have been through a lot. While many assumed them lost during the great comics pause of 2020, the book made a surprise comeback, pick up right where they left off. Perhaps a crossover with the hottest property this side of Venom will help? Writer Rainbow Rowell and artist Andrés Genolet sure hope so….
The newest player on the comics scene is Bad Idea. They are trying something different. It involves buttons, exclusives, physical artifacts, and most of all, capital. It’s a group throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks when you let talented creators do their thing. We have their April 2021 solicitations, along with big…
We love democracy and apparently so do the X-Men. Marvel is giving fans a chance to vote on the final member in the first ever X-Men Election. During the epic X Of Swords, fans realized that, since the start of the Krakoan era there has been no official X-Men on the orders of Charles Xavier….
In X-Men #16, absolute Legion Of Superheroes fanboy and passionate graphic designer Jonathan Hickman announced the election of the X-Men. Similar to a long running tradition in The Legion Of Superheroes, there will be a democratic process to chose the new team of X-Men. This resonates with the themes of nation building that Hickman and…
In October Brett Booth was announced as artist for X-Men #17. Booth has a documented history of encouraging harassment of women in comics criticism. You can read Janelle Asselin’s first person account of the situation here, including the threats of sexual violence. These threats were not delivered directly by Booth, but he used his platform…
Battle Of The Atom: Poor Sapna — Things get Magikal as we explore three stories featuring Magik. Also, there’s a story where a small child becomes a sword, and that’s weird. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #160 (Chutes and Ladders) Uncanny X-Men #231 (Colossus Pretends To Be A Ghost) Extraordinary X-Men #13-16 (Kingdoms Fall)
Something feels better today. Not perfect, but marginally better. To celebrate we wanted to share ten things from the Marvel solicits for April 2021 that we are looking forward to! The Marvels, Finally While Astro City might be on hiatus, we can at least get Astro City but with Marvel characters. Kurt Busiek has made…
When the world’s biggest influencer posts something irredeemably horrific online, the world changes in an instant. Now it’s up to his social media manager, Anne Stewart, to fan the flames of outrage and create a sensationalist campaign that rewrites the rules of “banned content.” Thus begins a carnival of lust, revulsion, desire and disgust —…
New Mutants and Children Of The Atom writer Vita Ayala joins us again to talk about these teen and making good comics. This week’s episode art was by Jen Overstreet with colors by Luke Herr and he is a good teen boy.