Battle Of The Atom: He’s Smart But He’s Dumb
Who loves Havok? Us I guess. This one is all about that himbo. Astonishing X-Men 13-17 (Until Our Hearts Stop) Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown X-Men 54-59 (1st Havok, 2nd Sentinels)
Read More
Indie Triple Play: Ice Cream Man, Transformers/My Little Pony, Bad Mother
What happens when a mother has taken all she can and decides to go Liam Neeson on everyone? What happens when ponies and Autobots roll out together? What happens when comics’ sickest horror anthology takes on beloved children’s classics? Find out in this week’s Triple Play, as Will Nevin reviews Ice Cream Man #20, Zachary…
Question The Morality Of Our Criminal Justice System As Zacky Reads Sonic The Hedgehog Vol 2: The Fate Of Dr. Eggman
Superman stands for three things: truth, justice and the American way. In many respects, the Man of Steel and his values are in direct conversation with every action comic that has come since his first one. Villains and anti-heroes are identified in comparison to Superman’s three guiding principles. He is the Jungian archetype of all…
The 100% Scientific Official Ranking Of Every Dawn Of X Book (Which By Clicking, You Accept That You Can Not Argue About This)
I love ranking things. Everyone loves ranking things. We’ve built a social media empire around the idea of ranking things. So lets rank all the X-Men titles in the Dawn Of X era, shall we? This is not just one opinion, this is the definitive opinion. We polled out writing staff and got twenty members…
Battle Of The Atom: Let’s Roll For Initiative Babay
I had good episode notes but I accidentally deleted them. This one has Thor in it. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants 77-80 and 82-85 (Back to Asgard) The Mighty Thor 15-19 (Asgard/Shi’ar War) Exiled (New Mutants/JiM)
The First Avenger and the Savage Avengers Take Center Stage This Week in the Empyre War Report!
Hello friends and readers, Empyre sinks in deep as we cover the highs and lows of this week’s crop of tie-ins. Zack Jenkins has some heavy thoughts about Empyre: Captain America #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Ariel Olivetti, Rachelle Rosenberg, and VC’s Ariana Maher and Joe Caramagna. Then we join the extreme team of Conan…
Battle Of The Atom: The Resurrection Protocols with Leah Williams
Leah Williams joins the boys to talk about X-Factor as we all forget how to do podcasts with good audio quality.
Indie Triple Play: Chu, Ranger Slayer and Angel & Spike
Here comes the BOOM! … Studios. This week in our indie review roundup, Dan Grote cracks open Image’s Chu #1, Zachary Jenkins looks at Power Rangers: Ranger Slayer #1 and Robert Secundus continues his exploration of the BOOM!-fyverse (TM) with Angel & Spike #12. Chu #1 Writer/Letterer: John Layman, Artist: Dan Boultwood, Publisher: Image Tony…
Spindash Into Adventure As Zacky Reads Sonic The Hedgehog Vol 1: Fallout
It is 1993, I am 2 years old, my mother is on bedrest with her only solace being the Sega Genesis my father should not have spent money on. We were poor, not that I understood what “poor” was, and honestly, not that I remember any of this. I remember the Genesis, I’ve seen home…
In A Tale As Old As Time, Alex Ross Continues To Be Good At Covers
Listen, there’s not much to add here. Alex Ross is very good at art. He has been that way for like 30 years and hasn’t slowed down at all. These covers in October are called Timeless and they sure are. Check out the full press release below. Press Release New York, NY— July 20, 2020…
Battle Of The Atom: That’s My Good Sword
We’re doing hell stuff now. X-Infernus X-Men: Second Coming: Revelations: Hellbound New Mutants #15-22 (Fall & Rise Of The New Mutants)
Green Slime, Black Goo, and…More Green Slime Actually. It’s Marvel Files with Spider-Woman #2, Venom #26, and Fantastic Four #21
Hello friends and readers, it’s time for a little bit of Marvel Minutiae this week. Our esteemed boss Zack Jenkins is getting into Venom #26 and the start of Venom Beyond, Andrea Ayres ponders over Spider-Woman #2, and Tony Thornley starts off Empyre tie-ins with Fantastic Four #21. Venom #26 I think it’s fair to…
Larry Hama Returns To His Most Underrated Creations As Albert & Elsie-Dee Star In 2020 iWolverine #1
Claws come out as Larry Hama returns to writing Albert, the robot Wolverine, in a rip roaring adventure on Madripoor that officially ties into Iron Man 2020 but really couldn’t care less. Roland Boschi and Andres Mossa draw the first part of this duo of issues. Vishal Gullapalli: Iron Man 2020’s in full swing, and…
How Marvel’s Pandemic Publishing Plan Disproportionately Punished Minority Writers
On March 23, Diamond Comic Distributors halted shipment to comic shops as a response to the mass shutdown stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the circumstances, this was unavoidable. However, much has been written about the systemic problems within the comics industry that led to the monopoly Diamond held. This shutdown, and the resulting retooling…
Battle Of The Atom: Fairy Tales
We talk about fairy tales this episode. I don’t know what else to say. Who reads this stuff besides the ranking thing? Couldn’t be me. Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #153 (Kitty’s Fairy Tale) Uncanny X-Men Annual #8 X-Men vol 1 #30