In 1979, a young Chris Claremont saw Alien and said, “OK, but what if there was a guy with knife hands in this?” Years later he would create The Brood and introduce body horror to the X-Men. Also, this episode has exploding pie. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #162-#167 (The Brood Saga) Wolverine and the X-Men #5-#7…
Press Release New York, NY—April 13, 2018 — A change is coming to the Astonishing X-Men in the form of a new line-up – and an all-new creative team! Announced exclusively on This Week in Marvel, Marvel exclusive writer Matthew Rosenberg (Punisher, New Mutants) and superstar artist Greg Land (The Incredible Hulk) will take over…
Name: It depends Code Names: Penance, Hollow First Appearance: Generation X #1 (Nov ’94) Powers: Diamon hard, razor sharp skin Teams Affiliation: Generation X, The Loners, Avengers Academy About I’ve been doing this site for like two and a half years now. In that time, I have tried to make things like the Summer’s family tree…
Press Release New York, NY—April 9, 2018— After their scene-stealing theatrical debut in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, Wakanda’s fiercest warriors are traveling outside of their country to fight new threats and new troubles, in an all-new comic book story by award-winning science-fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor! The WAKANDA FOREVER story starts in June with Okoye,…
An overworked assassin and his high school Spider-Friend do not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other’s life for one freaky Friday. Ranked this episode: Ultimate Spider-Man #66-#67 (Jump The Shark) All-New Wolverine Annual #1 Uncanny X-Men #314 (Early Frost) Get the Xavier Files Zine Check out the…
Name: Marshal Evan Stone III Code Names: Random First Appearance: X-Factor #88 (Mar ’93) Powers: Protoplasmic Form Teams Affiliation: X-Factor, The Acolytes, The Utopians About Back when I talked about Fantomex, I talked about the “cool character”. Someone who seems hand-crafted by a committee to tick every box that a twelve-year-old boy might think is neat….
From the celebrated creative team of Ed Brisson and Pepe Larraz. Find out more this week at C2E2 during Marvel’s True Believer panel* at 12:15-1:15pm CT in room S401.
Zack & Adam dig into the future, the past, and worlds that might have been. We talk about last wills, anniversaries, and weird weddings. This is a cool episode so you should listen to it. Or don’t. I’m not your dad. Ranked this Episode: The Last Will And Testament of Charles Xavier (Uncanny X-Men vol…
Name: Wanda Maximoff Code Names: Scarlet Witch First Appearance: X-Men #4 (Mar ’64) Powers: Hex magic Teams Affiliation: The Brotherhood, The Avengers About With over 50 years of continuous universe building, Marvel Comics can take characters in pretty bonkers directions. As all progress eventually gets regressed to the mean, momentous events get recontextualized, retconned, or…
<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> This week on Battle of the Atom, Adam is back and so is our format! We talk about Princess Di joining X-Statix The X-Men mini-series that stars NPR personalities And how much we adore Goldballs Ranked this Episode: Back From The Dead (X-Statix #13-18) X-Treme…
Name: Jean Grey Code Names: Phoenix, Marvel Girl First Appearance: X-Men #1 (Sept ’63) Powers: Telepathy, Telekinesis Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Factor About Fans mock the idea of death in comics. To many, it feels irrelevant, temporary, a stopgap and not a real change. For media properties that have lasted decades and decades, there is a real…
As announced today on Twitter, X-Men Office editor Mark Paniccia is moving over to the Star Wars office. Filling in that vacancy is longtime DEADPOOL and STAR WARS editor Jordan D. White. And with that, I now turn over #XMENMONDAY to @cracksh0t (I’ll still pop in every now and then to share my mutant enthusiasm)….
Press Release New York, NY—March 19, 2018—There’s never been a cooler time to be a mutant in the Brooklyn punk scene, especially with DAZZLER and her new band taking center stage – and this June, Marvel is bringing you a new energetic epic from Eisner-nominated writer Magdalene Visaggio with art by Laura Braga (Captain Marvel,…
This week on Battle Of The Atom we travel to Interview City and discuss CABLE with writers Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler We talk about loving X-Man Finding a new take on a convoluted character Writing Cable in the age of Brolin Explaining Stryfe to an 8-year-old And the utterly fascinating debut that is COME…