Zachary Jenkins

Zachary Jenkins co-hosts the podcast Battle of the Atom and is the former editor-in-chief of ComicsXF. Shocking everyone, he has a full and vibrant life outside all this.

Entry 116 – Kid Apocalypse

Name: Evan Sabahnur Code Names: Kid Apocalypse, Genesis First Appearance: Uncanny X-Force #7 (Jun ’11) Powers: Apocalypse Ones Teams Affiliation: X-Men About Philosopher John Locke once said, “If we will attentively consider new born children, we shall have little reason to think that they bring many ideas into the world with them.” His thought was that…

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Entry 115 – Penance

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…

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The Black Panther’s Dora Milaje Meet The X-Men in WAKANDA FOREVER!

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,…

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Entry 114 – Random

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….

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Entry 113 – Scarlet Witch

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…

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