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.

Battle of the Atom: Episode 5 – Did You Do All That From Memory?

Zack and Adam talk about the Silver Age, how cool face tattoos are, and that good, good, Barry Windsor Smith art. Check out Max’s series Marvel TL;DR on YouTube. Ranked this episode X-Men #12-#13 (The 1st Juggernaut Story) Uncanny X-Force (The Dark Angel Saga) Uncanny X-Men #205 (Wounded Wolf) New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam…

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Entry 086 – Nimrod

Name: Nimrod Code Names: Nathan Hunter First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #191 (Mar  ‘85) Powers: Body transformation. time travel, teleportation, lasers Teams Affiliation: N/A About Evolution is key to the X-Men. Not just an evolution of characters and their powers, but an evolution of ideas. Since X-Men will never really end, at least not in the foreseeable future, nor…

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Entry 085 – Havok

Name: Alex Summers Code Names: Havok First Appearance: X-Men #54 (Mar  ‘69) Powers: Plasma Beams Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Factor, The Brotherhood, The Six, The Starjammers, The Avengers About Siblings have a relationship that few others do. There is the unique challenge of living up to an older brother who is so accomplished. Younger siblings can feel left in the…

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Entry 084 – Emma Frost

Name: Emma Frost Code Names: The White Queen First Appearance: X-Men #129 (Jan ’80) Powers: Telepathy, Organic Diamond Form Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Hellfire Club, Generation X About Ambition is a powerful force. The desire to control your own destiny and get what you want drives many lives. Ambition isn’t good or evil, ambition is just a quality in a…

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Entry 083 – Beak

Name: Barnell Bohusk Code Names: Beak, Blackwing First Appearance: New X-Men #117 (October ’01) Powers: All the bad parts of being a bird Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Exiles, New Warriors, Teen Brigade About I like to think we all know someone who means well, who is the sweetest guy, but life dealt them a bum hand. They aren’t…

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Entry 082 – Gambit

Name: Remy LeBeau Code Names: Gambit First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men Annual #14 (July ’90) Powers: Can charge objects with kinetic energy, southern charm Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Marauders, X-Factor, Horsemen About When I was 10 Sonic Adventure 2 Battle came out. That game introduced a dark brooding version of Sonic the Hedgehog creatively named Shadow the Hedgehog. He…

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The Other Weapons

The Weapon Plus program gave us some of the greatest creations in the Marvel universe including Captain America, Wolverine, the Stepford Cuckoos, Fantomex, Allgod, and that Squirrel version of Wolverine. Writer (and I stress writer, not artist) Luz Bianca imagined what some of the less successful Weapons might have looked like…

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Entry 081 – The Stepford Cuckoos

Name: Sophie, Phoebe, Mindee, Celeste, and Esme Cuckoo Code Names: Stepford Cuckoos, Five-In-One, Four-In-One, Three-In-One, Thousand-In-One, Weapon IVX First Appearance: New X-Men #118 (Nov ‘01) Powers: Telepathy, Diamond form Teams Affiliation: X-Men About Identical twins are a bizarre concept for me. They are copies of yourself, and not just physically. The major influencing factors in life like…

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