Name: Alex Summers Code Names: Havok First Appearance: X-Men #54 (Mar â69) 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…
Zack and Adam talk about the source of every Wolverine story, the best idea that should never work, and the source of our great name. Ranked this episode Battle of the Atom Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem Wolverine vol 1 #1-#4 Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter! Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade…
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 isnât good or evil, ambition is just a quality in a…
Zack and Adam jump in with a classic, a retcon, and modern mixed reaction Ranked this episode Giant-Size X-Men #1 X-Men: Deadly Genesis X-Men: No More Humans OGN Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter! Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto….
Peter Milligan & Mike Allredâs X-Force #116 from 2001, their first issues on the book, spends itsâ first 18 pages introducing readers to a new team of superheroes. They were well-branded reality stars that the world loved to watch. They were nothing like the X-Force team of the last hundred-odd issues, they were the new…
Name: Barnell Bohusk Code Names: Beak, Blackwing First Appearance: New X-Men #117 (October â01) 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 arenât…
Zack and Adam kick off the show with a classic, a modern masterpiece, and something unfortunate. Ranked this episode God Loves Man Kills Wolverine & the X-Men #17 God Loves Man Kills II Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter! Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi,…
Name: Remy LeBeau Code Names: Gambit First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men Annual #14 (July â90) 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…
[player id=2311] Introducing Battle of the Atom A new podcast where Bish & Jubez writer Adam Reck and I determine the greatest (& worst) X-Story of all time You can check out our 0 Episode now where I explain the show. The first real episode will go up 8/7 but that episode is already for…
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…
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 â01) 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…
[player id=2245] Zack and Matt talk about all the newest news from SDCC Make sure you rate and review the show! Follow Legion Quest on Twitter or just Zack & Matt on Twitter! If you want to support the show check out our Patreon!
Announced last night at the âMarvel: The Next Big Thingâ panel, the creator of the New York Times best-seller Hip-Hop Family Tree Ed Piskor will be the heading a new X-Men mini series called X-Men Grand Design. It will be a 6 issue series of oversized, 40-page comics to be released over the next 3 years. It…
Name: Neena Thurman Code Names: Domino First Appearance: New Mutants #98 (Feb â91) Though it is a bit more complicated than that Powers: Luck Teams Affiliation: X-Force, X-Men, Six Pack, Merc$ for Money About There is a beauty in coincidence. Domino Harvey was the daughter of Academy Award winning actor Laurence Harvey and, if she wanted, she…
Press Release New York, NYâJuly 18, 2017âThis fall, katanas and claws will clash when two of Marvelâs deadliest heroes come together, in a clash you can only imagine! Superstar writer Declan Shalvey (Deadpool, Moon Knight) and fan-favorite artist Mike Henderson (Secret Wars: Battleworld) team up to bring you a regenerative, cranky old X-Man and a…