Marvel Comics struck gold in 2014 with the Kamala Khan, the newest Ms. Marvel. The character was fun, fresh and unique. Then G. Willow Wilson stopped writing her and in an effort to be nice, I’m going to refrain from expanding on my thoughts vis a vis Marvel fumbling the bag. But good news for…
We all remember Chris Claremont’s classic work on his most famous characters, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Misty Knight and Colleen Wing. This week we look into those characters and specifically how they intersect with some forgotten characters, the X-Men. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #122 Dazzler #22-24 (Sisterhood) Uncanny X-Men: First Class #4
We’ve done a lot of episodes about wretched war criminal Beast, but today we talk about delightful war criminal Abigail Brand and her time with SWORD! Ranked This Episode: SWORD Vol 1 X-Men Vol 4 #18-22 SWORD Vol 2 #1-5
Over the last few years, Abigail Brand has been plotting and planning for the betterment of Earth. She has done great things like stabilizing the galactic economy and killing Henry Peter Gyrich as well as terrible things like a lot of racism. Her plans are beginning to come to fruition in the form of the…
We’ve done it. We’ve become a podcast about ship wars. Get out of here you Jarbs with your Jott agenda. Emmor stans? To the side. This is all about Scemma 4 eva! Nothing will ever make me think this is not a perfect ship and if writers do not appreciate it in the same way…
Spider-Man and Nightcrawler are our blue and red wall-crawlers but did you know they have teamed up? You did? Well so did Anna Peppard who joins us this week to Bamf all over this place. Ranked This Episode: Amazing Spider-Man #161-162 Marvel Team-Up #89 Amazing Nightcrawler
It’s a great time to be a Marvel property related to a card game. Marvel Snap has taken our writers room by storm and everyone is excited for the upcoming Midnight Suns game. And every hot thing needs a tie-in comic. Enter Midnight Suns #3, a comic where Magik from the X-Men rides a flaming…
Many people like to talk about the war crimes of Beast. Today, we want to highlight some of his lesser known mass murders. Everyone’s favorite fun loving Avenger right? Ranked This Episode: Astonishing X-Men #25-30 (Ghost Box) Secret Avengers #16 All-New X-Men #25
Alex Paknadel is irritated by writers who think they are too good for âgenre fiction.â âNo one wants to be Ian McEwan, who absolutely insisted what he was doing wasnât science fiction,â he tells me over Zoom, and he would know. Paknadel holds a Ph.D. in English literature. His masterâs thesis was titled, ââThey’re Nuts…
Marvel Entertainment, LLC is a pop culture juggernaut. It dominates in key markets like cinema, streaming TV, articles about Easter Eggs in movies, and childrenâs birthday supplies (oddly enough? It does not dominate comicsâŚ). Those comics, however, have stretched pop culture past capes and into a whole world of stories that you can tell with…
There’s been a lot of X-Men podcasts before us, and there will be a lot of X-Men podcasts after us, but let me tell you what, ain’t none of them gonna beat us! Because we are the BOTA BOYZ and we are too stupid and too ugly to know when to quit! This is a…
Ben Percy and Corey Smith have been quietly making a killer Ghost Rider book over the last year. It’s a comic that basks in being a comic, one that enjoys the dumb fun of being about a demonic, on-fire, motorcycle riding skeleton. In this latest preview, Ghost Rider and his new goth FBI agent friend,…
Happy Halloween! We here at Battle Of The Atom have decided to celebrate by talking about the scariest thing of all, bad comics. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #118-119 (Dark Night Of The Bamfs) Marvel Zombies Halloween #1 Weapon X #22-27 (Weapon X Force)
Wanna see Adam grow increasingly more angry and Zack’s commitment to bits? Bits everyone loves? Could this be the end of Battle Of The Atom? Spoiler Alert: No. Ranked This Episode: Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book One: Dreamers and Demons Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book Two: Heroes and Martyrs Stan Lee…
You ever here about a journalism term called “burying the lede”? Well here at ComicsXF we refuse to do that. We put the lede right there in the headline. Disaster gals doing wresting moves and looking hot doing it. Leah Williams and Carlos Gomez are doing God’s work here and we love it. Check out…