Marvel Entertainment, LLC is a pop culture juggernaut. It dominates in key markets like cinema, streaming TV, articles about Easter Eggs in movies, and childrenās birthday supplies (oddly enough? It does not dominate comicsā¦). 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…
I honestly forgot this book was coming out. It was so two-thousand and late. But it’s finally here, Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1, the book where a guy from The Black Eyed Peas writes a story where Spider-Man fights the Demon Bear from New Mutants. I got a feeling that Taboo, B. Earl and Juan Ferreyra…
Everyone knows how the X-Men are pirates now. These are times when the X-Men met some pirates. Yo Ho! Ranked This Episode: Marauders #1-12, #16 Uncanny X-Men #384-385, X-Men #104 (Crimson Pirates) Nightcrawler #8-12 (Bloody Bess + Shadow King)
Arakko has fallen. The Eternal Uranos and his war machines razed the red planet until it knew nothing but loss. A pillar of mutant society fell to avenge those who suffered. The greatest Omega warriors stood against him. It wasn’t enough. How shall we judge the protectors who did not protect? Legion Of X #6…
We sometimes spend our time talking about deep important stories that challenge what it means to be human. Other times we talk about a dinosaur man. This is a dumb one and I love it. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #353-355 (Sauron) Weapon X – The Draft: Sauron #1 Wolverine/Badrock
The world of 2099 is a strange one. A world where mega corporations have consolidated all commerce and life to serve their ends. It would be called late-stage capitalism, but that implies there is an end in sight. Who could imagine such an existence? This is what Kate Pryde and her Marauders face in our…
Folks, they say you can never go home again. That has literally, never once, in his entire life, stopped Chris Claremont from trying. We travel to the world of Elsewhen and see all these times creators just, came back and did something weird. X-Men Forever #1-5 X-Factor Forever First X-Men
There’s a lot of people talking about Al Ewing’s X-Men: Red these days, but let me tell you about another red-clad chad Al Ewing is writing. That’s right, it’s Ant-Man time again. Rising superstar Tom Reilly is here with Alucard Ewing to take us on a journey through the history of the Ant-Men. This time,…
āWhile I was in the pandemic […] I had started to toy around with this instrument I purchased called an Apprehension Engine.ā Claudio Sanchez says from his home recording studio. āItās typically this scary, nightmare instrument. I had started to fool around with this instrument and it started giving me these ideas about what the…
We get it started in here with X-Terminators writer Leah Williams on a very dumb (complimentary) comic. It’s X-Terminators week at long last!