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,…
“While I was in the pandemic […] I had started to toy around with this instrument I purchased called an Apprehension Engine.” Claudio Sanchez says from his home recording studio. “It’s 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!
We spend some time with Dani Moonstar as strange things happen to her all the time. Multitudes? She contains them. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #37 (If I Should Die) X-Force #83-84 (Homefront) X-Force #99-100 (Dark Cathedral)
The Hellfire Gala may be long over (except in X-Men Unlimited by Steve Foxe and Alan Robinson literally right now), but the party never ends as long as Moria X is in the house! That’s right everyone’s favorite megalomaniacal supervillain robot lady with a hat and a bad attitude is back in Amazing Spider-Man #9…
Battle of the Atom present some Marvel Comics Presents. Are these comics good? Must they be? Ranked This Week: Marvel Comics Presents #109-116 (Typhoid’s Kiss) Marvel Comics Presents #117-122 (Claws & Webs) Marvel Comics Presents #1-9 (Vigil)
Devil Dinosaur is missing and Moon Girl has recruited Wolverine and Havok to save the day. See the X-Men and also a small child take on the High Evolutionary next week in Mohale Mashigo & David Cutler’s X-Men & Moon Girl #1. We’ve got a preview here and in it, Havok gets a Hippo head….
We travel back to 1989 and spend an entire episode talking about weird things that happened in that year, including something that didn’t actually happen. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #251-252 (Fever Dream) Punisher: War Journal #6-7 “Family Ties”
You ever think about Robert Kirkman’s frankly underwhelming career at Marvel? I do. Before he was a zillionaire for his zombie comics, he did a bunch of comics that people forget about like late-stage Ultimate X-Men or Marvel Team-Up. It’s… well it’s a career. The most memoriable of that era was, of course, The Irredeemable…
In 1998 Marvel comics decided that Cable should just be a Jack Kirby character for a while and boy oh boy was it a good time. Let Zack & Adam transport you to the weird world of the Askani’son as we more or less worship Ladronn in this episode. Ranked this Episode: Cable #48-53 (Hellfire…