Ranking every X-Men story from A to Z. Hosted by Zack Jenkins and Adam Reck.
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)
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
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
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)
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)
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”
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…
We all have swords this week as we talk about stories were people get swords. Spoiler alert, it holds up. Ranked This Episode: X Of Swords Rise Of Apocalypse Wolverine vol 3 #36-40 (Origins and Endings)
We raise our swords to talk about Excalibur this week with some wacky stories that one of us likes a lot more than the other. Who is who may surprise you. Ranked this episode: Excalibur #62-65 (Warpies Return) Excalibur #6-8 (Inferno) Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn
Enter the world of Mutant X, a run that’s buck wild and if anyone tries to tell me it is good, I will think less of them. Maddy is in this a lot and people like her. Ranked This Episode: Mutant X #4-12 & Annual 1999 (Goblin Queen) Mutant X #31-32 & Annual 2002 (Beyonder)…
Dare to talk about drugs today with the boys of Battle Of The Atom. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Legacy #10-12 (Invasive Exotics) Ultimate X-Men #94-97 (Banshee) Spider-Man, Power Man & Storm: Smokescreen
We spend the episode talking about the master of Magnetism. Content Warning: We talk about the Holocaust Ranked This Episode: Magento: Testament Magneto War Defenders #15-16
It was a dark and stormy night, in that there was a massive storm outside of Zack’s window and team? We had to call the episode early so SOMEONE could get away from the window. We talk about Annuals this week. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants Annual #3 X-Force Annual #3 Uncanny X-Men #371, X-Men…
We talk about definitely an X-Men character no matter what you say, Deadpool on this exciting episode where there is nothing but Deadpool content. Ranked This Episode: Deadpool vol 5 #15-19 (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) Deadpool vol 4 #15-18 (Want You To Want Me) Deadpool vol 2