It’s another Patreon request, as Abigale Heartbalm returns. She wanted to talk about the original Venom story, and after we realized she meant the Legends of the Dark Knight arc about the super steroid and not a DC/Marvel crossover we didn’t remember, it was decided that this week’s theme would be Batman and drugs. Venom…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Presents OUR SON PETE Episode 9: The One Where They Go to the Future In another beyond-the-paywall episode of WMQ&A’s monthly Patreon bonus podcast, guest Connor Goldsmith from the Cerebro podcast joins Dan to talk about Excalibur #94, “Days of Future Tense,” the one where they go to the distant year…
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…
So, this week, it’s Matt’s birthday recording, and as opposed to Will, who picked stuff based on gut instinct (and who must have had a stomach ache based on what we got), Matt went with three stories from his younger years that he remembers really liking. The results are considerably better. We get some Grant…
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)
Batman and Halloween: two great tastes that taste great together. This week, we’re going back to a creative team that we have read a lot of work by, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, for their first collaborations on Batman, and the last we have to cover, the Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Specials. They’re…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 231: The Three Amigos Meet Dracula Dan, Matt and special guest Third Amigo Rob Lynch make like Renfield and extol the virtues of that most famous of vampires, Dracula. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes move…
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…
We recorded this episode mere days before the Will’s birthday, and so it was up to Will to pick the stories. So he satisfied his curiosity about the story where Scarecrow kills his dean, adds in some more Moench and Jones and closes a narrative loop for the podcast. The results for the Big Board…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 230: New York Comic Con 2022 Dan goes to New York Comic Con and records interviews with Keith Dallas (Riptide Sanitarium, now on Zoop), Matt Lesniewski (Faceless and the Family, now on Zoop), Sofia Warren (Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator), Eric Tapper and Chris Carter from GlobalComix, Anthony…
Adam hits the show floor to talk to some fantastic creators at New York Comic Con 2022. 4:30 – Zeb Wells 7:37 – Steve Orlando 15:05 – Maria Wolf 20:25 – Danny Lore 28:45 – David Nakayama 34:00 – Bill Sienkewicz
In another moment that makes Matt feel like he’s not so slowly turning to dust, “Hush,” the Jeph Loeb/Jim Lee neo-classic, is turning twenty years old this week. Or is it a classic? That is what Matt and Will are looking at this week, with three stories starring the Batman villain most likely to make…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 229: Get Me 60cc of Matthew Klein and Morgan Beem, STAT! Matthew Klein and Morgan Beem, the creators of the new IDW Originals series Crashing, talk to Dan and Matt about what makes a good medical drama. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music,…
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)
Ed Brubaker is one of the best crime writers in comics, and before going over and writing some of the best comics on the market for Image, he did runs on various Batman and Batman family titles. This week, we’re reading three stories from three different runs on those titles. Fearless (Batman V.1 #582-583) Made…