The following contains spoilers for last week’s Marauders #11 For a woman who can walk on air, Kate Pryde has always had to carry a heavy weight. Since her introduction in 1980, Kate has been, in addition to her day job as a member of one x-team or another, an authorial stand-in for creators from…
Art by Alan Davis Name: Kurt Wagner Code Names: Nightcrawler First Appearance: Giant Sized X-Men #1 (Oct ‘75) Powers: Teleportation, prehensile tail, being a great acrobat Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Excalibur About If there is one thing the X-Men stand for, it is equality. They believe in the dream of a world where people aren’t judged by the color…
Remember when Gwenpool retconned herself into being a mutant so she could live on Krakoa and not disappear from Marvel’s publishing line? And then she showed up in the big battle scene at the end of “X of Swords” and at the Hellfire Gala and in a Marvel x Fortnite promo comic and she argued…
Christi and Chris get weird in this patron-requested Weird War III episode! What’s the deal with Excalibur and Nazis? How brutal is Kitty Pryde? Why does Lockheed routinely vanish mid-issue? All this and more in this episode! Patreon Kofii Album Art by Kate Foray Music Credits: “Evening Melodrama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By…
Press Release New York, NY—April 9, 2018— After their scene-stealing theatrical debut in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, Wakanda’s fiercest warriors are traveling outside of their country to fight new threats and new troubles, in an all-new comic book story by award-winning science-fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor! The WAKANDA FOREVER story starts in June with Okoye,…
Jason Howard, creator of Image’s new series “Big Girls,” joins Dan and Matt to talk about gender roles, drawing crazy stuff with Robert Kirkman, the NBA bubble, schooling under COVID-19 and more.
Next Saturday, Aug. 22, is DC FanDome, described in a press release as a “24-hour, immersive virtual fan experience which brings the universe of DC to life and features the stars, filmmakers and creators behind its biggest films, TV series, games and comics.” (Notice how comics are last.) It’s like many of the virtual cons…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 249: MONKEYS! with Matt D. Wilson Fellow comics podcaster Matt D. Wilson joins the show to talk about the Zoop campaign for his comic Impostor Syndicate, and play some comics primate trivia. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where…
O Captains, Our Captains continue their star-spangled road trip in The United States of Captain America #2. Following the trail of “The Captains Network” and their shield thieves, Captains America Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson find themselves embroiled in some good old-fashioned civil disobedience. All this and another backup story starring the new “local” Captain…
The world of Star Wars TV content (well, “TV”) continues to expand! In a galaxy without hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi is forced out of his desert exile to help an old friend. In the process, he encounters the Empire’s dark Inquisitors and receives some devastating news in Obi-Wan Kenobi Parts 1 & 2! Austin: I wasn’t…
There are plenty of superheroes you could talk about where the issues of copaganda in 2023 don’t come up. I’m sure there are. But Batman isn’t one of them. We’ve had episodes talking about Jim Gordon and the main detectives of the GCPD before and had to look at those questions, and this week, we’re…
The war in Otherworld reaches its boiling point in Excalibur #25 by Tini Howard, Marcus To, Eric Arciniega and Joe Caramagna. I read Excalibur #25 twice. After the first time, I felt let down. The team had a ton of pieces in place that I enjoyed, but hadn’t put them together in a way that…
This is episode 150 and The Saga of Vampire Adam does take a hairy turn. If you can, Battle Of The Atom is raising funds for The Advancement Project. If you can, please consider donating. Ranked This Episode: Captain America #170-175 (Secret Empire) A+X #13-18 (Captain America + Cyclops) Captain America #402-408 (Man And Wolf)
The Silver Coin returns! In “The Diner,” James Tynion IV joins Michael Walsh for a story about Jean, a waitress working at a struggling diner who bites off more than she can chew. With colors by Toni Marie Griffin (with Michael Walsh) and backup story by Adam Gorham. Mark Turetsky: Ritesh, it has been a…
It’s her, Kamala Khan. The Inhuman so good that some baseball cap, phase monitoring wearing media moguls have decided that she should no longer be an Inhuman (or wildly enough, a member of the Clandestine) and instead become the MCU’s first mutant. It’s him, Logan. The X-Man so good that he can actually hold a…