So you may not know this, but the Valiant Universe is back … again! After the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the publisher’s release schedule to a crawl of about a comic a month, a licensing deal last year with international publisher Alien Books has breathed new life into the shared superhero universe, and it’s all building…
Did you know, if you back us on Patreon, you can come on the show? Yes indeed, if you are a Dick Grayson tier backer you can. And our first Grayson backer is here with us today! Josh Weil, podcaster at X is for Podcast, stops by to talk about a couple stories he picked,…
Remember Professor X? Well, he’s back, in space-consort form, as Deathbird tries to skunk his engagement to Lilandra on the grounds that he’s a dirty Earth ape. Meanwhile, Storm deals with a death bird of her own as she fights to save Forge’s life and regain her powers in X-Men ’97 season 1, episode 6….
When the entire X-line blinked out of existence for the Age of Apocalypse in 1995, it lasted four months. When Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic smashed Earth-616 and Earth-1610 together to give Doctor Doom a multiversal Battleworld in Secret Wars in 2015, canceling every ongoing series (even ones that had just launched), the main series…
Art by Brian Hitch Name: Pete Wisdom Code Names: He jokingly had X-Force call him Professor W once First Appearance: Excalibur #86 (Feb ‘95) Powers: Shoots “Hot Knives” from his Fingers Teams Affiliation: Excalibur, X-Force, MI-13 About One of the most common experiences in fandom is placing yourself in the stories. You would battle along with your favorite heroes,…
As a hero shooter in the vein of Overwatch, Marvel Rivals’ success is strongly intertwined with its ability to maintain the diversity of its roster. Thankfully, the Marvel Universe has no shortage of unique characters to pull from. Marvel Rivals launched with 33 playable heroes, and will feature 41 by the end of Season 3,…
Everything is bad. And there are a few people to blame. The Splash When I’m good and angry and I want to wreck someone and the facts fit the moment, I reach for something special. It’s not “asshole” (vague, common), nor “bastard” (weak) nor “motherfucker” (got a nice sound to it, but it’s not angry…
Ex-Young Avenger, West Coast Avenger, interdimensional Puerto Rican, and super-strong, superconfident lesbian icon America Chavez, plagued by suddenly unreliable powers, nonetheless zipped back to New York City to save her adoptive family. Instead she’s been taken captive by… we’ll find out who in America Chavez: Made in the USA 3, written by Kalinda Vazquez, pencils…
Fifty years ago this May, Illyana Nikolaievna Rasputina made her first appearance in Marvel Comics’ Giant Size X-Men #1. Created by writer Len Wein and artist David Cockrum, Illyana is a young Russian female mutant with the power to create stepping discs she can use to teleport people and objects. She also has been the…
The algorithm on Instagram serves me two things: Beautiful, busty women and Sonic the Hedgehog content. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want to be this person, but none of us gets to choose our fate. I’ve tried to fill this void with the IDW Sonic The Hedgehog series, but it is far too…
Art by Valerio Schiti and Richard Isanove Name: Fabio Medina Code Names: Goldballs First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #1 (Feb 2013) Powers: Shoots Gold Balls out of his body Teams Affiliation: X-Men About I was sitting at my computer getting ready to write this article and my dad asked “who are you doing this week?” I started chuckling to myself and…
It’s a Cyclops week where, let me tell you what, we forgot how annoying the M-Pox era was for all of us. Ranked This Episode:
The X-Men thrive on dysfunction, they live on it. Much like Krakoa eats mutants (which we’ve all kinda just ignored, right?), the X-Men eat a lack of actual teamwork and cohesiveness. Regardless, Marvel thinks they have put together the most dysfunctional team I could possibly imagine. Marvel, try me. The file read “Classified X”, which…
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy finally together again—but they’ve both gone through some changes since the last time they saw each other. Can their relationship survive the changes that have happened? Harley Quinn #10 written by Stephanie Williams, drawn by Laura Braga, colored by Arif Prianto and lettered by Deron Bennett. I have mixed feelings…
A new year brings in new beginnings. An era ends, and a new era rises. Jon’s faces down the Red Sin and finishes off his series with Superman: Son of Kal-El #18, written by Tom Taylor, penciled by Cian Tormey and Ruairí Coleman, inked by Cian Tormey, Ruairí Coleman and Scott Hanna, colored by Romulo…