“Hear me, X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am Fire and Life incarnate! Now and forever – I am PHOENIX!”
This week, Chris and Erik are talking about the Chris Claremont / John Byrne era of X-Men comics history, delving into two of the most iconic storylines of all time: “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and “Days of Future Past”!
(Episode edited by Chris Carroll)
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There are oh-SO many X-Men stories, and a lot of them are really good to great, so it’s very difficult to provide a recommended reading list that isn’t very, very long, but we’ve narrowed it down to some favorites. Keep in mind that these don’t include stories only found in books like New Mutants, Wolverine, X-Factor or X-Force, as they honestly deserve their own lists.
“Time has a pattern that it can’t help reliving. Different people, different worlds, drawn to each other like magnets.” – Barry Allen
*SPOILERS AHEAD!*
On the latest episode, Erik and his wife, Meg, do a back-to-back multi-versal comic book movie double feature, and review both “The Flash” *and* “Across the Spider-verse”!
Note: We also give our “brief” (lol) thoughts on: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3”, “Shazam 2: Fury of the Gods”, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”, the *first* “Into the Spider-verse”, initial thoughts on the “Blue Beetle” trailer, and our review of the new Stan Lee documentary on Disney Plus!
(Episode edited by Erik Slader)
We recently did an episode on the Blade Trilogy for the podcast! Here’s some more recommended comics for the badass Daywalker:
“There are worse things out tonight than vampires…” – Blade
On today’s episode, Chris and Erik talk all things Blade – the vampire slayer! We breakdown the original Blade trilogy (starring Wesley Snipes), talk about the character’s Marvel comics origins (first appearing in 1973’s “Tomb of Dracula” #10), and discuss what we hope to see in the MCU with Oscar-winning actor, Mahershala Ali as the iconic ‘day walker’!
Movies / Shows Discussed:
(Episode edited by Chris Carroll)
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“Get me Bullseye!” – The Kingpin
On today’s episode, Chris and Erik breakdown some of the early 2000’s (pre-MCU) Marvel movies! Back when comic book movies had way lower standards…
Movies Discussed:
(Episode edited by Chris Carroll)
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Everyone knows nothing makes a good hero like a great villain. Sherlock Holmes needed Moriarty, G.I. Joe needed Cobra, the rebels needed Darth Vader, etc. Nothing makes a story better quite like an interesting, intriguing, and yet hated adversary. Readers tend to flock to the villains they love to hate. The best villains bring something out of the hero that nobody else does, or force the hero to push themselves further than before to find a way to win.
We wanted to make a top 10 list, but that’s impossible. There are just too many good choices, and we couldn’t agree on any of it. So we increased the list, and increased it, and increased it (honestly we probably could have kept going, too). So, before it gets too out of hand, here are our choices for the 100 best villains in comics.
For the latest ‘Artist Spotlight’, we decided to showcase the incredibly talented Mike Mignola!
Man, the Infinity Gauntlet was awesome. The story of the mad Titan, Thanos, combining the power of the six infinity stones and obtaining complete power over the universe and the desperate, doomed attempts of the Marvel heroes and cosmic beings to do anything and everything they can to stop him, the only reason I haven’t done one of these for it yet is that, really, it’s quite difficult to narrow the awesome down to 5 moments, so really a ton of great stuff will be lumped together so this isn’t a 25 Coolest Things From…
Without further ado, 5 of the coolest moments from the pure 90’s goodness that is one of the best Marvel comics ever published, the Infinity Gauntlet.
There have been a TON of Avengers over the years. Some of them have been great additions to the team and have added to the mythos of the franchise, and others… not so much. Thankfully, for every Deathcry there’s a Black Panther, which is why the Avengers have endured for so many decades. While the core members are mostly now common household names thanks to the MCU, they aren’t the only ones that make the Avengers Earth’s mightiest heroes.
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