Bit of dayjob, not-at-all comics news: Found out today I'm the lone @pressofatlanticcity.com employee to win an NJPA award this year, in the category of headline writing. The judge called my work "Punchy, pithy, pretty close to perfection in terms of plays on words." That felt nice.

Listen to @almondmilkart.bsky.social and I chat about Penny and the Yeti with @danielpgrote.bsky.social & Matt. I think this is the first interview of the both of us. You can learn all about us, and Penny and the Yeti, and which of Amber's plants is her favorite!

Flashing back to three weeks ago when @sxbond.bsky.social taught me how to pronounce David Lapham’s last name. (LAP-um)

ICYMI: @adamreck.bsky.social & @austingorton.bsky.social cataloged the X-Men's many children, some of whom went on to become important characters in their own right (Cable, Laura Kinney), some of whom are Havok's kids from an alternate future. You'd be surprised how many are the latter.

NEW TCXFIP: @jimmygaspero.bsky.social & @almondmilkart.bsky.social join the show to talk about their upcoming @papercutzgn.bsky.social graphic novel Penny and the Yeti!

If you're the child of a status quo age-defying publisher cash cow character, you either live long enough to be instantly aged up/come from another universe or you end up in the depth of character limbo. Check out the work that @adamreck.bsky.social & @austingorton.bsky.social did on this subject!

Wolverine celebrates his birthday in three very different miserable ways this week on #BattleoftheAtom ! 🎁

Some of those Forgottens feel a little harsh! (Maggie Braddock, Josiah Guthrie, Shogo) But the Kymera has been bugging me. Had no idea she’d been killed off panel And it’s really time to bring TJ back.

So I teased this on the pod, but yes, @austingorton.bsky.social and I thought of as many X-Kids as we could think of to try and see what the odds were that Storm's new kid will have any staying power. Check it out!

Shoutout to Havok’s 3 alt-future kids, you fertile dumb-dumb.

Find that episode here! www.patreon.com/posts/our-so...

on the podcast I did a little while ago with @danielpgrote.bsky.social we were going through an old issue of New Excalibur, it’s established she had an iPod full of thirty years of Beatles music from another Earth - it was a quick gag but it stuck with me, what a story *that* would make - !

I’M ON SOMEONE ELSE’S PODCAST! It’s a great time to sign up for ComicsXF Patreon so you can listen now.

In this episode: ✅I admit crying ✅When it’s OK to laugh at a funeral ✅My undying love of Expedition Everest ✅Yeti the thermos/cooler ✅Regional cryptids (Squonk?) ✅Delco accents ✅Dogs, cats AND plants ✅And more!

It's time once again to round up the week's top articles at CXF, starting with @adamreck.bsky.social's accounting of the 10 best Cyclops stories according to the Battle of the Atom podcast comicsxf.com/2026/02/10/c...

Taylor Townsend > Marissa Cooper.

I’m on record as loving Wayne’s World 2 completely and unapologetically. Axe Murderer is Double-M’s 2nd best movie and he should have done more of those and fewer Love Gurus/Austin Powerses.

Watching a random S6 episode of Dawson’s Creek where Busy Phillips refuses to go to rehab and runs away with Seth Rogen and I’m pretty sure it’s not indicative of the show as a whole but also I didn’t watch Dawson’s Creek because it is neither Saved by the Bell nor The OC.

I went back and read the first issue of this series and it really is gorgeous. Let artists cook, friends.

Where’s Matt’s Wolf Man comic, Skybound?

@zoewithasword.bsky.social? @joeyesposito.bsky.social? Let’s f’n go!

We brought this up on a recent episode and the Patreon seems really into it - would you want to hear Zack and I rank all 15+ X-Men movies?

I approve of this list: classic, modern and all Cyclops.

*My* favorite Cyclops story is on the list; is yours?

My staff pick this week is Transformers #29, which promises the first big Autobot/Decepitcon showdown of the Kirkman/Mora era!

NOT X2: X-MEN UNITED, google!

Our goal this week is to make you sick of Cyclops. We will make you smoke that entire carton of Cyclopes so you’ll never want to smoke again.

What is your favorite Cyclops story? @adamreck.bsky.social presents the objective BotA top 10!

Happy to report my 2026 geeky resolution of "read more comic books & play less video games" is going well. Happy to see the resolutions of my fellow Comics XF writers as well.

Before sitting down to watch the new Muppet Show, I had to tell my disappointed five year old no, Scrooge won't be in this one, so I'm either doing everything wrong or everything right. Anyways, check out this Muppet-tastic interview!

No offense to my friends at ComicsXF but any best of Cyclops list that leaves of Marvels Snapshots: X-Men is incomplete.

I bet it’s that one External. You know the one. Steve, I think his name is.

The extra time it took us just means we're extra committed (probably)! So check out what things our crew is hoping to accomplish in this new year.

In other news, I will probably watch Rizzo perform Blinding Lights 5 more times this week.

I love that we were so late with this. Doesn’t give me high hopes for keeping my resolutions but 🤷‍♀️

We sure did - we even liked it!

Did you know Rogue is, effectively, Wonder Man's sister?

In which I get to carry on about my love of Westerns AND Universal Monsters!

Here's a question for your Super Bowl Sunday: If the X-Men were a football team, what positions would everyone play? comicsxf.com/2020/09/10/i...

Thinking you will never make it to work for the big 2? Well, Marvel green lit this so have hope.

Reading V for Vendetta in public while my daughter sells Girl Scout cookies in this hardware store.

Sunday morning means it's time to recap the week's top articles at CXF, starting with this exclusive preview of next week's Black Cat #7 by @gwillow.me & @biggleb.bsky.social, guest starring the All-New Venom comicsxf.com/2026/02/05/v...

It’s a great time for new Muppets content, between Roger’s new Muppets comic and the new Muppet Show on D+.

Who doesn't love a good Hugo Strange and his Monster Men rampage?

What’s a little tongue between friends, right?

My wife’s favorite Disney YouTuber just discovered Jeff the LandShark. I repeat, Jeff has broken containment. Jeff has broken containment. This is not a drill.

Walter: Fozzie Donnie: Gonzo Maude: Piggy The Big Lebowski: Sweetums Bunny: Janice Brint: Scooter Jesus: Pepe Liam: Chip Smokey: Floyd Knox Harrington: Swedish Chef Jackie Treehorn: Uncle Deadly Cowboy: Rowlf Landlord: Beauregard Nihilists: Mahna Mahna and the Snowths Rug Peers: Zoot and Lips

Pursuant to a conversation we have on next week’s CXF Interview Podcast, if you could remake The Big Lebowski with Muppets (Jeff Bridges remains The Dude, all else is felt), which Muppets would play which characters?

Iron Man 3 is in my bottom 5 Marvel movies. Trevor Slattery is in my top 5 made-for-the-MCU characters.