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Before diving into this week's X-Books tomorrow, check out all my thoughts and annotations on last week's middling X-Books (where the best of the bunch has damn all to do with "Age of Revelation") in the latest "Previously On X-Men" column for @thecomicon.bsky.social! comicon.com/2025/11/17/p...

Here's my current Top 20 Faves of 2025, but I still haven't seen a few notables including the new PTA.

ICYMI yesterday

indie comics vs cape comics vs trad published GNs vs zines vs whatever is stupid. all kinds of comics can be bad. free yourself

Topics covered: ✅Courtney Ross: Pants deliverer ✅That time Rachael Ray posed for FHM ✅Sage = Batman ✅An unfortunate cameo by the evil lady’s wizard children ✅Evil sex hats ✅The safe word is “Martha” And more!

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On this week's All-New #BattleoftheAtom we look at the sometimes twisted ups and downs of Moira MacTaggert and Sean "Banshee" Cassidy!

badlands wolfpack

Excited to share the first trailer for the new Legend of Zelda flick! youtu.be/WF-7jPXvPEA?...

What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are(in no order): -spooky scary -time travel shenanigans -stealin stuff -sci to the fi -dumb action

On this week's All-New #BattleoftheAtom we look at the sometimes twisted ups and downs of Moira MacTaggert and Sean "Banshee" Cassidy!

Battle Of The Atom: Skinsuit Trent Renzor once said "I want to feel you from the inside" and the gothy romantic she is, Moira took that seriously in her tenth life. Ranked This Episode: What If? #75 (What if Blink hadn't died?) Generation X #71-75 (Four Days) X Deaths of Wolverine

Tomorrow on an All-New #BOTA we are talking about the largely off-page relationship between Sean Cassidy and Moira MacTaggert and three times things went horribly wrong for them.

Our latest spotlights Ryan Carey's @solrad.bsky.social review of Junji Ito's Frankenstein. #ComicsStudies #Frankenstein #JunjiIto

321 - X-Men #103 - 11/16/1976 Happy "Learning Wolverine's name is 'Logan' from a leprechaun" Day to all who celebrate! Cover by Dave Cockrum. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Cockrum. #XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #Colossus #Nightcrawler #Storm #UncannyXMen

It's true, I did

Some fun books @annapeppard.bsky.social & I found at a random antique shop today

Top 10 most cursed X-men images

MONDAY! MOIRA!

no no no no no

Smart move, Edgar!

Despite everything around it I was still willing to give this a chance due to liking JMS's Spider-Man. However the thing reads like a PSA on the American Revolution for 5th graders in the 90's.

I like how the ongoing read of @saintjudejones.bsky.social 's Storm reviews continues to be all things - travelogue, personal reflection, etc - all while still giving the book an appropriate amount of attention.

Y’know, we post a lot of unrelenting snark about X-Men comics and whatnot, so it’s refreshing when two of our crew have sincere, uncut praise for a comic. Read this and know what love is.

What's your favorite example of an event tie-in that just kept barreling through its own plot?

marvel (quietly): "we will not be using [AI], and we don’t condone it" DISNEY PARENT COMPANY: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

expected, as the story JMS wrote for Marvel Comics 1000 with Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and Jack Kirby as children who all came up with the Marvel Universe together while sitting on a porch one lazy summer afternoon is the kind of thing that's so offensively dumb it should have its own blacklist

The whole thing has the aire of "The Heritage Foundation threatened to cut the MCU's Dept. of Defense funding if we didn't publish this" #FizzVsComics

Had to unexpectedly get a new (used) car recently but to assuage the pain of that, I also got new bumper stickers

We love a reunion @strictlyworse.bsky.social @adamreck.bsky.social @annapeppard.bsky.social

Daily regenerating clown makeup. You didn’t put it on, but you can’t make it go away… ☹️

If you too asked "But why?" when hearing that Marvel 1776 was going to be a thing, the great @adamreck.bsky.social answers that question and more in this tremendous piece about a comic book that should never have been.

"It would be fine if 1776 were just another middling Marvel dud. There are plenty of those to go around. The larger problem is why Marvel felt a book like this needed to be published at all...it shows an incredible amount of ignorance about the content they’re putting on the shelves."

once again: we could've had the avengers academy finale by now, and well under this trainwreck's budget i'm sure.

"It would be fine if 1776 were just another middling Marvel dud. There are plenty of those to go around. The larger problem is why Marvel felt a book like this needed to be published at all...it shows an incredible amount of ignorance about the content they’re putting on the shelves."

Today’s must read comes from a savage @adamreck.bsky.social. Get ‘em, king.

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks visualizing horror in Junji Ito's Frankenstein! #ComicsStudies #Frankenstein #JunjiIto

I don’t think my boy Forearm ever won a single fight.

I'd love to see Bendis take a crack at Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur or Kamala Khan.

There I fixed your Bond problem. I'll take a million dollars and a producer credit, thx byee

We've got an EXCLUSIVE variant cover reveal for December's X-VENGERS #3 by artist Edwin Galmon!

ICYMI yesterday

Wrote about a very bad comic book. I'd really like to get back to writing about good ones.

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ICYMI roundup! Quiet-ish week for me as I was wrapping up my last day-job trip of the week. First up, my thoughts & annotations on the last week of Month 1 of "Age of Revelation" for @thecomicon.bsky.social in "Previously On X-Men" #XMen #AgeOfRevelation #XSpoilers comicon.com/2025/11/03/p...

Discussed in this episode: MF Doom for Beginners John Byrne Pettiness Doom or Doombot? The advantages of being Ghost Rider

This week we're talking DOOM - or is that a Doombot?

Battle Of The Atom: Let Doom Be Doom Zack gets mad at people who take a man named Victor Von Doom too seriously. Adam does his absolute best to save the podcast from neurogas. Ranked This Episode: Super-Villain Team-Up #14, Champions #16 Uncanny X-Men #145-147 Uncanny X-Men #197