X Is For Comics: An X-Men Podcast

Get ready for X-Men ‘98 - the relaunch that brought everyone home! After years, Kitty, Nightcrawler, Colossus, & Gambit – plus even Charles Xavier himself – return to the X-Men, alongside Storm, Wolverine, Rogue, & Marrow for an era that sets the stage for some of the most major changes in the history of the X-Men! Get ready for The Twelve, New X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, and more with the 1998 rela...

Welcome to All New All Different X Is For Comics: An X-Men Podcast! We've traveled through the X-Men in the 70s, 80s, and the greater Marvel Universe; made stops in DC, and even the Amalgam and crossover universes. And after all those stories, we're ready to return home to the place where it all started: the X-Men comics we love! We're going to jump back into regular coverage of classic X-Men stor...

It’s here! The meetcute we’ve all been waiting for: It’s Batman/Deadpool! It’s like what we’ve been doing for months – but WITH GRANT MORRISON AND DAN MORA! PLUS Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, and Joshua Williamson with Hayden Sherman on Constantine/Doctor Strange; Tom Taylor & Bruno Redondo on Nightwing & Wolverine; Mariko Tamaki and Amanda Conner on Harley Quinn vs. Hulk; & G. Willow Wilson and...

The Final Piece! Nico & TK have spent five months exploring all of the (conventional straightforward) crossovers Marvel & DC have had to offer. Superman VS The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Treasury Edition #28: Superman & Spider-Man!, DC Special Series- Batman vs The Incredible Hulk & Marvel & DC Present feat The Uncanny X-Men & The New Teen Titans!, 1994’s Batman/Punisher Double Feature: Lake of Fi...

In the final run-up, Nico & TK take on the DC Hero by which comics is measured – Batman! The old Bats had tons of late 90s crossover events with Marvel, and The Guys check some of the most significant Bat-Crossovers of the era with Batman & Captain America from Feb '97 and Batman & Spider-Man: New Age Dawning from Oct '97. Then, grab a double dose of Batman & Daredevil as the Dark Knight & The Cri...

BONUS EPISODE! Nico & TK jumped in Marvel Vs DC expecting to revisit their favorite characters across a mixture of classic, modern, familiar, and previously undiscovered stories. What they didn’t expect was for Deadpool/Batman to result in Batman/Deadpool, Spider-Man/Superman, Superman/Spider-Man, and now a series of digital exclusive firsts from Marvel Unlimited & DC Infinite! To take it even fur...

With few titles left, Nico & TK take on the DC hero who stands for hope: Superman and his adventures in the Marvel Universe from 1997 - 1999! Check out the big space power of Silver Surfer/Superman from January 1997 and then hang in for a double dose of July 1999 Clark Kent Crossover Collections with The Incredible Hulk Vs Superman & Superman/Fantastic Four. Only THREE episodes left tracing the cl...

Like all massive crossover events, a final act will come and signal the end…or does it? Well, kinda. It’s true, Nico & TK have reached the end of Marvel Vs DC, Amalgam, & All/Unlimited Access, though of course there’s plenty more to come. With a fond look back at what they’ve covered, The Guys sign off on Access and his adventures before returning to the world of Marvel/DC crossovers to come….that...

The Guys are back – they’re getting ready for Age Of Revelation and to rev it up, they’re ranking the BIGGEST X-Men AU Timelines!! Take a look at the biggest eras and timelines! Check out:  Days Of Future Past (Uncanny X-Men 141 - 1981) Cable's Askani Future (X-Factor 66 - 1991) Bishop's XSE Future (Uncanny X-Men 282 - 1991) X-Men 2099 (X-Men 2099 1 - 1993)  Age Of Apocalypse (X-Men: Alpha - 1996)...

Hope you survive the experience - X Is For Comics will return to weekly content, covering classic titles with an advance-posted weekly schedule, featuring a complex tapestry of our favorite titles. @NicoAction & @TKAccidental, along with producer @KevoReally, deep dive into the worlds of your favorite X-Men stories with three exciting new looks at X-Men & their related comics.  First, though, the...

Get ready for MULTIVERSAL GEN….X-MEN?! Grant Morrison, perhaps the most important comic writer still in print, did an AMA so the guys lost their mind. That’s literally half the episode. It wasn’t the intent. And then! The Amalgam Project hits its penultimate payload before the big finale! Nico & TK are talking SIX Amalgam titles from a year later including Generation Hex, Super Soldier: Man At War...

Get ready for MULTIVERSAL X-MEN! The Amalgam Project continues towards its inevitable conclusion! Nico & TK are talking SIX Amalgam titles from a year later including Exciting X-Patrol, The Magnetic Men featuring Magneto, JLX Unleashed, Bat-Thing, Dark Claw Adventures, & Iron Lantern. It’s a mashup smackdown featuring some of the wildest Amalgam titles yet. All this and more on an all new X Is For...

The guys are back and they’re here to fight! Well, the characters are. First up, is looking at Daredevil 25 & Punisher: Red Band 1, before their upcoming VS title! The guys look at their last runs, where they’re going, and everything in between. Then, the team turns to the newest DC event for DC: K.O. 1, a stunning crossover kickoff! Come check it all out on an all-new X Is For Comics! X IS FOR SH...

The Amalgam Experience ain’t over yet! Just as Marvel Vs DC/DC Vs Marvel winds down, the event’s “new star” takes “center stage” in his “own title” – and yet it never really becomes its own title. The series suffers from what also makes it a lovely read – it’s lack of real stakes. Is the second of three 90s-classic M/DC four-part events as strong as MvsDC? Come check it all out on an all-new X Is...

Celebrating Deadpool/Batman, the return of Amalgam, and more, Nico & TK re-matching up their favorite heroes to make a CRAZY new take on Marvel VS DC and see if their modern randomization can go somewhere CRAZY! Check out wild mashups like:  -- Emma Frost vs Harley Quinn! -- Elektra vs Mr Terrific! -- Magneto vs Poison Ivy! -- Cassandra Nova vs Damien Wayne's Robin! -- Doop vs John Constantine! --...

Alright, it’s finally here. The team has discussed all of the crossovers, all of Marvel Vs DC, and all of Amalgam; Deadpool/Batman is finally out – and now the guys close out Marvel Vs DC (before All Access, Unlimited Access, Return to Amalgam, and more!) with the finale to the epic 90s crossover! Come check it all out on an all new X Is For Comics! X IS FOR SHOW is a talk show for your favorite m...

Batman Day is upon us!!!! Nico and TK talk the caped crusader, comics, X-Men, and more in this off-the-cuff special celebrating Batman Day! X IS FOR SHOW is a talk show for your favorite media, the same way THE OFFICE was a documentary about a paper company. Every week, THE ACTION PACK gathers to discuss a wide range of entertainment media and news, from film & TV to comics to gaming, music, and b...

It’s here! The meetcute we’ve all been waiting for: It’s Deadpool/Batman! Today we’ll be talking about the following titles: Deadpool/Batman by Zeb Wells & Greg Capullo Daredevil / Green Arrow by Kevin Smith & Adam Kubert Captain America / Wonder Woman by Chip Zdarsky & Terry Dodson Jeff the Land Shark / Krypto by Kelly Thompson & Gurihiru. Plus ranking the covers for Deadpool/Batman 1! All this a...

The Guys are back – and it’s finally time! It’s Amalgam! The guys take on the next three issues of the hybrid event, talking:  Magneto & The Magnetic Men, featuring X-Men crossed with an assortment of the best of DC’s Families; X-Patrol, a combination of Marvel's X-Force and DC's Doom Patrol; JLX, featuring a fusion of the Justice League & The Avengers!  It’s all this and more on an all new X Is F...

The Guys are back – and it’s time to catch up with all things X-Men at Marvel & Justice League over at DC! Take a look at the best of comic’s biggest teams. Check out:  FROM MARVEL: Uncanny X-Men 18 - 20 Exceptional X-Men 11 - 12 X-Men 20 - 21 Giant Sized X-Men 2 Emma Frost: White Queen 2 - 3 Phoenix 13 - 14 Storm 10 - 11 Psylocke 6 - 10 Wolverine and Kitty Pryde 1 - 5 FROM DC: JSA 10 - Justice Le...

The Guys are back – and it’s finally time! It’s Amalgam! The guys take on the next three issues of the hybrid event, talking:  The Legend Of Dark Claw featuring the fusion of Logan/Wolverine & Batman and their worlds; Bruce Wayne Agent Of SHIELD merging elements of Bruce Wayne, Nick Fury, & Captain America and their worlds; Spider-Boy merging Superman/Spider-Man with Superboy/Scarlet Spider and th...

The Guys are back – and it’s time to catch up with all things Wolverine at Marvel & Batman over at DC! Take a look at the best of comic’s pointy-eared brooding heroes. Check out:  MARVEL: Laura Kinney: Wolverine 8 Wolverine 10 - 12 Deadpool/Wolverine 2 - 8 DC: Batman 161 (Hush 2) Batman & Robin Year One 2 - 10 Batman & Robin 23 - 24 Batman Dark Patterns 9 Batman The Long Halloween – The Last Hallo...

The Guys are back – and it’s finally time! It’s Amalgam! The guys take on the next three issues of the hybrid event, talking:  Speed Demon 1 which fuses Ghost Rider, Flash, & Etrigan; Super Soldier 1 featuring Super-Soldier (Superman and Captain America), Green Skull (Lex Luthor and Red Skull) and his robot Ultra-Metallo (Ultron and Metallo); Doctor Strangefate 1 featuring a hybrid of Charles Xavi...

The Guys are back – and it’s time to catch up with all things magic and mashup characters at Marvel & Flash over at DC! Take a look at the best of Marvel’s magic titles and the whole Flash Family. Check out:  MARVEL: Magik 1 - 8 Scarlet Witch & Vision 1 - 4 Hellverine 1 - 9  Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme Of Asgard 1 - 5 DC: Flash 1 - 23 Flash: Bad Moon Rising Special It’s all this and more on a...

The Guys are back – and it’s finally time! It’s Amalgam! The guys take the first three issues of the hybrid event, talking:  -- Bullets & Bracelets 1 featuring Diana Prince (DC's Wonder Woman and Marvel's Elektra), Trevor Castle (Marvel's Punisher Frank Castle and DC's Steve Trevor), Thanoseid (DC's Darkseid and Marvel's Thanos) -- Assassins 1 featuring Catsai (Marvel’s Elektra and DC’s Catwoman),...