Sunday, September 29, 2013

Cultural Wormhole Presents: X-Nation Episode 91

Antony, Elizabeth, and Paul discuss Battle of/for/with/on/to/over/next-to/across-from/ the Atom, plus the final issues of Gambit and X-Factor.

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Month in X - September 2013: X-Factor #262, Wolverine #9, Savage Wolverine #8, Gambit #17, Uncanny X-Force #11, Cable and X-Force #14, X-Men Legacy #16, X-Men Legacy #17, Astonishing X-Men #67, X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1, All New X-Men #16, X-Men #5, Uncanny X-Men #12, and Wolverine and the X-Men #36.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Cultural Wormhole Presents: Avengers Now! Episode 10

Antony and Paul are back for a double-sized installment of Avengers Now! In this episode they catch up with the past two and a half month's worth of Avengers books. (Sorry in advance for the strange clicking noise that appears halfway through the episode)

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Avengers Now! - Young Avengers #7, Young Avengers #8, Young Avengers #9, Uncanny Avengers #10, Uncanny Avengers #11, Avengers #16, Avengers #17, New Avengers #8, Infinity #1, Avengers #18, New Avengers #9, Infinity #2, Avengers #19, Mighty Avengers #1, New Avengers #10, and Infinity #3.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Cultural Wormhole Presents: Valiant Future Episode 11

In this episode of Valiant Future, Adam, Joe (via the Faraway), and Paul discuss the first issue of Eternal Warrior as well as other recent releases from Valiant Entertainment.

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Valiant Future - Bloodshot #0, X-O Manowar #16, Shadowman #10, Quantum and Woody #3, Archer and Armstrong #13, and Eternal Warrior #1.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Review - X-Men #5

X-Men #5

Review by Paul Steven Brown

Writer: Brian Wood
Penciler: David Lopez
Inker: Cam Smith
Colorist: Laura Martin
Letterer: Joe Caramagna
Cover: Arthur Adams

Battle of the Atom continues to be an unconventional X-Men crossover. While this does involve the casts of four separate titles, this is currently an era of Marvel Comics in which there is large cross-pollination of characters between books. No longer is it just Wolverine starring in multiple titles; now mainstays such as Storm, Kitty Pryde, Beast, and Iceman are heavily featured in more than one book. Sometimes even three or four. Just about every member of the squad that is normally featured in Brian Wood's adjectiveless X-Men are regular cast members in other books. Jubilee has even been making an appearance in Astonishing X-Men as of late. 

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Cultural Wormhole Presents: FF Wormhole Episode 19

In this episode of FF Wormhole, we discuss some big News from the Negative Zone. Then we take a look back at the Month in F for August 2013. Plus, we go back to the past for another installment of Doctor Doom's Time Platform.

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Month in F - August 2013: Fantastic Four #11 and FF # 11

Doctor Doom's Time Platform: Fantastic Four #34 and Fantastic Four #35

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Cultural Wormhole Presents: X-Nation Episode 90

It's Month in X time and Antony, Elizabeth, and Paul have a look at the X-Men books that came out in August 2013.

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Month in X - August 2013 - X-Factor #260, X-Factor #261, Cable and X-Force #12, Cable and X-Force #13, Uncanny X-Force #10, Wolverine #8, Gambit #16, X-Men Legacy #15, Astonishing X-Men #65, Astonishing X-Men #66, All New X-Men #15, X-Men #4, Uncanny X-Men #10, Uncanny X-Men #11, Wolverine and the X-Men #34, and Wolverine and the X-Men #35.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Review - X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1

X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1

Review by Paul Steven Brown

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Art: Frank Cho w/ Stuart Immonen & Wade Von Grawbadger
Colorist: Marte Garcia
Lettering: Joe Caramagna
Cover Art: Art Adams

Another year... another X-Men crossover event. To be fair, last year's Avengers vs. X-Men was considered a company-wide crossover, but it certainly leaned heavy on mutant mythos and had rather large implications for the X-Men franchise. While that event and 2011's Schism shook things up for the mutant universe, Battle of the Atom seems, at least at the beginning, a far more subtle approach.

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Cultural Wormhole Presents: X-Nation X-Addiction Rewind Episode 8

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In this remastered, instatllment of X-Nation X-Addiction Rewind, Antony and Paul talk about the Month in X for January 2009, plus we look back at the Year in X for 2008, then we have some trivia fun in the Danger Room.