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X-Men fans hate Avengers fans. Maybe. I don't know, sometimes I think it's just fun to do jokes and it doesn't count as "punching down" when The Avengers are the most popular thing in m…

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A couple times a year, an Exiles fan asks us to talk about comics that they like and we don't. No one is happy with this and yet we still do it. Ranked This Episode:

• Exiles #90-94 (Ene…

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Very famous author Emily Harding of Emma of 83rd Street joins us to talk about another Emma you might know. Emma Frost. Who has never actual read Jane Austen.

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• Emma…

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Rogue man, we all know she was a villian before joining the X-Men but for people who only read X-Men (aka listeners of this podcast, I assume) they might not have seen everywhere she sh…

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Welcome to the Attitude Era. Hope you survive the experience.

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• Ultimate X-Men #75-78 (Cable)
• Ultimate Comics: X-Men #1-12
• Ultimate Comics: X-Men #13-18 (Divided We …

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Episode #300 of Battle Of The Atom brings an event foretold by the sages. Ranknarok: The Rereankening. Also Brian Michael Bendis stops by for a great discussion on his time on the X-Men…

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What if I told you that the world of 2099 is a concept that often has diminishing returns? You would probably believe me. Anyway, this one is for the boys with the booming systems.

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It's a Cyclops week where, let me tell you what, we forgot how annoying the M-Pox era was for all of us.

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• Cyclops (2010) #1 
• Champions vol 3 #5 (War Of The Realms)
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While editing this episode, Adam made a list of the stuff Zack trash talks in it:

• Elon Musk
• Back to the Future
• All 80s Movies
• Vision
• All of Post-Romita Sr Spider-Man
• Nick Spencer
• Stefa…

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The Dark Phoenix Saga is the defining story in X-Men, and no character is more impacted by it than Jean Grey. This episode asks, perchance, what if stories didn't think about it?

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We return to 2099 with a vengeance. Unfortunately, we are beginning to understand why these books were canceled with a vengeance. An unexpected, and historic, episode.

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We once again enter the weird world of Legion and let me tell you what, the takes in this episode? They are smoking hot.

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• X-Men: Legacy #1-6 (Prodigal)
• X-Men: Legacy #251-253 (L…

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We're doing the Brood this time. It's the one where the Brood Queen was most likely to go to heaven.

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• X-Men Vs The Brood
• Astonishing X-Men #38,40,42 (Meanwhile)
• Cable vol 2 #16-…

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This one is about Iceman and, as promised, we make an insufferable amount of ice puns. Ranked This Episode:

• Iceman Vol 2
• Astonishing X-Men #62-65
• Bizarre Adventure #27

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The rules? They no longer apply to us. We've decided to stretch the premise of the podcast past the logical conclusion and into a world where frankly, nothing is ever the same. Looks fo…

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A lot of people will be upset about the Morph we are spending the episode with. Those people need to remember that we are a podcast named after a Bendis event. Here's your reminder to g…

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Shinobi Shaw should have been a big deal right? Instead he's always getting into it with teenagers. The dude just needs to chill.

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• Child's Play: X-Force/New Warrior…

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The X-Men are always infighting. That's why we love them. But this episode posits that maybe sometimes they fight versions of the original five X-Men as a bit? We're committed to it. Al…

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It's time, finally, the reason we started this show! Zack finally gets to talk to someone about X-Men 2099. Get ready for the critical reevaluation of the century.

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Adam was busy so Zack called up Connor Goldsmith from Cerebro to talk about the Age of Apocalypse. Shocking no one, there's a mean lady that Connor has no choice but to stan.

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