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The Reason Why I Dropped Uncanny X-Men All Those Years Ago

For years I have mentioned that I was a huge Uncanny X-men fan/collector until they pissed me off with two issues that teased something that wouldn’t happen. I thought they both had “The Final Fate of An X-Man” on the title, but only one did. Any way, I was pissed with issue 247 because it [...]

Madelyne Pryor

As most listeners of Comic Book Noise know, Cyclops is my favorite member of the X-Men and one of my favorite comic book characters. That said, I always preferred Madelyne Pryor-Summers, his wife, to his old girlfriend, Jean Grey, and it bummed me out when he ran out on Maddie and the baby. Tom Brevoort [...]

Comic Book Noise 250: Top Five Favorite X-Men Villains

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Host Derek Coward talks about the history of some of the Comic Book Noise family shows, then goes over his top five favorite X-Men villains.

My Top Ten Writers

I have a database for my comic books called Comic Collector. One of my favorite features is called Statistics. As of 10/5/2010, here is a list of the ten comic book writers who show up the most in my collection. 1. Mark Waid 2. Keith Giffen 3. Chris Claremont 4. Chuck Dixon 5. Geoff Johns [...]

Marvel Noise Episode 100: King Size Extravaganza!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is it!  The King-Size 100th episode of Marvel Noise!  And it’s packed with goodness.  New Releases!  Voicemails!  Marvel History Lesson!  Steve and Alan sit down to talk about Marvel’s 100th issues!  The first installment of a new segment (courtesy of Rick) – Smash Tales!  And the return [...]

Comic Book Noise 167: The Teen Titans

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Host Derek Coward talks about his remembrances of The Teen Titans. Since this is coming off the top of his head, he struggles to remember all of the black DC superheroes from the early 80s, casts aspersions on the appearance of Chief O’Hara and finally runs out of [...]

X-Men: The Final Stand

[Spoilers in this post] I finally saw the third X-Men movie, X-Men: The Final Stand. The movie that came out in 2006 and has been playing on FX for the past few months. The movie that most other comic book podcasters and comic book readers have seen already. That movie. I wanted to not like [...]

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