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Hosted by Bret and Matt · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 16 episodes
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Join Bret and Matt as they go episode-by-episode through the animated revival series X-Men '97, explore their histories with the X-Men franchise in its various incarnations, and approach it all with an irreverent sense of humor. Original music provided by Cheer Captain (https://cheercaptain.bandcamp.com/)!
Bret and Matt hosts Manchildren of the Atom, a tv show with 16 episodes published.
Let's make a pit stop in the 90's in between far flung eras and hang out with X-Force and X-Factor! Actually, let's not hang out with X-Factor, they're "just following orders" types in this adaptation! Matt and Bret talk
Season 2 is here! The X-Men are back... to the future! And the past! And the present! But this time, mostly the future! And Matt and Bret have things to say about it, and also about X-Men cross-promotional tie-ins with r
Bret and Matt are back one more time before Season 2 launches in July to react to the OFFICIAL trailer for X-Men '97 Season 2 (no bootlegs this time) and fancast another fictional X-Men movie, this time from the 1980's b
Matt and Bret share their thoughts on the leaked X-Men '97 Season 2 teaser trailer, discuss the obvious antagonist of the upcoming season, Apocalypse, revisit the history of X-spinoff teams and lineups, and finally go ba
Matt and Bret are back just for the love of the game after a long hiatus and they're talking about the 1989 X-Men animated pilot episode "Pryde of the X-Men" featuring Australian Wolverine, spherical hard drives, unexpla
Matt and Bret are plunging straight ahead to the finish line, serving up discussion of episodes 4 through 9 of Daredevil: Born Again - that's the entire rest of the season for those of you keeping score! What worked? Wha
Matt and Bret talk about recent reading (Excalibur! Avengers! Columbine!) and the third episode of Dardevil: Born Again. Along the way they ask the hard questions, like which fictional newspaper is more famous: The Daily
We are joined by Graham aka Cheer Captain to talk about what makes the X-Men Animated Series theme song (and by extension our own theme song) tick and superhero media themes and scores more generally. And then we dive in
Matt and Bret continue their look at Daredevil: Born Again with the much improved second episode as well as talking about reading through compilation volumes of old comics and even the secret nickname of the late Dr. Ste
Welcome listeners to Manchildren of the Atom Presents: The Manchildren Without Fear! We are checking out Daredevil: Born Again to get a taste of following a current show as it airs (or close enough to it) in preparation
It's the JUMBO-sized Season 1 Recap extravaganza! Matt and Bret talk about the full first season of X-Men '97, bang out a couple of tier lists (check the Bluesky for the visual), provide live coverage from the 1st Manchi
It's the last episode of X-Men '97 Season 1 and Matt and Bret are here to ride the falling asteroid all the way down, Dr. Strangelove style! Psychic violations, pyrotechnic amputations, polymorphic love proclamations...
Matt and Bret discuss the middle chapter of the three-part season finale of X-Men '97 Season 1 and go way off course talking about old comics issues, filmmaking techniques, and the insane ratio of good Magneto lines to P
The season finale three-parter begins and Bret and Matt just wish they could try getting pulled through a Nightcrawler teleport too! They also talk about some exciting vacation destinations within the world of the X-Men!
The X-Men globe hop and pick up the pieces after the events of Episode 5. Matt and Bret are along for the ride to Genosha, Mexico, Brazil, and Madripoor and then guess their way through some Songs in the Key of X! Music
Avian adversaries abound (and Professor X maybe gets bound) in X-Men 97's sixth episode! Matt and Bret talk it through and play Would You Rather?: Mutant Edition! Music by Cheer Captain!
Bret and Matt welcome their first guest, John Regan of CactusHead Puppets as they ride the emotional roller coaster that is the brutal 5th episode of X-Men '97. Music by Cheer Captain!
It's pixel parties and chili dates for the X-Men, and they've invited Matt and Bret along! Plus a stroll through the history of X-Men video games including a chance to separate the real game titles from some imposters. M
Send in the (brimstone) clones! Bret and Matt hang on for dear life as the third episode of X-Men '97 sprints through a season's worth of material in a single episode. And their mics don't suck anymore - butter smooth au
Magneto takes center stage in a banger of an episode! Bret and Matt are somewhere off in a balcony yukking it up like a couple of elderly muppets. Everybody wins! Music by Cheer Captain!
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