This week, we’re taking a look at Iron Man: Fatal Frontier, and traveling through the cosmos with Tony Stark. We’ll be looking at how the moon declared war on Earth, how Iron Man thought he could help, and why he began working with a lonely soviet robot. Also, we’re asking the big, important questions like: Is Tony Stark the dumbest Marvel hero ever?
Tag Archives: Spoilers & Weekly Summaries
Ep. 132: What Is Silver Surfer’s Whole Deal?
From cosmic nonsense to extensive retconning to time travel, Silver Surfer has it all! At least in terms of things that make some Doombots have psychotic meltdowns. However, Silver Surfer is also rad af, delightfully weird, and very unique, giving him a complexity that many cosmic characters don’t possess.
Ep. 130: What Do You Mean This Is Our 5th Anniversary Episode!?
It’s that’s time of the year again! The time to look back through old content that was too random, tangential, or vulgar to include in previous episodes, and bring it back into the spotlight to celebrate yet another year of madness! Thanks for sticking around for five years thusfar, and here’s to the next years to come!
Ep. 127: Did Thunderbolts Really Do Blackface? Why???
Sometimes, you have the best of intentions. Sometimes, that means using broken nanite technology to inexplicably make a white character appear to be Black character and experience discrimination and racial inequality for the first time. Is this a good way to tackle the subject of racism? Or is it a hamfisted and accidentally offensive narrative gimmick?
Ep. 125: Why Was Zeb Wells’ Run on Amazing Spider-Man So Divisive? (And Also, What Actually Happened?) 950 Covers, Part 4
After four long, complicated, very theater-of-the-mind-heavy episodes filled with Zach poorly describing very busy Spider-Man covers, we’ve reached the end of this insane experiment! And this week, with our final episode on all 950 Amazing Spider-Man covers, we’re tackling the infamous and divisive run helmed by Zeb Wells!
Ep. 117: What Happened in Marvel Comics in 2024? (The Year in Review)
This year has been filled with a lot of great comics — and a lot of other comics as well! In honor of another year on the books, Zach and Searnold are looking back at what stories were told, what characters drastically changed, and how Captain America has become friends with a penguin
Ep. 109: Who Are the Animal Heroes of ‘Marvel Unleashed’? (And What Are Some Other Good Recent Miniseries?)
This week, Searnold breaks down the adventures of Marvel’s heroic pets, as well as explains why Thanos kidnapped the town of Fresno, California, why the Winter Soldier decided to hunt down Red Skull with a new band of Thunderbolts, and how White Widow is adapting to life in the suburbs with neighbors.
Ep. 107: What Did the X-Men Do To Try and Stop Orchis During Fall of X?
In part 2 of our 3-part recapping saga, Searnold tells Zach all about the surviving mutants who got scattered across the globe amid the Fall of X saga, and their various (sometimes seemingly ineffective) efforts to stop Orchis from killing all of mutant kind.
Ep 99: What’s the Deal With Magneto? (And How does ‘X-Men ’97’ Compare to the Comics?)
This week, The Doombots started off wanting to talk about how the X-Men ’97 storylines compare to the comic storylines. But then, Zach’s brain broke just because of Magneto.
Ep. 94: What Was the Ultimate Universe? (And How Did It Jump the Shark?)
This week’s Doombots Podcast is all about the Ultimate Universe, Marvel’s effort to create a grittier world with less convoluted storylines, which quickly went off the rails.
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