“These are two good boys talking about X-Men. I actually didn't know anything about X-Men other than the early 2000s movies when I started, but listening to them discuss the X-Men animated series and describe how surreal and weird it gets made me start watching along, and I discovered that I love X-Men. After the X-Men animated series, they went onto the hilariously bad Avengers: United They Stand, the kind-of-OK Incredible Hulk cartoon, and then X-Men: Evolution, a television show so bad that they changed the format.
From the end of 2019 onwards they started focusing on the comics. I had never read a comic book before, but I was along for the ride and subscribed to Marvel Unlimited so I could read Grant Morrison's New X-Men and continue listening to the show. The podcast is a very good companion piece to the comics, and I really appreciated Gary and Jeremy's insights, explaining the significance of things I didn't even notice when I originally read the comics, and explaining what the heck happens at the end of the run. It turns out Grant Morrison may not be the best first comic writer to read if you've never read comics before and find them hard to follow, but it was very enjoyable.
Currently they are going through the Age of Apocalypse event from the 90s, and it's pretty wild. They're really good at appreciating the source material while being very funny and dragging it quite a bit. Another thing I find important when getting into nerd fandom stuff is that the Duckfeed fellows strive to make their community a welcoming one, and so I appreciate that I can listen to this podcast and not worry that someone is going to casually use slurs or whine about there being too much diversity.”Read full review »
OK Fine I'll Do It via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
07/25/20
“Hopefully not too few for too long, as Gary and Jeremy's enthusiasm (and downright goofy humor in their riffing of the material that has my coworkers giving me odd looks as if I'm the crazy one) for their look into the X-Men animated series is so great almost to be infectious; but like...”Read full review »
dpoole88 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/19/16