Fantasy Comic League: January 2017 – Preview

The #FantasyComicLeague adds four new participants and grows into a two-headed monster in 2017! Much like the monsters the Marvel superheroes will be facing in the upcoming Monsters Unleashed crossover event. While behemoths and demons run rampant across the Marvel U in January, the war between the mutants and Inhumans turns heroes into monsters in Inhumans…

Fantasy Comic League: November 2016

The Deadpool Fantasy Deadpool Comic Deadpool League continued in the penultimate contest of the year as the Merc with the Mouth celebrated another victory as the league’s top hero! Brian (49) used Deadpool to overcome a sub par outing from Ms. Marvel, his mainstay hero, and won the month of November. Shaun (43) benefited once more from his dubious theories and…

Fantasy Comic League: October 2016

Deadpool is back in black and on top of the Fantasy Comic League’s most valuable character list! Matt (50 points) benefited from Deadpool’s 21-point month, but also exploited the league’s indifference to Karnak. The oft overlooked Inhuman scored a modest 11 points in his league debut, helping Matt score the monthly victory. Shaun (37 pts)…

Mixed Marvel Comics Giveaway – October 2016

This Halloween – and in celebration of our recent interview with Eric and Julia Lewald, two of the writers behind X-Men: The Animated Series – the Mixed Marvel Arts is having a Mutant Mash! Eight months after the events of Secret Wars, the X-Men are scattered and fighting against the Inhumans’ Terrigen cloud which is poisoning anybody with the…

Fantasy Comic League: September 2016

The third season of the 2016 Fantasy Comic League began the same way the second season had ended. Shaun tapped into Captain Marvel’s dominate Civil War performance to triumph over the rest of the participants. Carol and Black Panther, her Ultimates teammate, joined to score 45 of Shaun’s 58 points. Johnny used Spider-Man’s 23 points to edge out Brian when their two…

Fantasy Comic League: March 2016

The All-New, All-Different Avengers assembled for Brian and delivered him his second straight victory. Johnny continued his slow crawl up the ladder and Lash remained in the cellar. Shaun’s unorthodox approach to the draft earned him third place and introduced Howard the Duck and Adam Warlock to the league. The rookies only managed 15 points between the…

Fantasy Comic League: February 2016

Johnny triumphant! Not really, but it had been a full year, since February 2015, since he placed higher than last in the Fantasy Comic League. Spider-Man’s league-leading, twenty-point month netted Johnny a third place finish and slightly edged out Lash’s team by one point. Lash retained three-quarters of his January-winning team and secured the same number of overall points,…

Fantasy Comic League: December 2015

The final season of the 2015 Fantasy Comic League ended in a tight race. Shaun and Brian tied for the most points in December, but Spider-Man decimated the other heroes by scoring 27 points while appearing in league-leading nine comics. Spidey’s heroic effort gave Shaun the overall win thanks to the tiebreaker rules implemented at the start of the…

Episode 56 – In Defense of Jessica Jones

The Mixed Marvel Arts Podcast stands in support of Jessica Jones and all Marvel heroines! Brian and Shaun review Netflix’ second Marvel series, Jessica Jones and the first trailer for Captain America: Civil War. Shaun evens the Fantasy Comic League score by narrowly defeating Lash in November. Brian and Shaun also discuss potential candidates for MMA Podcast year-end awards. Episode artwork:…