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Uncanny Treks
by Bob and Matt
In this podcast, we explore the many different worlds of Star Trek, Babylon 5, Marvel, DC Comics, and everything in between.
Episodes
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X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice: An Introduction
From the Uncanny Treks Vault — this episode was originally released on Patreon and is now available to all listeners. Bob and Matt introduce their newest podcast endeavor: a head-to-head showdown between X-Men: The Animated Series (1992) and Young Justice (2010). They lay out the rules and what…
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Uncanny Treks: Legion of Super-Heroes (1964, Comic)
Bob and Matt continue their Legion of Super-Heroes read-through with Adventure Comics #316–330 (1964–1965). The Time Trapper emerges as the slow-build Big Bad, Dream Girl joins the team, Lightning Lass becomes Light Lass, and the Legion faces mutiny, a wig, and an android identity crisis. Covered...
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Uncanny Treks: Legion of Super-Heroes (1962, Comic)
Now we're in the real Silver Age weirdness. Bob and Matt tackle the first regular Legion of Super-Heroes run — sixteen issues of Adventure Comics starting at #300, where the Legion takes over the slot vacated by Tales of Bizarro World. Lightning Lad's shocking death, Mon-El the amnesiac lost...
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Uncanny Treks: Legion of Super-Heroes (1957, Comic)
Bob has been threatening this for literal years. The Silver Age Legion of Super-Heroes journey begins with the pre-history: Adventure Comics #237 and #247, Action Comics #267 and #276, Superboy #89, and Adventure #293 — the scattered early appearances where three teens from the future keep…
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek- Strange New Worlds Season 4 Recap (2026, TV)
Season four: the gimmick season. Bob and Matt wrap Strange New Worlds' fourth year — a trip, by any measure — by sorting the episodes into the categories they've used since season one and arguing about which ones actually worked. Bob did the homework, mapping every episode to its thematic engine;...
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek-Strange New Worlds S4E10 (2026, TV)
One last gimmick: what if they just made a Next Generation episode? Bob called it, and the Strange New Worlds season-four finale delivers — classic-series looks wrapped around plots riffing on TNG favorites, under a title borrowed from one of Trek's best hours. Bob and Matt savor the finale…
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek-Strange New Worlds S4E9 (2026, TV)
Not the finale! Matt's brain — broken by X-Men '97's nine-episode season — insists 'Once La'an a Time' must be the end, but Strange New Worlds has one more to go. Bob and Matt dig into the penultimate episode, take stock of a hijinks-packed season, and detour into their Star Trek comic-book woes...
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Uncanny Treks: Knightfall Part One- Knightfall (2026, Film)
The Bat gets broken. Bob and Matt kick off their look at the DC animated adaptation of Knightfall — though the film calls itself 'Nightfall,' a title neither host will forgive. It's the landmark '90s saga where Bane empties Arkham Asylum and does what no villain had ever done, and Matt has been...
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek-Strange New Worlds S4E8 (2026, TV)
No more hijinks. 'Orders of Magnitude' — what a pun — is Strange New Worlds getting serious, and the internet thinks it's turned the season around. Bob and Matt air their accumulated grievances, praise the steadier hand, and debate the crew's least favorite regular (the Rom of Strange New…
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek-Strange New Worlds S4E7 (2026, TV)
Cue the soft music: it's the soap opera episode. 'Like Chronitrons Through the Hourglass' — yes, the overlong, pretentious title is the point — sends Strange New Worlds full melodrama, and Bob and Matt are here for it. They revel in the soapy excess, celebrate the return of mad-scientist Chapel...
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek-Strange New Worlds S4E6 (2026, TV)
Crisis on the Enterprise — and it's freaky. 'Off Hour' puts the ship through a gory wringer and nearly kills M'Benga, which prompts Matt's big text-message thesis: the prequel problem. When you know Spock, Chapel, and M'Benga all survive, can the show still make you sweat? Bob and Matt argue it...
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Uncanny Treks: Lanterns S1E1-3 (2026, TV)
True Lantern — sorry, Lanterns. Bob was so angry about episode three of HBO's Green Lantern series that he demanded a podcast about it, so here it is: the first three episodes, from True Detective comparisons to whatever that ending was. Matt plays defense, Bob plays prosecution, and the notes...
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek-Strange New Worlds S4E5 (2026, TV)
It's the Muppet episode. Bob and Matt confront 'Level Five Transporter Accident' — Pike as a Muppet, childhood nostalgia weaponized, and the most controversial Strange New Worlds episode yet. Matt revisits his Muppet Babies-and-Fraggle-Rock youth; Bob defends the chaos. Their verdict: it could…
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek-Strange New Worlds S4E4 (2026, TV)
Bob butchers Italian so you don't have to. 'A Case of Chiaroscuro' gets the full pronunciation-meltdown treatment before Bob and Matt admit it: this may not be the most interesting Strange New Worlds episode. The internet half-agrees — one viewer's plea, 'can the bit be what if we did a normal…
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek-Strange New Worlds S4E3 (2026, TV)
The stoner comedy episode. Bob and Matt return to Strange New Worlds with 'Human Best Friend,' catching up after a busy stretch in the real world — and letting the dust settle on the season's most controversial episodes first. Is it cringe? One viewer's verdict: 'It's like a Voyager level cringe...
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Uncanny Treks: FF #9-16 (2013, Comic)
Family Freakout! Bob and Matt wrap their coverage of Fraction and Allred's FF with issues #9-16 — and immediately disagree: Matt found them confusing without the companion Fantastic Four run, Bob hard-disagrees. They rally around the Ant-Man, She-Hulk, Medusa, and Ms. Thing weirdness, salute...
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Uncanny Treks: FF #1-8 (2012, Comic)
School's in session! Bob and Matt dive into the first eight issues of Matt Fraction and Mike Allred's FF — the all-ages, all-weird spinoff where Ant-Man inherits the Future Foundation and its team of kid geniuses. With She-Hulk, Medusa, and Ms. Thing rounding out the strangest faculty in comics,...
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Uncanny Treks: Batman-Caped Crusader Season 2 E6-10 (2026, TV)
The back half, and the end of the road. Bob and Matt finish Batman: Caped Crusader's second season — a show they admire precisely because it's a re-imagining rather than a straight restart, committed to doing something new with familiar material even when not every swing connects. They pick...
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Uncanny Treks: Batman-Caped Crusader Season 2 E1-5 (2026, TV)
The Bat returns — reimagined, not restarted. Bob and Matt begin their two-part trek through Batman: Caped Crusader's second season, covering the first five episodes of the stylish animated noir. They revisit the show's boldest swings (yes, including the ginger-swapped Penguin), debate the new…
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Uncanny Treks: My Adventures with Superman Season 3 Recap (2026, TV)
It's MAWS season. Bob — who hates the title My Adventures with Superman so much he refuses to say it — finally convinces Matt to watch season three, and the two look back on the whole run of the 2023 Superman show. They covered nearly every episode of the first two seasons, but does season three...
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men '97 Season 2 Recap (2026, TV)
The season in full. Bob and Matt wrap their X-Men '97 Season 2 coverage with a complete overhaul — one long story with a definite beginning, middle, and end, full of surprises, deaths, and resurrections. Online opinions are all over the place, but the hosts are easier to satisfy: as Bob taught...
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men '97 S2E9 (2026, TV)
Nine episodes? Come on, give us more X-Men! Bob and Matt close out X-Men '97's second season with 'Survival of the Fittest' — starting with Bob's grievance about a recap that drags on forever. They celebrate the X-Factor members finally getting to cook (Multiple Man, Siryn, and Strong Guy shine),...
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men '97 S2E8 (2026, TV)
The penultimate episode, and the fans are furious. Bob and Matt wade into 'Dead Man's Hand,' the controversial X-Men '97 lead-in to the finale that many found rushed — especially its handling of Gambit, resurrected by Apocalypse and gone too soon. They sort the fair complaints from the noise…
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek- Strange New Worlds S4E2 (2026, TV)
Something spooky aboard the Enterprise. Bob and Matt tackle 'The Griffin Incident,' Strange New Worlds' full-throated swing at sci-fi horror — gory, tense, and unlike anything the show has tried. They get hung up on the episode's enormous shuttle set (where did that giant window come from?), then...
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men '97 S2E7 (2026, TV)
Welcome to the Savage Land! Bob and Matt break down X-Men '97's seventh episode, 'Strange Land, Savage Heart' — a Wolverine spotlight stuffed with lovingly recreated comic-book imagery, including a promo shot lifted straight from New X-Men. They dig into the episode's pulp-adventure pleasures,...
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Uncanny Treks: New X-Men Vol. 7- “Here Comes Tomorrow" (2004, Comic)
One hundred fifty years later. Bob and Matt close Morrison's New X-Men with Here Comes Tomorrow — the far-future finale where a battered, haunted X-Men make their last stand and the Scott-and-Emma era gets its official blessing. It's big, strange, and oddly moving after forty-one issues of…
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Uncanny Treks: New X-Men Vol. 6- “Planet X" (2003, Comic)
Xorn was Magneto all along. Bob and Matt reach Planet X — the volume where Morrison's long game detonates: the gentle healer unmasks as Magneto, New York burns, and Jean Grey dies (again — but this time it sticks for a while). The most controversial twist in modern X-Men, litigated in full.…
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Uncanny Treks: Star Trek- Strange New Worlds S4E1 (2026, TV)
The Enterprise just killed the dinosaurs. Bob and Matt return to Strange New Worlds for the season-four premiere, 'Valles Marineris' — a Category 10 time-storm hurls the ship 65 million years into the past, where the crew accidentally engineers Mars's annihilation and the asteroid that ends the...
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men '97 S2E6 (2026, TV)
The Danger Room has opinions. Bob and Matt break down 'Danger.exe' — X-Men '97's take on the training room turned trap, and the geekiest title of the season. When the simulation stops playing nice, the team's got one very bad program to debug. Matt's theorizing about who's really running it; Bob...
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Uncanny Treks: New X-Men Vol. 5- “Assault on Weapon Plus" (2003, Comic)
Somebody's killing mutants at the mansion. Bob and Matt open Assault on Weapon Plus with 'Murder at the Mansion' — Bishop, Sage, Emma, and Jean on the case — then follow Wolverine and Cyclops into the Weapon Plus program and Fantomex's accelerated-time laboratory, the World. It's Morrison's...
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Uncanny Treks: New X-Men Vol. 4- “Riot at Xaviers" (2003, Comic)
Quentin Quire ruins everything. Bob and Matt hit Riot at Xavier's — the volume many fans call the peak of Morrison's run, as the omega-level punk's Kick-fueled rampage turns the school into a war zone. It's X-Men as generational warfare, and it still stings two decades later. Matt's ironically…
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Uncanny Treks: New X-Men Vol. 3- “New Worlds” (2002, Comic)
After the Nova nightmare, school starts. Bob and Matt take on New Worlds — Morrison's breather volume, with Xorn's Special Class, the organ-harvesting U-Men, and the X-Men trying to be teachers again. It's the run's quietest book and maybe its strangest. Matt's grading the new students; Bob can't...
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Uncanny Treks: New X-Men Vol. 2- “Imperial” (2002, Comic)
The Shi'ar come calling. Bob and Matt continue Morrison's New X-Men with Imperial — Cassandra Nova hijacks Xavier's body and turns the Imperial Guard into her weapon, while a mysterious healer named Xorn joins the mansion staff. It's space opera as psychological horror, and the run's engine room....
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Uncanny Treks: New X-Men Vol. 1- “E is for Extinction” (2002, Comic)
Grant Morrison's X-Men starts with a genocide. Bob and Matt begin the landmark run with E Is for Extinction — Cassandra Nova, Xavier's evil twin, annihilates 16 million mutants on Genosha in the opening arc, and nothing about the X-Men is safe afterward. New black-and-yellow uniforms, new…
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men '97 S2E5 (2026, TV)
The punniest title of the season. Bob and Matt take on 'Weapon X, Lies, and Video Games' — the Soderbergh riff sets the tone, but the Weapon X business is dead serious, as the show digs into its darkest corner yet. Whatever the season's been building toward, this is the episode that sharpens it....
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men '97 S2E4 (2026, TV)
Apocalypse rises — part two. Bob and Matt break down 'Rise of Apocalypse Part 2,' as X-Men '97's Apocalypse two-parter reaches its climax and En Sabah Nur's endgame snaps into focus. The season's been building to this since the premiere, and the payoff is pure Saturday-morning maximalism. Matt's...
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Uncanny Treks: Supergirl (2026, Film)
Bob went to the movies without Matt. The DCU's Supergirl has landed — Milly Alcock's Kara, Craig Gillespie directing, Jason Momoa chewing scenery as Lobo, all adapted from Tom King's Woman of Tomorrow — and Bob returns with a full spoiler report. Does the drunk, jaded Kara of the comics survive…
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men '97 S2E1-3 (2026, TV)
Season two is go. Bob and Matt dive into the first three X-Men '97 episodes — 'To Me, My X-Men' picks up the time-scattered pieces, then 'A Force to Be Reckoned With' goes full X-Force, with Cable recruiting Psylocke, Archangel, Jubilee, and Sunspot (the show even swaps its own intro to match).…
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Uncanny Treks: Spider-Man & Batman (1995 & 1997, Comic)
When Marvel met DC — twice. Bob and Matt revisit J.M. DeMatteis's two Batman/Spider-Man crossovers: 1995's Disordered Minds (Mark Bagley), teaming the heroes against Joker and Carnage, and 1997's New Age Dawning (Graham Nolan), with Ra's al Ghul blackmailing the Kingpin. It's the purest '90s...
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Uncanny Treks: Spider-Man '94- The Return (2025, Comic)
Thirty years later, the cliffhanger gets its ending. Bob and Matt swing into Spider-Man '94, J.M. DeMatteis and Jim Towe's 2025 five-issue continuation of the beloved animated series — Peter and MJ reunited after the multiverse, with Morlun and Kaine debuting in this universe. DeMatteis wrote on...
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Uncanny Treks: Supergirl- The Girl of No Tomorrow (2018, Comic)
The Emerald Empress wants Kara erased. Bob and Matt wrap Orlando's opening trilogy with The Girl of No Tomorrow — the Fatal Five's deadliest member rewriting history so Supergirl never existed, annual included. It's high-concept time villainy on a Rebirth budget. Matt's into the ambition; Bob's...
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Uncanny Treks: Supergirl- Escape from the Phantom Zone (2017, Comic)
Into the Zone. Bob and Matt continue Orlando's Supergirl with Escape from the Phantom Zone — Kara trapped in the Kryptonian prison dimension, where the inmates are the worst of the worst and the exits are purely theoretical. A Batgirl annual team-up pads the trade. It's the run's big swing at...
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Uncanny Treks: Supergirl- Reign of the Cyborg Supermen (2017, Comic)
Rebirth, but make it Supergirl. Bob and Matt start Steve Orlando's run with Reign of the Cyborg Supermen — Kara back in National City, juggling high school and the DEO, while her father Zor-El returns as the Cyborg Superman with a twisted plan for Argo City's survivors. Teenage optimism versus...
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Uncanny Treks: Supergirl- Woman of Tomorrow (2021, Comic)
Supergirl gets the True Grit treatment. Bob and Matt dive into Tom King and Bilquis Evely's 2021 masterpiece — Kara Zor-El, drunk and adrift under a red sun, dragged across the cosmos on a revenge quest by young Ruthye, all to settle with Krem of the Yellow Hills. It's a space western about…
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men 97' Season 2 #1 (2026, Comic)
The cartoon continues — in comics. Bob and Matt crack open X-Men '97: Season Two #1, Steve Foxe and Salva Espin's June 2026 prelude bridging the seasons: with the senior X-Men lost in time, Bishop, Forge, Jubilee, and Sunspot hold the present against a world that hunts mutantkind. It's canon…
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Uncanny Treks: Batman H2sh (2026, Comic)
Bob and Matt discuss the final issues of H2sh Part 1 and the future for the Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee dumpster fire. (Spoilers for this episode) Current Comic Rankings: Fantastic Four #1-87 (‘61) Jack Kirby & Stan Lee New X-Men (‘01) Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Phil Jimenez, & al. Fantastic 4…
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men Grand Design- X-Tinction (2019, Comic)
It ends in fire. Bob and Matt close out Ed Piskor's Grand Design trilogy with X-Tinction, the 2019 finale taking on the Dark Phoenix Saga and the climax of the era Piskor set out to canonize. Three volumes, one thesis: X-Men history is a beautiful mess, and the mess is the point. Matt grades the...
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men Grand Design- 2nd Genesis (2018, Comic)
The new kids arrive. Bob and Matt continue Piskor's Grand Design with Second Genesis, the 2018 volume covering Giant-Size X-Men #1 and the All-New, All-Different era — Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and the slow fade of the original five. Piskor's thesis: the '70s X-Men were a soft...
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Uncanny Treks: Fantastic Four 1234 (2001, Comic)
Grant Morrison does the Fantastic Four — and it's deeply weird. Bob and Matt dig into 1234, the 2001 four-issue miniseries with Jae Lee's gorgeously shadowy art, dragging Marvel's first family through psychological horror under Doctor Doom's long shadow. It's the FF as prestige drama before...
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Uncanny Treks: X-Men Grand Design #1-2 (2017, Comic)
Ed Piskor eats the '60s for breakfast. Bob and Matt start the Grand Design trilogy with Piskor's 2017 first volume, compressing the original Lee-Kirby-Thomas X-Men — every Sentinel, every Magneto scheme, all the melodrama — into two dense, gloriously grotty issues. It's X-Men history as…
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