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A Brood Saga episode with no Brood!?! Don't worry, we've still got some spooky scaries set up in the issue order. Bring on Dracula! Ripped from the Gothic horror novel that bears his name, the Lord of the Vampires himself is after Storm as his next victim. Plus we take our first jaunt to Limbo and it is all but pleasant. Eldritch horrors abound as Belasco makes his move on little Illyana. No Brood, but still plenty of scary people taking the powers of others. For today's episode we're joined by our friend and longtime question contributor Chris!  Welcome Chris - 1:15 | Brood Bits - 7:00 | Uncanny X-Men 159 - 12:35 | Uncanny X-Men 160 - 41:48 | Thanks for joining us in our twenty seventh episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

Brood Gonna Brood! And they're coming in hot with some intense lore drops. Take the powerful alive for our queen mother! Justice for the space whales. You've just made a true enemy of Storm my Brood babies and I don't think you understand how big a problem that is. Plus let's visit the Pentagon on our day off? For today's episode we're joined by our friend Michael! Find Michael on Instagram at @vaderrino Welcome Michael / Vaderrino - 2:05 | Brood Bits - 6:14 | Uncanny X-Men 156 - 12:55 | Uncanny X-Men 157 - 33:32 | Uncanny X-Men 158 - 59:32 | Thanks for joining us in our twenty sixth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

Make More Mutants! Chairman really took that and ran with it. We're kicking off the DNX comics event with the first two issues, as well as some conversation around the lead up. Spoiler alert, we both enjoyed it! There's a lot of good mutant activity going on in our lives!  DNX Poll - 6:44 | DNX Lead Up - 09:29 | DNX #1 - 17:54 | X-Men #37 - 37:41 | What’s Next - 51:01 | Community Reactions - 54:54 | Thanks for joining us in our twenty fifth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

Bring on the Brood! We're ready to dive into our next classic X story, with aliens abound! Destruction, intrigue! Long lost father figures come home! And just wait for The Mother of Us All!! We'll be covering the Brood Saga over the next handful of months on the show. Follow along! For today's episode we're joined by our friend Ryan! Find Ryan on Instagram at @jabo616! Welcome Ryan Jabo616 - 01:19 | Brood Bits - 07:58 | Uncanny X-Men 154- 13:48 | Uncanny X-Men 155 - 58:03 | Thanks for joining us in our twenty fourth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

A flurry of announcements coming out of D23 with mutants at the center of it all! Plus a sneaky way to talk about Spider-Man: Brand New Day and its future impact on our merry mutants. We're breaking down the confirmed cast, the potential narrative threads and what it all means for the MCU! Cast Announcement - 01:19 | Narrative Potential - 12:05 | Brand New Day - 27:05 | X-Men Comics - 55:36 | Thanks for joining us in our twenty third episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

Bring the mutants together, it's time for our annual sexy party! It's Hellfire time, y'all! We've done galas, we tried a vigil, but this year, let's really kill it with good times. Someone has died! Wolverine and Jubilee take it upon themselves to solve the who, how and why as tensions rise. Does anyone even care about the person that died?  News - 01:09 | Big Picture - Lewks, Feels, Reactions - 09:56 | First Four Episodes - 11:40 | Hellfire Murder - 19:18 | Thoughts and Reactions - 53:49 | Thanks for joining us in our twenty second episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

The 90's are everywhere!! We dive in on that sweet X-Men resurgence and talk through it across platforms. That's the first four episodes of the TV show, the first two issues of the companion comic and the first three episodes of the Unlimited scroller that goes further into the future. So. Much. 97. News? - 01:08 | Season Two Premiere - 06:26 | First Four Episodes - 11:40 | X-Men 97 Season 2 Comic - 35:57 | X-Men 97: Strike Files - 45:20 | Thanks for joining us in our twenty first episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

We're not ready to move on from that fiery hellscape that New York became in the 80s! A Free Comic Book Day happen chance at High Ground Comics puts a copy of "What If: X-Men Lost Inferno" into Alicia's hands. Maddie gets to win? Color us intrigued... We also talk about the new X-Men 97 Season 2 trailer X-Men 97 Season 2 Trailer - 2:30 | What If Scott and Madelyne Solcit- 11:30 | What If X-Men Lost - 12:26 | Thanks for joining us in our twentieth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

Can't get too far before another event peeks its head over the horizon. But after going through the details, we're actually pretty into this one! We're talking about the upcoming DNX! Haven't heard of DNX? Neither had Alicia! Free Comic Book Day gave us our first look at what's to come. We go through those new pages along with the solicitations and burning questions.  DNX Event Marketing Copy - 5:15 | Issue 1 Solicitation - 11:32 | Gifting Mutant Powers - 15:33 | Free Comic Book Day Preview - 22:01 | Thanks for joining us in our nineteenth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

We're taking on the third and final X-Men title in the From the Ashes' launch, Exceptional X-Men! Katherine Pryde brings us into her headspace as she wrestles with what it means to be a mutant in a post-Krakoa world. Does she even want to be an X-Man?  Part 1: Where We Start - 02:45 | Kate's turning her back on it all! She doesn't want to fight bad guys or train the next generation of mutants, she just wants to slang dranks and run from the weight of responsibility. Good luck! Quickly people start to find her, including new mutants, old friends, and manipulative bad guys. Even her past self has some things to say! We talk about the 13 issue arc of Exceptional X-Men from a full binge perspective. Part 2: Exceptional's Identity Narratives with Lodro Rinzler - 40:37 | We’re joined by our friend and X-Pert, Lodro Rinzler! Lodro is a writer, podcaster and Buddhist meditation teacher. We talk through the ways we and characters view ourselves, the narratives we reinforce and the basic goodness that lives within everyone - maybe not Mr. Sinister, jury's still out. Check out Lodro's new book "You Are Good, You Are Enough" to dive further into the themes we discuss, available wherever you get your books. Also listen to X-Men Horoscopes for delightful insights into the lives of X-fans through comics. Part 3: Thoughts and Questions - 01:27:15 | We check in with the voice of the people! We discuss reflections on the series as a whole, lingering questions, predictions and thorns in our sides.  Part 4: X-Men United #1 - 1:41:20 We wrap up our episode with a conversation about the first issue of X-Men United. What does this title bring to the line that's new and different? How does it expand the questions being asked - or ignored - in other titles? And what are the Exceptional kids doing as tutors!? Even Reggie... 🤨 Thanks for joining us in our eighteenth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

It's all been leading to this one folks! The showdown between every mutant hero we know and love and the big bad evil guy in the shadows. We take on the final two issues of this core event story and tee up where we'll go next in our X-Classics. For today's episode we're joined by our friend Gilly! Find them on Instagram at @gilly_cosplayz75! Gilly @gilly_cosplayz75 - 1:38 |  Setting the Scene - 6:03 |  Uncanny X-Men #243 - 15:25 |  X-Factor #39 - 43:00 |  Event Thoughts - 1:09:17 |  Thanks for joining us in our seventeenth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

Occasionally a new comic comes out that gets us so excited, we just have to talk about it. That was the feeling of Moonstar! We dive in and break down this first issue of Dani's solo mini series, spinning out of Ashley Allen's Magik solo run.  News - 1:02 |  Moonstar #1 - 7:13 |  Big Picture - 28:40 |  Thoughts & Questions - 30:49 |  Why Should I Buy? - 33:56 |  Thanks for joining us in our sixteenth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

Talk about a penultimate episode! Spoilers abound on those covers as we tackle three over-sized issues!! It's all lead to this as we tie up narrative threads from both Illyana's and Maddie's stories. Big feels for our leading ladies as we talk through the impact of their journeys. For today's episode we're joined by our friends Matt and Allison Parent from Escape the Mojoverse Podcast! Find them on Instagram at @escapethemojoverse ! Matt and Allison @escapethemojoverse - 2:00 |  Set the Scene - 14:23 |  New Mutants 73 - 18:17 |  Uncanny X-Men 242 - 42:10 |  X-Factor 38 - 1:07:30 |  Thanks for joining us in our fifteenth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

The dark future has been averted...? Well then why is it so shadowy and mysterious in the present! Our mutants are back in the 616 current narrative and have some new titles sharing the spinner rack. We go through the first 12 issues under the Shadows of Tomorrow umbrella, talking about our faves and those that aren't making the cut.  What are your top five books from this list? News - 2:13 Data is Beautiful - 6:55 X-Men 23 - 11:26 Wolverine 14 - 19:02 Uncanny X-Men 22 - 25:19 Rogue 1 - 33:10 Inglorious X-Force 1 - 40:36 X-Men 24 - 46:13 Uncanny X-Men 23 - 53:14 Magik & Colossus 1 - 58:46 Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant 1 - 1:06:38 Wolverine 15 - 1:16:22 Cyclops 1 - 1:17:24 Deadpool 1 - 1:25:18 Thanks for joining us in our fourteenth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.

Mr. Sinister, you are the father! Bombshells be dropping y'all as Maddie is pushed even further into chaos. Your Goblin Majesty has arrived!! The story threads are mixing together and getting all the more intense. Get ready for Part 4 of this X-Classic. Jump in with us by reading along! For today's episode we're joined by our friend Jordan! Find Jordan on Instagram at @pastryjordan! Jordan @pastryjordan - 2:15 Set the Scene - 7:33 New Mutants 72 - 12:08  Uncanny X-Men 241 - 29:25 X-Factor 37 - 50:11 Thanks for joining us in our thirteenth episode of an evolving new format. We’re trying out different ways to talk about things within continuity that excited us and we’d love to hear what you think! Leave us a review, send us a DM or shout from the telepathic rooftops! It’s all greatly appreciated.