Mutant Studies 101

Welcome to a new semester, students! Your professors are gearing up for this new era with a read-along of X-Men, Phoenix, and NYX #1! Highlights of this lecture include: Mourning the era that was while celebrating the new one, things we are excited about for this era, how we're feeling about the X-line as a whole, and who will be Marvel's first gay divorce! Content warning: some of the discussions...

Hope you have all your memories Students! Your professors are BACK and this time they're talking about one of the great loves of their lives: Logan Wolverine and his time as the elusive Patch! Highlights of this lecture include: Examining the issues of Orientalism surrounding Wolverine, how he fits into archetypal pop culture roles in the 20th century, exploring what it means to have a Japanese wr...

Welcome Back Students! after a brief hiatus, your favorite professors are back and ready to take office hours again. Tune into the first episode of our series Recitations, where we bring on a friend and explain a crazy X-Men plot to them! This week: The Mojoverse featuring our good friend Claire (@clairekryze)! Highlights of this lecture include: What is the Mojoverse? How does Longshot's story an...

Happy Pride, Students! In today's lecture, in honor of her new solo series coming this September, your professors confess their love, admiration, and slightly too convoluted feelings about one of the greatest cultural exports of mutant kind: Alison Blaire, the Disco Dazzler! Topics in this episode include: Who is Dazzler and why should you care? What is Morgan doing that will get this show cancell...

Welcome Back Students! In today's lecture, the first in a miniseries we will do that we are affectionately calling "Everything Is X-Men", Morgan lets Dean ramble on about one of his great loves: professional wrestling and how it is connected to the X-Men! Topics for this episode include: What is professional wrestling? How does professional wrestling use the same storytelling techniques as comics...

Welcome Back Students! In today's lecture, we take a deep dive into one of the most complicated characters in the story of the X-Men, Madelyne Pryor and her journey leading up to and through the classic story Inferno. Topics in this episode include: Who is Madelyne Pryor and why should you care? How she both plays into and subverts tropes that have historically been used against women, how differe...

Welcome Back Students! For today's lecture, your esteemed professors take a deep dive into a seminal text of The X-Men and a foundational reading of this podcast: Jonathan Hickman's 2019 dual-comic series House of X/Powers of X. Topics in this episode include: How this comic plays with both the form and content of a superhero story, Moira McTaggert's lives and how this was the most radical change...

Class is in session! Welcome students to Mutant Studies 101, a podcast where Dean (@Dean_of_X) and Morgan (@beakerbarnes) answer the question, "does the world really need another X-Men podcast???" Join two of your fellow mutants as they break down everything they love (and some things they hate) about the X-Men. ON THIS EPISODE: Our origin stories with the X-Men! How EVERYTHING is the X-Men! What'...