Mutant Menace

Hop in, we're going to medieval Scotland! And several potential futures! And deep space! And Limbo! All, of course, with the New Mutants! They're on the run through space and time trying to escape incredible threats, and damn is it a good story! Tune in! TOPICS DISCUSSED: Lots of emails. Home Improvement extended theme. Diet Hell. Green and evil. Time travel frustrations. I’m just a boy. Empty-nes...

Issues: X-Factor 9-11, Uncanny X-Men 211-213, New Mutants 46, Power Pack 27, Mighty Thor 373-374, Daredevil 238 A GIANT-SIZED EPISODE for a GIANT-SIZED STORY. The first major mutant crossover, as the X-Men face their darkest hour. Somebody is killing Morlocks, and the X-Men arrive... too late? This crossover sees the end of an era and ushers in the beginning of another as characters die, others ar...

Issues: Iron Man Annual #8, Amazing Spider-Man #282, Web of Spider-Man Annual #2 THIS BONUS EPISODE IS UNDER AN HOUR. I don't care what your iPod Nano says. We're covering a bunch of random issues that didn't fit into our other episodes and holy hell are they weird and fun. Topics Covered: Gotta keep it moving. MP3 players. A talking dancing frog that is NOT Michigan J. Frog. Project Pegasus. Unde...

Issues: Iron Fist #14, Power Man & Iron Fist #66, #78, #84, Peter Parker: Spectacular Spider-Man #116, #119 Before we dive into the Mutant Massacre, we have one last stop to make: Who is this maniacal, animalistic assassin who has been lurking around the Marvel Universe for the past 10 years? His name is Sabretooth and he's got quite a history. Topics Discussed: Snowfire! Bullets are always cr...

Issues: New Mutants Annual #2 & X-Men Annual #10 There's a scary new villain on the scene, folks! Mojo, the Lifebringer! Tune in as we cover his first couple appearances post-Longshot and scare ourselves silly! Plus, New Mutants and X-Men working together...and even fighting!?! Plus lots of nudity! Join us! TOPICS DISCUSSED: A pink man. Bad time Benjamin. Heavy edits. Supergirl. Psylocke! Capt...

Hey everyone! Sorry about no episode this week, but in lieu of our normal X-Men rantings, we thought we'd give you a little taste of what we have goin' on over in the Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/MutantMenace For as low as $1/month, you can get these short little nuggets of comedy... there are 6 so far and more to come (when we remember to do them). Plus, Outtakes (even more occasionally) AND...

Join us this week on a little detour from our usual titles, as we meet a few major future X-characters in Ann Nocenti and Art Adams' Longshot miniseries! It's weird! It's funny! It's dark and sometimes terrifying! And seriously, it's very very funny, we get a little giggly. Tune in! TOPICS DISCUSSED Ann Nocenti’s cat. A little guy. Limahl. Con-Ed. Longshot! Spiral! Eliot! Ricochet Rita! A stuntman...

Holy cow. These are some wild issues folks. Claremont is back to form, firing on all cylinders and peppering us full of GOOD STORY. If only we weren't a LANTERNS podcast now, we could cover the end of Rachel Summers, Phoenix, as well as the prelude to the Mutant Massacre... Oh well, guess you'll just have to get really into LANTERNS now. Topics Mentioned: Hive Mind Gang. A fucked-up, twisted Warri...

Hope you're ready for friendship, folks! Because the New Mutants are back after taking a little break from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in the Back to School Special! Come hear how Sam and Dani spent their summer vacations, take a field trip with the gang to a rival school, attend a school dance, and even give a school assembly! Oh, and some really fucked up stuff, mostly in Power Pack. T...

You can't call these guys the X-Men anymore! They're X-Factor. And they've got a brand new foe who wears a gimp mask! Or, wait, no, he doesn't. It's Apocalypse!  We start the Louise Simonson era of X-Factor and it absolutely rules! Topics Discussed: Saying your own name. A Beef Thief. Va-Va-Va-VOOM! A darker side of Bob Layton. The Alliance of Evil. The worst kept secret. Harmless Heroin. S&a...

This is definitely our angriest episode. We finish off Alpha Flight and Bill Mantlo makes many decisions that make us absolutely furious. But also plenty of absurd ones that make us laugh, so there's still plenty of joy in this episode! I promise! We find out who Puck REALLY is (ugh) and the (semi-)ultimate fates of Heather Hudson, Shaman, Snowbird, Sasquatch, Northstar, Aurora, Talisman, Madison...

ICONIC is a word that gets thrown around a lot, and today is no exception! Join us as we gleefully tear into this iconic run of issues, featuring the iconic Scott/Ororo fight, art by the iconic Barry Windsor-Smith, and Wolverine being his general iconic self! And of course we, your iconic hosts, are just being iconic as hell. Tune in! TOPICS DISCUSSED: Snorting crushed up Baby Tylenol. Bryan Lee O...

MAGNETO tries to settle into his new role as the headmaster of the New Mutants this week, and boy do things go wrong. Everyone dies! Just kidding. Or are we? Tune in to find out, folks, in what turns out to be a realllly good run of issues, even amidst the turdstorm of Secret Wars II! TOPICS DISCUSSED: The Odyssey rejects. The new Spider-Man movie. Mary Wilshire and Bill Sienkiewicz! He’s still do...

ISSUES: Avengers #263, Fantastic Four #286, X-Factor #1-4 Don't tell Chris Claremont, but we're starting a brand new title: X-FACTOR! Plus, one of the most classic deaths in all of comics is undone.  Matt and Pat enjoy some controversial comics and walk away with very different opinions on the direction of the characters! We meet some cool new characters and revisit some surprising old ones.....

Returning guest and newly-christened friend of the show ALEX GOLDMAN is here to talk to us about a bizarre Exquisite Corpse-style comic Marvel did in 1985 for famine relief - without asking any of the related charities beforehand. Featuring an unbelievable roster of creators, this whole does not quite equal the sum of its parts. Topics Discussed: Does Stan Lee know what's happening? Kill the mailm...

It's the one we warned you about, dear listeners: SECRET WARS II! Tune in to hear us get really, really frustrated and eventually very tired. We've got no shortage of complaints and dunks in this one, which is what we know you sickos want! Somewhere in there we'll even recap some comics! TOPICS DISCUSSED: We’re upset. Jack Shitbird. It all washes out in the laundry. They can’t all have massive hog...

We're back with another cooooool episode for everyone! Not only cool because it's a sex number, but also cool because cold. This week, Matt and Pat talk about ICEMAN! Specifically the Iceman mini-series from 1984... It's CHOCK FULL of metaphors, but are they the ones that were intended? Listen and (maybe) find out! Topics Discussed: Scrubbing Gargoyle. A very muscular Iceman statue. Hiding in a sh...

ISSUES: Nightcrawler #1-4, Amazing Spider-Man #161-162 & Marvel Team-Up #89, Bizarre Adventures #27 A podcast about a specific variety of earthworm, known in German as the Regenwurm. Topics Discussed: The X-Men's Gymnasium. Hot Dog Insecurity. Why Pat would never time travel. Too sweepy to port. JIGSAW. The Rolls Royce is back! Kurt uses his tail to make love. CUTTHROAT. Setting animals free....

Oh boy are we covering some all-timers in this episode, folks! We're back with the X-Men in their single-issue-story era, which includes Claremont and Barry Windsor-Smith's terrific follow up to Lifedeath, and the iconic Trial of Magneto! And you'd better believe we're talking a lot! Tune in! TOPICS DISCUSSED: Emptying Claremont’s notebook. A Canadian family. X-Men murder mystery. Advanced Genetic...

Join us on our journey back up North, folks, as we say good riddance to John Byrne, and good god what have we done to Bill Mantlo! Alpha Flight reaches some real high and real low points in this arc, and you'd better believe we're gonna tear it all apart! Plus, the Hulk shows up! Tune in! TOPICS DISCUSSED: John Byrne’s in the news. Pokopia. Secret War. The Hero’s Journey. Walter Langkowski the dip...

You may, occasionally, think to say to yourself, "What is this podcast? Just two grown men reading comic books for teenagers?" WRONG. We've got RANGE. In THIS episode, we read a bunch of comic books for CHILDREN! The X-Men meet the newest little super-team on the block, the POWER PACK. We get introduced to the writing of Louise Simonson through four little dorks who Pat can't keep straight in his...

ISSUES: X-Men and Alpha Flight #1 & 2,New Mutants Special Edition #1, X-Men Giant-Sized Annual #9 With everything going on these days, wouldn't you like to take a trip to Asgard and party with gods? Or bring Asgard to earth?? What would you be willing to give up? Find out what the X-Men, New Mutants, and Alpha Flight are and aren't willing to in this really rad crossover story! Plus, a bunch o...

This week we return to the New Mutants, and boy are we glad we did! This story is stuffed with twists and turns so crazy we can't even tell you about em in the description! Plus we get really mad about some editorial choices, which is always a good time. Tune in! TOPICS DISCUSSED: Send us your names. X-Men video games. “Bagel.” Cyclops at Pride. The ups and downs of James Idiot. I guess they were...

In this super-sized episode, the boys recap 5+ ears of Dazzler, including her pre-appearance history, her graphic novel, and her love story with The Beast! Come learn all about the origins of the Disco Dazzler and her brushes with real world and Marvel Comics fame. Topics Discussed: Boogie these suckers out. Why roller skates? Spider-Man! The X-Men! THE BLAZING LORDS weren't invited to the dance....

This girl is on fire! That's right, folks, tune in to hear two sweet goofballs work their way through the 616 introduction of FIRESTAR, years after being created by a licensing issue! It's deeper and more complex than you'd expect for a comic origin of a Saturday morning cartoon character. Tune in, it's a good one! TOPICS DISCUSSED: Recording under a desk. Firestar! How many grapes are in a bunch?...