House of X Book Club

Welcome back book club clubbers, we have a humming dinger for you today! Are you ready? Do you have your water wings on? Then let's dive in! First up we jump in to X-Men 94. We are still basking in the afterglow of our wonderful Giant Sized last issue, but we are getting into the thick of it with the return of Count Nefaira! He and his new Pound Puppy crew are causing a ruckus, and only the X-Men...

All right book Clubbers! Are you ready for this one? It's so big, they had to call it GIANT SIZED! For those unfamiliar there are a couple of new characters joining the team, and a giant killer vampire island who is lonely and looking for love! Will his pitching of the woo win the heart of the fjords of Vestfjordan? Or will everyone realize this is all a bad joke and jump in and listen! Hopefully...

Welcome back Book Clubbers! Did you miss us? We missed you! How about we read some funny books that are not books, and in this case, not intentionally funny? Let's go!   First up we dive into Hulk #181. There is a first full appearance in here, but what we really focus on is the love story! Will they? Won't They? Listen along and see!   Next up we get Giant Sized! That's right, it's finally time t...

We had some mysterious hard drive crashes that we can only assume lay at the feet of the Master of Magnetism. No episode this week, but we will be back to continue our journey through the X-Men next week! 

Good Morning seekers of mystery! We have a special trat for y'all today. We are going to look into our crystal ball and talk about a world where cheese is actually good for you! Wait! It's actually something else. Cheese will always be our friend.    Bolivar Trask will forever live in infamy as the man who created the Sentinels. At the end of the day he was hoisted on his own petard, and killed by...

Welcome Hulk Lovers! I mean X-Men lovers! Of course you could see why I thought you loved the Hulk based on todays reading.  First up is Defenders 16, featuring the Hulk. He mainly pushes our old pal Charles Xavier around in the chair, even when Doctor Strange if levitating Charles, but still! He is here! This issue has long lasting ramifications that will reach across the decades!   Next is Incre...

Welcome in children... of the Atom! We are back with another fantastic episode of the Strangest Pod if Them All! And boy, have we got strangeness for you today!   First up we travel to the distant past of 2018. We were all so innocent then. Sure, our president was a dumbass, but at least he would never tell us to do anything really stupid like drink bleach, right?!? Anyway, we are checking in on t...

Welcome back book cubbites! It's time to use the X word! We are digging in on some X-Adjacent goodness this week. But if you look into the distance you can see Claremont juuuuuuust over the horizon.  I hope you are in the mood for more Hawkeye, because he's first up here today! For some reason, he came to San Francisco and decided to dress conservatively. But in Daredevil 99, he is nothing short o...

Welcome home, merry mutant madmen! We have missed you! And boy, do we ever have a special episode for you! Today we jump into the imagination stream and play everyone's favorite game... What if?!? Today we are going to talk about one from Shane's brain, "What If Captain America was a Mutant?" Will he have prehensile toenails? Will the Avengers jump him and rough him up? And what of our mutated pal...

Welcome back, all our favorite X-Men fans! You are clearly the best! We have another exciting episode of the HoXBC, sooooOOOooo let's dive in shall we?    First up we dive into Avengers #104, which is the end of the Sentinels... for now! Cap and the gangtry to rescue the Scarlet Witch and save the world! Will the power of Thor and the rest of the team be enough to defeat the mutant-hunting robots?...

Once more into the weird, good mutants! Welcome back to another episode of the pod that dares to ask, "Can there ever be too much Beast?"    On today's episode, Hawkeye is a butthole! Wait, that's all the episodes with Hawkeye in them... Vision and Scarlet Witch are here as well! Quicksilver doesn't like Hawkeye horning in on his butthole racket so he cranks it up a notch. Plus Magento shows up, s...

Welcome back Clubbitess! We missed you! Not enough to let you borrow the car mind you, but we did miss you! And boy oh boy, do we have a pair of X-Adjacent comics for you today! First up is Amazing Adventures 12, where the Beast throws down with Iron Man! See, back in the day, Iron Man wasn't the heavy hitter he is now, so catching fists from a newly transformed Hank McCoy wasn't so outside his wh...

Welcome back book club clubbers, I hope the world is treating you well! We have more weird, wacky, wild stuff for your ear holes today, so let's get weird! And wacky! Don't forget wild!   Today we are taking you all on a pair of Adventures that are Amazing! Amazing Adventures 10 and 11 to be exact! First up, we finish up our story of Magneto and Black Bolt as the buddy cops no one knew we wanted!...

Welcome back book Clubbers, as we continue our journey into X-Related pulpy fiction! We have a couple of good ones today, so join us, won't you?   First up if Fantastic Four 104, continuing where last episode left off! Once again, Magneto is unable to keep his mouth shut about his plans and dicks it up for 20 pages or so. Will his antics bring things to a head between Atlantis and the rest of the...

Welcome to the era between eras! We have some rather... interesting reads today as we look at a pair of issues of Fantastic Four! Numbers 102 and 103 to be exact! Magneto is back and making with the crazy eyes at Sue, Reed, Namor, and the rest of New York! Will he use the minerals in Thing's butt to hurl him through the cosmos? You will have to listen to find out!   Instagram: https://www.instagra...

Greetings fellows comic book lovers! We have a very special episode for ya today! We are going to wrap our heads around one of our favorite concepts, the good ol' What If story! In this episode we turn to our fearless leader Rob to see what sort of alternate storylines he has come up with. And the best part about our What If stories is they won't be written into cannon in five years (we think)! So...

This is it kids! We are in the final stretch! Our seatbelts are fastened, our tray tables are in the upright position, and our pilot Rob has been drinking non-stop for four days! In today's episode, we are talking about X-Men issues 65 and 66, the last two of the original run! There are artistic shenanigans afoot, and we get to see the Hulk's feet as well, if that is your thing! So you get the awe...

Welcome Children of the Atom, to the penultimate episode of the first AGE OF X!!! We are going to look at two issues of X-Men that contain some awesome characters as well as some questionable choices, X-Men 63 and 64! First up, more action in the Land that is Savage, with Ka-Zar and Zabu! Fun fact the Sade song from 1985 was originally titled "Sweetest Zabu!" Not really. I just made that up. BUT!...

Welcome once again to the House of X Book Club We are going to take a peek at X-Men 61 and 62 in the  antepenultimate episode about the first age of X! First up, the saucy Sauron saga stops here, and rather abruptly! Much like his namesake, things don't end well for our winged antagonist! Then we travel once again to the Savage Land where a man with wavy WHITE HAIR (that will be important later) c...

Welcome home HoXBC-ites! Where has the time gone. Are you eating enough, you look skinny. Drew! Make our pals some sammiches!   This week we are diving into two fantastic comics! First up is Doctor Strange 182. Like a cracked mirror of nonsense, this whole issue is Doctor Strange going the long way around to fill out a change of address form with the USPS. The Juggernaut shows up with all his unde...

That's right book clubberinos! Today your favorite group of nerds is jumping ahead a few years and discussing all thing X-Men '97! It's another hour of action packed action as we join Cyclops and the gang where they (kinda) left off in the original cartoon series! Come join us as we marvel at Gambit's mid-riff, are astounded by Storm's powers, and humbled by Magneto's dickishness! All that and Wol...

Welcome back Clubbites! Boy are we glad to see you! Today we will be raising a barn on Drew's plot of land... no! We will be reading some X-Books! Specifically X-Men 58 & 59! First up, the return of a Trask! Larry, son of Bolivar shows up and it's Sentinels 2, Sentinel Harder! But in a twist, Larry has a secret! Big hint, it's not a third nipple! The backup here is about Jean, and once again t...

Welcome back Book Clubannites! We are jumping on the road to the end of the first Age of X! Today we continue with the saga of Havok and the Living Pharaoh! Issues 56 and 57 continue down the path of the story of "How I became the second mopiest X-Man!" for one Alex Summers! Watch as he hides in a cave! Listen as Bobby tells everyone Lorna is his girlfriend, except Lorna! Marvel as Angel get jumpe...

Welcome back kids! I hope you are enjoying The first run of The Strangest Teens of All! Today we are cover two titanic tablets of trouble as we continue on our journey through the origin of Rog's favorite, Havok!  First up is issue 54, featuring a villain that is really attached to having the word living in his name! Is he a pharaoh? Is he a monolith? Either way, man he sure is living! Then in Iss...

Welcome back Blue Retrievers! Today has got so much Blastaar in it you will never be able to wash it off!   First up, Fantastic Four number 62! The origin of Blastaar! Reed Richards is flying off into the negative zone and only The Inhumans can help! Will they be able to rescue Reed or will he pass into oblivion quicker than their TV show? What will The Thing smash?    Up next is X-Men 53! Blastaa...