The X-Wife Podcast: An Introduction to X-Men Comics

There are just so many cliffhangers!! What a double dose of issues this week friends. Excalibur's swords are in full swing as the battle for Otherworld rages on. Can this possibly end in a positive way? Oh my, Hellions... someone get a hold of Orphan Maker, because we are about to have some problems. We talk Excalibur #25, Hellions #17, and X-Men: Green Thanks for listening to our thirty-seventh e...

The revolving door of death in comics strikes again! It's time to wrangle the retcon that nearly broke Chris Claremont's heart, as Alicia finds out what really (retroactively) happened to Jean Grey during the Phoenix and Dark Phoenix Sagas. All around the Marvel Universe and back up to Alaska for a quick character assassination. Will Alicia ever be able to look at Scott the same way? Thanks for li...

As Inferno burns in the Quiet Council chamber, there's plenty more happening throughout the X universe. Krakoan Karaoke lights up the Green Lagoon as everyone's listening in Wolverine... everyone. The Marauders are in desperate need of a ride IN SPAAACE!! In SWORD we've got special guests on Arakko, some invited, others not. And just a bit on the Green team's building conflict. We talk Wolverine #...

The fire builds!! The second issue of Hickman's final arc keeps adding new twists and turns as it shines a light on previous pages throughout recent books. Knowledge and power are shifting and the ground the Council is set seems to be on edge. Get ready for things to burn as we talk all about Inferno #2 Thanks for listening to our thirty-fourth episode of Season 3! Things are heating up around the...

Courtroom drama mixed with high-flying super-heroics. It's the original Trial of Magneto, Uncanny X-Men #200 with special guests, Dylan and Regina from House of X Podcast. Magneto stands accused of all/most of his murdery actions as a deeper threat builds throughout the world in the X-Men's name. Can this classic X villain be redeemed?? Thanks for listening to our thirty-third episode of Season 3!...

The Trial of Magneto's third issue brings three times the Wanda, three times the Kaiju, and three times the questions!! We obsess over the details to see what further connections can be made to quantum theory and religion. Let's get weird! We talk X-Men: Trial of Magneto, X-Men: Green and Giant-Size Little Marvels Thanks for listening to our thirty-second episode of Season 3! The Hellfire Gala is...

Can you believe it, folks? We've been making The X-Wife Podcast for a whole year! October 16 is when we launched our first intro episode, one year ago today. We take some time to talk about how far we've come in the last year with Justin's elaborate scheme to get Alicia into X-Men comics - we may need a new tagline! We also have our cell phone recorded audio from New York Comic Con. Some clips sou...

The one two X punch with a little Infinity on the side! X-Force plays its hand on a few long brewing story threads as security around the island is threatened. The X-Men have a spooky visitor filling in their minds with unpleasantness. Plus Nature Girl and Curse make the team up we never knew we needed to read! We talk X-Force #24, X-Men #4, and X-Men: Green Thanks for listening to our thirtieth e...

It's all falling apart! Otherworld is on the brink of war, our Hellions are crushed after the events of the last issue and Shadow King is oddly in tune with the potential dark futures ahead. Plus Nature Girl is building up a team in Infinity Comics and Wolverine's not a fan. We talk Excalibur #24, Hellions #16, New Mutants #22, and X-Men: Green Thanks for listening to our twenty-ninth episode of S...

The tallest comics in the world! It's a new arc of X-Men: Unlimited as Nature Girl goes rogue, tackling threats to our environment. Wolverine "wraps up" his arc with Sevyr and Solem and the two Arakkii keep playing games with our favorite bub. And it's a huge expansion of Arakko and its government as Storm's leadership is tested. We talk about the X-Men Unlimited issues thus far, Wolverine #16 and...

The beginning of the end! Hickman's final arc on X-Men comics begins here, exploding with callbacks and connections. A follow-up to the epic House of X/Powers of X series that started it all. Get ready for things to burn as we talk all about Inferno #1 Thanks for listening to our twenty-seventh episode of Season 3! The Hellfire Gala has ended and we snuck back to the island of Krakoa, trying to ke...

It's a time for endings big and small. X-Corp is dealing with closing costs in its last issue as everyone tries to get a piece of the company. The Last Annihilation event comes to its finale and surprisingly, so does Guardians of the Galaxy! Some major space alliance shuffling is in the works... And our X-Men keep one threat at bay in the High Evolutionary with even more brew in the background. We...

Krakoa is under attack from within! Can Nightcrawler and his team free everyone from the clutches of the most 90's X villain ever? The long-term plans of Onslaught are set into motion as the Cruciball nears, threatening the lives of countless mutants. We're talking all about X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation #1 Thanks for listening to our twenty-fifth episode of Season 3! The Hellfire Gala has ended...

Around the outer reaches of space and back in time for a murder mystery tour! First, we head all the way to Shi'ar territory with a Wakandan rescue team as we round out our penultimate stop in The Last Annihilation. Back in Sol, there's some trouble brewing on Arakko with a mysterious traveler... is this Star Wars or what?? And then the Avengers stop by for some conversation and criminology. We ta...

Vertical comics!? What in the Marvel Unlimited is this?? Thursday's newest X-Men announcement is part of a larger new storytelling format for Marvel's digital comics. It's like you did what Hickman wanted after all... but back from the SWORD station and out to faraway magical worlds with Lord Doom himself as Excalibur reluctantly helps the doc out. We're coming up on something big in X-Force as ev...

Two Krakoas with a tie-in on the side. The former Young Avengers turned Krull/Skrull Royalty mix their pasts with the galaxy's present as we kind of move forward with The Last Annihilation Generations of New Mutants coming together against classic threats! A double-feature as Warpath's students get more than they bargained for and our classic ladies close in on what's really going on with these ki...

Something's brewing in the back of Dani's mind, clawing its way into the physical realm. Watch out y'all, it's the Demon Bear Saga! We're joined by a couple of awesome co-hosts, Mav and Steph to take on this monstrous story. Thanks for listening to our twenty first episode of Season 3! Those demons are after our mutants again!! And this time, it's personal. Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us...

It's all about adamantium and pouches this week folks! Our Madripoor mystery gets some more info and so does Solem. So much backstory on our adamantium-skinned Arakki mutant, who Alicia totally knew about, because she's finished X of Swords. The Last Annihilation throws a big old bullet in the chamber with Cable: Reloaded. He's gathered the team and ready to get things done! We talk about Wolverin...

Alicia's on a 50/50 split with the other four X relative issues this week, but it's all good because we're both EXTRA hyped for Marauders and Way of X. Corporate espionage and magical pentagrams brewing near and far. A few new recruits as Hellfire Trading handles their business. And this is the Way to cliffhang us on the last issue! We talk about X-Corp #4, Guardians of the Galaxy #17, Marauders #...

Intrigue... Murder!! Deception!?! The gang's all here as The Quiet Council's foundation starts breaking beneath them. The Scarlet Witch was found dead in the all too often spoiled ending of X-Factor 10. We finally get the starts into those juicy details. Who do you think killed her?? We're talking X-Men: The Trial of Magneto today, but start our episode with Johnathan Hickman's upcoming X-Men swan...

Life can be confusing when your age doubles in mere seconds, am I right? Illyana's big brother still sees her as this six-year-old snowflake yet she's been slaying demons and grilling tiger steaks for as long as she can remember. Today we're talking about Uncanny X-Men #160 and Magik (Illyana and Storm) #1-4, the real origin of Magik! Thanks for listening to our seventeenth episode of Season 3! He...

What in the Jonathan Hickman is going on here!? Some newsie with another twosie.  Children of the Atom takes us back in time to Gala glory as we close out this team's story... for now. X-Force is doing what they do best, pruning their opponents... for now? Plants EVERYWHERE! We talk about Children of the Atom #6 and X-Force #22 Thanks for listening to our sixteenth episode of Season 3! The Hellfir...

Only two issues this week, but they pack a punch! The Hellions match-up we've been leading to for months, praise Tarn it's here. What's better than a sassy Sinister? Two sassy Sinisters! Over in X-Men, we've got our second issue of this new team as they start to gel and play off of each other in the field. Stand out moments from a handful of our team and ooo that tease at the end. Praise. Tarn. We...

We're traveling all around the Marvel Universe this week! From Madripoor, to demon dimensions, and all the way out to the Kree Throneworld. Wolverine delivers in a really great issue that jumps to the top of Alicia's pile and Justin calls one of the best of the run. We say goodbye to Cable, the series, but not before we throw in a few confusing time-traveling and clone-related conundrums. And thin...

The fallout continues after the Hellfire Gala. Our New Mutants are trying to figure out what to do with Gabby - get ready for the Weekend at Xavier's! Alicia is rocking out to her Emma Frost song as she creeps up to the top of her favorite character list and Justin is stuck in a terrible Scottish accent. AND WE GO COSMIC! A threat is approaching in GOTG, but who even are these Guardians?? We talk...