X Is For Comics: An X-Men Podcast

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. This week, we have a premiere and two finales! First up, the team explores magic, weirdness, and madness in the new Defenders! Al & Javier (th...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, the team examines the next page in Ben Percy's Manslaughter & X-Force sagas in the most recent issue of the latter -- and hell break...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, X-Men: Demon Days has been a HUGE moment for X-Men all 2021 and now the X-Pack gets to sit down with Zack Davisson, one of the amazi...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, X-Men #2 continues the title’s early blockbuster run, spinning out of the Hellfire Gala and now two issues deep, the team already fe...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, Jay Faerber returned the GENERATION X kids to being, well, kids -- and now he’s here to talk about his time on the title, his origin...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, Nico leads the X-Pack on a wild ride -- from Logan's loves to his mentees to his multifaceted persona before taking a look at Wolver...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, Josh, Steve, & Drew talk comics of the summer -- X-Titles, Daredevil, Generation X, and more -- before turning their eyes to the fut...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, the crew talk about the most recent issue of Marauders, which had them at extreme odds -- loving most pages, torn on others, but wal...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, mutantkind's rise in business continues as the team examines the third issue of Tini Howard's X-Corp! Then, at 47:15, join as the te...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, Way Of X continues to blow the X-Pack and the Krakoan's minds, figuratively and literally, respectively. Then, at 42:30, the team ex...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits, and this episode checks all the boxes. First up, the team examines the most recent issue of Excalibur and all of the ways Betsy has never seemed better with Tini Howard at the helm,...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits! First up, Nico, Rod, Nathan, & Jonah come together for their final discussion on Heroes Reborn, and the 615 new problems waiting for the Marvel Universe in its final pages! Then, ta...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits! First up, the team takes a FULL look at Gerry Duggan, Pepe Larraz, & Marte Gracia’s epic new X-Men relaunch before the team turns their attention (at 36:15) to the most recent Child...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits! First up, the team breakdown the penultimate issue of Cable, looking for a plan in Duggan's bigger picture for the character as he transitions off the young hero and the young hero...

The face of the Marvel Universe is shifting -- and so is XI4P! The X-Pack take on more mutants, more magic, and more Marvels all summer long as the team grows featuring familiar hosts, classic voices, and new recruits! First up, Blake (of Blake’s Buzz) brings Nico & Arturo along for an amazing journey into the art of David Nakayama in an incredible interview with the Hellfire Gala cover artist! Th...

Welcome to The Hellfire Gala -- a planet-size event destiny to change the course of mutant history forever. The entire X-Pack turns out to discuss the finale issue of X-Factor -- plus a number of AMAZING special guests to take a look at every inch of X-Factor 10, the final of the Gala, & a moment that changed the X-Men forever. The resolution of the stories of Prodigy, Aurora & Akihiro, and even E...

Welcome to The Hellfire Gala -- a planet-size event destiny to change the course of mutant history forever. First up, the team examine a character who rarely needs a team -- Wolverine's solo issue of the Gala feels more like an X-Force issue, leading the X-Pack to ask how to fit so much Logan into one universe. Then, things turn towards the newly reimagined space for SWORD, a title on the verge of...

Welcome to The Hellfire Gala -- a planet-size event destiny to change the course of mutant history forever. First up, the rest of the team weighs in on the universe redefining Planet-Size X-Men, and all of its intergalactic ramifications. From there, the team turns their attention to the title the most fraught for the X-Kids these days -- New Mutants! Last, join the X-Pack as they take a look at t...

Welcome to The Hellfire Gala -- a planet-size event destiny to change the course of mutant history forever. First up, Hickman's X-Men marches towards the conclusion of its volume with an incredible team change issue that had been months in the making, including the famed X-Vote. Then, Children Of The Atom makes some significant changes to the core of the title -- and finds itself sort of Gala-boun...

Welcome to The Hellfire Gala -- a planet-size event destiny to change the course of mutant history forever. First up, The X-Pack take a look at Zeb Well's villainous Hellions 12 before the team turns their eyes to Tini Howard's continuously evolving Excalibur 21, filled with loss, new beginnings, and bad ass Rachel implicit bisexuality! The Hellfire Gala has just begun!

Welcome to The Hellfire Gala -- a planet-size event destiny to change the course of mutant history forever. First up, The X-Pack take a look at Duggan's Marauders 21 --the fashion, the history, and the exciting new introductions, before making their way over to Percy's X-Force, where the team continues to examine the excitement, the setup for what's to come, and the payoff for what's been earned....

The X-Pack are back with a look at two different kinds of family. First up, take a look at the perfect-dystopia of the MU's first family, the Squadron Supreme, in Heroes Reborn 3-5 where Jason Aaron's redesign of the Marvel Universe continues to grow in dark and unsettling ways, including the breakthrough issue of the series focusing on the complexities of being Blur. Then, join Josh as he asks hi...

The X-Pack are back with an interview with the devil himself -- sort of. Mike Carey has written X-Men Legacy, Lucifer, The Unwritten, Petrefax, Ultimate Fantastic Four, The Felix Castor novels, his recent Trial of Koli series, and so much more -- and now he graces X Is For Podcast! Full of can't miss moments peering into an incredible career, the interview covers lessons Mike's learned from collab...

The X-Pack are back with the two biggest teams in the Marvel Universe -- the X-Men &...the Squadron Supreme!? First up, Nico, Evelyn, & Matty take a look at X-Men 20 -- brimming with Mystique, Nimrod, and Quiet Council mystery! Then, Rod, Nathan, Jonah, and Nico look at the pages of the first 3 issues of the Heroes Rebornverse, examining Aaron's complex narrative through its own issues, as well as...

The X-Pack are back with more amazing mutant heroes -- plus more of the Marvel Universe you've come to expect from the XI4P! First up, Matty, Nico, Nathan, & Drew examine the most recent issue of Wolverine with a signficant amount of focus on the growing strengths of Ben Percy, but also, Nico shredding the living hell out of Omega Red. Then, join Nathan, Josh, & Kyle as the three of them take a lo...