X Is For Comics: An X-Men Podcast

Wolverine's back, the New Mutants are headed home, and things aren't looking so good for Kate these days. But first! Hasbro unleashes an unbelievable number of new X-Men Legends toys! Giant-Sized X-Men finds its fifth lead in Storm, and the British heroes of The Union begin to poke their heads out of the ground! Then: to a wild week of crazy titles! New Mutants broke the fourth wall and our five c...

Chris Claremont was never content to let the X-Men spend any extended time on any single status quo, and every single page of these issues of Uncanny X-Men see transformation. Angel becomes the victim of a secret underground society of mutants, Storm unleashes a new level of violence and rage, and Rogue seeks help. But also... Kitty has to babysit? And the whole team finds the entire thing kind of...

Love was in the air last week, which convinced Marvel to clear the air on a few relationships, leading directly into the discussion for this week's books. The team discusses their rocky reaction to Excalibur, including what appears to be a bummer bum-rush to remove some high profile characters (and a HOT AF appearance by Cullen Bloodstone), then move onto Domino and the unending run of not-Dominos...

There's childbirth everywhere! Well, okay. There's only the one, but it's so graphic that you can't blame the guys for being scarred. Miracleman draws closer to his "origin" (whatever passes for one, at least), which leads him, Mr. Cream, and Liz into the hands of Dr. Emil Gargunza?! And his plans to move into their baby. And then there's Miracledog. And again. The up-close-and-personal with Liz's...

We Are Krakoa unites to talk about the newest newses to hail from Krakoa's social circles: Magneto's gonna be late, Nightcrawler's coming early, and finally Juggernaut and Fantomex show up! The group discusses the sudden boom in X-Men characters appearing in Marvel mobile games, as well as the impact that influence is bound to have. Then, the team turns their eyes to the hit of the week: Marauders...

Dazzler struggled to receive mainstream respect despite an impressive array of guest stars, including a series of near-regular appearances from show-favorite-target-of-ridicule Warren Worthington III, the high-flying Angel! Beyond that paltry dowery, the title offers little beneath comic legend Bill Sienkiewicz's covers. The creative team churns out a full year of storytelling, wrought with a long...

FIRST UP: NEWS ROUND-UP! She's back! And she's here to raise hell! Long-time X-Men major villain The Goblyn Queen returns to the X-Men, and it's got the team (mainly Regina) talking! Then, Nico really loves war comics. About man-things. Giant weapons. Gnarly-ass animals. He conned everyone into reading one... and they all really liked it? The badass animal people REALLY helped. Then: REVIEWS! Acro...

After a tiring series of extended sojourns and endless travails, the X-Men and New Mutants finally find some quiet moments, some of which reveal the X-Men's strength (see Storm overtake darkness in Uncanny Annual #6) while others show the weakness in all of us (hate crimes and cowardice in New Mutants #4). Take a short trip through one of the mutants' messier quiet moments with Nico, Jonah, and Dy...

Nico, Jonah, Dylan, Kyle, and Regina head toward the finish line of wave one of Dawn of X as everyone prepares for wave two! First up: news! The team discusses the newest announcements to the X-Men universe, Children of the Atom by Vita Ayala & Bernard Chiang, featuring a new set of sidekicks for classic X-Men, and X-Factor by Leah Williams & David Baldeon, focusing on the resurrection process. Th...

After searching through the classic years of Marvelman to understand the fury and fervor that kept the character so deeply entrenched in the minds of the architects of 80s British Invasion in comics, we finally turn our eyes to the earliest pages of Alan Moore's now legendary and genre-redefining turn on the character. Miracleman's A Dream of Flying was the opening movement of Moore's deconstructi...

The X-Men may have taken a week off, but the We Are Krakoa team didn't! After last week’s FMK episode, the team got back to business covering the fifth issues of New Mutants (space!), X-Force (stumps!), Excalibur (secrets!), and Fallen Angels (pacing trouble!), but they didn’t stop there! Now that two X-Men will be in Savage Avengers, the team has added the book to their ranks, checking out the fi...

It wasn't an easy read or episode, but X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills is a bold statement in the history of the X-Men. A confrontation of the hate that drives extremism, this special episode took more than the regular team of Nico, Jonah, and Dylan, so we called in Kyle from the We Are Krakoa feed to help explore the heaviness of Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson's masterpiece. In this second part,...

With a weird week off coming for the X-Men, the team took a much needed vacation from the non-stop nonstoppery of Krakoa to enjoy the finer things... LIKE WHO SHOULD WE DATE!? WHO SHOULD WE BANG?! WHO SHOULD DIE?! That's right: Nico, Jonah, Dylan, and Regina dangerously unhinge and reveal some freaky things, like how many of them would date a serial killer, or how much of a dealbreaker genocide is...

It wasn't an easy read or episode, but God Loves, Man Kills is a bold statement in the history of the X-Men. A confrontation of the hate that drives extremism, this special episode took more than the regular team of Nico, Jonah, and Dylan, as the team called in Kyle from the We Are Krakoa feed to help explore the heaviness of Claremont and Brent Anderson's masterpiece. In the first part of this tw...

This season of We Are Krakoa finally gets rolling, covering the most major X-Men issues of the last weeks of the year! Incoming finishes out Marvel's 80th anniversary celebration, which featured Mr. Sinister, Apocalypse, and a host of X-Men, repositioning the team to be part of the major company-wide event for the first time in years. (We're sure that doesn't time with the reacquisition of the fil...

The conversation at We Are Krakoa has transformed with the cast and reading list, signaling a new era for X is for Podcast, all kicking off with our continuing, incisive look at Marvel, Timely, and Atlas Comics history through their 80th celebration trilogy. The conversation leans into inclusion and diversity, continuity and retcons, and definitely some weird terrain. But -- as always -- the We Ar...

X is for Podcast launched last September, just in time for the largest transformation the X-Men have ever seen! Marvel, though, is also looking back this year, as they celebrate their 80th anniversary. Join Nico, Jonah, Kevo, Kyle, Dylan, and newest host Regina as they look back on the year, then back on the last 80 years, before looking at Marvel: Incoming! Read along with Marvel Comics #1000-100...

It's been a REALLY weird year for the X-Men. Uncanny X-Men relaunched and ran 10 straight issues. Then it became Age of X-Man, which sorta went nowhere really? And while most of the X-Men were off X-Men-ing in Age of X-Man, Uncanny X-Men became Cyclops and Wolverine watching everyone die, murdering the rest, and trying really hard to repress their erections for one another. Then came Hickman, and...

For the last 15 months, the X is for Podcast team has covered X-Men comics from the 70s, 80s, and today (much like a 90s radio station), but now... something's happened. The podcast is jumping around the timestream: in one world, the team discusses the end of Joe Casey’s run, highlighting major elements of X-Corps. In the next, it's Austen's end for a discussion about X-Corporation. Next, head to...

New Mutants, X-Force, and Fallen Angels represent the younger side of the X-Men one way or another, and each of these titles approaches it from a different angle: slice of life, widescreen action, and even mythology. But one thing is for sure: there's so many mutants. As always, the We Are Krakoa team works to decode the week's books, then begin an X-Men character game show devised by Nico. Join t...

In the wake of the all new Dawn of X, new fans -- and even some older fans -- struggle to organize and understand the bigger picture. Excalibur has long stood on its own as the oddball of the X-Verse. More magic than mutant, more mystic than modern, Excalibur bridges the gap between myth and mythos. Nico, Jonah, and Dylan work to unravel the bigger picture of New Mutants across 30+ years of X-Men!

Surprising villains pervade the first half of the Dawn of X's three volumes of its first wave of the six books of the cat that ate the rat that lives in the house that Hickman built. The X-Men battle the Early Bird Specialists before a strange turn in Marauders exposes some weird levels to an ongoing patricide/filicide feud that has involved a lot more patricide and filicide by two dudes than most...

In the wake of the all new Dawn of X, new fans -- and even some older fans -- struggle to organize and understand the bigger picture. The New Mutants and X-School titles have always existed to end, as a camp to source adult X-Men from, if they survive that long. Nico, Jonah, and Dylan work to unravel the bigger picture of New Mutants across 35 plus years of X-Men!

X-Force, New Mutants, and Fallen Angels bring the second round of Dawn of X to a close with an unforgettable transformation. Each of these titles represented the childhood of the X at one point or another, but in the wake of the new world of X, nothing is like it was. X-Force brings in Quentin Quire, New Mutants reaches for the stars, and Fallen Angels continues to redefine the characters most peo...

In the wake of the all new Dawn of X, new fans (and even some older fans) are struggling to organize and understand the bigger picture. X-Force has seen constant transformations, relaunching every few years with new teams, new formats, and dramatic restructuring. Nico, Jonah, and Dylan work to unravel the bigger picture of X-Force across 30+ years of X-Men!