X Is For Comics: An X-Men Podcast

The Dream is Dead. Mystique and her Brotherhood mount one of the biggest attacks of their career – an attack on Muir Island, set to spread a human variant of the Legacy Virus. The battle sees Toad Post, Sabretooth, and Pyro work to kill Senator Kelly, yet their plan fails – and results in the death of Moira & the depowering of Rahne. Yet, Senator Kelly still manages to be assassinated – and that’s just the start. The end of the Legacy Virus, the death of Colossus, the departure of Kitty Pryde – the plans for the next ten years of X-Men are put in play here! Plus, a return to Excalibur that will be further explored in the pages of the Avengers, Decimation, & HoXPoX! Read along with The Uncanny X-Men #388 - 390, Cable #87, Bishop: The Last X-Man #16, X-Men #108 - 110, The Uncanny X-Men Annual 2000, X-Men Unlimited #30, & Excalibur #1 - 4 on an all new X Is For Comics!

It’s an episode full of blasts from the past! Kick things off with a look at the never-before-seen sketches from the history of the X-Men including Wolverine As Death, X-Man as Apocalypse, Gambit & Psylocke from Jim Lee era X-Girls by Art Adams, X-Men in Winter Garb from The Magneto War, new X-Men Corner Box illustrations, plus new takes on Shadowcat, The New Mutants, Cable & X-Force, Xavier & Cerebro, Sinister & Marauders, Longshot, Mojo & Spiral, Maggot & Genoshan Guards, Lady Deathstrike, Reavers, & Pilgrimm, and Chronotroopers & Hatchet 9 from Bishop The Last X-Man – PLUS long lost X-Force character Cougar. Then take a look at the MONSTER-SIZED Marvel line-wide epic Maximum Security – seeing the entire Marvel universe against the Kree & an alien armada! Read along with X-Men: Archives Sketchbook, Avengers Infinity #1 - 4, Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet #1, Maximum Security #1 - 3, Captain America (Vol. 3) #36, Thor (Vol. 2) #30, Captain Marvel (Vol. 4) #12, Iron Man (Vol. 3) #35, Black Panther #25, Uncanny X-Men #387, Bishop:The Last X-Man #15, Thunderbolts #45 -47, Avengers (Vol. 3) #35, Gambit vol. 3, #23, X-Men vol. 2 #107, X-Men Unlimited #29, Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #22 - 24, Peter Parker: Spider-Man #22 - 24, Incredible Hulk (Vol. 2) #21, and Marvel Knights #6. It’s all this and more on an all new X Is For Comics!

Nico & TK are back with X-Men news, reviews, & more! First kick things off with the team covering every upcoming X-Men Omnibus & Epic Collection on the schedule – from multiple volumes of the Krakoan Age to All New Wolverine, back to Onslaught, and even the long awaited X-Men Omnibus Vol 6 and Generation X Epic Collection: Counter X! Then, the guys look at their week of reading including the wild and movie-centric X-Men: Forever by Nicieza featuring Phoenix, Iceman, Juggernaut, Mystique, and Toad before turning to the Revolution titles Cable #79 - 86 (featuring the return of Rachel Summers!) & Gambit #20 - 22 (including an appearance from The Neo)! It’s all this and more on an all new X Is For Comics!

It’s time for a bonus episode! Getting excited for the upcoming Marvel Maximum Collection featuring rereleases of some of the most famous X-Men games ever, Nico takes a walk down memory lane and breaks down all of the X-Men’s video games before their sudden disappearance from the gamingverse. From there, there’s TV, movies, and books before taking a look at the forgotten X-Men: The Hellfire Club miniseries from the Revolution era. Read along with X-Men: The Hellfire Club #1  4! It’s games, media, and cults on an all new X Is For Comics Bonus Episode!

It’s here and gone in a flash! The Revolution era is barreling towards its conclusion – starting with Counter X! First up, Nico & TK talk about major X-Men news, including Maddie & Pixie joining Marvel’s mobile game, Contest Of Champions as well as the loss of X-Men artist Jacopo Camagni. After that, the team switches over to the titles, kicking things off by saying goodbye to X-Force, which follows the bizarre bodyhorror story all the way to the end. Then, see the Gen X kids off with the school closing for good and the students moving on, before following what is the most interesting X-Man story - which comes just in time to end the series?! Read along with X-Force 110 - 115, Generation X 71 - 75, X-Man 67 - 75 - it’s all this and more on an all new X Is For Comics!