Hype is my Superpower

Episode 160: Giant-Sized Fall of X Podcast #6

The House of X is falling, the Powers of X are rising, and Magneto is being resurrected. Why, how, and what does it mean to our favorite mutants? Ahhhh so many feels!

Comics read: The Resurrection of Magneto #1-2, X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #121-141, X-Men vol 6 #30-31, Fall of the House of X #1, Invincible Iron Man vol 5 #14-15, Rise of the Powers of X #1, Avengers vol 9 #12, Dead X-Men #1

Episode 159: Punchy fist guys vs. tanks

Will finally got that missing book from Gang War, soooo, we finally get to see how Iron Fist and Shang-Chi fought tanks? And Steve starts what is widely considered to be the worst run on any X-Men title, ever.

Will comics: Daredevil: Gang War, Venom by Al Ewing vol 7: Exsanguination, Daredevil by Saladin Ahmed vol 2: Hell to Pay, Spider-Boy vol 2: Fun & Games

Steve reading: the rest of Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Wolverine: Netsuke, Uncanny X-Men vol 1 #410-413

Episode 158: Giant-Sized Fall of X Podcast #5

Nightcrawler's parentage recon gets another recon back to what it was supposed to be this whole time, in a surprisingly touching story. Let's talk about it, and a lot of other Krakoa.

Comics read: Uncanny Spider-Man #4-5, X-Men Blue: Origins #1, X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #112-120, Uncanny Avengers vol 4 #5, Invincible Iron Man vol 5 #13, Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #1-4, Realm of X #2-4, Jean Grey vol 2 #2-4, Immortal X-Men #16-18.

Episode 157: The most professional podcast on the internet

Thank the One Above All that this one actually recorded successfully, because we both horribly messed up our backup recordings.

Will comics: Blade vol 2: Evil Against Evil, Carnage vol 2: Symbiosis Necrosis, Spider-Punk: Arms Race, Avengers Twilight, Spider-Gwen: Smash.

Steve readings: Marvel Team-Up vol 1 #100, Black Panther vol 5 #26-29, the first half of Kindred by Octavia E. Butler.

Episode 156: Giant-Sized Fall of X Podcast #4

The Arakko civil war reaches its conclusion and Storm continues to be the world's greatest badass. So let's just talk about that forever. For real though, I'm down.

Will & Steve comics: Jean Grey vol 2 #1, Dark X-Men vol 2 #4-5, X-Men: Red vol 2 #14-18, X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #106-111, Uncanny Avengers vol 4 #2-4, X-Men vol 6 #27-29.

Thank you to Reddit user Philander_Chase for the read order we've been using for Fall of X: https://www.reddit.com/r/xmen/comments/18w8qb6/comment/kgb7bq8/

Episode 155: Thanos, the Mad Titan visits... Fresno

Will and Steve separately dive into the history and legacy of Marvel's most powerful, most retconned hero, The Sentry. And Thanos goes to find Death in the city in California she'd be most welcome: Fresno. Thumbnail from Google street view.

Will comics: Amazing Spider-Man by Zeb Wells vol 10: Breathe, The Sentry: Legacy, Thanos: Return of the Mad Titan, Vengeance of the Moon Knight vol 1: New Moon.

Steve comics: Sentry: X-Men, X-Statix vol 1: Good Omens, Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman.

Episode 154: Oh my G.O.D.S.

The rare comics creator who gets both Will and Steve drooling with uncomfortable levels of hype is back at Marvel: don't look now, but Jonathan Hickman has invented some new G.O.D.S.! No, he never explains what the acronym stands for. We don't mind, really.

Will comics: I am Iron Man, Immortal Thor vol 2: All Trials are One, G.O.D.S.

Steve comics: just G.O.D.S. cuz the episode ran long.

Episode 153: Swimming in post-Soviet weirdness

The comics version of Yelena Belova, aka the White Widow, goes full MCU, while Steve digs into something truly bizarre and uniquely Russian in Soldier X. And we continue our ongoing reading of Exiles!

Will comics: Spider-Man 2099: Miguel O'Hara, Avengers by Jed MacKay vol 2: Twilight Dreaming, Thunderbolts: Worldstrike, White Widow: Welcome to Idylhaven, and Exiles vol 1 #14-19.

Steve comics: Exiles vol 1 #14-19, Soldier X vol 1 #1-6, Agent X vol 1 #1-6.

Episode 152: Giant-Sized Fall of X Podcast #3

We're wrapping up all our sidequests before moving on to the main story in Fall of X and the end of the Krakoa era of X-Men! In this, we get the giant finales to two long series: X-Force and Wolverine! And they were better than expected!

Will & Steve comics: Wolverine #39-50, Marvel’s Voices #95-100, Cable #1-4, X-Force #47-50, Invincible Iron Man #11-12.

Episode 151: Surrounded by JRPG protagonists

Spiky hair everywhere! In FFVII remake, that's delightful! In a Deadpool comic? Ehhh... Also, the summer's big crossover, Gang War... happened.

Will comics: Daredevil: Gang War, Luke Cage: Gang War, Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar vol 3: Gang War, Amazing Spider-Man by Zeb Wells vol 9: Gang War, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu: Gang War, and Spider-Woman by Steve Foxe vol 1: Gang War.

Steve comics: Deadpool vol 3 #65-69, Wolverine vol 2 #177-180, Sabretooth: Mary Shelly Overdrive #1-4.