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X-Factor (2020) #5 – Resurrection Drama and The Krakoan Community | This Week in X!

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It’s “This Week in X” for X-Factor (2020) #5, released 2 December 2020! This is a full-spoilers post and episode.X-Factor (2020) #5

The premise set up by this issue is that The Five want X-Factor’s oversight on more than just proof of death. They’re asking them for the go-ahead to continue with resurrections after Rockslide’s troubled return at the beginning of X of Swords (the details which it doesn’t seem like Lorna has shared with the rest of this group).

X-Factor (2020) #5 really needed this episode all to itself to spread out, because there are a STAGGERING amount of characters for us to cover in this issue – so many we don’t quite mention them all (sorry Mercury!).

We discuss many of those characters; the post-X of Swords resurrection drama as it relates to Wind Dancer, Rockslide, and Gorgon; Leah Williams’ masterful Emma Frost; terrific and heartbreaking data pages; and how well Leah Williams and David Baldeon weave a complex sense of community on Krakoa.

Join Peter, Tyler, and Fariha’s specially-nominated guest New Mutant, Harry, for this epic discussion on “This Week in X,” the show where we cover every in-continuity X-Men comic book released by Marvel, every week.

Now that X of Swords has ended, we’ll be posting an individual video for each X-Men issue every week, with our combined conversation (plus our intro discussions!) presented as a single podcast episode.

Need help making sense of reading and collecting the X-Men? Crushing Comics can help!

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Crushing Comics Podcast, Episode 0016: Epic X-Men Re-Read – Uncanny X-Men (1963) #98-99

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We’re back again with another installment of our Epic (Re)Read of X-Men from the beginning of Chris Claremont tenure!

In this episode we discuss Claremont’s first big “hated and feared” plot as the Sentinels attack in Uncanny X-Men (1963) #98-99, as well as a pair of stories he inserts around that in back-ups from Classic X-Men (1986) #6-7.This story contains Peter’s favorite Jean Grey panel OF ALL TIME!

Our conversation includes some minor spoilers for House of X and Powers of X, so beware.

If you want us to continue this series in the long term, we need to keep hearing that you’re watching and reading along. We’ve shot a complete “pilot season” to get us to the M’kraan Crystal and back, but whether we return for the introduction of Wolverine’s Canadian backstory in UX #109 is up to you.

And, of course, you can follow the full X-Men Reading Order for yourself if you’d like to get ahead of us.

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Crushing Comics Podcast, Episode 0015: X of Swords, Week 10, Part 2

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It’s the audio version of This Week in X from the week of the 25th of November!

This is the super-sized second half of the discussion about the finale week of X of Swords. Join Peter, Tyler, and Fariha is we discuss the 25 November, 2020 issue X of Swords: Destruction – the 22nd of 22 chapters of X of Swords!

We jump right in and dissect every fist-pumping moments and sudden reversal in this epic conclusion, examine all of the new status quo that emerges, plus break down our XoS MVPs, favorite rookies, and what we’re looking forward to next! Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from the 18th of November, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

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This Week in X of Swords, Week 10, Part 2: The Grand Finale in X of Swords Destruction #1!

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We’ve reached the end of X of Swords!

Join Peter, Tyler, and Fariha as we tackle a super-sized discussion of the supersized X of Swords Destruction – the final chapter of this 22-part epic.

Who fights, who lives, who dies, and who returns? And, who did we think the MVPs of this entire event have been? We cover ever possible angle of this grande finale as we dissect the fist-pumping moments and sudden reversals, plus the status quo of our many sword-bearers, our XoS MVPs, and what we’re looking forward to next in Reign of X!

Need help making sense of reading and collecting the X-Men?

Crushing Comics Podcast, Episode 0014: X of Swords, Week 10, Part 1

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It’s the audio version of This Week in X from the week of the 25th of November!

The final week of X of Swords is so huge we had to break it in two! Join Peter, Tyler, and Fariha as we dissect two of the three X-Men comics of 25 November, 2020 – X-Men (2019) #15 and Excalibur (2019) #15. They’re the 20th & 21st chapters of X of Swords, and they’re packed with political debate and action on the battlefield.

We have a lot to discuss about the tensions amongst the Quiet Council as one of their members wants to lead a more X-Men-esque heroic mission, which raises questions of if utopia is ever perfect and when we have to choose between family and country. Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from the 18th of November, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

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