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It’s This Week in X for 28 April, 2021! Join Peter, Fariha, & Tyler as we discuss Cable (2020) #10, New Mutants (2019) #17, and X-Men Legends (2021) #3.

In Cable #10, we discuss father/son disconnects, Auntie Emma, Arrakans on the move, and some interesting developments on The Old Guy.

For New Mutants #17, we discuss Rahne’s weakness, adventures in Otherworld, living your best life, white rabbits, Warpath’s journal, and more!

Tyler and Peter take a “buy it or skip it” approach to X-Men Legends #3, which Fariha didn’t read. Which option will she choose?! Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from this week, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

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We’re back for more classic X-Men! Llisten in as Tyler and Peter re-explore the classic Claremont material, with Fariha reading it FOR THE FIRST TIME!

This is the episode that inspired us to start this show! This is our in-depth discussion of The Proteus Saga in Uncanny X-Men (1963) #125​-128, as well as related stories in Classic X-Men (1986) #24, 32, & 33. We explore ALL the implications of Moira MacTaggert, her husband Joe, her son Proteus, and the sudden growth of Jean’s powers as the Phoenix.

This episode contains full spoilers for House of X and Powers of X and a few comments about the Dawn of X status quo that follows it. The final 10 minutes includes a specific spoiler for two plot beats in X of Swords.

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It’s This Week in X for 21 April, 2021! Join Peter, Fariha, Tyler, & Harry as we discuss SWORD (2021) #5 and X-Force (2020) #19 – for Way of X #1, check out our previous episode.

For SWORD #5, we discuss the issues theme of “murder” and how that plays out across two interwoven plots. We cover the rainbow of data that opened the issue, body language, sartorial choices, the power in a name, suffering competition, the meaning of humanity, beating the odds by changing the game, and more!

X-Force #19 split our opinions as we discussed muppet faces, Jean-splaining, the Astral Plane vs. The Dreamscape, long-form storytelling, and more.

Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from this week, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

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It’s a special single-issue episode of This Week in X, the first of two episodes for the week of 21 April 2021.

Join Peter, Fariha, Tyler, & Harry as we go deep on Way of X (2021) #1. This book seemed like it would focus on Kurt establishing a mutant religion, but this debut issue proved to be so much me. We discuss Kurt’s doubts, cheap death, failed japes, Dunbar’s number, scathing data pages, offcuts of experience, Crucible aftermath, Kindly Ones, and a SHOCKING final page.

Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from this week, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

We’ll be back with another episode for SWORD #5 and X-Force #19.

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Listen in as Tyler and I re-explore the classic Claremont material, with Fariha reading it FOR THE FIRST TIME!

In this episode we read Marvel Team-Up (1972) #89, a Nightcrawler solo story by Claremont with just a dash of Spider-Man as we learn more about Kurt’s past in the circus and if he can keep his tail to himself.

Then, in (Uncanny) X-Men Annual 3, Claremont writes his first of many fairy-tale send-ups – that also happens to be a cautionary environmental tale and also full of some supple bottoms of the male team members as draw by George Perez.

Finally, in Classic X-Men (1986) #31, Professor X takes out his social class discomfort on a Shi’ar plumber while cosplaying as Captain Picard. Yes, it’s all as weird as that implies.

Also, Peter is full of anecdotes and Tyler tries to make us all cry about fish.

We mostly stay away from spoilers for House of X and Powers of X, though Fariha discusses one of the themes of the Dawn of X without spoiling anything specific.

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