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It’s This Week in X!

Join Peter, Tyler, and Fariha’s specially-nominated guest New Mutant, Harry, as we dissect the three X-Men comics of 16 December, 2020 – New Mutants (2019) #14, X-Force (2020) #15, and Wolverine: Black, White & Blood (2021) #2.

X-Force forces us to ask the question “What is X-Force?” – both as a comic book and as an entity on Krakoa. Who is really in charge on this team?

Then, New Mutants is the debut of Vita Ayala as our new regular writer, and they bring a classic New Mutants cast plagued by bad dreams but determined to show young Krakoans that there is magic in the synergy between them. But, can they save Krakoa’s youth from what lurks in the shadows…?

Finally, we lightning round through the three stories on Wolverine’s anthology book, and you might be surprised about our favorite!

Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from the 16th of December, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

Want to watch instead of listen? View our discussions on YouTube: New Mutants (2019) #14, X-Force (2020) #15, and Wolverine: Black, White & Blood (2021) #2.

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

• New Mutants Collecting Guide & Reading Order
• X-Force Collecting Guide & Reading Order
• Logan, The Wolverine Collecting Guide & Reading Order
• Guide to Hickman’s Age of Krakoa in X-Men
• Definitive X-Men Reading Order
• Guides to all of Marvel Comics

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It’s another edition of our Epic X-Men (Re)Read, where Tyler and I re-explore the classic Claremont material, with Fariha reading it FOR THE FIRST TIME!

In this episode we discuss the first truly massive development in Claremont’s run – the death and rebirth of Jean Gray in Uncanny X-Men (1963) #100-101, as well as a pair of stories he inserts around that in back-ups from Classic X-Men (1986) #8-9.

Our conversation includes some minor spoilers for House of X and Powers of X!

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.

It’s This Week in X!

This week holds two high-anticipated issues in store. Join Peter, Tyler, and Fariha’s specially-nominated guest New Mutant, Harry, as we dissect the two X-Men comics of 9 December, 2020 – Marauders (2019) #16 and SWORD (2021) #1.

Marauders has the long-awaited confrontation between Kate Pryde and Sebastian Shaw, but is there more to it than a knock-down, drag-out (well, actually, drag-in) fight? Then, we go so, so, so deep into Al Ewing’s totally obscure cast of characters in the debut of SWORD, and how Magneto relates to each of the mysterious “Six” as he walks through the space station. Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from the 9th of December, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

Want to watch instead of listen? View our discussions on YouTube: Marauders (2019) #16 and SWORD (2021) #1

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

• Guide to Hickman’s Age of Krakoa in X-Men
• Definitive X-Men Reading Order
• Guides to all of Marvel Comics

• Download:
• MP3 Audio82 MB

Want to subscribe? You can find us on our RSS feed, Spotify, Stitcher, PodChaser, Apple Podcasts, and Podcast Addict!