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Something Sinister this way comes... and your humble host has a field day trying to figure out exactly what this might mean moving forward.  We're playing with X-History here... in a way that I'm kinda diggin' on!  We get the origin story of Krakoa, some Doug Ramsey... Xavier in a pith helmet... Then... we check in with X³ and I nearly lose all motivation to move forward!  No worries, though... push on I shall!

Also: Some great Listener Mail... and baby-steps toward putting together a potential BooX Club!

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So, who's ready for even more HoX/PoX Hot Takes from your fumblin', stumblin' humble host?  Boy, the issue we're discussing today (House of X #4) does not pull any punches.  We've got a lot to talk about here... and, lemme tell ya, I had quite the conversation with myself over the direction of this event!  I look forward to continuing the discussion with actual humans!

Also, some great and helpful feedback... and, in the Krakoan spirit, planting the first seeds of an idea for a "BooX Club" (clever, no?  Okay, not really.)

As always, a huge thank you to everyone whose listened and reached out over the course of the first handful of episodes (it means the world!), I hope you'll continue to join me for my long-overdue wild ride into X-Relevancy... even though I seemingly can't shut up about the over reliance on info-pages!

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Who's ready for some Hot-Takes?  Because, as we reach the halfway point of the HoX/PoX event, your fumblin', stumblin' humble host has got a bunch of 'em!

Your paranoid pal has started to worry about the man in the Cerebro helmet... and the potential disposability of his favorite mutant heroes!  It's all wickedly off-the-cuff... and hopefully unfounded... but, in the interest of passing along the thoughts that are rushing through my head as I read this... they're all here for you to laugh at!

In House of X #3, Cyclops leads his team to the Orchis Protocol Satellite to deal with the Mother Mold problem... and we learn a bit more about Krakoan diplomatic immunity.  It's a great issue... and hopefully it inspires some fun conversation.  Be gentle!

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As we continue counting down to the final issue of Strikeforce: Morituri... we finally see our new "Killer Morituri" in action!  Nobody's safe... especially our heroes (and their beloved Super-Train)!  It's a roller coaster of an issue... cramming a whole lotta graham into just twenty-odd pages of comic!

Also: The show turns a little blue as we discuss things like snuff films and... entering the World of F.I.S.T.!  Team-building, learning how to draw, kicking field goals and a whole lot more... this week, on Morituri Mondays!

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Your April, 1989 Strikeforce: Morituri Roster - Brava, Scanner, Revenge, Lifter, Burn, (The Ghost, The Wind, The Tiger)

Alumni - Snapdragon (#4), Vyking (#6), Marathon (#12), Adept (#13), Wildcard (#13), Radian (#15), Scaredycat (#19), Blackthorn (#20), Toxyn (#21), Backhand (#22), Hardcase (#23), Silencer (#23), Scatterbrain (#24), Shear (#25)

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Greetings, smokers, tokers, and midnight chokers! In this, the penultimate episode of Chris and Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill, we look at one of Reggie's favorite underground comix, The Collected Adventures of the Fabulous Furry Freak Bros. #1 by Gilbert Shelton, first published in 1971 by Rip-Off Press! There's Shelton's bio, and some info about Rip-Off Press, and then we go through every panel of this 48-page zonkfest, attempting to keep it cool around the fuzz. After a few words from Gilbert Shelton himself, Chris and Reggie look at the history of some drugs in the United States--and marvel at the punitive measures against them! It's a (formerly) patron-only exclusive episode, so feel free to bogart it all you like.

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For today's episode I am joined by a special HoX/PoX "tour guide", Jeremiah Jones-Goldstein (@bigox737) as we learn the final (?) fate of X-to-the-Second-Power... which is to say, the X-Men: Year 100 crew... as well as Moira the IX!

Jeremiah will also share some of his memories of following along with these two series'... that are one, during the Summer of 2019.  It's a very fun discussion, and we hope you all enjoy!

As always, a huge thank you to everyone who reached out over the course of these first few episodes (it means more than you know!), I hope you continue to join me for my long-overdue wild ride into X-Relevancy!

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Welcome back, X-Perts!

Today, we're going to learn a bit more about of various Powers of X... and your humble host might just have to eat a little bit of crow.  More discussion of the "rules" of comic book storytelling, and worries that everything I ever knew about the X-Men (even the inconvenient stuff) might wind up getting wiped out of continuity!

It's a (mostly) stream of conscious one-man debate... you won't wanna miss it!

And, of course - Thanks to everyone who reached out over the course of these first few episodes (it means more than you know!), I hope you continue to join me for my long-overdue wild ride into X-Relevancy!

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Whatever happened to Moira X?

Join me as I get quite the education on the founder of the Muir Island Institute.  This is certainly a case of the old Marvel standby "Everything you thought you knew... was wrong!", but it's one that (despite some reservation) I'm having trouble getting mad at.

In House of X #2, we'll work our way through (most of) the ten lives of Moira Kinross... and discuss whether or not this game we're playing has any rules.  I'm trying not to get too attached to any of this, for fear that the rug might be yanked out from under me at any moment.

Thanks to everyone who reached out over the course of these first few episodes, I hope you continue to join me for my long-overdue wild ride into X-Relevancy!

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Welcome back to X-Lapsed... so far we've survived the experience!

Today we begin our look at the other of the "Two Series that are One", Powers of X.  Now, if I'm being honest, this was the half of the HoX/PoX event that initially caused me to tap out back in mid-to-late 2019.  This here issue is dealing with the far-flung future... and, if you know anything about my tastes... you'll know that's about as far out of my wheelhouse as the X-Men can go!

Thanks to anyone who's following along... I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

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You ever have one'a those reading projects you just can't seem to get around to?  Yeah, me too!  Today, I'm going to try and change that... with this new series that I'm calling X-Lapsed (and yeah, I totally know that sounds a lot like Ex-Lax!).

Despite having been a rabid reader of the X-Men for nearly three decades, I now find myself in the very bizarre position of a "new reader".  These characters might be familiar... but, I'm anything but comfortable with them!  Hopefully this reading exercise will help me get back into the X-Groove.

I hope you'll decide to join me on this little journey, as I fumble and stumble my way through HoX/PoX en route to the Dawn of X line-up!  If you have anything about the Dawn of X X-Men you wanna discuss, I'd love to chat... and hopefully learn a thing or two!

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